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24,211 works

Loose pencil and watercolor sketch of a river rushing over rocks through a wooded gorge, labeled Greta.

Greta

John Ruskin, 1876

Print of a saw-bill duck head above two crocodile heads, with long bills, teeth and scaled skin shown in fine lines.

Heads of Saw-Bill Duck and Two Crocodiles

John Ruskin, n.d.

Pen and ink botanical study of Salvia Silvarum flower parts with lettered details, by John Ruskin, 1881.

Salvia Silvarum

John Ruskin, 1881

Grey and white watercolor study of an ornate carved column capital with scrolling foliage and rosette motifs.

Byzantine Column Capital

John Ruskin, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor study of a Gothic arch with figures in a tympanum, pinnacles, and a column, numbered No. 23.

Design for an Arch

John Ruskin, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of nude Venus with long hair holding a mirror, beside a kneeling winged cupid under a tree.

The Toilette of Venus

Attributed to Bartholomäus Reiter, c. 1600

Monochrome lithograph of Napoleon in uniform among deputies in a vaulted, column-lined legislative chamber.

Napoleon in the Chamber of Deputies, from the Political and Military Life of Napoleon

Charles Étienne Pierre Motte, 1822/26

Etching of a Paris college complex with a bell tower, long roofed buildings, wooded hillside and small figures in the courtya

Collège Henry IV (or Lycée Napoléon), Paris

Charles Meryon, 1863-64

Etching of a man in a plumed hat and ruff on a rearing horse, with a caption naming Felipe III, King of Spain.

Philip III

Francisco Goya, 1778

Etching of St. Jerome seated on a rock, bowed in prayer, with an angel behind him and two cherubs among clouds above.

St. Jerome

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Etching of a woman in ruff collar riding a pale horse side-saddle, with a hazy hilly landscape behind her.

Margaret of Austria

Francisco Goya, 1778

Etching of a woman on a white horse wearing a large cloak and lace collar, with an inscription beneath the image.

Isabel de Borbon

Francisco Goya, 1778

Hand-colored caricature of a globe balloon carrying a robed figure over a crowd of clergy and academics in a Gothic city stre

Tentand via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo

James Gillray, published August 8, 1810

Etching of a young rider on a rearing horse in a cloudy landscape, with an inscription naming Baltasar Carlos below.

Baltasar Carlos

Francisco Goya, 1778

Hand-colored satirical etching of men and a woman in a crowded room, with a seated official and partly undressed figures.

Irish Decency ! ! ! no. 1

George Cruikshank, published August 25, 1819

Etching of a man in armor and a plumed hat riding a rearing horse across an open landscape.

Philip IV

Francisco Goya, 1778

Etching of Gaspar de Guzman on a rearing horse, wearing a plumed hat and holding a baton, with a tree in the landscape.

Gaspar de Guzman, Conde Duque of Olivares

Francisco Goya, 1778

Hand-colored caricature of a fair with a swordsman on stage and a panicked crowd fleeing an escaped animal.

Sports of a Country Fair. Part the Third

Thomas Rowlandson, 1810

Etching of a vine-crowned Bacchus figure with drinking men in a revelry scene, with a Spanish inscription below.

The Drunkards

Francisco Goya, 1778

Hand-colored 1828 caricature of fashionable women with towering feathered hats and voluminous gowns in a drawing room.

A La Mode

Thomas Rowlandson, 1828

Etching of a seated dwarf in a wide hat and fur-trimmed cloak, leaning on stacked books beside a candlestick.

A Dwarf

Francisco Goya, 1778

Hand-colored print of a crowded Portsmouth quay with sailors, barrels, moored ships and the Ship Tavern sign.

Portsmouth Point

Thomas Rowlandson, 1814

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter, plate one from Los Caprichos

Francisco Goya, 1797/99

Hand-colored caricature of crowds and crippled men racing up a hill past townhouses, hats flying, a dog nearby.

Bath Races, from Tegg's Caricatures no. 49

Thomas Rowlandson, published November 20, 1810

Hand-colored caricature of a chaotic ballroom brawl, with fighting men, startled dancers and crowded spectators under a chand

The Gig Shop or Kicking up a Breeze at Nell Hammiltons Hop

Thomas Rowlandson, published February 16, 1811

Hand-colored print of a couple at a green door under a Lodgings for Single Men sign, with ships in the harbor behind.

Accommodation, or Lodgings to Let Portsmouth

Thomas Rowlandson, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of an elderly man in a red coat kissing a plump woman in a yellow bonnet in a countryside setting.

The Sweet Little Girl That I Love

Thomas Rowlandson, published June 4, 1808

Hand-coloured satirical print of fishwives and men arguing in a fish market, with speech bubbles and baskets of fish.

Scandal Refuted or Billingsgate Virtue

Charles Williams, 1818

Hand-colored satirical etching of ragged men before a seated official in blue, with speech balloons and a yellow basket label

Irish Decency ! ! ! no. 2

George Cruikshank, published August 30, 1819

Hand-colored 1807 caricature of two figures at a tombstone with a dog and humorous epitaph text.

An Irish Epitaph

Isaac Cruikshank, 1807