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Watercolor landscape of a wagon convoy and soldiers passing a castle on a hill, with seated figures and trees in the foregrou

Lancaster: Peace and War

David Cox the elder, 1842

St. Philip

Albrecht Dürer, 1526

Oval drawing of tall trees, a reflective pond, two seated figures, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Figures by a Pond

Henri Joseph Constant Dutilleux, 1855/60

Lithograph poster of men in top hats at a bar table with a glass, pink flowers at left, and navy lettering reading The Chap B

Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale - The Chap Book

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895

Charcoal and chalk drawing of women with jars and cattle on a path before thatched huts and bare trees.

Aquemoun, Algeria

Gustave Achille Guillaumet, c. 1865

Engraving of soldiers attacking figures on steps before classical columns and an arch, with a robed woman at centre.

Martyrdom of Saint Martina

Antonio Gherardi, c. 1665

Etching of a moonlit harbor with a sailing boat, a rowboat of passengers, a riverside building, and a distant city.

Moonlit Harbor Scene with Ferry

Adrien Manglard, 1753/54

Caricature lithograph of a stern schoolmaster towering over a boy in a dunce cap, with students watching in a classroom.

“Just you wait, I'm going to show you who is the teacher here...,” plate 11 from Professeurs Et Moutards

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Daumier lithograph: a boy raises his hand in a classroom while an elderly teacher with spectacles sits bowed at a desk.

“Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 1…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Daumier lithograph of a standing teacher with spectacles showing a book to a scowling schoolboy in a classroom, 1846.

“- Now I understand why this chap was so quiet all the time..... instead of reading quietly in his Greek dictionary,…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Satirical lithograph of men and boys crowding and climbing on shoulders, with a top-hatted man reading a newspaper at left.

Which proves again that already since high school man supports himself on the shoulders of his kin in order to advanc…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Wood engraving of children on a seesaw, women mending nets on a beach, a bait house, and sailboats on the water.

Seesaw Gloucester

Winslow Homer, n.d.

Pastel drawing of a sailboat with two figures on water beneath a dreamy sky of orange, red and blue clouds.

Flower Clouds

Odilon Redon, c. 1903

Engraving of a printmaker's workshop with workers inking plates and operating a large wooden etching press beneath hanging pr

The Etcher's Press - The Printmaker's Shop

Abraham Bosse, 1642

Black and white print of an bearded man and a boy with firewood beside a donkey, under a large tree and rocky landscape.

Abraham and Isaac

Lucas van Leyden, c. 1517

Woodcut of a seated Virgin embracing the Christ Child beneath a tasselled canopy, with dense cross-hatched background.

The Holy Family Under the Canopy

Sebald Beham, n.d.

Etching of Westminster Clock Tower with carriages and pedestrians, framed by vignettes of Thames boats and scaffolding.

Westminster Clock Tower

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, n.d.

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a man's head turned upward, mouth open, with windswept hair against grey paper.

Head of Vengeance

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1804

Black and grey print of a horse-drawn hearse and mourners on a Paris street, with the Place Clichy sign in the background.

Funeral Procession on the Boulevard Clichy

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1887

Lithograph of a seated woman with bowed head and a standing woman leaning from a doorway in a patterned room.

Siesta, from the first album of L'Estampe originale

Edouard Jean Vuillard, 1893

Etching of a crowded city square with a Taverne du Bagne sign, bare trees, and handwritten verse below.

The Place des Martyrs and the Jailhouse Tavern

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1885

Orange and black woodcut showing two figures in foreground with dense hatched background and foliage.

Young Maoris

Paul Gauguin, 1896/97

Two Maoris

Paul Gauguin, 1896/97

Sketch in chalk on tan paper of a nude woman seen from behind, head bowed, arm raised, with drapery at her legs.

Crouching Woman

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Etching of a wide river with wooded hills, a seated figure under a tree, and a rowboat on the bank.

The Tay at Kinfauns

David Young Cameron, 1890

Two bearded men in robes stand in arched niches of a pavilion, framed by a gold-patterned border with deer and trees.

Album Page with Two Sheikhs

India and Iran, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722) and Mughal empire (1526-1857), 16th/17th century

Ink sketch of a temple on a rocky cliff above a lake, with a crescent moon, flying geese and calligraphy.

Sketch for Autumn Moon at Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views in Omi Province (Omi h…

Utagawa Hiroshige II, c. 1859

Mughal painting of two dogs by a river, one with meat, beside a bridge and a terraced stone city with palm trees.

The Greedy Dog

Unknown artist, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), late 16th century

Album page with two small portraits at top, two standing figures below, and a gold border of flowers and birds.

Page from the St. Petersburg Album

India and Iran, Portraits: Top left: Iran, c. 1740; top right: Iran, c. 1748; bottom left: India, 18th century; bottom right: India, 18th century; Calligraphy: Iran, late 16th century; Borders: Iran, mid-18th century

Indian miniature of a ruler on a throne watching dancers in a walled garden with palace pavilions and a night sky.

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Unknown artist, Late 18th century