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Etching of a brick shop front with Sunlight Soap signs, two shawled women on the street and children on the steps.

Sunlight Soap

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved page of small Latin-labeled vignettes showing animals, workers, objects and tumbling acrobats in grid panels.

Vignettes for a Latin Grammar

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1770

Engraved page of three rococo cartouche designs with scrolls, a female figure, putti and a fountain basin.

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

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

Engraving of workers polishing armor in a workshop with a large grinding wheel and helmets scattered across the floor.

Armor making and polishing

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1580

Etched portrait of a bearded man with long wavy hair and moustache, wearing a dark coat, in fine hatched lines.

Portrait of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Charles Courtry, 1880

Hand-colored satirical print of exaggerated 19th-century inventions including a vacuum tube railway, balloons, and a flying w

March of Intellect

William Heath, 1800

Woodcut of Saint Christopher wading across water with the Christ child on his shoulders, a hermit with lantern at right.

Saint Christopher

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of an arched stone bridge over a river gorge, with a hilltop town and cathedral towers beneath cloudy skies.

St. Martin's Bridge, Toledo

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved lunette print of God the Father gesturing among clouds with angels and putti, titled Padre Eterno.

The Father Eternal

Pietro Bettelini, 1800

Engraved print of a royal procession with crowds, horsemen and carriages crossing a square toward a palace, with a statue and

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Johann van Huchtenburgh, 1670

Etching of a drunken Silenus reclining with a wine cup, attended by satyrs beside a wine barrel and a donkey.

Drunken Silenus

Jusepe de Ribera, 1620

Engraved elevation of rococo panelling with a glazed door and mirror, with scale bars in toises beneath.

Panelling in Hotel Roquelaur,l Bedroom and Wall of Adjoining Room

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, 1710

Engraved rococo clock design with a circular dial, an eagle above, hunting horns, a dog, and a scrolled pedestal base.

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved ceiling design with classical columns, garlands, reclining figures, and a cartouche inscription at lower right.

Ceiling, from "Grands Carts de Plafons"

Jean Le Pautre, 1660

Etching of St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London with its columned portico, tall spire, and busy street with pedestrians.

Classic London, St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of Venus embracing Adonis, who holds a spear beside hunting dogs, with a cupid and a bow in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis (after Titian)

Robert Strange, 1770

Engraving of a Roman-style banquet interior with draped canopy, musicians in a gallery, and armed figures in the foreground.

The Death of Amnon, Plate 1 from "Gland Alcoves a la Romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, 1660

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair and a white collar, wearing an order cross, with inscription and coat of arm

Portrait of Pierre Séguier

Robert Nanteuil, 1660

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

Engraved ornamental page with a stork and drapery, a merman with dolphins, and an open book with laurel in rococo style.

Page Six from "Toisieme Livre Contenant Des Frises ou Paneaux en Longueur Inventés Par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du R…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraving of mounted soldiers with drawn swords charging through battle smoke, with standards raised, and a French caption be

Scene of Warfare from "Mémoires de Réfugies, etc." by Mons. Erman

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1790

Engraved perspective of Place Gralin in Nantes showing a columned theatre facade, carriages and pedestrians in a city square.

Gralin Place, Nantes

Antoine Henón, 1780

Engraved horizontal frieze of putti holding laurel, with trophies of arms, spears, and an oval shield showing a battle scene.

Frieze: Trophies of Arms and Putti

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Etching of the Arch of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, with ruined masonry, reliefs and a street with figures seen through the arch.

The Arch of Marcus Aurelius

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760

Engraved print of a seated man in uniform and a seated woman in satin gown beside a table, globe, and window landscape.

George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

Thomas Illman, 1840

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 an old wooden windmill beside smoking factory chimneys and a mine headframe under a pale sky.

Old and New Mills, Valenciennes

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Charcoal sketch of a wood-frame house with a service flag in its window, surrounded by trees and a figure on the lawn.

The Service Flag: Three From This House in the War

Childe Hassam, 1910

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