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Engraved ornamental plate with an empty oval frame flanked by cornucopias, acanthus scrolls, and garland friezes.

Frieze with Ovoidal Frame

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Engraved decorative panel with putti on a cloud, a central tree with garlands, an urn of flowers, and standing figures.

Title Page and Decorative Panel Design

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraved plate of ornamental friezes and overdoor designs with garlands, cartouches, birds, and labeled hunting, fishing, and

Designs for Paneling, Friezes, and Overdoors

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Black and white plate of neoclassical ornamental friezes and panels with scrolls, a griffin, garlands and trophies.

Friezes, Panels and Ornam

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Etching of the Gothic Guildhall facade with a tall central spire, arched windows, and small pedestrians in the street below.

The Guildhall

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Mezzotint portrait of a young man in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, with a cloak and wooded landscape behind him.

Portrait of Sir John Percival Bart of Burton in the County Cork of Ireland

John Smith, 1700

Etching of the Woolworth Building's tall Gothic tower above a busy city street with carriages and pedestrians.

The Woolworth Building

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etched portrait of an older bearded man in a dark coat, signed Alexandre Cabanel, holding a slender object.

Portrait of Alexander Cabanel

Benjamin-Louis-Auguste Damman, 1880

Hand-colored print of a seated woman dipping an infant upside down into dark water in a rocky cave, after Daumier.

La Bapteme d'Achille, plate 22 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraved plate of clock gears, dial faces and a large Roman-numeral clock with a fish-shaped support, titled Horology: Dial W

Horology: Dial Work, from pl. XXXIII from "A Cyclopaedia of Horology - Rees's Clocks Watches and Chronometers"

Abraham Rees, 1810

Engraving of a jester gesturing beside a seated woman under a tree, with a pond and an ornate scrolled border.

Le Bouffon

Gabriel Huquier, 1720

Engraved design for an arched overdoor with putti, a central mask, a reclining classical woman, and a foliage-framed roundel.

Design for Overdoor and Frame, from "Recherche de Plusieurs Beaux Morceaux"

Jean Le Pautre, 1660

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armor and lace collar, with drapery, helmet and sword below.

Portrait of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

Jacob Houbraken, 1740

Etched portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair and a dark cloak, hand resting on his chest, crosshatched background.

Portrait of Hans Makart

William Unger, 1880

Engraving of a seated veiled woman beside an ornate pulpit with a preacher and listeners, framed by a curtain and columns.

Design for Pulpit

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Engraved rococo fireplace design with arched niche, ornate cartouche, pilasters, and floor plan details below.

Plate 1, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Mezzotint of arranged armor, helmet, pike, rifle and flag on a ledge, with a distant battle scene and dedicatory inscription.

Dedication Page of a Suite of Cavalry Officers

Georg Philip Rugendas, 1720

Etching of soldiers and robed figures around an altar with a skull and bone, beside a rocky outcrop with an inscription.

Soldiers, Magus, and Other Figures Observing a Skull and a Tibia on an Altar, plate 7 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of St. Jerome kneeling in a rocky landscape beside a resting lion, with cliffs, pines and a chapel.

St. Jerome in Penitence

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of Amiens cathedral's spire behind riverside houses, with moored boats and figures on the water in the foreground.

Amiens from the River

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Woodblock print of a standing sumo wrestler with clenched fists, wearing a black-striped belt, against a blue background.

The Sumo Wrestler, Koyanagi Tsunekichi

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a long staff, wearing a black robe over a green and cream patterned costume.

Omezo Ichikawa in the role of Kajiwara Genta

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1810

Engraved interior with a standing man gesturing to three seated women, a parrot on a screen and a dog on the floor.

La Critique de L’École des femmes (Critique of The School for Wives), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. II

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, 1770

Etched print of a dense woodland with tall slender trees, bare branches and ivy against a pale sky, over a cluttered forest f

Landscape with trees

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Etched landscape of a wooded path with a large twisted tree, two resting travellers at left, a dog, and distant hills.

Wooded Landscape with Two Travellers Resting

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etched chinoiserie plate with a tiled pavilion, a winged dragon, two small figures and leafy foliage.

Plate, from Suite de Jeu Chinois

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Engraving of a kneeling man in a patterned cloak before a standing plumed figure in a Gothic hall with a coat of arms.

Henri IV of France Receiving Homage

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1790

Engraved oval portrait of an older bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, with an inscription below.

Portrait of Pierre Jeannin

Robert Nanteuil, 1650

Engraved design of a fireplace with ornate overmantel mirror, mantel objects, and panelled walls, with a scale bar in pieds.

Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Royalle"

Pierre Lepautre, 1700

Engraved page of two ornate rococo clock case designs with urns, foliage, dragons and lion masks, by Oppenord.

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770