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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds: figures crowd around the Christ Child in a stable while angels appear overhead.

The adoration of the shepherds, various figures at night surround the Christ Child

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of the Holy Kinship with the Christ Child receiving a bird from the infant John the Baptist among robed figures.

The Holy Kinship, in thecentre the Christ Child takes a bird given to him by the infant John the Baptist

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1560

Engraving of an old man embracing a young man under a vine pergola, with a winged angel and dog nearby, 1829.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Ferdinand Anton Krüger, 1829

Engraving of women dining at a long table in a furnished room with a fireplace, a servant, children and dogs.

Wives at Table During the Absence of their Husbands

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Sepia print of an old scholar reading by lamplight in a cluttered study, with a cat among scattered books.

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Joshua Kirby Baldrey, November 10, 1786

Sepia engraving of a bearded painter with palette and brushes, beside a cherub holding a dog's chain and a bow.

Guercino Self-Portrait

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1790-99

Engraved plate of acanthus leaf scrolls surrounded by a bird, moths, a dragonfly and a squirrel, from Designs for Various Orn

Acanthus Leaves, Birds and Insects, no. CCCLXXII, plate 57 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, April 1, 1792

Grayscale collage of cut engravings showing women, children, and rural family scenes on a tan mount.

Collage of printed elements centered on Women, Children, Family and Rural Life

Illman Brothers, 1862-63

Etching of the Dioscuri horse tamers atop ruined Roman architecture, with a column and arches in the background.

Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, 1730-60

Chiaroscuro print of figures hauling a net from a boat, with two men conversing in the foreground and hills behind.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, after Raphael

Niccolò Vicentino, 1540-50 (republished 1609)

Engraving of two mounted figures in plumed hats before an army with banners and a walled town beyond.

The French Forces: Louis XIII and Gaston d'Orléans

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1630

Two ink and wash elevation drawings of rococo chamber organs with carved scrollwork, flowers, a cherub, and a shell motif.

Chamber Organs, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1760

Ink drawing of a tiered hanging shelf with pagoda canopy, two birds on top, and rococo brackets, with a plan below.

Hanging Shelves, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Mezzotint print of a recumbent lion resting on a grassy bank beside a pool, with a dark cave and trees behind.

The Lyon (Recumbent Lion by a Pool)

George Townley Stubbs, August 12, 1776

Three schoolboys offer charity to a seated blind man with a dog beside a brick wall, with a countryside view.

Schoolboys Giving Charity to a Blind Man

John Raphael Smith, 1781

Engraving of St. Jerome reading beside a resting lion under a large tree, with a distant town and church in the background.

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Engraved title page with a central drape bearing the Topographia Variarum Regionum text, flanked by allegorical figures and a

Topographia Variarum Regionum, title to the series of 28 plates

Simon Frisius, 1614

Engraving of two women and a girl building a card house at a table, with a spaniel and scattered cards on the floor.

House of Cards

Jean Michel Liotard, 1744

Engraving of a bloodletting in a wood-panelled room, a seated woman's arm held by a man while a servant and dogs look on.

The Surgeon (La Saignée), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, 1632

Engraving of a funeral procession of clergy and mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard toward an arched gateway.

Burying the Dead (Enseveliir les morts), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a young man seated at a table with women in an elegant interior, a dog and kitchen beyond, French verse below.

The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill Repute (L'Enfant prodigue dans une maison de débauche, version couvert)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Engraving of Fortune above clouds scattering laurels over courtiers, soldiers, and a battle scene with ships at sea.

Fortune Favoring France (La Fortune de la France)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635-37

Engraving of men brawling beneath a grape arbor beside a table of grapes and fruit, with a dog and French verses below.

Autumn (L'Automne)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

Thomas Rowlandson, July 1814

Etching of a kneeling woman restrained before a crowned figure, with a mounted rider, an angel above, and crowds in a city st

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Claude Vignon, ca. 1627

Engraving of an elderly bearded man and a young woman seated together, with a saddled horse, trees, and a castle in the backg

Ill-Matched Couple

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Jerome kneeling beside a lion in a rocky wilderness with cliffs, trees and a distant castle.

Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Virgin seated with the infant Christ, a bird, and a chained monkey, with a tower and river landscape behind.

Virgin and Child with the Monkey

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Brown ink drawing of Apollo driving a chariot of horses over clouds with sun rays and a winged female figure.

Chariot of Apollo

James Thornhill, 1700-1734

Engraving of a woman on horseback with a plumed hat beside a halberd-carrying soldier, with a castle and mountains behind.

The Lady on Horseback and the Lansquenet

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497