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Engraving of a exhausted wigmaker slumped in a chair beside a wig stand, candle, basin, and scattered grooming tools.

The Tired Wigmaker, from "Divers Portraits"

Giovanni David, 1775

Etching of Psyche holding a lamp over a sleeping Cupid on a bed with drapery, inscribed with the title in the margin.

Curious Psyche

Giovanni David, mid-1770's

Pencil and wash drawing of a figure sketching outdoors beside gnarled trees, with a child, a dog and a distant town.

Landscape with an Artist Sketching

Mari ten Kate, n.d.

Watercolor of the domed Muiderpoort gatehouse beside a canal, with large trees, boats, a footbridge and a windmill.

The Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, seen from the Plantage

Hendrick Keun, 1771

Brown wash drawing of the Crucifixion with soldiers, a mounted rider, a fortified wall and mourners in the foreground.

Crucifixion

Thomas de Keyser, 1665

Pale watercolor of a hilltop town above cliffs and a calm lake, with a thatched hut and cypress trees.

Genzano and Lake Nemi

Joseph August Knip, early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a river landscape with a man beside a boathouse, moored boat, trees and a distant town.

River Landscape with a Man Standing by a Boathouse

Philips Koninck, mid-17th-late 17th century

Blue-grey wash drawing of a ceiling design with haloed female saints, a crowned figure, a dog, and draped curtains.

Design for a Ceiling showing the Virgin, Catherine, and Agnes

Matthais Wolcker, early to mid-18th century

Pen and wash sketch of three women and a child on a rooftop with birds, in an arched frame.

Three Women and a Child on a Roof

Ludwig Richter, 1820-84

Pen drawing of a mounted rider under trees above a lower scene of a rooster, hen, and woman carrying a bundle.

Two Designs for Illustration

Ludwig Richter, 1820-84

Pen and watercolor city view with a tall church tower, domes, a columned portico in front, and trees on the right.

View of Milan

Ludwig Richter, 1820-84

Red chalk drawing of a seated man in a robe reading at a desk beside bookshelves and stacked books.

The Immortal Author

Bernhard Rode, 1740-97

Pencil sketch of riverside buildings, a stone tower and a water mill wheel beside a river with trees behind.

Landscape with Mill and Buildings

Ludwig Richter, 1820-84

Ink and wash design with winged figures, an ox-drawn chariot in the clouds, and rococo scroll border above a distant landscap

Design for a Book Illustration

Franz Sigrist, late 18th century

Pencil sketch of three vignettes: a horseback rider over clouds, playful cherubs among foliage, and a seated figure under a t

Three Designs for Book Illustrations

Ludwig Richter, 1820-84

Hand-lettered German verse sheet with watercolor scrollwork border and vignettes of a goat, a pig, travelers and a devil.

Sheets of Verses: Priamel vom Schuldenbot

Johann Martin Usteri, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a turbaned rider on a horse led by a cloaked man through a walled city street with onlookers.

Triumph of Mordecai

Hans Ulrich Fisch vom Stein I, early to mid-17th century

Pen and wash design with winged figures, a kneeling woman in prayer, cherubs, and a domed building within rococo scrollwork.

Design for Book Illustration

Franz Sigrist, late 18th century

Watercolor elevation of a neoclassical riding school side entrance with columns, pediment, arched windows and two mounted rid

Project for the Riding-School of the Horse Guards in Saint Petersburg: Elevation of the Side Entrance

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1744-1817

Architectural section drawing of a classical interior with columns, a central fireplace and mirror, and a vaulted niche below

Project for the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo (Section)

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1744-1817

Brown wash drawing of trees on a rocky riverbank, with two people in a rowboat on calm water and hills beyond.

Landscape

Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of an ornate ewer with putti, grape garlands, an eagle-head spout and fluted body on a pedestal.

Design for a Ewer

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1754-91

Watercolor of a seated fiddler in a green vest and wide hat playing violin beside a tree trunk.

Gypsy Fiddler

Monogrammist CG, 1858

Painted design for a wall with garlands, gilded scrolls, and a central doorway panel on a reddish-brown ground.

Design for Wall Decoration

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Pen and wash design for an oval gold box with rococo scrollwork, a reclining woman and a cherub, and a blank panel below.

Design for an Oval Gold Box

Hubert François Gravelot

Pencil sketch of a hillside monastery above a coastline with trees and distant shore, on a pale sheet.

Sketch of the Monastery of St. George Chalkis

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of an armored knight with lance and banner beside a pedestal with a laurel-wreath relief.

Statue of a Knight

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a two-story monastery with wooden balconies beside tall trees and a dirt path.

The Cloister Sanajia (?) at Kalki

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a columned interior with a grand staircase, ornate frieze, coffered ceiling, and a small floor plan overlay.

Interior of the Alhambra(?)

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a building with a curved bay window, balcony railing, heraldic medallion, and garden shrubs on grid paper.

Sketch of Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a landscape with a stone arch bridge, tall cypress trees, leafy trees and a hillside with buildings.

Landscape with Bridge

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a building with curved bay windows, a garden terrace with potted plants, and trees on the right.

Sketch of Building and Garden

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a coastal town with fortified walls, a hilltop fortress and mountains behind, drawn on squared paper.

Landscape

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil drawing of a bay with distant mountains, a fortified town on the right shore, and small boats on the water.

View of a Bay and Mountains

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch with touches of colour showing a town of rooftops and trees along water, with a shuttered house at right.

View of Town

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a panoramic view of a city with domes and minarets beyond trees, a distant shoreline, and hills.

Landscape near Constantinople

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Pencil drawing of a stone aqueduct with pointed arches crossing a rocky landscape with trees and shrubs.

Landscape with Acquaduct near Smyrna

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Watercolor of a long building with tall spired towers on a flat plain under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Large Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 1818-83

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical palace interior with columns, arches, a coffered ceiling and statues.

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Josef Platzer, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of rococo ornamental panels with scrollwork, cherubs, and floral motifs within a green-bordered frame.

Design for plate 2, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of rococo ornamental panels with cherubs, scrollwork, and animal figures in a central cartouche.

Design for plate 8, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of ornamental scrollwork panels with a central cartouche, winged figures, and urns.

Design for plate 5 from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pencil drawing of a large arched hall with rows of stacked framed paintings and two men in caps sorting them.

Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon

Felicien Myrbach-Rheinfeld, late 19th-early 20th century

Ink drawing of a rococo frame design with scrollwork, blank central panel, and ecclesiastical motifs at the top.

Design for Frame with Ecclesiastical Motifs

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Ink drawing of a rococo decorative frame with flowers, feathers, leaves and scrollwork around handwritten German text.

Design for a Frame with Flowers, Feathers, Leaves, and Grapes

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Pen drawing of an ornate rococo frame with scrolling foliage, shells, a papal tiara and crossed keys, and a castle at the top

Design for a Frame

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Pen drawing of an ornate rococo frame with cypress trees, trellis work, scrollwork and a radiant emblem at the top.

Design for Frame with Trees and Trellises

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Ink drawing of a rococo ornamental frame with scrollwork, acanthus leaves, birds and a grotesque mask around a blank center.

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Rococo Ceiling

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Grey wash drawing of rocks, trees and animals framing a blank central panel, with an owl, squirrel, birds and an otter.

Design for a Title Page(?): Rocks and Animals

Joseph Martin Nideröst, late 18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo altar design with twisted columns and a relief of Saint Michael and the dragon.

Design for an Alter with Saint Michael and the Dragon

Johann Baptist Modler, 1715-74

Pen and wash drawing of a harbor with sailing ships, a fortified tower, arched bridge, and a statue on a pedestal.

Harbor Scene

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, ca. 1730

Drawing of a ceiling design with the Presentation in the Temple, angels in clouds, and ornate rococo scrollwork around an arc

Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen drawing of a woman between two bearded men under an ornate arch, with skeletons and inscribed banners, dated 1628.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Circular ceiling design in blue watercolor with winged dancing figures around a central chariot scene with horses.

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann, 1760-1807

Pen and wash design drawing of a stove and wall fountain with paneled sections, arched niche, urn and carved figures.

Design for a Stove and Wall Fountain (?)

Friedrich Sustris, 1598

Pen and watercolor caricature of an engraver as a draped urn figure with a face, open books, feathers and medallions.

Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Grey wash architectural elevation of a palace façade with columns, arched windows, and statues along the roofline.

Design for a Palace Façade

Carl Hårleman, early-mid 18th century

Watercolor interior design sketch with a grey floor, a black ornamental frieze, and a pink and blue patterned rug in the corn

View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a cliffside monastery with cypress trees, two robed monks on a path, and a stormy sky.

Monastery of Mega Spileon, Greece

Peter Toft, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a papal tiara and crossed keys within an ornamental cartouche with a blank tablet below.

Papal Cartouche

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, ca. 1740-41

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pen and ink allegorical design: a seated woman offers a laurel wreath to a nude male figure with a torch, amid classical arch

Design for an Allegorical Print

Louis Lafitte, ca.1800-02

Pen and wash drawing of a heaped pile of armor, banners, a trumpet, chains and books under a cloudy sky.

The House of York

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1796

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical urns with serpent handles, relief figures, and a lion mask detail.

Designs for Two Urns

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a room wall with two windows, a central statue niche and garland relief, with a plan

Section and Plan of the Small Dining Room of the Hôtel de Montholon

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Pen and wash design drawing of a wall with an ornate chimneypiece, caryatids, framed paintings, and two standing male figures

Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures

Antoine Le Pautre, ca. 1650-70

Decorative drawing of a telegraph office with interior hall scenes, operators at apparatus, a street facade and framing ornam

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862

Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne, 1862

Ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family in a carpenter's shop, with Joseph at a workbench and the child on the floor.

The Childhood of Christ, in the carpenter's shop

Hans Bol, 1534-93

Pen and blue wash sketch of a seated man, standing couple and allegorical figures in an architectural interior.

Compositional Sketch for The Request for Admission into the Union, a Painting in the Town Hall of 's-Hertogenbosch. T…

Theodoor van Thulden, 1645?

Red chalk design of a bearded herm figure with four putti and garlands of fruit and foliage in an arched panel.

Design for a Panel with Four Putti Decorating a Herm (Terminal Figure) with Garlands of Fruit and Foliage

Jacob de Wit, ca. 1720-40

Pencil sketch of two seated women in headscarves with a young girl resting at their feet on draped cloth.

Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

Charles Baugniet, 1830-86

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate bucket with a scrolled handle, lion mask, and decorative engraved panels.

Design for a Bucket

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design sheet showing ornate spoon, fork, crossed knives, scissors, ear spoon and toothpick with decorated handle

Design for Spoon, Fork, Two Knives (Crossed over scissors), Scissors, Ear Spoon and Toothpick

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pencil sketch of women and a child gathered before a fireplace in an interior, with a standing figure at right.

Interior with Figures before a Fireplace

Charles Baugniet, 1871

Ink and wash drawing of a mermaid-like figure holding a scallop shell, with three putti on a sea serpent base.

Design for Serving Piece

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a footed dish with a flower-shaped cover surrounded by foliage, with smaller studies below.

Design for Single Footed Dish with Cover Shaped like Flower and Foliage

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design drawing of a decorative silver-gilt flask with strapwork, masks and scrollwork ornament.

Design for a Silver- gilt Flask Decorated with Strapwork, Masks, Moresques

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design for a circular silver plate with crabs linked by ribbon swags around a central rosette.

Design for Silver Plate Decorated with Crabs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a shallow dish from above with a central female mask, and a tall ornate pedestal below.

Shallow Round Dish on tall Pedestal Decorated with Fruit and Female Masks

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design drawing of a shallow round dish on three scrolled legs with arched openings around the rim.

Design for Shallow Round Dish on Three Legs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and grey wash design for an oval platter showing tritons and sea nymphs battling around a central cartouche.

Design for a Platter with Battling Tritons and Sea Nymphs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of four perfume bottles and a two-handled shallow dish on aged paper.

Design for Shallow Two Handled Dish and Four Perfume Bottles

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a footed ornamental bowl with a pierced rim, figural side supports and scrolled feet.

Design for a Bronze Vessel

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a sword with an eagle-head hilt, ornate scabbard and suspension chain.

Design for a Sword

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a Gothic cathedral interior with a rose window, galleries of spectators, and robed clergy around a dais.

The Anointing of Louis XVI at His Coronation in Reims Cathedral, June 11, 1775

François Joseph Belanger, 1814

Pen and wash drawing of a fantastical urn with a sculpted head, plumed crest, garlands and paw feet.

Caricature of a Sculptor

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and wash drawing of a smiling bald caricature man in a buttoned coat, carrying a bundle and objects, with a ladder on his

Caricature of a Junkman (recto); Caricature of a School Master (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a Chimneypiece

Jean Charles Delafosse

Architectural elevation drawing of a classical arsenal entrance with columns, allegorical statues, chains, and cannons.

Elevation of the Entrance to an Arsenal

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and wash drawing of two trophy designs with armor, drums and swords above an oval cartouche with fruit.

Two Designs for Trophies and a Cartouche

Jean Charles Delafosse, ca. 1768

Pen and ink drawing of three classical architectural trophy designs with urns, garlands, and ram heads, dated 1800.

Three Designs for Architectural Trophies

Jean Charles Delafosse

Ink and wash drawing of a tiered round mausoleum with classical figures and a floor plan below.

Elevation and Plan for a Round Mausoleum

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and ink sketch of a martyrdom scene with muscular nude figures, a central prone body, and onlookers at the edges.

Martydom of St. Lawrence

Raymond de La Fage

Pen and grey wash design of a rococo folding screen panel with scrolling ornament, shell motifs and a figure medallion at top

Design for a Folding Screen

Jacques de Lajoüe

Pen and watercolor drawing of a domed circular temple with robed figures gathered around a burning altar beneath trees.

Ancient Scene with a Funeral Ceremony for an Actor

Louis Jean Desprez, ca. 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of two classical scenes with cherubs, clouds, columns and nude figures, designs for a box.

Designs for the Top and Bottom of a Small Rectangular Box

Louis-Félix Delarue