Historical Monument Designs

A collection of historical sketches featuring funerary monuments, religious scenes, and decorative altarpiece concepts using ink and wash.

Design for Funerary Monument, John Eckstein, 1735-1818, German, undated, Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 11/16 × 6 1/8 inches (24.6 × 15.6 cm), architectural subject, design, monument

John Eckstein, 1735-1818, German, Design for Funerary Monument, undated. Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Drawing of the crucifixion. Trotti, Giovan Battista, 1555-1619. Drawings, Illustrations. 1900. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection

. The Dutch Virgin is sitting on a throne, the Dutch lion to her feet. On the left, she is assisted by Mercury and the personification of freedom. On the right side of the throne a man shows her a book.

Brown pen and white brush drawing by the Master of Drapery Studies depicting an altarpiece sketch with musicians on yellowish paper, created around 1480-1490.

Design for Funerary Monument, John Eckstein, 1735-1818, German, undated, Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 11/16 × 6 1/8 inches (24.6 × 15.6 cm), architectural subject, design, monument

Portrait of Gregorio Barbarigo and the personification contempt for the world and desire for God; Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica Gente. Pedestal in the shape of a cartouche. On the front a medallion with the portrait of Gregorio Barbarigo. A laurel wreath on the back. To the left of the pedestal a hearted man. His head crowned with a laurel wreath and focused to heaven. In his hands a skewer and palm branch. A laurel wreath on his head. He is the symbol of the contempt for the world. Kneeling on the pedestal is desire for God: an angel from whose breast a flame. She has turned the face to heaven. On the right a deer water drinks from a source. It refers to Psalm 42: 'Like a Hinde for running water, so my soul lets you, O God'. The print is part of an album.

Design for title print of a religious book. Design for a title print.

Design Wall Elevation with Stucco and Painted Decorations 1708 Luigi Garzi Italian. Design Wall Elevation with Stucco and Painted Decorations 343235

Design for a portrait surrounded by a snake, Charles Le Brun, 1629 - 1690 drawing Design for an engraved portrait of an artist: two women and two geniuses with Fama at the portrait that is surrounded by a snake that bite into the tail. France paper. chalk ornaments ~ art. Fame; 'Fama', 'Fama buona', 'Fama chiara' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure). serpent Ouroboros

Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena 1415-16 Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo di Pietro dAngelo di Guarnieri) Italian This is one of the most historically important early Italian drawings in a United States collection, and is associated with a famous sculptural project in Renaissance Italy. The details of the project are complex but illuminate the crucial role of this drawing in the development of the commission. They are summarized here with new research. In 1408, Jacopo della Quercia was contracted by the magistrates (signori) of the republic of Siena to execute the Fonte Gaia ("Fountain of Joy"), a great rectangular basin with figural sculptures in marble, intended to replace a previously existing structure on the northwest edge of the Piazza del Campo, the main public space of the town. The damaged original fragments of the Fonte Gaia are today in Santa Maria della Scala (Siena) but remained in situ until 1858 when the ensemble was substituted with a facsimil

Design for a Cassone early 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian. Design for a Cassone 346311

Allegory to music, Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755 drawing Design for a painting. paper. ink. chalk pen / brush 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa)

Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti 1735-90 Santi Pacini Italian This composition was drawn by Sante Pacini after Bernardino Poccetti's Paradise, a cycle frescoed around 1608 in the chapel of the Palazzo Gerini in Florence. Formerly owned by the French collector and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette, the sheet was listed as a work by Poccetti in the sale catalogue of Mariette's collection (1775), under the number 67 ( "Huit sujets d'une grande composition, peints et exécutés à Florence par cet auteur, dans les Monastères de l'Annonciade et autres, dessinés d'après les tableaux, à la pierre noire, par Pacini.") Other drawings belonging to this group are in the Département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris.. Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti 340398

The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Nain, Federico Zuccaro, c. 1568, draughtsman: Federico Zuccaro, c. 1568, paper, pen, brush, h 497 mm × w 284 mm

A feather drawing by Joseph Heintz the Elder depicting Perseus sacrificing at three altars for Andromeda's liberation, enhanced with white and blackened areas.

Drawing (Italy); Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823)

Fountain of the Youth, Anonymous, After Hans Sebald Beham, 1510 - 1550 print paper fountain of youth, 'Fontaine de Jouvence'. fountain of Love, 'Fons Amoris'

A feather and red wash drawing from around 1600 showing a female figure in front view with a palace portico continuing in the background.

Abraham van Diepenbeeck shows Ulysses and Penelope in her palace, led to a marriage bed by a servant, drawn in black and reddish chalk with minor corner marks.

Glorification of the coat of arms of Prince William IV, Simon Fokke, 1751, Allegory showing the glorification of the coat of arms of Prince William IV. The crowned coat of arms carried by two putti, in the air the All-Seeing Eye. On the left the female personification of Faith kneeling at an altar, on the right a woman with a harp (Harmony) with a lion, eagle and stork. Probably produced on the death of the stadholder on October 22, 1751. Design for a print., draughtsman: Simon Fokke, (mentioned on object), Simon Fokke, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, 1751, paper, h 98 mm × w 144 mm

Pen drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc as a draft for a copperplate of the Epitaph Berbier du Mets, executed in brown, reddish, and gray on blue composition paper after 1690.

Allegory of Venetian Power. Artist: attributed to Andrea Celesti (Italian, Venice 1637-1712 Venice). Dimensions: 14-9/16 x 11-1/4 in. (37.0 x 28.5 cm), design proper, entire sheet , including and engraved border, 54.5 x 40.0.. Date: 1637-1712. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Allegory on the legal procedure, Jan Goeree, 1703 - Before 1705 print The personification of knowledge of good and evil is on a throne. She is flanked by the personifications of justice (with sword and scale) and naked truth (with a sun as headdress). The child is innocent under the mantle of justice. Above the throne an oval list of a performance of caution and an oval list of the portrait of Emperor Justinian. Knowledge of good and evil judges the court case between the personification good lawsuit (a woman with a square and a spirit level) and the personification poor lawsuit (a blindfolded woman). In the background against the wall medallions with motives that can negatively influence case law (such as greed, death, bankruptcy). The print is a proof for a title page. Amsterdam paper engraving District Between Good and Bad; 'District of good & of evil' (Ripa). Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Divine Giustitia' (Ripa) ~ One of the Four Cardinal Virtues. Innocence; 'Innocence', 'Innocence or Pur

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Peter, Saint Damasus, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Paul; the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the Background. Artist: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42-1609 Ancona). Dimensions: 14 7/16 x 9 5/8in. (36.7 x 24.4cm). Date: 1566-68.A preparatory study by Federico Zuccaro for the high altarpiece in San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome, a work commissioned from his older brother Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566) but actually executed by Federico and completed in 1568, nearly two years after Taddeo's death. The finished altarpiece differs from this project in that the upper half of the composition is occupied by a representation of the Coronation of the Virgin (see Gere 1966, fig. 2). John A. Gere has pointed out that Federico has combined in the present drawing two motifs studied separately by Taddeo in surviving drawings that relate to this project: the appearance of the Virgin to the four saints (inspired by Raphael's "Madonna di Foligno,"

Card 13 Before Annasz, with: album with drawings depicting reliefs from the chapel of Kalwaria Ujazdowska unknown

Dresden. Marble Greek Triple Tripus; Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884); 1833 (1833-00-00-1834-00-00);Dresden (Germany), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884) - collections, Lesser, Emiljan Stanisław (Baron - 1847-1912), Lesser, Emiljan Stanisław (Baron - 1847-1912) - collection , Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron - 1853-1935), Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron - 1853-1935) - collection, antique, architecture, foreign architecture, gift (provenance), details, architectural details, marbles, altars, altars, bas -reliefs, sculptures, Greek sculptures

Design for a Festival Float or Barge ca. 1530-40 Circle of Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian Another study with some variations for this elaborate decorative construction, which may well have been intended for a festival float, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes (inv. C 65.1). Both drawings in New York and Rennes bear a traditional attribution to Polidoro da Caravaggio, but Bernice Davidson pointed out that they are the work of some close follower of Perino del Vaga. According to Florian Härb and Marzia Faietti (see here Bibliography), the Metropolitan Museum of Art drawing could be an early work by the Bolognese painter and prolific drafstman Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) who, after a short period spent with Innocenzo da Imola, joined the Roman workshop of Perino del Vega at just sixteen years of age.(F.R., 2014). Design for a Festival Float or Barge 340462

Design for a wall decoration with four performances ..

Design for a Tabernacle with the Annunciation. Artist: Anonymous, German, 17th century. Dimensions: sheet: 14 11/16 x 8 11/16 in. (37.3 x 22 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a Cassone. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550-1580). Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (17.4 x 36.5 cm). Date: early 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Tomb, A tomb consisting of three layers. Below a presentation of a sacrificial ritual. Above that two putti next to an empty cartouche. On top of a reclining figure and a representation of Mary with Child flanked on either side by a putto, grave, tomb, Madonna: i.e. Mary with the Christ-child, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', Angelo Falco (mentioned on object), Italy, c. 1619, paper, etching, h 305 mm × w 225 mm

Supported by two winged female genii, the right one having a trumpet in her left arm. In front of a niche which is supported by a base. The background is colored. Date: 1780-1800. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash off-white laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Augsburg, Wolf, Jeremias, Nuremberg, Decker, Paul (I), Reiff, Johann Conrad, Delsenbach, Johann Adam, Mantelpieces, Parts of mantlepieces, verso - stamped, Decorated with grotesques, festoons, female and male figures., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 280 mm, width 189 mm, 1687 - 1765-05-16, print maker, printmaker, 1708 - 1724, paper, papier, etching, etchings, German - 1726-06-11, Work conception, 1677-12-27 - 1713-11-18, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, German, 1673 - 1724, publisher

Carlo Maratta allegorical drawing depicting Virtue with lion skin and club being crowned by Honor, who holds a cornucopia, wreath, and palm branch. The scene is repeated in smaller scale, executed in pen and wash on blue-gray paper.

Desseins Arabesques a Plusieurs Usages Inventés par J.B. Toro. Designer: Jean Bernard Toro (French, Dijon 1672-1731 Toulon). Dimensions: Plate: 9 9/16 × 12 5/16 in. (24.3 × 31.3 cm)Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 7/16 in. (40 × 29 cm) irregular edges. Etcher: Charles Nicolas Cochin I (French, Paris 1688-1754 Paris). Publisher: Jacques-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson (French, 1663-1733). Date: 1716. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso) 1698-1765 Giovanni Battista Natali III Italian. Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso) 343262

Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being, Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, British, and / or Mary Smirke, 1779-1853, British, undated, Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, thickm smooth, brown, wove paper, Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 7/16 inches (6.4 × 11.3 cm) and Mount: 12 1/2 × 10 1/16 inches (31.8 × 25.6 cm), abducting, architecture, crowd, figure study, men, putti, reaching, religious and mythological subject, spear, wings, women

Perseus Offert Drie Stienn, Battista corner of Moro (Possibly), c. 1525 - After 1573 print Perseus brings a sacrifice to Jupiter together with a companion. On the right an image of Jupiter, flanked by images of Minerva and Mercury. Italy paper etching (story of) Perseus. (story of) Jupiter (Zeus). animal sacrifice ~ Roman religion

Putti assisting Woman carve a Bust of a Soldier (early state), Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after unknown artist, undated, Engraving

David and Bathseba (in box with 43 drawings). .

Studies with figure of Apollo from Raphel's School of Athens, Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773, Raphael, (Italian, 1483-1520), Red chalk on paper, Three unrelated motifs. At right, Apollo from a niche in the left background of School of Athens, painted by Raphael and his workshop. At center, a base with a supporting caryatid. At left, a herm with an animal head., France, ca. 1759-70, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Card 5 Last Supper, with: album with drawings depicting reliefs from the chapel of Kalwaria Ujazdowska unknown

Drawing in red chalk and white highlights on blue-gray paper depicting the mythological story of Medea tricking the daughters of Pelias, showing the attempted rejuvenation and killing described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Game of Backgammon. Artist: Johann Esaias Nilson (German, Augsburg 1721-1788 Augsburg). Dimensions: 7 7/16 x 11 5/8 in. (18.9 x 29.6 cm). Date: 1741-88. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a corner piece of a ceiling with Jason and Medea. Corner piece of a ceiling with Jason and Medea in a round cartouche; On the left half of a representation of Venus mourning at Adonis's body.

Framing Element with Figures (). Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century. Dimensions: 8 9/16 x 6 1/4 in. (21.7 x 15.9 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Annunciation scene with Mary, Gabriel, and minor angels or other figures. Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper. Date: 1820-1850. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Drawing, Spandrel Decoration: Fame and Truth Applauding Louis XV; François Boucher (French, 1703-1770); France; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and pale pink wash on white paper, lined; 26.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.) Frame: 34.5 x 27.9 cm (13 9/16 x 11 in.)

Vignet with putto, writing in study floor. Design for a print.

Apostel en Verr Engelen, Giovanni Battista Vanni, After Correggio, 1609 - 1660 print An apostle for and four naked figures (possibly angels) on a wall. print maker: Italyafter painting by: Parmapublisher: RomeVaticaanstad paper etching angels. (single) apostle, unspecified

Black chalk drawing by Charles François Hutin depicting a draft of a fountain, executed on blue natural paper in 1771.

France, Jacquard, Antoine, Les Divers Pourtraicts & figures faictes sus les meurs Des habitans du Nouveau Monde, Figures in motion, contained in architectural niches, Naked man with feather headdress in a niche, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 46 mm, width 143 mm, French - 1640, print maker, 1610 - 1640, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Antique Chair with Bacchic Themes, Pen and gray ink, brown wash, over graphite on white laid paper, View of the throne from an oblique angle. Throne back is a square form decorated with the Bacchic symbols of grapes and musical instruments. The arms and forelegs of the throne are in the form of winged lions, whose wings transform to volutes with beadwork. Between the legs are two masks flanked a vase with lion handles. The seat back is decorated with the hide of a boar, possibly that of the mythological Calydonian Boar., Rome, Italy, Italy, ca. 1800, furniture, Drawing, Drawing

Forerusies Area OFF CRASITIF ON VOOR CALLHOEHEHE, Jérônôme, After Jewartor Fonor Frameamen, in 1773 print paper etching / engraving death of Coresus: the priest of Bacchus kills himself to save his beloved Callirrhoe from being sacrificed

Strona tytułowa do partytury Antoniego Radziwiłła "Faust". Götzenberger, Jakob (1800-1866), draughtsman, cartoonist

Torture of the saints Crispinus and Crispinian, draughtsman: anonymous, Siena, 1500 - 1599, paper, pen, brush, h 278 mm × w 192 mm

Wszyscy wici w MNK Norman, C., Zampieri, domestic (1581 1641)

Francesco Mazzolas circa 1525-1530 chiaroscuro woodcut and etching depicts the healing of the lame at the temple gate, showing biblical narrative and figure composition across three plates.

Rome, Aelst, Nicolaus van, Vatican City, Michelangelo, Italy, Ghisi, Giorgio, Paintings in the lunettes above the windows in the Sistine Chapel, Delphic Sibyl, sheet - stamped, A lunette with the Delphic Sibyl with a text scroll and nude figures., print, prints, height 561 mm, width 434 mm, Italian, 1520 - 1582-12-15, print maker, printmaker, 1540 - 1540, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1475-03-06 - 1564-02-18, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, South Netherlands, 1527 - 1613, publisher, uitgever

Card 19 Whipping, with: album with drawings depicting reliefs from the chapel of Kalwaria Ujazdowska unknown

The dance of death: Liberty and Death. Drawing by or after E. Ille.

A gray ink and brush drawing attributed to Paul Troger depicting a monument to an obelisk titled 'Gloria di Principi' with allegorical figures and putti on yellowish paper.

Daniel tells Cyrus that he can worship only the living God and no man-made idols, Maarten van Heemskerck, 1564, King Cyrus sits on a throne with turned columns. In the foreground two madmen, one with a jester's stick and the other with a mask (Daniel, Apocrypha 4, 5). Design for a print., draughtsman: Maarten van Heemskerck, 1564, paper, pen, h 196 mm × w 250 mm

Design for an Octagonal Ceiling (or Dish) 1510-63 Attributed to workshop of Ottavio Strada. Design for an Octagonal Ceiling (or Dish) 346140

Chalk and pen drawing with bright reddish-brown wash by Francesco Brizio showing three decorated columns observed by small figures, with a building and a distant city in the background.

Alkoof met Apollo en Leucothea, anonymous, after Jean Lepautre, 1628 - 1732 print Apollo embraces Leucothea while women watch left and right. print maker: Netherlands (possibly)after design by: France (possibly)publisher: Netherlands (possibly) paper etching Apollo, possibly in the guise of an old woman, wooing Leucothea

Papal court, Vatican City, Michelangelo, Rome, Alberti, Cherubino, Vault of the Sistine Chapel, Prophet Isaiah, verso - stamped, Part of the vault painting by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel with sibyls, prophets and nude figures (ignudi). The Prophet Isaiah is seated in the center., print, prent, prints, height 435 mm, width 286 mm, 1553 - 1615, print maker, printmaker, 1628 - 1628, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Italian, 1475-03-06 - 1564-02-18, after a painting by, granter of privilege

Design for a Decorated Frieze with Alternation of Cartouches and Winged Putti 16th century Attributed to Luzio Luzzi (also known as Luzio Romano, Luzio da Todi). Design for a Decorated Frieze with Alternation of Cartouches and Winged Putti 344004

Relief on the pulpit of the Sint-Andreaskerk in Pistoia, representing the child murder of Bethlehem, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Sint-Andreas Church cardboard. photographic support albumen print sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture). interior of church. pulpit, ambo, chancel. the massacre of the innocents Sint-Andreas Church

Project for a Tomb 1537-1543 Italy. Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper . Giulio Campi

Study for Staircase Decoration, Hanbury Hall. Date/Period: Ca. 1710. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, brush and wash on tan laid paper, lined. Author: James Thornhill.

Ceiling, from 'Grands Carts de Plafons', Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618-1682, Etching on paper, France, 1661, Print, Print

Two decorates Frieze Designs for Cornices, from: Frise pour les architraves, corniches et autres ornaments d'architecture before 1666 Jean Le Pautre French. Two decorates Frieze Designs for Cornices, from: Frise pour les architraves, corniches et autres ornaments d'architecture 399407

Print, Ceiling Design; Designed by Jean Lemoyne (French, 1638 - 1715); Published by Gaspard Duchange; France; etching on laid paper

Red chalk and feather drawing by Gasparo Diziani depicting a healing scene under a portico, using wash techniques.

Design for a painting, Allegorical female figure with two putti above a rocaille cartouche., draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, 1731, paper, pen, brush, h 226 mm × w 223 mm

Pallas and justice.

Anonymous (Circle of Orsi, Lelio) / 'Cartouche of strap-work, flanked by two female caryatids and surmounted by a mask'. XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Barbarigo, Giovanni Francesco, Audenaerd, Robert van, Rome, Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente, Portrait of Nicolo Barbarigo and the personification of Military Victory, verso - stamped, Pedestal in the form of a cartouche. On it a medallion with on the front the portrait of Nicolo Barbarigo. On the back Victoria writes on a shield hanging from a palm tree. On the pedestal sits Military Victory, an armored woman with a spear and a mural crown. Behind her some captured banners. On the left and right two prisoners of war. The print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 219 mm, width 237 mm, 1663 - 1743, print maker, printmaker, 1673 - 1743, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design by, Italian, 1658-04-29 - 1730-01-27, client

Design for a panel painting with grotesques. In the foreground a flute playing satyr, Grotesques., draughtsman: Jean Coussin de Oude, (attributed to), draughtsman: anonymous, (rejected attribution), Fontainebleau, c. 1550 - c. 1599, paper, pen, brush, h 244 mm × w 203 mm

Design for a grave monument with a Gisant, Pieter Verbruggen (I), 1619 - 1686 drawing Design for a grave monument with a tomb with a gisant on it; Chronos flies above that. paper. ink. chalk pen / brush Father Time, man with wings and scythe. effigy, 'gisant' (portrait-figure on closed coffin or in 'castrum doloris'), transi

Design for amonument. Artist: Pieter Verbruggen II, Flemish, 1648-1691 Artist or: Pieter Verbruggen the Elder, Flemish, 1615-1686

An image of a frame containing a painting about the chief of Capernaum begging Christ for help. The painting has been drawn in outline using a graphometer. In Capernaum, a Roman centurion, surrounded by his soldiers, kneels before Christ. He asks him to heal his servant. He has taken off his helmet before Christ; a squire is holding it. Christ sends the centurion home and simultaneously heals his servant. Top right: Planche X. Chief man of Capernaum begs Christ for help, print maker: Jan Punt, (mentioned on object), publisher: Jan Hendrik Munnikhuizen, print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: The Hague, 1777 - 1778, paper, etching, engraving, h 244 mm × w 355 mm

Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowry. Antoine Caron; French, c. 1515-1593. Date: 1557-1567. Dimensions: 410 × 543 mm. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead-white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Copper engraving by Nicolas van Aelst depicting the prophet Jeremy from the Sistine Chapel, created around 1540, illustrating the biblical figure in detail.

Sketches. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550-1580). Dimensions: 7 x 5-3/8 in. (17.8 x 13.7 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a sculptural group with God the Father in a niche. Artist: Pieter Verbruggen the Younger (Flemish, Antwerp 1648-1691 Antwerp). Dimensions: sheet: 7 15/16 x 6 in. (20.2 x 15.2 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century; Formerly attributed to Michiel van der Voort (Flemish, 1667-1737) (). Date: late 17th-early 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Saint Helena Kneeling before the True Cross. Cesare Nebbia; Italian, 1536-1614. Date: 1580-1585. Dimensions: 297 x 164 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Amand-Durand, Saint Jerome in Penitence, and, Judgment of Paris, 1787-1887, heliograph on paper.

Ornamental Design with Putto and Skulls 17th century Anonymous, Italian, 17th century Italian. Ornamental Design with Putto and Skulls 389438

Figures at a funerary monument, Johannes van Dregt, 1747 - 1807, Figures at a funerary monument; in the sky Abundance and putti with arms of Amsterdam., draughtsman: Johannes van Dregt, 1747 - 1807, paper, pen, h 539 mm × w 306 mm

Design for a Ceiling n.d. Circle of Felice Giani Italian. Design for a Ceiling 389912

th, Karlskirche, relief on a triumphal column, Gerlach , Wiedling Buch- und Kunstverlag, publishing house

Two Designs for a Pile of Trophies Surmounted by a Figure of Victory (or Fame). Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Bridal Scene. Jörg Breu the Elder (German, about 1475/1476 - 1537)

Design for a burial monument for an abbot or bishop, anonymous, 1700 - 1800 drawing paper. ink. chalk pen / brush grave-building, monumental tomb

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