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33,956 works

Etching on a page with a shepherd and sheep by a fire above, and men hauling a net from a boat below.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-52 (?)

Album page with five prints; lower right shows a father embracing a kneeling son in a doorway scene with robed onlookers.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1536-40

Etching of the Annunciation with an angel and seated Virgin above, and a nativity-style group with an ox below.

The Annunciation

Andrea Schiavone, after ca. 1552 (?)

Two etched scenes on one sheet: an angel above a balustrade and a woman, and kneeling figures with an ox beside columns.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1560 (?)

Etching with two scenes: a crowd in a temple above, and a nativity with a mother, infant and adoring figures below.

The Presentation in the Temple

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-45 (?)

Etching of the Nativity: Virgin with infant Christ in a manger, surrounded by adoring figures in a stone-walled stable.

The Nativity

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1558-60

Etching of the Presentation in the Temple with a priest, infant, and crowd of figures before a classical doorway.

The Presentation in the Temple

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1543-46

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with kneeling figures before the Virgin and Child beneath a classical portico.

The Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46 (?)

Three small prints on a page: the Adoration of the Magi above, and two scenes of figures on a staircase below.

The Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545-50 (?)

Etching of Christ with women on a staircase, plus a Nativity scene above, on an album page.

Christ and the Women on the Staircase

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1541-44 (?)

Etching of two men in clogs digging a trench with shovels in an open field under a cloudy sky.

The Diggers

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1855

Etching of a woman in a headscarf working a wooden churn with a long plunger against a dark background.

The Churner

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1886

Engraving of a kneeling monk gazing up at a framed vision of a Virgin and Child within rays of light, with a landscape behind

Imaginaria Visio (La vision de l'imagination)

II Antonius Wierix, n.d.

Pen drawing over a grid of an alleyway between old houses with scaffolding, a crate, and cobblestones.

An Alleyway between Houses

Théodore Rousseau, 1858

Etching of Christ healing lepers, with a central robed figure among a crowd and a group of reaching figures in the foreground

Christ Healing the Lepers

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545 (?)

Drawing of a wall tomb design with a central urn, two cherubs drawing back drapery, and an inscribed tablet on the base.

Design for a Wall Tomb

Avanzino Nucci, 1590-1610

Woodcut-style prints of crowded figures, including a nude central figure surrounded by bearded men and drapery.

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1556-57 (?)

Woodcut of mourners grieving over a draped dead body on rocky ground, with a second scene of struggling soldiers above.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Schiavone, 1550s

Saint Cecilia with a halo, holding an ornate harp beside a tree, in a green gown and red mantle, with a river and crescent mo

Saint Cecilia

Gustave Moreau, ca. 1890-95

Pen and wash drawing of a stone staircase under a stone arch, with a woman in a long dress climbing the steps.

The Curving Stair

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1778-79

Seated man in red coat and powdered wig beside a bookstand in an elegant room with a window and fireplace, drawn in watercolo

Jean-Pierre de Bougainville

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, 1760

Graphite portrait drawing of a standing man in a double-breasted coat with a medal, holding a top hat.

Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1817

Graphite portrait drawing of a young woman with hair pulled back, wearing a frilled collar and lace shawl, signed Ingres.

Madame Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, née Madeleine Chapelle

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a shirtless man with bowed head, one hand raised to his neck.

Half-Length Study of a Man

François Boucher, 18th century

Etching of a dead nude body lowered by mourning figures, with a bearded man at right under a stormy sky.

Entombment Facing Left

Parmigianino, 1529-30

Brown ink and wash drawing of two standing figures beside a group of camels, with sketched figures and architecture behind.

Rebecca at the Well

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 17th century

Engraving of Bacchus and Ceres standing in a forest, with Venus and a cupid tending a fire at left.

Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus [Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus Grows Cold]

Jan Müller, ca. 1597

Etching of a bearded street vendor in a wide-brimmed hat behind a table with glasses and flasks, beside a wooden fence.

Brandy or Cure Seller, plate 3 from "Cries of Paris" (Les Cris de Paris)

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of a kneeling woman vendor holding a bottle and glass, with a basket of glasses and a large flask beside her.

Brandy Seller

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Etching of a young man in a wide hat playing a hurdy-gurdy against a hatched landscape background.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Print sheet showing a standing figure of St. Philip with a staff, surrounded by other engraved religious compositions.

St. Philip

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Sheet of nine small religious prints by Parmigianino showing saints, Madonna and Child, and interior scenes with handwritten

St. Thais

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Page of nine small prints, several showing Nativity and Holy Family scenes with Mary, the Christ Child and Joseph.

The Nativity

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Album page with engravings, including a sleeping winged Cupid reclining on drapery and other figure scenes.

Cupid Sleeping

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Woodcut of two bearded saints beside a large tree, one holding an open book, with a hilly landscape behind them.

Saint John the Baptist and Saint Onuphrius

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1503

Engraving of the Savior with a radiating halo, holding a globe, flanked by two angels in a Gothic arched frame.

The Savior

Master ES, mid-15th century

Engraving of a man with a sword reaching his hand into billowing flames beside a stone altar.

Mutius Scaevola placing his hand in the flames (left half of a composition, the right half of which shows a woman ext…

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540

Colored print of a tabby cat leading kittens along a garden path past a rose trellis toward a house.

Pussy's Return

Currier & Ives, 1868-78

Pencil drawing of a two-story house with an octagonal tower, front porch and arched doorways, flanked by trees.

Samuel F. B. Morse House, Poughkeepsie, New York (perspective and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1851

Page of nine small prints showing seated figures, a youth between two old men under a tree, and religious interior scenes.

A Youth with Two Old Men

Engraving of helmeted Minerva with a spear and shield among nude muses with musical instruments under trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Andrea Schiavone, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a barred brown and grey shrike-like bird perched on a twisted branch, with an ink inscription above.

Castrica Fratina

Vincenzo Leonardi, 17th century

Hand-colored lithograph of a large airship with a paddle wheel flying over a bay with sailing ships and hills.

Prince's Aerial Ship. Star of the East!

Norris's Lithography, 19th century

Engraving of a woman grasping a young man at a bed, with a billowing cloth, on an album page with other prints.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Master F. P., 16th century

Woodcut of a reclining woman as a draughtsman sights her through a grid at a table beside a window with a plant.

Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

Album page with several etchings: a reclining figure, two embracing figures, and a crowd gathered around an embrace in a door

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Georges Reverdy

Engraving of the Annunciation: a winged angel flies at upper left toward a kneeling woman beside a draped curtain and carved

The Annunciation with Flying Angel

Enea Vico, 1548

Engraving of Mars and Venus reclining on a bed with Cupid, plus a mirrored reverse copy beside it.

Mars and Venus

Enea Vico, [1543]

Engraving of a nude woman seated on a couch holding a dagger, with a curtain and a town view through a window behind her.

Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

Enea Vico, ca. 1542-43

Grey wash drawing of a rocky hillside with trees, a stone path, arched ruins, and a building on the ridge.

Italianate Buildings on a Hill at Tivoli

Adriaen Honich, 17th century

Engraving of a bearded man with a dagger leaning over a nude woman on a draped bed, with a servant behind curtains.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Engraving of Christ gesturing to kneeling apostles in a boat on a lake, framed by a decorative vine border.

The Calling of the Apostles St. James and St. John

Friedrich August Pflugfelder, 1839

Engraving with two scenes: a nude woman at her toilette with a child, and a muscular smith hammering at a forge.

Venus at her Toilette

Enea Vico, 1546

Engraving of a muscular bearded smith hammering at an anvil beside a glowing forge, with a bow and arrows on the floor.

Venus and Mars Embracing as Vulcan Works at His Forge (right half only)

Enea Vico, 1543

Engraving of a draped woman extending her arm toward a flying bird under clouds, on a rocky landscape.

Proserpine Changing Aesculapius into an Owl

Enea Vico, 1548

Two impressions of an engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a star, the Christ child, shepherds and a lamb.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Pietro Aretino

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Engraved print of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a kneeling figure, a seated judge, and classical columns and steps.

The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Engraving of a bearded seated man with a staff, open book, geometric solid and a bird in a landscape.

Diogenes

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Engraving sheet with three prints: a seated woman, a Madonna and child, and a satyr watching a mother nursing on a bed.

Satyr Watching a Young Mother and Child Sleeping

Angiolo Falconetto

Engraved still life of a wicker basket overflowing with peonies, tulips and honeysuckle on a stone ledge.

Basket of Flowers from the Book of Several Baskets of Flowers, Designed and Engraved by Baptiste Monnoyer (Livre de P…

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 17th century

Etching of Othello's final scene: a kneeling man with a sword beside a dead woman on a bed, with cloaked men holding torches

"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Pen and grey wash drawing of a female Fortune figure between two river gods, with sea creatures and reeds in a landscape.

An Allegory of Fortune with Two River Gods

Hans Jakob Ebelmann, 1624

Circular ink and wash drawing of a prophet amid skeletons and nude figures beneath clouds and a divine figure.

Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones

Georg Pecham, late 16th-mid-17th century