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Pencil anatomical study of a bird skeleton with leg, wing, and skull details and handwritten notes on tan paper.

Horse Anatomy

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pencil drawing of rocky sea cliffs, a church on a headland, distant hills and a sailboat on calm water.

Calabria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of an Alpine valley with wooded hills and distant mountain peaks, with handwritten color notes at left.

Botzen, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of oxen pulling logs beside a wooden hoist frame, with workers standing near a timber structure.

Logging Camp

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil drawing of a stone fortress with a round tower and battlements rising above a harbor edge with mooring posts.

Civitavecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of a wooded valley with trees, grassy slopes and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Valley of the Lledr, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a gnarled tree beside a small house, with an open field and distant hills on the right.

Untitled (Tree with House)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a flat valley with palm trees and cliffs in the distance, labelled Thebes.

Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of Rome's rooftops and a large dome rising above trees, with church towers at left.

From Pincio, Rome

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Watercolor of an acrobat rider in red and blue standing on four galloping horses, holding a long whip.

Acrobat Rider on Four Horses

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

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

Pencil sketch of the Rhine river valley with wooded banks, a village with a church spire, and hills in the distance.

The Rhine below Trechtlingshausen

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a stone building with a round window and dark archway, flanked by trees and a wooden fence.

Untitled (Archway)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick village on a Nile riverbank with small figures on a path and a mast at right.

On the Nile

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil drawing of a desert mountain range with saguaro cacti, desert shrubs, and cumulus clouds under a pale sky.

Untitled (transfer drawing for Camelback Mountain, Phoenix)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Watercolor of tree trunks framing a distant hilltop with ruined towers above a valley of trees and rooftops.

Landscape, Italy

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a rugged mountain range above a horizon line, with a small rocky headland at lower left.

Patmos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor and pastel landscape of layered clouds over a flat plain with blue mountains on the horizon.

Vega(*)

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

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

Pencil sketch of Karnak ruins with a tall obelisk, stone walls, scattered blocks and carved hieroglyphs in the foreground.

Carnac

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pale wash drawing of a rocky riverbank with evergreen trees on the left and a misty wooded shore across calm water.

Montmorency River, Quebec

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1850

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a towered building among tall cypress trees and distant hills, with a blank facing pag

(Sketchbook) (Untitled)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of an ancient stone gateway with rounded arches and masonry walls, labeled Ancient East Gate, Damascus.

Ancient East, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of seated men in hats, some playing instruments, gathered beneath trees in an outdoor scene.

Untitled (Seated Figures and Musicians)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a riverside town with a church spire, stone tower, and hilltop castle ruin above the water.

Oberwesel

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Charcoal drawing of a mother holding a child before a burning village with smoke and flames behind them.

Mother and Child and Burning Village

Paul Albert Laurens, 1930

Pencil sketch of a derailed railway coach tilted beside tracks in a rocky landscape with distant mountains.

Untitled (Derailed Coach)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a fountain framed by trees, with a domed basilica and rooftops in the background.

Untitled - George Elbert Burr, 1900

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Charcoal drawing of dark windblown trees beside a winding dirt road across an open field, signed Max Bohm 1917.

Untitled - Max Bohm

Pastel drawing of a nude woman with arms raised behind her head, lowered eyes, and soft green background.

In Pose

Alice Pike Barney, 1910