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Red chalk drawing of a kneeling robed figure at a ceremony in an arched interior, with standing attendants and onlookers.

Ceremony of Consecration

Watercolor design for a music room wall with a central trophy of instruments, feathers, and flowers between marbled columns.

Design for a Wall of a Music Room [recto]

Pencil drawing of men in period dress gathered at a table under a floral canopy, with dice on the table.

Men Throwing Dice

Pen and brown ink sketch of a winged figure and a bearded muscular man above a carved pedestal with an ornamental cartouche.

The Rescue of Deianeira

Brown wash drawing of a monumental classical architectural set with colonnade, steps, arches and a domed building.

Stage Design

Pen and brown wash drawing of a Baroque altar and reredos with columns, cherubs, scrollwork and an arched niche.

Study for an Altar and a Reredos

Watercolor of the Tempio della Fortuna Virile in Rome with two figures on a path and a round temple in the distance.

Tempio della Fortuna Virile with the Tempio di Vesta in the Distance

Pen and grey wash drawing of two ornate garden fountains, the left with perched birds and the right with an urn finial.

Two Fountains

Watercolor drawing of a golden pheasant with a yellow crest and long barred tail perched on a branch.

Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)

Unknown artist, c. 1801

Drawing of a bearded man in a feathered hat with a round medallion, rendered in graphite and red chalk on pale paper.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat with a Medallion

Unknown artist, 1520/1540

Woodcut vignette of three haloed angels in a circle framed by floral and scroll ornaments, with palm fronds.

[Zastawka z przedstawieniem zastępów niebieskich]

Unknown artist, 1720

Hand-colored engraving of a commander questioning a captive under a canopy, and the captive bound to a tree before a walled c

Holofernes Interrogating Achior

Unknown artist, c. 1575

Hand-colored print of Judith addressing bearded elders in a hall, with a city gate and soldiers in the background.

Judith Goes to the Camp of Holofernes

Unknown artist, c. 1575

Hand-colored print of Mary Magdalene kneeling with a skull and open book, attended by three angels, with a church in the back

Saint Mary Magdalene Pray for Us

Unknown artist, c. 1820

Pen drawing of an architectural baldaquin with Corinthian columns, arched opening, dome, and flame urns on a stepped base.

Design for a Baldaquin

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a tiered catafalque with a wreath medallion, urns, and swags.

Design for a Catafalque

Chalk drawing of a boy in a feathered military cap and cravat, looking straight ahead, on tan paper.

A Boy Wearing a Military Cap

Pen and ink drawing of angels and a putto framing a painted panel of three saints in an architectural design.

Page from the Collection of Niccolò Gaddi (So-Called "Vasari Page")

Unknown artist, Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework c. 1575/1590

Pastel portrait of a young man in a blue military-style coat with red facings and silver trim, wearing a powdered wig.

Portrait of a Young Man in Uniform

Unknown artist, 1790s

Portrait of a Young Man in Profile

Unknown artist, c. 1800

Hellene von Sleben

Unknown artist, c. 1800

Brown ink drawing of a port with workers, a loaded cart, a church tower, large trees and distant ship masts.

View of a Port

Circular drawing of a nude figure falling through the sky above a landscape, with crowns, scepter and orb in the foreground.

Man Falling from the Sky

Pen and ink drawing with wash of an enthroned king beside allegorical figures Susanna and Sensualitas, with Latin inscription

"Always Have the Bedclothes Folded up" [fol. 41 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Red chalk drawing of a nude man kneeling with arms bound above his head beside a tree trunk.

Kneeling Man Bound to a Tree

Unknown artist, c. 1685

Sepia drawing of two figures on a rise overlooking a flat river landscape with distant boats and a streaked sky.

A Couple Admiring a View of the River Ouse(?), Lincolnshire

Unknown artist, 1849

Watercolor drawing of a gilded, jewelled monstrance with sunburst rays and an ornate tiered base on a pale background.

A Monstrance

Unknown artist, c. 1860

Pen and brown ink drawing of Upnor Castle beside a river, with trees in the foreground and a sailboat at right.

Upnor Castle

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornamental circular basin design with a winged figure, scrollwork and floral garlands.

Design for a Platter or Basin

Unknown artist, n.d.

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a wig reading a book beside a column, with a river and bridge in the background.

Daniel-Charles Trudaine

Unknown artist, c. 1761

Engraved portrait of a seated man beside an open book and a table, with an inscription naming René Descartes.

René Descartes

Engraving of a skull on sheet music with a candlestick, flowers, books and floating bubbles, a vanitas still life.

Vanitas