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Brown wash drawing of a historical scene with a seated ruler, armored warrior, mounted horse, soldiers and banners.

Historical Scene

Unknown artist, third quarter 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a grand church interior with receding arches, Corinthian columns and coffered vaults.

The Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome

Unknown artist, first quarter 17th century

Charcoal sketch of three seated figures seen from behind in a meadow, wearing hats, with hatched grass in front.

Three Figures Seated in a Meadow, Seen from the Back

Unknown artist, late 19th century

Grey-ground pen drawing with white highlights showing six medieval figure studies, including seated, standing and reclining f

Studies for Six Figures (sheet from a model book) [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1450/1460

Head of a Man

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Drawing of a standing female saint in a long robe and veil, with a lectern and classical building behind her.

Female Saint (Saint Clare of Assisi or Saint Catherine of Siena?)

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Etching of a seated woman with loose hair beside a skull and crucifix, with figures and trees in the background.

Magdalen

Chiaroscuro woodcut of a seated woman reading a large book while a child holds a torch beside her.

Sibyl Reading

Unknown artist, 16th century

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child, three crowned kings with horsemen, and a walled city in the backgro

The Adoration of the Magi

Unknown artist, c. 1503/1513

Prince shooting a bow and princess on horseback hunting blackbuck antelope across a green hillside.

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Unknown artist, Mid-18th century

Pencil sketch of a seated Mughal ruler on a canopied throne, with attendants in turbans and Persian inscriptions.

Akbar Offering Timur's Crown to Shah Jahan

Unknown artist, Mughal period (1526-1857), ca. 1650-1700

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man in a canopy bed with two women and a dog, with faint sketches at right.

Jacob and Rebecca before Isaac [recto]

Unknown artist, early 18th century

Etched print of a 17th-century council chamber with seated councillors at a table and standing figures beneath a canopy.

Charles II with His Council

Unknown artist, published 1660

Red chalk drawing of young Bacchus holding a goblet beside a goat and panther, with an urn and column behind.

Young Bacchus with Goat and Panther

Unknown artist, n.d.

Engraving of a crowned draped female statue on a pedestal with a Latin inscription and a fountain relief below.

Et dei et pinguis

Unknown artist, 1550

Engraving of a winged figure with a cherub, a muscular man leading a saddled horse past a stone wall.

Allegory of Fortune

Red chalk drawing of a wild boar resting on the ground, head lowered, with a German inscription above.

Wild Boar

Unknown artist, 18th century

Engraved oval portrait of a long-haired man in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by heraldic shields and ribbons.

Viderat Ingentem meritis famaqe potentem [...]

Unknown artist, 1650

Brown wash drawing of classical ruins with columns, cypress trees, a hill, and figures beside a boat.

Landscape with Ruins

Unknown artist, 18th century

Charcoal sketch of a boy's legs in knickers and shoes, cropped at the waist, on tan paper.

Partial Sketch of a Boy in Knickers

Japanese paper stencil with a dense repeating pattern of mallow leaves cut out of dark brown paper.

Stencil with Design of Mallows

Unknown artist, Late 19th century

Hand-colored woodcut of the nude, crowned Christ figure before robed men beneath an arch, with red, green and blue washes.

Ecce Homo

Unknown artist, c. 1440/1450

Hand-colored woodcut of Saint Agnes holding a palm frond, with a haloed lamb at her side and Latin text above.

Saint Agnes

Unknown artist, c. 1490

Horizontal ornamental strip with a golden dragon, red heraldic shields, scrolling foliage, and a small wild man with a staff.

Grotesque Strip with Dragon, Shields and Wild Men

Unknown artist, c. 1475/1500

Woodcut broadside with German verse, a crowned Virgin and Child, and the Crucifixion between grotesque decorative borders.

Broadside with Two Scenes from the Life of Christ, and Grotesque Borders

Unknown artist, c. 1475/1500

Medieval drawing of a kneeling man in red praying beside a fleece, with a figure in clouds above and soldiers drinking from a

Gideon and the Fleece, with the Selection of Gideon's Army

Unknown artist, c. 1420/1430

Medieval watercolor drawing of three bearded men in robes, one holding a roasted lamb on a spit beside a stone doorway.

The Passover Lamb

Unknown artist, c. 1420/1430

Medieval painted drawing of two men throwing stones at a kneeling bearded man among grapevines.

The Stoning of Naboth

Unknown artist, c. 1420/1430

Medieval-style painting of a seated bearded man in a blue robe beside a standing armed figure holding a spear and a bird.

Isaac and Esau

Unknown artist, c. 1420/1430

Medieval drawing of a man in blue lowering a rope from a castle tower while a woman leans from a window, guarded by a figure

Michol Helping David Escape

Unknown artist, c. 1420/1430

Engraved frontispiece with oval portraits of English kings and queens around a central title panel with columns.

Frontispiece

Engraved portrait of a bearded crowned king holding a scepter and orb, inscribed Henry the 1st, King of England.

Henry I, King of England