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Brown wash drawing of a wooded valley with a stream, a stone bridge, and a standing figure at right.

Landscape with Figure Standing on a Bridge

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a haloed woman with an ointment jar beside a bearded merchant and coins on a ledge.

Mary Magdalen Buying Ointment

Paolo Gerolamo Piola, 1666-1724

Brown ink and wash drawing of a large gnarled tree with a hollow trunk in a wooded park landscape.

In the Park at Packington

Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, 1770-1812

Engraving of a warrior carrying an old man on his back as a boy follows, with a woman and a burning city behind them.

Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy

Agostino Carracci, 1595

Engraving of a lion, winged dragon and fox fighting, with an inscribed banderole above in an oval frame.

A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Grey ink and wash drawing of a vaulted stone fortress interior with arches, columns, steps and a hanging chain.

Design for a Stage Set Showing the Interior of a Fortress or Dungeon

Pietro Gonzaga, 1751-1831

Engraved auricular cartouche with grotesque figures, putti, a lion mask and fruit garlands within a strapwork frame.

Auricular Cartouche with Figures within a Strapwork Frame, from "Veederley Veranderinghe van grotissen ende Compertim…

Cornelis Floris II, 1556

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with floral garlands, fruit swags and gilded scrollwork in green and pink.

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Etching of a kneeling woman holding a young child up beside a column, inside a room with shelves and an open doorway.

The Father's Leave-Taking

William Holman Hunt, 1879

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man and a nude woman on a rock looking up at an eagle flying among forest trees.

Jupiter and Io, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of crumbling Roman brick arches and vaulted ruins, overgrown with plants, with a distant landscape glimpsed through a

Roman Ruins, from "Roman Ruins"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1673

Engraved allegory with a seated nobleman, a skeleton, winged figures and a Latin inscription beneath, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Allegory on the Death of the Earl of Arundel

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1646

Engraving of gluttony with drinkers at a table, giant barrels, grotesque creatures, and a burning town with a windmill-headed

Gluttony (Gula) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Etching of a bridal couple in period dress with a skeleton playing a drum beside them, an hourglass at their feet.

Bridal pair, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Watercolor lunette of a kneeling woman in pink, three crowned youths around her, and putti in floral garland borders.

Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

Moritz von Schwind, 1864

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rushing rocky stream passing a large boulder, with trees and hills behind.

A rocky stream, Italy

Samuel Woodforde, ca. 1786-91

Watercolor landscape of gnarled trees beside a rushing stream, with a frightened couple and a snake on a path.

Landscape with rushing stream and a couple on the bank, frightened by a snake

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Engraving of a man in a cloak pulling away from a woman grasping his garment in a bedchamber, with onlookers at left.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 17th century

Woodcut of a startled monk being pulled backward by a skeleton beside a column and an hourglass.

The Monk (or Mendicant), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of an old bearded man in a fur-trimmed coat walking with a skeleton, with an hourglass and tree behind them.

The Old Man, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Etching with two scenes: a crowd in a temple above, and a nativity with a mother, infant and adoring figures below.

The Presentation in the Temple

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-45 (?)

Etching of the Nativity: Virgin with infant Christ in a manger, surrounded by adoring figures in a stone-walled stable.

The Nativity

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1558-60

Woodcut of a reclining woman as a draughtsman sights her through a grid at a table beside a window with a plant.

Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

Engraving of Vulcan hammering at an anvil beside reclining Venus, with winged cupids working around a glowing forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Engraving of the Virgin Mary riding a donkey with the infant Christ while a man leads them past a palm tree.

The Virgin of Sorrows: The Flight into Egypt; one of nine surrounding compartments from the Virgin of Sorrows, now se…

Giorgio Ghisi, by 1575

Engraved procession of mounted nobles in plumed hats and armor with foot attendants, from a funeral plate.

Plate from Funeral of Charles III of Lorraine

Jacques Bellange

Engraving of the nude, muscular Farnese Hercules standing in a niche with a lion skin draped over a pedestal.

The Farnese Hercules

Giorgio Ghisi, late 1570s

Etching of a woman in a full gown and a masked man in a plumed hat on a tiled stage under a crescent moon.

The Italian Theater

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780

Etching of a forest scene with satyrs, a centaur, and children gathered around a teacher, with French verse below.

Education

Claude Gillot, n.d.