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Engraved portrait of a seated man with a wig, holding a charter, beside a globe, with ships visible at sea.

Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1668-1751)

William Nutter, 1790

Engraved portrait of a seated elderly man in a dark coat and lace cravat, with mechanical drawings nearby.

Portrait of James Watt

William Nicholson

Engraved ornamental panel with a central landscape medallion, winged figures, garlands, censers and putti in relief.

Ornamental Panel Surmounted by a Medallion with a Sacrifice, plate 5 from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques Peintes da…

Michel Dorigny, 1640

Engraved print of the Madonna holding the infant Christ with young Saint John beside them in a circular frame.

The Madonna della Sedia

Raphael Morghen, 1800

La Noblesse

Jacques Callot, 1620

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a skullcap leaning on a stone balustrade, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Wencelaus Coeberger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Flemish Lucas Vorsterman, 1630

Etching of a bearded man seated on a bed, hand to his head, surrounded by shadowy grotesque figures in darkness.

A nightmare

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Engraved print of a standing woman in ornate robes before an obelisk and ruins, framed by rococo scrollwork and flowers.

Octavia Empress to Nero, in escutcheon

Étienne Charpentier, 1750

Lithograph of three decorative friezes with acanthus scrolls, a swan, a heron, putti, a medallion bust and a fruit basket.

Three Friezes and Ornamen

Gottfried Engelmann, 1810

Etching of a rooster on a pedestal, a ladder, a wooden cross with thorns and cloth, and the words VIA CRUCIS on a wall.

Frontispiece of the Via crucis (Stations of the Cross)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of Trinity Church spire at the end of a crowded Wall Street lined with tall stone buildings and pedestrians.

Trinity Church from Wall Street

Vaughan Trowbridge, 1910

Etching of Christ falling under the cross beside Roman soldiers and a crowd, with a classical arch behind, labeled Stazione I

Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved plate of a rococo fireplace design with mirror, tapestry panels and hearth plan below.

Plate 4, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Colored print of a Antwerp fish market with woven baskets, a Madonna statue on a stone pillar, and women in red skirts.

Fish Market, Antwerp

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Woodcut of a knight on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with skulls and bones on the ground.

St. George Killing the Dr

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of a barefoot shepherdess holding a spindle beside a tree, with a seated boy and sheep and lambs nearby.

La Bergere Laborieuse

Jean Michel Liotard, 1750

Engraving of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by men on ladders while mourners gather below.

Descent from the Cross

G.L.D, 1590

Engraved page of three vertical rococo ornament designs: a candelabra, a figural pilaster with shield, and a scrolled support

Page Five from "Quatrieme Livre Contenant Des Montans où Pilastres Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et G…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved portrait of a young woman in a striped head wrap, looking over her shoulder, with Latin caption and coat of arms bel

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Pietro Bettelini, 1800

Engraving of a mounted soldier with helmet and musket on a white horse, a second rider behind him, camp figures in the backgr

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers

Georg Philip Rugendas, 1720

Lithograph of a ragged man walking with a thin dog on a rope, from Daumier's Histoire Ancienne, plate 7.

Le Retour d'Ulysse, plate 7 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Black and white plate of neoclassical friezes with swans, urns, scrolls, rosettes and fluted columns, labeled Pl. 3.

Frieze and Ornamental Bor

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Colored caricature of a helmeted young warrior with spear facing a bearded older man in a purple robe before classical column

Telemaque Rendu a la Vertu

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Black and white engraving of a cross wrapped in passion flower vines with a crown above and the title Bearing the Cross.

Title page: "Bearing the Cross"

S. A. Grant, 1850

Etching of a nude nymph touching a bearded man holding a sketchbook, with a small child beside him in a forest.

Artist and a nymph, from Twelve Etchings by Chifflart

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Etching of the ornate Gros Horloge clock tower in Rouen, seen through an archway with a street and spire beyond.

Gros Horloge, Rouen

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a reclining nude woman, a child, and a vine-draped figure before ruins and a cloudy landscape.

...vino pellite curas (Horace's Odes)

Giovanni David, 1770

Etching of Leadenhall Market's ornate arched entrance with crowds of pedestrians and hanging lanterns under a vaulted roof.

Leadenhall Market, II

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, rolling hills, cattle, and two figures near a path in the lower right.

Mercury and Argus in a Wooded Landscape

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Engraved portrait of a seated man with a portfolio beside a plaster bust, easel, and painter's palette in a studio.

Portrait of Washington Allston

Johnson Fry, 1860