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Grey-toned drawing of a hilly landscape with a winding path and trees rendered in brown wash and white highlights.

Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)

Pietro Perugino, 1489-90

Watercolor landscape of a sandy path with wooden posts, trees, and cottages under a cloudy sky.

View of Kensington Gardens, London

John Linnell, 1812

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Andrew with a transverse cross, book, and fish, standing in flowing robes with a halo.

Saint Andrew, Apostle, with Transverse Cross, Book, and Fish, (recto); Architectural sketch (verso)

Fabrizio Santafede, 1576-1623

Watercolor drawing of classical ruins with columns, a fountain with statues, arches and small figures in an oval frame.

Architectural Capriccio

Jean Henri Alexandre Pernet, ca. 1780-1800

Brown ink drawing of ruined arches, cannons behind sandbags, tall trees, and a distant domed city skyline.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Landscape Looking Toward Rome

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche on a chariot drawn by birds, with winged children and a distant landscape.

The triumph of Cupid and Psyche who are seated on a chariot drawn by two birds restrained by children

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-67

Etching of a vast vaulted staircase with arches, railings, trophies and small figures in an imaginary prison interior.

The Staircase with Trophies, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749-50

Engraving of a young man in a plumed hat holding a skull, pointing with one hand, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Young Man with a Skull

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1519

Woodcut of a priest in a cloak meeting a skeleton beside a well in a town street, with onlookers at left.

The Priest, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a blossom-decorated fan beneath a red lantern.

A Girl with a Fan

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1780

Engraving of a kneeling saint about to be struck by an executioner, with angels in clouds above and a crowd watching below.

The Martrydom of St. Barbara

Giorgio Ghisi, late 1570s

Engraving of an elderly bearded man kneeling before a crucifix, with a skull and a lion beside him.

Saint Jerome kneeling before a crucifix, with a skull and lion

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1550-60

Etching of a riverside pump house with a tall tower on timber supports, Notre-Dame towers and city buildings behind, boats on

The Nôtre-Dame Pump, from "Etchings of Paris"

Charles Meryon, 1852

Engraving of a winged guardian angel touching the head of a sleeping bearded old man slumped over a book.

The Guardian Angel

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1500-3

Japanese print of women in kimono wading in the sea before a rising red sun between two rocks linked by a sacred rope.

Women Worshipping the Rising Sun between the Twin Rocks at Ise

Kitagawa Utamaro

Engraving of two nude figures embracing, one raising an orb, set in an arched frame, after a sculpture.

Mercury Abducting Psyche (view with Psyche from behind), from a set of three views of the sculpture

Jan Müller, ca. 1593

Engraving of a rocky landscape with a horse and groom, large trees on the right, and a hilltop town under hatched clouds.

Landscape with a Horseman and His Groom

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1552-61

Brown wash drawing of ancient warriors with mules and an oxcart passing large trees beside a carved stone monument.

Ajax in the Grave

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, ca. 1790-99

Colored side-view design drawing of a pony phaeton carriage with orange wheels and green body on gray paper.

Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3594a

Brewster & Co., 1880

Engraved religious print showing the Annunciation in the foreground, with the Visitation and Nativity scenes above in a hatch

The Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity

Master of the Church Fathers' Border, 15th century

Drawing of a family group with children, a seated woman in a lace bonnet, and a standing man in a powdered wig beside a table

Family Portrait

Georg David Matthieu, 1737-78

Engraving of three sailing ships anchored near a fortified island with a tower, rowboats and billowing clouds.

Four-Master (Left) and Two Three-Masters Anchored near a Fortified Island with a Lighthouse from The Sailing Vessels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1561-65

Woodcut of a werewolf crouching over a child's body, with bones on the ground, a timber house and a castle in the background.

The Werewolf or the Cannibal

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Colored caricature of historical rulers and revolutionaries waiting at a bus stop labeled Omnibus des Enfers, with a Peace Da

The Bus from Hell to Earth, Peace Day, 1919

Georges Tiret-Bognet, ca. 1919

Etched frontispiece with a bearded man in an oval portrait surrounded by ivy, music, a flute, grapes and flowers.

Frontispiece for Champfleury's "Les Amis de la Nature"

Félix Bracquemond, 1859

Engraved print of a standing robed saint holding keys and a tiara, on a carved pedestal with an inscribed plaque.

St. Peter Celestine

Engraving of an apocalyptic scene with Christ and angels above and tormented figures in flames below.

A Star Falls and makes Hell Open, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded man in a wide hat and fur-trimmed cloak, with Latin text below.

Damaio de Gois

Philips Galle, n.d.

Engraving of a reclining woman in a rocky grotto with a skull, cross, and wreath, with Latin text below.

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

Watercolor of a shaded road beside a steep rocky cliff with dense trees, figures on the path, and a distant building.

A View near the Arco Scuro, looking towards the Villa Medici, at Rome

Francis Towne, 1785