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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Black and white print of Hercules fighting twin warriors beneath bare trees, with a distant town and fallen armor in the fore

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of a man in a costume covered with shoemaking tools, holding a blade, standing on a terrace beside trees.

Habit de Cordonnier [The Shoemaker]

Nicolas de Larmessin II, 1690

Engraving of Christ breaking through Hell's gate, with figures in the foreground and demons in the upper right.

Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of an elephant wrestling a coiled snake under a tree, with a second elephant and hunters in a hilly landscape behin

Fight between Elephants and Snakes, plate 2 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored paper doll costume of a headless woman in a white gown and long blue cloak with a gold crescent.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Norma from the opera "Norma"

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Engraving of figures gathering evergreen branches in a snowy winter forest, one man raising an axe beside a loaded sled.

Christmas - Gathering Evergreens

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of factory workers with lunch pails walking toward a large factory building at bell-time.

New England Factory Life - "Bell-Time"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved courtroom scene of seated jurors listening to a standing lawyer reading from a paper, with a judge at the left.

Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York

Winslow Homer, 1860

Hand-colored paper doll in a brown hooded cloak with blue sash, holding a staff and rosary, on a pale base.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Alice from the opera "Robert der Teufel"

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Engraved proof of a standing woman in a black dress beside a small side table with a white flower, dark background.

Proof: Lady in Black

Henry Wolf, 1910

Woodblock print of a village with thatched houses, women working at ropes, a traveler, a large tree and blue mountains.

Minakuchi, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved plate with two symmetrical grotesque ornament designs of scrolls, feathers and tassels by Christoph Jamnitzer.

Plate 55 from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Book of Grotesques)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of the entombment of Christ, with mourners around a stone tomb beneath tree trunks.

The Entombment, from The Passion

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraving of a large horse seen from behind, with an armored rider above and a classical column at left.

The Great Horse

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Japanese woodblock print of a village street with a cloth shop, a palanquin, porters, and travelers beneath pine trees.

Narumi, A Place Famous for Its Cloth, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of a picnic outing with a horse-drawn wagon, women in period dresses, a seated man, and a dog on grass.

The Picnic Excursion

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of sailors and women on a ship deck, one man looking through a telescope toward a distant ship at sea.

The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of emigrant families arriving at Constitution Wharf in Boston, with trunks, a crowd, and ships in the harbor behind

Emigrant Arrival at Constitution Wharf, Boston

Charles F. Damoreau, 1850

Japanese woodblock print of white-sailed boats on rough sea beside a stone seawall and pine-covered buildings at dusk.

Kuwana, Mouth of the Kiso River, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Black-and-white illustration of two men in fur hats and winter clothing walking through deep snow past evergreen trees.

"Cat, Answered François; "Dat's Mister Lynk,'" Illustration for Mooswa & Other of the Boundaries (William Briggs, 190…

Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1910

The Rhinoceros

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Black and white print of a beheading scene with a kneeling figure, executioner, severed head on a platter, and onlookers befo

Beheading of John the Baptist

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of a man playing a lute beside a seated woman holding a scroll, with a dog in the foreground and arched interior.

The Lute Player and the Singer (2nd state)

Israhel van Meckenem, 1500

Etching of an executioner with a raised sword beside a headless body in a dungeon, with chains on the wall and onlookers behi

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraving of nude children playing in a wooden bath tub, with a seated woman in a turban and Gothic architecture behind.

The Children's Bath

Israhel van Meckenem, 1500

Engraving of fowlers using tethered decoy birds and a cage to catch flocks in an open landscape with figures and trees.

Fowling

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of two women with walking sticks beside a rocky gorge, a tall waterfall on the right, small hikers below.

Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraving of a seated Venetian woman in a wide hat and ruff, with a small dog, mirror and vessel beside her.

Plate 12, Femina Veneta (Venetian Woman), Diversarum Nationum Ornatus Cum Suis Iconibus

Alessandro Fabri, 1590

Engraved calligraphy sheet with a flourished alphabet, decorative letter border and signature David Roelands at lower right.

Alphabet (Incunabulum page ?)

David Roelands, 1610

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