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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a Paris street with bare trees, a street lamp, pedestrians, and tall building facades with chimneys.

View of a Paris Street

Griffith Baily Coale, 1910

Pencil and blue-wash sketch of a stone tower, arched opening and rooftops on city walls.

Buttresses on City Walls; Loches

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Watercolor design of a Gothic church chancel with a gilded altar, blue vaulted ceiling, and a painted Virgin figure in a nich

Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York City, Chancel Decoration

John La Farge, 1890

Watercolor of a Venetian canal street with brick buildings, a footbridge, a lantern, and a figure in a dark cloak.

Canal, Venice, Italy

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1880

Watercolor of half-timbered medieval houses with slate roofs and a woman with a pitcher beside a brick wall.

Street Scene with Medieval Houses

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Woodblock print of boats crowded on a river with streamer-hung poles in the foreground and a distant mountain under blue sky.

Miyato River by Great Bank of Asakusa River, No 68 from One Hundred Views of Edo (Asakusa-gawa Okawa-bata, Miyato-gawa)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Black and white lithograph of a busy city street with pedestrians, storefronts, a street lamp, and a horse cart.

Lafayette Street

Childe Hassam, 1910

Pencil sketch of a narrow street passing under a stone archway, with a robed figure walking toward a distant arched gate.

Street in Tangiers

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Etching of a dense wooded landscape with two figures crossing a wooden bridge beside a rocky ledge and a distant view.

Wooded Landscape, With Two Figures on a Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etching of a city skyline with a Gothic tower above rooftops, with steamships and smoking factories on a harbor below.

The West Street Building from the Singer Building

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Pencil sketch of a narrow street in San Remo with arched doorways, balconies, stone steps and a small standing figure.

Street in San Remo

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Etching of Trinity Church spire at the end of a crowded Wall Street lined with tall stone buildings and pedestrians.

Trinity Church from Wall Street

Vaughan Trowbridge, 1910

Etching of moored sailing ships and their reflections on a calm harbor, with riverfront buildings and a smokestack at right.

Below Chestnut Street Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1880

Engraved landscape of a hilltop castle with a round tower, a wooden bridge, a watermill and a large tree in the foreground.

Landscape with Castle and Bridge

Hanns Lautensack, 1550

Wood engraving of men in a Baxter Street club-house: card players, a man smoking on a bed, and a reclining smoker.

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House

Winslow Homer, 1870

Etching of a New York skyline seen over rooftops, with a Gothic tower at the center and hazy smoky sky.

New York from Brooklyn Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of tall trees beside a pond with a small wooden footbridge and a distant tower under cloudy sky.

Wooded Landscape with a Foot Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Pencil sketch of a horse and cart with figures in a street scene, above a study of a woman in a hat.

Street scene

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Etching of a Gothic skyscraper above construction cranes, scaffolding and workers on Vesey Street, with smoke filling the sky

Caissons on Vesey Street

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Pen and wash sketch of three women seen from behind in full skirts and veils, with a stone urn and trees in a garden.

A Street Scene in Madrid, from Series "Sketches in Madrid"

Constantin Guys, 1850

Pencil sketch of a street vendor's stall with a hanging lantern, a bowl, and handwritten color notes beside it.

Street vendor

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a river with church spires and city buildings behind, and figures on stairs in the foregr

London Bridge Stairs

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Watercolor sketch of a central figure rising above falling forms, surrounded by winged angels in golden light within an arch.

Sketch for the Painting in the Chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York City

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1890

Pencil sketch of two bearded men seated among tall trees and rocks, with a woman reading in the foreground, dated 1860.

Leaf from a sketchbook: T. Addison Richards and Robert O'Brien at High Bridge

Martha S. Day, 1860

Etching of St. Paul's Cathedral's west front and dome seen down a city street, flanked by tall buildings and towers.

St. Paul's, Fleet Street, London

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Wood engraving of a night street scene with top-hatted men and women in crinoline gathered around a telescope at a shop.

Boston Evening Street Scene, at the Corner of Court and Brattle Streets

Winslow Homer, 1850

Ballou's Pictorial newspaper page with harbor masthead and engraving of a crowded Boston street corner with pedestrians and a

Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets, Boston

Charles F. Damoreau, 1850

Etching of the Bridge of Alcantara in Toledo, with stone arches, crenellated towers and a distant river valley.

Bridge of Alcantara, Toledo

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Japanese woodblock print of a large black carp streamer over a city view with Mount Fuji, a bridge and figures on a riverbank

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1850

Print of a Scottish man in a kilt walking a cobbled street past women at a well and men near a hanging sign and archway.

Flemish Street Scene with a Scottish Man

Will Hicox Low, 1910