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Pen and ink landscape drawing of rolling hills with a tower on the crest and large rocks in the foreground.

Hilly landscape with rocks

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor street scene of St. Austell, Cornwall, with a church tower, shops, pedestrians, a horse and dogs.

St. Austle, Cornwall

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor of farm workers washing potatoes in a tub beside a cart of sacks, with children, a dog and poultry nearby.

Farming scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor landscape of a winding country road with riders, walkers, farm fields, a farmhouse and a distant church tower.

Landscape

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor tavern scene with a serving woman, seated men at a table, and a dog on the floor.

Tavern scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Colored drawing of fashionable people at a crowded public breakfast in a Bath assembly room, with plumed hats and tall window

The Comforts of Bath: A Public Breakfast

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1798

Pen and wash drawing of a herd of deer resting beneath a large spreading oak tree in a wooded landscape.

Herd of deer under an oak tree

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pen and ink sketch of a busy seaport with sailing ships, rowboats, dockworkers rolling barrels, and crowds on the quay.

Seaport

Thomas Rowlandson, 1792

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded harbor with masted ships, rowboats, figures and wooden wharf buildings.

Shipyard, Greenwich

Thomas Rowlandson, before 1791

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate carved sideboard with lion masks and scrolled brackets, with a plan below.

Design for Sideboard for Lord Falklane at Skutterskelfe, Yorkshire

Anthony Salvin, 1835

Pen drawing of river nymphs in reeds, a man with a fishing rod, and a cartoon GWR steam train in the background.

Father Thames and Henley Naiads (Cartoon published in Punch, February 26, 1898)

Linley Sambourne, Febuary 18, 1898

Watercolor design of a painted ceiling with oval central panel, cherubs, clouds and floral panels, for Spencer House dining r

Ceiling of Dining Room, Spencer House, St. James Palace, London

Frederick Sang, ca. 1870

Pencil caricature drawing of a procession of exaggerated comic figures in top hats, a turban, and a small dog.

Caricatures

George Frederick Sargent, 1850-60

Ink and wash landscape of a windswept tree on a hillside, with distant mountains and a grazing animal at left.

Landscape

Samuel Shelley, 1776-1808

Pencil drawing of a baroque church facade with a tall ornate tower and spires, beside a street with gabled houses and small f

Church of St. John the Baptist at the Béguinage, Brussels

William Frome Smallwood, 1824-34

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a symmetrical classical government building with statues and a domed structure behind.

Drawing for Foreign Office, Westminster, for competition of 1857

Robert Smirke, 1857

Pencil drawing of Lake of Thun with steep mountains, a shoreline village with a church spire, and water reflections.

Lake of Thun looking North

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1820-67

Pencil design drawing of an ornate desk with scrolling foliage, reclining figures, putti, and a winged cupid on top.

Design for a Desk with Decorations from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

G. Clark Stanton, 1851

Engraving of Sistine Chapel ceiling figures: Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, and Jesse, David and Solomon in arched spandrels.

Portion of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, Jesse, David, and Solomon, from S…

Cherubino Alberti, 1577 (republished in 1628)

Engraving of muscular angels carrying a column, sponge and ladder across clouds in an arched composition.

Group from the Last Judgment, Angels Carrying the Column of the Flagellation and the Sponge and Ladder of the Crucifi…

Domenico del Barbiere, 16th century

Engraving of the Conversion of Saul: a rearing horse, falling soldiers on a hill, and God and angels in clouds above.

Conversion of Saul, from Michelangelo's fresco in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican

Nicolas Béatrizet, ca. 1545-60

Engraving of Judith handing Holofernes' head to a maidservant, with his body lying inside the tent at left.

Judith passing the head of Holofernes to her maidservant, the decapitated Holofernes inside the tent at left

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Loose watercolor and pencil sketch of nude bathers among trees and grass, by Paul Cézanne.

Bathers (recto); Landscape (verso)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1888 (recto); n.d. (verso)

Watercolor landscape of autumn-tinged trees beside a pale path, with blue hills and clouds behind.

Landscape with a Path between Trees

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ca. 1886

Ink and wash drawing of cavalry soldiers resting in a camp with horses, a wagon, and tents in the distance.

Cavalry Men at Rest

Georg Philipp Rugendas, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and blue wash drawing of mounted riders and a fallen figure in the foreground, with a walled city on a hill behind.

The Conversion of St. Paul

Melchior Bocksberger, 16th century

Pencil drawing of a winding lake shore with trees on the left and mountains beyond under a cloudy sky.

On Brothers Water, Cumbria

Thomas Sunderland, 1764-1828

Watercolor study of butterflies, moths, a grasshopper, caterpillars and beetles scattered on a pale ground, dated 1664.

Insects, Butterflies, and a Grasshopper

Jan van Kessel, 1664

Pen and wash drawing of rough harbor waves with sailing ships, a statue on a stone pedestal, and a distant city skyline.

Capriccio View of a Mediterranean Port

Bonaventura Peeters I, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of a hilly landscape with framing trees, a hilltop town, a distant mountain, and travellers with horses

Hilly Landscape with Travellers

Johann Georg von Dillis, late 18th-mid-19th century