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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pen and blue wash drawing of two embracing bearded saints on clouds, with a rower in a boat and onlookers in an oval frame.

Two Saints

Corrado Giaquinto, 1710

Brown ink and wash drawing of a clock design with a seated female figure, lion supports and a garland-decorated pedestal.

Project for a slightly varied suggestion for the upper part of the pedestal and the figure with the dial in 1938-88-2109

Giuseppe Barberi

Pen and brown wash roundel of a chariot with two horses, a winged figure, and the word PACE above.

Triumph of Peace, Roundel, for the Aldini Villa at Montmorency

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen drawing of an ornate royal galley seen from the stern, with carved decoration, a canopy, and choppy sea.

A Royal French Galley Seen from the Stern

Pierre Puget, 1660

Pencil sketch sheet of llamas in grazing and standing poses, with a handwritten note near Chimborazo at upper right.

Llamas near Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of a ceiling design in perspective with octagonal medallions, painted panels and small grotesque figures

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a low dome with ribbed panels and a classical frieze of rosettes and palmettes above a cornice.

Decoration for low dome of a room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design with oval portrait of bearded Henry IV in armor, flanked by two putti holding fruit garlands above a coat o

Henry IV

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pencil drawing of two winged women in classical robes flanking a handled urn beneath a medallion and garlands.

Frieze with Bacchantes

Felice Giani, 1820

Ink and brown wash drawing of a draped bed alcove flanked by columns, a carved pilaster, and two small figures.

Project for the Decoration of a Bed Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pen and ink sketch on blue paper showing a seated man presenting an apple to nude women, with a crowned figure at right.

Judgment of Paris

Pietro Liberi, 1650

Pen and watercolor sketch of two winged figures blowing trumpets flanking a central ornamental staff on a diamond-shaped shee

Fame with Trumpet, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of two girls standing in tall grass, one in a wide hat with her arm around the other in a bonnet.

Two Girls in a Field

Winslow Homer, 1870

Colored drawing of an ornate classical ceiling design with medallions, garlands, scrollwork, and figures in red, blue and gol

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli

Luigi Rossini, 1820

A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Chari…

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a standing male nude with handwritten proportion notes in the margins and along the bottom.

Sketch of a Male Nude with Notations

Winslow Homer, 1850

Figure with Child

Passerotti, 1550

Brown ink drawing of Numa Pompilius seated with the nymph Egeria in a rocky grotto landscape within an oval frame.

Numa Pompilius and Egeria, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen drawing of a rococo design with a lion mask, floral swags, ribbon bow and a circular medallion showing a dog in a landsca

Design for a Decorative Swag

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1770

Red chalk drawing of putti and female figures supporting a laurel-framed medallion with a coat of arms.

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)

Luca Giordano, 1700

Pen and brown ink sketch of a draped Victory figure with a trumpet beside studies of a wall section and stool.

Sketch of Victory holding Bowknot and Trumpet; sketches of Wall Section and Stool

Felice Giani, 1810

Elevation drawing of a sauce boat with a hippocamp handle, laurel garland, pedestal base and lion paw feet.

Elevation of a Sauce Boat

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Pen and wash design drawing of a covered soup tureen with a seated Juno figure on the lid, eagles, and garlands.

Design for a Round Tureen

Giovacchino Belli, 1800

Pen and ink sketch of a wall decoration with columns, garlands hanging between rosettes, and vertical pilasters below.

Wall Decoration with Columns, Entablature, and Pilasters

Pen drawing of hazelnuts with frilled leaves and a small bird with a long beak, on a mounted sheet with handwritten notes.

Project for Illustration: Hazelnuts from Nature

Samuel Colman, 1880

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a circular platter with a scalloped rim and leaf ornament on one edge.

Design for a Circular Platter

Johann Nepomuk Muxel, 1800

Pen and brown ink drawing of two flying winged putti with a shield and weapon inside an oval frame, surrounded by clouds.

Two Flying Putti with Weapons

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil study of loose drapery folds on aged paper, with an ink signature in the lower left corner.

Study of Drapery

Giovani Gioseffo dal Sole, 1680

A Bavarian Peasant

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Circular watercolor sketch of winged Aurora flying with a chariot, flowers and putti in pink and violet clouds.

Project for Ceiling Design Depicting Aurora

Felice Giani, 1810