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Engraved horizontal ornament of scrolling foliage with medallions of crowned kings, a harpist and the Virgin and Child.

Ornament with the Tree of Jesse

Israhel van Meckenem, 1480-90

Ink and wash drawing of a nude helmeted hero with a sword beside kneeling figures and ghostly shades in a cave.

Odysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea

Johann Heinrich Lips, 1785

Woodcut of Ecce Homo showing a robed figure presented to a crowd of soldiers and onlookers beneath a sun.

Ecce Homo, from The Fall and Redemption of Man

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1513

Engraving of an armored warrior with raised sword leaping into a river, with a distant camp of tents and soldiers.

Horatius Cocles Leaping into the Tiber

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520/30

Woodblock print of a figure in a floral kimono holding a green blossom-decorated parasol beside a lattice window and plum bra

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Nishikigi in the Play Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in t…

Ippitsusai Bunchō, c. 1769

Etching of a cluttered shop interior with figures in a doorway, hanging cloth, a chair, and children at left.

The Rag Shop, Milman's Row

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Woodblock print of crowds on an arched bridge and lantern-lit boats at dusk, with red fireworks over the river.

Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryôgoku Bridge in Edo (Edo Ryogokubashi yusuzumi no kei)

Kitao Masayoshi, Unknown

Woodcut of armored soldiers and a mounted knight with pikes and banners before a walled town on a hill.

The Campaign in Hungary, from The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I

School of Albrecht Dürer, 1515-17

Sepia watercolor of a thatched cottage among trees with a wooden fence and dirt path in the foreground.

At Crossington in Leicestershire

F. Smith, c. 1800

Japanese woodblock print of a kneeling kabuki actor in a black floral kimono, with audience hands raised in the foreground.

The Actor Nakamura Kumetaro II Greeting the Audience on His Arrival from Osaka at the Nakamura Theater in the Elevent…

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1790

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned robe holding a hand mirror beside blossoming plum branches and a shoji scree

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as the monk Shunkan in the play "Shunkan Shima Monogatari," performed at the Kawarazaki…

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1791

Japanese woodblock print of six kabuki actor bust portraits inside folding fan shapes, with pink fans between them.

Bust Portraits of Actors in Folding Fans: Ichikawa Danjuro V, Segawa Kikunojo III, Ichikawa Monnosuke II (right, top…

Katsukawa Shunsei, c. 1788

Etching of swallows flying over a river with reeds, trees and a cloudy sky with a rainbow.

Swallows

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Black ink woodblock print of the fierce bearded figure Shoki standing in a flowing robe with a sword.

Shoki, the Demon Queller

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1745

Etching of a half-timbered thatched cottage with tall chimneys beside a dirt road, with figures and a tree.

Low-Seated Peasant Dwelling, Troyes

Gustave Leheutre, 1896

Etching of a rural farmyard with an open-sided barn, a bell tower, a large tree, and grazing cattle and a pig.

A Tuscan Farm

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1904

Etching of San Gimignano's tall towers above a valley of trees and fields, with a cypress-lined road in the foreground.

San Gimignano

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black hakama and floral kimono holding a sword against a striped backdrop.

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunkō I, c. 1781

Title page of Meryon's portfolio of etching copies, with ornamental script, blue capitals and a handwritten dedication.

Portfolio

Charles Meryon, May 10, 1890

Brown wash drawing of Christ kneeling on a rock with an angel above and three sleeping disciples in the foreground.

Agony in the Garden

after Taddeo Zuccaro, c. 1600

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a staff, two putti beside her, and a distant landscape.

Magdalene in the Wilderness with Two Putti

François Perrier, n.d.

Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details for Vestibule Arch

Adler and Sullivan, c. 1887

Chalk study on grey paper of two bearded male heads, a half-length female nude, outstretched arms and hands.

Sketches of Half-Length Female Nude, Male Heads, Arms

the elder Louis de Boullogne, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of witches, demons and nude figures at a sabbath gathering, with a cauldron and a skeleton holding a torch

Scene of Witchcraft and Devil Worship

Attributed to David Teniers the Younger, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of figures struggling in a flood, with a boat in the distance under stormy clouds.

The Deluge

Attributed to Andrea dei Michieli, n.d.

Red chalk drawing in an oval of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace, lace collar and draped cloak.

Portrait of a Woman

Possibly after Gabriel Metsu, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a gesturing figure in armor addressing a circle of listening bearded men.

Julius Caesar Addressing Senators

Workshop of Taddeo Zuccaro, 1560/62

Japanese woodblock print of an armored samurai with arrows standing beside a kneeling woman in a pink kimono, with calligraph

Parting

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1772

Pen and brown wash drawing of men in an arched courtyard, one kneeling beside a seated old man, with a dog and tree.

Joseph's Brothers Showing His Coat to Jacob

Jan Victors, 1640/49

Brown ink drawing of a knight with a sword at a barred window and a standing woman in a patterned robe by a bed.

Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1857

Loose painted landscape of a rocky outcrop on a hillside with autumn shrubs, bare saplings and hazy hills under a pale sky.

Landscape

François-Auguste Ravier, 1870-84

Woodblock print of a courtesan with towering hairpins holding a pipe, with a poem cartouche at upper left.

Portrait of a Courtesan Holding a Pipe (from the series The Six Immortal Poets in Modern Dress)

Chobunsai Eishi, mid 1790s