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Wood engraving of Santa Claus placing presents in a bedroom beside a sleeping child, with a woman holding an apple.

Santa Claus and His Presents

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central hybrid figure, dragons, a bird and hanging chains, by Christoph Jamnitzer.

Plate 48, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Crowd of spectators in top hats and bonnets looking up at fireworks over trees at night, engraved illustration.

Fire-Works on the Night of the Fourth of July

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers on a grassy road beside a teahouse and turquoise sea, with pine trees on the hillside.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved scene of soldiers in a rough football game on a field, with a crowd and tents in a camp behind them.

Holiday in Camp - Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved plate with a cherub riding a bird through clouds, surrounded by four ornamental grotesque designs.

Plate 31, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of a headless ghostly pilgrim in a monk's robe holding a staff, beside a tomb with a skeleton and skull.

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Samuel Ireland, 1790

Engraving of people on a snowy city street at Christmas, with wreaths on a townhouse and a gas lamp.

Christmas Out of Doors

Winslow Homer, 1850

Back of a paper sheet with a small blue crown and monogram collector's stamp in the center.

The Prodigal Son

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved parlor scene of guests dancing and musicians playing under a chandelier, titled Thanksgiving Day, The Dance.

Thanksgiving Day - The Dance

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of two lions caught in a net as shielded hunters with torches approach through a palm landscape.

Lion trap

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of two geometric polyhedra on pedestals: a rhombic triacontrahedron at left and a spiky stellated icosahedron at ri

Plate O, F.IIII, Rhombentrikontaeder und Ikosaeder (Rhombic Triacontrahedron and Icosahedron), Perspectiva Corporum R…

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Etched ornamental plate with a central female figure in scrollwork, flanked by putti, candle sconces and hanging garlands.

Plate 46, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of two hunters with a gun and an ox near a stream, with deer and cattle in a wooded landscape.

Deer hunt

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etching of a large elephant in light facing robed, bearded men holding a scroll in shadow at left.

Otras Leyes por El Pueblo (Other Laws for the People)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Etched grotesque ornament plate with two elephant heads, scrolling acanthus, three putti under a canopy, and sprigs of foliag

Plate 26, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of fishermen in rowing boats hauling large tuna near a harbor town with sailing ships, with Latin verses below.

Tuna fishing

Flemish Karel van Mallery, 1590

Engraving of figures fishing with pelicans on a river bank, with ducks, willows, huts and Latin verse below.

Indians Catching Fish with the Help of Pelicans

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of a boatman poling a flat boat on a river, with travelers crossing a sandbar and misty hills behind.

Mitsuke, Tenryu-gawa River, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of monkeys imitating kneeling hunters who wash their eyes in basins beneath trees, with a sunburst sky.

Apes imitating hunters

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1590

Etching of two women and a seated man on a ship gallery with scrolled iron railing, overlooking a harbor with masts.

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta (Souvenir of a Ball on Shipboard)

James Joseph Tissot, 1870

Woodblock print of travelers outside a roadside teahouse with a large tree and misty mountains behind.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of two tall stepped cones on a ground line, the right one decorated with interlocking geometric frame motifs.

Two Cones, plate H. i. in Perspectiva. Corporium Regularium

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Engraving of armed men fighting coiled serpents amid flames in a forest, with Latin verses below.

Fighting serpents with fire

Flemish Karel van Mallery, 1600

Engraving of a schoolroom at noon: a woman seated at a desk and a barefoot boy on a bench, with children playing outside.

The Noon Recess

Winslow Homer, 1870

Wood engraving of an apple bee: people peeling apples in a room with a fireplace, garlands, and a dancing woman.

Fall Games - The Apple-Bee

Winslow Homer, 1850

Etched grotesque ornament plate with a crowned mask, curling serpent forms, scrolls, and tassels, numbered 37.

Plate 37, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraved plate of two oval ornamental cartouches with figures, scrollwork and fruit garlands, one with blank central panels.

Plate 13, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, 1570

Woodblock print of a bay framed by pine trees, travelers on a hillside path, small boats on blue water under a pale sky.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of a Thanksgiving dinner in a formal dining room with seated guests, a standing servant, and a laden table.

Thanksgiving Day - The Dinner

Winslow Homer, 1850

Harper's Weekly page with six engraved scenes of Union army life before Yorktown, Virginia, including sharpshooters and a ste

Our Army before Yorktown, Virginia

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a curved wooden bridge beside thatched houses, a willow tree and hills under a pale sky

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of travelers resting by a willow and stone wall on the Tokaido road, with a horse approaching at right.

Fujikawa, Approach of a Nobleman, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved study interior with a scholar using compasses, a hanging galleon, a globe, instruments, and a sea view through an ar

Lapis Polaris Magnes (Invention of the Compass), plate 2 of the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of travelers and a horse at a teahouse beside a bridge, with thatched houses and a blue sea behind.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Woodblock print of New Year street performers with drummers, kimono-clad women and a man in a patterned robe near pine branch

New Years in Yoshiwara

Katsushika Hokusai, 1840

Engraved Harper's Weekly page with vignettes of nurses, women sewing soldiers' shirts, and a wounded soldier in bed.

Our Women and the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched title plate with grotesque ornamental border, winged figures and Dutch text in a central cartouche.

Title plate, from Grottesco in diversche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1570

Engraving of guests toasting around a table at left and a church congregation at right, framed by angels and holly.

Seeing the Old Year Out

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Clelia on a rearing horse crossing a river, with women and soldiers, trees and billowing drapery.

Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central chariot scene, tritons, birds, armor and dense scrollwork.

Plate 23, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of a wooden velvet loom with a weaver seated at the treadles, numbered parts and hanging weights.

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1700

Engraving of Flora offering a flower wreath to a reclining Cupid beside a flower-filled urn in a wooded landscape.

Flore et l'Amour

François Boucher, 1740

Engraved neoclassical wall elevation with paneled doors, pilasters, medallions and classical figural decoration.

L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plat…

Charles Percier, 1800

Engraved symmetrical grotesque ornament plate with a central oval chariot scene, griffins, caryatids, and parrots, bound in a

Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Sepia print of a seated old man gesturing in a dark prison cell with huddled sons, a reclining body, skull and chains.

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved ground-floor plan of a country house with a central oval salon and round entrance vestibule, French labels.

Plan du Rez de chaussée d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved street scene of a blacksmith's forge with horses, riders, and a furnace, showing the invention of the stirrup.

Staphae, Sive Strapedes (Invention of the Stirrup), plate 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Two engraved plates of putti from the Suitte des Enfants series, one with a torch and dolphin, one with a crowned child and g

Suitte des Enfants

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1770

Etching of Christ speaking with a woman at a well, with a water jar and a town with figures in the background.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620

Engraved floor plan of a country house cellar with vaulted rooms, a staircase, and French labels on a cream page.

Plan des Caves d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraving of a busy 16th-century printmaking workshop with workers at presses, benches and inking tables.

Engraving on metal; Engravers on a ship

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved decorative frieze with scrollwork, putti, fruit garlands, a mountain landscape vignette and a circular classical med

Freizes

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Wood engraving of three children resting under a tree with a dog, a farmhouse and hanging laundry behind them.

The Nooning

Winslow Homer, 1870

Hand-colored peep-show of costumed carnival figures dancing in a Venetian-style square with arcaded buildings.

The Carnival of Venice (Peep-show)

Martin Engelbrecht, 1730

Engraving of a woman with a parasol on a beach, with two people in a rowboat and waves on the sea behind her.

"On the Beach, Two are Company, Three are None"

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved bookplate design shaped as a fan with a female figure in an oval medallion and ribbons reading Colonial Dames of Ame

Design for a Bookplate: Colonial Dames of America

Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1890

Engraved rococo ornament plate with scrolling acanthus leaves and a central floral rosette, numbered 16.

Plate 16 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Jacques Juillet, 1770

Etching of tall pine trees silhouetted against a pale sunset sky over dark foliage and a distant horizon.

Sunset

John Charles Robinson, 1880

Engraved plate of three ornate keyhole escutcheons with scrolling foliage, and cherub figures on the right design.

Plate 4, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Pale speckled paper with a small brown-ink monogram near the lower center.

The Virgin Sitting by a Wall

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Etching of Neptune with trident and sea horses, with a figure on a chariot, winged birds and cherubs in clouds above.

Quos Ego (Whom I)

Simone Cantarini

Engraved grotesque plate with a cherub driving a chariot in the center, surrounded by animals, griffins, centaurs and scrolli

Plate 20, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Woodcut of two haloed women greeting in a doorway, with a donkey, robed figures, and towers in the background.

The Visitation

Leonardo Parasole, 1590

Engraved ornament sheet with a circular frame, acanthus scrolls, flower garlands, two cherubs, and small decorative studies a

Designs for engraved decoration of goldsmith's works

Jacques Vauquer, 1650

Engraved plate showing two rococo ewer designs with scrolling foliage and two cartouche fragments, numbered 143.

Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament

Franz Xaver Habermann, 1740

Engraving of women weaving garlands in a vineyard, with a reclining nude, a cupid, a woodcutter and goats in the background.

The Wreath

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Etching of a shipyard with a wooden hull, sailing ship, church clock tower, workmen, anchor and barrels on a wharf.

Wharf, Kennebunkport, Maine

Harry Fenn, 1880

Engraving of men in a procession carrying classical helmets, armor, shields, and ornate vases on poles.

Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers

Andrea Mantegna

Engraving of a burning city with fleeing figures, cattle, and a robed elder blowing a trumpet, with Latin text below.

The king has his servants invite guests to the wedding party, from the series 'Parable of the Wedding Feast'

Flemish Marten de Vos, 1600

Engraved plate of an empire-style room with draped curtains and a table, surrounded by helmets, swords and shields.

Salle éxécuté au Chateau Malmaison (Room Designed for Chateau Malmaison), plate 55, in Recueil de decorations interie…

Charles Percier, 1800

Engraved garden design with a coat of arms fountain, pillars, and a rearing equestrian statue above among trees.

Design for Fountain with Coat of Arms and Equestrian Statue

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1700

Engraved ornamental plate with grotesque scrollwork and a central oval scene of two mounted warriors fighting.

Plate 16, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraved perspective of a neoclassical bedroom with ornate ceiling, wall panels, fireplace, chairs and a draped bed.

Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V à Paris (Perspective View of the Bedroom of Cit. V in Paris), plate…

Charles Percier, 1810

Red-toned engraved plate of two decorative friezes with scrolling acanthus, flowers, garlands and a small figural medallion.

Plate 8 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Henri Sallembier, 1770

Black and white ornamental design of swirling scrolls and leafy tendrils filling a horizontal rectangle, finely hatched.

Querfüllung auf hellem Grund (Horizontal Ornament)

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Engraved ornamental plate with a central architectural niche, seated figures, eagles, sphinxes and dense scrolling grotesque

Plate, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of a rearing horse with a braided tail against a distant landscape of hills and buildings, labelled Danus.

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved ornamental frieze plate with scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers, an urn, and a trophy of arms in two bands.

Plate 14 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Henri Sallembier, 1770

Engraving of two horses, labeled Romanus and Equus Matronalis, before a distant walled city with a bridge.

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

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etched fan leaf design with cherubs, lions, a flower urn, and scrolling ornament in a semicircular frame.

Fan leaves, Second half of the set "Desseins d'Eventails et Ecrans

Nicolas Pierre Loir

Engraved ornamental plate with grotesque scrollwork, armored figures, sphinxes, and a horseback rider in clouds at center.

Plate 17, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of bearded Silenus riding a donkey with a satyr holding a cup, a dog, and putti in a landscape.

Silenus Riding on an Ass

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Engraved pastoral landscape with an arched bridge over a river, grazing sheep, draped figures, and distant mountains.

Jacob and Laban (Il Ponti)

William Woollett, 1780

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical America: a feathered woman with a bow beside a crocodile, parrot, monkey and tropica

America

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Sepia etching of a seated woman and a winged youth writing on a classical monument beside architectural fragments.

Etching with aquatint: Architecture

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

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

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

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

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