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Etching of a man gripping a large bat-like flying apparatus, with other figures gliding in a dark sky.

Modo de Volar (A Way of Flying), plate 13 in Disparates (Proverbs)

Francisco Goya, 1860

Wood engraving of Santa Claus placing presents in a bedroom beside a sleeping child, with a woman holding an apple.

Santa Claus and His Presents

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central hybrid figure, dragons, a bird and hanging chains, by Christoph Jamnitzer.

Plate 48, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Crowd of spectators in top hats and bonnets looking up at fireworks over trees at night, engraved illustration.

Fire-Works on the Night of the Fourth of July

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers on a grassy road beside a teahouse and turquoise sea, with pine trees on the hillside.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved scene of soldiers in a rough football game on a field, with a crowd and tents in a camp behind them.

Holiday in Camp - Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved plate with a cherub riding a bird through clouds, surrounded by four ornamental grotesque designs.

Plate 31, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of a headless ghostly pilgrim in a monk's robe holding a staff, beside a tomb with a skeleton and skull.

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Samuel Ireland, 1790

Engraving of people on a snowy city street at Christmas, with wreaths on a townhouse and a gas lamp.

Christmas Out of Doors

Winslow Homer, 1850

Back of a paper sheet with a small blue crown and monogram collector's stamp in the center.

The Prodigal Son

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved parlor scene of guests dancing and musicians playing under a chandelier, titled Thanksgiving Day, The Dance.

Thanksgiving Day - The Dance

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of two lions caught in a net as shielded hunters with torches approach through a palm landscape.

Lion trap

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of two geometric polyhedra on pedestals: a rhombic triacontrahedron at left and a spiky stellated icosahedron at ri

Plate O, F.IIII, Rhombentrikontaeder und Ikosaeder (Rhombic Triacontrahedron and Icosahedron), Perspectiva Corporum R…

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Etched ornamental plate with a central female figure in scrollwork, flanked by putti, candle sconces and hanging garlands.

Plate 46, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of two hunters with a gun and an ox near a stream, with deer and cattle in a wooded landscape.

Deer hunt

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etching of a large elephant in light facing robed, bearded men holding a scroll in shadow at left.

Otras Leyes por El Pueblo (Other Laws for the People)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Etched grotesque ornament plate with two elephant heads, scrolling acanthus, three putti under a canopy, and sprigs of foliag

Plate 26, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of fishermen in rowing boats hauling large tuna near a harbor town with sailing ships, with Latin verses below.

Tuna fishing

Flemish Karel van Mallery, 1590

Engraving of figures fishing with pelicans on a river bank, with ducks, willows, huts and Latin verse below.

Indians Catching Fish with the Help of Pelicans

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of a boatman poling a flat boat on a river, with travelers crossing a sandbar and misty hills behind.

Mitsuke, Tenryu-gawa River, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of monkeys imitating kneeling hunters who wash their eyes in basins beneath trees, with a sunburst sky.

Apes imitating hunters

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1590

Etching of two women and a seated man on a ship gallery with scrolled iron railing, overlooking a harbor with masts.

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta (Souvenir of a Ball on Shipboard)

James Joseph Tissot, 1870

Woodblock print of travelers outside a roadside teahouse with a large tree and misty mountains behind.

Ishibe (Megawa Sato), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of two tall stepped cones on a ground line, the right one decorated with interlocking geometric frame motifs.

Two Cones, plate H. i. in Perspectiva. Corporium Regularium

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Engraving of armed men fighting coiled serpents amid flames in a forest, with Latin verses below.

Fighting serpents with fire

Flemish Karel van Mallery, 1600

Engraving of a schoolroom at noon: a woman seated at a desk and a barefoot boy on a bench, with children playing outside.

The Noon Recess

Winslow Homer, 1870

Wood engraving of an apple bee: people peeling apples in a room with a fireplace, garlands, and a dancing woman.

Fall Games - The Apple-Bee

Winslow Homer, 1850

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

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