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Engraving of mounted hunters with spears and dogs chasing wild bulls across a landscape with trees and a castle.

Buffalo Hunt, plate 27 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of a harbor town at dawn with sailboats, lantern-lit shops, travelers on a road, and pine trees.

Shinagawa Station, Sunrise, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of a bay with white-sailed boats, pine-lined shore, and layered mountains under a pale sky.

Ejiri, View Over Mio-no-Matsu-bara, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of surgeons treating wounded soldiers beneath an oak tree, with battle smoke in the distance.

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved title page Nova Reperta showing a printing press, globe, compass rose, still and allegorical figures.

Title page of “Nova Reperta”

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraving of turkeys in a snowy farmyard with men, a loaded cart, a hay stack and a dog, Thanksgiving scene.

Thanksgiving Day - Ways and Means

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of men at night placing glowing lanterns in a garden to attract moths, with a dog and beehives in view.

Catching Night Moths, plate 25 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Etched grotesque ornament plate with a bearded face at center, scrolling foliage, birds and insects, numbered 53.

Plate 53, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Woodblock print of boats on a blue bay beside a row of thatched houses and travelers on a road under a sunset sky.

Hilltop View, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Kanagawa, Dai-no-kei Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of a thatched teahouse with patrons seated outside, bare trees, a hill, and a traveler on a road.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etched grotesque ornament plate with a horned hybrid figure on a shell form beside a symmetrical scrolling cartouche.

Plate 30, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of couples dancing in a crowded room with a fiddler, fireplace, and hanging corn after a husking.

The Dance after the Husking

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of crowded bathers splashing in waves at Newport beach, with bathhouses on shore and sailboats on the horizon.

The Bathe at Newport

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of a couple by the moonlit sea above a meadow scene with reclining figures, a girl, and ducks.

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved plate of three ornate rococo torchère stands in the Chinese taste, with scrolled bases and carved details.

Three Designs for Torcheres in the Chinese Taste (Plate 13 of "One Hundred and Fifty New Designs")

Thomas Johnson, 1750

Engraving of women in a fashionable interior by a canopied bed, with a servant bearing a tray and a small dog among them.

Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

Abraham Bosse, 1630

Woodblock print of an inn interior with women in blue kimono, a bathing man on a veranda, and a palm tree.

Akasaka, Interior of Inn, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of two rings covered in geometric polyhedra mounted on wooden stands, drawn in precise hatched perspective.

Two Rings, plate I. i. in Perspectiva. Corporum Regularium

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Engraved scene of couples dancing at a Parisian ball at the Mabille, with men in top hats and women in bustled gowns before a

A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Mabille, Paris

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Columbus on a ship deck with a crucifix banner, surrounded by mermaids, sea monsters and Neptune.

Christopher Columbus

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1600

Engraving of cranes feeding among pit traps in a marsh while hunters hide beneath a tree at right.

Crane Hunt using Cones, plate 28 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns walking past halberd-carrying guards in Tudor-style uniforms at court.

Presented at Court

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn sleigh with a man and several fashionable women riding through a snowy winter landscape.

Christmas Belles

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved holiday page with holly border, central Nativity medallion, street scenes, and a crowded children's dance beneath a

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of women in Victorian dresses watching a shopkeeper weigh goods on a scale in a cluttered country store.

A Country Store - Getting Weighed

William James Linton, 1870

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of soldiers crowding a sutler's counter on pay day, with vignettes of letters and money sent ho

Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of men in turbans clubbing and wrestling crocodiles on a riverbank, with willow trees and a Latin caption below.

Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved dedication page with a fantastical tree framing German text above a distant landscape with towns.

Dedication page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a bridge under a torii gate, with village rooftops and a temple on a wooded hill.

Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Soldiers lie and kneel with rifles among tall trees in a forest, keeping watch as an outlying picket.

The Army of the Potomac - Our Outlying Picket in the Woods

Winslow Homer, 1860