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6,941 works

Gold-printed endpaper on rose paper showing many animals, small human figures and a central tree in rows.

Endpaper with Animals and Figures

Grid of twelve gold-printed scenes on dark paper, each labeled with a month, showing rural and seasonal activities.

Endpaper with the Twelve Months

Hand-colored print of a crowded inauguration procession with mounted cavalry, spectators, and a columned building.

Presidential Inauguration of Wm. H. Harrison

Unknown artist, 1840

Orange sheet with twelve gold-toned standing costumed figures in arched frames, with animal vignettes along the bottom row.

Endpaper with Twelve Standing Figures

Gold-printed grid of twenty-one standing figures in period costume on green paper, each labeled with a German caption.

Endpaper with Twenty-One Standing Figures

Four haloed saints in colored ink on parchment, one holding a palm frond, with inscriptions naming them above.

Saints Cyprian, Vitus, Stephan, and Cornelius

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Pale interlaced initial with red outlines and foliate scrolls on green and grey ground, above a line of brown manuscript text

Initials V and D

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Engraving of a drummer striking a kettle drum beside a fife player with a small drum, with German text below.

Die Herpavck vnd andere Drvmmen zvernst vnd Schimpf wir lassen ervmmen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Three bearded men in feathered hats play flutes together in a hand-colored German print from around 1580.

Gantz loblich Pfeiffen wir all drei avs der Mvsic: Schon Melodey

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three seated musicians playing lute, harp and wind instrument, with German verse text below.

Die Instrvment gantz lvstig Kling vorab wen man darein tvt singen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of five singers gathered around a table reading songbooks, one marked BAS, under a draped canopy with vine decorati

Liblich singen wir avs der Mass den Tenor discant Alt und Bass

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three bearded men in feathered caps playing stringed instruments, with German verse text below.

Nach der Mvsic: Geigen wir drei gantz Kvnstlice vnd artliche dabei

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of a man playing a lute beside a woman at a positive organ, with German inscription below.

Ich schlag das Positif mit Schall die Zytternavchmacht frolich all

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Illuminated manuscript page with a seated evangelist in a decorated blue initial beside columns of Latin text.

Saint Luke

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Two facing manuscript pages of Latin Gospel text with red initials and a decorated rubric beginning Saint Mark.

Saint Mark

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Pen and wash drawing of the Flight into Egypt with Mary, the Christ child, Joseph and a donkey, plus sketches and Latin text.

The Flight into Egypt [recto]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Pen and brown ink sketch on paper with figures in framed registers and handwritten Latin text at the top and sides.

The Destruction of the Egyptian Idols [verso]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Engraving of a crowded kitchen with figures at a table, a cooking pot over a fire, and hanging food.

The Thin Kitchen

Unknown artist, 1610/1630

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, turned to the left, with the caption LAFAYETTE below.

Marquis De Lafayette

Unknown artist, 1810

Lithograph of a young man with curly hair and an intense gaze, head turned over a fur-collared cloak.

Expressive Head

Unknown artist, 1816/18

Engraved political broadside showing a seated man in a chair surrounded by standing men, with satirical verse printed below.

Great Cry and Little Wool

Unknown artist, 1860

John Hancock

Unknown artist, 1770

Lithograph portrait of a uniformed officer with epaulettes and sword, captioned General William H. Harrison, The Hero.

William Henry Harrison

Unknown artist, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Major General John A. Logan in a blue uniform with gold buttons and star shoulder straps.

John Alexander Logan

Unknown artist, 1861

Engraved portrait of John Hunt Morgan in a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, on a Harper's Weekly newspaper page.

John Hunt Morgan

Unknown artist, 1861

Engraved bust portrait of a mustached man in a dark jacket and bow tie, within a red double-line border.

Raphael Semmes

Unknown artist, 1861

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of a seated man in a brown coat and white cravat beside a green cushioned chair.

John Quincy Adams

Unknown artist, 1830

Soft-toned print portrait of an elderly bearded man with a bald head, gazing directly at the viewer.

Chester Harding

Engraved newspaper page with portraits of Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell and Captain Wilks, under an Illustrated London News masth

James Murray Mason and John Slidell

Unknown artist, 1860

Lithograph portrait of Rev. Daniel Filmore in a dark coat and white cravat, set within a shaded oval vignette.

Daniel Filmore

Unknown artist, 1820

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man with swept-back hair, velvet lapels and a bow tie, signed Herschel V. Johnson.

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

Unknown artist, 1860

Lithographic portrait of a man with wavy hair in a high collar and double-breasted coat, with printed caption below.

Spencer Houghton Cone

Unknown artist, 1830