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Etching of a classical allegory with a staff-bearing man, an urn, seated figures, cherubs, and scattered books.

Allegory of Transience

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Etching of a dim architectural interior with timber ceiling, stone arch, staircase, and barred gate by Giovanni Paolo Gaspari

Architectural Interior

Giovanni Paolo Gaspari, 1700

Pen drawing of nude sea gods and sea monsters battling in rippling water among reeds, one figure blowing a trumpet.

Battle of the Sea Gods, right half

Andrea Mantegna, 1400

Engraving of a soldier pointing to a ruined city through a window while a seated bearded man in a robe gestures toward it.

Caius Marius in Prison

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560

Engraving of a braided horse labeled Saxo walking on a hill, with a walled town and river boats behind it.

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Woodblock print of a teahouse with travelers and porters carrying a green palanquin along a road under pine trees.

Kusatsu, A Station Famous for its Rice Cakes, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Japanese woodblock print of a bay with a rocky headland, small boats, pine trees and a distant snow-capped mountain.

Maisaka, Imaki Point, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of hunters in feathered headgear catching geese by a pond, with decoy gourds on water and a distant town.

Catching geese

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Symmetrical grotesque ornament print with a central mask, scrolls, feathers, pendants, and a small elephant at the top.

Plate 14, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of foxes attacking a bull and goat in a landscape, with a shepherd and sheep, Latin verses below.

Bulls and goats attacked by foxes

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of holidaymakers on a rocky seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, and sailboats offshore.

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of soldiers charging across a field toward smoke, with a mounted officer raising a sabre on the right.

Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of a family arriving by carriage at a snowy house for Thanksgiving, greeted by relatives at the open door.

Thanksgiving Day - Arrival at the Old Home

Winslow Homer, 1850

Woodblock print of travelers resting by a large tree and smoking fire in a winter field, with pines and thatched roofs behind

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Printed paper craft sheet with kiosk template, roof pieces, balustrade, trees, flowers and figures, hand-colored in green, re

Kiosque No. 6, Nouvelles constructions faciles pour jeunes enfants (Kiosk No. 6, New Easy Constructions for Young Chi…

Pellerin et Cie., Epinal, France, 1880

Wood engraving of a ship under construction in Gloucester Harbor, with workers on scaffolding and children playing with toy b

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873, p. 900

Winslow Homer, 1870

Sailors struggle with a heavy canvas sail on a snowy deck while rigging and a mast rise into a stormy sky.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of children playing snap-the-whip in a grassy field beside a small schoolhouse and wooded hills.

Snap-the-Whip

Edward Lagarde, 1870

Engraved crowd scene of soldiers in caps greeting women in crinoline dresses, with a child in the foreground.

Home from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved street scene of fashionable city pedestrians with parasols, top hats, dogs and a child passing a Laces & Fancy Goods

Spring in the City

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of young women in period dress and a gentleman with a cane walking along a tree-lined avenue past a fence.

The Morning Walk - Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etching of three long-tailed ducks flying low over rough sea under a rainy, cloudy sky with a distant shoreline.

Old Squaws

Frank Weston Benson, 1910

Engraving of cavemen attacking elephants in a palm-filled landscape, with a fallen elephant being butchered in the distance.

Cavemen Chasing Elephants, plate 3 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraving of women unwinding silk cocoons in an arched workshop, with a child, baskets, and a town view through an archway.

Unwinding the cocoons

Flemish Philip Galle, 1590

Woodblock print of travelers at a lantern-lit inn courtyard with blue crest banners and tents, pine trees at right.

Seki, Early Departure, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etched ornament plate with a winged putto playing a lute in a central scrolled cartouche, flanked by decorative vertical moti

Plate 43, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of passengers on a ship deck among masts and rigging, with a seated woman reading and the sea at left.

Homeward Bound

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of a Roman soldier with a sword fighting a war elephant among fallen warriors in an arena, watched from galleries.

A Roman Soldier Fighting one of Hannibal's Elephants, pl. 7 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved Harper's Weekly page showing a college match between sophomores and freshmen and four vignettes of student life.

College Life in New England

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of a crowded ballroom with cadets in uniform dancing with women in full gowns beneath chandeliers and columns.

A Cadet Hop at West Point

Winslow Homer, 1850