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Engraving of Christ before a seated ruler on a throne, surrounded by soldiers, with a city visible through an arched doorway.

Christ before Pilate, from The Passion

Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin bending over a sleeping Christ child, with cherubs and a bearded figure behind her.

The Virgin and Child with St. Joseph

Attributed to Ludolph Büsinck, c. 1620-23

Engraving of a queen presenting herself to a seated king before columns, guards, lions, and a city with camels.

The Queen of Sheba before Solomon

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1557

Monochrome print of Salisbury Cathedral's spire beyond a river, with a fisherman, a large tree, and stormy sky with sunbeams.

Salisbury Cathedral

David Lucas, 1831, published 1838

Engraving of Hercules on a rearing horse with a warrior, horses, and fallen nude figures in a battle scene.

Hercules and Iole, from The Labors of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1544

Etching of a canal at dusk with silhouetted trees, reeds, and a setting sun behind clouds, in brown tones.

Winchelsea Canal

Francis Seymour Haden, c. 1877

Grey wash drawing of a couple in 18th-century dress beneath a large tree, with a man leaning toward a woman holding a fan.

Illustration to Roderick Random, by Tobias Smollett

Francis Hayman, c. 1760

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a checkered robe holding a staff, with swords at his back and cherry blossoms above.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Morita Theater…

Katsukawa Shunkō, c. 1780

Woodblock print of three kimono-clad figures by a pine tree, with a samurai holding a pipe and a harbor of boats behind.

Act Eight: The Bridal Journey from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, early 1790s

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary and the Christ Child, kneeling king, and a procession of riders and camels i

The Adoration of the Magi

Israhel van Meckenem, 1490/1500

Monochrome print of three men at a ruined window, one with a raised glass, one smoking a clay pipe, one dozing.

Three Smokers at a Window

Nicolas van Haften, c. 1694

Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (The Great Cardinal)

Albrecht Dürer, 1523

Pen and ink landscape of a river with a large tree, a hilltop town, boats, and two stooping figures in the foreground.

Landscape with Figures Binding Wheat in Foreground

Attributed to Ercole Bazicaluva, n.d.

Etching of a narrow Venetian canal under a stone bridge, with a gondolier beside a moored boat and tall old buildings.

Ponte del Pistor

Otto H. Bacher, 1880

Engraving of a seated nude woman with putti, a fruit basket, wheat sheaf, a hunter with dog, and a distant village.

An Allegory of Abundance

Cristofano Robetta, c. 1515

Engraving of an angel writing in an arched interior with a winged lion, a dragon, and the Trinity above.

St. John on the Island of Patmos

Jean Duvet, 1550/60

Etching of a rustic courtyard with a timber-framed house, stairs, a ladder, figures near barrels, and overhanging foliage.

Stairs in Front of a House

Charles Émile Jacque, 1843

Etching of a rural farmhouse with haystacks, a chimney, and a distant windmill under a cloudy sky.

Fisher's House, St. Jean-de-Mont

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1892

Etching of a stone arched bridge over a river with turreted historic buildings and a spire behind it, framed by trees.

The Concièrgerie, Paris

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1908

Etching of a curved ruined building with arched windows and small figures among fallen stones, by Piranesi.

Remains of the so-called Temple of Apollo at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768

Engraving of an anatomical dissection before a crowd, with a skeleton holding a banner above the table and dogs in front.

The Anatomical Lesson of Professor Pauw

Andries Jacobsz. Stock, 1615

Coloured print of armed islanders attacking a boat and a man in the surf on a tropical shore, with hills behind.

The Massacre of the Lamented Missionary the Rev. J. Williams and Mr. Harris, from Two Specimens

George Baxter, 1841

Dark woodcut-style print of a reclining woman on a pale ground, with a ghostly figure and small flame shapes above her.

Manau tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin, 1893/94

Engraving of a crowded prison room with a seated man, women, a child, and a jailer holding keys near a barred door.

Plate Seven, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged angel above two seated figures, one reading a book.

Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)

Luca Cambiaso, 1560/65

Engraved print of a uniformed man and seated woman beside an infant's cradle in a neoclassical interior with a fireplace.

The Hope of Posterity: The Emperor, Empress, and King of Rome

Adrien Pierre Francois Godefroy, 1811/12

Brown wash drawing of craggy rocks and shrubs reflected in calm water, with a tree on the left cliff.

Rocks and Water

Attributed to or after Jacob Philipp Hackert, n.d.

Brown ink and wash sketch of a woman in a white skirt beside a standing man, with a candelabrum and theater seats behind.

After the Ballet

Constantin Guys, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a floral kimono and elaborate hairstyle against a gray background.

The actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the wet nurse Shigenoi

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Hand-colored caricature of mourners in a funeral procession carrying a draped coffin toward a stone church with a speech ball

The Funeral Procession of Broad-Bottom

James Gillray, published April 6, 1807

Hand-coloured satirical print of a chaotic street with revolutionary soldiers, a bull, a guillotine, and a Liberty cap.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion

James Gillray, published October 20, 1796

Engraving of a nude woman seen from behind with an owl, a brazier with flames, a crescent moon and stars.

Night, plate four from The Four Parts of the Day

the elder Crispijn van de Passe, c. 1580-1630