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Engraving of a Thanksgiving dinner in a formal dining room with seated guests, a standing servant, and a laden table.

Thanksgiving Day - The Dinner

Winslow Homer, 1850

Harper's Weekly page with six engraved scenes of Union army life before Yorktown, Virginia, including sharpshooters and a ste

Our Army before Yorktown, Virginia

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a curved wooden bridge beside thatched houses, a willow tree and hills under a pale sky

Hodogaya (Shinkame Bridge), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Woodblock print of travelers resting by a willow and stone wall on the Tokaido road, with a horse approaching at right.

Fujikawa, Approach of a Nobleman, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved study interior with a scholar using compasses, a hanging galleon, a globe, instruments, and a sea view through an ar

Lapis Polaris Magnes (Invention of the Compass), plate 2 of the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodblock print of travelers and a horse at a teahouse beside a bridge, with thatched houses and a blue sea behind.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Woodblock print of New Year street performers with drummers, kimono-clad women and a man in a patterned robe near pine branch

New Years in Yoshiwara

Katsushika Hokusai, 1840

Engraved Harper's Weekly page with vignettes of nurses, women sewing soldiers' shirts, and a wounded soldier in bed.

Our Women and the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched title plate with grotesque ornamental border, winged figures and Dutch text in a central cartouche.

Title plate, from Grottesco in diversche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1570

Engraving of guests toasting around a table at left and a church congregation at right, framed by angels and holly.

Seeing the Old Year Out

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Clelia on a rearing horse crossing a river, with women and soldiers, trees and billowing drapery.

Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central chariot scene, tritons, birds, armor and dense scrollwork.

Plate 23, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of a wooden velvet loom with a weaver seated at the treadles, numbered parts and hanging weights.

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1700

Engraving of Flora offering a flower wreath to a reclining Cupid beside a flower-filled urn in a wooded landscape.

Flore et l'Amour

François Boucher, 1740

Engraved neoclassical wall elevation with paneled doors, pilasters, medallions and classical figural decoration.

L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plat…

Charles Percier, 1800

Engraved symmetrical grotesque ornament plate with a central oval chariot scene, griffins, caryatids, and parrots, bound in a

Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Sepia print of a seated old man gesturing in a dark prison cell with huddled sons, a reclining body, skull and chains.

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved ground-floor plan of a country house with a central oval salon and round entrance vestibule, French labels.

Plan du Rez de chaussée d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved street scene of a blacksmith's forge with horses, riders, and a furnace, showing the invention of the stirrup.

Staphae, Sive Strapedes (Invention of the Stirrup), plate 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Two engraved plates of putti from the Suitte des Enfants series, one with a torch and dolphin, one with a crowned child and g

Suitte des Enfants

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1770

Etching of Christ speaking with a woman at a well, with a water jar and a town with figures in the background.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620

Engraved floor plan of a country house cellar with vaulted rooms, a staircase, and French labels on a cream page.

Plan des Caves d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraving of a busy 16th-century printmaking workshop with workers at presses, benches and inking tables.

Engraving on metal; Engravers on a ship

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved decorative frieze with scrollwork, putti, fruit garlands, a mountain landscape vignette and a circular classical med

Freizes

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Wood engraving of three children resting under a tree with a dog, a farmhouse and hanging laundry behind them.

The Nooning

Winslow Homer, 1870

Hand-colored peep-show of costumed carnival figures dancing in a Venetian-style square with arcaded buildings.

The Carnival of Venice (Peep-show)

Martin Engelbrecht, 1730

Engraving of a woman with a parasol on a beach, with two people in a rowboat and waves on the sea behind her.

"On the Beach, Two are Company, Three are None"

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved bookplate design shaped as a fan with a female figure in an oval medallion and ribbons reading Colonial Dames of Ame

Design for a Bookplate: Colonial Dames of America

Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1890

Engraved rococo ornament plate with scrolling acanthus leaves and a central floral rosette, numbered 16.

Plate 16 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Jacques Juillet, 1770