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Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and a sloping hillside, with handwritten notes including Yellowstone Park, July 1892.

Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Sketch with a ship's bow, a sleeping man on grass, and pencil figures leading a horse, with handwritten notes.

St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Etching of two goats and a kid resting under a tree, with a flat landscape and church spire in the distance.

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos

Charcoal drawing of a reclining man on a stone slab beneath a hovering shrouded figure and starry sky, with a verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Suicide

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a plough, a harrow, and a wooden feed-box with a cart wheel on pale paper.

Plough, Harrow and Feed-box, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Watercolor study of men in a legislative chamber beneath two winged allegorical figures, within a gilded arched frame.

A Legislative Session (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a bearded man beside clay pots, with handwritten Rubaiyat verses in a central panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Ungainly Pot

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a riverside town with palm trees and a tall minaret under an empty sky.

Semelud (?)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a rounded mountain peak and rocky ridges over a valley, with handwritten notes across the top of the page.

Sulphur Mt., Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil and charcoal study of a kneeling robed man, a winged reclining nude, and several bearded head sketches.

(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.)

William Page, 1850

Pencil sketch of a smoking volcanic island across the water, with a sleeping dog curled at the left edge.

Stromboli/Sleeping Dog

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Nude woman holding an apple beside a serpent on a tree, with a winged cherub and a verse inscription in a garden.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) In the Beginning

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Col. Wm. Duane

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1770

Pencil sketch of a hilly landscape with village buildings on a ridge, tents on the left, and olive trees and rocks in the for

Near Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Chalk drawing of a draped figure reaching toward a laurel wreath with a monogram, above a dedication plaque.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Dedication

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rocky shore with a boat mast and rigging, distant hills and trees, by Thomas Moran.

The Fan

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a stone wall, domed buildings, a cypress tree, and a small figure in a long robe.

Red Balcony, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a nude woman with long hair on stone steps beside a lamp, with a verse panel in calligraphy above.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Long Rest

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil drawing of a city with church spires and a bridge on the left, and fragmented geometric abstract shapes on the right.

City Scene--Abstract

Pencil sketch of a stone archway in a masonry wall with small figures standing and seated at the gate entrance.

East Gate, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a songbird on a skull with a ribbon reading Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, surrounded by petals and swirling lines.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Emblem

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Study for Portrait of Mrs. Atherton Curtis

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of several bands of mountain ridges with handwritten place labels and a date note along the bottom.

Landscapes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Chalk drawing of a draped woman beside a vine and vessel, with handwritten Rubaiyat verses on a brown ground.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vine

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a cloche hat and scarf, face turned upward, loosely hatched shading on cream paper.

Head of Woman

Pencil sketch of arid hills and mountains with a row of tents and an encampment on a plain.

Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a seaside town with rooftops, chimneys, small figures on a promenade, and sailboats on the sea.

Untitled (Seaside Town)

Ida Josephine Burgess

Brown ink and wash sketch of a reclining nude female figure with an arm raised, set against loose washed trees.

Reclining Nude

Night seascape drawing with a full moon over calm water, a sailboat silhouette, and a dark shoreline on blue paper.

Nile

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Sepia drawing of the bronze Minute Man statue with musket and plow on a stone pedestal, trees and water at right.

The Minute Man Monument

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890