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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

Pencil and watercolor botanical studies of asters, a pink thistle, clover leaves and seed pods on cream paper.

Studies of Meadow Flowers

Samuel Colman, 1880

Brown ink and wash elevation of a hall with Ionic columns, statue niches, medallions and a barrel vault above.

Design for Windows in a Hall or Gallery

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Sketch of a steamship and a sailing ship on calm grey sea, with a small rowboat in the foreground under pale sky.

Ships in the North, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated veiled woman reading, with a winged putto holding a torch beside a lamp stand.

Vigilance

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash drawing of draped figures in a classical interior within an octagonal frame, with a standing attendant holding a

Virgil Reading the Eulogy of Marcellus to Lucretia and Augustus, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor design for an embroidered waistcoat with purple and yellow borders, green and red floral tassels along the hem.

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1919 of Fabrique de St. Ruf

L. V, 1780

Pen and ink drawing of Achilles learning lyre from centaur Chiron, with seated women and a distant landscape.

Achilles Taught by Centaur Chiron How to Play Lyre

Felice Giani, 1790

Pencil and wash sketch of mounted cavalry soldiers with lances and a bugler by a waterfront with ships.

General McClellan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Embarking at Alexandria for Old Point Comfort

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of figures and a crowd on pale paper, with the handwritten words "A Call for Volunteers" beneath.

A Call for Volunteers

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of marching infantry soldiers and drummers in the foreground, with a column of troops receding across an open f

Marching Infantry Column

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing with four panels of putti, a lion, an eagle, and allegorical figures for ceiling decoration.

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a deathbed scene with angels playing lute and flute above, putti on clouds, and kneeling mourne

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Death of St. Caterina Vigri

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Brown ink and wash drawing of a shaggy goat with curved horns standing in shallow water near rocks.

Study of a Goat

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Two colored design studies for a brooch with gold scrollwork, red crosses, and blue and white star medallions.

Design for a Brooch

Carlo Ansorge, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical underworld scene with a enthroned figure, robed attendants, and columns.

Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a rocky coast with boulders, a flat shoreline, three small figures, and distant buildings under a pale sky.

Study for "Rocky Coast and Gulls"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Ink and pencil study sheet with scrolled cartouche, medallion, crossed staffs and leafy ornaments on cream paper.

Studies of Masts and Ornaments

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin handing the infant Christ to a kneeling woman, with angels and putti among clouds.

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe…

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Ink and wash floor plan showing an octagonal room and a rectangular room with ornamental panels and a handwritten Italian ins

Centerpiece for the Ambassador of the Maltese Order

Giuseppe Barberi, 1760

Painting of a large grey iceberg floating in green water under a pale sky, with a distant brown shoreline on both sides.

Gray Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of workers operating silk reeling frames in a workshop interior.

The Reeling of Silk

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of four ornate chalices, one supported by a standing male figure holding the bowl overhead.

Four chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Oil sketch of blue icebergs under an orange dusk sky above dark water, painted by Frederic Edwin Church in 1850.

Iceberg at Midnight, Labrador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor and ink sketch of a brown horse pulling a pale blue brougham carriage with a driver in a top hat.

The Blue Brougham

Constantin Guys, 1850

Tethered Donkey and a Style of Fence, South America

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of drooping bromeliad blossoms on branching stems, with handwritten Jamaica inscription on pale paper.

Blossoms of the Bromelia Pinguin, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a plantain plant with broad leaves, a tree study, and a rocky shrub, with handwritten colour notes.

Botanical Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850