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Pencil sketch of a hazy landscape with hills, clouds and trees, with handwritten colour notes in the margins.

Looking Southwest over the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Loose painted sketch of Roman rooftops and a distant temple under an orange and red sunset sky.

Rooftops at Sunset, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of white rapids surging through a wooded gorge with dark rocks and a cloudy sky above.

Gorge of the Niagara River, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a craggy mountain range with hatched shading on a pale sketchbook page.

Sketchbook: Newport, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and England Views

William Trost Richards, 1900

Oil sketch of a sunlit rocky peak above a broad valley with a distant mountain range under a pale blue sky.

Mount Pentelicus, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor of a mountain valley with jagged peaks, forested slope, red-roofed buildings, and a river in the foreground.

Study of landscape, Norway

William Trost Richards, 1900

Pencil sketch of saddled pack horses standing among rocks on a mountain summit, drawn by Winslow Homer in 1860.

Summit of Mt. Washington

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of three people in a canoe on water, with a paddle and reflections, on lined paper.

Three Men in a Canoe, Il Manigne, Quebec

Winslow Homer, 1890

Oil sketch of a snow-capped volcanic peak above brown rolling hills under a warm hazy sky, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a river with trees on the left, white rushing water on the right, and hazy hills in the distance.

Prospect Point and the American Falls, Niagara River, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a mountain valley at sunset with pink clouds, dark forest, and a stream in the foreground.

Mountain Landscape at Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a man in a hat fishing from a rocky shore, with trees and hills across a calm lake.

Men Fishing with a Rod and Net

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pale drawing of a calm sea with a sunlit reflection, white cloud forms above the horizon, and a rocky shoreline at lower edge

Seascape, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor design of a green reliquary with lion-head handles, gilded mitre and crossed crosier, and a Latin inscription.

Sarcophagus for the Relic

Luigi Righetti, 1810

Monochrome sketch of a fisherman casting a line from a log over a river, with dark evergreen forest behind.

Fisherman in Quebec, Canada

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a distant city skyline with a large central dome and spire under loose, drifting clouds.

Distant View of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted landscape of a rose-colored mountain above a still lake, with autumn trees on the shore and a small rowboat at left.

Mt. Katahdin from Upper Togue Pond, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of the ruined Parthenon temple in Athens with columns and fallen stones in the foreground.

The Parthenon from the Southeast, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal and chalk drawing of surf breaking over rocks along a shoreline with trees on the horizon.

Black Point, Scarborough

Winslow Homer, 1880

Drawing of a rocky seacoast with blue water, offshore rocks, reddish cliffs, and a grassy hill under a pale sky.

The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Loose oil sketch of a small boat on dark green water under glowing orange cliffs, with dark rocks in the foreground.

Iceberg Fantasy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sunlit dirt path winding past a reddish rock cliff with vines, slender trees and foliage on the left.

Woodland Path, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal and white-heightened sketch of exposed tree roots spreading across a hillside above dark shrubbery.

Tree Roots on a Hillside, Prout's Neck

Winslow Homer, 1880

Sketch of alpine mountain peaks with a sunlit summit, snow patches, and a valley of pencil-drawn forest in the foreground.

The Watzmann and the Hochkalter near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted sunset over lavender mountains, with trees and a small figure on a brown hillside in the foreground.

Winter Sunset in the Hudson Valley, Looking Southwest from Olana

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of gnarled tree roots over a grassy slope with shrubs and a winding path.

Tree Roots, Prout's Neck

Winslow Homer, 1880

Loose sketch of a reddish hill above pale fields with scattered trees under a warm hazy sky.

Landscape with Low Hill and Fields

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a man fishing with a long rod on a rocky shore, with trees and water in loose hatched lines.

Study for "Ouananiche Fishing," Lake St. John

Winslow Homer, 1890

Watercolor sketch of a dry landscape with a white mission church, trees, a dirt road and hills under a pale sky.

Near San Francisco, Mexico

Thomas Moran, 1880

Night landscape with a glowing moon over water, a dark wooded island, and distant hills under a pale blue sky.

Moon Rising over the Porcupine Islands, Bar Harbor, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850