Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Search

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A Street in a Town

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17.5 × 50.6 cm (6 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)

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A Street in a Town

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Leading into the background to the foot of a hill, upon which a medieval castle is standing. Framing lines.

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A Stucco Angel from the Nave Vault, Church of the Gesu, Rome," from the album "Drawings after Ornament and Architecture"

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A winged male figure holds a scroll and looks away from it toward his left. Decorative motifs are visible on the right side. Copy after a stucco angel on the cieling of the Church of Il Gesu in Rome, a work carried out by Ercole Antonio Raggi (il Lombardo) after designs by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Baciccio, between 1676 and 1679.

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A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome

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French artists who won the Prix de Rome were given studios in which to live and work during their time spent in Rome. The Academie de France occupied the Villa Medici on Monte Pincio from 1803. Three artists are seen in this room, which is sparsely furnished with simple wooden chairs, work tables and workstands. Folding beds, which would have been set up at night, were probably stored in the dayti

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A Study Interior at St. Polten

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The angled view of this study is dominated by portraits: large oval portraits dating from the Empire period and smaller pictures from the 1820s-1830s. Racks of pipes near the door in the rear and a large businessman's desk in the center foreground show that the room belongs to a man. A large woven urn-shaped basket in the foreground next to the desk may have served as a wastepaper basket. On the l

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A Suggestive Arrangement of Sky, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

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Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a varied sunset over the mountainous terrain of Mt. Desert Island in Maine. In the middle distance at left, a house is positioned obliquely on a small rise in the landscape. Beyond, several wooded hills form a rolling horizon in the background while, above, towering and layered bands of undulating clouds fill the sky as they extend into the distanc

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A Sybil, with a Book

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35.8 × 30.6 cm (14 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

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A Three-Master in Heavy Sea

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Drawing

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A Ticket for Theatre Royal; Male Caricature

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Belot, a scene with two women and three men in a salon. All are standing. Enframed by Hermes at left and right, by twigs and a lyre on upper margin. Above, caricature drawing of a man with a wig in side view facing left. Half-length.

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