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Pen and wash design for a coffered ceiling with figures among clouds in ornate stucco panels, within a green and gold border.

Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Charles de Wailly, 1770

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in draped robes holding a board beside a wooden chair, with a faint second figure at right.

Study of Seated Woman for National Academy of Design Tympanum

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of infant Hercules strangling two serpents in a dark room, with a woman and an older man reacting nearby.

The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpent

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash sheet with eight octagonal designs: six classical figure scenes and two circular foliated ornaments.

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown ink drawing of five draped female allegories of painting, poetry, sculpture, architecture and music.

Allegorical Figures of the Arts

Felice Giani, 1800

Study: A right arm holding a stick

Ercole Graziani, 1700

Pen and brown ink lunette drawing with grey wash showing figures in an allegory of painting, with a seated painter at an ease

Lunette with Allegory of Painting

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of figures in a rowboat, a bay window outline, and a hull in water, with handwritten notes reading Jaffa.

Boats and a Bay Window, Jaffa, Palestine (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Four brown ink and wash drawings of draped female caryatid figures standing side by side with raised arms.

Four Caryatids

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash sketch of horsemen with a pennant, a crowd and tents in a military landscape.

Retreat of the Turks after the Siege of Vienna, 1529

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Oil study of a brown and white cow standing side on in a sunlit field, with blue-green background.

Study of a Standing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pen and ink sketches of putti, a draped woman, and a globe with cherubs, with an inscription naming painting, poetry and astr

Sketches for wall paintings: Arts and Sciences

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Pencil sketches of plants and foliage with a poplar branch on the right, annotated with handwritten color notes.

Plant Sketches with Poplar Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor sketch of a cathedral choir interior with an artist at an easel and two figures in long dresses.

Lower Part of the Choir, Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

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

Watercolor design of a classical chimneypiece with two green satyr caryatids and a frieze of lions and scrolls.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, 1810

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

Blue sheet with white chalk strokes showing waves, foam and a seagull in flight over the sea.

Seagull and Waves

Winslow Homer, 1900

Watercolor and pen drawing of boys in a rocky forest clearing with large boulders and tall trees.

Setting a Squirrel Trap

Winslow Homer, 1850

Ink and wash design drawing of an oval gallery tray with a central decorative frieze and four alternate border studies.

Design for an Oval Gallery Tray, with Alternate Suggestions

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Brown ink and wash design with two circular medallions of classical chariot scenes surrounded by winged figures and ornament.

Design with Classical and Winged Figures

Felice Giani, 1820

Nine circular brown-wash designs of Greek mythological scenes with handwritten Italian labels, including Leda, Neptune, and G

Design for Nine Circular Paintings in the Bathroom of the Aldini Villa, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a lagoon with a distant city skyline, a tall spire, and boats with figures in the foreground water.

View from Venetian Lagoon

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of a lichen growth on pale paper with handwritten color notes and the date July 1844.

Lichen, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Study of a Mule

Samuel Colman, 1870

Ink and wash elevation drawing of an ornate neoclassical interior wall with a central chimneypiece, columns, and cherub relie

Elevation of an Interior Wall with Chimneypiece

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pencil sketch of a leaning evergreen on a rocky coast with a small lighthouse at left, dated July 1850.

Coastal Evergreen and Lighthouse, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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

Winemaking

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a gnarled willow tree with twisting trunk and spreading bare branches on a pale sheet.

Willow on the Rhône, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Sketches of Four Heads in Caricature

Carlo Marchionni, 1720