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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

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