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138,868 works

Watercolor of monks in a stone church vault examining an open coffin with skeletal remains, lit by a smoking torch.

In the Church Vaults

Wojciech Gerson, 1861

Brown wash portrait of a man grimacing with a pouting lip, wounded scalp marked with the number 12, and buttoned coat.

L’homme à la lippe

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1777-1825

Colour lithograph of a Roman atrium with columns, bronze statues, marble busts, classical figures and a coffered ceiling.

La maison pompéienne; l’atrium, plan et profil de la maison de Pansa

Auguste Racinet, 1876-1888

Chromolithograph grid of Byzantine geometric tile patterns, borders and rosettes in red, blue, green and gold, by Owen Jones.

Byzantine No. 3

Owen Jones, 1856

Sepia plate of numbered Arabian ornamental designs with stepped borders, arabesque scrolls, lattice and interlaced bands.

Arabian No. 2

Owen Jones, 1856

Arcadius

Jacopo Strada, 1559

Colour plate of Arabic-style ornamental panels with star patterns, floral motifs, arabesques and calligraphic inscriptions.

Arabian No. 4

Owen Jones, 1910

Tiberius II Constantine

Jacopo Strada, 1559

Henry III

Jacopo Strada, 1559

Decorative print of bamboo-like leaves and blossoms in gold and silver over a red geometric lattice pattern.

Fleurs sur fond géométrique

Maurice Pillard Verneuil, 1913

Chromolithograph of a gilded copper reliquary with enthroned Christ, angels, saints and enamel panels.

Reliquarie en cuivre doré enrichi d’émaux

Joseph Rose Lemercier, 1859-1864

Brown etching of three harnessed horses led by a rider on a city street lined with tall Parisian-style buildings.

Three horses with rider Garcon d’Ecurie

Pieter Dupont, 1896-1911

Three-panel topographic map of the Goslar and Bad Harzburg area showing contour lines, relief shading and coloured elevation

Geländedarstellung

Carl Diercke, 1930

Ontwerpschets voor Paul Fierens ‘l’Art Hollandais contemporain’

Leo Gestel, 1933

Colorful print of workers in turbans preparing cinnamon bark under a thatched shelter beside a river and hills.

Kanel

Goering-Schmidt, 1911

Colored bird's-eye map of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, 1873, showing the Elizabeth River lined with ships and streets.

Norfolk & Portsmouth Virginia 1873

C. N. Drie, 1873

Colored print of a stone roadside inn with travelers, a covered wagon, horses, cattle, and bare autumn trees under a cloudy s

American scenery - the inn on the roadside

E. Sachse & Co., 1872

Colorful 1883 lithograph poster with three central portraits of men in suits, surrounded by scenes of fields, soldiers, and a

Heroes of the colored race

Joseph Hoover, 1883

Colour print of Union soldiers charging a fort wall under a waving American flag, with Confederate defenders and steamships i

Storming Fort Wagner

Kurz & Allison, 1890

Colored print of a river scene with fishermen, boats, a stone bridge, a mill wheel, and a castle ruin on a hill.

The River

A. Toller, 1875

Colored lithograph of a busy town marketplace with stalls, a Gothic church, and townspeople in 19th-century dress.

Marketplace

A. Toller, 1875

Cutaway lithograph of steam locomotive number 238 on rails, showing boiler, smokestack and drive mechanism.

Lokomotive

Bruno Héroux, 1910

Anatomical teaching poster of a male torso showing blood vessels and organs, with three insets on tuberculosis spread.

Routes of tuberculosis transmission in the body. II. The bloodstream

Dr. Trenkler & Co., 1920

Colorful 1894 geological map of the Hannover region with a legend of rock formations along the right edge.

Hannover

F. Stiebritz, 1894

Printed portrait of a crowned king in a fur-trimmed brown robe holding a jewelled sceptre against a dark background.

King Christian I of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

F.E. Bording, 1944

Colored print of fishermen cleaning fish and working a large net from wooden boats on a river at dusk.

Fisherman

Felix Elssner, 1904

Colour print of a boy feeding greens to rabbits beside a wooden hutch in a yard with an axe on a stump.

Rabbits

J. Muusses, 1910

Colour print of a crowd with sacrificial animals approaching a columned Greek temple, with priests on the steps and an altar

Griekische Tempelweihe

Mathieu Molitor, 1906

Colored print of a medieval battle with armored knights, rearing horses, archers and a fallen warrior in a red cloak.

Tod des Markgrafen Liutpold in der Schlacht gegen die Ungarn 907 (19th century)

Colour print of a field gun firing on a battlefield, with soldiers, horses, and smoke, captioned The Last Shot at Colenso.

The last shot at Colenso

Richard Caton Woodville, 1900

Woodblock print of three women in a room with a tiered doll display, one kneeling to offer a wrapped parcel at an open door.

Three Women at Open Door (late 18th century - early 19th century)

Japanese woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono reading a book beside a shoji screen and potted plant.

Two Women of the Greenhouses with a Book of Poems (18th century - 19th century)

Katsukawa Shuncho