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Small sketch of a sunset with a bright sun behind streaked clouds and dark tree silhouettes along the bottom edge.

Drawing, Sunset, 1865-66

Frederic Edwin Church, 1865

Watercolor drawing of a crowded café with musicians, revelers, sleeping men, a dog and a view of a Venetian square.

Café auf der Piazetta zu Venedig

Johann Heinrich Ramberg

Pencil sketch of an old Viennese street corner with ornate buildings, a street lamp, and a horse-drawn carriage.

Das alte Schönbrunnerhaus (Tuchlauben 8)

Rudolf von Alt, 1850

Etching of a crowded forest camp with people cooking over a fire and preparing a feast beneath large trees.

Camping Place of the Gypsies: The Preparation of the Feast

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Woodblock print of a woman in a green kimono holding a placard beside a tree hung with white paper streamers.

Shima Province: Arashi Rikan III as the Aunt of Fukuoka Mitsugi

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852

Etching of a castle on a wooded hilltop above a village with a church steeple, framed by a tree on the left.

Castle on a Hilltop

Hanns Lautensack, 1553

Etching of an elderly woman in a headwrap warming her hands at a hearth, with a wall clock and a stool beside her.

Old Woman Warming her Hands

Jozef Israëls, 1883

Etching of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, with large trees framing a Gothic-style building and shadowed pathway.

Lincoln's Inn Fields

Joseph Pennell, 1905

Sepia drawing of men training horses outside a thatched barn beneath a bare tree, with a dog and distant hills.

Horse Training

Wilhelm von Kobell, 1788

Sepia drawing of thatched cottages and a church tower beside trees, with figures by a stream and wooden footbridge.

Village Corners

Jacques Desjardins, Date unknown

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned orange kimono, drawing a sword with a scroll in his mouth, before a green door

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Ukishima Danjo (?) in the Play Shinasadame Soma no Mombi (?), Performed at the Ichimura…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1770

Japanese woodblock print of two women with elaborate hairstyles behind a mosquito net, with red cloth hanging above.

Mosquito Net, from the series Model Young Women in Mist (Kasumi-ori musume hinagata) (Kaya)

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1794/95

The Veil

Fernand Khnopff, c. 1887

Misty nocturne of a river with factory chimneys and a domed building, and a small boat with a figure in the foreground.

Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Ink and wash drawing of Christ in glory holding a cross, flanked by two bearded saints and surrounded by angels and putti.

Christ in Glory with Saints Peter and Paul

Johann Franz Caspar, 1723-1728

Grey wash landscape of a river with a castle ruin on the left, a rowing boat, and dark trees on the right.

River with Castle Ruin and Boat II

Elizabeth Murray, c. 1855

Etching of a narrow Paris street with crowds of women, children and dogs beneath tall buildings and chimneys.

Rue Mouffetard, Paris

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1900

Black and white lithograph of a snowy Moscow winter scene with a stone bridge, Kremlin towers, sleighs and figures on a froze

View of the Stone Bridge from the Kremlin, from Views of Moscow

Alexis Victor Joly, 1833

Woodcut of an angel with a key standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key of the Bottomless Pit, from The Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496-98; published 1511

Woodblock print of a standing man in a red robe and clogs beneath plum branches, beside a reed screen.

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Baramon no Kichi in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1780

Etching of satyrs gathered in a forest for a wedding ceremony at an altar, with musicians and French verses below.

Le Mariage (The Mariage from, the Vie des Satyres)

Claude Gillot, c.1722

Woodblock print of a fierce armored warrior with a black staff among rocks and flying arrows.

Zheng Tianshou (Hakumenrokun Teitenja), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Ts…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1827/30

Etching of the Tomb of the Scipios, showing a curved ancient tomb wall, broken sarcophagi, overgrown plants and small figures

Tomb of the Scipios, plate 18 from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other arches

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of a rustic courtyard with a man bending near leaning ladders and two children seated by a doorway.

Courtyard

Charles Émile Jacque, 1845

Japanese woodblock print of a Noh actor in a green patterned robe and blue headdress holding a drawn sword.

Eboshi-ori, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1898/1903

Woodblock print of a samurai in black kimono and striped trousers holding a katana, with a plum blossom screen behind him.

Danjuro as a Samurai

Utagawa Toyomaru, about 1794

Open Buddhist manuscript with painted deities on left and right panels and red script on a central page, under brocade.

Title Page and Front Cover of a Buddhist Manuscript with Manjusri (left) and Mantramanudharani, a Pancharaksha Goddes…

Unknown artist, 17th/18th century

Oval hand-coloured print of shepherdesses, children and sheep beneath a tree, with a shepherd and flock on a hillside.

July

Francesco Bartolozzi, July 10, 1789

Dark etching of a hooded monk in prayer, lit faintly against a heavily shaded background.

Monk at Prayer

Charles Émile Jacque, c. 1843

Japanese woodblock print of a black dog with a red ribbon beside a hanging kimono, a bowl of ornaments and clouds.

Black Dog

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1772/81

Woodblock print of a woman with a parasol in a patterned kimono, accompanied by a man and an attendant carrying a basket.

Shioginu of the Tsutaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana n…

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1777/78

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a striped red kimono holding a sword beside a stone wall and water.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yaegushi no Oroku (?) in the Play Keisei Kogane no Hakarime (?), Performed at the Kawar…

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1792