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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, with radiant light, a crown of thorns and a distant cros

Pieta

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Etching of a beggar family receiving coins from a man at a house doorway, with a woman carrying a basket and child.

Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraving of a bearded man pointing to his forehead beside a woman holding an ornate covered jar, with a distant landscape.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved heraldic design with a central coat of arms, two armored warriors, a St. George medallion and a Latin inscription.

Arms of the Pfinzing von

Matthias Zündt, 1560

Woodcut title page showing crowned Christ seated on a bench beside a kneeling man, with Latin text above and verse below.

Title Page, The Great Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of three ornate flower vases with serpent handles and carved masks, each holding a bouquet of blossoms.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Engraving of five lansquenet soldiers and a turbaned rider on horseback in a landscape with trees.

Five Lansquenets and an Oriental on Horseback

Albrecht Dürer

Engraving of Venus and Cupid seated in a forge with blacksmiths working at an anvil and weapons scattered nearby.

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, 1700

Etching of figures gathered around an infant in a dim interior with a ladder and barrel at left.

The Circumcision in the Stable

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and a parrot, with a tree and castle in the background.

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of three winged angels standing as a bearded man kneels before them beside a ruined building and tree branches.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with a star crown, holding the infant Christ and a sceptre, standing on a crescent moon.

The Virgin with the Crown of Stars

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a woman weaving flowers, a man playing a flute with a bird on his shoulder, and sheep and a goat by a tree.

The Flute Player

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Woodcut of seated Christ with crown of thorns and radiant halo, head resting on hand, with Latin title and verse text.

The Small Passion (Title Page)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including an ostrich, deer, lion and monkey.

The Fall of Man

the Elder Jan Sadeler, 1590

Woodcut of mourners carrying a draped body beneath a pointed arch, with dense hatched lines in the background.

Entombment

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of mourners lowering Christ's body into a stone tomb, with a crown of thorns and a bare tree.

The Entombment

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Engraving of St. Luke painting the Virgin and Child beside an ox, in an ornate architectural interior.

St. Luke Painting the Portrait of the Virgin

Dirk Jacobsz. Vellert, 1520

Black and white print of a beheading scene beneath a stone arch, with a town and church spire in the distance.

Beheading of John the Baptist

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1510

Engraving of a hooded bearded man reading on a bank, with a cross and bell beside him and a walled city behind.

St. Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a blue mantle standing on a crescent moon and serpent, surrounded by angels and cherubs in clo

The Immaculate Conception

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1780

Painting of a rustic landscape with a stone arch, shepherds, sheep, and a stream under a pale sky.

Rustic Landscape with Aqueduct and Figures

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Painting of a ruined stone arch over a river with rustic figures, a moored boat, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape with Rustic Figures

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Hand-colored design of a painted wall pilaster with birds, fruit garlands, grotesque figures, and classical medallions.

Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, 1770

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a wall with a winged putto in an octagon, eagles, garlands, and a console table with a g

Design for a Console Table and Looking Glass

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen drawing of an ornate altar cross flanked by winged angels and cherubs on clouds, with circular emblems.

Design for an Altar Cross

Pietro Belli, 1810

Watercolor and pencil study of a spotted Japanese lily with pencil sketches of related flower forms on cream paper.

Japanese Lily, East Hampton

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of a low cloud bank over a horizon with a faint bull outline and handwritten dates above.

Clouds and a Bull, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Brown ink drawing of two interior scenes: a seated veiled woman on the left and a crowded birth chamber on the right.

Annunciation [left]; Birth of the Virgin [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1580

Ink and wash sheet with octagonal scenes of Cupid and Psyche and small studies of winged Cupid figures, labeled in Italian.

Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid

Felice Giani, 1810