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Watercolor design of a beamed ceiling with alternating blue floral-patterned panels, brown wood-grain beams and cream ornamen

Design for the decoration of a beamed ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling border with Greek key bands, scrolling foliage, purple flowers, and an empty central

Partial design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design for a decorated ceiling with fretwork borders, bead moldings and scrolled corner ornaments in brown, pink a

Partial Design for the decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Drawing of a coffered ceiling design with ornamental panels, rosettes and scrollwork in brown ink on ochre wash.

Design for a decorated ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Etching of ancient Roman ruins at Cumae, with tall stone arches, overgrown trees, and small figures among the broken masonry.

Ruines de Cumes

Pierre Quentin Chedel, 18th century

Etching of elegant figures in a garden with a boat, nude statue on a pedestal, and cherubs in clouds above.

The Isle of Cythera

Jérôme-François Chantereau, ca. 1750

Oval etching of a seated nude woman by a stream beneath trees, with draped cloth and hatched landscape background.

Nymph at a Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Etching of a seated female nude in an oval frame, with drapery, trees, and a bow and quiver at the left.

Diana at the Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Etching of a ruined stone tower and wall beside a tall poplar and leafy trees on a rocky bank.

Rustic Landscape

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 18th century

Etching of a ruined stone arch and broken column among shrubs and cypress trees in a rustic landscape.

Rustic Landscape with Stone Monument

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 18th century

Etching of a stone mason in a hat chiseling a block of stone beside a column, with a garden wall and trees behind.

Stone Mason at Work

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 1762

Etching of a man in a powdered wig and lace cuffs, resting his head on his hand while reading a large sheet at a table.

Portrait of a Man Reading

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a young man in a cap reading and writing at a table beside a barred window and shelves with vases.

Young Man Writing and Reading from Large Volume at His Left

Dominique Vivant Denon, n.d.

Etching of two women conversing on a grassy bank by a stream, with a dog and trees in the background.

Two Women in a Landscape

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a grazing cow beside a tree under storm clouds, with a shaft of light over flat fields and a distant spire.

Landscape with Storm

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etched sheet of many sketched heads in wigs and turbans, plus a seated man in a coat at lower right.

Sketches of Voltaire at Age Eighty-One

Dominique Vivant Denon, 1775

Etching of a woman in a headscarf nursing an infant on a stool, with baskets and household objects around them.

Mother and Child

Jacques François Amand, 18th century

Engraving of Adam and Eve beside a tree in a forest paradise, surrounded by horses, lions, deer, dogs, camels and swans.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1631

Chalk drawing of a bearded man's head turned upward to the right, with white highlights on grey paper.

Head of a Bearded Man, Looking up to the Right

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including a parrot, cat and bull.

Adam and Eve

Johannes Wierix, 1566

Engraving of God joining nude Adam and Eve beneath a fruit tree, with a crowd and banners in an arched background.

The Marriage of Adam and Eve, from The Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, ca. 1540-55

Mezzotint portrait of a seated woman with a braid, pointing outward, set before a shaded landscape with trees and a bird.

Isabella, Duchess of Grafton

John Smith, 1692

Etching of an allegorical procession with a chariot, a winged trumpeter in the clouds, and classical ruins beneath a zodiac s

The Triumph of Modern Art

Jean Barbault, 18th century

Engraved circular print of a seated man in a fur-trimmed robe playing a bone instrument before a castle and bridge.

The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Engraving of a hooded beggar standing at a closed door, with a second figure at a distant doorway, inscribed with Flemish pro

One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Etching of many crowded head studies showing men in caps and turbans, women in bonnets, and grimacing expressions.

Studies of Heads

Louis Germain, 1773

Engraving of a scolding woman standing before a seated woman, with a rooster and hen and a broom in a round domestic interior

The Scolding Woman and the Cackling Hen

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Circular engraving of a smiling woman in a headscarf surrounded by crowned, helmeted men grasping at her.

La Coaltion

Esprit-Antoine Gibelin, n.d.

Circular engraving of a hooded figure being robbed by a man in a round sphere, with a windmill and carriage behind.

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Etching of classical urns, vases, a Corinthian column and a caryatid figure arranged together in a landscape setting.

Fragments of Antiquity

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1765

Watercolor study of a large blue dung beetle with a green shell beside a small brown weevil and a striped longhorn beetle.

Studies of a Blue Beetle and Insects

Pieter Holsteyn II, ca. 1650-60

Drawing of a dark stag beetle viewed from above, with antlered jaws and spread legs, inside a thin brown border.

A Stag Beetle

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Etching of a reclining man on a bed attended by physicians and soldiers in a draped tent, with smoke rising from a brazier.

Death of Antiochus After His Fall

Noël Hallé, 1738

Engraving in reddish-brown ink of a battle scene with an overturned chariot, fallen soldiers, rearing horses and a banner.

Fall of Antiochus From His Chariot

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Etching of a woman and three children reaching toward a fire under a wooden shelter with exposed rafters.

Family Warming Their Hands By a Fire

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Pen sketch sheet with a man aiming a rifle, studies of faces and animal heads, and rococo ornament panels.

Sheet of sketches

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Etching of a boy seated on a column sketching among classical ruins, with statues and a stone wall behind him.

Boy Sketching Ruins

Charles Hutin, 18th century

Etching of reclining women with a lyre, a flute-playing putto, and cherubs among clouds in an allegorical scene.

The Harmony of Nature

Pierre Lélu, 1762

Etching of a girl offering a drink to a small boy in a barn beside cows, sheep and a dog, with a pail hanging overhead.

Le Bonne Petite Soeur

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1765-71

Etching of fireworks bursting over Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome, with crowds on the riverbank and boats on the Tiber.

Fireworks in Rome Over Castel Sant' Angelo

Adriaen Manglard, 18th century

Penitent Saint Jerome

Lucas Franchoys the Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of two women and children in a domestic interior, one woman bending over a child lying on the floor.

Two women and three children in an interior

Otto van Veen, 1556-1629

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted rider on a horse gesturing to soldiers, with a standard bearer and dog in the foreground.

Scene from the Life of Saint Bartholomew (fragment)

Erasmus Quellinus, 1620-78

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Pen and ink landscape drawing with tall trees, a winding road, a river, a distant building and hills.

Classical Landscape with a Building and a River

Abraham Genoels, 17th-early 18th century

Ink and white heightening study of a broken, splintered tree trunk with twisted branches on a blue-grey ground.

Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches

Simon de Vlieger, 1600-1653

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a pedimented temple, two small figures, trees, a rocky outcrop and distant mountains.

Landscape with a Pedimented Temple and Two Figures

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a winter landscape with two peasants walking on a road past gabled houses and bare trees.

Winter Landscape with Two Peasants Walking

August Dahlsteen, 1710-69

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Watercolor drawing of a twin-towered cathedral beside a river, with a stone bridge, carriages, boats and people in the foregr

View of Uppsala cathedral from the North

Elias Martin, 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with gold and pink scrollwork rinceaux on blue panels and rosette centers.

Design for a coffered ceiling decorated with rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with a central rosette and four corner panels of scrolling and geometric ornament.

Design for a coffered ceiling with alternative decorative patterns

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Design drawing of brown wood paneling with blue panels filled with pale scrolling foliate ornament, dated 1871.

Partial design for wood panneling inlaid with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1871

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with blue scrolled panels and a red central panel with gold floral ornament.

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Engraved metal printing block showing horses pulling a loaded sleigh with riders through a snowy landscape with bare trees.

The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road, for "Antoine's Moose-Yard," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," October 1890

Frederic Remington, 1890

Printing block showing a mounted rider in a hat beside a fence with hounds gathering near the horse in a wooded scene.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington, 1891

Engraving of a crowned king watching masons and workers constructing a classical temple with arches, columns and scaffolding.

Solomon Building the Temple, from "The Story of Solomon"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1554

Engraving of a crowned king on a throne receiving a kneeling queen, surrounded by attendants, guards and columns in a hall.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1549

Engraving allegory of Africa with a central female figure, an elephant, a lion, palm trees, archers and a chameleon.

Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of crowned allegorical figure of Europe flanked by armed men, a horse, a bear, grapevines and fruit ornament.

Allegory of Europe, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraved allegory of Asia with a central female figure, a camel, an elephant, winged griffins and decorative foliage.

Allegory of Asia, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of allegorical America, a nude woman with feathered headdress riding an armadillo, with hunting and battle scenes b

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child in a classical frame, with small scenes of the Annunciation, Crucifixion and Resurre

The Nativity with Scenes of The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Shepherds, The Crucifixion and The Resurrection

Abraham Bosse, 1620-76