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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of a busy studio where a painter works on a knight slaying a dragon while assistants draw, grind pigments and sculp

Color Olivi (Invention of Oil Painting), plate 14 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Chiaroscuro print of Apollo playing a lyre beside a seated satyr, Marsyas, in an oval frame, in blue and green tones.

Apollo and Marsyas

Antonio Maria Zanetti, 1720

Engraving of a bearded bagpiper in a turban playing bagpipes while leaning against a tree trunk.

The Bagpiper

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of two costumed dancers in a forest clearing beside a waterfall, with French verse printed below the scene.

Scene from the Opera "Sylvie"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, 1760

Hand-colored print of two women with jewelry on a table, while two children stand and lie nearby in a classical interior.

La Mere des Gracques, plate 46 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a river with church spires and city buildings behind, and figures on stairs in the foregr

London Bridge Stairs

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved design of an ornate table clock with a cherub on top, Roman numeral dial, caryatid figures and griffins.

Design for a table clock

Daniël Marot, 1710

Monochrome print of Samson restrained by armored soldiers while Delilah looks on, with heavy curtains and a raised sword.

The Blinding of Samson

Johann Jacobé, 1780

Etching of London skyline with St Paul's dome, an obelisk and a bridge seen over dark trees in the foreground.

London over Embankment Gardens

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved bust portrait of a bespectacled man with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and frilled cravat.

Portrait of James Hogg

William Nicholson, 1810

Etching of a satyr family beside a ruined wall and obelisk, with a seated woman, a child, and scattered objects on the ground

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved page with three ornamental designs: a fireplace front, a door overdoor, and a tall dining room panel with satyrs.

Title Page and Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Etching of a forest road curving past tall trees and grassy hills, with two small figures and a distant town on the left.

Landscape With Two Figures in a Road

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Engraving of soldiers attacking a covered way before a walled city with a tower and church spires, under a cloudy sky.

An Attack and Lodgement on the Covert Way, from Twelve of the Most Remarkable Sieges and Battles in Europe

Carington Bowles, 1770

Engraved title page with putti, fruit garlands, a coat of arms and a central inscription for Raphael's Genesis loggia frescoe

''La Sacra Genesi figurata da Rafaele D'Urbino nelle logge vaticane'' (Title Page, Raphael's Genesis Frescoes in the…

Francesco Villamena, 1620

Etched portrait of a mustached man in a dark jacket and cravat, turned to the right, titled Portrait of Paul J. A. Baudry.

Portrait of Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry

Paul Adolphe Rajon, 1880

Etching of an elderly man in a dark study gazing at a glowing disc with letters before a gothic window.

Faust in His Study, Watching a Magic Disc

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long curly hair, lace collar and cloak, inside an inscribed frame on a pedestal.

Portrait of Jean Chapelain

Robert Nanteuil, 1650

Etching of a busy Knightsbridge street with ornate turreted buildings, horse carriages and pedestrians in period dress.

Knightsbridge

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono standing beneath cherry blossoms on a grassy riverbank.

Woman viewing Cherry Blossoms on the Bank of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hana no kei)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Engraved print of New York City Hall with an American flag, a domed cupola, a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians on the str

City Hall, New York

J. Archer, 1820

Etching of a village with ruined walls, a smoking tower, villagers, and a rider with cattle on a road.

Landscape With Town in Ruins

Israel Silverstre, 1650

Engraved ornamental design with a crucifixion in an oval medallion, flanked by winged angels and putti.

Design for Holy Water Spouts, from "Inventions Pour Faire des Plaques"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of a multi-story house behind an ornate wrought iron fence, with ivy on the walls and trees at right.

Rossetti's House

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of an ornate tower-shaped festival float pulled by plumed horses, with figures in armor and a banner above.

Print - Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Etching of Christ falling under the cross with a helper and soldiers at right, bare trees, and an Italian caption below.

Via crucis - Station VII, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Second Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved design of a tiered epergne with shell bowls, flowers, scrolls and two putti, on a plain page.

Epergne, from "Disegni Di

Czech Maximilian Joseph Limpach, 1710

Etching of three dead rats hanging from wire mousetraps on a wooden board, with a box trap at left and French verse below.

The mousetrap

Charles Émile Jacque, 1860

Etching of Hampton Court Palace's facade across a formal garden with clipped trees and a stone urn in the foreground.

Hampton Court Palace

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Colored lithograph of an old bearded man in a purple robe pushing a younger man headfirst off a rock into the sea.

Telemaque et Mentor, plate 29 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840