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Pencil sketch of a market stall with an awning, figures in hats, and studies of heads on a cream sheet.

Market Scene

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Colorful design drawing of a square painted ceiling with radiating coffers, classical figures, putti and ornate decorative bo

Design for a Painted Square Ceiling

Eugenio Agneni, 1850

Head of a Woman Wearing a Hat

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Pen and gray wash drawing of a classical urn with a griffin, lion head, garlands, and a helmeted cameo portrait.

Fantasy of Classical Sculpture

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pen and brown ink drawing of two seated women in an oval, one with scales of justice and one with an olive branch.

Justice and Peace

Study of a Male Nude for "Tribute Money"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pen and brown ink drawing of four ornamental pilaster strips with scrollwork, medallions, putti and classical figures.

Design for the Decoration of Four Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil and wash sketch of a nude female figure raising one arm, holding a pendant, with draped cloth around her legs.

Bank Note Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1900

Pen and wash design of an ornate doorway with an allegorical vignette showing a cross, eagle, lion, and shield.

Portal Design,"la Prusse et la Religion," design for plate 40 in the "Nouvelle iconologie historique..."

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Graphite drawing of a draped female figure with laurel wreath playing a flute, labeled Euterpe musica.

Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry

Felice Giani, 1810

Red chalk drawing of a seated gentleman in a tricorn hat holding a cane, with a globe on a pedestal behind him.

Seated Gentleman

Hubert François Gravelot, 1720

Watercolor botanical study of pink hollyhocks, seed pods, blueberries and blackberries on a cream sheet.

Botanical Detail Studies: Hollyhocks, Blueberries, and Blackberries

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer with a rifle and horse, plus a second head study in the upper right.

Side View of a Mounted Officer

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and wash drawing split in two: an interior birth scene above and a preacher addressing a crowd in a wilderness below.

The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil drawing of two draped muses, Melpomene holding a dagger and Clio with a scroll, beside a tall column.

Melpomane, Muse of Tragedia and Clio, Muse of History

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown ink drawing in four panels showing soldiers, monks, a fire, a banquet, and an angel in interiors.

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long lace-trimmed dress, with a separate hand study and handwritten colour notes.

Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes Standing, with Separate Left Hand Study

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil sketch of an archway entrance with a standing robed figure and a seated figure beside a stone wall.

Entrance to a Mosque

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Graphite and chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated draped woman beside a bust in an arched niche, with a child at right.

Design for Allegory of Sculpture

Giacomo Zampa, 1800

Watercolor and pencil study of Siena Cathedral interior with a pulpit, painted arches, blue vaults and small figures.

Study of Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Faint pencil sketch of a seated female nude with raised arm, with a distant shoreline and buildings on warm toned paper.

Beach Scene

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pen drawing of an ornate Rococo frame with an empty oval, an eagle, putti, an allegorical woman, and a city view below.

Design for the Frame of the Portrait of Frederick V, King of Denmark

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1770

Grey ink and wash drawing of a classical portal with caryatids, laurel garland, and an allegorical relief panel of religious

Irlande et sa Religion, (Ireland and its Religion), portal design for plate 44 in the "Nouvelle iconologie historique"

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1760

Pencil sketch of a draped standing figure with a smaller figure seated at lower left on cream paper.

Men

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketch of a tall papaya tree with lobed leaves and clusters of round fruit near its crown.

Papaya Tree, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending among angels and clouds, with kneeling saints below looking upward.

Ascension of the Virgin

Pietro Novelli, 1640

Pencil study of a violin on a squared grid, with a handwritten note about background color, for Kenyon Cox's Music.

Study for "Music," "The Arts," Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a cruet stand with two faceted decanters, pierced fretwork panels, and a central handle.

Design for a Cruet Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Pencil sketch of an open umbrella and hat above a tree trunk and grass on cream paper with a museum stamp.

Artist sketching

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Portrait of the Emperor Charles V

Netherlandish Emperor Charles V, 1530