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Charcoal and chalk drawing of a woman beside roses and ivy, with calligraphic verse and a carved horse relief below.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Blowing Rose

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a lakeshore with ruined stone buildings on a rise and rolling hills in the distance.

Tiberias from the Baths

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal sketch of an old stone street with a tower, an archway, and small figures walking near the entrance.

Untitled - Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Watercolor and ink drawing of a heavenly city above a path of figures, with a devil and skeletal Death figure at lower right.

Representation of the Different Ways Leading to Everlasting Life or Eternal Damnation

Gustav Sigismund Peters, 1840

(Bedouin Studies)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel study of a woman in white and a bearded man in purple walking a pale path through a hazy landscape.

Study for Flight to Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Sepia landscape of a river with a ruined castle, a rowing boat, a stone house and stormy clouds overhead.

Untitled - Louisa Ferguson Weir, 1800

Louisa Ferguson Weir, 1800

Pencil sketch of a two-masted sailing ship on choppy sea under a pale sky, with handwritten 'malta - in sight' lower right.

Malta (Ship)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Ink line drawing of a standing female acrobat in a ruffled leotard with floral details and crosshatched fishnet sleeve.

Female Acrobat

Walt Kuhn, 1940

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman with a bundle walking past a wooden gate and slide in a sunlit field.

The Gate Slide

Walter Shirlaw, 1830

Pencil sketch of a woman in a veiled headdress and belted robe, with smaller studies of a cap and bodice, captioned Costume o

Costume of Nazareth, Israel

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Nude child kneeling and gazing upward in a glowing gothic cathedral with tiled floors and a distant altar.

Child of the Ages

Da Loria Norman, 1910

Pencil sketch of badlands mesas and mountains under rising smoke, with handwritten color notes along the bottom edge.

Fire in the Bad Lands of Dakota

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a building with hanging laundry, a robed figure at a doorway, and two arched openings.

House of the Governor of Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Chalk drawing of a spiky vine coiling around a cup, with white wind lines on grey paper.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Bitter Cup

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal drawing of a workman in a straw hat climbing a ladder while carrying a large woven basket on his back.

Workman on a Ladder

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, 1940

Pencil sketch of layered coastal headlands and distant mountains, labeled Ida, Patroclus, Achilles, and Entering the Dardanel

Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of a young boy in a white robe standing with clasped hands against a shaded background.

Choir Boy

Belle Silveira, 1890

Seated woman in blue drapes with a tragedy mask, laurel wreath and trumpet beside her, framed by an arched gilded border.

Muse of Tragedy

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pencil sketch of a camp stool, a bedstead with animal-shaped legs, and a seated figure beside a small stand.

Campstool/Beadstand

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel drawing of a moonlit marsh at night with reeds, reflective water, a glowing moon and a small wooden structure.

Marshes in New Jersey

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890

Brown and white chalk drawing of allegorical figures with an owl, a pillar, and a handwritten Rubaiyat verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Divorce of Reason

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a ruined stone city wall with an arched niche, a cobbled path, a tree, and distant hills.

Wall of Zareh, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and ink drawing of Independence Hall in Philadelphia with its clock tower, flagpole, trees and street scene.

Philadelphia, Independence Hall, Chestnut Street

Ernest C. Peixotto

Drawing of dancing draped women holding a garland of stars above a verse block, bordered by ivy and clouds with haloed heads.

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

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor of Naples harbor with a red lighthouse, moored ships, sailing boats, and a dark stormy sky over the coast.

Naples from the Moli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Sepia wash drawing of a wooden bridge over a calm river with two rowboats on the bank and trees along the far shore.

Washington Crossing

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Bowed woman in dark dress with a young girl on a dirt road under an orange dusk sky.

Refugees

Georges Rochegrosse, 1910

Pencil sketch of rocky mountain ledges and slopes with sparse vegetation, inscribed "Sinai from Horeb".

Sinai from Horeb

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal drawing of a lion and lioness on a stone ledge above a sleeping figure, with a handwritten verse panel in the center

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Courts of Jamshyd

Elihu Vedder, 1880