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Grey ink and wash drawing of a standing nude woman seen from behind, hair in a bun, with a pale cloth at her side.

Standing Female Nude

Pencil sketch of ruined stone church walls and an arch, with a grazing camel and distant hills beneath a pale sky.

Ruin of Christian Church, Tyre

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a geyser pool with rocky terraces, a river and distant hills and trees in Yellowstone.

Beryl Geyser on Gibbon River, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Charcoal drawing of three farm workers harvesting in a field, with haystacks and trees on the horizon.

Harvest Scene

Jules Emile Zingg, 1910

Pencil sketch of rolling hills, numbered peaks, village buildings in a valley, and a cloudy sky.

View from Back of Petrarch's House

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Brown and white chalk drawing of a hooded old man and a nude winged woman beside a dead bird, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Brown ink wash drawing of a seated female nude with long dark hair, arm raised to her head, legs crossed.

Seated Female Nude

Pencil sketch of a stone cottage with a chimney among rolling hills and distant mountains, with a winding road.

Cottages, Radicofane

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of the Excelsior Geyser formation with terraced rock ledges and distant ridges on cream paper.

Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Decorative lunette study with two kneeling miners flanking a medallion of Diego Velasquez and the word Mining.

Mining (study for lunette, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Closed sketchbook with blue marbled cover and dark leather spine, photographed against a plain light background.

Sketchbook (Italian Travels)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a distant mountain ridge over limestone blocks and a lone pine in the foreground.

Big Horn, Tongue River

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a woman holding an infant on a donkey, led by a walking figure, with pyramids and desert landscape behind.

Flight into Egypt (figure study)

William Page, 1850

Pencil sketch of Jerusalem's walls and tower with tents, robed figures and camels in the foreground.

Encampment Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a canyon with layered cliffs, distant mountains and handwritten color notes across the sky.

Toquerville, S. Utah

Thomas Moran, 1870

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man's severed head on a platter, held by a hand, with a faint halo behind it.

Head of John the Baptist

Léon-Daniel Saubès, 1910

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

Nanfio

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Pencil and wash drawing of a room with tall windows, classical columns, wooden chairs, benches, framed pictures and a piano.

Philadelphia

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil drawing of a stone house corner with stacked blocks, a cornice, carved brackets, and shuttered windows on tan paper.

Corner of House--Malta

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a flowering plant with a spike of pea-like blossoms and long narrow leaves on tan paper.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Monochrome drawing of a woman mourning at a stone memorial under a weeping willow, with a town and church behind.

In Memory of Beloved Parents Oloff and Betsey Hanson

n.d Hanson Family Member, 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

Pencil sketch of tall eroded cliffs above trees and a rocky foreground, with handwritten inscription at lower left.

Tongue River Cliffs (In Camp)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Drawing of a young man pouring water from a jug beside a tree, with shadowed figures below and a verse inscription.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Mighty Mahmud

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of stone temple columns and architectural blocks at Thebes, Egypt, with hatched shading.

Temple at Thebes, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of several nude female figures on a rocky shore beside a small sailboat on the sea.

Group of Female Nudes

Pen and ink drawing of two crossed ornate flintlock pistols with engraved scrollwork and an eagle shield emblem behind them.

Lexington--Major Pitcarin's Pistols

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick house with a bare tree and figures above, and a cliff and riverside town below.

Gebel el Haridi

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a seated woman with a flower crown beside a river, with handwritten verse text on the left.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The River-Lip

Elihu Vedder, 1880