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Engraved portrait of King John of England wearing a crown and ermine robe, holding a sceptre.

John, King of England

Engraved heraldic print with rows of coats of arms, a central royal crest with lion and dragon, and four corner portraits of

Coats of Arms with Corner Portraits of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary

Long engraved royal family tree with oval portraits of English monarchs, crowned coats of arms and vine scrollwork.

Family Tree with Portraits of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth, James, and Charles

Engraved genealogical tree of English kings with portrait medallions, angels, a castle, and a coat of arms.

Reges Anglia

Sepia print of stone lime kilns beside a thatched cottage, with smoke rising into a cloudy sky and trees on a rocky bank.

Lime Kilns near Cardigan

Unknown artist, 1797

Pen and brown ink drawing of two dead chickens, one with a ribbon tied to its legs, shaded with hatching.

Two Dead Chickens

Unknown artist, 18th century

Brown ink sketch of an elderly bearded man's head and shoulders, turned to the left, with a somber expression.

Head of an Old Man

Unknown artist, 19th century

Sepia print of a sleeping infant in a white bonnet and gown lying on a bed with draped curtains behind.

Sleeping Infant

Green woodcut print of a bound nude figure being scourged by armed men on a checkered floor under a beamed ceiling.

The Flagellation

Woodcut of the Virgin and Child riding a donkey led by a man, with an angel above and a walled town behind.

The Flight to Egypt

Black and white print of a saint in a cauldron over fire, with executioners, a bearded judge, a lion and a crowd.

The Martyrdom of a Saint

Woodcut of the Presentation in the Temple: a woman holds an infant to a bearded priest at an altar, with onlookers behind.

Presentation in the Temple

Lithographic bust portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with the name Barthe and a signature below.

Barthe

Hand-colored satirical print of men climbing a greasy pole toward medals, a crozier and a mitre, dated 1815.

The Greasy Pole

Unknown artist, 1815

Hand-colored woodcut of two haloed women clasping hands before a stone archway, with a hillside and church tower beyond.

Visitation

Green paper printed with rows of dark black teardrop paisley motifs in a staggered repeating pattern.

Endpaper with Feather Design

Teal paper with a repeating pattern of diagonal gold dashes and dotted lines across the sheet.

Endpaper

Sheet of black-ink printed seated Buddha figures with halos in repeated rows on paper with torn edges.

Amida Buddha

Persian manuscript page with a painted miniature of a rider, horse, reclining figure and seated woman beside a tree.

Khusrau Gazing at Shirin, from a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami

Unknown artist, 1485 (890 A.H.)

Title page of Samuel Purchas's Pelgrimagie, printed in Amsterdam 1655, with a central foliate ornament below the text.

Title Page

Unknown artist, published 1655

Two-page handwritten manuscript spread in gothic script, with columns of chronicle text about King John.

King John [right side]

Unknown artist, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of Laocoön and two sons struggling against large serpents, rendered in sepia wash on pale paper.

Laocoön

Unknown artist, 1550/59

Two painted pages of a garden scene with blossoming trees, musicians, a seated figure on a dais, and an archer, on gold groun

Garden Scene

Unknown artist, Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370-1507), mid-15th century

Illuminated page with a crowned kneeling figure, red-robed attendants, a walled city, heraldic shields and a gold inscription

Pope Pius II, frontispiece to a Constitution of the Sienese Church of the Year 1464

Unknown artist, 1464; possibly 19th century copy

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set within a double-line border on cream paper.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Unknown artist, probably 18th century

Illuminated manuscript initial R showing the Virgin holding a red book, surrounded by kneeling haloed saints in gold and blue

The Virgin Adored by Saints in a Historiated Initial "R" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Sepia print of a central embracing family group with two winged angels bowing above them on a pale background.

Holy Family? with Angels l.1: The March of the Intellect

Unknown artist, 19th century

Sepia drawing of a seated woman embracing a child, with a bearded man and two winged angels above.

Holy Family? with Angels

Unknown artist, 19th century

Medieval painted initial P showing the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ in a manger, animals and angels on gold.

The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, c. 1390

Medieval manuscript page of two columns of Latin text with a decorated pink and green initial letter at lower left.

Bifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1150

Engraved frontispiece with labeled vignettes of sciences and figures reading, centered on a robed figure and a woolsack.

Frontispiece for the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge: Vo

Unknown artist, 19th century

Bird's-eye lithograph of Regent's Park showing curving roads, terraced houses, trees and labelled streets, 1824.

Invitation? with Aerial View of Regent's Park

Unknown artist, 1824