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Pencil sketch of conifers along a wooded shoreline with a tall pine at right and handwritten date in lower right.

Wooded Shoreline, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of stone houses with steep roofs, chimneys and turrets, with shrubs in front, on tan paper.

Sketch of Beaulieu

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a symmetrical interior wall with three arches, Corinthian columns, statues and relief panels.

Design for Salon Entrance Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of gnarled tree roots and branches spreading across pale paper, with a handwritten date in the upper right corn

Tree Roots, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Graphite sketch of a mountain road with trees, a rocky cliff, a distant village and a walking figure.

Mountain Pass and Village

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Ink and pencil sketch of two dancing women in loose gestural poses, with a small scene sketched at the right edge.

Study for a dancing woman, “Moods to Music,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rocky cliff at left and a jagged mountain ridge with rolling hills at right, on pale paper.

Mountain Sketches

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of several architectural column base and molding profiles with hatched shading on cream paper.

Abbey Church of St. Leu d’Esserent. (Oise)

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pen and brown wash elevation drawing of a church facade with columns, pediment, cross, statues and an arched window.

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Brown ink drawing of two putti among acanthus scrolls and a large flower within a ruled border, by Francesco Bedeschini.

One of a set of projects for a title page and the decoration of a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Grey wash drawing of classical figures with a three-headed dog and snake-haired women around a bearded god in a lunette.

Psyche Asks Proserpine to Put a Little of her Beauty in an Urn for Venus

Johann August Nahl The Younger, 1770

Pencil and brown wash sketch of Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River, with a stone tower at left and rocky ledges.

Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Verso of a grey sheet with faint graphite sketches of a right and left hand and a handwritten inscription lower left.

Sketch: A right and a left hand

Donato Creti, 1700

Two octagonal brown ink wash drawings of mythological scenes: Juno nursing Hercules, and Hebe with Hercules aided by Minerva.

Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi,…

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a layered desert canyon with cliffs receding toward distant hills under a pale sky.

Desert Canyon, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a bound nude man raised among soldiers and onlookers in a classical hall, with a seated judge above.

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Francesco Coghetti, 1820

Pen and brown ink design sheet with octagonal putti medallions, scrolled ornament, and a scene of Coriolanus at the walls of

Design for Various Decorations including "Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome"

Felice Giani, 1800

Textile border design with four stylized lilies, small flower clusters, and a band of oval scallops on ochre ground.

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pencil sketch of cumulus clouds above a dark treeline and open ground on cream paper, dated Sept 1840.

Clouds over Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of Eagle Lake with hills, two rowboats on the water, and rocks and a fallen log on the shore.

Eagle Lake, Mt. Desert

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Brown ink drawing of a classical frieze with an embracing winged couple, a flying winged figure, and a kneeling Cupid with a

Frieze with Psyche and Love

Felice Giani, 1810

Graphite sketch on brown paper of a tropical landscape with hills, trees, a palm, and handwritten notes.

View of the Sabaneta, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink drawing of a military trophy with helmet, shields, trumpets, spears, banners and an eagle in a rectangular panel.

One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Pen and brown ink sketches of a mother and child with a finished wash scene in the lower right corner.

Sketches, The Virgin and Child

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Oil sketch of a mountain peak over a shadowed valley, with rocky cliffs and evergreens in the foreground under a dusky sky.

Mt. Katahdin from South Turner Mountain, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Ink and wash drawing of a domed classical kaffeehaus with flanking columns and a terrace with steps.

Elevation of a Kaffeehaus

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of horsemen and dogs driving deer toward a large net strung between trees.

Deer Hunt with Nets

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of gnarled tree trunks, roots, and a grape vine study on pale paper, dated September 1844.

Gnarled Tree Trunks and a Grape Vine, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of a young girl's head in a headscarf, gazing upward, inscribed "Beggar Girl in Rome" on toned paper.

Beggar Girl in Rome

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil sketch of a plain with scattered trees and distant mountain peaks on a tan paper, by Thomas Moran.

The Tetons, Shown from the Plain

Thomas Moran, 1870