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Ink sketch of running children, a crowd of boys, and a boy with a stick beside a snake on a handscroll.

Frolicking Figures and Animals

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 19th century

Hanging scroll of a white eagle on a rock gazing up at a mountain lion climbing beside bamboo leaves.

White Eagle Eyeing a Mountain Lion

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1885

Ink painting of a black crow perched on a pale branch beside feathery pine needles against an empty background.

Crow on a Tree

Painting of a white crane on rocks by waves, with peach branches and pink blossoms overhead beside a pine trunk.

Flowers and Birds

Taki Katei, 19th century

Red cattails and green reeds beneath a pale full moon in a dusky sky, with a red seal at lower right.

Cat Tails and Moon

Two red birds in flight beside dark jutting rocks and curving gold grass on a grey silver background.

Birds and Jutting Rocks

Ink painting of a tortoise moving toward a red vessel with calligraphy on a tan vertical scroll.

Tortoise

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of three crows in flight painted in ink and grey wash on pale silk, with a red seal at lower right.

Three Crows in Flight

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Painting of a turbaned rider on a blue horse with attendants, a parasol and flywhisk, before hills and palace buildings.

Maharana Amar Singh II Riding a Jodhpur Horse

Stipple Master, ca. 1700-1710

Folding screen with three flying crows on gold ground and two egrets perched on a branch under willow fronds.

Egrets and Crows

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Handscroll painting of mounted riders in red armor racing past a crowd on a wooden stand, with tiled rooftops below.

Horse Race at Kamo

Sumiyoshi Hiromori, 18th century

Bay hunter horse with a seated groom and black dog beneath a large tree, with a rural landscape under clouds.

The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog

George Stubbs, 1768

Woodblock print of two women in kimono with a songbird cage on a wooden veranda beside a green shrub.

Japanese Bush Warbler

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1754-1806

Hand-colored caricature of an English bulldog holding a Malta bone while a monkey in French military uniform reaches for it.

The Bone of Contention or the English Bull Dog and the Corsican Monkey

Charles Williams, 1803

Cutaway woodblock print of a warship showing sailors working in labeled decks, with smoke and rough sea below.

The Interior Works of an Armed Japanese Battleship

Unsen, 1874 (Meiji 7)

Woodblock print of a green white-eye and a titmouse perched on a branch with red camellia flowers against a pale sky.

Japanese White-eye and Titmouse on a Camellia Branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1840

Two yellow-green white-eyes on a plum branch with blossoms and drooping willow, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Japanese White-eyes with Plum Tree and Willow, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3)

Kubo Shunman, ca. 1810

Triptych woodblock print of a busy Yokohama street with shops, carts, pedestrians and blossoming cherry trees.

The Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture (Kanagawa Yokohama shinkaikōzu)

Utagawa Sadahide, 2nd month, 1860

Triptych woodblock print of uniformed officials, a red carriage with white horses, flags and women in kimono, Meiji era.

His Imperial Majesty, the Commander-in-Chief, Arriving in the Capital in Triumph [Sino-Japanese War] (Daigenshi heika…

Utagawa Kokunimasa, 1895 (Meiji 28), 5th month

Three green and yellow white-eye birds perch among pink peach blossoms on branches, with Japanese calligraphy beside them.

Japanese White-eyes on a Branch of Peach Tree,” from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase), from Spring Rain Suri…

Kubo Shunman, ca. 1805-10

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with elaborate hair and a patterned kimono, with a cat playing beside her.

Print - Keisai Eisen, 1790

Keisai Eisen, 1790

Ink drawing on paper of birds perched on rocks and branches, with a drooping willow twig at upper left.

Japanese Drawing

Kanō Naonobu, early 19th century

Etching of a reclining allegorical man with trumpets, a herm bust, a winged putto, and animals in the foreground.

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-47 (published 1648)

Engraving of Christ bearing the cross through a crowd of soldiers on horseback, onlookers and dogs, with rocky hills behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475-80

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including a cat, stag and parrot.

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with nude goddesses, a sun chariot, Jupiter and an eagle in the sky, and river gods.

The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-20

Pen and watercolor drawing of a knight and a noblewoman on horseback facing each other before a river landscape and walled ci

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

Bernard van Orley, 1530-35

Engraving of a winged seated woman surrounded by geometric objects, a sleeping dog, a sphere, and a magic square on a wall.

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer, 1514

Miniature painting of a mounted king meeting a veiled woman in a rocky landscape, with a Persian verse panel above.

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597-98

Persian miniature of a man carving a channel in rocky mountains while a rider on a brown horse watches, with a mountain goat

"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami, dated 931 AH/1524-25 CE