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Oil sketch of a glowing orange sunset over a river valley with wooded hills and a lit cumulus cloud.

Drawing, Cloud study at sunset, 1850-60

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Side-elevation drawing of a blue and black horse-drawn coach with yellow-orange spoked wheels on grey paper.

Coach #3569

Brewster & Co., 1880

Watercolor of a young fisherman seated on a rock beside a waterfall, with dense trees behind him.

Young Fisherman

William James Müller

Hand-lettered Finnish verse page with illuminated initials and margin drawings of clouds, rain and roots.

The Great Kalevala: Poem II. Verses 317 - 358

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Brown ink drawing of a synagogue interior with curved gallery, Ionic columns, chandeliers and a central Torah ark.

Innenansicht der Synagoge (Stadttempel), 1., Seitenstettengasse 4

vermutlich: Ernst Ehrenhauss, 1825

Pencil drawing of a gnarled bare tree trunk with twisting branches on tan paper, with faint foliage sketched behind.

Baumstudie

Josef Kriehuber, 1858

Etching of the Alcazar fortress in Toledo above a stone arched bridge and river, with reflections in the water.

The Alcazar, Toledo

Joseph Pennell, 1904

Etching of a Dutch townhouse with steps, hanging laundry, figures in doorways and a reflective canal in the foreground.

The Steps, Amsterdam

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Engraving of a Renaissance bishop's tomb with a reclining effigy, cherubs, a Madonna and Child, and clergy below.

The Tomb of a Bishop

Battista d'Agnolo, 1540/45

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black robe biting cloth and holding a sword under a pine tree in rain.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in t…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1783

Hand-colored print of a Gothic cathedral porch with carved saints, with a woman, children and a sleeping man on the steps.

Notre Dame, Chartres

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839

Woodcut of the Crucifixion with angels catching blood, mourning figures below, and a mounted soldier at right.

The Crucifixion, from The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1498, published 1511

Dark etching of a night scene with glowing windows on a building facade and a radiating street lamp below.

The Dance House: Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Loose charcoal sketch of a bearded man with dark hair, turned three-quarter view, arms crossed, on pale paper.

Sketch of a Blacksmith

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Colored print of a dragon-prowed treasure ship with robed figures under a red canopy, a lute player, and sea waves.

The Treasure Ship

Attributed to Furuyama Moromasa, c. 1712

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one holding a turtle, beside a gold chest of goldfish and a folding screen.

Jurojin, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Adesugata Shichifukujin)"

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1770/76

Woodblock print of two mandarin ducks on a rock by a stream, with pink irises and bamboo leaves behind them.

Mandarin Ducks, from the series "Kashinsai"

Nishimura Shigenaga, c. 1725/27

Brown and grey wash drawing of infantry with bayonets clashing with cavalry before a church, smoke and fallen horses in foreg

A Skirmish Between the Cavalry Officers and Footsoldiers with Bayonets

Dirk Langendijk, 1781

Etching of a dim church interior with a stone font, robed figures, and a bright doorway opening onto a street.

Church Interior, Venice, plate sixteen from the North Italian Set

David Young Cameron, 1896

Engraving of a wild bacchanal with satyrs, dancing nude figures, and a winged cupid under dense oak trees.

Bacchanal

Giulio Sanuto, c. 1550

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a couple sharing a red umbrella in falling snow, with bamboo behind them.

Lovers under an Umbrella in the Snow

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Bust of a Warrior

Hendrick Goltzius, 1586/88

Woodblock print of a Japanese reception room with seated figures, paper lanterns, a folding screen, and a dancer in the cente

Views of Reception Rooms in Japan - Entertainments on the Day of the Rat in the Modern Style (Uki-e wakoku keiseki oz…

Utagawa Toyoharu, c. 1771/76

Three women in kimono walk under a cherry tree in bloom, one reaching toward a branch, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Famous Trees in the Eastern Capital: The Cherry Tree at Naruko (Toto meiboku Naruko no sakura)

Kikukawa Eizan, c. 1807

Pale brown drawing of a centaur guiding a nude youth who draws a bow inside a rocky cave, with a lyre and arrows nearby.

Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow

Bertel Thorvaldsen, after 1810

Engraving of sleeping Hercules swarmed by tiny pygmies, with a winged figure and gods on clouds above.

Hercules besieged by Pygmies

Cornelis Cort, 1562-63

Etching of a Gothic cathedral portal with carved saint statues framing a view of a street and a lone figure.

Chartres

David Young Cameron, 1902

Engraving of putti hammering a tongue on an anvil among classical ruins, with a dragon and sleeping figures below.

Fate of the Evil Tongue

Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1507

Japanese woodblock print of a foreign merchant shop interior in Yokohama with men at a counter and women working.

Sales Room at a Foreign Merchant Shop in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan uriba no zu)

Utagawa Sadahide, 1861

Lioness Roaring

Frederik Willem Zürcher, n.d.

Woman in pink kimono tossing a ball over a railing to a man in striped robe below, Japanese woodblock print.

Young Woman Throwing a Ball at a Young Man

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1774

Woodcut of a chaotic medieval jousting tournament with knights and horses colliding in a town square lined with spectators.

The First Tournament

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1506