Cooper Hewitt's collection includes a wide range of drawings related to architectural practice. Included among the examples gathered here are sketches, floorplans, cross sections, internal and external elevations, presentation drawings, projections, details, and perspectival views dating from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

  • Drawing, View of Church Interior
  • pen and brown and gray ink, brush and wash, watercolor, black chalk on paper,....
  • Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
  • 1911-28-444
  • Drawing, Project for an altar
  • pen and ink, brush, sepia, gray watercolor on paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-4049
  • Drawing, Elevation of a Domed Chur
  • pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk, ruled border in pen and....
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-4411
  • Drawing, Aviary
  • pen and brown ink, green, brown wash, ruled border in pen and brown support:....
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-3758
  • Drawing, Design for a Doorway
  • pen and ink, brush and grey washes, black chalk on paper.
  • Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
  • 1911-28-510
  • Drawing, Section of a Villa
  • pen and black ink, brush and rose, blue, black and gray watercolor on paper.
  • Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
  • 1911-28-283