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Pen and ink drawing of a toad-like creature clutching coins, an allegory of greed by Jacques de Gheyn II.

Allegory of Avarice

Jacob de Gheyn II, about 1609

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a seated female nude, one arm raised and a cloth draped over her legs.

Seated Female Nude

Adriaen van de Velde, about 1660-1670

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted warrior embracing a grieving woman while another woman holds a frightened infant nearby.

The Fright of Astyanax (Hector Bidding Farewell to Andromache)

Benjamin West, 1797

Painting of two dandelion seed heads on slender stems with serrated leaves and a small insect against a brown background.

Dandelion

Barbara Regina Dietzsch, about 1755

Pen and watercolor sketch of a hilly valley with mountain peaks, rocky foreground and handwritten colour notes.

A View of Kythera, Greece

Edward Lear, 1863

Brown wash drawing of St. Jerome raising his arm toward a trumpet in the sky, with a lion and crucifix nearby.

St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, about 1645-1650

Sepia wash drawing of a market scene beneath tall trees, with figures, a draped tent and a woman standing at right.

A Market Scene Under Trees in Katwijk op Rijn

Jan de Bisschop, early 1650s

Watercolor of an old stone courtyard with a central archway framing a distant boat on water, dated 1883.

R. St. Paul & R. des Lions, Hotel dit de la Vieuville (disparu)

H. C. Godefroy, 1883

Die fünf Köpfe der links neben Platon stehenden Schülergruppe

Philipp Jakob Becker

Zwei Bildnisse seines Vaters Louis Liebermann im Lehnstuhl

Max Liebermann, 1894

Brown-toned drawing of a stormy forest with a figure fleeing left with a dog, a fallen tree, and a rocky outcrop.

Kains Flucht (1. Mose 4, 16)

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855

Bildnis Markgraf Carl Friedrich von Baden

Carl Friedrich Autenrieth, 1786

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure kneeling on a block while pulling a rope with both arms.

Stehender, rechtes Knie mit abgewinkeltem Bein auf einem Quader aufgestützt, mit beiden nach links gewendeten Armen e…

Philipp Jakob Becker

Frieze-like drawing in white highlights on brown paper of men abducting struggling draped women in a dynamic group.

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Sepia drawing of a Gothic chapel interior with kneeling nuns, a procession with a cross, a stone tomb and an altarpiece.

Innere Ansicht der Fürstenkapelle im Kloster Lichtenthal

Carl Ludwig Frommel

Watercolor of a medieval court with a crowned couple on a throne and robed figures gathered on steps and arched galleries.

Der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg

Moritz von Schwind, 1837

Sepia drawing of a wooded landscape with a kneeling man in the foreground and three robed figures beside ruins.

Abraham empfängt die Verheißung Isaaks im Hain Mamre (1. Mose 15, 1ff)

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855

Pencil drawing of a ruined Gothic church interior with pointed arches, rubble on the floor and a leaning ladder.

Abbruch eines gotischen Kirchenraums

Hubert Robert, 1787

Brown-toned drawing of a barren coast with dunes, rock cliffs, a seated woman by a boulder and the sea beyond.

Hagar in der Wüste (1. Mose 21, 16)

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855

Full-length study of a man in a red jacket and dark hat, one hand raised to his brim, against a pale background.

Nach rechts stehender Mann mit Hut und roter Jacke

Johann Baptist Kirner, 1832

Pencil drawing of a hunter with a rifle and dog on a forest path beside a large tree stump and palms.

Jäger mit Hund im Urwald

Ferdinand Keller

Print of the Presentation in the Temple: a bishop holds the infant Christ beside the Virgin and two attendant women.

Die Darstellung im Tempel

Meister des Dutuit'schen Ölbergs

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of a she-wolf nursing two infants beside a pond, with a bearded man with a staff at ri

Die Wölfin mit Romulus und Remus

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Loose sketch in dark pencil and white highlights on brown paper showing a rider on a rearing horse.

Horseman

James Ensor, 1877

Wide three-panel drawing of a chaotic cavalry battle with cuirassiers, fallen horses, flags and swirling smoke.

The cuirassiers of Waterloo

James Ensor, 1891

Woodblock print of travelers in straw raincoats battling driving rain on a road beside grasses and village rooftops.

Shōno: Driving Rain

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1833

Japanese woodblock print of three figures in patterned kimono beside a wooden fence and pine branch.

First scene

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1785

Hotei carries a child piggyback through shallow water beside a woman under a willow tree, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Hotei carrying a young girl piggyback

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a figure in a red patterned kimono and white hooded cloak standing in snow beside bamboo and a wooden fenc

Ichikawa Monnosuke II

Ippitsusai Bunchō, 1770

Woodblock print of three elegantly dressed courtesans in patterned kimono and tall hairpins, by Isoda Koryūsai, 1776.

The courtesan Wakamatsu of Otawara-ya

Isoda Koryusai, 1776

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in red robes holding a sword, framed within a fan-shaped cartouche with a red seal.

The actor Ichikawa Danzō

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1770

Woodblock print of three women with a flowering tree, two kneeling over paper and writing, one standing at left.

Number one

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1799