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Colorful caricature mural study with police officer, cowboy on horse, helmeted figure, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #2:

John Decker, 1940

Pen-and-ink drawing of four men in a rowboat crossing water, one standing with a rifle, others rowing.

Marylanders Crossing the Potomac to Join the Southern Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph of Civil War naval officers in uniform posing on a ship deck beside cannons and rope.

Civil War Naval Officers

John Lorimer Worden, 1861

Caricature mural study showing a row of exaggerated figures in top hats, a red gown, and a child, under painted clouds.

Mural Study #4:

John Decker, 1940

Full-length painted portrait of a standing man with white hair and mustache, wearing a dark suit and bow tie.

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

John White Alexander, 1910

Colorful caricature mural study with exaggerated figures, a steam train, trumpeting cherubs, and a police officer on railway

Mural Study #1: Perils of Pauline/Keystone Cops

John Decker, 1940

Aged paper fragment with handwritten receipt text and a flourished signature reading C. W. Peale.

Charles Wilson Peale's autograph

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Colourful caricature mural study with a reclining woman, a man serving fruit, a man with cane, a dog, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #3:

John Decker, 1940

Andrew Jackson

Edward Williams Clay, 1830

Sepia drawing of three men playing chess, with caricatured top-hatted chess pieces on the board.

Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon

Charles Davis Mitchell, 1910

Cinqué

John Warner Barber, 1840

Art nouveau poster of a woman in a flowing green gown with flowers in her hair, framed by a decorative floral halo.

Leslie Carter

Alphonse Mucha, 1900

Etching of a woman in a long dark dress viewed from behind, looking at framed paintings in a gallery interior.

Mary Cassatt au Louvre

Edgar Degas, 1920

Advertising poster showing a man in a suit beside a brass phonograph with a cylinder, titled Edison's Phonograph.

Edison's Phonograph

Alfred S. Seer Engraver, 1870

Hand-colored print of a violent struggle on a ship deck, with armed men with cane knives and a uniformed captain in yellow.

Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad

John Warner Barber, 1840

Japanese woodblock triptych of a festival procession with floats, lanterns, parasols, and uniformed men beside a pavilion.

Ulysses S. and Julia B.D. Grant

Hiroshige III, 1861

Poster with a bearded man in a brown suit against orange, above text announcing a Harper's February article.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Edward Penfield, 1890

Senators of New York in 1798

Isaac Hutton, 1840

Grabeau

John Warner Barber, 1840

Engraved east view of Philadelphia from the river, with spires, ships and rowboats, and insets of the State House and Battery

The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania

George Heap, 1760