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Charcoal drawing of an angular, fragmented figure built from geometric planes and dark hatched shading.

Abstract

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

Etna

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal drawing of a dark landscape with trees on the left, a wooded treeline, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Auguste-Emmanuel Pointelin, 1930

Book cover design with swirling light ribbons, starbursts, ivy and the title Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, drawn by Elihu Vedder.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Cover

Elihu Vedder, 1880

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

Pizzo

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

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

Brown paper sketchbook cover with large black script title 'Croquis' and a flourish, plus pencil marks and smudges.

sketchbook

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1920

Pencil sketches of a carved column capital and a rooftop with a water tower, ladder and brick wall.

Alexandria (Rooftop/Cap of a Column)

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

Drawing of a standing nude man beside a serpent, with a sleeping winged figure on a pile of skulls and a verse above.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Last Man

Elihu Vedder, 1880

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

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

Pencil sketch of two female figures, one reclining with raised arms and one seated, on aged tinted paper.

Two Female Figure Studies

Crazy French Monk...Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

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

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

Goose Creek, Sheridan (Wyoming)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil and wash drawing of a bearded man in a blue turban seated with clasped hands, gazing at the viewer.

Untitled (Hill Tribesman)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Drawing of a bearded man tending a plant in an urn beside a window, with a verse panel and glass vessels on a table.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vain Pursuit

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pastel drawing of tall wild flowers with white blossoms and green stems against a warm yellow background.

Wild Flowers

John Henry Twachtman

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

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

Le Porcher

Herman Saftleven

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 Nile riverbank cliffs and a sailboat, with a second view of rocky hillside below.

Nile (3rd and 4th view, Gebel el Fedah)

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

Pastel drawing of tall stems with curled pink and yellow tiger lilies on a warm ochre background with soft blue-green strokes

Tiger Lilies

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

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

Santorin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

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

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

Pencil drawing of a standing figure in a feathered headdress and patterned robe, labeled Persian at lower left.

Prisoners of War (Persian)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Loose black ink sketch of a young child in a flared dress, standing with one arm outstretched on yellowed paper.

Untitled (Child)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910