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Engraved floral cipher of interlaced letters made of garlands of blossoms and leaves, with a French title caption below.

Title Page and Design for a Cipher (Interlaced Letters)

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Engraving of the Betrayal of Christ with soldiers holding torches and swords seizing figures in a crowded scene.

Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of moored sailing ships and their reflections on a calm harbor, with riverfront buildings and a smokestack at right.

Below Chestnut Street Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1880

Sepia woodcut of a muscular nude Hercules lifting his arms as a giant wrestles at his feet in a cave with cattle and bones.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1580

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in ornate dark military uniform with gold braid and medals, holding a plumed cap.

Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell

D. J. Pound, 1850

Engraved portrait of a young man with curly hair in a dark cloak and white collar, captioned BYRON.

Portrait of George Gordon Lord Byron

Thomas Phillibrown, 1830

Etching of a Gothic chapel entrance with arches, stone stairs and small dark figures climbing toward an ornate doorway.

Entrance to Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Black and white print of an angel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in a vaulted interior, with a dove above and a lily vase.

The Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved decorative panels: cupid carried by the Graces above, and a lyre with garlands and fruit below.

Panneau de Cabinet

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraved bust portrait of a man with short hair, cravat and lapelled coat, set centred on a pale sheet.

Portrait of an Unknown Man

Julius Caesar Thaeter, 1840

Etching of a bearded seated man with skulls and animals, onlookers, and a boy playing a pipe among tree trunks.

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Etching of a grinning flame-haired figure holding torches, standing on a bent man's shoulders against a dark background.

Subir y Bajar (Up and Down)

Francisco Goya, 1800

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child beside a seated bearded man, with a castle landscape and God among clou

The Holy Family with Butterfly

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a reclining bearded man in white drapery, a gaunt nude figure behind him, and a crowd of onlookers in shadow.

The Crazed Artist

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Engraved circular vignette of pigs resting in straw by a fence, with chickens and a bird in a farmyard scene.

Pigs in Pigsty

Wright and Co Danforth, 1850

Engraved sheet with six oval portraits of US presidents surrounding a central building vignette, titled Presidents of the Uni

Portraits of United State

Frederick T. Stuart, 1890

Etching of a New York skyline seen over rooftops, with a Gothic tower at the center and hazy smoky sky.

New York from Brooklyn Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Hand-colored caricature of a flowery dandy with a short-tailed poodle, watched by a crowd of robed men before classical colum

Jeunesse d'Alcibiade, plate 19 from the HIstoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Loose charcoal sketch of a man in a vest seen from behind, standing in a cluttered workshop with bottles and a press.

Joseph Pennell

Childe Hassam, 1910

Woman in green kimono with hair ornaments seated by a lattice window, beside an inset pine landscape, Japanese woodblock prin

Yui, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey"

Keisei Eisen, 1830

Engraved rococo design with a dog and spotted horse, birds including a peacock and parrots, and an ornate scrolled border.

Print - Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Engraved rococo window design, split to show ornate iron scrollwork on one side and an open window with trees on the other.

Print - Johann Jakob Schübler, 1720

Johann Jakob Schübler, 1720

Engraved landscape of a hilltop castle with a round tower, a wooden bridge, a watermill and a large tree in the foreground.

Landscape with Castle and Bridge

Hanns Lautensack, 1550

Etching of the Savoy Hotel entrance with turreted towers, an ornate facade, and a crowd of pedestrians below an arch.

Entrance to the Savoy Hotel

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono washing dark cloth in a stream beside a wooden tub, with a mountain inset.

Woman washing fabric in a stream

Utagawa Kunisada, 1850

Page Six from "Second Licre Contenant Differens Desseins de Pendules Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Hand-colored print of Roman ruins with columns, a seated nude figure, two women and a dog beside a stone urn.

Environs de Rome

Charles Melchoir Descourtis, 1780

Engraved oval portrait of Abraham de Fabert in armor and lace collar, with a caption naming him Mareschal de France.

Poritrait of Abraham de Fabert

Flemish Gerard Edelinck, 1650

Engraved page of small Latin-labeled vignettes showing animals, workers, objects and tumbling acrobats in grid panels.

Vignettes for a Latin Grammar

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1770

Engraved page of three rococo cartouche designs with scrolls, a female figure, putti and a fountain basin.

Page Five from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par H…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770