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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor ornament sheet with a triangular panel of two winged lions, a laurel wreath, and a crown with ribbons.

Ornament Design, Triangular Panel with Winged Lions and Two Roman Crowns

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Watercolor design of a wood-grained door with an overdoor panel showing a fantastic bird in pink, green and yellow.

Design for Door and Overdoor with Fantastic Bird, probably for the Yellow Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Ink and wash sketches of several cattle heads and horns on a cream sheet, with small pencil studies of legs at top.

Sketches of Cattle, Irvington

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketch of two stag heads with branching antlers on a cream sheet, one large and one small.

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Graphite sketch of a horse-drawn covered wagon with a driver, plus smaller studies of a head and figures on paper.

Horse and wagon

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing with two scenes: a giant blinded by men above, and a body on a bier with onlookers below.

Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch sheet of camels in multiple poses, with a robed figure and the handwritten note 'Against evening sky'.

Camel Studies, Against Evening Sky, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Horse

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Two watercolor studies of resting brown and white calves, one lying under a tree and one asleep in grass.

Studies of Calves, Stockbridge

Samuel Colman, 1870

Ink and wash sketch of three scenes: horsemen by a river, figures in water, and a crowded battle with an SPQR banner.

Sketchbook Page, Folio 95: Three Paintings after Giulio Romano; Verso: Lion and Eagle

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of two horses, one saddled and one carrying a mounted rider in uniform, on pale paper.

Two Horses, One Mounted

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of a bird hunt with two hunters, a woman on horseback, a large tree, and flying birds before a distant castle.

Bird Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Etching of the Horse Guards building in London with a domed clock tower, arched entrance, and small figures in the street.

The Horse Guards

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Red-toned print of two birds with spread wings among leafy trees, grasses and a fallen branch in a landscape.

Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Engraving of turbaned hunters with dogs attacking a lion beneath a large flowering palm tree.

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Sepia oval print of a seated woman in white robes with a lion and donkey beside her in a forest.

Una and the Lion, from Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Reddish-brown print of two birds beside a nest with eggs, surrounded by trees, branches and grasses in a landscape.

Two Birds and a Bird’s Nest in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Two orange-bellied squirrels, one hanging upside down, climbing a tree branch with green leaves and nuts on a pale background

Orange-Bellied Squirrel

John James Audubon, 1830

Engraving of a boy in a ruff collar riding a spaniel and holding a bird on his raised hand beside an oak tree.

The Dog of Goltzius

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Ink sketch in two registers: robed figures and animals above, a crowd confronting a satyr among rocks below.

Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia […

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Watercolor study of three cattle: a brown steer grazing, a black-and-white steer standing, and a brown cow beside a fence.

Cattle, Steers

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of chimneys, rooftops and a scrolled barber's sign on tan paper, annotated Lausanne Sept. 18.

Chimneys - Lusanne

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of three horse heads on tan paper, one larger above two smaller studies, with a museum stamp below.

Horse

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of Daniel among lions with a winged angel descending above an arched architectural setting.

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Pietro Novelli, 1640

Pencil sketch of a horse's head and harness on cream paper, with handwritten inscription below.

A Buggy Horse

Arnold William Brunner, 1890

Loose pencil sketch on cream paper of a goat's head above a reclining dog.

Dog and goat

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Watercolor study of a brown and white cow's head with curved horns against a loose blue sky.

Head of a Cow, Étretat

Samuel Colman, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of two long-beaked birds among acanthus leaves and seed pods on a curving stem.

Two Birds in Foliage with Seed Pods

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a horse's head and neck in loose graphite lines on cream paper.

Horse

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Graphite sketch sheet with multiple studies of cow heads, eyes, horns, and legs on cream paper.

Studies of Cows

Samuel Colman, 1860