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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pen drawing of a neoclassical plaster ceiling design with central rosette, laurel wreaths, scrolling borders, and a bay eleva

Design for a Plaster Ceiling with Bay

James Wyatt, 1810

Pen and ink ceiling design with a central medallion of a classical figure in clouds, surrounded by winged figures and garland

Design for Ceiling with Aurora as the Central Motif

Felice Giani, 1820

Pen and wash design drawing of a double door with classical relief scenes, garland swags, and laurel pilasters.

Design for a Double Door with Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Grey wash drawing of a church doorway draped with curtains, topped by a crowned coat of arms and garlands, with small figures

Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1760

Brown ink and wash drawing of three classical scenes of warriors and women in interiors, with Italian captions.

Agamemnon Refuses to Liberate Chryseis; Minerva Appears to Achilles; The Abduction of Briseis: Galerie d'Iliad, Palaz…

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash design with two symmetrical ornamental panels featuring oval landscape medallions, scrollwork, putti and d

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil sketch of a frieze of small classical figures with handwritten notes on four seasons panels.

Allegory of the Four Seasons

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Portrait of Nancy Darling

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1870

Brown wash drawing of a drawing room wall elevation with vaulted ceiling, two doorways, classical relief panels and benches.

Elevation of Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate ceiling design with scrolls, garlands, moldings and a central cross medallion.

Painted Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1740

Pen and wash design drawing of a Gothic-style library bookcase with pointed arch tracery and pierced crest, by Thomas Chippen

Design for a Library Bookcase

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Pen and brown wash design sheet showing draped curtains around a bed alcove and arched niches in interior elevations.

Designs for Bedroom Decorations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor wall elevation with Chinese figure panels, a pagoda-roofed central door, dragon scrollwork and green marbled walls

Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Watercolor design of a 19th-century Biedermeier drawing room with a tiled stove, piano, green carpet and potted plants.

Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior

Brown wash drawing of a classical entrance wall with a fireplace, Corinthian columns, and a relief panel above the mantel.

Entrance wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor and pen design sheet with ceiling plan and four wall elevations of a room with painted panels, mirror and drapery.

Design for Ceiling and Four Walls of Room

Frederick Crace, 1810

Wall elevation drawing of a symmetrical room with central fireplace, carved overmantel, paneled doors and classical busts in

Wall Elevation

James Byres, 1810

Pen and ink design drawing of a chapel wall with a lunette, narrative panels, pilasters and decorative cartouches.

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, 1590

Architectural elevation of a side wall with panelled sections and a central fireplace flanked by pilasters, in peach wash.

Side wall with fireplace

Frederick Crace, 1810

Watercolor design with a central lidded urn decorated with birds and a lamb, flanked by two Roman standards with cameos and g

Ornament Design, Cinerary Urn and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Ink and wash drawing of an interior wall with three arched niches, rococo scrollwork, and urn-topped brackets.

Elevation of Wall with Three Niches

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Colorful design elevation of a Chinese-style interior wall with red panels, pagodas, dragons, and a central fireplace.

Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, for Brighton Pavilion, Brighton, England

Frederick Crace, 1810

Watercolor of an ornate gilded palace interior with a mirror, porcelain vases, portraits and rooms receding through arches.

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin

Elizabeth Pochhammer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a staircase and hall interior with carved balusters, a bust on a table, and a statue at left.

Staircase - Mossley Hall

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil elevation drawing of a domed pavilion with two lamp standards and ornate pilasters, Royal Pavilion Brighton design.

Lamp Standards and Wall Decoration, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pen and ink design for carved panelling with two putti holding garlands beside a central bust and blank framed panels.

Project for Carved Panelling

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1650

Pencil design drawing of a wall with three arched panels showing a peacock, potted plants, herons, and lattice patterning.

Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Robert Jones, 1810

Watercolor design of an interior wall with a central double door, red panels, a gold plaque, and decorative fretwork borders.

Design for Wall with Doorway, probably for the Ante Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Pen drawing of a Gothic entrance hall with a grand staircase, pointed arches, timber roof trusses, and a tall traceried windo

Gothic Country House: Entrance Hall

Pencil drawing of an ornate courtroom with coffered ceiling, Corinthian columns, marble floor, and a mural behind the judge's

View of Court Room, Federal Building, Cleveland, OH

Arnold William Brunner, 1910