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Etching of a schoolmaster with a birch rod disciplining boys in a classroom, set within an ornate rococo frame.

L’école des Garçons

Jacques Bacheley, 1740

Engraving of three nude putti by an urn with a bird, and a sleeping child beside a tree in a landscape.

Boys Playing with a Bird

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Oil sketch of a rushing waterfall over rocky ledges with dense trees and a faint rainbow in the lower right.

A Waterfall in Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Engraved dedicatory page with a central text cartouche, allegorical women, coats of arms, and hunting animals along the borde

Dedicatory page of the set "Mediceae familiae rerum feliciter gestarum Victoria et triumphi"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1570

Loose oil study of billowing cumulus clouds lit gold on the left, above a muted horizon and bare paper below.

Cloud Study

Frederic Edwin Church, 1871

Gondole

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Sketch of two church domes, a gilded one with cross motifs and a smaller terracotta dome, above rooftops under grey sky.

Colombia or Ecuador, church roofs

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Engraved plate of six rococo ornament motifs with scrolls, leaves and curls, numbered 169, by Franz Xaver Habermann.

Designs for Ornament Motifs

Franz Xaver Habermann, 1720

Painted sketch of a whitewashed church with a bell tower and terracotta roof, with a rider on a donkey on dry ground.

Colombia, Baranquilla Church

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Etching of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with a tall column, a domed church, and small figures among ruins.

Arch of Septimius Severus from "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Painted study of thatched adobe houses in a dusty street, with a woman standing in a doorway and a wooden fence.

Colombia, Barranquilla, Two Houses

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Oil sketch of a snow-capped volcano with brown peaks and rust-colored smoke clouds under a pale blue sky.

Cotopaxi seen from Ambato, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Engraving of a formal garden with a domed trellis pavilion, clipped hedges, and strolling figures in period dress.

Le Berceau de L’hôtel de Condé

Adam Pérelle, 1700

Sunset over a lake and wooded hills, with a dark mountain at left and sunlight glinting on the water.

Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a golden plateau, lavender mountain, and thatched hut under a pale blue sky.

Ecuador ?, mountain plateau with hut

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Engraved plate of muscular angels on clouds blowing long trumpets, some holding open books, from Piroli's Last Judgment serie

Plate, from Le Jugement Universal

Tommaso Piroli, 1800

Painted landscape of a Victorian house with a tower among trees above a sunlit lawn and stone wall.

House in Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1885

Oil study of a still lake with rocky shore, a pointed mountain and distant ridges under a glowing evening sky.

Mounts Katahdin and Turner from Lake Katahdin, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1855

Landscape study of wooded hills, a meadow with a small house, and a warm orange foreground with pencil rock outlines.

Mt. Desert Island ?, landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Etching of the Nativity with Mary holding the infant Christ, angels, and an IHS monogram inside an ornate scrolled frame.

Nativity

Johann Evangelist Holzer, 1700

Painted seascape of a rocky shore with evergreens under a red sunrise sky, with distant headlands over calm water.

Schoodic Peninsula from Mount Desert at Sunrise

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Engraved plate of a cylinder desk with a curved roll top, drawers, and floral and trophy decoration on tapered legs.

Grand Secrétaire, ou Bureau à Cylindre

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Loose oil sketch of a calm sea under a pinkish cloudy sky with a thin distant horizon line.

Seascape with Icecap in the Distance

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

Engraved print of a classical country house with terraced steps, fountains, statues and trees behind it.

Country Home for a Literary Gentleman

Mario Asprucci The Younger, 1800

Engraved design plate of a crowned heraldic cartouche with scrollwork above a lattice-panelled railing.

Comtesse

Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, 1770

Oil sketch of a snow-capped mountain above clouds and dark ridges, with smaller study panels of hills at right.

Studies of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1857

Oil sketch of a snow-capped volcano above brown hills, with green shrubs and a thatched hut in the foreground.

Study of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1857

Engraving of a seated woman winding yarn in a courtyard with classical columns, laundry, and figures working by a well.

The Italian Yarn-Winder

Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, 1750

Engraving of a formal French garden with scrollwork parterres, a central fountain, pavilions, and strolling figures before wo

Veüe du Grand Parterre et de la Demi lune de Richelieu

Adam Pérelle, 1700

Engraved plate of a canopied bed, two armchairs and swagged drapery in a paneled room, labeled Tapissier.

Split Interior Elevation Showing Upholsteries