Architectural Design Studies

Sketches of architectural details and designs, featuring pencil and color studies of historic buildings and decorative elements with a focus on structural aesthetics.

Ornamental design with names of persons, Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874 - 1945 drawing paper. pencil brush advertising

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Inkwell. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 29.3 x 23 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frank Fumagalli.

$Design for a Gold Earring with Two Buckets and Pulley. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 6 1/4 in. (23.6 × 15.8 cm). Date: ca. 1870-1900.Drawing with a design for a gold earring with two water bucket motifs that is part of a collection of 85 drawings with figurative designs for earrings, brooches, pendants and other jewels, possibly real-sized, created with graphite and gouache and heightened with gold inside lithograph frames. These designs are all characteristic of the period between 1870 and 1900, when jewelry design saw a great degree of innovation and creativity in both style and technique. Some of the most important innovations that took place at this time included the setting of diamonds without metal on the back to reinforce the refraction of light on the cut surfaces of the stones, and the use of gold granules and cannetille (scrolls of metal strips) in the creation of fine metal surfaces. (Semi-)precious stones continued to be used in jewel$