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Engraved plate of Ionic capitals and Greek temple architecture with caryatids and a carved mask, by Piranesi.

Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista P…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1761, 1765

Etching of a grand Roman palazzo facade on the Via del Corso with a street full of figures and a carriage.

Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750-78

Engraving of a haloed woman leading a procession with drummer and piper through a wooded landscape, 1519.

Dance of St. Mary Magdalene

Lucas van Leyden, 1519

Etching of crumbling Roman brick ruins with arches and trees, with small figures among the remains under a cloudy sky.

Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro (Piazza of Gold) (Veduta degli Avanzi della Circonferenza delle antiche Fabbriche d…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1776

Engraved aerial view of the Palace of Versailles with crowded forecourt, formal gardens, fountains and distant hills.

Veüe generale du chateau de Versailles

Adam Pérelle, 1680s

Grey wash drawing of the Madonna and Child crowned and haloed, surrounded by saints, angels and cherubs in clouds.

Madonna and Child Surrounded by Female Saints

Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1600-1678

Etching of an imaginary Roman sepulchral chamber with tiered niches, arches, a reclining statue, and a sarcophagus overgrown

Camera sepolcrale inventata e disegnata conforme al costume, e all'antica magnificenza degl'Imperatori Romani... (Ima…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Mezzotint oval portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a dark robe and white collar, with Latin inscription below.

Cottonus Matheris (Cotton Mather)

Peter Pelham, 1728

Etching of women and children doing laundry on a grassy field, with hanging cloth and town towers behind trees.

Outdoor Scene of Women in Domestic Activities in Nurnberg,

Johann Christoph Erhard, 19th century

Engraving of a young woman carving initials into a tree beside a seated dog, with roses and a stone bench in the foreground.

Le Chiffre d'Amour

Nicolas de Launay, 18th century

Etching of a ruined tower, arched walls, a large tree, grazing sheep and a hillside town under a cloudy sky.

Ruin at the Entrance of a Town

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Wood engraving of elderly veterans with medals seated on benches in a paneled hall with columns and flags.

Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, from "The Graphic," vol. 3

Hubert von Herkomer, February 18, 1871

Etching of men lowering a body from a cross by torchlight, with a white shroud in the foreground and mourners near a city wal

Descent from the Cross by Torchlight

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Grey wash drawing of a seated bearded man speaking to a woman at a stone well beneath a large tree.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Nicholas Verkolje, early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of snowy mountains above cliffs with two waterfalls falling into a green valley.

Foggy Landscape in the Apennine; verso: Sketch of Landscape

Carl Wagner, early 19th-mid-19th century

Engraving of seated nude Venus receiving fruit baskets from nymphs and a satyr, with putti and a classical column behind.

Venus Honored by the Nymphs

Jan Müller, ca. 1591

Engraving of Christ seated with a crown of thorns, flanked by angels and cherubs beneath an arched drapery canopy.

Christ As the Man of Sorrows

Jan Müller, ca. 1610

Engraving of the Holy Family walking on a path, with a dove and God the Father among clouds above.

The Return from Egypt

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, 1595-1659

Etched landscape of a forest path, a large tree, and a man and woman with a dog beside a stream.

A Man and a Woman Crossing a Stream

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Small black-and-white engraving of a winding river, a thatched cottage, and trees under a cloudy sky.

Sabrina's Silvery Flood, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

William Blake, 1821

Engraving of figures struggling beneath trees, with two cherubs holding a palm branch in the sky above.

The Martyrdom of Saint Peter

Martino Rota, ca. 1560

Woodcut of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by a man on a ladder, with robed figures below and the INRI sign above.

The Descent from the Cross, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1509

Woodcut of Saint John in a cauldron over a fire, watched by a seated ruler, a crowd, and guards in a city setting.

The Martyrdom of Saint John, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Hand-colored lithograph of street dancers and onlookers in top hats beside a barrel, with a man holding eels on a city street

Dancing for Eels

James Brown, 1848

Woodcut of Christ carrying the cross past soldiers and a crowd, with a castle and towers on a hill behind.

The Bearing of the Cross, from "The Large Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Woodcut of Christ breaking into limbo, with a winged demon above and naked figures among broken gates and rubble.

Christ in Limbo, from "The Large Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Engraved interior of a grand classical hall with columns, a checkered floor, painted ceiling, and figures near a distant dome

Interior of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Louis Jean Desprez, 1777

Engraved illustration of an elderly man and a young woman walking through a garden of lilies and hollyhocks, with a castle be

"I Call Them My Children" - To Myself, Susan (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VIII)

Winslow Homer, October 1869

Watercolor of an elderly bearded man in armor raising a golden goblet on a castle ledge above a moonlit river valley.

Illustration for Goethe

Leopold Schulz, 1842

Engraving of Boston Common with families strolling under trees, children playing with hoops and toys, and women holding paras

The Boston Common (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)

Winslow Homer, May 22, 1858