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Vertical ornament strip with helmet, lion head, shield, musical instruments and foliage in black and white.

Ornament Plate with Armor and Musical Instruments

Unknown artist, late 18th or early 19th century

Engraving of armed warriors fighting on a wooden bridge over a river, with fallen bodies and a horse in the foreground.

Horatius Cocles

Unknown artist, late 18th or early 19th century

Black-and-white print of a seated ruler beside a flaming brazier, with armored soldiers and mounted horsemen carrying standar

Mucius Scaevola

Unknown artist, late 18th or early 19th century

Engraving of a Renaissance bishop's tomb with a reclining effigy, cherubs, a Madonna and Child, and clergy below.

The Tomb of a Bishop

Battista d'Agnolo, 1540/45

Pen and ink drawing of three robed figures with raised arms beside red chalk studies of hands on the reverse.

The Transfiguration (recto); Study of Hands (verso)

Camillo Procaccini, c. 1590

Pen and wash drawing of an older bearded man with two women in draped robes, with a vessel and small figure at right.

Lot and His Daughters (recto)

Pietro da Cortona, 1600s

Brown ink drawing of musicians and a servant under a Corinthian colonnade, with a fountain and classical pavilion beyond.

Illustration from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata

Bernardo Castello, 1586-90

Pen and watercolor sketch of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint holding a palm frond, in blue and ochre tones.

Virgin and Child with Saints

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of three draped figures with a vessel, with faint pencil figure studies on the reverse.

Lot and His Daughters (recto); Sketch for Lot and His Daughters (verso)

Pietro da Cortona, 1600s

Engraving of the seated Delphic Sibyl with a scroll, surrounded by putti, arches, and figures with children.

The Delphic Sibyl

Giorgio Ghisi, early 1570s

Woodcut of four men in top hats struggling to carry a coffin around a tight corner between dark walls.

A Tight Corner

Félix Edouard Vallotton, 1893

Pen drawing of a winged Cupid statue in a wall niche with drapery, flanked by decorative neoclassical wall panels.

Statue of Cupid in a Wall Niche

Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, late 1700s

Engraved oval print of nude Adam and Eve seated in a lush garden, with a lake and hills beyond and a bird in flight.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

figures by Francesco Bartolozzi, n.d.

Engraving of a standing woman in an arched niche gazing upward and holding a bowl with flames rising beside her.

Hope

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a nude woman in an arched niche, raising one arm, with a snake coiled around her wrist and drapery at her hips.

Prudence

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a draped woman in an arched niche holding an infant on her shoulder, with a child at her side.

Charity

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a standing female figure in draped robes, raising one arm, set within an arched niche.

Faith

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a classical female figure holding a sword and scales within an arched niche, symbolizing Justice.

Justice

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a draped female figure in an arched niche, leaning on a column, with fine hatched shading.

Fortitude

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a draped female figure in an arched niche holding a bridle and reins, looking over her shoulder.

Temperance

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, c. 1515-1525

Engraving of a woman grasping a young man's cloak as he pulls away, with draped curtains and a bed in the room.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, ca. 1515-25

Engraving of the Madonna and infant Christ under a palm tree with a kneeling boy holding a cross and a distant lakeside town.

Madonna under a Palm Tree

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael

Engraving of Venus seated under a tree with nude Cupid holding a bow, a walled town and river behind them.

Venus and Cupid

Agostino dei Musi after Raphael, 1516

Engraving of two seated sibyls, a cherub at a pedestal, and a flying angel holding a scroll above.

Two Sibyls and an Angel

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia after Raphael, c. 1520/1525

Brown wash drawing of workers building a large wooden ark while a bearded robed man points at the group.

Building of the Ark

Alessandro Magnasco, first half 1700s(?)

Pen and ink drawing of two standing draped figures with flowing robes and hatched shading, on yellowed paper.

Two Standing Draped Figures (Saint John and the Magdalene?)

Attributed to Battista Franco, called Il Semolei, 1540/60

Ink and wash drawing of a receding palace interior with arcades, balconies, and heraldic cartouches for a stage set.

Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Palace with Arcades

Giovanni Battista III Natali, mid-1700s

Engraving of a biblical crowd: robed men in the foreground, a man with a sack, and a woman nursing an infant.

The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

After Titian, c. 1515, printed 1549

Chalk drawing of a woman's head with curled hair on tan paper, with a small sketch to the right.

Head of a Woman

Antonio Balestra, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of four draped figures standing together, including a small figure in the center, on a light paper s

Departure of Tobit (recto); Sketch of Crucifixion (verso)

Genoese Italian, n.d. (recto); n.d. (verso)

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining nude woman with a small cupid child resting beside her on a cushion, with drapery behind.

Venus and Cupid

Francesco Bartolozzi, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged angel bending toward a kneeling bald man, with two cherub heads in the upper right.

Communion of Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Circle of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, n.d.