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Woodblock print of a woman in a black hood and a young attendant with a yellow parasol and lantern in windy grass.

Lady with Black Hood and Umbrella Out Walking with Young Attendant

Suzuki Harunobu

Brown wash drawing of a chariot with helmeted and winged female figures, horses and eagles in clouds.

IrisAthenaHera

Louis Jean François Lagrenée, 1780

Grey wash drawing of a flood with many figures and animals fleeing up rocky slopes under a stormy sky.

The Flood

Abraham Bloemaert, 1600

Brown ink drawing with white highlights of a man beside a large tree in a wooded landscape, rocky ground and shrubs.

The Abandoned Oidipus

Charcoal sketch of a seated figure in a cap and loose jacket, head bowed, arms resting on knees, on tan paper.

Study of a Jockey

Edgar Degas, c. 1884

Sketch of a standing nude woman with crossed legs and one hand raised to her head, drawn in chalk on brown paper.

Nude Standing with Legs Crossed

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1878

Printed sheet in olive-green ink on pink paper showing many birds in rows, including roosters, peacocks, herons and owls, wit

Endpaper with Birds

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Engraved interior with a monk and a nun at a dining table by a fireplace, a dog and cat nearby, and figures praying at a wind

The Amorous Nun between the Abbot and the Monk

Hans Collaert the Elder, c. 1560

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns on a balcony above a crowd in a city street, with a church tower behind.

Ecce Homo

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraved figure of a standing merchant in a pleated robe reading a letter, inside a twisted rope border.

Merchadante (Merchant)

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Pencil and chalk landscape drawing of a valley with a stone structure, trees, a stream and distant hills.

Corpo di Cava

Eduard Agricola, 1844

Pen and wash drawing of a fantastical underground temple with ornate columns, arched vaults, and a seated figure holding a la

A Fantastic Underground Temple (Aladdin's Cave?)

Etching of a nude bound figure, arm raised, leaning against a hatched tree trunk with a draped cloth at the hips.

St. Sebastian, Bound to a Tree

Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1589

Engraving of nude figures tumbling through storm clouds with lightning bolts across the sky, by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe.

The Damned

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1798/1800

Sepia print of the Presentation in the Temple: a priest at an altar under a classical arch, with an infant, candles and kneel

The Presentation in the Temple

after Veronese John Baptist Jackson, 1739

Engraving of an allegorical war scene with a chariot, mounted riders, marching armies, burning cities, and a winged figure la

Allegory of War

Hendrick Goltzius, 1578

Brown wash drawing of four men seated around a table in conversation, one smoking a pipe, with faint sketches of heads.

Fishermen

Adolph Menzel, c. 1850

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of a bearded man in a draped robe raising a staff, with a faint serpent sketch at left

Aaron Converting His Staff into a Serpent

Robert Walter Weir, c. 1860s

Graphite and chalk sketch of a wooded valley with tall trees and an open field, on tan paper, dated 1852.

Sherberne Valley

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1852

Brown leather book cover with gilt border lines and ornamented corners, showing a tooled spine with raised bands.

Le vite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti Genovesi

Domenico Piola, Georges Tasnière, Raffaele Soprani, 1674

Cloth portfolio cover titled Max Klinger's Radierungen zu Apulejus' Märchen Amor und Psyche with a list of vignettes.

Amor und Psyche [Opus Vb]

Max Klinger, 1880, this edition printed 1893/1907

Loose watercolor study of a leafy tree with green and brown foliage and visible branches on tan paper.

Tree [verso]

Jr Enoch Wood Perry, c. 1870-1900

Drawing with a black chalk study of a reaching male figure above two red chalk studies of upturned heads on tan paper.

Man Reaching Down and Two Studies of Heads (recto)

Jean Jouvenet, before 1698

Head of a Sheep

Francesco Paolo Michetti, c. 1881

Red and white chalk drawing of a seated woman in a pink lace-trimmed gown and powdered hairstyle, 1778.

Yes or No

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1778

Engraving of a bearded saint with halo holding a book and knife, standing in a heavy draped robe on a tiled floor.

Saint Bartholomew

Master FVB, c. 1490/1500

Etching of three rustic cottages beside a log fence, with pine trees and two walking figures on a dirt path.

Three Cottages

Allart van Everdingen, probably c. 1645/1656

Engraved full-length portrait of an armored knight with a sword before a burning town and battle scene.

Godfrey Adelmar, Founder of the Knights Templar

William Rogers, published 1602

Engraved portrait of Maximilian II in a beret, fur-trimmed robe and jeweled chain, with Latin titles below.

Maximilian II, Roman Emperor

Martino Rota, 1575

Engraving of galleys and a three-masted ship on the sea beneath a chariot, horses, and a sun in clouds.

Two Galleys behind an Armed Three-Master with Phaethon and Jupiter in the Sky

possibly by Cornelis Cort after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Brown ink and wash drawing of three people playing cards by candlelight at a table in an elegant rococo room.

A Game of Cards

Louis Durameau, 1767

Engraving of putti playing with a bitch and three young dogs in front of a hatched background.

Children Playing with a Bitch and Three Young Dogs

Master of the Horse Heads