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Symmetrical black-and-white geometric ornament drawing with radiating lines, pointed arches and stylized foliage in a rectang

Design drawing

Christopher Dresser, ca. 1883, based on earlier design

Pencil study of an intertwined group of figures within an arched niche, drawn in loose overlapping strokes on paper.

Study for the Ugolino Group

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 19th century

Red chalk sketch of two reclining female nudes on tan paper, one resting her head on her hand.

Two Reclining Nudes

Gustav Klimt, 1905-1906

Black-and-white print of a dreamlike scene with waves, fantastic creatures, and a small human figure beside a large fish-like

The Universe is Created (L'Univers est créé), from Fragrance (Noa Noa)

Paul Gauguin, 1893-94

Brown wash drawing of swirling fire tongues and a radiating halo, a fragment of a Descent of the Holy Spirit cartoon.

Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit

Raphael, 1500-50

Pen and ink drawing of a dark rocky crevasse with steep cliffs and jagged rock formations on tan paper.

The Crevasse

Rodolphe Bresdin

Brown-toned print of a woman with long flowing hair emerging from swirling waves, with the inscription Te Faruru at upper rig

Here we make love

Paul Gauguin, 1893-94

Pen and brown ink drawing of a dolphin-entwined vessel base with scrolling waves and sea forms on pale paper.

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Illuminated page with hand-colored poem The Human Abstract above a bearded man in blue clutching his head beside a tree.

Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Ink drawing of a lake with a small boat, framed by dark trees and shrubs, with a faint outline of sky at upper left.

A blot-lake with boat, surrounded by trees

Alexander Cozens, 1750-86

Painted illuminated initial O with magenta and gold foliage and blue floral panel, beside red staff lines and blackletter tex

Illuminated Initial from Hymnal

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Black and white woodcut by Franz Marc showing interlocking angular shapes of birds and animals in a fragmented composition.

Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists" [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the…

Franz Marc, 1914 (posthumously printed in 1921 and published in 1922)

Black and white print of a light-toned animal with spots on a dark ground, with hatched lines and angular shapes below.

Sketches

Jean-François Millet, 1834-75

Pencil study on a sketchbook page: a large circle with flowing curved and horizontal lines crossing its interior.

Circular Diagram

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849