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Moonlit Paris square with a Gothic church tower on the left, a domed building behind, and small pedestrians on the paving.

St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Engraved plate of an ornate double cupboard door flanked by pilasters with putti reliefs, with a plan view below.

Plate 6, "Decoration d'une Portal double à placards, traittée dans la même gout..."

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Oval engraved portrait of a man with long curled hair, fur-trimmed mantle and star insignia, inscribed Louis XIV.

Portrait of Louis XIV, King of France

Robert Nanteuil, 1660

Japanese woodblock print of two women under cherry blossoms, one sweeping fallen petals with a broom.

April, from series of "Social Customs..."

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Engraved portrait of a bearded officer in a dark uniform with epaulettes and a white peaked cap, titled The Grand Duke Nichol

Portrait of Nicholas Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia

G. R. Hall, 1830

Mezzotint oval portrait of Martin Luther in dark robes, with an engraved inscription below, by Richard Houston.

Portrait of Martin Luther

Richard Houston, 1750

Etching of St. Paul's Cathedral's west front and dome seen down a city street, flanked by tall buildings and towers.

St. Paul's, Fleet Street, London

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of two robed apostles speaking to a seated beggar beside a column, with onlookers in period dress behind them.

S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Hercules struck by a woman with a club, with nude figures, a satyr, a child and a castle in the landscape.

Hercules at the Crossroads (The Effects of Jealousy)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved ornamental design with a grotesque mask, scrolls, shell and fruit garland framing a blank cartouche.

Page Four from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé P…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved vertical ornamental panel with a classical statue, putti, fruit urns, boars and a medallion of embracing figures.

L’Automne

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraving of a horned satyr playing a flute beside a nude woman nursing an infant among gnarled trees.

The Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a crowded city avenue with large American flags hanging from tall buildings and pedestrians walking in sunlight an

Avenue of the Allies

Childe Hassam, 1910

Engraved portrait of a man with shoulder-length hair and a lace collar, labeled Lord of Lavden 1637.

Portrait of Lord of Lavden (1637)

Isaac Herbert, 1790

Red chalk style print with a cherub, two hens, a leafy tree, and a lion with putti in an ornamental scroll panel.

Plate 4, from "Oeuvre de Differens Genres"

Flemish Gilles Antoine Demarteau, 1770

Vertical strip showing two Japanese figures, a woman with ornate hair above and a man holding a folding fan below.

Two Actors

Kikugana Eizan, 1810

Engraving of a mounted cavalry officer in armor with a sword, riding a grey horse, with soldiers behind him.

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Corporal

Georg Philip Rugendas, 1720

Brown print of a Triumph of Death with three fates, a wheel of fortune, skeletons and an hourglass within an architectural fr

Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull an…

Andrea Andreani, 1580

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a standing Saturn figure holding a scythe, flanked by putti and masks.

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state

René Boyvin, 1540

Etching of the Tour de l'Horloge in Paris with a clock tower, turrets, a stone bridge and a barge on the river.

La Tour de l'Horloge

Charles Meryon, 1850

Mezzotint portrait of a young boy in a plumed helmet reaching toward a parrot in a tree, with a distant house.

The Lord Euston

John Smith, 1680

Etching of an old Paris building with arched doorway, shuttered windows, two figures on the street, and handwritten verse abo

La rue des mauvais garcons

Charles Meryon, 1850

Engraved portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia in a dark veil and white collar, hands clasped, with Latin inscription be

Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Flemish Lucas Vorsterman, 1650

Engraved plate of an ornate domed clock with twisted coiled wires around columns and two Roman-numeral dials on the base.

Design For a Clock, pl. XV from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710

Engraved design of an ornamental urn on a pedestal with floral garlands and a cameo medallion.

ornament

John Edwards, 1780

Etching of Christ carrying the cross with Simon of Cyrene helping, a crowd and a stone tower behind them.

Via crucis - Station V, Simon of Cyrene Helps Him to Carry the Cross

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of the entombment: men lay a shrouded body in a stone tomb while mourners and a kneeling figure watch under tree bran

Via crucis - Station XIV, The Entombment

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraving of a sleeping nude Venus beneath a tree with a winged Cupid resting against her, with a landscape behind.

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Theodoor Galle, 1590

Engraved allegory of Water with putti, sea creatures, fountain, ships and a distant city within ornamental scrollwork.

Aqua, allegory of Water from The Four Elements

Hans Kellerthaler, 1580

Engraved design of a rococo alcove bed in a paneled niche with swagged curtains and ornate scrolling carved details.

Lit en niche, from Nouveau desseins de Lambris inventees par le Sr Pineau architecte

Nicolas Pineau, 1720