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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of several men's heads in top hats and bowler hats, with beards and mustaches, on pale paper.

Sketches of Heads of Men

Arnold William Brunner, 1890

Portrait of a young boy with dark hair in a dark jacket, white shirt and yellow bow tie against a grey background.

Colombia, Barranquilla, portrait of boy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Pastel portrait of a young woman with feathered headdress, jeweled headband, quiver of arrows and pink sash against grey back

Personification of America

Rosalba Carriera, 1720

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman with curly hair modeling a small figure beside a potted flowering plant.

Virginia Modeling, Study for Etching

Jerome Myers, 1920

Portrait of a Woman

Philip Leslie Hale, 1900

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a young woman with closed eyes and hair in a bun, on grey paper with blue shading.

Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman with Closed Eyes

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Red chalk sketch of a man's head and shoulders on tan paper, with wavy hair and a slight smile.

Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman

Harriet Blackstone, 1920

Sketches of Heads

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Grayscale shaded drawing of a plaster head tilted upward on a stepped pedestal, with the name M. Alice Travers inscribed at u

Vertical rectangle. The head of a woman tilted upward and facing left. Signed in charcoal, upper right: "M. Alice Tra…

M. Alice Travers, 1890

Charcoal study of an elderly bearded man with a balding head wearing a buttoned overcoat, looking over his shoulder.

Portrait of a Man: Study from Life

Coralie E. Feilner, 1880

Portrait fo unknown man

Richard Dighton, 1880

Red chalk drawing of a tomb decoration with an oval portrait medallion, drapery swags, bows and an urn above.

Tomb decoration with portrait

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Charcoal study of a mustached man's head and shoulders on a torn cream sheet, with handwritten name and date below.

Study for portrait, Vicente Blasco Ibañez

Harriet Blackstone, 1910

Portrait of Lord Beauclerk

Richard Dighton, 1880

Pencil study of a classical helmeted head of Athena, shaded on the right, with handwritten notes on the sheet.

Head of Athena (from a cast)

S. D. Pratt, 1900

Sketches of Two Heads

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Portrait of Mr. Franklin

Richard Dighton, 1880

Watercolor ornament design showing a classical female bust cameo in a blue circle, with a pink ribbon bow above.

Ornament Design with Female Portrait Cameo

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Pencil sketch of a seated man in an interior with a draped curtain, on a sheet with faint handwritten notes.

Portrait Sketch

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Chalk drawing on brown paper of a young woman with bowed head, dark hair, and white lace collar.

The Artist's Wife Sophie

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo oval frame with a small scene of figures around an easel below.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Gedney Bunce

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of a right hand on cream paper with handwritten colour notes in the upper left corner.

Sketch of Right Hand for Portrait of Mrs. Kennedy

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Pen and grey wash design of an empty oval frame with drapery, with a seated putto holding a staff beside a crown.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of William Russell, First Duke of Bedford

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Pencil sketch of a broken carved column capital with acanthus leaves beside a camel head with bridle.

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and brown ink drawing of a female ballet dancer in an 18th-century gown with pearl and ivy trim, mid-step.

A Ballet Dancer, Mademoiselle Marie Allard

Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle, France, 1770

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated man in a curled wig gesturing toward a book, with wash shading.

Portrait of a Prelate

Salvator Rosa, 1700

Graphite sketch of a seated woman with head tilted up, arm resting on a ledge, hand gathering drapery.

Sketch for a Portrait of a Seated Woman

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Charcoal drawing of a young child with voluminous curly hair turned to the side, shaded softly against a pale tan sheet.

Portrait of a Child

Samuel Worcester Rowse, 1820

Red chalk study of a reclining female nude seen from behind, with white chalk highlights on toned paper.

Study for Reclining Nude

François Boucher, 1740