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

Landscapes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil and chalk drawing of a mountain valley with a river, pine trees, and snowy peaks under clouds.

Valley of the Tomichi, Colorado

Henry Arthur Elkins, 1880

Pencil sketch of the Yellowstone Range with layered mountain ridges and peaks, inscribed with the title and date at top.

The Yellowstone Range from Dead Indian Hill

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of the Theban Mountains with cliffs, hills and a row of palm trees under a long horizon line.

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Etching of a classical landscape with a ruined arch, a river, a rocky cliff, large trees, and small figures by the water.

Landscape

Herman van Swanevelt

Pencil sketch of a geyser erupting on a hillside at Norris, with handwritten color notes in the margins.

Geyser in Hillside, Norris, the Hurricane

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of hills, palm trees, and sailboats on a river, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Biro Mountains

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pen and ink sketch of a rocky shoreline with bare trees and calm water reflections, signed by James D. Smillie.

Untitled (Landscape)

James David Smillie, 1870

Pencil sketch of wooded Stevensons Island on Yellowstone Lake with mountains behind and reflections in still water.

Stevensons Island (no. 1) Yellowstone Lake

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil drawing of tall, shadowed cliffs with rocky ledges under a pale sky, with handwritten notes in the corners.

Valley of Kings, Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of an open field with slender trees, a bare tree at right, shrubs, a pond, and a distant tree line.

Landscape

Henry Farrer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rocky mountain with cliffs, sparse trees and handwritten notes in the margins.

Sulphur Mountain

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of gnarled bare trees, a tall cypress, shrubs and rocks on a pale paper background.

Landscape

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Watercolor landscape of cattle grazing in a meadow with a blue sea and hills beyond, a flowering tree at right.

Landscape, Brittany

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a row of leafy trees above a flat meadow, with handwritten inscription about Windsor below.

In the Meadows at Windsor

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a dead, leafless tree with a grazing colt and rocks at its base on pale paper.

Dead Tree and Colt Grazing

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Drawing of a curving dirt road beside willow trees, with a plowed field and split-rail fence in soft brown chalk.

Landscape with Willow Trees

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a wooded valley with trees, a stream, and a mountain rising under cloudy skies in North Wales.

Valley of the Llugwy (Moel Siabod), North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pen and ink landscape drawing of tall trees along a dirt road with two small figures and a handwritten French inscription.

Landscape

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1910

Pencil sketch of a tree, fence, hayrick and grazing cattle in an open landscape, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Untitled (Tree with Hayrick)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a village with a church spire in a valley below mountains.

(Sketchbook) Down Rhone Valley from Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

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 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 valley with trees and a winding stream leading toward distant mountains, inscribed Valley of Lledr.

Looking toward Dolwyddelan, Valley of Lledr

George Elbert Burr, 1890

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

Pastel drawing of a marsh with a wooden pier, moored rowboats, and autumn trees along a far shoreline.

Up the River, Late Afternoon, October

Childe Hassam, 1900

Pencil sketch of Eton College's towers and windows rising above trees, with a small rowing boat on the river.

Eton College from the River

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel drawing of a desert plain with yellow shrubs, a dirt road, and pink and orange mountains under a pale blue sky.

Desert Landscape (#69)

Howard Russell Butler, 1930

Ink and wash sketch of bare trees framing a lake and distant hills under a pale sky.

The Lake

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a lakeside village with cypress trees and mountains reflected in still water.

(Sketchbook) The Lake from Vevey

George Elbert Burr, 1890