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Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a young John the Baptist in a tight group.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist

Francesco Salviati, ca. 1550

Grey wash drawing of a symmetrical vault decoration with seated figures, putti, garlands and grotesque masks.

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Orazio Samacchini, 1532-77

Engraving of seated giant Polyphemus watching Galatea on a shell pulled by dolphins, with Cupid flying above.

Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right ri…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Pen and ink sketch of two men walking a path with sticks, a dog lying nearby, and trees behind a fence.

Anticipation (for Punch, or the London Charivari, October 23, 1876)

Charles Samuel Keene, 1876

Engraving of Vulcan hammering on an anvil, with Venus and three winged cupids around the forge.

Vulcan seated hammering on an anvil flanked by Venus and three cupids

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Eros rowing a quiver-boat with his bow across waves, arrow as mast, Latin banderole above.

Eros escaping by sea using his bow to propel a boat made from his quiver with an arrow as the mast and his blindfold…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of haloed women climbing temple steps toward a seated Christ, with a classical portico and crowd of onlookers.

Martha leading Mary Magdalene up a flight of stairs to Christ who is seated at right at the entrance to a temple

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520-25

Engraving of scholars around an open book, a man holding an armillary sphere, columns and a landscape behind them.

Assembly of male and female scholars gathered around an open book, in the middle ground a man holds aloft an armillar…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of two embracing nude figures beneath a tree, with a deer and a distant hilltop town in the landscape.

Medor and Angelica from Lodovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' or Venus and Adonis embracing, set within a landscape

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a classical woman in an arched niche holding a child while another child clings to her skirt.

Charity personified by a woman with two childen, from "The Virtues"

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1515-25

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Painted river landscape with a fisherman standing in a rowboat beside rocks, framed by dense trees under a cloudy sky.

A wooded river landscape with a fisherman in a boat

the younger Benjamin Barker, 1826

Colored architectural design of a Gothic altar chapel with pointed windows, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, and paneled walls.

Design for an Altar Chapel, Farnborough, England

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1880-86

Etching of the crucifixion of Christ between two thieves, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below under radiating light.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653

Engraving of a seated bearded man at a desk beside an angel, with a walled city, a swan, a boat and animals.

The artist Jean Duvet in the guise of St. John the Evangelist, sitting at a desk

Jean Duvet, ca. 1546-55

Etching of two dancers in a rehearsal room, one bending toward the floor beside a tall striped curtain.

Two Dancers in a Rehearsal Room

Edgar Degas, 1877-78

Grey wash drawing of a domed circular temple among tall trees, with a winding path, figures, cattle and a stone urn.

Idyllic Landscape with Temple

Johann Heinrich Müntz, 1770

Etched title page with an oval portrait of a man surrounded by nude putti, fruit garlands and a cornucopia.

Paedopaegnion: Third Title Page (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, after 1651

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

Engraving of Christ standing before a seated ruler under a canopy, with soldiers and onlookers and a city view through an arc

Christ before Pilate, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Mezzotint of a lion attacking a white horse in a rocky, wooded landscape, with trees framing the scene.

The Lion and Horse

Benjamin Green, November 1, 1777

Hope

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a laureate emperor on a pedestal gesturing to an SPQR standard with an eagle, beside armored soldiers.

Emperor addressing his Soldiers

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1542-45

Brown wash drawing of a forest path lined with large trees and dense foliage, with a low fence visible on the left.

A Path in the "Haagse Bos", The Hague

Jan de Bisschop, mid 17th century

Engraving of robed figures in a temple, some prostrate before a pedestal beneath a radiant light with winged figures above.

The Philistines Place the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple of Dagon

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1540

Engraving of Diana and her nymphs resting in a forest with hunting dogs, a quiver of arrows, and a satyr behind a tree.

Diana resting with her nymphs

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of a kneeling woman pleading before a crowned seated ruler as a swordsman and crowd look on in a columned hall.

Female figure (Saint Catherine?) kneeling on the ground at center pleading to a male figure (Maximus?) who wears a cr…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Grey-wash drawing of a waterfall beneath a large flowering tree, with three figures on a path and conifers in the distance.

Landscape with Waterfall

Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

Watercolor of a rocky arch framing a valley, with sheep and a sleeping shepherd on a grassy path below.

Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd

Philip Heinrich Dunker, 1817

Engraving of a bearded man in a spiked barrel before a crowd, with ships in a harbor and a walled city behind.

Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th century

Etching of the Peace Conference at Breda with a crowded chamber scene, surrounding city views, and a carriage procession.

Peace Conference at Breda

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.