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Pen and ink study of robed figures gathered beneath a large arch and columns in a stone interior with steps.

Study after Old Master

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pen and wash drawing of a weary, ragged man leaning on a stone wall with bowed head, on brown paper.

C'etais "pour se donner des forces"

Paul Gavarni, c. 1845

Brown-toned print of muscular Hercules raising a club over the struggling monster Cacus in a rocky cave.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Brown ink drawing of a grand palatial interior with vaulted arches, a central statue, and sweeping staircases.

A Magnificent Palatial Interior

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748/1752

Drawing of an elderly bearded man leaning on a railing by a river, with a moored boat, trees, and a pale evening sky.

Old Man by a River

Elihu Vedder, c. 1863

Nine small painted lunette studies on tan paper showing figures in groups, labeled Religion, Study, Family, Labor, Rest and R

Studies for Lunettes

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Playbill for 1895 theatre performances with a Félicien Rops drawing of a man swinging an axe beside a tree.

L'Ecole de l'idéal; Le Petit Eyolf

Félicien Rops, 1895

Stylized print of umbel flowers and stems in grey, teal and ochre on brown, with a pattern of cream and blue squares below.

Seiei; A Design Book Pl.03

Yamada Naosaburō, 1907

Oficer strzelcow konnych wojska polskiego Krolestwa Kongresowego

Bronisław Gembarzewski, 1897

Costume design sketch of a standing man in a dark coat, patterned trousers and holding a top hat, on tan paper.

De Rubempré 2

Charles Bétout, 1922

Art Nouveau bookplate in mauve ink with stylized plants and the inscription Mein Eigen, Caecilie Wolbrandt, Crefeld 1902.

Caecilie Wolbrandt

Carl Wolbrandt, 1902

Art Nouveau bookplate with a woman beside bookshelves, daisies and stems framing it, lettered Ex Libris Louis Graf München.

Louis Graf

F. O. Vogt, 1899

Ornate 1906 honorary diploma engraving showing a donkey and a miller with a book, framed by nude figures and vines.

Diplôme d’honneur décerné à l’Ane Georges Cain par le Moulin à Sel

Léon Lebègue, 1906

Engraving of Greek girls playing with a swing and ball in a colonnaded courtyard with a temple behind them.

Sports of Greek girls

Eugen Klimsch, 1882

Engraving of a man walking a dark forest path toward stone steps where a figure reclines in a glowing clearing.

He sees a flight of steps

Gustave Doré, 1865

Engraving of a sleeping woman in a canopy bed as a cloaked figure gestures, surrounded by ivy in an ornate room.

Sleeping Beauty

Gustave Doré, 1865

Hand-colored print of men smoking and drinking at a table outside a thatched cottage beside a gnarled tree, with a woman at a

Sailors Conversation

George Morland, 1802

Hand-colored print of dancers in buffalo headdresses and painted bodies performing near tipis on open ground.

Buffalo Dance

George Catlin, 1845

Pen and watercolor drawing of a distressed man in a blue coat beside a gentleman in a tricorn hat on a city street.

A gamester cleaned out

Thomas Rowlandson

Watercolor of a bloodied figure lying at a castle wall as armed and robed men react nearby.

King John, IV, 3, the death of Arthur

Watercolor portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap and brown cloak, holding a wooden staff.

Much ado about nothing, Verges

Edward Goodwyn Lewis, 1863

Watercolor of a stout hostess at a tavern door facing a gesturing man in a red coat, with a broken jug on the ground.

Taming of the shrew, Hostess and Sly

J. Coghlan, 1800-1830

Watercolor interior: a man with a stick menaces a woman seated on the floor while two onlookers watch from a doorway.

Scenes from All’s well and Taming of the shrew 1

John Massey Wright

Watercolor of a man in a dark doublet and red cloak bending over a pale figure on a stone tomb, lit by a torch.

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet

John Massey Wright

Sepia wash drawing of a nude woman at a pool edge, with two bearded elders leaning toward her beneath stone arches.

Susannah and the elders

Samuel John Stump

Watercolor of costumed figures on a wooded path, with a cupid above a central couple and a seated man in blue.

As you like it, act V, sc. 4

Thomas Stothard

Costume design of two attendants in ochre cloak and orange tunic, with laced sandals, on grey paper.

The Winter’s Tale; Attendants, Act I

Tom Heslewood, 1904

Engraving of a boatswain on a storm-tossed ship shouting at crashing waves while a robed figure sits nearby.

Boatswain; ‘Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king’ [Tempest, act I, scene I]

Lithographed paper with a repeating stylized floral pattern in dark green and olive on a tan ground.

Lithografiertes Papier (florales Flächenmuster)

Otto Hupp, 1885 - 1904

Sepia print of a woman in a patterned headscarf being courted by a laughing man in a cap beside a tasseled staff.

Zaloty myśliwca

Julian Falat, 1890

Sepia etching of a woman seen from behind, reflected in a mirror beside bottles, a pitcher and a candlestick.

Flore artificielle

Louis Legrand, 1896

Two brown-toned decorative prints: left, stylized irises among tall grasses; right, an ornate floral frame with swirling bran

La décoration et les industries d’art à l’exposition universelle de 1900

George Auriol, 1901