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6,941 works

Hand-colored woodcut of the Last Supper with Christ at a table holding a chalice, surrounded by haloed apostles in red and ye

The Last Supper

Unknown artist, c. 1480

Sheet of decorative gothic capital letters in three rows, with interlaced hatching and curling flourishes in dark ink.

Ornamental Alphabet

Unknown artist, 1480/1490

Engraved plate of a domed skep beehive on a table with bees flying and crawling around it.

Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum - Plate (page 30)

Unknown artist, 1634

Medieval woodcut leaf with an angel over fallen figures, a saint with staff, mounted horsemen and Latin text.

Apocalypse of John, Leaf 10

Unknown artist, c. 1465

Hand-colored German woodcut of a dying man tormented by demons, with the crucified Christ and angels above.

The Last Agony of the Dying Man

Unknown artist, c. 1470/1475

Line drawing of two freshwater mussel shells, one small and one larger and open showing hinge teeth, labeled as plate LXIII.

The Unionidae of Kansas - Plate LXIII

Unknown artist, 1902

Hand-colored woodcut showing a crowned figure with a torch over dead children, a weeping woman at a window, and candlelit fig

Massacre of the Firstborn and Egyptian Darkness

Unknown artist, c. 1490

Hand-colored woodcut sheet with fourteen framed saints in rows, each with a halo and attributes, plus a crucifixion scene.

Fourteen Auxiliary Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1500

Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1890

Woodcut Nativity scene with kneeling Mary, Joseph holding a lantern, the infant Christ, an ox and a donkey in an arched setti

The Nativity

Unknown artist, c. 1500

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows seated in a tomb, surrounded by Passion instruments and a golden cross.

Christ as the Man of Sorrows

Unknown artist, 1430/1440

Watercolor plate of a liquidambar tree with two trunks and green leaves in an open field, with distant trees.

Familiar trees and their leaves, described and illustrated by F. Schuyler Mathews, with il - Plate (page 6)

Unknown artist, 1911

Hand-colored German woodcut with a blackletter title and five panels of saints including Christopher, Sebastian, Anne and the

Saint Anne, The Madonna and Child and Saints Christopher, Sebastian, Clara and Roche

Unknown artist, c. 1500/1525

Woodcut triptych showing Saints Christopher, Sebastian, and Roche in three panels with floral borders.

Saints Christopher, Sebastian, and Roche

Unknown artist, c. 1495

Hand-colored plate of a Cercopithecus campbelli monkey with brown crown and white throat gripping a branch.

Zoologia typica - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1849

Woodcut of a kneeling friar receiving rays from a winged seraph while a hooded reader sits nearby in a walled garden.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Unknown artist, 1470/1480

Pen and watercolor drawing of the Crucifixion with Christ center, grieving figures at left and soldiers at right on green gra

Christ on the Cross

Unknown artist, c. 1450/1460

Sepia engraving of numbered caterpillars and chrysalides on twigs, illustrating butterfly life stages.

British butterflies - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1885

Hand-colored woodcut of winged Saint Michael with IHS shield standing over a dragon, surrounded by clouds and foliage.

Saint Michael

Hand-colored woodcut of haloed Saint Martin on horseback cutting his cloak to clothe a kneeling beggar, with trees and a towe

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Unknown artist, c. 1490

Engraved plate of four rays and skates, numbered 1 to 4, with French captions, from an 1800 fish atlas.

Atlas des poissons - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1800

Hand-colored print of the Crucifixion with Mary kneeling in blue, mourners, a mounted rider, and a floral border.

The Crucifixion

Unknown artist, c. 1490/1500

Hand-colored print of a haloed female saint in a grey hooded robe holding a small book, within a yellow decorative border.

Saint Catherine of Siena, or Saint Clare of Assisi

Unknown artist, c. 1460/1470

Hand-coloured plate of two monkeys on branches: a black and white guereza colobus above and a Diana monkey below.

Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmt - Plate (page 9)

Unknown artist, 1860

Woodcut of a haloed saint holding an IHS sun disc and book, with kneeling worshippers and a town of churches below.

Saint Bernardino of Siena

Unknown artist, 1470/1480

Woodcut-style print of the crowned Virgin holding the Christ child on a crescent moon, with rays and winged figures.

Madonna and Child

Colored botanical plate of a ray-grass plant with flowering spikes, roots, and numbered detail studies of seeds and florets.

Les meilleures plantes fourragères - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1883

Hand-colored woodcut of a winged angel in red placing a hand on a kneeling monk holding an open book.

A Monk with an Angel

Unknown artist, 1480/1490

Hand-colored woodcut of two winged angels holding a gothic monstrance above a green ground.

A Monstrance Held by Two Angels

Unknown artist, 1495/1500

Hand-colored engraving of two perched eagles, one dark with a white back patch, one mottled brown, on a cream background.

Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1832

Hand-colored devotional print of a crowned figure above a chalice, with kneeling man and woman in blue flanking it.

Allegory of the Eucharist

Unknown artist, c. 1470/1490

Red cross with notched arms on black ground, flanked by floral scrolls and IHS and MA monograms, within a yellow border.

The Cross

Unknown artist, c. 1500