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14,994 works

Engraving of sailors battling a storm and shipwreck, with Prospero and Miranda on a rocky shore and spirits in the clouds.

The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1)

Benjamin Smith, originally published 1797; reissued 1852

Engraving of workers and armored soldiers building a stone wall with ladders and tools, a tower behind them.

Cadmus Founding Thebes

Master of the Story of Cadmus, ca. 1543-44

Brown wash drawing of a classical colonnaded hall with figures reacting around a banquet table and a helmeted soldier.

The Death of Britannicus

Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol, ca. 1814

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of workers and figures in a vaulted forge with arched openings and a furnace.

Venus Visiting the Forge of Vulcan

called Paolo Fiammingo Pauwels Franck, 16th century

Watercolor of a seated monkey on a rock with a spotted civet looking up at it in a pale landscape.

A Monkey Sitting on a Rock Looking at a Civet

Aert Schouman, 1764

Grey wash drawing of peasants resting under a tree with cattle and sheep in a pastoral landscape.

Peasants with Cattle and Sheep

Adriaen van de Velde, mid-17th century

Engraved panoramic print of a columned hall with a throned ruler and crowded courtiers, with Latin inscription above.

The Queen of Sheba before Solomon

François Collignon, 1631

Grey wash drawing of an octagonal city gate beside a canal, with trees, a rowing boat and figures on a bridge.

A View of the Wittevrouwenpoort, Utrecht

Dirk Verrijk, 1749-86

Grey wash drawing of a church with a tall spire, a stone gateway, a horse and cart on cobblestones, and townspeople.

View of the Church of Passy, near Paris

Reinier Vinkeles, 1770

Grey wash drawing of sailing ships and a rowing boat with figures on an estuary under a cloudy sky.

Various Ships and a Rowing Boat on an Estuary

Wigerus Vitringa, n.d.

Sepia print of a busy cobbled Broadway street with carriages, pedestrians, and a classical City Hall building.

Broadway and City Hall in New York (Brodway-Gatan Och Rådhuset i New York)

Carl Fredrik Akrell, 1824

Grey wash elevation of a neoclassical chimney piece with draped female supports and a frieze of a chariot procession.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Gallery, now Dining Room, Harewood House, Yorkshire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, ca. 1769

Grey and pink wash design of a neoclassical fireplace with draped female figures, laurel pilasters and winged putti roundels.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Pompeian Style

Robert Adam, ca. 1775

Pen and grey wash drawing of classical ruins with Corinthian columns, a sarcophagus, a pyramid and an obelisk in a landscape.

Classical Landscape with Ruins (recto); Two men in Roman military dress (verso)

Robert Adam, 1755-57

Pen and wash drawing of a classical landscape with temples, a stone bridge over a river, and figures in a boat.

Classical Landscape with Temples (recto); Indecipherable sketch, possibly of a seated figure (verso)

Robert Adam, 1755-57

Pen and ink drawing of harvesters resting by a haystack, with a standing woman holding a tool and a dog lying nearby.

The Harvesters, illustration to "The Leather Bottèl"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of a tavern interior with a man in a doorway, a woman in an apron, and a seated man in a hat.

"Will had her to the wine," illustration to "Phillada Flouts Me"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1886

Grey wash drawing of wooded sand dunes with a windmill on a ridge at left and a pair of small figures under clouds.

Wooded Dune Landscape near Haarlem, with Windmill and a Pair of Figures

Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a riverside city with church spires, towers, a bridge and a sailboat, with handwritten labels.

View of Mâcon Seen from the East

Jan Peeters, mid-17th-late 17th century

Lithograph of a dead man in a nightshirt sprawled on a floor beside a bed, with another body in shadow.

Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril, 1834, Plate 24 of l'Association mensuelle

Honoré Daumier, July 1834

Engraving of Adam and Eve mourning dead Abel in a rocky landscape, with a lion, lamb, altar fire, and God in clouds.

Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of Abel

Cornelis Cort, 1564

Engraved print of a gallery wall crowded with classical busts, statues, urns and medallions arranged in tiers.

La Galerie de Girardon

Nicolas Chevalier, 18th century

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a fireplace chimneypiece with scroll frieze, acanthus brackets, and dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Etched plate with Latin inscriptions from Roman monuments inside ornate scrolled borders, with an Italian plate index below.

Iscrizione nei lati del Ponte di Rimino (Inscription on the side of the Rimini Bridge) followed by an index of plates…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Dedication to Giovanni Bottari (Dédicace à Bottari), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi I…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etched interior of an ancient temple vestibule with Corinthian columns, niche statues, and coffered vaults receding into dept

Vestibule of an ancient temple... (Vestibolo d'antico Tempio...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1743-50

Etching of a moored fishing boat with hanging sail and rigging on calm water, with a domed building at right.

Fishing Boat

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian street seen through a dark archway, with figures walking and a seated worker in a shop at right.

Fish Shop, Venice

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Architectural elevation of a fireplace with swag and rosette decoration set within paneled walls and a dentil cornice.

Design for a Chimneypiece in the Garden Hall, Manresa House, Roehampton, Surrey

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1760

Etching of two men in white robes and turbans using a cape to lure a charging bull in a bullring.

Plate 6 from "La Tauromaquia": The Moors make a different play in the ring calling the bull with their burnous

Francisco Goya, 1816