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Engraving of three cherubs with a bird cage and a net beside a broken tree, birds flying over a ruined tower in the distance.

Air

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of three winged putti with birds in an oval frame, with French dedication text and a coat of arms below.

Air

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Etching of a rocky waterfall landscape with two seated women, a shepherd with a staff, dogs, and a small building.

Traveling Women Drinking Water

Jean Daullé, 1758

Engraving of three playful cupid infants embracing beneath a tree, with grapes, fruit and a bird in the foreground.

The Cheerful Cupids

Jean Daullé, 1750

Engraving of the horse American Eclipse held by a groom in a stable beside a wooden bucket and straw.

American Eclipse

Asher Brown Durand, 1824

Engraving of a man and woman standing in a rowboat at shore, with a dog on the rocks and a cloudy sky.

Greek Lovers

Asher Brown Durand, 1825

Engraved portrait of General Andrew Jackson in military dress beside a horse, with cannon and soldiers in smoke behind him.

General Andrew Jackson

Asher Brown Durand, June 1828

Engraving of two seated children beside a gnarled tree with a hanging fruit, titled Taste, numbered 4.

Taste

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Engraved landscape of the Delaware Water Gap with a river between wooded hills, framing trees, and small figures on the bank.

Delaware Water Gap

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Etching of a shepherd family resting under a tree with sheep, a dog, children and bagpipes on the ground.

Bagpipes

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a crowded domestic interior with a woman tending an infant in a basket, children, a cat, and a birdcage.

The Small Household

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a barefoot young woman with a birdcage on her back, holding a basket, beside two seated boys near a wall and trees

Girl with a Bird

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraved rococo urn design with putti, a ram on the lid, a religious medallion, and rays of light behind.

Design for an Urn

Gabriel Huquier, 1725-72

Engraved portrait of a woman in a plumed hat and pearls holding a small bird, with a verse caption below.

After-dinner

Gilles Edme Petit

Engraving of a pastoral scene with a spouting stone fountain, cattle, sheep, roosters, women and a child under trees.

The Fountain

Etching of a woman and child seated in a wooded landscape beside a bird cage, with birds flying in the sky.

Children Catching Birds

Marie Madeleine Igonet

Dangerous Caresses

Joseph de Longueil

Sepia print of a woman reading to children in a vaulted room, with a cat, a loaf of bread, and a framed portrait on the wall.

Two Women with Children

Richard de Saint-Non, 1766

Etching of two cherubs on clouds with a lyre, laurel wreath, scroll, book and doves, captioned LA POESIE.

Poetry

Louis-Félix Delarue

Engraving of a woman in flowing robes with a fan, as a small dog stands on its hind legs beside her in a garden.

The Small Dog Standing on Hind Legs

John Ingram, 1741-63

Etching of two cherubs tending a fire beside a hooded old woman warming her hands, with birds in the upper right.

Winter

Louis-Félix Delarue

Lithograph of two kneeling women before a classical niche, a man with a rifle and dog, and Colosseum ruins behind.

Scene at the Coliseum

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of a man clipping a dog while a woman in a headscarf holds another dog beside a sign and a basket.

The Dog Shearer

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of two figures in headscarves, one holding a small dog and a wooden box, the other holding a hurdy-gurdy.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Hand-colored print of a frightened woman with children, a dog, and a boy holding a gray mouse over a chair back.

Fear

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1825

Engraving of thieves attacking a household in a bedroom, with a man fighting off intruders and a woman embracing a child.

Second Scene of Thieves

Gror, ca. 1805

Pen and brown wash drawing of a monument design: a bull's head between two winged putti holding drapery, above a lion mask.

Design for a monument (recto); Architectural sketches (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Lithograph of hunting dogs in a kennel yard, with a large hound in the foreground and a figure with a whip at right.

The Kennel, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Lithograph of hunters on an open plain, one firing at birds overhead while dogs search the grass in the foreground.

Hunting in the Field, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Lithograph of a wounded wolf attacked by hunting dogs in a forest clearing, with a hunter approaching from the right.

Wolf Hunt: Animal Wounded and Attacked by Dogs, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829