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Brown ink and wash design sketch of vaulted ceiling lunettes with seated figures, medallions, and ornamental panels.

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a boy in a hat and a girl seated together on a plow handle in an open field.

Boy and Girl on a Plow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil and white chalk sketches of wildflowers on tan paper, including thistle and goldenrod, with handwritten plant labels.

Sketches of Flowering Plants

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a classical interior with coffered vault, Corinthian columns, garland-bearing figures and a bust in an a

Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1800

Graphite sketch of turbaned men tending cattle and horses in an open landscape, mounted on pale blue paper.

Oriental Scene

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770

Pencil sketch of a coastal scene with seabirds, a distant island, waves, and handwritten colour notes on tan paper.

Coastal Views

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Graphite drawing of three winged putti with trumpets and a wreath inside a stepped arched frame, with grid lines.

Three Putti with Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Pen and brown wash design sketch of a bedroom interior with arched ceiling, pilasters, and ornamental panel details.

Design for Decorations for a Bedroom

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash elevation of a decorated room wall with a doorway, mirror, classical statues and relief panels.

Elevation of a Drawing Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch sheet of trees, palms, parasitic vines and a small monkey, with handwritten notes on foliage.

Botanical sketches with a Monkey, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of ornate metal purse frames with scrolls, mask heads, garlands and clasps.

Metal frames for Purses

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Red chalk sketch on grey-blue paper of a dog lying down with its head resting forward.

Sketch: A couching dog

Giovanni Maria Viani, 1700

Pen and brown wash drawing of six alcove elevations with draped curtains, columns, pediments and putti.

Six Designs for Alcove Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Watercolor design for an embroidered waistcoat with floral bouquets, garlands and trailing vines on a pale ground.

Project number 1599 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf, for Gentleman's Embroidered Waistcoat

Mademoiselle Bailieu, 1770

Oil sketch of a glowing sunset sky with dark clouds over a horizon, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1880.

Cloud Sketch

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch on tan paper of arching tree branches and hanging leaves, signed Walter Shirlaw.

Project for a Decorative Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a decorated living room wall elevation with two doorways, garlands, putti and oval medallions.

Elevation of a Living Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Oil sketch of billowing cumulus clouds lit warm against a pale blue sky, with bare paper below the horizon.

Cloud Study, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Studies of Head and Arms of a Child

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Loose brown sketch of two bedouin figures in robes and headcloths standing in a dark rocky cave opening, one holding a long s

Two Bedouins

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Study of Mrs. Winthrop for "Lady Washington's Reception Day"

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Three watercolor designs for altar candlesticks with blue globe bases, winged angels, lions and IHS monograms on a pale sheet

Three Designs for Altar Candlesticks for a Jesuit Church

Pietro Belli, 1820

Pencil sketch of two craggy cliffs rising above a low horizon, with the sky left largely blank.

Iceberg Panorama, Canada, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash design drawing of a sauce boat with grapevine decoration, a reclining winged female figure, and a pedestal base on

Design for a Sauce Boat

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Pencil sketch of a rainbow over a sea with a sailing ship, surrounded by figure studies and handwritten color notes.

Rainbow over the Mediterranean with Figure Sketches, Beirut, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Symmetrical pen and wash design for a plaster ceiling with central rosette, swags, ribbons and acanthus scrolls.

Design for a Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, 1810

Pencil sketch of two winged, serpent-entwined ornamental masks with a small scroll study beneath them.

Mask with Two Heads; Mask with Two Serpent Heads

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and ink sketch with compartments showing Elijah under a tree, a banquet, the Annunciation, and Christ among angels.

Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left…

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pen and ink sketch with brown wash of a seated artist at a table and figures in an interior with draped cloth.

Seated Artist

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, 1650

Watercolor of a Naples fruit stall with hanging grapes and melons, vendors, townspeople, children, and a dog on a street.

Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas

Saverio della Gatta, 1820