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Pencil sketch on grey paper of rooftops, a river, and a suspension bridge fading into haze, with a tall tower at right.

Manhattan Bridge

Etching of a kneeling woman in drapery gazing up at a dove with radiating light, beside a lectern and stone block.

The Annunciation

Watercolor of riders with a monkey and a white horse arriving at an inn with a star sign and arched doorway.

Arrival at an Inn

after Jean-Baptiste Oudry Anonymous, 18th century

Vertical engraved ornament panel with scrolls, urns, cherubs, and a Nereid riding a sea creature at the bottom.

Nereid Ridden by Two Children

Giovanni Pietro Birago and Zoan Andrea, c. 1505/1515

Pencil caricature of a standing man with a large curled mustache, hands in pockets, on tan paper, 1859.

Self-Portrait

John Whetten Ehninger, 1859

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man in a turban leaning on a sill, looking out, with white highlights on draped fabric.

A Man Looking Out a Window

Bonifazio Veronese

Drawing of a bearded saint leaning on a large open book, seen from behind, in brown wash and red chalk.

A Saint Holding a Book

Attributed to Gioacchino Assereto, c. 1640

Brown wash drawing of a monumental classical architectural set with colonnade, steps, arches and a domed building.

Stage Design

Etching of a rocky river valley with a village, bridge, and small figures in the foreground, including the sacrifice of Abrah

Sacrifice of Abraham

Hieronymus Cock, 1551

Etching of two sailing ships and a small boat battling rough waves under a cloudy sky.

Sea Scene

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1635

Etching by Paul Klee of a fragmented garden with stylized plants, abstract figures and crosshatched shading in brown ink.

Garden of Passion (Garten der Leidenschaft)

Paul Klee, 1913

Engraving of the crucifixion on Golgotha with three crosses, soldiers, mounted riders and a crowd on a rocky hill.

Golgotha

Lucas van Leyden, 1517

Sepia drawing of a crowd under a stone archway with a goat, monkey, children, an armored figure and a seated old man.

Au moment où nous entrions par la porte papale, j’ai vu filer en l’air la fauvette de roseaux

Victor Masson, 1868

Ink and wash drawing of a bald seated man in a dark cloak at a carved lectern, with a curly-haired younger man pointing besid

Dom Claude et l’écolier

Victor Masson, 1868

Watercolor of a woman in Bernese traditional costume with a lace headdress and white shawl, against a brown background.

Maraine Bernoise

Franz Niklaus König, 1822

Sepia drawing of a startled monk beside a Gothic lectern in a church interior, with a sexton carrying a staff behind him.

Le Bédeau stupéfait

Victor Masson, 1868

Sepia drawing of a hunchbacked figure grasping a gargoyle beside a rope, with birds and Gothic arches below.

Quasimodo dénichant des oiseaux

Victor Masson, 1868

Charcoal drawing of a seated nude man in a forest with a woman behind a tree, an eagle in a top hat, and a snake.

John Bull (England) as Adam and a woman representing America as Eve in the Garden of Eden

William Henry Walker, 1903

Etching of a Trojan siege with a walled city, burning ships, armed soldiers, and nymphs wading in water in the foreground.

Siege of the Trojan camp

Abraham Bosse, 1648

Sepia print of artists at easels and gentlemen spectators in a crowded gallery with framed paintings and a balustrade.

Artists painting in an exhibition of paintings at the British Institution

Alfred Edward Chalon, 1884

Watercolour interior of a cluttered bedroom with a sleeping woman on a canopy bed surrounded by armour and antiques.

The Old Curiosity Shop; The bedroom in the shop

George Cattermole, 1840

Watercolor of Tempest act 1 scene 2 showing figures in period dress before a rocky cliff with a winged spirit reclining above

Tempest, act 1, scene 2

Alexandre Bida, 1893

Hand-coloured engraving of a crowned man in armour with a heraldic mantle, holding a mace before a tent and mounted soldiers.

Edwin Booth as Richard III in Shakespeare’s play

Henry Duff Linton

Watercolor of a bearded man in a red cloak holding a staff before classical columns and an archway.

Coriolanus

J. Coghlan, 1800-1830

Watercolor of a helmeted soldier, a veiled woman in white, and an elderly man with a staff in a classical setting.

Troilus and Cressida [IV, 2] Pandarus, Cressida and Troilus

J. Coghlan, 1800-1830

Watercolor sketch of a seated man at a table with a decanter and a spaniel dog beside a green curtain.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, act IV, scene 4

John Augustus Atkinson

Watercolor of two men in historical costume, one armored and standing, one seated in a plumed hat, in a dark arched interior.

2 men

John Massey Wright

Watercolor of a feathered-hat gentleman with a sword as a woman in a white headdress pours him wine.

A scene from King Henry IV, pt. 2 or Merry wives

John Massey Wright

Watercolor of a priest and priestess in white robes, each holding a lit torch, on a grey background.

The Winter’s Tale; Priest & Priestess

Tom Heslewood, 1904

Watercolor of a seated woman and young man talking in a draped interior while a plumed figure watches from behind.

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet 2

John Massey Wright

Pen and ink drawing of two men in an arched interior, one playing a lute, framed by a foliate border with caption.

Thurio; ‘How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us’, sc. IV, 2

Watercolor of three men drinking and smoking at a tavern table beside candles and a leaded window.

Twelfth night, II, 3