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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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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

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

Pencil sketch of a wooded hillside under sky, with handwritten notes on color such as clear blue and smoky yellow.

Wooded Island, near Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of two young girls in bonnets standing in a grassy field beneath clouds, one leaning toward the other.

Two Young Girls in a Field

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and ink drawing of Thetis dipping infant Achilles into a river among draped women, reeds, and a decorated urn.

Thetis Plunges Achilles in River Styx

Felice Giani, 1790

Pencil sketch sheet with a reclining bull, a bull's head, a tree stump, a rock, and dated handwritten notes.

Bull and Landscape Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil and wash sketch of a hooded woman seated on a grassy hillside, looking to the side under an open sky.

Girl Seated on a Hillside

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and ink drawing of Hercules wrestling the river god Achelous, with winged figure and spectators in background.

The Struggle between Hercules and the River God Achelous

Felice Giani, 1810

Painted view of a green alpine lake with a rowboat at lower left, framed by forested mountains and rocky cliffs.

Alpine Lake, Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and watercolor sketch of two peacocks on open ground with trees and shrubs behind them, by Walter Shirlaw, 1880.

Two Peacocks in a Landscape

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and grey wash sketch of a reclining nude figure with flowers in her hair beneath a large tree in a landscape.

Sketch, Landscape

Antonio Baini, 1800

Pencil sketch of layered mountain ridges with a handwritten note reading Brownish warm gray stripes at top left.

Landscape Study, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a woman in a headscarf seated on a grassy bank, with distant boats and trees across a hazy landscape.

Girl Seated on a Tree Trunk

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil study on grey paper of a hemlock and beech tree beside a forest clearing with sketched branches and foliage.

Study of Hemlock and Beech, White Lake

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil sketch of a landscape with tall grasses, a small figure on a path, distant hills, and handwritten color notes.

Landscape Scene near Velletri, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of two girls standing in tall grass, one in a wide hat with her arm around the other in a bonnet.

Two Girls in a Field

Winslow Homer, 1870

Watercolor of a mountain laurel branch with pink and white blossoms and green leaves on a grey background.

A Bough of Mountain Laurel with Leaves and Blossoms

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of a palm-lined riverbank across water with handwritten colour notes, opposite Guayaquil.

East Bank of the Guayas River, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of two pine trees with spreading branches and a distant hill on pale paper.

Study of Two Pines, Catskill Mountains

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Pencil sketch of two men resting on a hillside, one smoking a pipe, with distant hills and a sailboat.

Men Resting on Catskill Hillside

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and a distant volcano near Popayan, with handwritten color notes in the margins.

View near Popayan with the Volcano Purese, Cauca River, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Two circular brown ink drawings on blue paper: a winged victory driving a horse above, and a winged victory crowning a river

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning a River God, Reno; two roundels

Felice Giani, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd boy playing a flute beside a seated shepherdess with sheep under trees.

Shepherd Boy and Shepherdess in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1760

Pencil sketch of the Catskill Mountain House, a large multi-story building on a sloping mountainside, on cream paper.

Catskill Mountain House

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

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

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a hat holding a leafy apple tree branch in a grassy field.

Girl Holding a Branch of an Apple Tree

Winslow Homer, 1870

Painting of a woodland stream with a waterfall under a fallen mossy log, leaves floating on dark water in late autumn.

Woodland Stream, Late Autumn

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor study of two drooping chestnut branches with green serrated leaves and pale hanging catkins on a tan background.

Study of Chestnut Tree Branches

Sophia L. Crownfield, 1900

Pen drawing of a Tammany tiger on New York City skyline watching Teddy Roosevelt hunt a mountain lion in Colorado.

Tammany Tiger: "Teddy's going to hunt mountain lions so that gives me a vacation"

John Tinney McCutcheon, 1900

Faint pencil sketch of a distant mountain ridge outlined on cream paper with an empty sky above.

The Catskill Mountains, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840