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Pencil sketch of a shingled cabin with a chimney behind a split-rail fence and trees, inscribed as the studio of William S. M

Studio of William S. Mount (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Shepard Alonzo Mount

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat sitting and drawing in an open field with a lone tree, by William Sidney Mount, 1840.

Artist Sketching at Stony Brook, New York (from McGuire Scrapbook)

William Sidney Mount, 1840

Sepia watercolor of mounted riders and pack mules on grassland beside a winding river, with wooded hills in the distance.

On the Head-Waters--Burgess Finding a Ford

Frederic Remington, ca. 1893

Watercolor of Collect Pond with a rocky hillside, willow tree, three walking figures, and a distant New York skyline with chu

Collect Pond, New York City

Archibald Robertson, 1798

Charcoal drawing of a woman in a dark dress seated at an upright piano, her hands on the keys, in a soft-shaded interior.

At the Piano

Theodore Robinson, ca. 1887

Dyer Sharp Wynkoop

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Portrait of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Thomas F. Hoppin, ca. 1841

Albert Gallatin

James Sharples, ca. 1796

Watercolor portrait of a seated man in a black coat and white cravat, leaning on a black spindle chair, dated 1810.

Allan Melville

John Rubens Smith, 1810

Watercolor of a distant city skyline with church spires across a river, with sailing boats and a flagpole in the foreground.

Albany, New York

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Dorothea Hart

James Sharples, 1809

Watercolor of a crowded hall with feathered figures on a wooden stage, a standing man, and spectators.

Exhibition of Indian Tribal Ceremonies at the Olympic Theater, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

The Chief of the Little Osages

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel portrait of a man with white hair in an olive coat and white cravat against a dark blue background.

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery

James Sharples, 1798

Watercolor of a dense crowd of Native American faces with feathered headdresses, painted faces, and a nursing infant in the f

Tableau of Indian Faces

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a striped paddle steamboat with passengers and an American flag moving between rocky cliffs on a river.

Steamboat Travel on the Hudson River

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Pastel portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white ruffled cravat against a dark background.

Noah Webster

James Sharples, 1751-1849

Watercolor of uniformed soldiers with bearskin hats, a drummer, mounted cavalry, and a blue flag, marching on a dirt road.

Members of the City Troop and Other Philadelphia Soldiery

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a ferry with carriage and passengers crossing a rocky river toward pale cliffs and wooded hills.

A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, near Havre de Grace

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel landscape on tan paper showing rolling open ground, dark shrubs and a pale sky with a distant horizon.

Landscape

John Henry Twachtman, after 1890

Watercolor of people dancing and socializing in a wayside inn, with a fiddler playing near an open door.

Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a white clapboard country house with columned porch, framed by large trees, a statue and urns on the lawn.

A Country Residence, Possibly General Moreau's Country House at Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel portrait of a woman in a pleated white bonnet with lace trim and a pale shawl against a dark background.

Abigail Smith Adams

James Sharples, ca.1796

Watercolor of Black sawyers cutting logs before a columned neoclassical building, with a woman holding a child and a horse ne

Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a stone tomb with an arched wooden door on a grassy hill, framed by trees and cypresses under a pale sky.

General Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon (Copy after Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, 1810)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Watercolor of trees and boulders on a shore, with rowboats and sailboats on a calm river and wooded cliffs beyond.

Weehawken from Turtle Grove

William James Bennett, ca. 1830

Watercolor of men in top hats eating oysters at a street barrow at night, with a woman holding a candle beside them.

Nightlife in Philadelphia - an Oyster Barrow in front of the Chestnut Street Theater

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of three brown clay vessels: a frog-shaped cup, a ribbed jar, and a narrow-necked bottle on a pale ground.

Indian Antiquities (Copy after Engraving in American Medical and Philosophical Register, 1812)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1812-ca. 1813

Pen sketches on a page: seated man, three robed figures in an arch, a newsboy, a hat-wearing man, and a smoker.

Christ and Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Watercolor of people walking on a cobbled street past a brick wall and classical building, with willow trees behind.

Sunday Morning in front of the Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813