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Grey wash drawing of a seated man refusing gifts from robed visitors beside a hearth, with onlookers above.

Manius Curius Dentatus Refusing the Presents of the Samnite Ambassadors

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1795-96

Circular watercolor of a Roman street with a classical temple behind buildings, a large tree, and small figures.

View of the Roman Forum with the Temple of Saturn in the Background

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of nude male figures kneeling and standing together in supplication, with faint red grid lines.

Group of Nude Male Figures Kneeling and Standing in Supplication

Giovanni Baglione, ca. 1598

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman embracing a small child while draped figures watch from the left and a standing woman tu

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ca. 1798

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tapering ornamental design with allegorical female figures, cherubs, scrollwork and garlands.

Design for a Dome Compartment with Figures of Charity and Fortitude?

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude archer aiming at a draped statue while a seated figure and crowd look on.

Male Figure with a Bow and Arrow Shooting at a Statue of a Woman with a Ball on her Head

Domenico Piola, 1627-1703

Engraving of a nude woman in an arched niche holding a drape and a snake, personifying Prudence.

Prudence personified by a woman standing in a niche, holding a shawl in her right hand, a snake coiled around her lef…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1515-25

Pen drawing of a Gothic church with spires beside a busy harbor with boats, a crane, cargo, and cloudy sky.

The Church and the Port

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1869

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a seated draped man holding a chalice, with an eagle beside him.

Saint John the Evangelist (recto; Cartoon for a Fresco); Saint Mark (verso; Cartoon for a Fresco)

Francesco Salviati, 1548-49

Watercolor of a winged woman on a flying white horse lifting a baby from a sleeping figure on a green hillside at night.

Pity

William Blake, ca. 1795

Pen and wash drawing of African figures among palm trees, with elephants, tusks, a parasol and clay vessels.

Scene of Africa (Allegory?)

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a riverside village with turreted houses and figures with barrels by the water.

View of a Village alongside a River

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1766

Abstract etching of stippled dark and light tones with two diagonal lines, where a pale form suggests a seated woman.

Seated Woman in Bonnet and Shawl

Edgar Degas, ca. 1879

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Etching of Tangier's fortified waterfront with boats on the water and two men on a hill near a round tower and gate.

Part of Tangier from above

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

Watercolor of a river ford with rowing boats, a crowd by a thatched inn, a horse and cart, and a sailing ship on the water.

The Inn at the Ford

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Engraving of Jael killing the sleeping Sisera with a tent peg while onlookers and soldiers watch in an arched interior.

Jael Killing Sisera, without ornamental frame

Lucas van Leyden, 1517

Engraving of a young man gesturing to a seated bearded elder before a group of onlookers in a columned hall.

Joseph Telling His Dreams to Jacob

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Woodcut of Saint Paul with a halo, holding a sword and an open book, set against radiating lines.

Saint Paul, from "Christ and the Apostles"

Hans Baldung Grien, 1519

Engraving of the seated Persian Sibyl reading a book, framed by nude figures and architecture, after the Sistine Chapel ceili

The Persian Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a chrysanthemum-patterned robe and checkered trousers before a shoji screen.

The Fourth Ichikawa Danjuro in the Role of Ukishima Danjo

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1769 Autumn

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in green kimono holding a paper lantern beside a bamboo fence at night.

The Second Yamashita Kinsaku as a Woman Standing at Night

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1779

Woodcut-style print of soldiers attacking women and children before classical arcades and columns, with bodies on the ground.

The Massacre of the Innocents (Right side) with group of male figures attacking women and children; classical buildin…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Etching of a man in a headscarf gesturing to a seated woman leaning on a pedestal, in a garden with arched hedges and cypress

Vertumnus and Pomona, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Brown wash drawing of peasants working at a well beside a thatched hut and barrels, with trees and clouds.

Peasants Around a Well

Johann Georg Wille, 1758

Pen and wash design of a decorated wall with an urn in a niche, garlands, and a panel with putti and a female figure.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Simon Schijnvoet, late 17th-early 18th century

Sepia print of a vaulted stone crypt with cattle resting on the floor beside columns and light from an arched opening.

Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey (Liber Studiorum, part VIII, plate 39)

Joseph Mallord William Turner, February 11, 1812

Engraving of an allegorical woman on a cloud with a lamb and child, above a scene of playing nude children.

Innocentia, from "Virtues"

Maerten de Vos, ca. 1581

Woodcut portrait of a bearded king in fur robe and feathered cap, flanked by satyrs and a heraldic shield, dated 1523.

Christian II, King of Denmark

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1523

Etching by Félix-Hilaire Buhot showing an oval child portrait, owls, bottles, vases and birds in layered grey tones.

Japanese Baptism

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1887