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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Oval pastel portrait of a woman in a blue jacket and black feathered hat holding a brass horn, with a yellow skirt.

Portrait of Sarah Cooper Hewitt in French Costume

Carroll Beckwith, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a priest at an altar with kneeling worshippers, while heavenly figures and angels appear in clouds above

Vision During a Mass

Belisario Corenzio, 1640

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a kneeling woman, an infant, crowded figures and a standing d

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by…

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a wolf's head and shoulders, frontal view, with loose hatched shading on pale paper.

Study for "Hunting," "The Progress of Civilization: Hunting, Herding, Agriculture" State Capitol, Des Moines, IA

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a gnarled, leafless tree with twisting branches crossing diagonally on pale paper.

Gnarled Dead Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal sketch of figures on a shoreline looking out at a bay, with a small boat and distant lighthouse on the horizon.

Figures Overlooking Bay and Small Boat, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Oil sketch of a rippling lake under a pale sky, with low wooded hills on the distant shore and sandy foreground.

Millinocket Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pen and wash design sheet showing a silver tureen with dolphin finial, surrounded by studies of scrolls, masks and brackets.

Designs for Silver Tureen

Filippo Marchionni, 1760

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

Watercolor and pencil study of cow legs, hooves, and a horned cow head on a grey-green sheet.

Sketches from Narragensett, Rhode Island

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pen and watercolor sketch of Apollo chasing Daphne, who reaches toward a laurel branch, in a hexagonal frame.

Apollo and Daphne

Felice Giani, 1790

Pencil sketch of tall grass stalks with dark seed heads and handwritten notes reading last grass stalks, deep madder.

Madder

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Soft pencil sketch of a man in a hat and coat standing on a street beside another figure and a dark doorway.

Man

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pencil sketch of a tiered fountain with winged figures supporting its basin, with small figures in a colonnaded courtyard.

Fountain Supported by Three Harpies and Three Groups of People in Garden in Villa Albani, Rome

Felice Giani, 1820

Loose graphite sketch of a dark bird perched on a rocky outcrop, drawn on a warm tan paper sheet.

Bird

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Brown ink and wash drawing of bearded Saint Matthew with a book and a winged angel beside a tablet, in classical architecture

Saint Matthew and an Angel

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowded battle scene with mounted riders, soldiers and fallen figures across a horizontal frie

Battaglia (Battle)

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of two draped female figures embracing, one holding an olive branch, against a shaded background.

The Personification of Justice and Peace

Felice Giani, 1810

Painting of a glowing sun over distant mountains, with dark trees and hills in the foreground under a warm hazy sky.

Radiant Sun above Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Drawing of a flared bowl supported by three nude female figures standing on a round base, in brown ink and wash.

Support for a Bowl

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Pencil sketch of a rocky landscape with a dark mass of trees or rock behind two stone blocks on uneven ground.

Rock formation

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a standing woman in period dress with separate arm and drapery studies on tan paper.

Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, Separate Arm and Drapery Studies

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil sketch of a drummer in a kepi cap and military coat holding a snare drum and sticks.

Drummer

Winslow Homer, 1860

Portrait of Nancy Darling

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1870

Pencil sketch of a philodendron plant with broad leaves growing above a rock, labeled Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Philodendron Growing Above a Rock, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of rowing boats and a ship above, and workers around a smoking furnace below.

The Collecting of Bitumen [above]; Catching Night Moths [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman pouring from a jug to a winged youth, with a putto and wheat stalk; labeled Temp

Temperance

Felice Giani, 1810

Neoclassical vase design drawing with grape garlands, female mask, two doves on the rim and eagles on the pedestal.

Design for a Tray with Punch Bowl and Glasses

Giovacchino Belli, 1800

Pencil sketch of a sunset sky over a sea horizon with handwritten color notes in the margins.

Ionian Sea near Corfu, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860