Architectural Drawings and Designs

A collection of architectural sketches and design concepts, showcasing detailed illustrations for furniture, decor, and ornamental elements in various styles.

Wilkinson Tracing, Designs for various metal urns and basins, 1820. Ink on tracing paper. Designer: George Bullock. Draughtsman: Thomas Wilkinson

Drawing (Italy)

Highboy. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 27.9 x 22.5 cm (11 x 8 7/8 in.). Medium: graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frederick Jackson.

Print (France); Print Maker: Augustin Nicolas Foin (French, 1726-c. 1759)

Designs for Tureens and a Platter. Artist: Alfred Henry Forrester Alfred Crowquill (British, London 1804-1872 London). Dimensions: sheet: 16 3/4 x 11 7/16 in. (42.5 x 29 cm). Patron: Probably commissioned by Samuel Alcock & Company (British, active ca. 1828-1859). Date: 1845-55. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Gropius Martin (1824-1880), sketch album 2 (approx. 1870): decoration studies. Pencil, ink, mounted in album, 47.9 x 28.8 cm (including scan edges) Gropius Martin (1824-1880): Skizzenalbum 2: Dekorationsstudien

Highboy. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 21.4 x 28.7 cm (8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: American 20th Century.

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

Gloer project: decorative motifs. (Dummy title)

Wilkinson Tracing, Designs for various metal urns and basins, 1820. Ink on tracing paper. Designer: George Bullock. Draughtsman: Thomas Wilkinson

Study, possibly of a glass object, George Hendrik Breitner, 1909 Page 17 from a sketchbook with 8 sheets. Amsterdam paper. chalk

Cobham Hall, Kent: Alternate Designs for Ceiling Decoration, James Wyatt, 1746-1813, British, ca. 1790, Graphite, pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 14 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches (36.5 x 51.4 cm), architectural subject, ceiling, designs, festoons, leaves, molding, Neoclassical, roundels, urns, Cobham, Cobham Hall, England, Kent, United Kingdom

Print, Title Page; Designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils (French, 1736 - 1782); Published by Jacques Chéreau (French, 1688-1776); France; etching on cream laid paper

Two figures in a sailboat, 1849 - 1895 Also a study of a sailboat. Leaf 35 Verso from a sketchbook with 35 sheets. paper. pencil sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Stier Gustav (1807-1880), travel sketchbook 1828: Kaiserpfalz, Gelnhausen (12.11.1828): Säulendails, capitals in the Kaiserpfalz Gelnhausen. Ink and pencil on paper, 24.3 x 29.9 cm (including scan edges)

Amsterdam, Schenk, Pieter (II), Horst, Tieleman van der, Jan, Theatrum Machinarum Universale; Of Nieuwe Algemeende Bouwkunde, Technical drawings of stairs, verso - stamped, Technical drawings of stairs with half a revolution (numbers 56 to 58). Top views., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 388 mm, width 497 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1698-02-09 - 1752-02-05, print maker, printmaker, 1739 - 1739, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1693-02-15 - 1775-01-14, publisher

Drawing, Designs for three pendants; Made by Salvatori (Italian, active 19th century); Italy

Ceiling Design 18th century Workshop of Leonardo Marini Italian. Ceiling Design 365487

Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects. Artist: Workshop of Charles Percier (French, Paris 1764-1838 Paris); Workshop of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, Pontoise 1762-1853 Paris). Dimensions: 15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1800-1850. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a litter box, c. 1760 - c. 1780 Design for a litter box, the right half with more details than the left half. Rome paper. ink. graphite (mineral) pen containers

Chandelier (left half worked out) ..

Gropius Martin (1824-1880), sketch album 2 (approx. 1870): decoration studies. Pencil, ink, mounted in album, 47.9 x 29.4 cm (including scan edges) Gropius Martin (1824-1880): Skizzenalbum 2: Dekorationsstudien

Recueil de morceaux d'architecture et de divers fragmens de monumens antiques fait en Italie par Marie Joseph Peyre architecte du Roy ancien pensionnaire de Sa Majesté à Rome, Peyre, Marie-Joseph, 1730-1785, pencil, ink, pen, wash, black and red chalk, watercolor, 1786, Album of architectural drawings with sketches and some fully realized drawings includes drawings of architectural fragments and details (some with measurements), two views, ancient and Baroque sculpture, urns and coffers, and designs for fountains and buildings.

Print (France)

Sofa. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 34 1/2"high; 70"long; 30"deep. Medium: pen and ink and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nicholas Gorid.

Design for Elsevier's Illustrated Monthly Report. Draughtsman: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. Dating: 1876 - 1924. Measurements: h 165 mm × w 206 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Print (France)

Caterham Guards Chapel Surrey Furnishings . Butterfield, William undated Nave andsle seats, altar desk, detail of altar front. A broadly representative selection of drawings for building and manufacture of designs, representing the various types of commissions Butterfield received and illustrating his work in promoting Gothic Revival. Also included are estimates as well as record drawings (measured drawings) of buildings not designed by Butterfield. William Butterfield (1814-1900) was a British architect known for the Gothic revival style he championed. He studied with E. L. Blackburne and set up his own practice in 1840. A member of the Cambridge Camden Society, later the Ecclesiastical Society, he contributed designs to their journal The Ecclesiologist. Most of his work was for church designs, apart from that for schools and colleges (Rugby School and Keble College Oxford), and the Winchester County Hospital. Perhaps his best-known building is the All Saints Church, Margaret Street,

Project for a Ceiling, Graphite, pen and ink on paper, Portion of a ceiling shown divided into panels with grotesques., Italy, ca. 1780, ornament, Drawing, Drawing

Design for a table, with a combined front and side view, Joseph Kusterer (attributed to), c. 1865 - c. 1870 drawing Mainz ink. graphite (mineral) drawing

Simberg, Hugo, Sketch book (52 pages + covers), 1905-06, drawing, 21 cm x 17 cm, Simberg, Hugo, Section number A V 4830:4 / 32, 1905-06

French Commode Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II. Artist: Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718-1779 London). Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (20.9 x 31.5 cm). Published in: London. Date: 1753.Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate XLVI in the 1754 and 1755 editions, not reprinted in the 1762 edition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Barth Erwin (1880-1933), Garten Rosenheim in Berlin-Wannsee (1927): floor plan of the garden with height and plant information = break from Inv.-Nr. 41067 with drawing 1: 100. Pencil, ink colored, over a break on the box, 40.8 x 59.2 cm (including scan edges) Barth Erwin (1880-1933): Garten Rosenheim, Berlin-Wannsee

Print, The Gentleman's and Cabinet-Maker's Director; England; etching on off-white laid paper

Print, Verroux ou Targettes ornés de Ciselure; Designed by Richard de Lalonde (French, active 1780-96); Print Maker: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien (French, active late 18th c.); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching on off-white laid paper

Print, Clef en console et tete; Designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils (French, 1736 - 1782); Print Maker: Jean Pelletier (French, born ca. 1736); Published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Charles Le Pere (French, active 18th century), Pierre-Michel Avaulez (French, active 1772 - d. 1774); France; engraving on off white laid paper

Design for a sedan chair, Pen and black ink, watercolors, and traces of charchoal on paper, Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. The roof is shaped like a tent. On top and at the corners are fitted baskets. The window is divided into five parts by scrolls. The panel beside it is mainly decorated by garlands distributed like spikes of a shell around a disk. The upper panel at the back is decorated with frosted ovals. A crown of a baron is in the central one. The lower lateral panels are decorated assymmetrically. In the left part of the upper one is an escutcheon with a monogram H or M. The bars are decorated in their entire length. Both are so shown., London, England, ca. 1775, Drawing, Drawing

Two vignettes with musical instruments from the time of Louis XVI, c. 1890 - c. 1922 Page 31 Recto from a sketchbook with 49 sheets. paper. ink pen vignette. musical instruments; group of musical instruments

Print (France)

Design for a glass-in-lumber window with the theme 'The Light'. The theme is portrayed through (among other things) two figures in sunflowers. Design for a glass-in-lead window for the boardroom of the Dutch Trading Company in Amsterdam. Leaf 6 Recto from a sketchbook with 12 sheets.

Coat of arms of Hohenburg-Rotweil by Straßburger Meister, drawn in light and dark brown ink with reddish framework remnants, circa 1508, showing target tear detail.

Wooden gates and poles. Leaf 44 Verso from a sketchbook with 44 sheets.

Three designs for decoration, c. 1775 drawing Three designs for decoration. Rococo or Louis XVI style. Northern Netherlands paper. pencil

Design for a Box-Lid 18th century Hubert François Gravelot French. Design for a Box-Lid 335479

Warsaw. Wooden floor from the equipment of the upper floor room at the White House at the Royal Łazienki Park - fragment in the scale of 1:10. Maszyński, Mariusz (1888-1944), draughtsman, cartoonist

Ridderzaal and the Binnenhof in The Hague, 1822 - 1893 Leaf 60 Recto from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. The Hague paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush Ridderzaal. Courtyard Leaf 60 Recto from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. The Hague paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush Ridderzaal. Courtyard

Environs de Babylone (Le Kaire) Cairo. Intérieure d'un sarcophage en granit, trouvé à Qala't el-Kabch, sous la Mosquée de Touloun.. Prints, Illustrations. 1822. Rare Book Division. Egypt, Decoration and ornament , Egypt, Sarcophagi , Egypt, Gods , Egyptian

Spur. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 27.8 x 35 cm (10 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Mann Waddell and Eva Fox.

Drawing of geometric constructions by Prinzessin Maria Anna von Sachsen, executed in pencil in 1805.

Stiehl Otto (1860-1940): Sketch and photo album 4: Dom, Cremona

Platter. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 23.3 cm (12 x 9 3/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 1 1/4" x 10 3/4". Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Sudek.

Door Knockers and Mounts from Rouen Cathedral, Goodwich Court, etc. (recto and verso). Artist: John Gregory Crace (British, London 1809-1889 Dulwich) , and Son. Dimensions: sheet: 9 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (23.8 x 40 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for wall painting in the Beurs van Berlage: Emblem with spell of P. C. Hooft, Antoon Derkinderen, c. 1869 - c. 1925 drawing tracing paper. pencil inscription. historical persons

Project for Ceiling Decoration. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550-1580). Dimensions: 4-5/8 x 6-7/16 in. (11.7 x 16.4 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877), candlestick with figurative decoration (without date): three views of ornamented candle holders, two of them with floor plan (three leaves). Pencil on transparent, ink on paper, ink on cardboard, 19.6 x 25.6 cm (including scan edges) Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877): Kerzenleuchter mit Figuralverzierung

Drawing, Design for a sedan chair; England; pen and black ink, watercolor, and traces of charchoal on paper; 24.9 × 41.7 cm (9 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)

Carl von Hasenauer designed cartridges for architectural elements of the Burgtheater in Vienna using pencil on transparent paper in the late 19th century.

Two Rings, plate I. i. in Perspectiva. Corporum Regularium, Wenzel Jamnitzer, German, 1508-1585, Jost Amman, Swiss, active Germany, 1539-1591, Engraving on white laid paper, Two decorative rings., Switzerland, 1568, models and prototypes, Print, Print

Print made by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812-1852, British, Eight Groups of Designs for Gothic holy Objects, undated. Black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects. Artist: Workshop of Charles Percier (French, Paris 1764-1838 Paris); Workshop of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, Pontoise 1762-1853 Paris). Dimensions: 15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1800-1850. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Rococo architectural decorations; Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936); 1910 (1910-00-00-1910-00-00);Partage Plus, architectural decorations, rococo (style), sketches, purchase (provenance)

Dresser in the transition style from rococo to neo-classicism, without the marble top, with in color elements of the marquetry and in black and gray the gilded bronze fittings, over a sketch in graphite of a table or the side of a desk, Dresser, draughtsman: J.L. Th. Baijer, (attributed to), Paris, c. 1770 - c. 1775, paper, pen, brush, h 224 mm × w 271 mm

Still life of Chinese objects and performances; New converted sinesen, with great Moeyte designed and given in it, by P: Schenk Jun (...), first part. Still life of objects and performances. In the middle a painting or (serve) Sheet with a representation of a Chinese landscape. A holder with writing and drawing utensils. Around flower ornaments and at the top right a range. Print is part of an album.

Ornamental crockery and an image with a winged figure; Designs for religious and profane objects; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani per USI Comuni della Vita. Print is part of an album.

Gothic monument with map, c. 1850 Page 4 Recto from a sketchbook with 37 sheets. paper. pencil. ink pen monument, statue. plan ~ architecture

Bound Print (France)

Three tables and two chairs, Anonymous, 1801 - 1802 print Numbered at the top right: No. 1. Paris paper etching armchair, seat. table

Mechanical Device, James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, undated, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 12 1/4 × 4 7/8 inches (31.1 × 12.4 cm)

French banner conquered at the battle of Ramillies, 1706. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1713 - 1720. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 172 mm × w 230 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Two performances of dams in the same river in 1670 and 1682, Anonymous, After Cornelis Meijer, 1696 print The two images are printed from one plate. The bottom image is cut off. Numbered at the top right: 46 and 47. paper etching river. dam (in canal)

Triomfpoort on the Bosstraat at the entry of William IV in Breda, 1737, 1737 Triomfpoort founded in the Bosstraat at the entry of William IV and his consort Anna van Hannover in Breda on September 13, 1737. The honorary gate decorated with emblems, spells and banners. Marked top left: page 10. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving Breda Triomfpoort founded in the Bosstraat at the entry of William IV and his consort Anna van Hannover in Breda on September 13, 1737. The honorary gate decorated with emblems, spells and banners. Marked top left: page 10. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving Breda

Stained Vitrail Project: Decorative Reasons Gsell-Laurent workshop. Vitrail project (rosette): decorative motifs. Pencil on paper layer.

Fragment of a map of the Cape Verde Islands, Anonymous, 1600 print. fragment Netherlands paper etching / engraving Capeverdian islands

La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 11 (verso) Publisher Giovanni Ostaus Italian Woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) Italian 1567 Published by Giovanni Ostaus, Venice, woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati), Italian, Castelnuova di Garfagnana ca. 1520-1575 Venice.From top to bottom, and left to right:Design composed of 2 horizontal registers that are printed upon a grid. Top register is decorated with a pattern of black 'X's that are placed in between various images, such as a double-headed bird, a fountain, and a siren. Bottom register is decorated with 2 overlapping diamonds; inside the left diamond is a man and inside the right diamond is a woman.

Designs for a Clock and Two Candelabras. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (15.5 x 24.8 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Drawing, Designs for six earrings; Made by Salvatori (Italian, active 19th century); Italy

Perspective.. Nicholson, Michael Angelo, -1842. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1826. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Decoration and ornament, Geometry

Paul Krause (born 1875, as an architect): sketchbook

Study sheet with plowing. Draughtsman: Pieter de Josselin de Jong. Dating: 1871 - 1906. Measurements: h 288 mm × w 446 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing, Mosaic Design with Chained Dog; Frederick Krieg (American, b. Germany 1852-1932); USA; pencil on paper; 1984-125-22

"Dresser," table center piece for the Altieri family. Date: 1790-1795. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Photo production of a print of three dancing putti, Bibois, After Anonymous, c. 1852 - in or before 1857 photograph photographic support salted paper print Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Group Dancing

Folio 44 mill powered by horizontal wheel, Edificij et machine MS, Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502, Brown ink and wash on paper, between ca. 1475 and ca. 1480

Carl von Hasenauer designed Kandelaberstürfe for the Burgtheater in Vienna using pencil on transparent paper in the second half of the 19th century.

Hardanger. Dated: 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29.9 x 24.7 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Wilford H. Shurtliff.

Design for an Embroidered Waistcoat Pocket Made 1780-1790 Lyon (Object made in), France (Object made in). In the 18th century designs for textiles were often drawn by professionals trained in floral painting. Designs for waistcoats usually show the lower edge of the garment from the pocket to the hem, indicating to both embroiderer and client all of the motifs included in the pattern. Some drawings are inscribed with numbers. Such numbers helped the merchant and makers identify patterns and prices when a client selected a pattern.. Gouache, watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper .

Incense burner, a sheath with sword and a vase; Designs for religious and profane objects; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani per USI Comuni della Vita. Print is part of an album.

Karabela (17th century); Czachórski, Władysław (1850-1911); 1870 (1870-00-00-1870-00-00);

Two photo productions from studies for frescoes from ceilings, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Left (29) A semicircular bow with a rooster and candlesticks by Giovanni Baglioni, right (30) A perspective drawing of a building with a view of heaven by G. Dom. Feretti. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting) (+ plaster ~ arts). fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.). candlestick Europe

Design for a Hanging Chandelier. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/4 x 6 13/16 in. (26 x 17.3 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Print (France)

Drawing (Italy)

Project for the Monument de la Montagne, Orléans ca. 1794 Claude Mathieu Delagardette French. Project for the Monument de la Montagne, Orléans. Claude Mathieu Delagardette (French, 1765-1805). ca. 1794. Pen and black ink, brush and gray, pink and pale yellow wash, over graphite underdrawing. Drawings

Three composition designs by Alexander Rothaug around 1901 including head studies and ornamental studies titled 'the three most beautiful', executed in pencil and color chalk, focusing on figure and decorative form.

Design for decoration on three walls of the dining room by G. Ten Hoopen, Jurriaan Andriessen, c. 1752 - c. 1819 drawing Design for a room wall. paper. watercolor (paint). ink. graphite (mineral) pen / brush

ornamentprent, Jacques Androuet, 1561 Part of 'Seconde Livre d'ArchitectVre' (1561): 64 etchings with ornamented architecture parts. paper etching architectural design or model

Spring, Carl von Hasenauer -, draft

Print (Italy)

Print (Germany)

Designs for a Church Wall Lantern ca. 1880 Attributed to Richardson Ellson & Co.. Designs for a Church Wall Lantern 386670

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