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Watercolor of rock wormwood with branching stems, narrow green leaves and clusters of yellow and brown flower heads.

Rock Wormwood (Artemisia discolor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Oil portrait of a young woman with curly auburn hair in a white dress and fur wrap against a dark background.

Mary Abigail Willing Coale

Thomas Sully, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a man with grey hair in a blue coat and yellow waistcoat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Henry Benbridge, 1790

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with dark curly hair, dark coat and high white collar, in an ornate gold frame.

Charles Boynton Darling

Charles Boynton Darling, 1820

Loose painted street scene of a sunlit Paris road with a church tower, stone buildings and small pedestrians.

Street in the Latin Quarter

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with light brown hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

David McClellan

Benjamin Trott, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark curly hair in a blue coat and white cravat, in a dark wooden frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Jean B. Sel, 1820

Watercolor of a Dutchman's pipe vine with heart-shaped leaves, pipe-shaped flowers, buds, and long green seed pods.

Dutchman's Pipe

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of blue Alpine Forget-me-not flowers with yellow centers on branching stems above a rosette of green leaves.

Alpine Forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Painting of a tall church tower in warm golden light, with small figures in a city square below.

Eglise Saint Merry

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with tousled reddish hair, dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

John Cleves Short

Benjamin Trott, 1800

Oil portrait of a young blond boy in a dark textured jacket, set against painted leaves and red fruit on branches.

Townsend Bradley Martin

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1910

Watercolor of a spotted frog in yellow and green, surrounded by radiating red and brown brushstrokes on a green wash.

Frog

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1910

Watercolor of a whitebark pine branch with green needles and small reddish cones on a pale background.

Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two orange spotted Columbia lily flowers on tall green stems with lance-shaped leaves.

Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with curled hair in a white lace cap and white dress against pale blue.

Anne Hume Shippen

Benjamin Trott, 1790

Watercolor of a small flowering plant with white star-shaped blossoms, green leaves and buds on a cream background.

Stelleria leata

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Oval portrait of a young man in a brown coat and black cravat against a dark background, in a gilded frame.

Peter Boylston Adams?

John Singleton Copley, 1770

Oval watercolor portrait of a man with curly hair and moustache, wearing a grey coat and dark cravat, in a wooden frame.

Francis Schroeder

Richard Morell Staigg, 1840

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with dark hair in a white ruffled dress, set in a gold mount and green case.

Portrait of a Lady

Pamelia Hill, 1830

Watercolor of leafless winter trees reflected in a still creek, with a fallen log in the foreground.

Rock Creek, Winter

Edgar Nye, 1920

Miniature portrait of a young boy with curly fair hair in a dark jacket and white collar, in a gilt frame.

Brother of the Van Buren Family

van Buren, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with dark hair in a black coat and cravat, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Charles Fraser, 1820

Watercolor botanical study of Lotus puberulus with yellow and red-tipped flowers on slender green stems against cream paper.

Lotus puberulus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of tall painted totem poles and a pink building with a carved canoe and figures on grass.

Alaska Building with Totems at St. Louis Exposition

Theodore J. Richardson, 1900

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair, blue coat and white cravat, in a gilt frame.

Archibald Bulloch, Governor of Georgia

Archibald Bulloch, 1790

Oval portrait miniature of a man with dark hair and sideburns in a dark jacket and white collar, in a gold frame.

Capt. Henry P. Fleischman

George Catlin, 1820

Watercolor of white Apache plume flowers with yellow centers and feathery pink seed plumes on green stems.

Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a man with white hair in a brown coat and white cravat against a pale blue background.

Joseph Fox

Joseph Fox, 1790

Painting of a dark, damaged wooden boat with a broken mast floating on pale reflective water under a hazy sky.

The Wreck

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930