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Oval engraving of winged and reclining mythological figures with horses and sun rays, dated 1544.

Night Protecting Sleeping Time from the Last Rays of the Sun

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1544

Brown wash drawing of Neptune with a trident and Amphitrite among clouds and sea figures.

Allegory of Fishery: Neptune and Amphitrite

Gabriel François Doyen, 1768

Etching of a steam train with passengers running along an embankment beside a river with boats and birds.

The Departure

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Drawing of a bound nude woman seated before an altar with flame, while a warrior attacks figures in a burning temple behind h

Cassandra Imploring Athena for Revenge Against Ajax

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1810-38

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman leaning on a globe beside a skull, chains, and an open book, with a bat above.

Allegorical Figure of Melancholy

Charles de La Traverse, 1763

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornamental overdoor design with putti, a central mask, scrolls and a lion-mask vase.

Design for an Overdoor Decoration (recto); Rinceaux (verso)

Gregorio de' Ferrari, ca. 1670-90

Brown wash drawing of a centaur lifting a satyr onto its shoulder, with mountains and cypress trees behind.

Centaur Holding Up a Youthful Satyr

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Pen and brown ink landscape with a classical ruin, a large tree, and small figures in the foreground.

Figures in a Landscape with Classical Ruins (recto); Six Figure Studies (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of swirling fire tongues and a radiating halo, a fragment of a Descent of the Holy Spirit cartoon.

Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit

Raphael, 1500-50

Ink and wash drawing of a rocky ravine path leading to a columned classical building carved into a cliff.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Architectural Design (verso)

Francesco Navone, 1780-1804

Grey ink and wash drawing of an imagined piazza with an obelisk, classical columns, a great arch and a domed building.

An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a ruined classical interior with arches, columns, a sarcophagus, and small seated figures.

Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1691-1765

Engraving of a plague scene: a torch-bearing man, a reclining cow, dead animals, and sick figures before a village backdrop.

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, sick people at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1515-16

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Entombment, with Christ's body held by mourners in an arched architectural setting.

Entombment

Maso da San Friano, 16th century

Engraved print of a procession of grotesque figures with beaked masks and elaborate costumes walking across a landscape.

Procession of Monstrous Figures

the Younger Wendel Dietterlin, 1615

Engraving of women visiting a new mother in a canopied bed, with children and a small dog on a tiled floor.

Visit to the New Mother

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Etching of spectators seated on chairs in the Tuileries gardens beside a statue group under tall trees.

Scene in the Tuileries: The Chairs

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Etching of a riverside farmhouse with tall trees, an angler and figures, ducks on the water, and a distant town.

Landscape with an Angler

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap and white collar, holding a book, with Latin inscription.

Gulielmus Oughtred Anglus (frontispiece from Oughtred's "The Key of the Mathematicks New Forged and Filed," 1647)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of a large warship with billowing sails tossed among rough waves, with smaller ships and stormy clouds in the distanc

Warship in the Trough of a Wave

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Etching of a bare-treed winter landscape with a plowing farmer, cottages, a cart on a road, and a distant church tower.

March (Martius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Engraving of horsemen with lances and dogs chasing ostriches across a landscape with palm trees.

Ostrich Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Etching of several sailing ships battling rough waves under a dark, cloudy sky, with a large vessel at center.

Sea Storms

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Poster with two cyclists beside bicycles, a route map from Constantinople to Peking, and text promoting Across Asia on a Bicy

The Century, Across Asia on a Bicycle, May

A. W. B. Lincoln, 1894

Etched trade card of Samuel P. Avery's Fine Art Room showing a shopkeeper with a couple among paintings and sculpture.

Trade Card for Samuel P. Avery--Fine Art Room

George Cruikshank, 1873

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and carved frieze beside a Roman street with houses, trees, figures and animals.

The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1756

Woodcut of a skeleton in a fur-trimmed robe guiding a clergyman through a Gothic church, with an hourglass and angels nearby.

The Dean (or Canon), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a seated judge in a fur-trimmed robe, a skeleton behind him, a man with a purse, and an hourglass on the floor.

The Judge, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Etching of a ruined Roman triumphal arch overgrown with ivy, with a fallen inscribed block and small figures in the street.

Plate 17: The Arch of Rimini built by Augustus (Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi T…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono carrying a pole and lantern beneath stylized pine branches.

Ichimura Kamezo in the role of Ise no Saburo

Torii Kiyomasu I, ca. 1748