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Etching of a wooden bridge over a stream with an ox cart of logs, rocky cliffs, pine trees and a small cabin.

Entrance to the Guttensteiner Valley

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817

Etched landscape of a waterfall falling beside a stone aqueduct with arches, trees, and small figures below.

View of the Weissenstein Near Cassel

Franz Ludwig Catel, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining woman beside a pedestal, with a flying cupid aiming a bow above her.

Sleeping Woman with a Cupid

Henry Fuseli, 1780/90

Etching of ruined brick arches and a tall tower among trees, with two figures sitting in the foreground at Hadrian's Villa.

View of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin, 1792

Etching of Lake Nemi with a large tree, rocky cliff, ruined tower, figures and goats beside the water, and distant hills.

Lake Nemi

Albert Christoph Dies, 1794

Etching of a wooden footbridge over a river with trees, a gabled house, and small figures near the water.

The Little Bridge Across the Isar, Paris

Johann Georg von Dillis, 1806

Etching of a ruined stone building with arched openings, travelers with pack animals on a path, and distant hills under a clo

Italianate Landscape

Philipp Veith, 1822/24

Engraving of a white horse rearing in fear as a lion approaches across rocky ground under a stormy sky.

A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

George Stubbs, September 25, 1777

Engraving of a spotted leopard resting beneath a large tree, looking toward a distant landscape with mountains.

A Tyger (A Recumbent Leopard by a Tree)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Portrait of Edward Savage

Max Rosenthal, 1899

Lithograph of the leaning Asinelli and Garisenda towers over a Bologna square with women under parasols and pedestrians.

Bologna: The Asinelli and Garisenda towers, plate 40 from Italie Monumentale et Pittoresque

Isidore Laurent Deroy, c. 1848

Lithograph of a Gothic cathedral cloister with ribbed vaults, carved reliefs, armored guards and robed monks.

View of the Cloister of the Cathedral of Mainz, plate two from Allemagne Monumentale et Pittoresque

Nicolas Chapuy, c. 1848

Lithograph of a basilica interior with columns, arches, timber roof trusses and small figures on the stone floor.

Interior of the Basilica of Munich, plate 70 from Allemagne Monumentale et Pittoresque

Adrien Dauzats, 1844

Etching of a standing young woman in a long skirt and puffed sleeves, hands clasped at her waist, against a pale background.

Fumette, Standing

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Etching of a seated man in a long coat, turned toward the viewer, against a dark hatched background.

Axenfeld

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Etching of a standing woman wrapped in a draped shawl with a headscarf, set against loose cross-hatched shading.

Draped Model

James McNeill Whistler, 1873/74

Brown tonal etching of faint ship masts and hulls along a misty horizon, with soft gradations of sky and water.

Nocturne: Shipping

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Etching of a dim forge interior with a blacksmith, an anvil, figures in hats, and hanging tools under a sketchy ceiling.

The Forge

James McNeill Whistler, 1861

Etched portrait of a man in a cap and long cloak holding a tool, with loose hatched lines around him.

J. Becquet, Sculptor

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Dark etching of a night scene with glowing windows on a building facade and a radiating street lamp below.

The Dance House: Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Etching of Venetian lagoon with moored sailing boats, a domed church on the skyline, and hatched clouds above the water.

The Steamboat, Venice

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Pen and ink sketch of sailing boats on a wide river with a distant town and church spire on the far bank.

Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1886

Etching of two women in white dresses, one reclining on a couch and one seated beside a stool, with blossoms.

Symphony in White, No. III

Peter von Halm, 1908

Engraving of a man with a furious, screaming expression and wild curly hair, framed by swirling drapery.

Evil

William Sharp, 1816

Engraving of the Holy Family: Virgin with the Christ child, Saint Joseph, an elderly woman, and angels in a dim interior.

Holy Family of Jesus Christ

Gerard Edelinck, n.d.

Engraving of a colonnaded hall with soldiers leading a woman past a seated queen beneath a draped curtain.

Frontispiece for Athalie, Act V, Scene VI, from Racine's Oeuvres

Jean Jacques Flipart, 1760-1767

Mezzotint of Democritus and Protagoras: standing bearded man, seated youth, kneeling figure binding sticks, large pine under

Democritus and Protagoras

William Pether, 1778

Monochrome print of a French stagecoach tipping on a mountain road beside a cliff, with startled passengers and galloping hor

Diligence Francaise

Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet, n.d.

Engraving of St. Charles Borromeo kneeling before a crucifix, with clergy and torchbearers behind him in a draped room.

St. Charles Borromée

Gerard Edelinck, n.d.

Etching of a man in a white turban leading two greyhounds across a windswept desert with dunes behind them.

Relay of Dogs in the Desert

Paul Adolphe Rajon, c. 1866