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Etching of a large oak tree with a woman in a hooded cloak walking a path beside ivy-covered rocks and distant fields.

Landscape with a Strolling Woman

Johann Christian Klengel, ca. 1800

Yellow-tinted pen drawing of an arched pier-glass frame with laurel crest, shell motif, swags, and scrolled base.

Design for a Pier-glass with Arched Head and Palmette Terminations

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Green wash design drawing of an oval mirror frame with swags, scrolling foliage, and flanking candelabra.

Design for a Mirror in the Form of a Horizontal Oval, Elevation

James Wyatt, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor and ink design elevation of a hall lantern with green panels, scrolled pediment, hanging chains and tassels.

Design for a Hall Lantern, Elevation

James Wyatt, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design for a gilded wall girandole with a round mirror, two candle arms, swags and an urn finial.

Design for a Girandole with a Circular and Oval Glass

Sir William Chambers, 1745-1800

Watercolor design for a gilded oblong pier-glass frame with a central urn and scrolling ornament above.

Design for a Pier-glass of Oblong Form, the Cresting a Scroll and Urn

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Sepia drawing of a Gothic revival lodge with crenellated towers and arched windows beside a stone wall and trees.

Design for Bishopsgate Lodge, at Windsor Castle, Berkshire

Jeffery Wyatville, ca. 1820-30

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical wall sconce with a round mirror, two candle arms, and laurel and drapery ornament

Design for a Sconce with a Mirror

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Two studies of Headdresses from Scrapbook

John Bridge, 18th-19th century

Engraving of an 18th-century woman in a floral gown and feathered hairstyle, with a man kissing her hand in a doorway.

Les Adieux (The Farewells), from Le Monument du Costume

Restif de La Bretonne, 1777

Engraved 18th-century interior of a man in a satin robe attended by servants, with gentlemen and a dog nearby.

The Morning Toilet (La Petite Toilette), from "Le Monument du Costume"

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1745-97

Watercolor interior design of a 19th-century sitting room with yellow sofas, a fireplace, columns and French doors.

Design for interior

Charles de Brocktorff, ca. 1830

Engraved portrait of Pope Sixtus V seated on a throne in papal robes, with two putti and a Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Pope Sixtus V

Pietro Facchetti, 1585

Pencil drawing of three women with upswept hair and earrings, the central woman wearing a white lace collar.

Portrait of Frau von Oppen and Her Two Daughters

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1835

Watercolor of a standing woman in a headscarf, white apron and red sleeves, beside a brown jug on a stone ledge.

Italian Woman

Edgar Degas, ca. 1856-57

Pen and ink design for a neoclassical ceiling or wall panel with an oval medallion, garlands, and urn motifs.

Design for a Ceiling

Robert Adam, 1745-1800

Drawing of an ornate chimney piece with acanthus scrolls, a central female figure with putti, and fluted Corinthian pilasters

Chimney Piece

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical cross-shaped ornament with four oval cartouches, scrolls, foliage and a central rosette.

Ornament in the Shape of a Cross

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Brown ink drawing of several standing figures in heavy draped robes and veils, some seen from behind.

Group of Draped Figures

Antonello da Messina, 1460

Grey wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with scrolling foliage and molded borders on an irregular sheet.

Design for a Frame

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Pen and wash design drawing of a neoclassical chimneypiece with rosette corner ornaments and a labeled hearth below.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1740-96

Ink and wash elevation design for a chimneypiece with fluted columns, a carved bust, and handwritten dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece (recto); Sketches for Column Bases (verso)

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a partial chimneypiece design with rosette frieze and Ionic pilaster on pale paper.

Partial Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Architectural elevation drawing of a chimneypiece with scrolled brackets, carved frieze, and dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece for Somerset House, Strand, London

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1776-86

Grisaille drawing of a woman with a flower wreath before a mirror held by a winged-helmet figure, with irises beside her.

The Mirror of Venus, or L'Art et Vie (Art and Life)

Walter Crane, ca. 1890

Etching of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis with Ionic columns, a bell tower, a street with figures and a cart, and a cloudy sky

The so-called Temple of Fortuna Virilis (now Church of S. Maria Egizziaca) (Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1758

Watercolor of a ship's aft deck with cable machinery, winches, rigging and crew members under a cloudy sky.

Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Sailors struggle with a tangled cable on a ship deck at night, lit by lanterns, with rigging and smokestack in the dark backg

A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Drawing of anchored sailing ships and a settlement by hills, seen from a steamship deck with men at the railing.

The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Night seascape of a steamship with tall masts and smoke, sailing through rough waves under a moon behind clouds.

The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866