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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Etching of a man holding a lantern leading a donkey carrying a veiled woman through a dark night landscape.

The Flight Into Egypt: A Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Etching of a wide city street with ornate townhouses, pedestrians, a carriage, and a large tree on the right.

Park Lane

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved design for an ornate classical mantelpiece with columns, garlands, an eagle, and figures above a fireplace opening.

Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées a la Romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and buttoned coat, with a Latin caption naming Petrus Brevgel below.

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etching of The Monument column in London, with curved shopfronts, a horse carriage, pedestrians and overhead wires.

The Monument, London

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved design plate of an ornate clock with Roman numeral dial, figure supports, and a slatted case above.

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

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710

Engraved page of three ornamental cartouche designs with foliage, a horse, a merman, and a classical urn with a winged creatu

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etched portrait of a bare-shouldered woman with hand on chest before a dark wooded hillside, with German caption on left.

Woman

Arnold Böcklin, 1880

Engraved plate numbered 59 showing two covered mustard pots with scrolled handles and floral finials, by Pierre Germain, 1740

Moutardiers

Pierre Germain, 1740

Engraving of a haloed allegorical figure with a sword and scales, standing beside a lion, in fine cross-hatched lines.

Justice

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of the Bridge of Alcantara in Toledo, with stone arches, crenellated towers and a distant river valley.

Bridge of Alcantara, Toledo

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of the Holy Family under a palm tree with cherubs carrying palm fronds and a scroll.

Holy Family with Attending Cherubs

Ferdinando Gregori, 1750

Lithograph title page showing a pensive woman leaning on a balcony railing beside a curtain, with rooftops and a church tower

Title Page of the Song "La Rêveuse" by Gaston de Roausset Baulbon with Music by Paul de Lourefourix

Adolphe Mouilleron, 1840

Etching of Christ carrying the cross meeting his haloed mother, with onlookers and trees, under a caption in Italian.

Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved full-length portrait of a bearded man in lace collar and sash beside a plumed helmet, drapery, and cannon.

Portrait of Albrecht Waldstein

Joseph Bergler the younger, 1800

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical figures, a skull and a putto below.

Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger

Flemish Aegidius Sadeler II, 1600

Etching of tall trees in a woodland landscape with Venus, Adonis, Cupid and hunting dogs in the lower right.

Venus and Adonis with Cupid in a Landscape

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etching of a crowded pier with a paddle steamer and a large bridge crossing the river behind it.

Blackfriars Bridge, Penny Steamboats

Joseph Pennell, 1890

Portrait of Victor Hugo

Auguste Rodin, 1880

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono and two men with a pole, before a town with a bridge and boats.

Four Actors in a Town Landscape

Hosada Yeishe, 1800

Etching of a skeleton in a dark cloak leaning over a barefoot man holding a book in a dark wooded setting.

Death comes to the artist

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Etching of the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, with a kneeling saint below a heavenly vision of angels and a dove.

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1780

Engraved architectural plate showing a rococo double cupboard door with putti reliefs above and floor plans below.

Plate 4, "Decoration d'une Portal double à placards varie de deux façons"

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Colour print of a tropical forest waterfall with palms, rock cliffs, and two figures beside a stream.

Print - George Baxter, 1850

George Baxter, 1850

Etching of a crowded flower market beside the ornate Gothic Butter Tower in Rouen, with a corner building at right.

Flower Market and Butter Tower, Rouen

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved rococo clock design with an eagle on top, scrolling ornament, a blank oval cartouche, and lion and female masks.

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraving of Prometheus chained to rocks while an eagle attacks him, with a serpent and clouds in the background.

Prometheus Chained to the Rocks of Caucasus

Cornelis Cort, 1560

Engraved ornamental plate with three cartouche designs: a lion with bow and arrows, a crowned shield with lion and eagle, and

page Six from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Hu…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of a curved stone harbor landing with rowboats, masted sailing ships, and people on the steps and quay.

Landing Place, Leghorn

Joseph Pennell, 1880

Etching of two figures in a dark forest looking down at a bearded man half-buried beside a skull, with an owl overhead.

The Discovery of a Buried Man

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1760