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Engraving of a bearded man seen from behind, carrying a staff over his shoulder, with a flowing cloak and dense hatching.

Saint James Major

Parmigianino, early 16th century

Etching of a bound, crowned man surrounded by helmeted soldiers with spears and banners beneath a draped curtain.

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate (copy in reverse of center)

Rembrandt van Rijn, n.d.

Etching of John the Baptist's beheading: an executioner with a raised sword, a kneeling nude figure, and soldiers under an ar

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Tonal print of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist pouring water over Christ in a river, angels and a dove above.

Baptism of Christ

Francesco Rosaspina, n.d.

Etching of the Presentation in the Temple with an elderly man holding an infant, a radiant dove, and a crowd in an arched int

The Presentation in the Temple: Oblong Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching of a family kneeling in prayer as an angel rises in flames within a dim interior room.

The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ child on clouds, with radiating light behind them.

The Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of a robed figure standing in a rocky cave with kneeling and seated onlookers, a distant town visible through the arc

The Raising of Lazarus: The Smaller Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Etching of an elderly man reading at a desk in a dim room, lit by a window at right, with an arched doorway behind him.

St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Pencil design with decorative lettering reading Hereby and the love of God, a central cross, flowers and an altar with chalic

Design for Religious Motto

Robert William Hume, 1830-1900

Dark night etching of a man holding a lantern beside a woman cradling a sleeping child, in a shadowed landscape.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece (reverse copy)

Francesco Novelli, late 18th-mid-19th century

Hand-coloured satirical print of a revolutionary dancing over hanged clergy beside a guillotine and burning dome.

The Zenith of French Glory; - The Pinnacle of Liberty. Religion, Justice, Loyalty, & all the Bugbears of Unenlightene…

James Gillray, February 12, 1793

Red-toned print of Saints Peter and John healing a kneeling man among columns, with figures and putti in a colonnaded hall.

Saints Peter and John healing the Sick

Parmigianino, 16th century

Lithograph of a man in cloak and hat gazing up at a woman leaning on a ledge under a vine-covered archway.

Viva La Madonna

Thomas Joseph Clérian, 1817

Engraving of the infant Christ lying on straw, surrounded by cherub heads in clouds above.

The Christ Child on a Bed of Straw

Claude Mellan, 1662

Engraving of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ within an oval frame with radiating light lines behind them.

Virgin and Child

Abraham Blooteling

Engraving of the Holy Family: a bearded man leaning on a block, a veiled woman, and a child pointing upward.

Holy Family

Etching of a haloed figure preaching to a crowd in a dim interior, with a sunlit doorway behind him.

Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe) (copy)

Rembrandt van Rijn, n.d.

Engraved frontispiece of a Roman missal: Saint Michael chains a six-headed dragon beneath the Holy Trinity and cherubs.

The holy trinity with Saint Michael vanquishing a six-headed dragon, frontispiece to 'Missale Romanum ex decreto sacr…

Pietro da Cortona, ca. 1662

Etching of a stable interior with figures gathered around a seated woman holding an infant, with a ladder and barrel at left.

The Circumcision in the Stable

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a child seated among bearded, turbaned men in an arched interior, with onlookers and a cane-bearing old man at rig

Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a woman, a boy and a man with a staff walking a rocky path with a dog and distant town.

Christ Returning from the Temple with His Parents

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of Christ seated at a table with a glowing halo, flanked by disciples under a heavy draped canopy.

Christ at Emmaus: The Larger Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a sleeping man below winged angels ascending and descending in light, by Rembrandt, 1655.

Jacob's Ladder

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655

Woodcut of the Virgin and Child with an older man in fur-trimmed robe praying beside them, with a castle landscape behind.

Frederick the Wise in Prayer before the Virgin and Child

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1490-1553

Woodcut print of an executioner with a sword beside a kneeling man, with women and plumed spectators watching at right.

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Etching of a winged angel embracing a kneeling man at night, with sleeping figures in the foreground and a ruined tower behin

The Agony in the Garden

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etching of Christ at a stone well speaking with a Samaritan woman holding a water jar, with figures and a town behind.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria: an Arched Print

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658

Engraved oval print of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child, who raises a hand; both have halos.

Virgin and Child

Engraving of Moses kneeling before God in a burning bush, with sheep grazing on a hill in the background.

Moses Before the Burning Bush

Claude Mellan, 1663