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Horizontal sheet tipped vertically into binding depicting many large warships surrounded and shrouded by clouds of smoke, likely from cannon and gun fire. In the foreground two ships are well rendered, each carrying an identicaly striped flag. In the center background of the scene, sails and the flag of another ship emerge from the smoke. This ship carries a flag similar to that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, with the cross of St. George laid over the crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick. The ships all have double masts and full, billowing sails with guns drawn.

Album Page, Sketch for a Navle [sic] Battle (after) van de Velde, Rotterdam,...
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-94

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical sheet with view of buildings on either side of a narrow road with figures. The road bends to the right, and lining the street at left are multi-story half-timbered structures, their second stories overhanging deeply and supported by larger wooden brackets. Many have their shutters open, and the upper story windows shielded by a canopy when the shutters are not present. The roofs are steeply pitched and lined with tiles. At the bottom of the sheet, the artist has given a guide for colors seen here.

Album Page, Timbered Buildings, Strassburg, September 10, 1887
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-115

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Six sketches arranged on a vertical sheet. At top left a wood-hulled riverboat is viewed from the side, and also from the bow and stern. Below this is a sketch of the date 1600, the numerals formed by pieces of ironwork with prominent joints. To the right, a late Gothic style tracery window which the artist notes was created with brick and not stone. Above at right are two sketches of a chain with ring- and diamond-shaped links. The diamond-shaped links have spiked projections on either flat side of the link, making it, as the artist notes, difficult upon which to sit.

Album Page, Sketches of Riverboats, Tracery, Numbers, and Chain Link, August...
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-102

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical sheet with sketch of a cluster of half-timbered buildings, possibly for storing hay or grains. The single-story building in the foreground has deep eaves and a single dormer with casement window opening. A larger but similar building in the mid-ground has a buttressed eave, three window openings and a small chimney. At the rear of these two buildings is a multistory masonry tower with steep, tiled roof with small windows visible below the roofline.

Album Page, Part of Old Castle, Gernsbach, Germany, August 10, 1887
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-86

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical sheet with view looking into a narrow street framed on either side by walls of buildings. At right there is only a view under the eaves of the building. The buildings at left are rendered in greater detail, with particular attention paid to the intricate roofline fo the city hall building. The roofs are all steeply pitched, broken occasionally by chimneys and finials. The city hall's façade projects wider than the building and its roofline ends in a "crow-step" or "trapgevel" gables with scrolls, typical of German and Dutch Reniassance architecture. The stpes have three ball and spike finials visible, while the central step has a finial that terminates in a crescent moon.

Album Page, Rear of Old City Hall, Gernsbach, Germany, August 10, 1887
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-87

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal sheet tipped vertically into binding. Illustrated is a large, square timbered building with two arcaded stories enclosed by a railing of crossed timbers. This building is on the bank of a river, its lower story having two windows flanking a door which opens directly onto the water. Three small wooden piles outside the door allow a boat to be moored next to the structure. A railing lines the riverbank at right, and the elevations of similar structures are seen in the background.

Album Page, Timbered Buildings on River Bank, September 10, 1887
graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-116

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.