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Etching of a festival procession with a fountain, horse-drawn sun carriage, rock grotto, and ornate float with costumed figur

Entrée du duc Charles IV (Entrance of Duke Charles IV), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri…

Jacques Callot, 1627

Etching of a crowded hall where two riders joust across a barrier while spectators and armed soldiers watch below a coffered

Le Combat (The Combat), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Ph…

Jacques Callot, 1627

Engraved frontispiece with a heraldic shield, crown, two allegorical women, a cherub, and a French verse inscription.

Frontispiece, from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe

Jacques Callot, 1627

Engraving of a robed saint reading a book beneath a large tree, holding a lily branch, with a distant town behind.

St Dominic Reading

Cornelis Cort, 1573

Oval engraved portrait of a woman in a lace cap and ruff collar, with an inscription around the border.

Grietgen (Margaretha) Jansdr

Hendrick Goltzius, 1580

Hand-colored caricature of two men on a cobblestone street, one holding newspapers, the other leaning toward him with a cane.

Le Nouvelliste Sans Argent

Louis Maleuvre, 1814

Six prints of soldiers, cavalry, a mountain valley and costumed figures mounted on a green album sheet.

Soldiers and Landscapes, (6 prints mounted onto a green album sheet)

Victor Adam, mid-19th century

Soft-ground etching of a bearded man sitting up in bed beside a dark silhouetted figure in a chair.

Portrait of Meryon Sitting up in Bed

Léopold Flameng, 1858

Engraved bust portrait of an older man in a high collar and cravat, titled Carle Vernet, from L'Artiste.

Portrait of Carle Vernet, from "L'Artiste"

Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, 1837

Pencil caricature of a balding man with exaggerated features holding a Journal pour Rire newspaper, on tan paper.

Caricature of Charles Philipon

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Pencil caricature of a standing man with large nose, round spectacles and goatee, on tan paper, dated 1859.

Caricature of Jules de Prémaray

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Caricature of Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin (alias Timon)

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Pencil caricature of a man with a large head, mustache and long overcoat, signed Mailly and dated 1859.

Caricature of Paul Meurice

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Lithograph of a mounted lancer in a plumed shako holding a pennant lance, with a distant rider in an open landscape.

Lancer

Horace Vernet, 1816

Lithograph of a man in a long coat sketching outdoors, with mounted soldiers and a hat and cane on the ground.

Portrait of Carle Vernet Sketching

Horace Vernet, 1816

Pencil drawing of a cliff tower above stormy waves beside a leafy tree over reeds, designed as alphabet letter forms.

Alphabet book design (Letters C and K)

Miss L. E. M. Jones, ca. 1830

Hand-colored print of a skeleton Death reaching toward an elderly man reading in bed in a cluttered room.

The Antiquary's Last Will and Testament (from The English Dance of Death, vol. I, plate 2)

Thomas Rowlandson, 1816

Hand-colored print of a skeleton steering a sinking boat of struggling passengers through stormy waves, with wrecked ships be

Death Turned Pilot (from The English Dance of Death, vol. II, pl. 9)

Thomas Rowlandson, June 1, 1815

Print of a standing man with long hair and lace collar, holding a plumed hat and a cane, in period dress.

Man holding a cane and a hat

Victor Adam, mid-19th century

Three prints on yellow paper: a soldier carrying a child beside a woman, a seated highlander with a dog, and a rifle-bearing

Soldiers and a Highlander (3 prints of varying size pasted onto a yellow sheet)

Victor Adam, mid-19th century

Three small lithographs of soldiers and figures pasted on a green mount: an old man with cane, a woman and officer, a mounted

Soldiers (3 prints of varying size pasted onto a green sheet)

Victor Adam, mid-19th century

Stippled black ink print of two camels in a sandy landscape with figures, a building, and a palm tree at right.

Camels in a Landscape

Victor Adam, mid 19th century

Two black-and-white prints on green paper: a peddler with a top hat and bundle, and soldiers conversing in an open landscape.

Soldiers and a Peddlar (2 prints of varying size mounted onto a green sheet)

Victor Adam, mid-19th century

Engraving of boys with a pail and people tending a smoky clam bake on a rocky beach, with sailboats on the sea.

Palazzo della Cancelleria

Pietro Ferrerio, 1655

Lithograph with an oval portrait of a man above a grid of sixteen small figure scenes with French captions.

Augustin-Eugène Scribe with Characters

Victor Adam, 19th century

Lithograph of decorative W letters with vignettes of Washington, an eagle, a cross grave, and a battlefield labeled Waterloo.

The letter "W": Washington, Wagram, Waterloo

Victor Adam, 1833

Lithograph of a crowded festival at Beau-Grenelle with a decorated maypole, tents, horse riders, a carriage, and onlookers.

Beau-Grenelle, Couronnement De La Rosière (Fêtes des Environs de Paris)

Victor Adam, 1830

Monochrome lithograph of two uniformed men embracing in a palace courtyard, surrounded by soldiers and a flag bearer.

Adieux de Fontainebleau

Victor Adam, after 1814

Lithograph of a startled man and woman on a street before a shop sign, surrounded by small sketched vignettes of figures and

Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide

Victor Adam, 19th century

Lithograph of five costumed carnival figures including a bishop, a plumed soldier and a woman with a basket, from La Caricatu

Carnival de 1830 (from La Caricature)

Victor Adam, 1850