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Design for a Staircase Ceiling

Isaac Ware (d. 1766)

ca. 1756 · Pen and ink, brush and wash

Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin

Domenico Quaglio (d. 1837)

1830 · Drawing, gray and brown wash and framing lines in pen and black ink

Staircase in the Palazzo Barberini, Palestrina

Charles Joseph Natoire (d. 1777)

mid-18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white

Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music)

Luc-Olivier Merson (d. 1920)

c. 1898 · Drawing, black, white, and red chalk with stumping, pricked for transfer

The Staircase of the Giants, Ducal Palace, Venice

Francesco Guardi (d. 1793)

1712–93 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk. Selectively pricked holes for the construction of straight lines

Study for a Decoration for the Salle des Fêtes of the Town Hall of Paris's 11th arrondissement

Victor Emile Prouvé (d. 1943)

1897 · Drawing, watercolor with black chalk framing lines on beige wove paper

A Staircase in Seville

Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863)

1832 · Watercolor over graphite

Interior with Staircase

Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863)

1850s? · Graphite

Design for a Tudor Paneled Hall and Staircase

Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)

second half 19th century · Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash

Elevation of Staircase Wall

Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)

19th century · Pen and ink

Staircase Lobby Design

Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)

19th century · Pen and ink

Design for the Staircase Ceiling at the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London

James Wyatt (d. 1813)

ca. 1769–72 · Pen and ink, green and pink watercolor, over graphite