sketches

Aaron Copland - Appalachian spring [first rough sketches]

("Martha's Ballet" folder)

Sketches for Minotaur - Public domain music sheet scan

Sketches for a ballet in one act and two scenes. Holograph, in pencil. Title in red pencil on the last page. acquire 1 shelf copy [policy default] (selection decision)

Have you brought your money? growled the Abbot of Saint Mary's

Public domain scan of drawing related to architecture design, elements of decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Grandmother to the bride: the neglected branch of your education

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Two sketches of a depot on the Charleston & Savannah Railroad]

Title devised. Inscribed above image: C&R. Inscribed upper right: flag staff. Formerly Waud no. B-17. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.782) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Two sketches of a depot on the Charleston & Savannah Railroad]

Title devised. Inscribed above image: C&R. Inscribed upper right: flag staff. Formerly Waud no. B-17. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.782) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Study for Peace and prosperity panel of mural titled Government, loca...

Gift; American Academy of Arts and Letters; 1955. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sketches of Lincoln perhaps by Morand.

Believed to have been sketched from life by the French artist, Pierre Morand. Cf. U. S. Library of Congress. Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 19, 1962, p. 148. Newspaper clipping attached on back o... More

[Sketches of figures in repose]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Four figure studies and a sketch of feet. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.365) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. ...

Competition drawing showing Capitol building, Senate room, conference room, and "Room of the Representants" as plan, with elevation sketch of east front on verso. UNIT title devised. Commonly identified as one ... More

Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near...

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution based on similarity of drawings to reference source. Planning and design done in cooperation with the stores Globus, Jelmoli, and Migros, with rentable area of ca. 90,000... More

Alice Barber Stephens - Sketches from cat life

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Sketchbook 5 [sketches for woodwind partita and string quartet, pencil...

Box 4, folder 5 In English. (language)

Jewish market. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cf. CAI - Rogers, no. 82 (A size). Date from original backing (removed). Handwritten title on mat: The candle merchant. Later version published in "A Friday Night in the Jewish Quarter," Harper's weekly, 34:296... More

History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Man and woman dancing close] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ward McAllister. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Sketches of man with dollar sign on verso; not on digital file. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

William Berryman - Fishpot of split bamboo, in foreground at Brailsfor...

In foreground, woman with fish in a bowl; in background various sketches. Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and Britis... More

M.B. Brady and Frank Leslie's artists taking photographs and sketches ...

Gift; Belle Willard Roosevelt and Elizabeth Willard Herbert; 1954 Oct. 29.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8]

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8]

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8] - Public domain dedication image

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8] - Public domain dedication image

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustrated atlas of Shiawassee County, Michigan : compiled and publis...

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The journal of Latrobe. Being the notes and sketches of an architect, ...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sketches for Emblems - Public domain music sheet scan

[Elliott Carter]. (statement of responsibility) Holograph. For men's voices (TTBB) and piano. Words by Allen Tate. Gift of the composer, Dec 31, 1969. In pencil.

Cows grazing in lowlands near stream, houses in the background, on the...

Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (L... More

[Man walking with arms away from body]

"Fande (?)" on item. Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Two sketches of horse outside tent]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-63. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.828) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Sketches with Co. B, 8th Reg. Pennsylvania Ma. under the officers of t...

Drawing shows soldier guarding as men sleep in bedrolls on sidewalk.

[Six bust sketches: Benjamin Butler and others]

Title devised. See also Waud, no. 863a. Formerly Waud no. B-100a. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.864) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Le ballon "Le Géant" aux environs de Nimbourg (accident du 19 octobre)...

Periodical illustration shows Felix Nadar's balloon, "Le Geant" over a rural area in its second and final flight in 1863. High winds force the balloon to the ground, dragging the basket dangerously close to an ... More

[Bearded man with pipe on horseback]

Title devised by cataloger. Cf. CAI - Frost, no. 73 (A size). No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Painters and fishermen in outdoor scenes]

Clockwise from left: two men under tree resting with easel in background, fisherman watching fish in air, two people by or in stream, man standing by gear, man fishing, man falling in water, two men resting aga... More

The Philadelphia election fraud / from sketches by Albert Berghaus.

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 35, 1872 Oct. 26, p. 97.

[Harlequin, full-length, standing, looking back over right shoulder; i...

Gift; Mrs. Alfred Bendiner and the Alfred Bendiner Foundation; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:318.220). Forms part of: Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection (Library of Congress).

Dottie and Lottie. It was like this Nelly : Mazie and me and Dot all t...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie : in the street car." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Dottie and Lottie. I've lost my job, Dottie, it was like this : I was ...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

A levee at night - electric light illumination. Sketches on the levee,...

Illustration showing the New Orleans riverfront at night, crowded with people and steamboats, and showing electric lighting. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 27, no. 1367 (1883 March 3), p. 133.

[Man confronted by barking dog tied to post]

Title devised by cataloger. Sketch for Rudder Grange / Frank Stockton. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. (DLC/PP-1933:0054). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber]

Title from CAI - Green, no. 117 (D size), later version. Later version published as frontispiece in Harper's magazine, 136:617, 1918. (DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library... More

U.S. Capitol frescoes. Lexington, engraving, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lightbrown sketches of houses. House on River Rd. III

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

10 minutes from home - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing two soldiers standing at railing of ship in New York Harbor. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 4, [p. 17] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Rec. hall, intelligence school - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing building at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 3, [p. 27] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Waiting to move Night sketch. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing silhouettes of trees in the moonlight drawn while stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

"Joe" - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing soldier leaning on railing. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 4, [p. 21] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

The big boss, Sgt. Gardzina - Public domain portrait drawing

Sketch showing portrait of soldier wearing helmet and sunglasses stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 1, [p. 25] Victor A. Lundy Ar... More

Church in Crasville - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing exterior of church in Crasville, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 17] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Aurora sketches design of gown. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

[Sketches related to the Wilderness Campaign]

Drawings include: no. 467a - Right of Gibbon, Birney awaiting order to advance; no. 467b - Gibbon in position, May 18, 1864; no. 467c - [Sketches of a military camp by a railroad] on verso. Title devised. Gift,... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Letters from the West : containing sketches of scenery, manners, and c...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The recent panic - scene in the New York Stock Exchange on the morning...

Photograph shows ship, the "W.B. Flint" at a dock in the East River, New York City. Copyrighted 1889 by the Albertype Co., 58 & 60 Reade St., New York.

The operations of the registration laws and Negro [suffr]age in the So...

Eight scenes: 1. Jury of Whites and Blacks. 2. Freedman discharged for voting the Radical ticket. 3. Scene in Registration office, Macon, Ga. 4. Potential arguments to the Freedman for his vote. 5. Freedmen ...... More

[Man, woman, and phonograph] - Public domain dedication image

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Man, woman, and phonograph] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. ...

Competition drawing showing Capitol building, Senate room, conference room, and "Room of the Representants" as plan, with elevation sketch of east front on verso. UNIT title devised. Commonly identified as one ... More

Rebel barbarities in Texas--from sketches by Fred. Sumner / Harley, de...

The print was published with the following text (trimmed from the Library's impression): Our series of views, illustrating the barbarities of the Confederates in Texas, are from sketches by Mr. Frederick Sumner... More

Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near...

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution based on similarity of drawings to reference source. Planning and design done in cooperation with the stores Globus, Jelmoli, and Migros, with rentable area of ca. 90,000... More

Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near...

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution based on similarity of drawings to reference source. Planning and design done in cooperation with the stores Globus, Jelmoli, and Migros, with rentable area of ca. 90,000... More

[Jewish man with top hat, in profile]

Title devised by cataloger. Sketch for article on Jewish market. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Secrets of the prison-house--the black hole of Washington, D.C. / from...

Composite of views of the Washington, D.C. jail and people inside the jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Dec. 28, pp. 88-89.

Sketchbook 5 [sketches for woodwind partita and string quartet, pencil...

Box 4, folder 5 In English. (language)

Sketchbook 5 [sketches for woodwind partita and string quartet, pencil...

Box 4, folder 5 In English. (language)

History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

Public domain photograph related to Native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Study sketch showing details of Good Administration panel of mural ti...

Gift; American Academy of Arts and Letters; 1955. Exhibited: Art of Elihu Vedder, National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979.

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ward McAllister. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Sketches of man with dollar sign on verso; not on digital file. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Miley house, El Prado, Montecito, Calif.

Title devised by cataloger. On ADE 11 - Craig, no. 3 (C size): Designed by Mrs. James Osborne, Santa Barbara, California. Other drawings attributed to Mrs. Craig based on their similarity. Gift of Mary Craig S... More

News sketch of Johnstown flood - Drawing. Public domain image.

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[James Freed Sketchbook #8]

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8] - Public domain dedication image

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8] - Public domain dedication image

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8] - Public domain dedication image

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

[James Freed Sketchbook #8]

Sketchs showing James Ingo Freed's rendering of ideas for various projects, among them, the expansion of the exterior atrium entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Music for Radio [open score pencil sketches]

Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...

Phillips, 11040 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6413 Includes indexes, brief histories of Wood and Pleasants County, and brief biographies of early Wood and Pleasants County residents. Available also thro... More

Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...

Phillips, 11040 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6413 Includes indexes, brief histories of Wood and Pleasants County, and brief biographies of early Wood and Pleasants County residents. Available also thro... More

Sketches for Emblems - Public domain music sheet scan

[Elliott Carter]. (statement of responsibility) Holograph. For men's voices (TTBB) and piano. Words by Allen Tate. Gift of the composer, Dec 31, 1969. In pencil.

[Circus sketches: acrobats and circus animals]

Purchase, Hubbard Fund, 1960. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Worker, perhaps a mason or hod carrier, seen from behind holding a sho...

Paper trimmed on right side through a watermark at lower right: J. Robes[on]. Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection a... More

Philipsburg Rock, N.J. from "Mount Ida" Easton, Pennsylvania, 1850

Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner: Philipsburg Rock, N.J. from "Mount Ida" Easton, Pa., 1850. Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. Cochran, 3 (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms par... More

Firefighter standing next to a ladder carriage

Inscribed in pencil at top: track maroon, ladders white. Sketch on verso shows two figures seated together, one gesturing with right arm raised. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at ... More

Kansas sketches - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2, no. 64 (1858 March 20), p. 192.

[Sketches of portions of Madison County, Va.].

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale derived from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil (some col.) on irregularly shaped sheet of ledger paper, mounted between sh... More

Christmas greens : Santa will bring US --

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065.20). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Sketches with the Co. B 8th Reg., Pennsylvania Ma. [i.e., militia] und...

Drawing shows soldiers standing in residential street and sitting against fence along the roadside during rest period; some gathered around small campfires. Signed in pencil "J Queen" on lower left of mount. (... More

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. Foraging / Homer.

Print shows three Army of the Potomac soldiers taking a cow or bull as an African American man protests. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:089.03).

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The baggage train / Homer.

Print shows two African American drovers, one with a pipe and the other with a whip, sitting on the back of a covered wagon, which is part of a baggage train for the Army of the Potomac. Purchase; William Rees... More

[Young girl sitting on pier] - Public domain scenic drawing

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Alice Barber Stephens - [People eating, possibly cafeteria]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Back of caddie with bag] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Pencil sketch on verso of three men standing beside prostrate golfer; not recorded in digital file. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American... More

[Two men playing instruments] - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description