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Etching of the Baptism of Christ beside a river, with a walled town, large trees and distant hills under clouds.

The Baptism of Christ, Set in a Mountainous Landscape

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?

Watercolor design of a moonlit arcaded courtyard with statues and elegantly dressed figures strolling beneath trees.

A Design for Illuminations to Celebrate the Birthday of King George III

after Giovanni Battista Cipriani Robert Adam, 1763

Standing young man in blue coat leaning on ruined wall with classical stone relief and distant arches.

Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1790

Woodcut of a countess adorned with a necklace by a maid while a skeleton stands behind her beside an hourglass.

Die Greffinn (The Countess)

Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1526

Charcoal drawing of two clasped hands with forearms on grey paper, white highlights on the knuckles.

Clasped Hands [verso]

Giacomo Cavedone, c. 1612

Engraved print of a peacock and a stork in a landscape with a distant city, mountains, and a sunburst.

Peacock and Stork

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Engraving of a robed figure pointing at a fruit tree beside two nude figures, Adam and Eve, in a landscape.

The First Prohibition

Lucas van Leyden, 1529

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark doublet and white collar, holding an open book at a table.

Gilles Menage

Robert Nanteuil, 1652

Print of a seated ruler receiving a severed head from a kneeling servant, with armored men and robed figures around.

Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus

Peregrino da Cesena, c. 1490/1510

Painted star chart of the dolphin constellation Delphinus, a blue and red curled dolphin among gold stars on navy.

Delphinus

Johann Bayer, 1603

Six-panel chromolithograph of ships and small boats struggling in stormy seas, with a steamship and sailing vessels.

Storm op zee

Emrik & Binger, 1875-1919

Engraving of togaed men with raised daggers in a columned hall over a fallen body; a sign reads Treason is a crime.

The political death of the bogus Caesar

Thomas Nast, 1869

Lithographic portrait of an elderly bearded man with white hair in a dark coat and cravat, signed Henry W. Longfellow.

Henry W. Longfellow

Armstrong & Co. Lith., 1888

Hand-colored print of a boy in a blue sailor suit holding a rope on a ship deck beside an American flag and anchor.

The pride of the ocean

Henry Jerome Schile, 1874

Lithograph of three drivers in sulkies racing dark horses side by side on a curving track, with a grandstand behind.

Well together at the first turn

John Cameron, 1886

Colorful 1896 print of whimsical brownie figures playing outdoors with bicycles, ice skating, and a steamboat in a winter lan

The Brownie’s playground

Thomas & Wylie, 1896

Engraving of a ballet class with dancers in white tutus, a violinist and a pianist in an arched rehearsal room.

La danse a l’Opéra; la classe du premier quadrille, leçon de Mme Théodore dans le pavillon de la bibliothèque

Paul Renouard, 1882

Hand-coloured print of villagers harvesting purple grapes from vines beside a large wicker basket in a vineyard.

Grape harvest

Engraved 1741 political satire with courtly figures, banners, warships at sea, and verse captions inside an ornate rococo fra

The negociator’s

George Bickham, 1741

Multi-panel comic print of Victorian men and women playing whist, with cards, a dispute, and small winged devils.

A quiet rubber at whist

Randolph Caldecott

Satirical engraved coat of arms with two figures holding shields, a central shield with scenes, and ribbon banners below.

Design for a new coat of arms. Dedicated to Mothers Wood, Windsor & Co. & all the fancy Queens

Theodore Lane, 1821

Pen and ink wash sketch of three men in fleeing poses, arms outstretched, against a shaded background.

Three fleeing men

Thomas Rowlandson

Pen drawing of a robed man with a staff gesturing toward a nude seated figure in a rocky cave overlooking the sea.

Timon of Athens, Flavius stood speechless, wrapped up in horror to see the […] naked as he was born, living in the ma…

Louis Rhead, 1917-1918

Colour print of a woman and a child carrying hay bundles past a snowy house wall in winter.

Winter motif

Gudmund Stenersen

Painted stage design maquette with red curtains, birch trees, and a pink backdrop labelled L'Illustre Theatre.

Le médecin malgré lui - maquette de décor - dispositif du théâtre sur le théâtre

Gaston Baty, 1930

Sepia wash drawing of a queen in a columned hall with attendants and a framed pyramid tomb, with French text below.

Artémise avalant les cendres de son époux

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1792

Hand-colored print of a woman in a yellow gown and pink hat holding a green parasol, seated on a bench in a garden.

July, from the Twelve Months (18th century)

Heraclonas

Jacopo Strada, 1559

Engraved portrait of Charles V in a black cap and fur robe with chain of office, inside a circular medallion with Latin text.

Charles V

Jacopo Strada, 1559

Triptych print in gilt frame: man chasing rabbit, rearing horse and carriage, and man raising sword in rain.

The Three Brothers

Colour print of a farmer scattering seed while two horses pull a harrow across a field at sunset, birds nearby.

Kornet sås

Poul Steffensen, 1910

Engraved sheet of banknote designs by Durand & Co. with allegorical vignettes, numerals, portrait medallions, and a train and

Durand & Co. bank note engravers

Durand & Co., 1824-1840