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Etching of a crowded square before an ornate town hall with a balcony of officials, flags, and gabled houses.

The Peace of Munster

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1641

Engraving of a falcon perched on a branch beside a woodpecker, with a village, hills and sailboats behind them.

Kestrel and Great Spotted Woodpecker

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Sepia chiaroscuro print of a Roman triumphal procession with soldiers, banners, and a chariot between ornate columns.

The Triumph of Julius Caesar [no.1 and 2 plus 2 columns]

Andrea Andreani after Andrea Mantegna, 1599

Chiaroscuro woodcut of a triumphal chariot with horses, a seated figure, winged Victory, putti and a decorative column at lef

The Triumph of Julius Caesar [no.9 plus 2 columns]

Andrea Andreani after Andrea Mantegna, 1599

Engraved title page with Latin text in a cartouche, framed by a stone arch, armor trophy, and carved figures.

Title Page

Hieronymus Cock, published 1551

Hand-coloured star chart showing the constellation Ursa Major as a brown bear on a dark blue sky with yellow stars.

Ursa Major

Johann Bayer, 1624

Color lithograph of six white US Navy warships including battleship Massachusetts steaming through green waves under a cloudy

‘The white squadron’ United States Navy

Currier & Ives, 1893

Etched print of sailing warships in battle, with gun smoke rising over choppy sea and a fleet receding toward the horizon.

The Battle of Trafalgar

William Lionel Wyllie, 1893

Engraved portrait of an elderly woman in a white headscarf and shawl, smiling faintly against a dark hatched background.

The good woman of Normandy

Johann Georg Wille

Colour print of a narrow fjord with steep cliffs, a small distant boat, and rocks in the foreground water.

Nærofjorden, Sogn

Philip Barlag, 1890-1900

Japanese woodblock print with three figure portraits and calligraphic poem panels, including a woman, a boy and a white-haire

Portrait of a woman, boy and man

Utagawa Kunisada, 1820-1830

Colored relief map of western Czechoslovakia and German Upper Silesia with railways, rivers, and inset city maps.

Westliche Tschechoslowakei und Deutsch-Oberschlesien

Ernst Friedrich, 1926

Colorful print of mounted soldiers in a cavalry charge with raised sabers, a bugler, and gunfire across a cactus landscape.

Teddy’s rough riders (19th century)

George Harris & Sons

Print of crew in caps hauling on a heeling racing yacht with cream sails, another sailboat behind it in rough green seas.

Dash around the lightship

Julian Oliver Davidson, 1887

Republican campaign poster from 1888 with portraits of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, flags, and George Washington abo

Republican nominees

Kurz & Allison, 1888

Hand-colored print of a farmyard with pigs, poultry, horses, sheep, children and a stork nest on a barn roof.

Inn

A. Toller, 1875

Colour print of a cobbler's workshop with craftsmen at work and a seated woman being fitted for a boot.

Shoemaker

Felix Elssner, 1904

Colored print of a crowned ruler on a dais receiving kneeling turbaned envoys with gifts, guarded by armored soldiers.

Charlemagne receives Moorish embassy (19th century)

Franz Xaver Simm

Colour print of crusaders raising a cross and banner before a stone church as people kneel in a crowded Jerusalem square.

Eroberung Jerusalems durch Gottfried von Bouillon 1099 (19th century)

Karl von Piloty

Colorful print of Columbus received by a crowned royal couple while Indigenous visitors bring parrots and produce.

Christoph Columbus. Columbus wird nach seiner Rückkehr von dem Spanischen Königspaar empfangen (1493)

Marcus, 1914

Hand-coloured 19th-century world map of Christian missions with Bible verse and surrounding vignettes of peoples and animals.

Welt-Karte Der Mission

Godefroy Engelmann, 1860

Hand-colored 1709 map of a fortified city with bastions, canals, and a numbered legend framed by cherubs and allegorical figu

Sylva dvcia Gallis Bojs le Dvc German s Hartogen Bos

Anna Beek, 1709

Hand-coloured 1709 engraving of the Christian-Turkish peace conference, with interior rooms, a river map, tents and the confe

Theatre de la paix entre les chrestiens et les turcs

Anna Beek, 1709

Colored etching of a crowded Brussels street parade with masked caricature faces, banners, and a haloed central figure.

Christ’s Entry into Brussels

James Ensor, 1895

Woman in a gray kimono with a red obi standing beside a blossoming cherry tree, one hand raised to her face.

Woman under a Cherry Tree

Kawasaki Rankō, ca. 1907-15

Colour lithograph of a dark-robed preacher gesturing before a crowd of distressed, arm-raised figures in dramatic light.

Conscience hath a thousand tongues

Carl Hassmann, 1906

Seated woman in patterned kimono holding a cup, with puppets, a shamisen and an open manuscript beside her.

Female Chanter for Jōruri Puppet Theater

Arai Kōu, ca. 1920

Three cream Japanese characters outlined in black on a red-brown ground, with gold-flecked paper border and ink note above.

Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples Pl.52 (19th century)

Katsushika Hokusai

Letterpress poster announcing the Paris Opéra premiere of Wagner's Tannhäuser on 13 March 1861.

THEATRE IMPERIAL DE L'OPERA/ 34: [?] Demain MERCREDI 13 Mars 1861./ DEBUTS DE M. NIEMANN/ PREMIERE REPRESENTATION/ TA…

Typographie Morris père et fils, 1861

Watercolor of Jesus being stripped of his clothes by two men while a Roman soldier with a spear looks on.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station X: Jesus is stripped of his clothes

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Red and black chalk sketch of a child figure with feathered wings on toned, stained paper.

A child

Etching of a haloed saint at an altar as the Virgin and Child appear in light above, with kneeling figures watching.

The Holy Virgin appears to Andrew while he says his first mass. Sixth number of a series of 20 pieces

Stefano Della Bella