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Mezzotint of men smoking clay pipes around a table in a dim tavern interior, with a figure in a doorway at left.

The Story Tellers

Richard Earlom, 1768

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ between two thieves, a ladder, grieving figures, and a city in the background.

The Crucifixion

Jean Duvet, 1545/55

Engraving of a bearded seated man holding a laurel sprig, with two women beside him and a laurel tree and arched building beh

Man Under a Laurel Tree

Agostino Veneziano, 1515/30

Brown ink drawing of Cupid in a triumphal chariot with gods, goddesses and putti in a mythological procession.

Cupid in Triumphal Chariot, Accompanied by Gods and Goddesses

Follower of Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a wine harvest with barrels loaded on a mule, villagers, cherubs and a rustic house.

Wine Harvest

called Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a winged angel holding a laurel branch above her, on a shaded base.

Seated Woman Crowned by Angel

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a pale ghostly figure with outstretched arm above two dark figures beside a column.

Hamlet and His Father's Ghost

John Faed, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of an elderly man and seated woman in a cluttered cottage interior with a jug and doorway.

Old Peasant Couple in Cottage

After Adriaen van Ostade, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of two armored soldiers with a ladder and a figure looking down at upper right.

Way to Calvary

Follower of Joannes Stradanus, called Giovanni Stradano, n.d.

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of Venus and Adonis with a reclining nude, a dog, and sketched foliage.

Venus and Adonis

Attributed to Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael, n.d.

Brown wash drawing on blue paper of women tending a newborn beside a canopied bed, with a procession of figures and columns b

Study for the Allegory of Birth

After Giorgio Vasari, n.d.

Etching of a crowded army with horsemen and spearmen crossing a plain under dramatic clouds and mountains.

The Roman Army, from Revue Fantaisiste

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1856

Head of an Old Woman (so-called portrait of Visscher's mother)

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1649-58

Man on a green wagon pulled by a white horse crosses a ford beneath a large tree, with mountains in the distance.

The Ford

Henry Keller, 1919

Woodblock print of women by a night stream, one raising a round fan toward fireflies beneath a willow branch.

Women Beside a Stream Chasing Fireflies

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1796-97

Engraved view of Château de Saint-Maur from the garden, with formal parterres, strolling figures and rows of trees.

Chateau St. Maur

Jacques Rigaud, c. 1720-50

Watercolor of children in white and pastel dresses dancing around a maypole with ribbons in a green park.

May Day, Central Park

Maurice Prendergast, 1901

Engraving of a biblical flood with people fleeing and drowning, a large ark in the distance, and figures on a rooftop.

The Deluge

Dirck Vellert, 1544

Brown ink and wash drawing of a cavalry battle with trumpeters, fallen horses, and a fortress with crowded ramparts.

Battle Scene with a Fort

Antonio Tempesta, 1617-30

Oval print of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ on her lap, with a radiating halo and hatched drapery lines.

Madonna and Child

Bartolommeo Coriolano, c. 1630

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono preparing a bonito fish on a wooden tub, with clouds behind her.

First Bonito of the Year

Utagawa Kunisada, 1844-48

Woodblock print of a carp swimming up through dark teal streams of water, with patterned scales and a red seal in the corner.

Carp Ascending a Waterfall

Keisai Eisen, early or mid-1830s

Woodblock print of travelers and a laden horse on a snowy hillside with pine trees and falling snow.

Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837-38

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono holding a black dog beside a shoji screen and chrysanthemums.

Courtesan Holding a Dog (from the series Popular Presentations)

Torii Kiyonaga, 1783

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with ornate hair writing with a brush on a scroll, beside a hand mirror cartouche.

Woman Writing

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1753-1806

Watercolor of a shaded patio with a column, leafy plants, stone urns, and a figure in white at right.

The Patio

John Singer Sargent, 1908

Engraved interior with well-dressed men and a seated woman around a candlelit table, with paintings and dogs in the room.

The Marriage Settlement, Plate 1

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II, 1745

Chalk drawing of a young man with curly hair in drapery, with the sketched verso shown beside it.

Head of a Young Man (recto) Sketch of a Head (verso)

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1780s

Brown ink drawing of an armored knight on horseback fleeing a skeletal rider on a winged horse who fires a pistol, with battl

Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight

Sebastiaen Vrancx, 1631

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black robes with swords, extending his hands amid smoke and pine branches.

Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ono Sadakuro in Act Five of Kanadehon Chushingura, Naka Theater

Utagawa Sadamasu, 1838

Engraved battle scene of mounted soldiers and camels in a mountain landscape, with Chinese inscription across the top.

Breaking Through the Siege at Hesui: from Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Regions, with im…

Giuseppe Castiglione, c. 1765-74; poem dated 1759

Muted landscape with three cows by a pool, a seated herdsman, trees on the left and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool

Thomas Gainsborough, mid-1780s