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Brown wash drawing of a travelling column scattered by a swirling dust storm, with figures tumbled on the right.

A column of oriental travelers scattered by a dust storm

William West, 1820-40

Pen and brown ink drawing with grey wash of robed figures gathered in an interior beside a balustrade, one seated man holding

Jacob Gives Joseph a Coat of Many Colors

Daniel Seiter, 17th-early 18th century

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a loose shirt before draped curtains, seen turned over his shoulder.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Anders Zorn, 1898

Etching of a bearded man seated in the foreground with a second figure in shadow behind him, rendered in dense hatched lines.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens and His Model

Anders Zorn, 1897

Engraving of a Roman-style procession: armored soldiers with spears and palm fronds lead robed senators past a brick arcade.

The Triumph of Caesar: The Senators

Gian Marco Cavalli, ca. 1497

Etching of a barefoot peasant on a horse drinking at a river, with another rider and a horse on a bank at right.

A barefoot peasant on horseback crossing a river, another peasant on horseback and leading a horse on a bank to right…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Sepia drawing of a ruined classical hall with Corinthian columns, ivy, and figures including a sketching artist and a child.

Artist Among Ruins

Antonio Zucchi, 18th century

Engraving of a wooded road with several riders on horseback passing large trees and a rocky bank under a cloudy sky.

Wooded Landscape with Riders

Thomas Gainsborough, August 1, 1797

Pen and ink landscape of a country cart on a wooded road beside a thatched cottage, with figures near the doorway.

Wooded Landscape with Country Cart, Cottage and Figures

Thomas Gainsborough, 1784-86

Engraving of cows drinking at a pond in a wooded landscape, with a seated figure at left and hills under clouds.

Wooded Landscape with Figures and Cows at a Watering Place (The Watering Place)

Thomas Gainsborough, August 1, 1797

Hand-colored print of herdsmen driving cattle over an arched bridge near a ruined tower and trees.

Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle

Thomas Gainsborough, 1797

Hand-colored print of a hillside with a ruined church, gravestones, a man leaning on a staff, a donkey, and sheep.

Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church

Thomas Gainsborough, August 1, 1797

Watercolor drawing of an Egyptian temple gateway with columns and hieroglyphs, with robed figures before the entrance.

The Temple at Dendur, Nubia

David Roberts, 1848

Brown wash drawing of peasants working at a well beside a thatched hut and barrels, with trees and clouds.

Peasants Around a Well

Johann Georg Wille, 1758

Graphite and white chalk study of a monk's head in three-quarter view, with a tonsured crown and downcast eyes, on tan paper.

Study of the Head of St. Augustine, for the painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint Augustine and Bonifacius (1846)

Eduard von Steinle, 1846

Pen and grey wash drawing of two wooden carts on a dirt road beside a stone house with a thatched roof and hills behind.

Irish cars (Study of two carts in a landscape)

Cornelius Varley, 1800-73

Engraving of a sower scattering seed over rocky ground, with birds in flight and feeding and pine trees at left.

The Sower (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a woman kneading at a table while a young girl holds a bowl by a fireplace in a dim kitchen.

The Parable of the Leaven (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a bearded man in a cloak carrying a bundle of stalks across a dark field at night, a wolf watching nearby.

The Tares (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Wood engraving of a bent farmer guiding a plow pulled by two oxen across a furrowed field under an open sky.

The Hidden Treasure (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a merchant offering a pouch to bearded men on a shore, with a donkey, a woman with a net, and seagulls overhead.

The Pearl of Great Price (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a kneeling servant before a robed king with a sword, watched by onlookers, with a domed building behind.

The Unmerciful Servant (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a robed bearded man in a crown speaking with a half-naked worker, with onlookers behind them.

The Labourers in the Vineyard (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Black and white print of a reclining figure among vines beside a stone wall and gate, with a tower in the distance.

The Wicked Husbandmen (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of ten women with lamps and jars in a field, one sleeping in the foreground beside a spilled vessel.

The Parable of the [Ten] Virgins (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a cloaked man with a loaf of bread at a door, a dog beside him, and a fence under a stormy sky.

The Importunate Friend (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a king at a feast watching a servant lead a disheveled guest toward a banquet table.

The Marriage Feast (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders up a rocky hillside, with a soaring eagle above.

The Lost Sheep (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a stooped woman with a broom lighting a candle in a dark room, a crescent moon visible through a window.

The Lost Piece of Silver (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a ragged bearded man with dogs in foreground, and feasting figures at a table in a dim hall behind.

The Rich Man and Lazarus (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of an enthroned judge being pleaded with by a kneeling woman as attendants watch in a courtroom interior.

The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Wood engraving of a bowed, dark-robed figure in front of turbaned men gazing upward in a stone temple interior.

The Pharisee and the Publican (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Engraving of a lion watching a prone shepherd in thistle-covered grass while sheep flee across a hilly landscape.

The Good Shepherd (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Pencil drawing of a seated woman in Roman dress and headscarf, turning back while holding a distaff for spinning.

A Seated Woman in Roman Dress, Spinning

Theodor Leopold Weller, early 19th-late 19th century

Engraving of an elegant salon with columns, a chandelier, and fashionably dressed figures gathered at tables beside two dogs.

L'Assemblee au Salon

François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller, N.D.

Engraving of the Virgin holding the sleeping infant Christ, with a young boy and an older bearded man beside her under draper

Virgin and Child with Saints Joseph and John the Baptist (after Michelangelo's Madonna del Silenzio)

Giulio Bonasone, 1561

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a seated nude man with curly hair leaning on a cushion over a stone block.

Study of a Seated Male Nude

Philipp Otto Runge, late 18th-19th century

Moonlit bay with a distant volcano, a small sailboat, and dark trees framing the foreground in a blue-gray drawing.

Virgil's Tomb with a View of the Bay of Naples in the Moonlight

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1860-84

Brown wash drawing of a classical landscape with a river, rocky cliffs, large trees, resting figures and a shepherd with shee

Classical Landscape with Figures

Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell, 1749-1822

Grey wash drawing of a bare-chested figure and kneeling men in a prison courtyard with mosque minarets behind.

An Islamic Prophet Appearing in the Courtyard of a Prison in Alexandria

Jan Goeree, ca. 1706

Pencil drawing of bearded Moses seated between an open book and stone tablets, with flaming torches behind him.

Moses

Gustav Jäger, 1828-71

Brown wash drawing of a forest scene with a young girl in a hat beside a waterfall beneath a large tree.

Landscape with a Young Girl at a Waterfall

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, late 18th-19th century

Graphite and white chalk studies on blue paper of a woman's head, arms, hands, and draped fabric.

Studies of a woman, her hands and arms and drapery

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, late 18th-19th century

Pen and ink portrait of a young man with curly shoulder-length hair, buttoned coat and cravat, with handwritten notes below.

Portrait of the Postillion Johann Heinrich Matheis

Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern, 1800-1865

Pencil sketch of a courtyard with a picket fence, stone wall, arched doorway, a large tree, and a timber house.

View of a Courtyard in Loschwitz (?)

August Heinrich, early 19th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of an armored warrior with a spear among clouds, with nude figures and a skeleton below.

Allegorical Scene (Temptations of a Wealthy Man?)

Master of the Stockholm Wolf Huber Copies, first half 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with a nude figure in a river, angels in clouds, and onlookers.

Baptism of Christ

Hans Rottenhammer, late 16th-17th century

Watercolor study of gnarled tree branches with moss-covered limbs and broad green leaves against a pale sky.

Tree Branches

Charles Reginald Aston, 1860-1900

Engraved religious print showing the Annunciation in the foreground, with the Visitation and Nativity scenes above in a hatch

The Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity

Master of the Church Fathers' Border, 15th century

Woodcut title page with a central Virgin Mary surrounded by angels and stars, and four corner medallions of animals.

Title-page from Pelbartus de Temesvar

Johann Otmar, 1502-14

Lithograph of a proposed horse-drawn rail road on Broadway with a street scene, track section, and streetcar views.

Proposed Rail Road for Broadway

H. A. Harvey, 1848

Watercolor of a seated young woman with a grape basket on her back beside a rocky slope with wildflowers.

Young Woman in the Vaudois after the Grape Harvest

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, 1821

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with a mother embracing a child, soldiers with spears, and a robed ruler pointing.

The Martyrdom of the seven brothers; verso: Sketch of two men wrestling (?)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1826

Brown wash drawing of an allegory with a helmeted goddess, robed women, cherubs with wreaths, and classical columns.

Allegory of the Arts

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1796

Pen and ink drawing of a female figure on clouds holding a dove aloft, with billowing drapery behind her, on blue-grey paper.

Venus with a Dove

Nicolai Abildgaard, ca. 1780

Pencil drawing in an arched frame of two seated men in conversation, with a standing figure in shadow at right.

Christ and Nicodemus

Christen Købke, 1810-48

Drawing of a haloed kneeling shepherd lifting a lamb onto a rock ledge in a rocky landscape.

The Good Shepherd (recto); Cloud Studies (verso)

Friedrich von Olivier, late 18th-19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a rocky river with boulders, shrubs and conifer trees along the banks.

Landscape with Rocks in a River (near Kronau?)

Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels, late 19th-early 20th century

Black chalk and white heightening on blue paper: two seated male figures in a wooded landscape beside a lying cow.

Mercury and Argus

Januarius Zick, mid-18th-late 18th century

Gray wash drawing of a horseman talking to two seated figures by a river, with trees and a village in the distance.

Landscape with Horseman Talking to Seated Figures

Johann Christoph Dietzsch, 1730-68

Sepia drawing of a farewell: a man in a boat, a grieving man, embracing women and children, with a domed interior scene above

"The Farewell"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Pencil drawing of a seated man in loose draped robes, head bowed, one hand raised to his face, on pale paper.

A Drapery Study of a Seated Man

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, early 19th century

Pencil study of a man's left arm and shoulders seen from behind, with draped cloth falling over the shoulder at right.

Left Arm and Shoulders of a Man Seen from the Back

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, early 19th century

Pencil drawing of a rocky path with trees, a village, a calm bay and distant hazy mountains under an open sky.

A view of Pozzuoli, seen from the Northeast

Robert Kummer, early 19th-late 19th century

Watercolor of three nude boys bathing by a wooded riverbank with dense trees and leafy plants.

Riverside with Three Bathing Boys

Christian Friedrich Gille, 19th century

Watercolor and pen drawing of the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice, with Gothic arches and two tall columns under blue sky.

View of the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice

Wilhelm Gail, 19th century

Pen and blue wash drawing of Apollo and the Nine Muses with poets in a wooded clearing on Mount Parnassus.

Apollo and the Nine Muses surrounded by Poets on Mount Parnassus

Karel Škréta, later 17th century

Grey wash drawing of robed figures performing a ritual offering before tents and mountains, within an ornate scrolled frame.

'The law of the leper in the day of his cleansing'

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Grey wash drawing of crucified Christ above an armored warrior, allegorical figures, a lion, and Latin inscriptions.

Allegory of Christian Virtues

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1746

Pencil drawing of a walled castle complex with steep roofs, a church spire and trees, dated 1690.

View of the castle at Oberbürg

Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger, 1690

Pencil study of two mourning draped women beside a tall tomb block, with a hanging cloth and a small winged figure at right.

Study for a Tomb

Antonio Canova, ca. 1790/91-95

Study of a Nude Man in Profile turned to the Right

Antonio Canova, n.d.

Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II as Military Commander

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, early to mid-18th century

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Benedict ascending on clouds, supported by angels and putti within an arched niche.

The Ascension of Saint Benedict; verso: Ornamental sketches

Hans Georg Asam, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a flooded monastery ruin with arched colonnade, a stone cross in water, and trees framing the scene.

Inundated Ruins of a Monastery

Carl Blechen, ca. 1824

Brown etching of an elderly bearded man's head, turned three-quarter view, with a serious expression and fine hatched shading

Self-Portrait

Max Klinger, 1918

Printed trade card of Isaac Puller advertising cane chairs and rattan canes, with a handwritten price note below the text.

Trade Card of Isaac Puller, Cane Chairs at the Golden Plow, St. Paul's Church Yard

Isaac Puller, 1714

Etching of a tavern courtyard beneath large trees, with seated diners, a rider on horseback and figures near a low building.

A Tavern at Monte Testaccio

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1793

Engraving of a kneeling priest raising a chalice before a vision of the crowned Christ rising above an altar, with clergy in

Mass of St. Gregory

Etching of a man seen from behind beside a leaning tree, with a pond and wooded landscape beyond, by Laurent de La Hyre.

Man Seen From Behind

Laurent de La Hyre, 1640

Etched print of a siege: fortified town with camps and trenches below, a column of soldiers and wagons, and a city skyline ab

Plan and view of the siege of Arras: lower part of the plate with a topographical view with troops in the foreground…

Stefano Della Bella, 1641

Etching of an arena theater filled with spectators, a triumphal car at center, and horsemen in formation at the corners.

Theater at Modena, seen from above and filled with spectators, with a triumphal car at center and horses in formation…

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Etching in two parts: a friar holding a sun above clouds with Lima below, and a robed theologian between columns with text pa

Decoration for a Thesis in Honor of Saint Francis Solano in two parts: the top part with Saint Francis Solano, arms r…

Stefano Della Bella, 1639

Engraved trade card showing a cane chair in an ornate border, with script advertising Samuel Spencer's furniture shop in Alde

Trade Card of Samuel Spencer, Cain Chairs, at the Golden Chair in Aldermanbury

Samuel Spencer, ca. 1700-1720

Etching of a river landscape with tall trees, a walled town, and figures in a boat where a man holds up a snake to a child.

Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank a…

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1626-80

Drawing of a family group with children, a seated woman in a lace bonnet, and a standing man in a powdered wig beside a table

Family Portrait

Georg David Matthieu, 1737-78

Still life drawing of pink rose and blossoms in a gold vase, with butterflies, a snail, caterpillars and a dragonfly.

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel, 1589

Watercolor landscape of a monastery beside a lake in a mountain valley, with trees framing the view and a shepherd with sheep

View of the Monastery in Tegernsee seen from the north-east

Johann Georg von Dillis, late 18th-mid 19th century

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a shepherd and dogs in foreground trees, with a hilltop town in the distance.

Roman landscape with figures near Paliano

Joseph Anton Koch, 18th-19th century

Etching of a clump of trees on rocks at left, with a valley, water and distant hills receding under a sky with birds.

Clump of Trees

Laurent de La Hyre, 1640

Pen and brown ink drawing of a forest clearing with tall slender trees around a grassy mound.

Forest view in the Menterschweige district near Munich

Heinrich Dreber, 1841

Watercolor of a river winding past tall trees and misty wooded hills under a cloudy sky.

On the Wharfe, Bolton Abbey

William Callow, September 30, 1858

Grey wash drawing of a layered rock cliff with trees on top and an umbrella pine on the right, under a pale sky.

Near Santa Maria de' Monti, Naples

Thomas Jones, May 10, 1781

Etching of a crowned allegorical woman with scepter riding a chariot pulled by two horses, with French text below.

Allegory of Europe, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Brown-toned chalk drawing of a bright fountain jet rising from a stone basin in a park, with trees and a small seated figure.

A Fountain in the Park

Carl Blechen, 1831

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Peter with a rooster, a winged angel above, and a classical column beside steps.

Saint Peter

Lukas Stipperger, 1799