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Pencil sketch of rocky sea cliffs and headlands along a horizon, with handwritten place labels beneath.

Nanfio

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Pencil and wash drawing of a room with tall windows, classical columns, wooden chairs, benches, framed pictures and a piano.

Philadelphia

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil drawing of a stone house corner with stacked blocks, a cornice, carved brackets, and shuttered windows on tan paper.

Corner of House--Malta

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a flowering plant with a spike of pea-like blossoms and long narrow leaves on tan paper.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Monochrome drawing of a woman mourning at a stone memorial under a weeping willow, with a town and church behind.

In Memory of Beloved Parents Oloff and Betsey Hanson

n.d Hanson Family Member, 1830

Pale watercolor of Jerusalem's walled city and golden-domed mosque seen across a hazy valley with an olive tree.

Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of tall eroded cliffs above trees and a rocky foreground, with handwritten inscription at lower left.

Tongue River Cliffs (In Camp)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Drawing of a young man pouring water from a jug beside a tree, with shadowed figures below and a verse inscription.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Mighty Mahmud

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of stone temple columns and architectural blocks at Thebes, Egypt, with hatched shading.

Temple at Thebes, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of several nude female figures on a rocky shore beside a small sailboat on the sea.

Group of Female Nudes

Pen and ink drawing of two crossed ornate flintlock pistols with engraved scrollwork and an eagle shield emblem behind them.

Lexington--Major Pitcarin's Pistols

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick house with a bare tree and figures above, and a cliff and riverside town below.

Gebel el Haridi

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a seated woman with a flower crown beside a river, with handwritten verse text on the left.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The River-Lip

Elihu Vedder, 1880

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