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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Painted study of ruined columns of a temple rising over a green plain with distant mountains under a pale sky.

Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus

Lockwood de Forest, 1870

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

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

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 Doric temple colonnade at Paestum with column studies and handwritten colour notes.

Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink drawing of a galley with oarsmen approaching sirens with serpentine tails in the sea, under clouds.

Odysseus and the Sirens

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

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

Pencil and wash sketch of Neptune, the sea god, reclining on a scroll with a trident among clouds.

Neptune

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Etched print of three vertical trophies with Bacchic attributes like wine cups, grapes, staves, and garlands.

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of the goddess Diana reclining with a bow and quiver beside a stag in a rocky landscape.

Diana

Felice Giani, 1800

Etching of an ornate galley with rowers, armored warriors, a dragon prow, and Apollo in a chariot above the sea.

Idmone e Mopso argon guidati da Apollo, from Vessels of the Argonauts for the wedding celebration of Cosimo de' Medic…

Remigio Cantagallina, 1600

Engraved frieze of sea nymphs, a piping satyr, putti and a sea dragon in fine line hatching.

Ornamental Frieze with Sea Nymphs

Michiel le Blon, 1630

Pen and ink drawing of Apollo with a lyre and a winged Cupid in a classical riverside landscape with ancient buildings.

Apollo with lyre and Love

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club over the fallen fire-breathing Cacus beside rocks, with a cow head peeking out.

Hercules and Cacus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of Apollo and the Muses on a hilltop under laurel trees, with cherubs above holding wreaths and robed figures aroun

Apollo on Parnassus

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Pen and brown wash drawing of bearded Jupiter reclining on clouds, offering a cup to an eagle beside him.

Jupiter

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraving of Hercules strangling the giant Antaeus in a rocky landscape beside a tree, both figures nude.

Hercules and Antaeus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus on clouds with an eagle and doves, a nude figure below blowing a trumpet.

Venus Complains to Jupiter

Master of the Die, 1520

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted warrior in a chariot dragging a nude body past onlookers at a city wall.

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraving of Venus embracing Adonis, who holds a spear beside hunting dogs, with a cupid and a bow in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis (after Titian)

Robert Strange, 1770

Etching of a seated woman with a reclining satyr child, goats, a tree and a distant village in a landscape.

Woman with an Infant Satyr, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Pen and ink sketch of nude Hercules with club and lion skin beside a serpent in a garden, with Italian caption below.

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraving of Hercules carrying two classical columns through a courtyard with arcades and a rotunda, a city behind.

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of nude Venus seated on a shell with sea nymphs, a bearded Triton with trident, and cherubs in clouds above.

Venus, Triton, and Sea Nymphs

Pieter Soutman, 1640

Brown ink drawing of Minerva in a helmet writing on a tablet, with an owl on a pedestal and scrolls beside her.

Minerva

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraving of Hercules on a fiery pyre with a nude figure beside him, a distant walled town and a river on the right.

The Death of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Pen etching of a satyr and bacchante in ivy wreaths seated on a lion skin, with a horned female faun and a tent behind them.

Copy of Bacchante, Satyr, and Female Faun, from the series Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil drawing of mythological figures battling winged sea monsters in two horizontal friezes, by Felice Giani, 1800.

Triton Combats Sea Monster

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Woodcut of a sleeping cupid with curly hair and a raised wing, resting on draped cloth against a pale green background.

A Sleeping Cupid

Bartolomeo Coriolano, 1640