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Pencil sketch of fishing boats with sails and figures near a layered cliff, with a small sailing ship on the right.

Fishing Boats Near Cliffs

After James Duffield Harding, n.d.

Sepia drawing of thatched cottages and a church tower beside trees, with figures by a stream and wooden footbridge.

Village Corners

Jacques Desjardins, Date unknown

Pencil and crayon drawing of a bearded man gesturing beside a garden wall, with a reclining figure in the foreground.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: His Majesty the King of beasts

Paul Gavarni, 1852

Lithograph of a ragged bearded man with a stick and sickle, a figure in a hat behind him in a field.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Matthew has only this in his favor

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Grey lithograph of a seated old man with a walking stick, looking toward a gesturing group of men in a street scene.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Ego! ego! ego!...all equal

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of a seated bearded old man talking with a standing young boy on a grassy outdoor slope.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Not taught anything?-yet stupid already

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Etching of an open field with a wooden shelter, a raised platform with an orator, figures, a horse and sketched clouds.

Wild West: The Orator

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a procession of crowned figures ascending a rocky mountain toward Pegasus, a laurel tree, and classical goddesses.

The Float of Mount Parnassus, from The War of Beauty

Jacques Callot, 1616

Etching of a plumed-hat soldier with a ruff collar and sword, with cavalry fighting in the background landscape.

The Soldier with a Plumed Hat, plate three from La Noblesse

Jacques Callot, c. 1625

Etching of a gentleman in a fur-trimmed cloak saluting, with a town and figures in the background.

The Genleman who Salutes While Holding his Hat Beneath his Arm, plate two from La Noblesse

Jacques Callot, c. 1625

Etching of a ceremonial procession with torch bearers, drummers, and ornate chariots, including a winged figure and clouds.

Entry of the Monseigneur the Prince of Phalsbourg, Defender in the Combat, from The Combat at the Barrier

Jacques Callot, 1627

Etching of a marching procession with drummers, fifers, pikemen and plumed figures in feathered hats.

Entry of M. de Macey, from The Combat at the Barrier

Jacques Callot, 1627

Etching of a grand hall with crowds of spectators, guards with pikes, and a nobleman entering on foot beneath an ornate ceili

Entry of His Highness on Foot, from The Combat at the Barrier

Jacques Callot, 1627

Engraved frieze of armed men and horsemen fighting lions, griffins, an elephant and dogs in a crowded battle.

Battle of Men and Animals, from Combats and Triumphs

Etienne Delaune, c. 1550/60

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre surrounded by nine Muses playing instruments in a forest, with a winged horse at left.

Apollo and the Muses

Etienne Delaune, n.d.

Etching of a haloed bishop preaching to a crowd in a forest clearing, with soldiers and a village in the distance.

Saint Nicholas Preaching

Jacques Callot, n.d.

Lithograph of men with bottles beside a wooden fence, one raising a bottle overhead and another peering over the fence.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Brains cracked-but bottles

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a long cloak and cap standing before a crowded Italian town street with stone buildings.

Pantalone, from Three Italian Comedians

Jacques Callot, 1618-20

Soft gray tonal portrait of a woman in a large feathered hat, head and shoulders turned toward the viewer.

Amélie Laurent Dieterlé

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1899

Grey wash drawing of a mythological scene with a winged figure, a reclining youth by a tree, and a small cupid at left.

Narcissus

Possibly Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, c. 1670

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a young woman in a patterned kimono with a gold hair ornament, with calligraphy above.

Young Woman after a Bath

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1745

Lithograph of a disheveled man with round spectacles leaning on his arms in a hilly landscape, labeled Vireloque No 16.

and worn out)

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of two men in a forest clearing, one standing and one seated on a log with a walking stick, drawn in hatched ink l

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: The new lord of the soil

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of a ragged old man in a tattered cloak on a cobblestone street, with a hatted figure walking behind.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Figaro grown old-becomes Bazile

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of a cloaked man in the foreground watching a figure strike a horse beside a hay cart in a field.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Michael paying wages to his servant (beating him)

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of a ragged old man walking past two boys wrestling beside a spinning top, with a ruined tower in the distance.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Misere et corde - quarrel for tops

Paul Gavarni, 1852-53

Lithograph of a ragged man leaning on a post beside a picket fence on a country road with telegraph poles.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Misere et corde - first speech, then...

Paul Gavarni, 1852-53

Lithograph of two men in top hats and frock coats walking together on a city street, one leaning toward the other.

Masks and faces: Pretty woman? a bad lot

Paul Gavarni, 1857-58

Woodblock print of two women in kimono reading a letter in a room with a round moon window and shoji screens.

The Love Letter

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

Woodblock print of the Golden Pavilion beside a blue lake, with pine-covered rocks and a misty wooded hill behind it.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1834