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Colored pencil drawing of a row of brick storefronts with awning and sign shops on a city street.

Atlantic Ave No 257-263

Miklos Suba, 1930

Pencil sketch of rocky sea cliffs and headlands along a horizon, with handwritten place labels beneath.

Nanfio

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Grey watercolor of a pale canyon cliff above a river with dark trees, by Thomas Moran, 1890.

The Cañon of the Belle Fourche, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a dirt path winding up a grassy slope past trees, with a small red-roofed house at right.

Landscape Sketch

Walter Shirlaw, 1830

Pale watercolor of Jerusalem's walled city and golden-domed mosque seen across a hazy valley with an olive tree.

Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Grey wash landscape of a tall rock tower rising above a valley at dusk, with cliffs, trees and small buildings below.

The Devil's Tower from Johnstons

Thomas Moran, 1890

Etching of a swineherd driving pigs down a path through rolling hills under a sunburst sky.

Le Porcher

Herman Saftleven

Pencil sketch of a conical volcano with a billowing smoke plume drifting sideways over layered mountain ridges.

Etna

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of mountains and trees along Goose Creek near Sheridan, with a stream in the foreground.

Goose Creek, Sheridan (Wyoming)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Watercolor lunette study of allegorical figures with scales, a sword, a hammer, and a standing woman in white drapery.

The State as Arbitrator for Industry, Education and the Military (study for lunette, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Pencil sketch of a hilltop town with stone walls and buildings above terraced fields, with a rounded hill behind.

Pizzo

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen drawing of Declaration signers' names on radiating decorative cards, framed by oak and laurel branches tied with a ribbon

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Matilda Elizabeth Schmahl, 1850

Pencil sketch of distant mountains over calm water with a wooded shore at left, inscribed Stevensons Island 2.

Stevensons Island (no. 2)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Watercolor sketch of two thatched huts with wooden doors, ducks, a cow, and a standing figure in a hat.

Wells, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pen-and-ink sketch of a tree-lined village road past a stone house, with a smaller study of a picket fence below.

Tappan

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Charcoal study of two hands and forearms on aged paper, one hand gripping the wrist of the other arm.

Study of Two Hands

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of a stone building with arched doorway and lattice windows, flanked by palm trees, with a seated figure in fro

Minieh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pen drawing of a white lion pulling a chained carriage with a bearded archer, with the words 'Why not learn to write?'

Why not learn to write?

n.d J. C. Saterlee, 1860

Pencil sketch of a geyser basin with a steam plume, rocky mounds, and distant hills on a pale sheet.

Lioness and Cubs, Upper Geyser Basin

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of layered mountain and island silhouettes across a sea horizon, with handwritten place labels.

Santorin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Red chalk drawing of a pastoral pond scene with nude figures, cattle, trees and a cloudy sky.

Classical Subject

René Ménard, 1930

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and a sloping hillside, with handwritten notes including Yellowstone Park, July 1892.

Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil and yellow wash sketch of a conical mountain island with rocky cliffs and trees along a coastline.

Island near Adalia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Etching of two goats and a kid resting under a tree, with a flat landscape and church spire in the distance.

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos

Pencil sketch of a rounded mountain peak and rocky ridges over a valley, with handwritten notes across the top of the page.

Sulphur Mt., Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a valley between two hillsides with rocks and shrubs in the foreground and an empty sky above.

Jacob's Well, Samaria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil and charcoal study of a kneeling robed man, a winged reclining nude, and several bearded head sketches.

(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.)

William Page, 1850

Pencil sketch of a rocky shore with a boat mast and rigging, distant hills and trees, by Thomas Moran.

The Fan

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of Beni Hasan cliffs with rows of rock-cut tomb openings above the Nile plain, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg.

Beni Hasan

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

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