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Monochrome blue-green drawing of a moonlit ruined abbey beside a river, with boats and figures in the foreground.

Tintern Abbey by moonlight

John 'Warwick' Smith, ca. 1789

Watercolor elevation of All Saints Church, Worcester, showing a tall tower with clock beside timber-framed houses and a wall.

All Saints Church, Worcester

Richard Varden, 1836

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rushing rocky stream passing a large boulder, with trees and hills behind.

A rocky stream, Italy

Samuel Woodforde, ca. 1786-91

Pen and wash design elevation of a dining room with a central oval ceiling painting, panelled walls, and ornate plasterwork.

Design for the Dining Room at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire

John Sanderson, 1747-48

Pen drawing on torn brown paper of an arcaded building with a crowd, horsemen and a fallen figure in the street.

Tracing of scene from Dr. Syntax

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1819

Etching of a woodland sacrifice to Pan, with a goat, satyrs, nymphs and a large tree beside an altar.

Sacrifice to Pan

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1762-63

Grey paper study with ink and wash sketches of winged female figures, a veiled central figure, and chalk studies of hands.

Studies of fairies with a pair of hands (possibly representing the Opening of Pandora's Box)

William Lock the Younger, 1784

Pen drawing of a dining room ceiling with an oval central medallion, rococo scrollwork and coffered panels, with a scale bar

Design for Ceiling at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire

John Sanderson, ca. 1747-48

Pen sketch of a small child riding a long-bodied dog above a symmetrical scrolled ornament study.

Sketch of a Child Riding a Dog

William Pitts, 1805-40

Colored print of two white kittens lapping spilled milk from a table beside an overturned bowl, with red drapery behind.

My Little White Kitties - Into Mischief

Currier & Ives, 1857-71

Hand-colored section drawing of a Chinese-style pavilion with pagoda roofs, arched interior windows, and a smaller adjoining

Project for a Chinese Pavillion

Michel Barthelemy Hazon, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of two nude children playing a bowling game with a ball and pins in a landscape.

Two Children Playing with a Ball

Peter Flötner, 1500-1546

Grey wash drawing of craggy rock formations with boulders and trees, pen outlines on pale paper.

Design for rock-work at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Watercolor drawing of rock-work with cascading waterfalls, a cave opening, and a pool, by Thomas Sandby.

Design for rock-work and cascades at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park (recto). Rock-work Designs (verso)

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Watercolor of a crowded domed hall with dancing guests, potted trees, and a balcony audience beneath a glass ceiling.

Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York

Fritz Meyer, 1856

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family, Saint Elizabeth and infant John the Baptist beneath a tree, with a hilltop town

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1520-25

Watercolor landscape of a winding river gorge with cliffs and trees, a distant town and hills under cloudy sky.

View of Chepstow, Wales

John Scarlett Davis, 1834

Brown watercolor of a columned mansion above a fenced lawn, with a rowboat on the water and a carriage on the road.

Inner Bay, Staten Island, New York

Augustus Köllner, ca. 1872

Engraved print of men in period dress gathered around a table in a classical hall with hanging flags.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776

Asher Brown Durand, 1823

Engraving of two women and a man in a field, with an ox-drawn hay wagon behind them at the edge of the trees.

The Last Load (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, August 7, 1869

Lithograph of a hunter with dogs crossing a field at dusk, two figures and a cart in the distance.

Return from the Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Etching of a bacchanal: a satyr playing pipes by a tree, and dancing putti and a satyr carrying vines and a basket of fruit.

Bacchanal with satyr playing a lute and surrounded by four figures, who look toward a succession of three putti and a…

Giulio Carpioni, 1640-60

Etching of nude children playing with a donkey, one riding on its back while others push and pull around it.

Bacchanale with Children and Donkey

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 19th century

Watercolor of a riverside quay with workers, a wooden crane, moored boats, a domed church and a long palace facade.

View of Berlin with the Dome and Castle

Ludwig Eduard Lütke, 1824

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of robed figures around a man carried on another's shoulders.

Christ Healing the Paralytic

Jacob Jordaens, ca. 1616-20

Pen and wash drawing of people feasting and boating on a river, with swans and a leafy canopy under a cloudy sky.

July: Amusements on the Water, (Juillet : les Divertissements sur l’eau)

Claude Simpol, ca. 1700

Watercolor and pen drawing of tall trees over parkland with grazing cattle and a distant treeline under a pale sky.

The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, ca. 1754

Watercolor of a man in a red jacket riding a bay horse, with two mounted attendants and a mountain landscape behind.

Sir John Floyd on horseback

Richard Westall, 1800-14

Grey wash drawing of a ruined castle with stone towers and a half-timbered house on a rocky cliff above a valley.

The Ruin of Liebenstein Castle near Bornhofen am Rhein, Seen from the North-West

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1803

Watercolor of brown-sailed boats on a tidal estuary at low tide, with wooden piers, a crane and a town under clouds.

A town on an estuary at low tide

Edward Duncan, 1868