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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Printed card showing the Order of the White Falcon medal from Saxe Weimar with a red ribbon, gold crown and white bird.

Order of the White Falcon, Saxe Weimar, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1890

Black oval ornament with scrollwork cartouche, flanked by flowers, pilasters, and two long-billed birds at the bottom.

Oval Case Decorated with Schweifwerk in Two Variants, Surrounded by Smaller Motifs, Flowers and Two Birds Below

Jacques Hurtu, ca. 1614-19

Oval etched rebus with eagle, sailing ships, barrels, scales and winged figures inside drapery and scroll frame.

Rébus on the subject of fortune, a riddle depicted on drapery surrounded by a frame

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1637-42

Etching of a moustached man in a plumed turban and ornate cloak, turned three-quarters within an oval border.

A Turkish man with a moustache, wearing a turban decorated with five egret feathers, turned three-quarters to the rig…

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Engraving of a woman in a robe beside a birdcage, with a parrot on a branch above and songbirds on a perch behind her.

Air, from The Four Elements

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1738-49

Engraving of two robed children seated beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and foliage.

Taste

François Boucher, 1720-70

Etched frontispiece with a double-headed eagle, imperial crown, scepter and sword above an inscribed banner.

Frontispiece for "The funeral of Emperor Ferdinand II" (Esequie dell'imperadore Ferdinando II)

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Engraving of two women tending a bruised man on a table in a dim brick room, with a candle, a soldier and an owl.

The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Qui…

William Hogarth, 1756 or after

Engraved print of a woman reaching for a branch with a bird flying above, a sheep and dog nearby, in an oval ivy frame.

L'Arrivée du Courier (The Arrival of the Messenger)

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, 18th century

Engraving of a Chinese-style bird hunt with women, children, netting, cages and a pavilion under palm trees.

La Chasse Chinoise (The Chinese Hunt), from Chinoiseries

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, after 1743

Engraving of a woman with a fan and parrot, two children, a fountain and exotic plants in a chinoiserie garden.

Chinoiserie with Figures in a Landscape

Gabriel Huquier, 18th century

Engraving of women with garlands beside a bull, cupids on clouds above, and an eagle in a landscape with a waterfall.

Enlevement d'Europe (Abduction of Europa)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 18th century

Engraving of a young woman reaching toward a tree branch with a sheep, spaniel, and flying dove in an oval woodland scene.

L'Arivée du Courier (The Arrival of the Messenger)

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, 18th century

Engraving of a woman bird seller in a bonnet carrying birdcages on a pole while releasing a bird outdoors.

La marchande d'oyseaux (The Bird Merchant)

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, 18th century

Engraving of Noah's family leaving the ark as animals descend a ramp and birds fly above a hilly landscape.

Noah leaving the ark with his family and animals: at left Noah's family carries supplies, at right animals descend on…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of Noah's ark on a rock above a stone arch, with human bodies on the ground, birds in flight, and a distant town.

Aftermath of the Flood: human bodies strewn on dry land in the foreground, Noah's ark moored on a rocky outcrop beyon…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of winged Saint John with a halo, holding an open book beside an eagle and stacked books.

Saint John with his head turned three-quarters to the left, with a book in his right hand and an eagle at his fee, pl…

Sebald Beham, 1541

Engraving of Leda seated on a rock embracing a swan, with Cupid beside her and another swan in water below.

Leda and the Swan

Gilles Demarteau, 18th century

Engraving of a coat of arms with an eagle on the shield, helmet, crown, and foliage scrollwork, dated 1543.

Coat of Arms with an Eagle Surrounded by Foliage

Sebald Beham, 1543

Black-and-white print of an ornamental Latin cross surrounded by birds, a squirrel, fruit garlands and decorative scrollwork.

Latin Cross with Birds and Smaller Motifs

Jacques Hurtu, ca. 1614-19

Black and white ornament print with an oval scrollwork pendant, heart cartouches, perched birds, and urn bases.

Oval Pendant Decorated with Schweifwerk, Surrounded by Smaller Motifs and Four Birds

Jacques Hurtu, ca. 1614-19

Etching of a rural village with thatched cottages, trees, and figures on a dirt road in the foreground.

The Swan's Inn, plate 6 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Etching of a town gate with a tall tower, stone bridge over a canal, and stepped-gable houses under a cloudy sky.

Town Gate, plate 2 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Engraved ornament with a central lozenge cartouche, cattails on triangular motifs, swags above, and swans in a riverscape bel

Lozenge-shaped Pendant and Two Triangular Motifs in a Riverscape

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

Engraved title page with two putti framing an oval laurel wreath, above it military trophies, a lion and helmet, in dense orn

Title page of "Divers Trophées" (Weapon Trophies after the Façade of Palazzo Milesi in Rome)

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1651

Engraved landscape of a mountain valley with a river, a town with a church, and a bird-catcher with a dog in the foreground.

The Crafty Bird-Catcher (Insidiosus auceps), from "The Large Landscapes"

Johannes van Doetecum I, ca. 1555-56

Etched river landscape with a rowboat, village houses, trees, reeds and ducks on the water.

River landscape after a painting in the cabinet of Mr. Le Brun

Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod

Woodcut title page showing Saint John with an eagle, a tree, the Virgin and Child, and a printed title panel dated 1516.

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, title page from Hymni de tempore et de sanctis

Hans Baldung Grien, 1516

Engraving of the Holy Family with the Virgin, Saint Joseph, infant Christ, young John the Baptist, a bird and a cat in an int

The Holy Family

Cornelis Cort, 1577

Hand-colored woodcut of nude Adam and Eve holding an eight-pointed star, with apples and fig leaves, framed by birds and anim

Adam and Eve Holding a Star, illustration from Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkranz Mariae

Hans Baldung Grien