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Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a kneeling friar in a hooded robe, gazing upward with arm raised, haloed.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Lo Spagna, early 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of Saint Sebastian, nude and bound to a tree, with an arrow and halo.

Saint Sebastian (recto); sketches of a male head and a standing figure in a short cape; a copy of the figure on the r…

Il Sodoma, early-mid-16th century

Brown wash drawing of two older men in bust view, one with hand raised near his face, against a shaded background.

Two Drinkers

Honoré Daumier, 1860-79

Two women in kimono on a veranda look up at plum blossoms and geese flying overhead, in a Japanese woodblock print.

See Them Fly

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1767

Woodblock print of five kabuki actors in patterned kimono with crests and swords, standing in a grouped pose.

Five Popular Actors as the Gonin Otoko or Five Otokodate, in "Ume Wakana Futaba Soga"

Torii Kiyohiro, ca. 1755

Sepia wash allegory of a seated woman and winged figure pointing to a Washington memorial inscription, 1800.

Allegory on the Death of George Washington

Jacques Kuyper, 1800

Ink drawing of a mounted rider, seated figures and a bearded ascetic beneath trees, with a distant army on a hill.

Rama and Lakshmana Visit the Hermitage of an Ascetic

Nainsukh, ca. 1775-80

Tall design sheet of lilies, poppies and stylized stems in orange, green and yellow, with a butterfly, for a stained glass wi

Element of fire (II). Design for a stained glass window for the presbytery window of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Sigismund Augustus

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Sigismund I the Old (Decjusz)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pen and ink sketch of three standing men in feathered hats and fur-trimmed clothing, grouped closely together.

Three Renaissance men

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Pastel drawing of children on a bench beside a winding path, with green hedges and a pale sky in the background.

Children on a Bench

Edvard Munch, 1891

White chalk and graphite drawing of a draped classical female statue with a wreath, one arm raised, on a tan paper ground.

Norwegian Bokmål: Statue av bakkantinne

Johan Christian Dahl, 1813

Etched portrait of a standing woman in a wide-brimmed hat and draped off-shoulder dress, soft shaded background.

Portrait of Miss Hetty Pettigrew

Theodore Roussel, c. 1908

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of three women and a seated king at a draped table in a columned interior.

Philomela, Procne, and the Thracian King Tereus

Follower of Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Red endpaper printed in gold with three bands of courtly scenes showing armored figures, horsemen, castle walls and a seated

Endpaper with Three Bands of Courtly Scenes

Green book cover with a cream label reading Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, with 47 woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1924

Engraving of a curly-haired man in a draped robe writing beside an eagle at a stone pedestal, with ruined masonry behind him.

Saint John the Evangelist

Lambert Suavius, c. 1545

Brown wash drawing of a wide river valley with a large tree at right, rocky cliffs, a stone bridge, and distant hills.

An Extensive River Landscape

Alexander Cozens, c. 1759

Charcoal drawing of a river landscape with a tall tree, a wooden bridge, village houses, a church spire and small figures.

A Landscape with a River

Painted textile panel with pink peonies, pheasant birds, flowering branches and fruit on a cream background.

Drapery or Curtain

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Ink sketch of two angular dancers on brown paper, with a cat sitting in the lower left corner.

Two Dancers with a Cat

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913

Engraving of Aiolos, god of wind, standing on a shell at sea with billowing drapery, within an ornate armored frame.

Aiolos, Personification of Wind

Heinrich Ulrich

Wash drawing of a woman in a crinoline reading on a sandy beach beside a folding chair, with faint figures and sea behind her

Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1865

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a youth with wavy hair turned three-quarter view on tan paper.

Portrait of a Youth

Vincenzo Gemito, 1923

Charcoal sketch of a bridge with pedestrians above boats moored on a canal, with soft reflections in the water.

Venetian Bridge

Eugène Vail, c. 1900-1920

Pen and brown wash drawing of a betrothal scene: a kneeling man and standing woman before a mitred priest under an arched doo

The Betrothal of the Holy Virgin

Studio of Rembrandt van Rijn

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowned ruler on a throne with women and courtiers approaching in an arched hall.

Esther before Ahasuerus

Giovanni Guerra, late 16th century

Chalk drawing with white highlights on grey paper showing two standing sheep and faint studies of sheep heads above.

Studies of Sheep

Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau, 1860s

Painting of a hare hanging by its feet from a branch of bay leaves against a grey background, with a shadow behind it.

Hunting Trophy with Hare and Bay Leaves

Antoine Berjon, c. 1810

Hand-colored print of men watching two fencers duel in a crowded academy hall with framed portraits on the walls.

Mr. H. Angelo's Fencing Academy

after Thomas Rowlandson, 1887

Engraving of Venus standing beside Cupid with a bow, within an oval frame with ornate border and landscape.

Venus