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24,212 works

Etching of a columned ancient temple facade beside a church tower, with figures and carts on a Roman street.

View of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis. Now the Armenian church of S. Maria Egizziaca, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in Rome, with Corinthian columns, a church facade, and figures among ruins.

View of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of Roman ruins with tall brick arches, columns and small figures in the atrium of the Portico of Octavia.

Internal view of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of the Pyramid of Cestius beside Rome's city wall, with figures on a path and a bare tree at left.

View of the Pyramidal Tomb of Cestius, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of the round Temple of Cybele in Rome's Piazza della Bocca della Verità, with carts and figures in the foreground.

View of the Temple of Cybele in the Piazza of the Bocca della Verità, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of ruined Doric columns of a temple at Paestum with small figures walking among the stones and plants.

A., B. View of the remains of the two rows of columns in the Temple of Neptune which originally formed the colonnades…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Engraving of a winged angel holding a spread cloth aloft, with smaller angels and clouds below, dated 1516.

Sudarium Spread Out by an Angel

Albrecht Dürer, 1516

Engraving of a nude man surrounded by a bearded older man in a turban, a woman with a jug, and other figures against rocks.

The Desperate Man

Albrecht Dürer, 1515-16

Engraved portrait of a king in ermine-trimmed robes with a scepter, crown, draped curtain and classical column behind him.

Louis XVI

Charles Clément Bervic, 1790, printed after 1815

Engraved portrait of a man in ornate armor with long curled hair, holding a baton beside a plumed helmet.

Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, Comte d'Harcourt, Horsemaster of France

Antoine Masson, 1667

Engraved oval portrait of Cardinal Mazarin in clerical dress with a white collar, under a decorative frame and coat of arms.

Cardinal Mazarin

Robert Nanteuil, c. 1654

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armor and lace collar, with a coat of arms and French verse below.

Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon

Robert Nanteuil, 1656

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled wig, lace cravat and ornate armor, inscribed Ludovicus Delphinus, 1684.

Ludovicus Delphinus

Pieter van Schuppen, 1684

Pencil sketch of a seated Mughal ruler on a canopied throne, with attendants in turbans and Persian inscriptions.

Akbar Offering Timur's Crown to Shah Jahan

Unknown artist, Mughal period (1526-1857), ca. 1650-1700

Engraved oval portrait of a standing clergyman in ecclesiastical robes holding a book, with a marble-patterned border.

J-B. Bossuet: Standing

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Oval engraved bust portrait of an elderly clergyman in robes with a cross pendant, one hand on his chest.

J-B. Bossuet: Bust Portrait

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long hair and a white collar, within a decorative ruled frame and patterned border.

Descartes

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man in three-quarter view, one hand at his cloak, inside a ruled frame with a blank cartouche bel

John Dryden

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of an older clergyman with a pectoral cross, set in a decorative marbled border with a blank cartouche

Fenelon

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with upswept hair gazing upward, holding an ornate urn draped in cloth.

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Montesquieu

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Oval engraved portrait of a cardinal with curly hair, clerical collar and star-shaped order medal, labeled Polignac.

Melchior de Polignac, Cardinal

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and dark coat, labeled J.B. Rousseau, on a textured background.

J-B. Rousseau

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Mme. de Grateloup de Dax

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Oval print of a young woman in a plumed hat and ruffled collar, with inscriptions above and below the frame.

The Young Spainard

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Jean Joseph Grateloup

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Louis XV

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Napoleon

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Bust of a Young Man in Profile

Giovanni Badile, 1430/40

Night seascape print of moonlit clouds over calm water, with a moored sailing boat and a rowboat with figures and lantern.

Moonlight through the Clouds off the Haneda Coast

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1929 (original design by Kiyochika; published posthumously)