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Etching of men playing billiards in a crowded room, with caricatured onlookers in top hats under hanging lamps.

April - The Finishing Touch from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

George Cruikshank, 1840, printed c. 1880

Etching of a festive Christmas dance in a decorated saloon, with dancing couples, a violinist, and onlookers beneath a Saloon

December - Christmas Bustle from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

George Cruikshank, 1840, printed c. 1880

Etching of a skeletal winged chimera with horned heads standing before a stone arch, surrounded by bones and plants.

The Chimera

Louis Jean Desprez, 1771

Etching of two harlequin twins on a theatre stage before an audience, labeled Gemini, Odd-fellows, by George Cruikshank.

Gemini - Odd Fellows from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

George Cruikshank, 1846, printed c. 1880

Print of a young boy's head turned three-quarters right, drawn in chalk with white highlights on blue-grey paper.

Head of a Young Boy Turned Three-Quarters to the Right

Louis-Marin Bonnet, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar, framed by allegorical figures and a Latin inscription.

Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert

Willem Swanenburgh, 1611

Engraving of an elderly bearded man in a draped cloak reading an open book against a rocky landscape background.

St Simon, from Christ, the Apostles and St Paul with the Creed

Hendrick Goltzius, 1589

Engraving of Saint Jerome seated in an arch, writing with a quill, with a lion beside him and open books above.

St Jerome, from The Fathers of the Church

Jacob Matham, 1600

Engraving of the god Pluto, a nude bearded man holding a torch in an arched niche with winged putti above.

Pluto, from Eight Pagan Gods

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Etched landscape of a road by a canal with a bastion, towers, a rowboat, two horsemen, and cottages on the right.

Country Road Along a Village with a Bastion, from Landscapes (Playsante Lantschappen)

Attributed to Claes Jansz. Visscher II, c. 1641

Engraved portrait of a white-haired man in a dark naval uniform with braided trim, in an octagonal frame.

Richard, First Earl Howe

Likely John Henry Robinson, Date unknown

Engraving of an orator with raised arm addressing a crowded legislative chamber of seated and standing men in period dress.

Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Assembly

Henry Bryan Hall, 1874

Black-and-white printed portrait of Thomas Cushing in a powdered wig and dark coat, with caption and facsimile signature belo

Thomas Cushing

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Engraving of British officers and soldiers in an interior with women and a child, one woman in a white turban gesturing.

Mrs Richardson and the British Officers

Alfred Jones, Date unknown

Engraving of an armored cavalryman raising a sword while his horse rears to the left over grassy ground.

A Cavalryman Raising his Sword, Riding to the Left, plate 15 from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

Attributed to Zacharias Dolendo, 1599

Engraving of a naked child seen from behind, seated before a vessel, with scrolling acanthus leaves in the background.

Naked Child, Seen From Back Seated in Front of a Vessel

Barthel Beham, n.d.

Woodcut print of a woman with long red hair looking down, with a pale male head nestled in her hair on dark blue.

Man's Head in Woman's Hair

Edvard Munch, 1896

Engraving of the Virgin Mary seated, holding a swaddled sleeping infant, with radiating halos and a distant landscape.

Madonna with the Swaddled Infant

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of a man in a plumed hat embracing a woman in a vaulted room with an arched window and carved table.

The Embrace

Master M. Z., 1503, printed c. 1600

Etching of Christ's body being lowered from a cross by figures on a ladder, with mourners below and rays of light.

The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Woodblock print of a plum orchard in bloom with thatched teahouses, a garden swing, and strolling figures under pink blossoms

The Plum Orchard at Kamata (Kamata no umezono), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Black and white lithograph of a grieving man in a long coat and tall hat beside a cross and tomb, with a funeral crowd behind

Crushed Lafayette!... Trapped, Old Fellow!, plate 22 from L’Association mensuelle

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Grisaille drawing of a seated winged-helmet youth facing a woman with flower-garlanded hair, framed by stylized vines.

The Words She Spake Came as Through Bubbling Honey

Will Hicock Low, 1885

Lithograph of a massive gnarled oak above a seated man sketching among rocks, with a distant town in the background.

Artist in a Rocky Landscape

Pierre Antoine Mongin, 1816

Etching of Mary with halo, Joseph with basket and a donkey on a path, trees at right and a city in the distance.

Mary Holding the Child in Her Arms and Joseph with the Basket, plate ten from The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1753

Etching of a vast vaulted prison interior with arches, hanging lanterns, chains on a pier, and two small figures on steps.

The Pier with Chains, plate 16 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1750

Engraving of the seated Man of Sorrows with a crown of thorns, resting his head on his hand beside a column with rope.

The Man of Sorrows

Frans Crabbe van Esplegem, 1540/50

Woodcut of a kneeling man beside a wooden post, surrounded by armed soldiers, a crowd, and a horseback rider in a landscape.

Saint Matthias, from The Martyrdom of the Apostles

Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1512

Black-and-white print of a kneeling woman beside a canopied bed with a figure beneath the covers, in a bedroom interior.

Illustration for a Story

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Engraving of the crucifixion of Christ with mourning women at the base of the cross and a young disciple standing at right.

The Crucifixion, from The Passion

Martin Schongauer, c. 1475