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Sepia-toned wreath of pressed leaves, fern fronds and grass blades on a page with handwritten name and date in the centre.

[Wreath of leaves and branches]

John Wheeley Gough Gutch, about 1857

Sepia oval portrait of a man with long curled hair, white collar and armor, signed Charles Cotton below.

Portrait of Charles Cotton

Typo-Etching Company, 1888

Sepia portrait of an older man in a dark coat and bow tie, leaning on a column and holding a top hat, with a signature below.

[John B. Morris]

Bendann Brothers, 1871

Sepia print of a tidal estuary with moored rowboats and a long arched stone bridge leading to a town.

Barnstaple from South Walk

A.W. Elson & Co, 1882

Pale photogenic print of a pinnate leaf branch with fine veining, with handwritten inscription in the lower right corner.

[Leaves of a Plant]

William Henry Fox Talbot, 1842

Small engraved heraldic insignia with a winged eagle, shield, scrolls and inscription, on a foxed cream page.

[Insignia]

Bisson Frères, 1861

Men on a horse-drawn sled loaded with logs, hauling timber through a snowy winter forest in the Adirondacks.

Log Hauling in the Adirondacks

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford, Co, 1898

Hatched pen drawing of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat with a buckle and white collar, gazing forward.

The Puritan

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, print 1859

Etching of a kneeling old man in a dark robe beside a skull in a rocky, shadowed setting, dated 1858.

Saint Jérôme (Le Grand)

Bisson Frères, 1858

Line engraving of a Bayeux Tapestry strip showing armed men, a horse, a tree, an arcade and border animals.

[Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry]

Josef Albert, 1860

Sepia print in ornate oval frame of two draped women in an interior beside a candelabrum, with German stage text below.

Gemele

Josef Albert, 1859-1862

Etched print of an ornate hand mirror design with female figures flanking the frame and a fluted handle with a lion mask.

[Design by Étienne Delaune]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Pen and ink panoramic sketch of mounted officers and advancing troops across a plain with smoke over distant hills.

[illustration]

Robert C. Tytler, negative 1857-1858; print 1859

Pencil and tinted drawing of a ruined castle on a shoreline with trees, a sailing boat, and hills under a pale sky.

[Ruins on the Shore]

James Makgill Heriot Maitland, mid-19th century

Man in a cap bending over a hedgerow in a cleared winter field, with bare trees and a second figure behind him.

Fencing in Suffolk

Peter Henry Emerson, 1888

Cyanotype print of white fern fronds and roots on blue, labeled Hymenophyllum sericeum, Jamaica.

Hymenophyllum sericeum, Jamaica

Anna Atkins, 1853

Two ornamental stone urns side by side: left with a flame finial and scrolled handles, right with carved masks and a rope ban

Vases de Couronnement

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Engraved view of the Panthéon in Paris showing its columned facade and dome, with pedestrians and a carriage in the square.

Panthéon à Paris

Friederich von Martens, 1843-1845

Hand-colored print of three white herbaceous peony flowers and buds with green leaves on a reddish-brown background.

Hærdaceous Pæony

Kazumasa Ogawa, 1896

Sepia print of the Holy Family with saints and an angel offering flowers, after Raphael's La Benediction.

La Benediction

Richamme and Dieu, 1874

Sepia lithograph of Fribourg with a Gothic church tower, a suspension bridge over a wooded ravine, and hilltop buildings.

Vue de Fribourg

Dusacq et Cie, 1864-1869

Sepia engraving of a robed preacher with raised arms addressing a crowd among classical columns, with a soldier at left.

Cartoon - Paul preaching at Athens

Leonida Caldesi, 1865

Cyanotype title page with white fern fronds silhouetted against a blue background, framing the title in the center.

Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Anna Atkins, 1853

Oval bust portrait of an older bearded man in a cravat, with a handwritten signature below, on a cream mount.

Horace Webster

Johnston Brothers [R.G. & ? Johnston], 1860

Sepia print of a busy old street with a horse-drawn carriage, crowds, an archway, and two church towers under a cloudy sky.

The Trongate in 1774

Thomas Annan, 1878

Engraved ornamental frieze with two putti and sea horses flanking a central cartouche, on a cream sheet.

[Design by Hans Sebald Beham]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Moonlit night scene of a gothic cathedral on a hill above rooftops, rendered in blue monochrome tones.

Composition Inédite de Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo, 1870s

Hand-colored oval portrait of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, smoking a cigar, leaning on a red draped table.

[Portrait of a man smoking]

Benjamin Reimer, 1863

Engraved pictorial map of the Rhine river valley in three panels, with castle and church vignettes along the margins.

Map of the Rhine, from Bonn to Bingen

Francis Frith, 1864

Engraved view of Jerusalem with a city wall, domed buildings, olive trees, and a shepherd with sheep in the foreground.

Jérusalem

Friedrich Salathé, 1842

Engraved plate showing three ornamental vase and goblet designs with dense scrollwork and medallions on a cream page.

[Design by Virgil Solis]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Engraved ornamental design sheet with sphinxes, garlands, medallions and grotesque panels in a symmetrical layout.

[Design by Androuet du Cerceau]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Two decorative friezes of carved laurel, oak, and ivy garlands joined by ribbon bows, printed in sepia on cream paper.

Frise du Premier Étage

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Print of two ornamental stucco panels with floral bouquets, scrollwork and acanthus leaves from the Tuileries palace.

Grands Appartements des Tuileries

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Monochrome print of a carved semicircular fanlight with a crown, a cartouche reading 1081, garlands and scrolled ornament.

Ministère d'État (Motif de l'Imposte)

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Dark blue-toned sketch of a castle on a hilltop with a flying bird under a stormy sky.

Dessin Inédit de Victor Hugo Fait à Burchard

Victor Hugo, 1870s

Panoramic sketch of mounted soldiers and turbaned men fighting and crossing a river beneath rocky hills.

[Copy of a Sketch of Colonel Crealock's Engagement in India]

Felice Beato, 1858-1859

Crowded lithograph of Parisian daguerreotype studios with banners, a steam train, a balloon, and caricatured photographers.

La Daguerreotypomanie (Daguerreotypomania)

Théodore Maurisset, December 1839

Print of a horse, cart, woman gathering sticks and a man in a hat beside a tree, with sheep on a distant hill.

Noon

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, print 1859

Sepia print of a gabled plaque with two crowned seated figures holding sceptres, ornamental roundels, and a Latin inscription

[Enamel from end of châsse]

Augustus W. Franks, 1858

Lithograph of a Gothic church entrance with pointed arches, a stone tower and a kneeling figure in a paved courtyard.

Entrée de l'eglise du St. Sépulcre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, about 1818

Engraved plate of an ornate cabinet with figural relief panels, putti and caryatid supports, on a cream page.

[Design by Jean le Pautre]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Monochrome print of an angler fishing a river below a rocky cliff, with trees and a wooden footbridge beyond.

Wolfscote Bridge and Franklyn Rock, Beresford Dale

Captain George Bankart, 1888

Cyanotype print of a fern specimen, white fronds on deep blue, with handwritten caption naming Asplenium rhizophyllum.

Asplenium rhizophyllum

Anna Atkins, 1853

Hand-colored print of white and red spotted lily blooms on a grey background, with Japanese variety names labeled below.

Lily

Kazumasa Ogawa, 1896

Brown ink and wash sketch of a standing draped figure with several overlapping study lines on pale paper.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

Nicolaas Henneman, 1845-1846

Print of a hooded kneeling figure beside a cross on a pole, with a castle and fortified town on a hill behind.

Saint Antoine

Bisson Frères, 1861

Lithograph of Strasbourg Cathedral's Gothic west facade and tall spire, with small figures in the square before it.

Cathédrale de Strasbourg

Cuvillier, 1842-1845

Circular ornamental print with three Roman portrait medallions around a central Latin inscription and grotesque decorative bo

[Design by Johann Theodor de Bry]

Édouard Baldus, 1866

Brown sketch of a hooded, bearded saint seated beside a tall cross-like staff, with a handwritten inscription below.

St. Francis. From a supposedly unique etching by Murillo

Nicolaas Henneman, 1845-1846

Sepia cabinet card of many oval portraits of men, women and children arranged around a central bust, with a banner reading La

La Famille Royale, Papeete, Tahiti

Charles Gustave Spitz, about 1890-1895

Photographic plate of two pairs of sculpted winged putti in relief on the Pavillon de Flore, Louvre, about 1868.

Pavillon de Flore

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Sepia drawing of a turbaned rider on horseback with attendants, and several men lying on the ground in the foreground.

Depart du Scherif es lam pour la Mecque

William J. Stillman, 1860s

Sepia print of horned cattle herded by mounted riders past a ruined tower on a hill under a cloudy sky.

[Landscape with buffalo]

Gustavo Reiger, 1859

Blue monochrome print of nude male figures running with torches trailing smoke across rocky ground under a dark sky.

[Painting of Indian Dancers]

Charles F. Lummis, 1888-1890

Lady Tennyson

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, 1893

Photo-lithographic plate of a cave bear skull seen from above against a black background, from a prehistoric Seine series.

Tete d'Ursus Spelaeus Sinciput

Ernest Lacan, 1860s-1870s

Black and white photograph of an ornately carved Japanese shrine hall with a railed staircase and dragon carvings under the e

Side View of Haiden Iye-yasu (A Hall for Worship in Front of a Miya)

Kazumasa Ogawa, about 1892

Engraved bust portrait of a man in a wide fur-trimmed hat and draped cloak, with fine hatched lines on a dark background.

Joachim Patenier, peintre de Dinant

Bisson Frères, 1861

Print of a winged nude woman balancing on a sphere above a village landscape, holding a covered chalice aloft.

La Grande fortune

Bisson Frères, 1861

Pen-and-ink print of a rural road passing a farmhouse and barn, flanked by tall trees and a stone wall.

Thoreau's Birthplace

Alfred W. Hosmer, 1897

Men and a white horse piling logs on a snowy forest skidway, black and white print from 1898.

Piling Logs on a Skidway

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford, Co, 1898

Small etched portrait of a figure in a large white headdress, turned to the side, printed on a cream page.

[Sick woman with a large white headdress (Saskia)]

Bisson Frères, 1858

Print of the stone staircase and arched courtyard of Glasgow College, with lion sculptures and small figures in the foregroun

The Outer Court, College

T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1885