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Etched grotesque ornament plate with a crowned mask, curling serpent forms, scrolls, and tassels, numbered 37.

Plate 37, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraved plate of two oval ornamental cartouches with figures, scrollwork and fruit garlands, one with blank central panels.

Plate 13, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, 1570

The Little Executioner, illustration to John Evelyn, "Sculptura"

Bohemian Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1660

Woodblock print of a bay framed by pine trees, travelers on a hillside path, small boats on blue water under a pale sky.

Shirasuka Pass, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of a Thanksgiving dinner in a formal dining room with seated guests, a standing servant, and a laden table.

Thanksgiving Day - The Dinner

Winslow Homer, 1850

Harper's Weekly page with six engraved scenes of Union army life before Yorktown, Virginia, including sharpshooters and a ste

Our Army before Yorktown, Virginia

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a curved wooden bridge beside thatched houses, a willow tree and hills under a pale sky

Hodogaya (Shinkame Bridge), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of travelers resting by a willow and stone wall on the Tokaido road, with a horse approaching at right.

Fujikawa, Approach of a Nobleman, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved study interior with a scholar using compasses, a hanging galleon, a globe, instruments, and a sea view through an ar

Lapis Polaris Magnes (Invention of the Compass), plate 2 of the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of travelers and a horse at a teahouse beside a bridge, with thatched houses and a blue sea behind.

Totsuka Teahouse, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Woodblock print of New Year street performers with drummers, kimono-clad women and a man in a patterned robe near pine branch

New Years in Yoshiwara

Katsushika Hokusai, 1840

Engraved Harper's Weekly page with vignettes of nurses, women sewing soldiers' shirts, and a wounded soldier in bed.

Our Women and the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched title plate with grotesque ornamental border, winged figures and Dutch text in a central cartouche.

Title plate, from Grottesco in diversche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1570

Engraving of guests toasting around a table at left and a church congregation at right, framed by angels and holly.

Seeing the Old Year Out

Winslow Homer, 1860

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Engraving of Clelia on a rearing horse crossing a river, with women and soldiers, trees and billowing drapery.

Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central chariot scene, tritons, birds, armor and dense scrollwork.

Plate 23, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of a wooden velvet loom with a weaver seated at the treadles, numbered parts and hanging weights.

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1700

Engraving of Flora offering a flower wreath to a reclining Cupid beside a flower-filled urn in a wooded landscape.

Flore et l'Amour

François Boucher, 1740

Etching of two horned goats in grass, one standing with its back turned and one lying down facing the viewer.

Two Goats

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1630

Engraved neoclassical wall elevation with paneled doors, pilasters, medallions and classical figural decoration.

L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plat…

Charles Percier, 1800

Engraving of a martyrdom scene with an angel descending over a woman in a vessel, soldiers, and onlookers before classical co

Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia

Etienne Delaune, 1560

Two Goats, from Berchem's "Animalia" (Animals) [ Animalia ad vivum delineata et aqua forti aeri impressa Studio et Ar…

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1630

Engraved symmetrical grotesque ornament plate with a central oval chariot scene, griffins, caryatids, and parrots, bound in a

Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Sepia print of a seated old man gesturing in a dark prison cell with huddled sons, a reclining body, skull and chains.

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved ground-floor plan of a country house with a central oval salon and round entrance vestibule, French labels.

Plan du Rez de chaussée d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved street scene of a blacksmith's forge with horses, riders, and a furnace, showing the invention of the stirrup.

Staphae, Sive Strapedes (Invention of the Stirrup), plate 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Two engraved plates of putti from the Suitte des Enfants series, one with a torch and dolphin, one with a crowned child and g

Suitte des Enfants

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1770

Etching of Christ speaking with a woman at a well, with a water jar and a town with figures in the background.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620