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Etched grotesque ornament plate with a bearded face at center, scrolling foliage, birds and insects, numbered 53.

Plate 53, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of a crowned woman carrying a platter with a severed head, beside a seated banquet scene in a beamed room.

Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Woodblock print of boats on a blue bay beside a row of thatched houses and travelers on a road under a sunset sky.

Hilltop View, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Kanagawa, Dai-no-kei Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of a thatched teahouse with patrons seated outside, bare trees, a hill, and a traveler on a road.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etched grotesque ornament plate with a horned hybrid figure on a shell form beside a symmetrical scrolling cartouche.

Plate 30, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of couples dancing in a crowded room with a fiddler, fireplace, and hanging corn after a husking.

The Dance after the Husking

Winslow Homer, 1850

Etching of a seated figure reading beside a lion on a path, with trees on the left and a tower and buildings on a hill.

St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of the Virgin seated on a crescent moon nursing the infant Christ, surrounded by radiating lines and stars.

Virgin on the Crescent (Title Page of the Life of the Virgin)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of crowded bathers splashing in waves at Newport beach, with bathhouses on shore and sailboats on the horizon.

The Bathe at Newport

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of a couple by the moonlit sea above a meadow scene with reclining figures, a girl, and ducks.

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved plate of three ornate rococo torchère stands in the Chinese taste, with scrolled bases and carved details.

Three Designs for Torcheres in the Chinese Taste (Plate 13 of "One Hundred and Fifty New Designs")

Thomas Johnson, 1750

Engraving of women in a fashionable interior by a canopied bed, with a servant bearing a tray and a small dog among them.

Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

Abraham Bosse, 1630

Woodblock print of an inn interior with women in blue kimono, a bathing man on a veranda, and a palm tree.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of two rings covered in geometric polyhedra mounted on wooden stands, drawn in precise hatched perspective.

Two Rings, plate I. i. in Perspectiva. Corporum Regularium

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Botanical illustration of a Crinum lily with a green stem and white spidery flowers, with a faint plant sketch below.

Crinum taitens

Engraved scene of couples dancing at a Parisian ball at the Mabille, with men in top hats and women in bustled gowns before a

A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Mabille, Paris

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Columbus on a ship deck with a crucifix banner, surrounded by mermaids, sea monsters and Neptune.

Christopher Columbus

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1600

Engraving of cranes feeding among pit traps in a marsh while hunters hide beneath a tree at right.

Crane Hunt using Cones, plate 28 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved plate of an ornate classical vase with a serpent handle, mask at the shoulder, and figures in relief.

Vase (Plate 12 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

George du Maurier

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Engraving of the beheading of John the Baptist, with an executioner, a woman with a platter, and a banquet scene with musicia

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Israhel van Meckenem

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns walking past halberd-carrying guards in Tudor-style uniforms at court.

Presented at Court

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Pen drawing of a seated woman holding a cornucopia of fruit and flowers, with a decorative banner reading Abundantia Terrae.

Abundantia Terrae

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with a twisted neck, scrolled handle and pedestal foot, numbered 243 on the page.

Vase (Plate 3 of Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn sleigh with a man and several fashionable women riding through a snowy winter landscape.

Christmas Belles

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved holiday page with holly border, central Nativity medallion, street scenes, and a crowded children's dance beneath a

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of women in Victorian dresses watching a shopkeeper weigh goods on a scale in a cluttered country store.

A Country Store - Getting Weighed

William James Linton, 1870

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of soldiers crowding a sutler's counter on pay day, with vignettes of letters and money sent ho

Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of men in turbans clubbing and wrestling crocodiles on a riverbank, with willow trees and a Latin caption below.

Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodcut of Christ with a spade and Mary Magdalen kneeling before him in a landscape, from Dürer's Little Passion.

Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500