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Engraving of peasants feasting at a table under a grapevine trellis, with a scroll inscription in the upper left.

Peasants' Feast, plate 8 from the Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

Sebald Beham, 1546

Engraving of a young standard bearer in ruff and plumed cap holding a billowing flag, with soldiers in a landscape behind him

The Standard Bearer, Turned to Left

Hendrick Goltzius, 1587

Etching of two tall palm trees and a smaller palm on a rocky desert slope with distant mountains under a pale sky.

The Desert at Palm Springs

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1918

Etching of a skeletal death figure with a scythe beside a young mother and infant at a pond, among gnarled trees and rocks.

Death and the Young Mother, from Revue Fantaisiste

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1861

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve flanking a skeleton entwined by a serpent, with a skull and tree branch above.

Adam and Eve

Sebald Beham, 1543

Engraved frontispiece with Latin title, the Virgin Mary in an oval medallion, flanking angels, and putti below a central embl

Frontispiece, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the birth of the Virgin Mary with attendant women, a bed, and angels in clouds above.

The Birth of the Virgin Mary, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of a girl climbing temple steps toward a priest, with onlookers and columns, captioned in Latin below.

The Virgin Mary Presented at the Temple, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of Mary's betrothal to Joseph in a columned temple, with a crowd watching and draped curtains above.

Mary Marries Joseph, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Annunciation: the Virgin seated indoors at left, an angel with a staff kneeling on a cloud at right, figures i

The Annunciation, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of two haloed women greeting on a city street before an arched doorway, with onlookers and a small dog nearby.

The Visitation of St. Elizabeth, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Nativity in a stable with the infant Christ, Mary, Joseph, shepherds and angels above.

The Birth of Jesus, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of Mary presenting the infant Christ to a priest at a temple altar, with onlookers and statues in niches.

Mary Presenting Christ in the Temple, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: a kneeling magus offers gifts to the Virgin and Christ Child beneath a portico, with a

The Adoration of the Magi, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin and Child riding a donkey led by Joseph through a wooded landscape, with angels in the sky above.

The Flight into Egypt, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin Mary's death, with apostles around her bed and Christ and angels in clouds above.

The Death of the Virgin Mary, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin's burial: haloed mourners carry a shrouded body in a cave, with light and angels above.

The Interment of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven toward Christ while apostles gather around an open stone tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Engraving of a cluttered room with a young man, kneeling tailor, writing old man, and women, by William Hogarth, 1735.

Plate One, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraving of an 18th-century crowded interior with a harpsichord player, men in wigs and hats, and a kneeling attendant.

Plate Two, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraving of a noisy tavern-like room with revelers at a table, a seated man with a wine glass, and a woman adjusting her sto

Plate Three, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraved street scene with a woman in white at centre, a sedan chair, beggars, and lightning in the sky.

Plate Four, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraved church interior showing a wedding, with a clergyman, bride, groom, kneeling attendant, dogs and children.

Plate Five, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraving of a crowded tavern with gamblers, a kneeling disheveled man, a dog, and smoke, by William Hogarth, 1735.

Plate Six, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraving of a crowded prison room with a seated man, women, a child, and a jailer holding keys near a barred door.

Plate Seven, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraving of an asylum room with a chained, semi-nude man, a comforting woman, a violinist, and visitors among barred cells.

Plate Eight, from A Rake's Progress

William Hogarth, June 1735

Engraved street scene of early morning with a woman in a gown, market women by a fire, and a coffee house sign.

Morning, plate one from The Four Times of the Day

William Hogarth, May 1738

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century London street at noon, with a fashionable couple, beggars, a church spire, and signs.

Noon, plate two from The Four Times of the Day

William Hogarth, May 1738

Engraved village scene at evening with a crowd, a hanging inn sign, children, a dog, and a Sadler's Wells sign.

Evening, plate three from The Four Times of the Day

Bernard Baron, May 1738

Etching of bathers in a pool surrounded by rocky cliffs, trees, and swirling clouds over a distant valley.

Bathers in a Mountain Pool

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1865