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13,158 works

Etching of a seated elderly beggar in a feathered cap, eating from a bowl while holding a walking stick.

Seated Beggar Eating, plate 24 from The Beggars

Jacques Callot, c. 1622

Etching of an old woman seated on a stool with a cat in her lap, another cat on the floor, and a basket nearby.

Old Woman with Cats, plate 25 from The Beggars

Jacques Callot, c. 1622

Japanese woodblock title page with framed panels of snowy landscapes and calligraphic text listing provinces and road routes.

Title Page for the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nihon Rokujuyo-shu meisho zue)"

Miyagi Gengyo, 1856

Pastel self-portrait of a bearded man in an orange jacket holding a palette, with sketched figures behind him.

Self-Portrait

Louis Gallait, 1843

Loose pencil-like sketch of two girls by a small doorway beside a tall house with windows and a stone street.

The Little Doorway, Lyme Regis

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Pencil portrait of a man with swept-back hair and a white collar, looking toward the viewer, on tinted paper.

Portrait of John Flaxman, R.A.

probably George Henry Harlow, n.d.

Engraving of two nude women beside a basin and ewer in an arcaded courtyard, with a figure on a balcony above.

Bathsheba at the Bath

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1532

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, standing on a crescent moon with a radiant halo and distant landscape

The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1553

Woodblock print of a rider in orange kimono on a white horse beside a patterned folding screen and pine branch.

The First Horseback Ride (Uma norizome), from the series "The Five Fashionable Days of Starting (Furyu go kotohajime)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1773/75

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark robe and white collar with a cross, framed by an octagonal laurel wreath.

Philibert-Emmanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin

Robert Nanteuil, 1660

Engraved portrait of a man with long wavy hair in a fur-trimmed mantle, set in an octagonal leafy frame above a coat of arms.

Nicolas Potier de Novion

Robert Nanteuil, 1657

Engraving of the Man of Sorrows, a nude figure with a crown of thorns and halo holding a chalice beside a stone tomb.

The Man of Sorrows

Sebald Beham, 1520

Study of Pilgrim for Romaunt of the Rose

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77

Engraved title page with a heraldic shield and crown held by two allegorical women, a putto, and a French inscription below.

Title Page, from Combat at the Barrier

Jacques Callot, 1627

Engraved portrait of a bearded man with curly hair and a dark cloak, set in an octagonal frame.

Nicolas Christin

Jean Morin, n.d.

Dark lithograph of a gothic clock tower with a large round clock face, carved figures and gargoyles, under a pale grainy sky.

A Bell in the Tower Was Ringing the Hour, plate 4 from Edmond Picard's Le Jure

Odilon Redon, 1887

Black-and-white lithograph of a skull appearing through a wall opening beneath wooden beams, by Odilon Redon.

Through an Opening in the Wall, a Skull Appeared, plate 1 from Edmond Picard's Le Jure

Odilon Redon, 1887

Lithograph of a centaur on a rocky ridge drawing a bow and arrow toward curving clouds above.

Centaur Taking Aim at the Clouds

Odilon Redon, 1895

Lithograph by Odilon Redon of a distant city with arches and towers above a dark rock in the foreground, under a shadowed sky

And I John Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven, plate 11 of 12

Odilon Redon, 1899

Head of Woman With Corsage of Flowers

Odilon Redon, 1900

Engraving of a nude bearded man with a halo holding grapes, beside gourds and a fruit vase, with a banquet scene below.

Noon, plate two from The Four Parts of the Day

the elder Crispijn van de Passe, c. 1580-1630

Engraving of a nude woman seen from behind with an owl, a brazier with flames, a crescent moon and stars.

Night, plate four from The Four Parts of the Day

the elder Crispijn van de Passe, c. 1580-1630

Etching of two tall yucca flower stalks above spiky leaves, with a rocky mountain ridge and desert shrubs behind.

The Yucca

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1918

Etching of a tall ocotillo cactus with thin thorny branches in a desert landscape with low hills and shrubs.

The Ocotillo

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1918

Etching of a sparse grassy landscape with pine trees on the right and rolling hills fading into a pale sky.

The Edge of the Desert

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1920

Etching of Grand Canyon layered rock formations and receding ridges under a pale sky, with pine trees at right.

Vishnu, Grand Canyon

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1920

Etching of a tall saguaro cactus among desert shrubs, with distant hills and clouds under an open sky.

Giant Cactus, Arizona Desert

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1920

Etching of three men in caps in a dim interior, two seated in conversation and one standing beside a stool.

The Menu

Théodule Augustin Ribot, c. 1870

Black chalk drawing of a woman's head turned three-quarters, with curled hair and a long braid over her shoulder.

Woman's Head (recto); Sketch of Arm and Hand (verso)

Follower of Paolo Veronese

Etching of travelers disembarking under umbrellas beside a mast and flag, with birds in a stormy sky.

Disembarkation in England

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879