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Pencil and wash sketch of standing men with baskets, carts, and horses, framed by a painted green and yellow border.

Figural Studies

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700

Brown ink drawing of Diana seated with a falcon, surrounded by hunting dogs, nets and hunters in a wooded landscape.

The Hunt, Personified by Diana

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen and brown wash drawing of nude figures in a wooded landscape, one seated woman gesturing toward distant hills.

Diana and Endymion

Leonardo Scaglia, 1650

Pen and blue wash drawing of grotesque ornament with hybrid figures, a central fountain, flowers and birds on an oblong panel

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, 1730

Charcoal sketch of a sailor with a raised arm and hat, beside a larger study of a figure's head and shoulders.

Two Studies of a Sailor with Raised Arm

Winslow Homer, 1890

Horizontal twilight study of blue mountains under a peach and gray sky with glowing pink clouds at right.

Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pencil sketch on grey paper of five young boys, mostly seated, some in caps, with one standing figure at lower left.

Five Sketches of Young Boys

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil and watercolor design of flowering branches with blue blossoms, orange bell flowers, and red berries on cream paper.

Flowering Branches

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Pencil sketch of gnarled bare tree trunks and exposed roots across a woodland floor, by Daniel Huntington.

Maple Trunk, Across Old Logging Road, Dalton

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Pencil sketch of a small thatched hut with a grass roof and wooden door, with handwritten colour notes above.

Houses in Alatico, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash sketch of several men in top hats riding horses across the page, with a white horse in front.

Men on Horseback

Constantin Guys, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a horizontal ornamental frieze with acanthus scrolls, rosettes, putti and a centaur.

Ornamental Panel

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of two oval medallions, one with a lyre player and lion, the other with a kneeling figure at a temple.

Orpheus, Ceres, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Oil sketch of a sunset over a river valley with a golden-edged cloud above rolling wooded hills.

Billowing Cloud at Sunset, Hartford, Connecticut

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown wash drawing of the nine Muses seated in rows with labels, plus tragedy and comedy masks below.

Designs for paintings in Montmorency: The Nine Muses and two masks, Tragedy and Comedy

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash design of an octagonal ceiling with hexagonal coffers and a central rosette medallion, with a scale bar below.

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, 1780

Engraved horizontal frieze of acanthus scrolls, rosettes and berry clusters on a hatched background.

Frieze with Rinceau

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Graphite study of a right hand and forearm extended to the left, with a folded sleeve at the elbow, on aged paper.

Study of Right Hand for "Lesson of Charity"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Design drawing of two gilt chandeliers with candle arms, one with a lyre motif and one with cherub figures.

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1770

Pen and ink drawing of Hercules wrestling the river god Achelous, with winged figure and spectators in background.

The Struggle between Hercules and the River God Achelous

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a couple embracing beside two draped standing women, an ornate chair and a pedestal in a classi

The Love of Helen and Paris

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketches of icebergs on tan paper, some highlighted in white, with handwritten notes and a distant coastline.

Floating Icebergs with Coastal View, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painted blue and yellow butterfly above dark reflective water with a submerged branch at lower right.

Butterfly over Water

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a cow lying down on tan paper, head turned toward the viewer, with horns and hatched shading.

Studying of a Lying Cow

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a horizontal rococo scrollwork band with interlocking C-scrolls and leaf tendrils.

Design for Wrought-Iron Railing

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1750

Pencil sketch of a fisherman with a long rod beside a boulder on a rocky shore, on a cream paper sheet.

Fisherman by a Boulder, Millinocket Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Graphite and white chalk study of a right hand with a folded cuff on tan paper.

Study of Right Hand, Possibly for Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of armored soldiers and horsemen battling a giant serpent, with a crowd of figures behind.

The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of a hall wall with fireplaces, pilasters, a central niche and arched relief panels.

Long wall of a hall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Head of a dolphin

Filippo Marchionni, 1770