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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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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

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

The Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)

Jane Ireland, 1790

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

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

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of Civil War soldiers marching, a mounted officer, and song titles like Dixie.

The Songs of the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

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

ornament

John Edwards, 1780

Wood engraving page of Civil War news vignettes: a woman reading a letter, soldiers, sailors, and men grabbing newspapers fro

News from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Union soldiers in a dense bayonet charge across a smoky field, rifles raised, with a tree and distant troops.

The War for the Union, 1862 - A Bayonet Charge

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a dancing couple on the left and a walking couple with a sword on the right, dated 1546.

July and August

Sebald Beham, 1540

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

Engraving of a sleeping man in a chair with a nude woman beside him, a winged cupid below, and a bat-winged creature above.

The Dream of the Doctor

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Wood engraving of men in a Baxter Street club-house: card players, a man smoking on a bed, and a reclining smoker.

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved still life of a dense bouquet of carnations, roses and lilies in an ornate urn-shaped vase.

Vase of Flowers

Pieter I. Mortier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1680

Print of a bearded man in a turban and a boy carrying firewood beside a donkey, with rocks, a tree, and a distant town.

Abraham's Sacrifice

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, signed and dated 1864 at lower right.

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

H.W Rowland, 1900

Etching of a footed vase with a turtle-shaped lid and faceted finial, resting on a stone ledge.

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Benigno Bossi, 1760

Three soldiers at a camp after Thanksgiving dinner, one holding up a wish-bone while another smokes a pipe nearby.

Thanksgiving-Day in the Army - After Dinner: The Wish-Bone

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of three men in 18th-century dress on a cobbled street, one holding a drawn sword, beside stone buildings.

L'Etourdi (The Blunderer), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. I

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, 1770

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, a kneeling king, attendants, and a procession in the

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraving of a covered urn with scaled body, grotesque masks and serpent handles on a stone pedestal.

Covered Vase with Grotesq

Benigno Bossi, 1760

Etching of a man in a cap and scarf, turned three-quarters, with curly hair and dense cross-hatched shading.

Rembrandt in Cap and Scarf

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Printed ticket for the World's Columbian Exposition, Manhattan Day, Oct. 21 1893, with a Statue of Liberty illustration.

Ticket to the World's Columbian Exposition, Expressly for Manhattan Day, Oct. 21st 1893

World's Columbian Exposition, 1890

Engraving of Hercules and Iolaus clubbing a many-headed hydra beneath trees, with an inscription above.

Hercules Slaying the Hydra

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved ornamental cartouche framing a pastoral landscape with a hunter, two dogs, trees and a building on a hill.

print - Daniel Rabel, 1630

Daniel Rabel, 1630

Engraving of the Holy Family in a Gothic hall with an ornate fountain, angels and putti around the basin.

The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520

Engraved portrait of a seated man with dividers over perforated cards in a workshop filled with tools.

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)

V. Vebert, 1850

Dark tonal nocturne of a riverside city at dusk, with glowing lamps along the embankment and silhouetted buildings under mist

Mist of the Thames

Joseph Pennell, 1900