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Brown ink and wash drawing of an elaborate imaginary facade with columns, scrolled ornament, relief medallions and figures.

Fantasy of a Façade with Bizarre Ornaments

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1764/1766

Goya etching: a woman reaches toward a hanged man bound at the wrists on stone steps, under a dark sky.

A caza de dientes (Out Hunting for Teeth)

Francisco Goya, published 1799

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris: three nude goddesses before a shepherd in a wooded landscape with Mercury and Cupid.

The Judgment of Paris

Jean Mignon after Luca Penni

Etching of a windblown tree and dense diagonal rain over a path winding through a hilly rural landscape.

Gust of Wind (Le coup de vent)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a skeletal Death on horseback with a scythe charging through a crowd of men carrying flags beneath stone arches.

The Triumph of Death: Departure (Le triomphe de la mort: Le depart)

Alphonse Legros

Colored drawing of a man raising a sword toward a face-like sun, with a second figure in a patterned cloak beside a building.

"Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Etching of a rural landscape with two tall trees, farm buildings, and a rainy sky on the right.

Landscape with Two Trees (Paysage aux deux arbres)

Alphonse Legros

Brown ink print of a wooded landscape with fallen tree trunks, a winding path, and a small figure near the roots.

Jason

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1807

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and lace collar, framed by fleur-de-lis ornaments.

Anne of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre

Robert Nanteuil, 1666

Engraved ornamental panel with centaurs, griffins, a central urn, and two nude children on monstrous beasts.

Panel of Ornament with Two Naked Children on Monstrous Beasts

Peregrino da Cesena, c. 1505/1520

Color print of men and a woman in a gallery peering closely at a large framed painting on an easel.

Hommes examinant un tableau

Albert Guillaume

Sepia Art Deco advertisement of a hunter with a shotgun leaning on a fence, with a woman and dogs in the background.

Au Bon Marché - Articles de chasse, armes et munitions

Hand-colored night battle scene with cavalry charging a river, troops crossing a stone bridge, and cannon shells arcing under

L’Attaque du Pont de la Saingine & la Victoire

Francois Aloys Muller, 1798

Caricature of a man with glasses chopping a tree marked high tariff with an axe labeled tariff revision, 1903.

Theodore Roosevelt chops down a tree representing high tariffs with an ax representing tariff reform

William Henry Walker, 1903

Etching of prisoners queuing for soup in a muddy field with guards, a watchtower and huts on the horizon.

Souvenir de ma captivit ̌- chez les barbares. L’heure de la soupe

Claudius Denis, 1915-1916

Hand-colored lithograph of couples dancing outdoors before an illuminated pavilion, with onlookers in 1870s fashion.

Le Château Rouge

Charles Vernier, 1870-1880

Engraving of armored soldiers with a torch before a burning wooden camp palisade and tents under thick smoke.

Scipione incendia i due Accampamenti Cartaginesi

Lithograph of officers in a tent under a Union flag as a kneeling man receives an honour from a standing officer.

The investiture of the Order of the Bath. At the head quarters of the British army before Sebastopol

William Simpson, 1855

Colored lithograph of visitors in period dress viewing a marble statue and paintings inside Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia

Max Rosenthal, 1856

Colored caricature of jockeys on horseback and a distressed landlord in a street before a Gothic building, 1801.

College jockies, the landlord sweating for his cattle

Thomas Rowlandson, 1801

Hand-colored print of a Cambridge college courtyard with gowned scholars, a harp, women in period dress and workmen among sto

Quadrangle of King’s College, Cambridge

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

Watercolor of a bearded old man gesturing to a helmeted warrior in a red cloak, with two women and a rocky landscape behind.

Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3

Alexandre Bida, 1893

Couple in period dress sit on a garden bench under moonlight, with steps, an urn and a distant fountain behind them.

Merchant of Venice, V, 1, Lorenzo and Jessica, Lor; ‘The moon shines bright’

J.E. Buckley, 1859

Pen and ink drawing of a winged fairy crowning a donkey-headed figure in a meadow, with fairies and a heading above.

Masthead illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare

Louis Rhead, 1917-1918

Etching of soldiers relaxing in a log cabin by a stone fireplace, one reading a newspaper, another on a bunk.

After dress parade

Edwin Forbes, 1876

Etching of a cloaked rider on a galloping horse under a stormy sky, framed by sketched statues, ship rigging and waves.

Ryno and Hermangarde, from An Old Mistress

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, c. 1874-80

Hand-colored print of a woman in a yellow gown leaning on a window ledge, holding a red book, with a street view outside.

May, from The Twelve Months (18th century)

Color print of a farmer plowing a field with two brown horses and a foal, with a thatched farmhouse behind.

Marken pløjes

Poul Steffensen, 1910

Lithograph of the New York Cotton Exchange, a stone building with a corner turret and flag, with horse-drawn wagons in the st

New York cotton exchange

American Photo-Litho. Co., 1884

Hand-colored bird's eye view of Camp Convalescent near Alexandria, Virginia, showing barracks, marching soldiers and an Ameri

Rendezvous of distribution. Birds eye view of camp convalescent near Alexandria, Va

Charles Magnus, 1864

Colour print of George Washington in Masonic regalia standing under an arch, framed by portrait medallions, flags and landsca

Washington as a Mason

James Fuller Queen, 1867

Colour lithograph of a crowded 1890s American street parade with a brass band, flags, a campaign banner and onlookers.

The lost bet

Joseph Klir, 1893