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Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Engraving of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin beside infant Christ in a manger, shepherds with a lamb at left, angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Flemish Nicolaus van Aelst, 1600

Two engraved plates of putti: one playing flute and lyre on a pedestal, the other helmeted beside a pelt and winged cherub.

Suitte des Enfants

Michael Hartwagner, 1770

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Hand-colored engraved plate of ferns, flowers and a banner with French title text, numbered 3 at bottom.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, no. 3

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Mary, John, and a kneeling woman at the cross, framed by Passion instruments and angels.

The Crucifixion

Flemish Anthonie Wierix, 1590

Engraved rococo panelling design for a cabinet with a central mirror over a settee, flanked by wall consoles, a candelabra an

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1690

Engraving of men catching snakes with forked sticks in a marsh, with dogs, frogs, trees and ruins in the background.

Hunting snakes

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Engraved cartouche showing a seated woman with an incense burner beside a camel, with palm trees and a building in the backgr

L'Asie

Marie Michelle Blondel, 1730

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etched rococo cartouche design with a reclining cherub, lyre, scrolls, and architectural ruins at its base.

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved elevation of a riding academy side wall with arched windows, draped curtains, garlands, and chandeliers.

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Francesco Zucchi, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche design with crown, putti, lions and winged griffins, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger.

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

Engraved rococo candelabra design with cherub and scrolling foliage above a decorative title cartouche with dolphins.

CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo designs by Meissonnier: a table centerpiece above a royal wash basin with putti and scrollwork feet.

Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Pen and ink drawing of a man in a pinstriped suit and long coat holding a tennis racket, signed below the figure.

Play

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Japanese woodblock print of porters loading cargo onto horses at a roadside post station beneath a teal sky.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etched title plate with an oval floral cartouche holding the IHS monogram, topped by a ribbon bow and flanked by flower ornam

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, 1650

Engraved interior design of a fireplace wall with porcelain vases, a lacquered panel of figures in landscape, and an upholste

Design for a Chimney Wall with Lacquered Panels and Porcelain from "Nouvelles Chiminees Faittes en Plusieur en Droits…

Engraving of Union soldiers sleeping on the ground by their rifles in a bare field, with a standing sentry at center.

Army of the Potomac - Sleeping on their Arms

Winslow Homer, 1860

Wood engraving of Civil War soldiers, a central wheel of dated years, Lincoln portrait, farmers, women and children from Harp

1860-1870

Winslow Homer, 1870

Etched print of a bearded pasha in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe standing by a step, with a distant landscape.

Bacha de Caramanie (A Pasha from Karamin), plate 7 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a seated bull, winged figure, scrolls, and floral sprays, numbered 32.

Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of a bearded hunter on horseback with a leopard, dogs and a leopard chasing rabbits in a wooded landscape.

Rabbit hunt

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and fur collar, with Latin inscription below, dated 1520.

Portrait of Wilibald Pirkheimer

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Etching of an angel appearing in light above shepherds with sheep and cattle in a dark wooded landscape.

Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630