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Oval miniature portrait of a young man with curly brown hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a silver frame.

Mr. Bennett, of Revere Street, Boston

Henry Williams, 1820

Oval miniature portrait of a young woman with curly hair in a white lace blouse and pink sash, in a gold frame.

Elsie Clough Street

Gerald Sinclair Hayward, 1890

Dusky city street with tall buildings, a glowing street lamp, a horse cart, pedestrians, and a yellow twilight sky with one s

Fifty-Seventh Street

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Watercolor of a two-arched stone bridge over a rocky river, framed by trees, with a small figure on the bridge.

Old Bridge near Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil drawing of a city with church spires and a bridge on the left, and fragmented geometric abstract shapes on the right.

City Scene--Abstract

Pen and ink drawing of Independence Hall in Philadelphia with its clock tower, flagpole, trees and street scene.

Philadelphia, Independence Hall, Chestnut Street

Ernest C. Peixotto

Ink drawing of an older man in a cap seated on a bench, working on a thick rope across his knees.

Boatman on the Ithaca Canal

Albert Leighton Rawson

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a stone arched bridge over a river, with shrubs and a hillside behind it.

Greek Bridge at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Ink drawing of a Trenton street with carriages, tram tracks, brick storefronts, telegraph poles, and a distant monument colum

Trenton, Old King Street Looking from Hessian Headquarters

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of an old arched stone bridge over a river, with a small boat, a riverside town, and hills behind.

Old Bridge at Heidelburg

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil drawing of a Chicago street with tall brick buildings, an elevated railway, parked cars, and smoke rising over rooftop

Chicago, North Dearborn Street

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Ink and wash drawing of a bridge over a stream with a large building, figures, a donkey and a dog on a dirt road.

Vigo Bridge

George Overbury "Pop" Hart

Pencil sketch of an old stone arched bridge over a river, with a domed tower, houses, trees, and small figures.

Old Bridge over Mosel, Coblenz

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Charcoal sketch of a Venetian canal with gondolas, an arched footbridge, and tall old buildings on both sides.

A Canal at Venice

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1920

Abstract drawing in green, black and grey with a dark rectangular car shape among flattened organic forms.

Car across the Street

Arthur Dove, 1940

Open sketchbook with a pencil drawing of buildings, windows and a street on the right page; left page blank.

(Sketchbook) Old Street, Ouchy

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel sketch of two women in dark dresses and hats, one seated and one standing, with colored accents on gray paper.

Street Life

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a jagged mountain peak above a sloping valley with a winding creek path.

In Camp on Soda Butte Creek, Cook City

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a stone-paved Pompeii street with stepping stones and a figure in a long coat and hat standing among ruins.

Street Crossing, Pompeii

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil drawing of a wooden and steel toll bridge over rippling water, with pilings, small buildings and trees on the bank.

Toll Bridge, Indian Rocks, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1930

Watercolor of red-roofed village houses beneath palm trees with soft blue hills behind them.

Village Street, Dominica

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

Pencil sketch of an old multi-arched stone bridge over a river with rowboats, a sailboat, and a factory with a chimney.

Old Bridge over the Dee, Chester

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of workers shoveling snow near an arched stone bridge, silos, smokestacks, and railway cars in winter light.

C.W.A. Worker at Key Bridge

Edgar Nye, 1900

Watercolor of a misty river marsh lined with trees and hills under a warm hazy sky.

Smoke from the City

Robert Burns Wilson, 1910

Pencil sketch of an old street with a cafe, shuttered house facade and chimneys, on an open sketchbook page.

(Sketchbook) Old Street in Vevey

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of Miles City, Montana, showing a river, riders on the bank, a boat, trees, and a row of town buildings.

Miles City, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1870

Watercolor of flat adobe rooftops in a pueblo with ladders, clay jars, and leaning poles under a pale sky.

Street in the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico

De Lancey Gill, 1880

Watercolor of a stone bridge with arches over a river, a tall tower with a slate roof, and a red-tiled roof beside it.

Bridge at Moret, France

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Watercolor of a brown-sailed boat with a standing woman and reclining man on calm water at dusk, Venice skyline distant.

The Grand Canal, Venice

Pietro Gabrini, 1910

Watercolor of a sunlit dusty street in an adobe pueblo, with flat-roofed stone houses, ladders and clay pots.

Street in the Pueblo of Oraibi, Tusayan, Arizona

De Lancey Gill, 1880