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Engraved landscape of a village with tall trees, figures on a path, grazing cattle, a river valley and distant hills.

Second View of the Environs of Antwerp (Seconde Vue des Environs d'Anvers)

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Etching of three windmills on a plain with horse-drawn carts, workers, and a distant village under a sunburst sky.

The Three Windmills (Les Trois Moulins) after a painting in the collection of the Duc de Praslin

Balthasar Anton Dunker, 1772

Etching of a rural road with travelers, carts, pack horses, grazing sheep and tall trees under a cloudy sky.

Flanders Road (Route de Flandre) after a painting in the collection of the Duc de Praslin

Balthasar Anton Dunker, 1772

Etching of a roadside robbery with horsemen, a carriage, and a distant castle under a cloudy sky.

Robbery on a Road after a painting in the collection of the Duc de Choiseul

Louis Germain, 1771

Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Santarelli

Giovanni Battista Dell'Era, 1765-99

Engraving of peasant figures dancing in a line by a river, with a bridge and tree in a rural landscape.

Epileptics Walking to the Left from Pilgrimage of the Epileptics to the Church at Molenbeeck

Hendrick Hondius, 1642

Grey wash drawing of a rocky fountain design with classical figures, cupids, deer and cascading water.

Design for the Fontana di Venere e Adone, Reggia di Caserta, Naples

Fedele Fischetti, ca. 1780

Etching of a seated woman in a ruffled eighteenth-century gown beside a table, set within an oval vignette.

Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte

Claude Henri Watelet, 1764

Engraving of a triumphal procession with elephants, torch-bearing figures, a horse and laurel-branch riders against a dark ba

The Triumph of Caesar: the Elephants

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1497

Engraving of a painter at an easel beside an armoured man embracing a nude woman, framed by an ornate arch with putti and fol

Apelles Painting Alexander and Campaspe

Engraving of men struggling over a woman in a boat on a shore, with armored warriors, horsemen, ships and a temple.

The abduction of Helen; battle scene on a shore with two men pulling Helen into a boat at center and another man pull…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520-27

Engraving of a shoreline battle with men dragging a woman toward a boat, classical temple and sailing ships behind.

The abduction of Helen; battle scene on a shore with two men pulling Helen into a boat at center and another man pull…

Marco Dente, ca 1520-27

Engraving of nude goddesses before a seated youth and cupid, with a chariot and winged figure in the clouds above.

Judgment of Paris

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520-50

Woodcut of nude Adam and Eve in a forest, a serpent coiled around a tree offering fruit between them.

Adam and Eve

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Etched interior of a colonnaded Roman-style hall with Corinthian columns, statues in niches, and small figures on steps.

Plate 9: Colonnaded hall according to the custom of the ancient Romans (...), from "Part one of architecture and pers…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Etching of an overgrown Roman tomb and aqueduct ruins with a man and dog among fallen columns and cascading water.

Plate 6: Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of ruins of an ancient aqueduct (...), from "Part one of architecture and…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Woodcut of an angel with a raised sword expelling nude Adam and Eve from a fruit tree.

Expulsion from Paradise

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Etching of an ancient altar with relief figures amid classical ruins, skulls, bones and overgrown foliage.

Plate 7: Ancient altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins (Ara antica sopra l…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Etching of an ancient Roman mausoleum with columns, statues, funerary urns and pyramidal tombs, by Piranesi, 1743.

Plate 3: Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman emperor (Mausoleo antico eretto per le ceneri d'un impera…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Woodcut of a nude bearded man seated while a horned demon with a whip hovers above and a woman in a headdress stands beside h

Job Tempted by a Demon; verso text from the Speculum Patientiae

Hans Baldung Grien, 1509

Etching of an imagined ancient Roman piazza with obelisks, columns, a domed temple, statues, and steps leading up to a palace

Plate 10: The ancient Capitol ascended by approximately one hundred steps [...] (Campidoglio antico a cui si ascendev…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Etched title page of Piranesi's Roman Antiquities, showing an inscribed pedestal with relief figures amid overgrown ruins.

Title page: Volume IV, "The Antiquities of Rome by Giambatista Piranesi, Venetian Architect (...), from "Roman Antiqu…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756

Woodcut of seated Job, sores on his body, with a winged demon above and a woman in a headdress beside him, birds and a town b

Job Tempted by a Demon

Hans Baldung Grien, 1509

Woodcut of the Annunciation: Mary kneels by a canopied bed as the angel Gabriel offers a scroll beneath a radiant dove.

The Annunciation

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Woodcut of Christ on the cross with kneeling woman, standing saints, a skeleton, skull and bones beneath a sky with sun and m

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saints Longinus, Mary Magdalen and John

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Woodcut of Christ with a crown of thorns being lowered from the cross by a man on a ladder, with a kneeling mourner and skull

Descent from the Cross

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Engraving of Galatea in a dolphin-drawn chariot amid sea figures, with three winged putti shooting arrows from the clouds abo

Galatea standing in a water-chariot pulled by two dolphins, surrounded by tritons, nereids, and putti, three of which…

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1515-16

Hand-colored print of a city square with a tall clock tower, arcaded palazzo, carriages, and people in period dress.

View of the Piazza dei Signori of Vicenza with horse-drawn carriages and figures walking in the square

Georg Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750-1801

Etching of ancient polygonal paving stones of the Appian Way with weeds and rubble in the gaps, lettered markers on the stone

View of the stone pavement of the Appian Way (Veduta dell'antica Via Appia), from "Le Antichità Romane"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756

Engraved elevation and plan of the Pons Fabricius bridge in Rome, with river view, capital detail, and stone block.

Plan and elevation of the Pons Fabricius (also known as the Quattro Capi Bridge), Rome, from "Le Antichità Romane"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756