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Etching of a courtyard with a woman by a stone well, turkeys on the ground, a staircase and building with figures and vines.

Turkeys

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a cluttered old-clothes shop interior with hanging garments, a chair, and figures near the doorway.

Old-Clothes Shop, No. 2 (Rag Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Pen and wash drawing of several figures: a man with a staff and dog, a seated woman, a standing woman with a rosary, and othe

Studies for Standing and Seated Figures

Salvator Rosa, 1634-45

Brown wash drawing with red chalk showing two draped seated male figures within triangular spandrel shapes.

Two Seated Male Figures Within Spandrels

Andrea Schiavone, 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a man leading a blind friar with a walking stick, on aged paper.

A Man Leading a Blind Friar (recto); Incidental Sketches (not by the artist; verso)

Jusepe de Ribera, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a spear and two hounds beside tall trees, with a hilly landscape behind.

The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Lithograph of a river bridge and hazy city skyline with two figures on a stone embankment in the foreground.

The Savoy Pigeons

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Loose etched sketch of a Paris greengrocer's shop with heaped vegetables, two women shoppers and a child in a doorway.

Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1892-93

Faint etched print of a standing nude woman seen frontally, with loose lines and light hatching on a pale sheet.

Nude Woman Standing

James McNeill Whistler, [1873-75]

Watercolor of a seated woman in striped headscarf and embroidered apron spinning, with a pencil sketch of a veiled woman besi

Neapolitan Woman (recto); Study for an Interior (verso)

Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Heideck, late 18th-19th century

Woodcut print of women seated in a room with a book, needlework and a basket of fruit, inscribed IOSE. SAL. 1557.

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sor…

Giuseppe Salviati, 1557

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

Painted landscape of a ruined castle on a forested hilltop above a river, with a stone bridge and horse cart.

View of Kynsburg over the Weistritz River Valley in Silesia

Johann Heinrich Bleuler, late 18th-19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bound, seated bearded man mocked by an armored soldier and a man drinking from a goblet.

Mocking of Christ

Johann Heintz, late 16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of figures on a wooden bridge by willows, a rowboat on a canal, and a farmhouse under cloudy sky.

View of a Bridge in the Dutch Countryside with Figures

Nicolaas Wicart, mid-18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a man and women with a cudgel striking a cat as a fox crouches nearby, with a sword on the ground.

Illustration for Reinecke Fuchs: Tomcat Hinz being hit instead of Reinecke

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1805-74

Portrait of O. Rietschel

J. H. Schulz, ca. 1854

Etching of a blacksmith's forge with workers around an anvil, tools hanging on the wall, and figures in hats.

The Forge, from "A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects"

James McNeill Whistler, 1866

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a wide-brimmed hat and gloves, with a dark shadow behind her.

Gants de Suède

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

Pencil sketch of a classical stone archway framing a dim workshop with two figures working at a bench.

The Whitesmiths: Impasse de Carmélites

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Pencil sketch of a helmeted warrior addressing a seated king in a crowded tent, with onlookers and a round table at right.

Mucius Scaevola Before King Porsenna

François Boucher, 18th century

Loose sketch of a seated mustached man with hatched strokes for his jacket and trousers on white paper.

The Doctor, from "The Pageant"

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Lithograph of two figures beside horses in a stable yard, drawn in loose dark strokes on cream paper.

The Smith's Yard, from "The International Studio"

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Lithograph of a seated woman with dark hair, face lightly modeled and body rendered in loose tonal strokes.

Firelight (Mrs. Joseph Pennell)

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man in a blue loincloth reclining on a grey table, arms behind his head.

Male Nude Lying on a Table

Monogrammist AW, 1567 (?)

Etching of a woman in a long dress and bonnet at a ship railing, looking out to sea with gulls and rigging beside her.

The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, June 21, 1862

The Nun in "Count Burckhardt" (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, September 27, 1862