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Engraving of two seated women beside an ornate column topped by an eagle, with a harbor city and steamboat behind them.

Banknote vignette with female figures representing Liberty and Justice

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1824-37

Engraved banknote motif with a large number 5 in a lathe-work circle, framed by swans and grapevines at top and fruit at bott

Banknote motif: the number 5 set against a scallop-edged circle of ornamental lathe work, within a rectangle with cut…

Cyrus Durand, ca. 1824-42

Etching of putti warming themselves by a fire beside a thatched cottage, with swans on a pond and a bare winter tree.

Winter

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Engraving of three winged putti with a quiver, a bow and birds among clouds and rocks.

Three Loves, one of which is seated, holding a quiver

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1727-60

Etching of a standing Chinese peasant woman holding a fish basket, with a dog, a potted plant and leafy foliage beside her.

Chinese Peasant

François Boucher, 1738-45

Engraving of Mercury teaching a small winged Cupid from a book, with a reclining woman, doves, and clouds in the background.

Cupid Instructed by Mercury

Pierre François Basan, 18th century

Engraving of a half-timbered watermill over a waterfall, with a stone bridge, a seated woman, and ducks on the river.

First View of Clarenton near Paris

Peter Paul Benazech, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a woman with a mirror, an attendant with a box, a child, and a parrot in a garden pavilion.

The Toilet

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Etching of a standing flute player and a seated child drummer in a chinoiserie garden with a pagoda and palm plant.

Flautist and a Child Timpanist

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Etching of a woman standing in a boat with a child and a cormorant, beside a thatched pavilion and palm trees on a river bank

Cormorant Fishing

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraving of a laurel-crowned woman with a lyre, cherubs, doves and flowers in an oval frame, titled Lyrical Poetry.

Lyrical Poetry

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1741

Engraving of a reclining child poet writing beside a lyre and swans on a pond, under a draped tree, with French verse below.

The Poet

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

The Tamed Bird

Jean Jacques Flipart, ca. 1769

Engraving of three cherubs with a bird cage and a net beside a broken tree, birds flying over a ruined tower in the distance.

Air

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of three winged putti with birds in an oval frame, with French dedication text and a coat of arms below.

Air

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraving of three playful cupid infants embracing beneath a tree, with grapes, fruit and a bird in the foreground.

The Cheerful Cupids

Jean Daullé, 1750

Engraved title page with allegorical women around a bust on a pedestal, a sunburst above, and ornate lettering for The New-Yo

Title Page: The New York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Embellished with Engravin…

Asher Brown Durand, 1831

Engraving of two seated children beside a gnarled tree with a hanging fruit, titled Taste, numbered 4.

Taste

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Etching of a barefoot young woman with a birdcage on her back, holding a basket, beside two seated boys near a wall and trees

Girl with a Bird

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraved portrait of a woman in a plumed hat and pearls holding a small bird, with a verse caption below.

After-dinner

Gilles Edme Petit

Etching of a woman and child seated in a wooded landscape beside a bird cage, with birds flying in the sky.

Children Catching Birds

Marie Madeleine Igonet

Etching of three children playing with a parrot on a hoop beside a flower-filled urn and a wooden bench.

Chinese Children Playing with a Parrot

Louis Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris

Engraving of a woman with a parasol and pipe, two children, and a parrot on a stand beside a potted plant.

Chinese Curiosities

John Ingram, 1741-63

Etching of two cherubs on clouds with a lyre, laurel wreath, scroll, book and doves, captioned LA POESIE.

Poetry

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three nude winged cupids tumbling in a somersault above a rocky mound, with an eagle perched at the lower right.

Three Cupids Turning a Somersault, an Eagle on the Right

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of two cherubs tending a fire beside a hooded old woman warming her hands, with birds in the upper right.

Winter

Louis-Félix Delarue

Pen and brown wash drawing of a monument design: a bull's head between two winged putti holding drapery, above a lion mask.

Design for a monument (recto); Architectural sketches (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Hand-colored print of a bird with a woman's head in a green bonnet, perched on grass stems with a hatbox.

Milliner Bird (Minnie Doyle), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored caricature of a man in a top hat with a yellow bird's body and wings, standing by a street lamp.

Lark, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a brown bird with a human face and collar perched on a branch, captioned Jail Bird.

Jail Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851