Architectural and Decorative Designs

Pencil sketches and designs for architectural elements and decorative arts, showcasing intricate details and ornamentation from the 19th century.

Design for the title plate of LArt Industriel, c. 1830 - c. 1850 Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral)

Design for the title plate of LArt Industriel, c. 1830 - c. 1850 Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral)

Design for a Drawing Room Mirror, for 11 Princes Gate, London 19th century Anonymous, British, 19th century British. Design for a Drawing Room Mirror, for 11 Princes Gate, London. Anonymous, British, 19th century. 19th century. Graphite

Kraantjeskan on the table. .

A pencil drawing by Rudolf Weyr showing architectural forms, including structural details, layouts, and ornamental elements.

Drawing, Framing of a painted ceiling; Italy

Bliżej Kultury Krieger, Amalia (1846 1928)

Design for a Gothic Bed 1841-84 Charles Hindley and Sons British. Design for a Gothic Bed 367278

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Below is a part of an entablature. The scheme of the steeple follows in a general way that of the Sapienza Statues of angels stand upon pedestals obliquely in front of the dado of the first story. In front of its central part two figures support a circular medallion. At right is a part of the plan of the upper story. Colored background. Date: 1796. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Design for a Kandelaber, c. 1864 - c. 1894 Paris tracing paper. deck paint. pencil Chandelier, a candlestick

A pencil sketch by Emerich Alexius Swoboda showing a grave or monument, highlighting structural form, composition, and figure placement.

Design for a Catafalque, Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678-1745, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, On a narrow vertical sheet, architectural design for a catafalque showing the right side of the two-story structure, the door flanked by columns, domed roof., Naples, Italy, late 17th-mid- 18th century, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Study for Greenwich Hospital The Painted Hall, from Microcosm of London 1807-1810 England. Graphite on cream wove paper . Augustus Charles Pugin

N.n.: Normal clock. Monthly competition October 1873

Study for a monument to the dead

Wall Design. Artist: Workshop of Leonardo Marini (Italian, Piedmontese documented ca. 1730-after 1797). Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Renaissance doorway with Egyptian vase, Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773, Red chalk on paper, Renaissance doorway. The left door and doorframe are represented, as well as a decorative motif in the upper left corner and a vase supported on an Egyptian-style winged figure to the left of the door., France, ca. 1759-70, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Grotesques: detail of the stucco reliefs decorating the Colosseum in Rome ca. 1729 Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus. Grotesques: detail of the stucco reliefs decorating the Colosseum in Rome. Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus (French, Paris 1692-1765 Paris). ca. 1729. Etching. Prints

Vuurbok, c. 1830 - c. 1850 Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral)

Portret Van Pedro Enriquez de Acevedo, Graaf Van Fuentes, Anonymous, 1690 print paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing historical persons. commander-in-chief, general, marshal

Design for a Chimney Piece late 18th century Anonymous, British, 18th century British. Design for a Chimney Piece 386753

Design for a decoration on the occasion of the Alliance with France, June 19, 1795, Jan Bulthuis, 1795 drawing Sketch with a design for a triumphal arch for the Alliance party in Amsterdam on June 19, 1795. Amsterdam paper. pencil triumphal arch. festivities on events of national importance (+ festive decoration ~ festive activities) Amsterdam

Drawing, Design for the Crest of a Mirror with Alternative Suggestions; Italy; black chalk, pen and ink on paper

One Half Design for a Ceiling with Floral and Strapwork Motifs (recto); Slight Scribbles (verso). 1709-30 Attributed to Workshop of Donato Giuseppe Frisoni Italian. One Half Design for a Ceiling with Floral and Strapwork Motifs (recto); Slight Scribbles (verso). 340359

Design for a Very Large Cabinet, with Renaissance Ornament and Lamps. Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 13/16 in. (27.3 x 37.7 cm). Date: early 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a Choir Screen with a Cardinal's Hat 16th century Anonymous, French, 16th century French. Design for a Choir Screen with a Cardinal's Hat 362857

Sketches and Script, Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702-1786, Pen and black ink on laid paper, Two sketches of a door with a niche in the upper floor. The latter is framed in rectangle and has a shell above. One sketch gives the measurements for the door, the other shows the statue of a bishop with a host on the side and a man with a wooden leg wearing a big hat standing on the street. Above, two slight sketches of people standing. Written beside in script: Lavoro”; Squario eti”; and Finezza dell’ Amio”., Rome, Italy, 1765, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Kayser & von Großheim, oven for living or men's room (08.05.1888): View 1: 5. Pencil, colored pencil on transparent, 69.5 x 43.1 cm (including scan edges) Kayser & von Großheim : Ofen für Wohn- oder Herrenzimmer

Design for a Wall Altar, Pen and black ink on paper, Design for a semi-domed balducchino supported on paired columns and divided by niches on either side of an arched opening. The ground plan of the structure is below., Italy, 1750-70, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Attributed to John Carter, 1748-1817, British, Side Window, North, Painted Chamber, between 1793 and 1799. Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper.

Design for a Monument (recto) 19th century Anonymous, French, 19th century French. Design for a Monument (recto) 392378

Project for Tables; Sketches for Chests of Drawers and Possibly Frieze Stand, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, At left, table with square top, supported by baluster. Flower and vase set on table. At right, oblong table supported by four fluted columns. At upper edge, right part of chest of drawers, upper part standing on legs. Verso: shown vertically, three chimerae supporting top, which seems to be bordered by railing. In middle rises pavilion with trellis., Italy, ca. 1820, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Festival decoration design for the exterior Burgplatz at Vienna Hofburg by Ludwig Gabriel von Remy, showing illumination effects, drawn in chalk and pen in red and black for presentation, 1814.

Design for a candelabra ..

Design for a Cabinet with Renaissance Ornament and Lamps early 19th century Anonymous, British, 19th century British. Design for a Cabinet with Renaissance Ornament and Lamps 386934

Fountain with architectural framework and sculptures

Schmalz Otto (1861-1915), travel sketches from Pompeii, Naples and Rome (04.03.1887): Naples: Tomb in the cloister v. S. Maria Nuova (view). Pencil on paper, 42.8 x 30.8 cm (including scan edges)

Design for left half of a portal with balcony, Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702-1786, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper, With construction lines. Woman standing on balcony; gentleman with stick walking. Scale., Italy, 1725-50, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, The Sitting Room in a House in Corinth, 1802-1804. Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

Decorative design with two birds. .

A pencil sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr showing various figure studies and compositional layouts for artistic reference.

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Sketch of the Three Coffers, from Merchant ofVenice, Graphite, Wove, 25.1 × 17.6 cm (9 7/8 × 6 15/16in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Lucae Richard (1829-1877), New Theater (Opera) in Frankfurt/Main (1871-1871): Stuck decoration 1: 5. Pencil, colored pencil watercolored on the box, 61.1 x 33.3 cm (including scan edges) Lucae Richard (1829-1877): Neues Theater (Oper), Frankfurt/Main

Below are the moldings of the altar furniture. The tabernacle has the shape of a building. Seen from its left corner. Below is a dado. The central part is bordered by a convex semi-circle with six free columns and a cupola. Inside is a group of figures. The lateral panels contain a niche with a statue. Above the upper entablature are on either side two figures, in the center are two angels upon clouds, in adoration of a central motif. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Design for a Monument (recto). Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 9 9/16 x 6 15/16 in. (24.3 x 17.6 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a Gothic Style Mirrored Cabinet. Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 9 1/2 x 11 15/16 in. (24.1 x 30.4 cm). Date: early 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a marble pictures, with sculpture decorated cupboard (left half) .Lead half or a design for a Marble Plates Picked up, with sculpture decorated cupboard.

A pencil drawing by Josef Danhauser depicting a tiled stove, focusing on architectural and decorative details.

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Theaterpoort founded on Dam Square, 1642, 1642 print Theaterpoort founded on Dam Square for the Beurssteeg. At the top of the weapon with the eagle of the Roman-German Kingdom, on the corners the weapons of England and Hainaut, referring to the historic ties between England and the Netherlands. Theater for the screenings during the visit of English queen Henrietta Maria to Amsterdam, 20-22 May 1642. Eighth plate in a group of ten impressions and triumphal arches. Northern Netherlands paper etching The internship and its Equipment. Triummphal Entry and Public Reception, pageant, 'solemn entrance', 'Joyeuse entrance'. Triummphal Arch Amsterdam. Dam

Rib vow and a figure in a staircase. Leaf 19 Recto from a sketchbook with 60 sheets.

Design for Ceiling Decoration. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined. Date: 1746-1809. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Architectural elements between leaf vines, c. 1866 - c. 1900 drawing At the bottom, a dragon with a banderole flies, his tail ends in leaf vines. paper. pencil drawing

Sketch for the Rear Arched Area of a Chapel, with an Angel and Three Putti Holding Up a Plate with the Head of the Baptist 1700-1780 Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century Italian. Sketch for the Rear Arched Area of a Chapel, with an Angel and Three Putti Holding Up a Plate with the Head of the Baptist 340420

Cabinet Design 19th century Anonymous, British, 19th century British. Cabinet Design. Anonymous, British, 19th century. 19th century. Graphite and watercolor

Design for a lid coupe, c. 1825 - c. 1830 Paris paper. graphite (mineral) drawing containers

Stiehl Otto (1860-1940): Sketch and photo album 1: Dom, Lübeck

Drawing, Project for an Overdoor; Possibly by Carlo Marchionni (Italian, 1702-1786), Filippo Marchionni (Italian, 1732-1805); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; 17 x 17 cm (6 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828, British, Palais de Justice, Rouen, undated. Graphite on medium, beige, moderatley textured wove paper.

Lehmmübner Paul (1855-1916), town hall in Duderstadt (1898): Figure details from the staircase. Pencil on cardboard, 35.7 x 26.9 cm (including scan edges) Lehmgrübner Paul (1855-1916): Rathaus, Duderstadt

. Different numbered Roman statues and architecture elements. At the top right: pl. XV.

Scheppig Carl (1803-1885), sketchbook "Travel notes collected on the Rhine in France and Italy" (1833-1835): Pencil on paper, 9.6 x 16.6 cm (including scan edges) Scheppig Carl (1803-1885): Skizzenbuch »Reisenotizen gesammelt am Rhein in Frankreich und Italien«: Grabmal auf Père Lachaise, Paris

Design for the decoration of a ceiling 1830-97 Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise French. Design for the decoration of a ceiling 384952

Centerpiece, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, Design for a centerpiece., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, metalwork, Drawing, Drawing

China Case, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II. Artist: Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718-1779 London). Dimensions: sheet: 8 13/16 x 13 9/16 in. (22.4 x 34.4 cm). Published in: London. Date: 1753.Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate CX in the 1754 and 1755 editions, renumbered as plate CXXXV in the 1762 edition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, Caryatids support the entablature in the center and below the arch, at left. An urn stands between the pair in the center. Painting similar to -1534; with pendentives as wedges. A conch is shown over the entablature. The central painting is octagonal., Rome, Italy, 1790-1800, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Round table with open work, c. 1835 - c. 1860 drawing München paper. ink pen table

Design for Wall with Alcove, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, Design for Wall with Alcove., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

This pencil 'Skizzenblatt' by Rudolf Weyr is a sketch sheet showcasing his preliminary studies and practice in figure drawing and composition, reflecting his academic training and artistic skill.

Entrance Gate Made 1887 United States. Transfer lithograph in black on cream laid paper . James McNeill Whistler

Design for a Tall Chimneypiece, Decorated with Vases. Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century. Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a Tomb, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, A variation of -1291 upper row left, without the upper part of the pedestal. The escutcheon is supported by two putti carrying trumpets; the left one is sitting, the right kneeling. In the center above is a bottle, shaped like urn with neck and rim, upon which sits a helmet. The woman at left carries a sword. The upper part of the architectural setting is not shown., Rome, Italy, ca. 1795, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Window Case, Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732-1805, Charcoal, brush and dark brown watercolor on laid paper, Upper cornices form a circular pediment in the width of the window frame. The console supporting the entablature ends below with a mask., Italy, 1740-70, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Elevation of a Catafalque, Three Obelisks with Fluer-de-lys and Candles, Dated on Plaque at Bottom 1733. 1733 Workshop of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena Italian. Elevation of a Catafalque, Three Obelisks with Fluer-de-lys and Candles, Dated on Plaque at Bottom 1733. 344510

Drawing, Design for Writing Table with Massive Reeded Legs; Designed by A.N. Davenport Co.; graphite on thin cream tracing paper; 18.4 x 22.5 cm (7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. )

Ornament designs, 1919 Page 11 Recto from a sketchbook with 33 sheets. paper. pencil ornaments ~ art

Drawing by Ferdinand Boberg. Gotland, Martebo K: a Nordic

A pencil sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr, featuring studies of figures, forms, or compositions on paper.

Study for St. Paul's Cathedral, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1809. Dimensions: 258 × 199 mm. Graphite on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Moutier, Anne Jean (n.1791 - D.1874), monument cut in memory of the Duke of Berry projected on the site of the current Square Louvois. (Dummy title). Brown feather and ink, pink wash on layer paper. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Dummy decor of columns, in honor of Napoleon III () Anonymous. Dummy decor of columns, in honor of Napoleon III (1808-1873). Pencil.

Hoffmann Emil (1845-1901), hereditary burials and tombs (without dat.): View 1: 250. Tusche watercolor on the box, 48.3 x 63.8 cm (including scan edges) Hoffmann Emil (1845-1901): Erbbegräbnisse und Grabmäler

The retable has the shape of a niche, framed by two embedded columns and outside by two more at the ends of the receding backward part. The columns stand upon pedestals which in their turn stand upon a base. In front of the base is the mensa on top of a sepulchrum; in front of the frieze, below the niche, is the tabernacle. In the niche stands a figure with extended arms upon a pedestal beside which two angels sit. Laterally, the base ends with projecting round pedestals, either of them with a group consisting of a saint or an allegory, apparently upon clouds with cherubim or angels. Colored background. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Upon a base stands a sarcophagus between putti similar to -1255 right. The putto, at left, carries branches, that at right sticks () in their outside hands. The pedestal with cover is fluted. ABove, stands a variation of -1259, the woman carries the cross in the left hand and supports a medallion with the right. Behind the upper part is a niche in the shape of -1350, with panels decorated with trophies of weapons. The niche is framed outside by a laurel moulding. Date: ca. 1795. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Print (France)

Designs for Stage Set: Three Pavillions in Background with "Oriental" (Ogival) Cupolas with Two Small Fountains between Them. in Foreground, a large Fountain with Dolphins Surmounted by Neptune. Artist: Workshop of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (Italian, Parma 1696-1756 Berlin). Dimensions: 16-5/8 x 22-5/16 in. (42.2 x 56.7 cm). Date: 1696-1756. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Småland, Seveda hd., Södra Vi sn. "Söderholm's farm. (Internal paintings in oil on canvas in one of the rooms)". Drawing by Ferdinand Boberg. Nordic

Drawing (Italy); Possibly by Filippo Marchionni (Italian, 1732-1805), Carlo Marchionni (Italian, 1702-1786); pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.) 37.7 x 22.9 cm (14 13/16 in. x 9 in.)

Figures in two bronze statues of a Temmelexterior, 1931 Possibly the Angkor some temple in Cambodia. Page 72 from a sketchbook with 48 sheets. Cambodja (possibly) paper. pencil sculpture. architecture. standing figure

Design for a Tabernacle, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, A pavilion with a dome is shown from a corner. Figures stand upon the upper corners. Colored background., Rome, Italy, ca. 1790, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Klomp Johannes Franziskus (1865-1946), unaffected altars, church furnishings, sculptures and ornaments (0-0): hanging lamp. Pencil on transparent, 27.3 x 18 cm (including scan edges) Klomp Johannes Franziskus (1865-1946): Unzugeordnete Altäre, Kircheneinrichtung, Skulpturen und Ornamente

Design for a Festive Decoration in Honor of a Bishop. Date/Period: 1710-40. Drawing. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and wash on two pieces of paper joined horizontally. Author: DOMENICO ANTONIO VACCARO.

Drawing, Three urns; Jean-Robert Ango (French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773); France; red chalk on paper

Design for a pulpit, Peter Bodechtal, c. 1750 - c. 1770 drawing On the left a side view and under both a side view and a map. Germany graphite (mineral). ink

Bound Print (France); Engraved by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette (French, 1793 - 1877)

Lehmmübner Paul (1855-1916), sketchbook: Northern Germany (without dat.): Bremen. Volute view. Pencil on paper, 16.5 x 21.5 cm (including scan edges) Lehmgrübner Paul (1855-1916): Skizzenbuch: Norddeutschland

Justice of Emperor Otto III: De Vuur test, Charles Onkhena, After Dieric Bouts, 1833 print Ghent paper etching picture, painting

Fireplace; Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936); 1910 (1910-00-00-1910-00-00);Partage Plus, decorations, fireplaces (architect.), Sketches, interiors, purchase (provenance)

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