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Pencil sketch of a tall stone tower among trees and mountains, with handwritten colour notes, on an open sketchbook page.

(Sketchbook) Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a jagged central mountain peak with ridges and a small boat near the shore, on tan paper.

Horeb, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

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 the Rhine river with castle ruins on a steep hill at right and a village church along the far bank.

The Rhine near Salzig, Castles Stirrenberg and Liebenstein

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Watercolor and pencil sketch of ships at sea, a wooded coast, a boat hull study, and a plant drawing with handwritten notes.

Coastal Scene

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a seated female nude with leaf studies and a small ex libris bookplate on tan paper.

The Waters

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Lilies

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a bathing place with a flagpole, watchtower, small wooden huts, pilings and trees under a pale sky.

Bathing Place, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pen and ink sketches of a chimney pot, an ornate iron sign bracket, and a rocky Swiss cliff with pine trees.

Chimney Pot, Altdorf, Switzerland/Felsenthor, Rigi, Switzerland

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketches by Kenyon Cox of six semicircular lunette compositions with allegorical figures for the Iowa State Capitol, 1

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (study for Six Lunettes)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a reclining lion beside a scrolled architectural bracket and stylized foliage, with handwritten inscription.

Theatre at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of an alpine valley with forested hills, distant peaks, a village steeple and scattered farmhouses under clouds

West from Toblach, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a stone pier with arched openings, rocky shore, tidal flats, and masts of boats behind it.

Untitled (Pier and Beach)

Howard Russell Butler

Sheep

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of sailboats, rowboats, and figures on a rocky shore with distant hills, inscribed Criccieth North Wales.

Criccieth, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Graphite sketch of a muscular arm bent at the elbow with a clenched fist, shaded with cross-hatching on cream paper.

Study of an Arm

Thomas La Farge, 1930

Pencil sketch of Gallipoli waterfront with a fortified hill, minarets, low buildings and moored sailing boats.

Gallipoli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a tree, fence, hayrick and grazing cattle in an open landscape, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Untitled (Tree with Hayrick)

Howard Russell Butler

Charcoal and chalk drawing of an older hooded woman and a bearded man before a stone wall with sailboats on the sea.

French Peasants

Charles Cottet, 1920

Pencil sketch of the volcano Stromboli emitting a smoke plume above the sea, with a small rock at the left edge.

Stromboli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a steep alpine valley with mountains and a small village on the valley floor.

Toblach, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Red Crayon Study

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle and town on a shoreline with hills behind, labeled European Castle, Dardanelles.

European Castle, Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a lakeside village with cypress trees and mountains reflected in still water.

(Sketchbook) The Lake from Vevey

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Nude against Sea

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a flat plain with hills, a stone building on the right, and trees on the left.

Plain of Jericho, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of poplar trees, a farmhouse and a mountain ridge across a flat landscape.

Near Evian

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Charcoal drawing of Venice lagoon with gondolas, sailing boats, and a domed church under a cloudy sky.

Venice

Marie-Joseph Iwill, 1920

Pencil sketch of layered mountains and islands along a coast, with handwritten labels reading Naxos.

Naxos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of ruined arched aqueduct on open plain with distant hills and a lone walking figure.

From Via Appia and Alban Mountains

George Elbert Burr, 1900