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Terracotta plaque

Unrecorded maker

ca. 450 BCE · Terracotta

Standing Nude Man (recto); Three Studies of Soldiers (verso)

Taddeo Zuccaro (d. 1566)

1550 · Red chalk, highlighted with traces of white gouache (recto); red chalk (verso)

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Orazio Samacchini (d. 1577)

1532–77 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on blue-green paper

Design for a Palace Façade

Anonymous

ca. 1700 · Pen and brown ink, brush with gray-brown wash, over black chalk (or graphite)

Design for the Façade of a Palace with the Coat of Arms of Pope Clement IX

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1710–21 · Pen and brown ink with brown, red and green wash

Design for a Palace Façade: detail of Windows and Doors

Carl Hårleman (d. 1753)

early–mid 18th century · Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray ink, over black chalk or graphite

Design for the Garden Façade of a Palace

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (d. 1766)

1695–1766 · Graphite, pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray wash

Doorway from Chalkley Hall, Frankford, Pennsylvania

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1776 · Granite, wood, and iron

Design for a Theatre

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

18th century · Pen and black ink, brush and rose wash over graphite

[Imperial Library of the Louvre]

Edouard Baldus (d. 1889)

1856–57 · Salted paper print from glass negative

Design for Palace Façade Decorated with Two Statues in Niches and a Coat of Arms Above

Anonymous, Italian (d. 2050)

n.d. · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite

Costume design for early 19th century French lieutenant and lady

Paul Boye-Sørensen

first half 20th century · Pen and black ink, watercolor, black ink framing lines with traces of graphite