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Etching of a rider on a horse before a ruined arched building, with a child leading the horse and a dog in the foreground.

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Pen drawing of a man in a suit embracing a woman in a striped period dress, with handwritten dedication below.

You Don't Like My Love Stories, Dear, so I Shall Not Write Any More

Howard Chandler Christy, 1900

Ballou's Pictorial newspaper page with harbor masthead and engraving of a crowded Boston street corner with pedestrians and a

Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets, Boston

Charles F. Damoreau, 1850

Engraved print of an ornate two-handled vase with garland festoons, rope handles, and a domed lid on a pedestal.

Vase (Plate 2 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Woodcut of two mounted men in a forest, one with a pike, a castle and river in the distance, and a dog below.

The Knight and the Landsquenet

Albrecht Dürer

Black-and-white illustration of a woman in a long gown striking a man in colonial uniform with her fan.

Lady in Colonial Dress Striking a Gentleman with Her Fan

Thure de Thulstrup, 1890

Woodcut of bathers in an open bath house with a timber roof, a drinking jug, and a walled town with towers behind them.

The Bath House

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of four women in long dresses playing croquet on a lawn with hoops, under a tree, above printed text.

Summer in the Country

John Karst, 1860

Engraved print of an ornate ewer with a serpent handle, masks, and a frieze of figures on its body.

Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Enea Vico, 1540

Engraved design of a lidded urn with a female head, fruit garlands, and two figures flanking the body, on a pedestal.

Vase Decorated with Figures, Rinceaux, and Festoons

Enea Vico, 1540

Engraved scene of a couple passing a flower stall with bouquets at a crowded fair, with a hanging floral display above.

Floral Department of the Great Fair

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved plate showing embroiderers at work in a room, with labeled tools, frames, thread and floral embroidery samples below

Brodeur (Embroiderer), Section 18, Plate 1, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des méti…

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1760

Hand-colored print of a figure made of playing cards, dice and game pieces leaning over a green billiard table.

Ein Spieler aus allen liekannten spielen zusamengesetzt (A Player Composed of All Known Games)

Andreas Geiger, 1840

Pen and ink drawing of two men in striped suits talking, with framed sketches of horses and boxers on the wall behind them.

I Play Poker with the Old Man

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Engraving of a crowned woman holding a crown while a kneeling man lifts her cloak, with another crown on the floor.

St. Elizabeth

Israhel van Meckenem, 1500

Etched design of an ornate classical vase with reclining figures, satyr handles and a garden landscape behind it.

Design for a Vase

Flemish Jacques Damery, 1650

Black-and-white woodcut of four horsemen riding over fallen figures beneath an angel in the clouds.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved octagonal portrait of Cardinal Mazarin in clerical dress with a skullcap and tasseled collar cord.

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin

Jean Morin, 1650

Engraving of soldiers crowding around an open crate of Christmas boxes in a camp with white tents and hanging laundry.

Christmas Boxes in Camp - Christmas, 1861

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a rifle, with a handwritten verse beside him.

Trial proof: Portrait of Henry van Dyck

Walter Appleton Clark, 1890

Lithograph of the Pennsylvania Senate Chamber in 1850 with curved desks and a seating plan of senators below.

Senate Chamber, Harrisbug, Pennsylvannia

August Kollner, 1850

Engraved portrait of a scholar in a fur hat writing at a desk beside books and a flower vase.

Erasmus

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Etching of a harbor with moored boats, wooden pilings, and waterfront buildings reflected in calm water.

Harbor: Cos Cob, Connecticut

Childe Hassam, 1910

Etched design plate of an ornate Baroque altar with candles, chandeliers, kneeling angels and scrollwork.

Design for an Altar, plate 2 of "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornament..."

Filippo Passarini, 1690

Woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono beside a white crane and pine branches on a yellow background.

Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)

d. Kininaga, 1810

Pen and ink illustration of a man in checked suit watching two women embrace in an ornate interior with a gilt mirror.

I Stood by Speechless in My Bewilderment

Howard Chandler Christy, 1900

Monochrome illustration of an elderly bearded man seated on a bench by a log cabin doorway, with ivy growing up the wall.

Uncle Remus at the Door of His Cabin

Arthur Burdett Frost, 1900

Watercolor design for a decorative panel with symmetrical acanthus scrolls and foliage inside a scrolled border.

Design for a Panel

Cooper Union Art School, 1900

Woodcut of a long-haired saint in prayer, surrounded by winged cherubs, rising above a rocky landscape with mountains and wat

Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of three children on a roadside with a passing stagecoach and rolling hills, from Appletons' Journal.

On the Road to Lake George

Winslow Homer, 1860