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Engraved plate showing eight Chinese-style vessels including a tripod censer, a fish vase, a monkey ewer and a bamboo teapot.

Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils

Sir William Chambers, 1750

Textile design with dense red, black and white flowers, tulips and leaves on a dotted background.

Design for Printed Textile

Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1810

Engraving of a seated woman in a headscarf leaning on a palm tree, with a reclining figure and pipe at lower right.

Femme de MATSMEY a la terre d’Ieço

François Boucher, 1730

Engraved still life of a wicker basket overflowing with tulips, peonies and other flowers, with butterflies around the bouque

Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 1690

Etching of a seated woman in a robe holding a parasol in a rocky landscape, with a French caption below.

NIKOU femme Bonze ou Religieuse Chinoise

François Boucher, 1730

Engraving of Christ enthroned on clouds with Mary and John the Baptist, and St. Paul and St. Catherine below.

Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Engraving of soldiers attacking mothers and infants in a paved street before an arched bridge and city towers.

Massacre of the Innocents (without the Fir Tree)

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510

Engraving of the Deposition: men on ladders lower Christ from a cross while mourners kneel below before a distant town.

The Deposition

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Black and white circular knot pattern with interlaced rings and a central monogram, framed by leaf motifs and scrolls at the

The Sixth Knot, from Dürer's Six Knots

Albrecht Dürer

Engraving of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus on clouds with an eagle and doves, a nude figure below blowing a trumpet.

Venus Complains to Jupiter

Master of the Die, 1520

Engraving of haloed saints with a central woman holding an organ, angels playing violin and harp above, instruments at feet.

Saint Cecilia

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510

Engraved print of the Coronation of the Virgin, Christ crowning Mary beneath God the Father, with saints, angels and a lion.

Coronation of the Virgin

Master of the Die, 1530

Engraving of an 18th-century couple greeting near a sedan chair, with a domed church and arched doorway behind them.

Les Précautions (The Precautions), from Le Monument du Costume

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1770

Engraving of Saint Paul preaching to a crowd before classical Athenian colonnades and a round temple, with an armored soldier

Saint Paul Preaching at Athens

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Engraved print of a flower-filled basket on a ledge, with butterflies and moths flying above the blooms.

Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 1680

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

Engraved semicircular fan leaf design with two cherubs, a flower urn, acanthus scrolls, fruit garlands and butterflies.

Fan leaves, Fifth and sixth plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens, inv…

Alexis Loir, 1670

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

Misty brown-toned print of a brewery with a tall chimney beside a river, with rowboats in the foreground.

Lion Brewery

Joseph Pennell, 1880

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

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

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

Print - Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1730

Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1730

Etched ornamental friezes with acanthus scrolls, putti and an oval landscape vignette, with a title cartouche below.

Friezes: Title Page for the set "Frises Feuillages et autres Ornemens..."

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of an elderly man grieving on a stone bench as figures gesture around him beside a wooden door and tree.

Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraving of two walking couples on grass, one man carrying a sword, with German month inscriptions above.

January and February

Sebald Beham, 1540

Etching of two bearded men in turbans with a boy holding a staff, a fallen figure at their feet, and bare trees behind.

Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Etched portrait of a bearded older man in a light headwrap and ornate belt with a cameo, against a dark hatched background.

Raccolta di teste

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750