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Engraving of a cavalry officer with plumed hat and sword on a rearing horse, with soldiers in the distant landscape.

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Lieutenant

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1720

Engraved architectural plate of a paneled double door with putti overdoor, flanked by ornamental panels, with a floor plan be

Plate 5, "Decoration d'une Portal double à placards dans son chambrante fermé..."

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with a lace ruff collar and flower ornaments in her hair, captioned Countess of Mar.

Portrait of Isabel Erskine, Countess of Mar

Edward Harding, 1790

Engraved ornamental design with a decorative urn, two putti with garlands, and a shell niche above a carved mascaron.

Page Five from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé P…

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of Jesus on a balcony above a crowd and soldiers, with a man carrying a cross in the foreground.

Via crucis - Station I, Jesus Condemned to Death

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of a seated man beside classical ruins, a nude statue atop a column, and smoke rising from an altar.

Integer vitae scelerisque purus (Horace, Odes. Book I,22)

Giovanni David, 1770

Engraved ornamental plate with an empty oval frame flanked by cornucopias, acanthus scrolls, and garland friezes.

Frieze with Ovoidal Frame

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Engraved decorative panel with putti on a cloud, a central tree with garlands, an urn of flowers, and standing figures.

Title Page and Decorative Panel Design

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraved plate of ornamental friezes and overdoor designs with garlands, cartouches, birds, and labeled hunting, fishing, and

Designs for Paneling, Friezes, and Overdoors

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Black and white plate of neoclassical ornamental friezes and panels with scrolls, a griffin, garlands and trophies.

Friezes, Panels and Ornam

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Etching of the Gothic Guildhall facade with a tall central spire, arched windows, and small pedestrians in the street below.

The Guildhall

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Mezzotint portrait of a young man in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, with a cloak and wooded landscape behind him.

Portrait of Sir John Percival Bart of Burton in the County Cork of Ireland

John Smith, 1700

Etching of the Woolworth Building's tall Gothic tower above a busy city street with carriages and pedestrians.

The Woolworth Building

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etched portrait of an older bearded man in a dark coat, signed Alexandre Cabanel, holding a slender object.

Portrait of Alexander Cabanel

Benjamin-Louis-Auguste Damman, 1880

Hand-colored print of a seated woman dipping an infant upside down into dark water in a rocky cave, after Daumier.

La Bapteme d'Achille, plate 22 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraved plate of clock gears, dial faces and a large Roman-numeral clock with a fish-shaped support, titled Horology: Dial W

Horology: Dial Work, from pl. XXXIII from "A Cyclopaedia of Horology - Rees's Clocks Watches and Chronometers"

Abraham Rees, 1810

Engraving of a jester gesturing beside a seated woman under a tree, with a pond and an ornate scrolled border.

Le Bouffon

Gabriel Huquier, 1720

Engraved design for an arched overdoor with putti, a central mask, a reclining classical woman, and a foliage-framed roundel.

Design for Overdoor and Frame, from "Recherche de Plusieurs Beaux Morceaux"

Jean Le Pautre, 1660

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armor and lace collar, with drapery, helmet and sword below.

Portrait of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

Jacob Houbraken, 1740

Etched portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair and a dark cloak, hand resting on his chest, crosshatched background.

Portrait of Hans Makart

William Unger, 1880

Engraving of a seated veiled woman beside an ornate pulpit with a preacher and listeners, framed by a curtain and columns.

Design for Pulpit

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Engraved rococo fireplace design with arched niche, ornate cartouche, pilasters, and floor plan details below.

Plate 1, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Mezzotint of arranged armor, helmet, pike, rifle and flag on a ledge, with a distant battle scene and dedicatory inscription.

Dedication Page of a Suite of Cavalry Officers

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1720

Etching of soldiers and robed figures around an altar with a skull and bone, beside a rocky outcrop with an inscription.

Soldiers, Magus, and Other Figures Observing a Skull and a Tibia on an Altar, plate 7 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of St. Jerome kneeling in a rocky landscape beside a resting lion, with cliffs, pines and a chapel.

St. Jerome in Penitence

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of Amiens cathedral's spire behind riverside houses, with moored boats and figures on the water in the foreground.

Amiens from the River

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Woodblock print of a standing sumo wrestler with clenched fists, wearing a black-striped belt, against a blue background.

The Sumo Wrestler, Koyanagi Tsunekichi

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a long staff, wearing a black robe over a green and cream patterned costume.

Omezo Ichikawa in the role of Kajiwara Genta

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1810

Engraved interior with a standing man gesturing to three seated women, a parrot on a screen and a dog on the floor.

La Critique de L’École des femmes (Critique of The School for Wives), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. II

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, 1770

Etched print of a dense woodland with tall slender trees, bare branches and ivy against a pale sky, over a cluttered forest f

Landscape with trees

François Chifflart, 1850

Etched landscape of a wooded path with a large twisted tree, two resting travellers at left, a dog, and distant hills.

Wooded Landscape with Two Travellers Resting

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etched chinoiserie plate with a tiled pavilion, a winged dragon, two small figures and leafy foliage.

Plate, from Suite de Jeu Chinois

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Engraving of a kneeling man in a patterned cloak before a standing plumed figure in a Gothic hall with a coat of arms.

Henri IV of France Receiving Homage

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1790

Engraved oval portrait of an older bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, with an inscription below.

Portrait of Pierre Jeannin

Robert Nanteuil, 1650

Engraved design of a fireplace with ornate overmantel mirror, mantel objects, and panelled walls, with a scale bar in pieds.

Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Royalle"

Pierre Lepautre, 1700

Engraved page of two ornate rococo clock case designs with urns, foliage, dragons and lion masks, by Oppenord.

Page Three from "Second Licre Contenant Differens Desseins de Pendules Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi…

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Moonlit Paris square with a Gothic church tower on the left, a domed building behind, and small pedestrians on the paving.

St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Engraved plate of an ornate double cupboard door flanked by pilasters with putti reliefs, with a plan view below.

Plate 6, "Decoration d'une Portal double à placards, traittée dans la même gout..."

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Oval engraved portrait of a man with long curled hair, fur-trimmed mantle and star insignia, inscribed Louis XIV.

Portrait of Louis XIV, King of France

Robert Nanteuil, 1660

Japanese woodblock print of two women under cherry blossoms, one sweeping fallen petals with a broom.

April, from series of "Social Customs..."

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Engraved portrait of a bearded officer in a dark uniform with epaulettes and a white peaked cap, titled The Grand Duke Nichol

Portrait of Nicholas Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia

G. R. Hall, 1830

Mezzotint oval portrait of Martin Luther in dark robes, with an engraved inscription below, by Richard Houston.

Portrait of Martin Luther

Richard Houston, 1750

Etching of St. Paul's Cathedral's west front and dome seen down a city street, flanked by tall buildings and towers.

St. Paul's, Fleet Street, London

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of two robed apostles speaking to a seated beggar beside a column, with onlookers in period dress behind them.

S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Hercules struck by a woman with a club, with nude figures, a satyr, a child and a castle in the landscape.

Hercules at the Crossroads (The Effects of Jealousy)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved ornamental design with a grotesque mask, scrolls, shell and fruit garland framing a blank cartouche.

Page Four from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé P…

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved vertical ornamental panel with a classical statue, putti, fruit urns, boars and a medallion of embracing figures.

L’Automne

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraving of a horned satyr playing a flute beside a nude woman nursing an infant among gnarled trees.

The Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a crowded city avenue with large American flags hanging from tall buildings and pedestrians walking in sunlight an

Avenue of the Allies

Childe Hassam, 1910

Engraved portrait of a man with shoulder-length hair and a lace collar, labeled Lord of Lavden 1637.

Portrait of Lord of Lavden (1637)

Isaac Herbert, 1790

Red chalk style print with a cherub, two hens, a leafy tree, and a lion with putti in an ornamental scroll panel.

Plate 4, from "Oeuvre de Differens Genres"

Flemish Gilles Antoine Demarteau, 1770

Vertical strip showing two Japanese figures, a woman with ornate hair above and a man holding a folding fan below.

Two Actors

Kikugana Eizan, 1810

Engraving of a mounted cavalry officer in armor with a sword, riding a grey horse, with soldiers behind him.

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Corporal

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1720

Brown print of a Triumph of Death with three fates, a wheel of fortune, skeletons and an hourglass within an architectural fr

Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull an…

Andrea Andreani, 1580

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a standing Saturn figure holding a scythe, flanked by putti and masks.

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state

René Boyvin, 1540

Etching of the Tour de l'Horloge in Paris with a clock tower, turrets, a stone bridge and a barge on the river.

La Tour de l'Horloge

Charles Meryon, 1850

Mezzotint portrait of a young boy in a plumed helmet reaching toward a parrot in a tree, with a distant house.

The Lord Euston

John Smith, 1680

Etching of an old Paris building with arched doorway, shuttered windows, two figures on the street, and handwritten verse abo

La rue des mauvais garcons

Charles Meryon, 1850

Engraved portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia in a dark veil and white collar, hands clasped, with Latin inscription be

Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Flemish Lucas Vorsterman, 1650

Engraved plate of an ornate domed clock with twisted coiled wires around columns and two Roman-numeral dials on the base.

Design For a Clock, pl. XV from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710

Engraved design of an ornamental urn on a pedestal with floral garlands and a cameo medallion.

ornament

John Edwards, 1780

Etching of Christ carrying the cross with Simon of Cyrene helping, a crowd and a stone tower behind them.

Via crucis - Station V, Simon of Cyrene Helps Him to Carry the Cross

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of the entombment: men lay a shrouded body in a stone tomb while mourners and a kneeling figure watch under tree bran

Via crucis - Station XIV, The Entombment

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraving of a sleeping nude Venus beneath a tree with a winged Cupid resting against her, with a landscape behind.

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Theodoor Galle, 1590