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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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

Frieze with Rinceau

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

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 man with a scythe in a field, seen from behind, with two distant workers and trees.

Man with a Scythe

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a tall rococo wall panel with scrollwork, foliage, garlands and a bird among shells.

Carved Decoration for a Wall Panel

P. Ludovik, 1730

Ink and wash drawing of a rococo garden with a central fountain, scrolled architecture, arches and draped female figures.

Design for an Ornamental Decoration

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Pen and brown ink drawing of allegorical figures in a frieze, one reclining among wheat sheaves, by Felice Giani.

Summer on Earth

Felice Giani, 1800

Small sketch of a pale iceberg on a dark sea under a pink and mauve twilight sky.

Iceberg at Twilight, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash design for a tall decorative panel with an eagle, garlands, cameo medallions and a winged figure on a globe.

Design for a Panel

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1770

Decorative panel with blue shield of gold fleurs-de-lis, cherubs holding torches and a crown, laurel and floral swags on yell

Panel, escutcheon surrounded by cherubs and other motifs

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing of two decorative festoon designs, one with a crown and ribbon, one with a shield and plumes.

Two Designs for Festoons

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1770

Study for a stained glass window showing an armored knight with a red lion shield and sword under a foliage-filled arch.

Study of "Courage" for Memorial Window to Jacob Dolson Cox, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Charcoal sketch of a young woman in a long dress with windblown hair, standing with hands clasped, seen from behind.

Girl

Winslow Homer, 1860

Study: A right arm holding a stick

Ercole Graziani, 1700

Brown ink frieze drawing of two winged women with wreaths flanking two seated bulls and a central urn with garlands.

Design for a Symmetrical Frieze

Felice Giani, 1800

Gray monochrome painting of a rooster and hens on a diagonal wooden roost, with chicks gathered in straw below.

Cock and Chickens

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tall fluted column on a stepped base, topped by a standing statue.

Monumental column

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Three circular brown ink and wash drawings depicting scenes of Bacchus with attendants, dancers, and satyrs before classical

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped

Felice Giani, 1800

Two nude children recline on a pale cloth beside a vase, against a green and gold patterned backdrop with foliage.

Drawing - Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Brown ink study of the Death of St. Joseph with mourners, cherubs and angels in clouds above, drawn on a grid.

Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting

Francesco Solimena, 1740

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures harvesting grapes under a vine arbor beside a wooden wine vat.

Winemaking

Felice Giani, 1800

Vertical ink and brown wash design for a painted panel with a nude female figure, putti, scrolls and a grotesque mask.

Designs for Painted Panels

Claude Louis Desrais, 1780

Graphite sketch on tan paper of a standing man in a long robe and cap, head bowed, hands clasped in front.

Study of a Standing Man

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Brown wash design drawing of a decorative ceiling grid with white scrolling foliage panels, fading to plain outlined panels b

Design for a Bedroom Ceiling

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Vertical pen and wash design for a decorative panel showing Fortune, a bust on a column, sunburst, and ornate scrollwork.

Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker

Claude Louis Desrais, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate rococo candlestick with a tall baluster stem and scrolled foot on pale paper.

Design for a Silver Candl

Vittorio Maria Bigari, 1720

Drawing of a veiled female saint holding a lily and cross in a stone arched niche, a study for a stained glass window.

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate classical oil lamp with cherubs, serpent handles, and flames on a tall stem.

An Oil Burning Lamp

Giovacchino Belli, 1770

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate rococo cartel clock with a green dial, Roman numerals, and a lion mask.

Design for a Cartel Clock

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1700

Watercolor design of a winged angel above a sailor at a ship's sail, with a memorial inscription panel below.

Design for a Memorial Window for Albert Spencer

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Pencil and watercolor design for a stained glass doorway with a painted swag frieze and fluted column, by John La Farge.

Design for Stained Glass for Doorway in Miss Caldwell's House, Newport, R.I.

John La Farge, 1880