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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

Pencil and wash drawing of a bearded man in a blue turban seated with clasped hands, gazing at the viewer.

Untitled (Hill Tribesman)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Drawing of a bearded man tending a plant in an urn beside a window, with a verse panel and glass vessels on a table.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vain Pursuit

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pastel drawing of tall wild flowers with white blossoms and green stems against a warm yellow background.

Wild Flowers

John Henry Twachtman, 1830

Pencil sketch of a stone building with arched doorway and lattice windows, flanked by palm trees, with a seated figure in fro

Minieh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Etching of a swineherd driving pigs down a path through rolling hills under a sunburst sky.

Le Porcher

Herman Saftleven

Watercolor lunette study of allegorical figures with scales, a sword, a hammer, and a standing woman in white drapery.

The State as Arbitrator for Industry, Education and the Military (study for lunette, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Pencil sketch of Nile riverbank cliffs and a sailboat, with a second view of rocky hillside below.

Nile (3rd and 4th view, Gebel el Fedah)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen drawing of Declaration signers' names on radiating decorative cards, framed by oak and laurel branches tied with a ribbon

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Matilda Elizabeth Schmahl, 1850

Pastel drawing of tall stems with curled pink and yellow tiger lilies on a warm ochre background with soft blue-green strokes

Tiger Lilies

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Pencil sketch of layered mountain and island silhouettes across a sea horizon, with handwritten place labels.

Santorin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of distant mountains over calm water with a wooded shore at left, inscribed Stevensons Island 2.

Stevensons Island (no. 2)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pen-and-ink sketch of a tree-lined village road past a stone house, with a smaller study of a picket fence below.

Tappan

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil drawing of a standing figure in a feathered headdress and patterned robe, labeled Persian at lower left.

Prisoners of War (Persian)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Loose black ink sketch of a young child in a flared dress, standing with one arm outstretched on yellowed paper.

Untitled (Child)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Loose brown ink sketch of a standing nude woman with raised arms and a long drape, washed with pale pink.

Standing Female Nude with Drape

Pencil sketch of a steep rocky hillside with scattered shrubs and a small figure, inscribed 'Jehosephat' at lower left.

Jehosephat

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Black and white chalk drawing of two hands emerging from dark clouds, tangled in twisting chains on tan paper with a black bo

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Pardon Giving and Pardon Imploring Hands

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal study of two hands and forearms on aged paper, one hand gripping the wrist of the other arm.

Study of Two Hands

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of ancient temple columns and a doorway beneath a stone lintel, with the inscription Temple Carnac, Egypt.

Temple Carnac, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Dark drawing of a seated figure reading in a grove, deer and a stone basin with irises, with handwritten verses on a panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Thoughtful Soul to Solitude Retires

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a tall church tower with a clock and columned portico, with a man carrying a sack in the foreground.

Michael's Church

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil and yellow wash sketch of a conical mountain island with rocky cliffs and trees along a coastline.

Island near Adalia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pen drawing of a white lion pulling a chained carriage with a bearded archer, with the words 'Why not learn to write?'

Why not learn to write?

n.d J. C. Saterlee, 1860

Untitled (standing female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Pencil sketch of a valley between two hillsides with rocks and shrubs in the foreground and an empty sky above.

Jacob's Well, Samaria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Monochrome wash drawing of a leafy landscape with cypress trees and a circular inset showing a stone inscription marker.

Battle Pass, Prospect Park, Site of the Battle of Long Island

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Brown and white drawing of robed men, a wreathed figure with a staff, and a feast under grape vines beneath an inscribed pane

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Prisoners of War (Egyptian and African)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg