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Drawings & Sketches

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Ink and pencil study on tan paper showing a foot, knee, arm and a faint reclining figure, with inventory number 13487.

An arm, a knee, a foot as well as a reclining figure

Gaspare Diziani

Study (VI). Portrait of the artist's wife from the cycle "Fashion Review"

Józef Mehoffer, 1915

Brown wash drawing of the rounded east end of an abbey church with a tall tower behind it, by John Sell Cotman, 1818.

Abbey Church at Fecamp, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Pencil sketch of a flat plain with hills, a stone building on the right, and trees on the left.

Plain of Jericho, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and ink sketch of a standing allegorical woman in flowing drapery within an arched niche.

Allegorical female figure (Venezia?)

Gaspare Diziani

Watercolor of a ruined Gothic priory west front with a tall broken arch and arched doorway, beside a low roofed range.

Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, West Front

John Sell Cotman, 1804

Charcoal drawing of officials in uniform and top hats at a crowded exposition inauguration before an ornate pavilion.

Inauguration de L'Exposition Internationale de Liege, en 1905

Paul Renouard, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of two winged putti hovering close together, one with arms outstretched, on aged paper.

Two hovering putti

Gaspare Diziani

Sepia drawing of a stone church with a tall tower and pointed roof beside a dirt road, with trees and a small figure.

Church of Yainville, near Saint Georges de Bocherville, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Pen and brown wash sketch of a reclining river god with a putto and clouds, on a fragmentary sheet of paper.

River god and putti (fragment)

Gaspare Diziani

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

Watercolor of a park crowd with women holding colorful parasols and children in dresses beneath green trees.

In the Park

Maurice Prendergast, 1915

Pencil sketch of a torch-bearing winged figure on a cloud with several flying putti around it.

Hymen and putti in clouds

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil sketch with grid lines showing a seated reading man, a reclining woman, and a woman with raised arm above.

Queen Katherine's Dream [recto]

William Blake after Henry Fuseli, c. 1804

Charcoal sketch of a city street with a man in a top hat in the foreground and several pedestrians around him.

At dawn

James Ensor, 1880

Watercolor of three Romanesque arches with carved columns and two standing figures, cloister of Saint Georges de Bocherville.

Arches in the West Side of the Cloister of Saint. Georges de Bocherville, near Rouen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Watercolor of a Semarang square with a flower garden, red-roofed houses, and volcanoes under cumulus clouds, by Frans Bakker.

Tillemaplein in Semarang with in the background the volcanoes Sindoro and Soembing

Frans Bakker, 1930

Pencil sketch of badlands buttes with trees and water in the foreground, with handwritten color notes above.

Bad Lands near Boise, N.P.R.R. (No. Pacific Railroad)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Watercolor of a sugar plantation estate with a white manor house, garden paths, grazing horses, and a smokestack.

View of the sugar plantation Catharina Sophia

Alexander Ludwich Brockmann, 1860

Pencil drawing of an ornately carved medieval chest with winged griffins, heraldic shields and Gothic tracery panels.

Chest in Dersingham Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Watercolor of a sugar plantation with smokestacks and white houses along a river, with a green rowing boat in front.

View of the sugar plantation Catharina Sophia from the water

Alexander Ludwich Brockmann, 1860

Pencil drawing on squared paper of a symmetrical rococo-style ornamental design with scrolls and grid measurements.

Decorative design

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Last Supper with Christ at a long table, apostles around him, columns and angels above.

The Last Supper

Gaspare Diziani

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

Sulphur Mountain

Thomas Moran, 1890

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

Pen and grey wash drawing of a round-ended stone church with conical roof, tower and arched windows, trees at right.

East End of the Abbey Church of St. Paul at Rouen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1817

Pencil sketch of a smiling young woman with curled hair, head turned in three-quarter view, by William Blake.

Wat Tyler's Daughter

William Blake, c. 1819

Graphite sketch of a bust with downcast eyes and curled hair on cream paper, dated 1888, by Stanisław Wyspiański.

Sketch of a man bust based on the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Brown and grey wash drawing of a female nude crouched on hands and knees, head turned to the side, dark hair falling forward.

Female Nude on Hands and Knees

Four standing figures in brown ink and wash on tan paper, some nude or draped, with red chalk outlines.

Four statues

Gaspare Diziani

Brown wash drawing of vaulted rock-cut caverns with stone pillars and arches receding into shadow, by John Sell Cotman.

Caverns Excavated in the Rock within the Castle of Chateau Gaillard, near Andelys, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1822

Pencil drawing of a bearded man with curled hair and a crown, labeled Canute, on pale paper.

King Canute

William Blake, c. 1819/1820