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Pen and ink design sheet showing four china tray outlines with scalloped edges and fretwork borders, one shaded grey.

China Trays, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Ink and wash design drawing of hanging shelves with lattice fretwork and pagoda-style pediments, by Thomas Chippendale, 1753.

Hanging Shelves, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1753

Ink drawing of a tiered hanging shelf with pagoda canopy, two birds on top, and rococo brackets, with a plan below.

Hanging Shelves, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Three horizontal bands of geometric fret ornament drawn in ink with gray wash shading on cream paper.

Frets, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Ink drawing of two Chinese railing elevations with lattice and fret patterns, with a scale bar beneath.

Chinese Railing, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Ink drawing of a hatched Greek key fret border with measurement ticks above and numbered marks below, on pale paper.

Fret, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, ca. 1760-70

Pen and ink drawing of architectural moldings and cornice profiles with dimension notes, from Chippendale's Gothic bookcase d

Moldings for Gothic Library Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1753

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a building elevation above a floor plan showing three interlocking gears and shafts.

Outbuilding with Three Gears, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, ca. 1760-1800

Mezzotint print of a recumbent lion resting on a grassy bank beside a pool, with a dark cave and trees behind.

The Lyon (Recumbent Lion by a Pool)

George Townley Stubbs, August 12, 1776

Mezzotint of the mythological Phaeton driving a chariot pulled by four galloping horses through clouds.

Phaeton

Benjamin Green, November 14, 1776

Dark allegorical print: two seated women watch a glowing vision of armored warriors and tigers, lit by a winged figure with a

The Tea-Tax-Tempest (The Oracle)

John Dixon, 1774

Mezzotint of a woman in a striped shawl and turban raising her arm beside a column, with two children and rising smoke behind

Mrs. Yates in the Characer of Medea

William Dickinson, 1771

Engraving of a gentleman handing a letter to a young woman in an interior, with a dog and a companion, above French text.

Young Lady's Reply to the Captain's Letter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Hand-colored print of young women and orphaned children gathered in a cottage room with a fireplace and drop-leaf table.

The Sailor's Orphans, or the Young Ladies' Subscription

William Ward, June 1, 1800

Three schoolboys offer charity to a seated blind man with a dog beside a brick wall, with a countryside view.

Schoolboys Giving Charity to a Blind Man

John Raphael Smith, 1781

Engraving of elegant figures on an arcaded terrace with a fruit basket, a cherub, and a garden view, labeled LA TERRE.

Earth

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Engraved interior with a seated man, a woman beside a birdcage, a Cupid with bow, and a statue in a niche.

Air

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Engraving of a plumed captain holding a letter beside a young servant in a room, with a French text panel below.

Captain's Love Letter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Etching of a fashionably dressed man seen from behind, leaning on a long mallet in a park with trees and figures.

A Man Seen from the Back Leaning on a Croquet Mallet (Le Jouer de mail)

Abraham Bosse, 1629

Engraved portrait of an armored bearded man in an oval frame flanked by allegorical figures and a battle scene below.

Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France

Jost Amman, 1550-91

Engraving of St. Jerome reading beside a resting lion under a large tree, with a distant town and church in the background.

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Etching of Venus standing in a chariot pulled by sea creatures, with nude attendants, cherubs in the sky and a distant mounta

Venus on a Chariot

Pierre Brébiette, 1640-49

Engraving of a crowded 1785 salon gallery with paintings covering the walls and visitors in period dress on the floor.

View of the Salon of 1785

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1785

Engraving of a gnarled oak forest with a hunter aiming a rifle from a rock at lower right.

A Forest with a Rabbit Hunt

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Mezzotint of a man in the sea beneath a billowing balloon with rigging lines, under a stormy sky with a crescent moon.

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the C…

John Murphy, June 24, 1789

Etching of a wooded landscape with a grassy clearing and several rabbits in the foreground beneath dark trees.

Combe Bottom

Francis Seymour Haden, 1860

Engraved title page with a central drape bearing the Topographia Variarum Regionum text, flanked by allegorical figures and a

Topographia Variarum Regionum, title to the series of 28 plates

Simon Frisius, 1614

Engraved title page with a central cartouche flanked by a laurel-crowned man and a spear-holding woman, with an eagle and dog

Title to Topographia Variarum Regionum

Simon Frisius, 1611

Pencil elevation drawing of a Gothic side chapel with pointed arches, tracery windows and a paneled lower screen.

Design for a Side Chapel in the Gothic Style, for Adelmorn the Outlaw

John Joseph Holland, 1802

Engraving of Apollo grasping Daphne as she turns into a laurel tree, with a river god pouring water below.

Apollo and Daphne

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of winged Cupid wrestling the goat-legged Pan on rocks, with a seated woman watching in the background.

Battle of Love and Pan

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded Cupid riding an eagle inside an oval medallion within a decorative rectangular frame.

Cupid Astride an Eagle

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded winged Cupid seated on a sphere, holding a torch and arrow, inside an oval medallion with a Latin ti

Triumphant Cupid

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of two women and a girl building a card house at a table, with a spaniel and scattered cards on the floor.

House of Cards

Jean Michel Liotard, 1744

Engraving of women in a richly furnished interior, some sleeping beside a fireplace, with framed paintings on the walls.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping (Les Vierges folles sommolent en attendant l'arrivée de l'époux)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a seated man in an interior giving clothing to a ragged family approaching from the right, with verses below.

Clothing Beggars (Vêtir les nus)

Engraving of a 17th-century pastry shop with bakers at a table, an oven, hanging game, and a mother with child at right.

Pastry Shop, from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Engraving of a bloodletting in a wood-panelled room, a seated woman's arm held by a man while a servant and dogs look on.

The Surgeon (La Saignée), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, 1632

Engraving of elegant couples on a columned terrace, with sunbeams over a garden, country house and carriage beyond.

Summer (L'Été), from "The Four Seasons" (Les Quatre Saisons)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Engraving of a cobbler's shop with hanging shoes, a woman and man at a counter, and two seated men conversing.

The Cobbler (Le Savetier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Engraving of well-dressed figures giving water to ragged beggars in a courtyard, with a fountain and classical building behin

Giving Drink to the Thirsty (Donner à boire à ceux qui ont soif), from "Les Oeuvres de miséricorde"

Engraving of a funeral procession of clergy and mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard toward an arched gateway.

Burying the Dead (Enseveliir les morts), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a dying man in a canopied bed with a skeleton and demons, watched by a clergyman and mourning women in a room.

Death of the Rich Man (La Mort du mauvais riche)

Engraving of finely dressed visitors entering a stone prison past a jailer with keys, while ragged prisoners sit inside the c

Visiting the Prisoners (Visiter les prisonniers)

Engraving of visitors in a plain room comforting a sick man lying in a curtained bed, with a child and attendant nearby.

Visiting the Sick (Visiter les malades), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a kneeling shoemaker fitting a shoe on a seated woman in a room with a window, framed portraits, and French vers

Shoemaker (Le Cordonnier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Watercolor landscape of a hillside village above a bay, with dancing women and seated figures among trees in the foreground.

View of Vietri with Young Country Women Dancing for Shepherds in the Foreground

Joseph Anton Koch, 1800

Engraving of a ragged young man with a staff sitting under a tree beside grazing pigs and a cow near a river.

The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs (L'Enfant prodigue garde les cochons)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Engraving of a young man seated at a table with women in an elegant interior, a dog and kitchen beyond, French verse below.

The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill Repute (L'Enfant prodigue dans une maison de débauche, version couvert)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Engraving of a barber shaving a seated man in a richly furnished room with a four-poster bed and open window.

The Barber (Le Barbier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Engraving of women in 17th-century dress bringing gifts, including a copper pot, into a kitchen with a seated woman at a tabl

Presents Offered to the Bride (Les Présents offerts à la Mariée), plate 1 from "Le Mariage à la Campagne"

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633

Engraving of Fortune above clouds scattering laurels over courtiers, soldiers, and a battle scene with ships at sea.

Fortune Favoring France (La Fortune de la France)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635-37

Engraving of a couple embracing by a fireplace while a maid draws a bed curtain, with verses below.

Touch (Le Toucher), from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraving of a bride with attendants and gentlemen in a candlelit interior with a window and wall sconce.

The Bride Taken Home (La Mariée reconduite chez elle), plate 2 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of men brawling beneath a grape arbor beside a table of grapes and fruit, with a dog and French verses below.

Autumn (L'Automne)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Engraving of a man in a plumed hat beside a tower and cannon, with a burning castle and fireworks in the background.

Fire (Le Feu)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Pencil portrait of a young woman with dark hair, dark lace collar and shawl, signed and dated 1842.

Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1842

Pen and gray wash design drawing of two egg cups and a lidded salt cellar with ornamental swags and figural supports.

Design for Parade Egg Cups and Combined Egg Cup/Salt Cellar with Lid

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

Thomas Rowlandson, July 1814

Engraving of the Man of Sorrows, a seated bearded figure with a crown of thorns and halo, hands crossed on his chest, dated 1

The Man of Sorrows

Albrecht Dürer, 1515

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man bound and hanging by his wrists from a crossbar between two wooden posts.

A Man Hanging by His Arms (the Corpse of the King?)

Frans Floris, mid-16th century

Pencil and red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man praying with clasped hands before a bowl of soup and apples.

The Benediction

Jacques-André Portail, ca. 1760

Engraving of a standing sibyl in feathered headdress holding a flower, with a haloed figure in light at right.

Sibylle Agrippa, from "Douze Sibylles"

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1635

Etching of a kneeling woman restrained before a crowned figure, with a mounted rider, an angel above, and crowds in a city st

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Claude Vignon, ca. 1627

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin holding the Christ Child, a kneeling crowned king, attendants, and a star's

The Adoration of the Magi

Claude Vignon, 1619

Etching of two draped saints resting in a stone tomb while a winged angel with a palm frond hovers above.

Death of St. Peter and St. Paul (Saint Pierre et Saint Paul dans le tombeau)

Claude Vignon, 17th century

Panthée

Gilles Rousselet, 1647

Engraving of a standing woman in a feathered headdress holding a lily and a sword, with a tented bed in the background.

A French Christian Woman (Une Dame Chrétienne et Française)

Gilles Rousselet, 1647

Graphite drawing of a woman in a bonnet with three young boys in tunics arranged in front of her.

Portrait of Woman and Three Children

Gustave Boulanger, 1852

Chalk study of a bent male figure in a cloak holding a diagonal staff, with a grid drawn behind it on grey paper.

Study of a Soldier

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry, 1851-52

Engraving of the crucified Christ with INRI sign, grieving figures in clouds, and two mourners with a skull below.

Crucifixion, after Michelangelo

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Engraving of the Virgin seated on grass with the Christ child on her lap, beside a wooden fence and a small bird.

Virgin and Child on a Grassy Bench

Albrecht Dürer, 1503

Engraving of a white-bearded bard playing a harp atop a rocky cliff, with warriors and waves below under a stormy sky.

The Bard

John Hall, 1784

Engraved portrait of a curly-haired man in a lace collar leaning on a drafting ruler, with French inscription below.

Portrait of Pieter de Jode the Younger

Pieter de Jode II, 1606-74

Engraved print of a standing man in a turban and fur-trimmed cloak holding a serpent-entwined staff, with French verse below.

Cléobule

Jean Couvay, ca. 1639-40

Engraved full-length figure of a bearded man in a turban holding a laurel wreath, with a seated statue and verse below.

Sphiron

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1639-40

Engraving of a bearded man in a spiked crown and armor holding a torch, with a lighthouse and harbor behind him.

Ptolémée

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1639-40

Engraving of a crowned man in a fur-trimmed robe holding a scepter and laurel, with a smoky scene and stairs at right.

Périandre

Jean Couvay, ca. 1639-40

Engraving of a plumed and crowned female figure with a sword and shield before an ornate building.

Antiope

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1639-40

Engraving of a crowned pharaoh holding a sceptre, with pyramids and an obelisk in the landscape behind him.

Pharaon

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1639-40

Engraved print of a bearded man in a laurel wreath and embroidered cloak holding a laurel branch, with a small smoking figure

Théagène

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1639-40

Etching of a haloed Christ standing in light before kneeling and seated apostles in a dim interior, by Rembrandt.

Christ Appearing to the Apostles

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656

Engraving of an elderly bearded man and a young woman seated together, with a saddled horse, trees, and a castle in the backg

Ill-Matched Couple

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Tonal print of a ruined castle above a waterfall, framed by dark trees and boulders under a grey-green sky.

Ruins of a Castle

Carl Blechen, ca. 1827

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ child with an older man beside them, under a radiant God in clouds, with a river landscape

Holy Family with a Dragonfly

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1495

Engraving of Saint Jerome kneeling beside a lion in a rocky wilderness with cliffs, trees and a distant castle.

Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a nude woman nursing an infant on rocks, with a castle town and a lion in the background.

The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Engraving of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon holding the infant Christ, surrounded by radiating light rays.

The Virgin on the Crescent (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a nude woman balancing on a sphere, holding a thistle stalk, with a cloth draped behind her.

The Little Fortune

Albrecht Dürer, 1495-96

Engraving of the Virgin seated with the infant Christ, a bird, and a chained monkey, with a tower and river landscape behind.

Virgin and Child with the Monkey

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Engraving of a couple walking under a tree, with a skeleton figure peeking out behind the trunk.

The Promenade (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree, pierced by arrows, with a small monogram on the trunk.

Saint Sebastian Tied to a Tree (reverse copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree with arrows piercing his body, with a monogram at right.

Saint Sebastian Tied to a Tree

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1501

Engraving of a nude man bound to a column, pierced by four arrows, with a rocky landscape behind him.

Saint Sebastian Bound to the Column

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1499

Engraving of the Man of Sorrows, nude and crowned with thorns, standing before a cross with arms outstretched, with a skull a

Man of Sorrows with Arms Outstretched

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1500

Engraving of a bearded man with a bow beside a turbaned woman holding an infant, on a plain ground.

Turkish Family

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496