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Print of Roman soldiers, trumpeters and standard bearers in a triumphal procession, with banners showing battles and besieged

Triumph of Caesar

Andrea Andreani, 1599

Japanese woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono beside cherry blossoms and shop signs, by Okumura Masanobu,

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Osome and Sodesaki Kikutaro as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu Shinju," perfor…

Okumura Masanobu, 1731

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a striped robe and patterned white kimono beside bamboo and a black lacquered screen.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Heiji (?) in the Play Hiragana Seisuiki (?), Performed at the Morita Theater…

Katsukawa Shunkō I, c. 1776

Etching of four goats in a shaded forest clearing beneath large trees, with a small figure at left.

The Four Goats

Claude Lorrain, 1630/33

Watercolor of Capri showing white houses, a domed church, a dark cliff and a palm tree under a hazy sky.

Capri

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, n.d.

Etching of a moonlit field with two cows, a farmer, haystacks and dark trees under a glowing moon.

Moonlight at Valmondois

Charles-François Daubigny, 1877

Vertical Japanese print of a woman in a black hood and patterned kimono beside plum blossoms and a tiled roof.

Woman Wearing Black Hood in Front of the Hatsutaka Teahouse

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a birdcage held by a winged figure, flanked by grotesques, goats, and putti.

Panel of Ornament with a Birdcage

Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1507

Engraving of a tall ornament panel with two cupids, crossed halberds, griffins, an urn and dense scrollwork.

Griffins and Two Cupids Crossing Halberds, plate five of Twelve Ornament Panels

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, c. 1505-15

Japanese print of two women and a man on a veranda beside a lacquer vessel, with pine trees and a poem at upper left.

A Parody of the Tales of Ise

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1789/95

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Christ Child with saints in clouds, an angel pouring from a vase toward souls below.

The Virgin and Saint Joseph with Saint Anthony of Padua Seated in the Heavens Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory,…

Pietro Antonio de' Pietri, 1690/1710

Engraving of soldiers executing an elderly man in a columned Roman interior, with a fallen body and Latin text below.

Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, plate 5 from Thrones of Justice (Thronus Iustitiae)

Willem van Swanenburgh, 1606

Brown chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin and Christ child with young Saint John the Baptist holding a cross, with radiating li

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Andreani, 1591

Colour woodcut of a woman in a blue dress reaching toward a patterned pillow on a green sofa, framed by brown and green panel

The Pillow

Maximilian Kurzweil, 1903

Etching of an elderly bearded scribe writing with a quill at a desk beside an hourglass and books.

The Scribe

Salomon de Koninck, n.d.

Etching of figures burying the dead beside a stone tomb, with a dog and a standing figure in a rocky setting.

Tobit Burying the Dead

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1647/51

Pen and ink drawing of a rushing torrent through a steep rocky gorge with distant mountain peaks under a pale sky.

Torrent in Tyrol

John Ruskin, n.d.

Posada broadside of skeletal figures in a graveyard around an RIP coffin, with Spanish verse printed below.

Aquí están las calaveras de Don Folias y el Negrito (Here Are the Calaveras of Don Folias and El Negrito)

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Japanese paper stencil with a dense repeating pattern of mallow leaves cut out of dark brown paper.

Stencil with Design of Mallows

Unknown artist, Late 19th century

Victorian valentine with gilt embossed foliage, lace paper panels, a cameo portrait of a woman, and a bouquet of colorful flo

Affections Offering (Valentine)

John Windsor, c. 1850

Etching of peasants dancing in a circle before thatched cottages, with onlookers, a barrel, a jug, and a distant church spire

Circle Dance

David Teniers the Younger, 1635/68

Five seated warrior generals in patterned robes and armor beside a pine tree, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Five Tiger Generals of the Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden goko shogun)"

Yashima Gakutei, c.1828

Five seated warriors in patterned robes and armor beside a pine tree, in a Japanese woodblock print.

The Five Tiger Generals of the Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden Goko Shogun)

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1828

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a bishop in a tall mitre kneeling in prayer at a lectern, robes spread on the flo

Bishop Kneeling in Prayer

Follower of Abraham Bloemaert, n.d.

Faded drawing of the Virgin holding the Christ Child in red drapery, with an angel's head at upper right.

Virgin and Child with Angel

After Sebastiano del Piombo, n.d.

Gray wash drawing of a bearded man emerging from a whale while another figure gestures beside him under a beam of light.

Jonah Cast Up by the Whale

After Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, 17th century

Sepia wash drawing of a laurel-crowned woman reading a book beside a reclining man in a leafy forest setting.

Muse and Poet

Alfred Edward Chalon, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate pedestal with a relief of a woman in a chariot pulled by big cats, flanked by lions.

Pedestal with Relief of the Triumph of Ariadne

the Younger Giuseppe Maria Mazzuoli, n.d.

Charcoal and chalk self-portrait of a man with swept-back hair and a high collar, turned toward the viewer on tan paper.

Self-Portrait

Johannes Cornelis Haccou, 1835

Grey wash drawing of a tree-lined road on a hill with small walking figures and a distant city with church spires.

View of City from Road on Hill

Jan Looten, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi, with the Virgin and Child in a colonnaded hall and a kneeling king o

Adoration of the Magi

Lambert van Noort, 1559

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated pope handing a document to a kneeling monk among attendants in a curtained hall.

Pope Granting Saint Anthony of Padua a Bull of Indulgence

Circle of Paolo Farinato, n.d.