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Grey wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with kneeling king, Virgin and Child, horses and attendants.

The Adoration of the Magi

Bernardino Lanino, 1553

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling cardinal with rosary among haloed saints and an angel, with a city view behind.

Cardinal Paolo Sfondrato Kneeling Before Saint Cecilia, Accompanied by other Saints

Francesco Vanni, 1563-1610

Watercolor of a rocky river running through a mountain valley with a small stone cottage and clouds over distant peaks.

River Landscape in Wales

David Cox, ca. 1850

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child in clouds above kneeling saints and angels, with a martyrdom scene behind.

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Peter, Saint Damasus, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Paul; the Martyrdom of Saint…

Federico Zuccaro, 1566-68

Sepia drawing of a figure resting with a donkey on a path beside large trees, with horses in the distance.

A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with arches, columns, and ornate vaulting receding in perspective.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of a Plan (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1718-65

Engraving of a nude bearded man reaching toward a reclining woman and winged cupid beside a tree over water.

A naked man pursing a naiad and a cupid into the water

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of a satyr with goat legs carrying a nude nymph whose hair and drapery flow behind them.

Satyr carrying a nymph restraining her right arm

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Pen drawing of a triumphal procession with elephants, horses, torch bearers and classical architecture.

Triumph of Julius Caesar

Andrea Mantegna, Possibly late 15th or 16th century

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of an armorial trophy with a plumed helmet, spears, shield and lion head.

Armorial Trophy

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with Virgin, Christ child, angels and classical architecture.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Sketches (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1532-37

Drawing of huntsmen and dogs retrieving ducks from a pond, with a company by a carriage and a distant town under a willow tre

Huntsmen and Company Observing Dogs Retrieving Ducks in a Pond (The Month of April)

Pieter Stevens, ca. 1610-20

Pencil drawing of a crowned woman with halo holding a garland, framed by scrolling ornamental foliage on a gold ground.

Woman Holding a Garland

Charles Edward Holloway, ca. 1880

Etching of a Venetian street seen through a dark archway, with figures walking and a seated worker in a shop at right.

Fish Shop, Venice

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of many robed figures, poets and musicians gathered beside a classical building on an arc

An Allegory of Learning

Parrasio Micheli, ca. 1565

Pen and wash drawing of a seated bearded man gesturing toward a standing figure beside a stone column, with a sword on the fl

Marius at Minturnae

Jean Germain Drouais, 1812

Side view drawing of a blue brougham carriage with yellow spoked wheels and a black roof, numbered 3718.

Brougham #3718

Brewster & Co., 1881

Side view drawing of a blue and black cabriolet carriage with red-trimmed spoked wheels on a grey-green background.

Cabriolet #3914

Brewster & Co., 1884

Etching of a tree cluster on a hill with a small figure and cart beneath soft horizontal sky hatching.

The Woods of the Hermit (Le Bois de l'ermite)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1858

Side-view design drawing of an open phaeton carriage with blue-trimmed spoked wheels on grey paper, labeled No. 3570.

Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3570

Brewster & Co., 1880

Hand-colored Gillray caricature of robed clergy and gentlemen around a table with an infant in a basket, under gilded candela

L'Enfant Trouvé:-a Sample of Roman Charity!-or-the Misfortune of Not Being Born with Marks of "the Talents"

James Gillray, May 19, 1808

Red-toned print of Saints Peter and John healing a kneeling man among columns, with figures and putti in a colonnaded hall.

Saints Peter and John healing the Sick

Parmigianino, 16th century

Engraving of a veiled woman mourning over a dead body on a stone slab, with mourners and a rock tomb behind.

Lamentation

Claude Mellan, 1683

Engraving of robed figures raising their arms toward quails flying overhead, with a bearded leader at left and a kneeling fig

Moses showing the quails to the Israelites (the miracle of the quails and manna)

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545

Engraved landscape of robed travelers on a road toward a walled town, framed by a border of flowers and animals.

The Sending Out of the Apostles

Adriaen Collaert, ca. 1584

Engraving of standing Christ blessing, with robes, clouds, small scenes of an angel, soldiers and a Nativity, and Latin text.

Standing Christ, Blessing from "Christ, Mary and the Apostles"

Antonio Tempesta, ca. 1590-1610

Brown wash drawing of Socrates raising a finger beside a cup, surrounded by mourning men in a barred prison cell.

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1782

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman by a brazier and a standing man at a fence, with a maple branch above.

Warming the Sake by Maple Leaf Fire

Suzuki Harunobu

Woodblock print of a tea house under a full moon, with people on the veranda and figures walking through a garden.

Tea-house; Scene entitled: "Viewing the Moon in mid-autumn"

Utagawa Toyoharu

Japanese print of a young woman in a patterned kimono beside iris plants and a lantern in a garden.

Young Lady and Iris Garden

Chobunsai Eishi

Japanese woodblock print of women and patrons at a teahouse under pine trees, with a torii gate and a village on a hillside b

Osen of the Kagiya Teahouse at Kasamori Shrine with a View of Nippori in Yanaka

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1768

Japanese woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono walking before a girl carrying a doll, with a flowering branch.

A Courtesan Followed by a Girl Attendant Carrying a Doll

Ippitsusai Bunchō, 1723-1792