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14,936 works

Engraved interior of a committee meeting with men around a table, hats on the wall, a clock, and verse below.

The Committee (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 10)

William Hogarth, 1725-68

Engraving of a mounted knight with a pistol facing musicians, a chained bear and a crowd beneath trees.

Hudibras' First Adventure (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 3)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Engraving of a mounted knight passing a pillory where a man is confined, with a fiddle hung on a post and onlookers watching.

Hudibras Triumphant (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 4)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Four Heads From the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court

William Hogarth, May 14, 1781

Engraving of two winged angels holding a veil bearing a bearded face with a crown of thorns, against hatched background.

The Sudarium Carried by Two Angels, copy

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a winged child holding a bearded grotesque face beside a seated child and a dog near a tree.

Two Children with a Mask

Fantastical Masked Female Heads

Engraving of an ornate nef-shaped container with carved panels of mythological figures, putti, and sea creatures along its hu

Container for the Royal Napkins (Nef)

Pen and ink landscape drawing of farm buildings, trees, a brook and rocks under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Brook and Farm Buildings

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Blue-grey wash drawing of a rocky landscape with a waterfall, pine trees, two goats in a pool, and a distant tower.

Southern Landscape with a Waterfall and Goats

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with herders and cattle, a ruined tower on a hill, and a sailboat on the water.

Southern Landscape with Figures and Cattle at a River

Jan van der Meer the Younger, 1686

Etching of a mounted figure raising a sword before a crowd with staves, a dog and horses, trees behind, by William Hogarth.

The Encounter with Talgol and Magnano (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 3)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Etching of a lawyer and a knight confronting each other in a library office, with clerks writing at a desk and dogs in the fo

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Engraving of two men arguing over astrological charts in a cluttered study with a skeleton, hanging crocodile and cat.

Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 8)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Satirical etching of a bedroom with a woman in bed, a crowd of men, and many rabbits scattered across the floor.

Cunicularii, or the Wise Men of Godlimon in Consultation

William Hogarth, December 1726

Etching of a knight seated in wooden stocks while a crowd of onlookers gathers and gestures in a brick courtyard.

Hudibras in Tribulation (Twelve Large Illustrations for Saumel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 6)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Etching of two mounted prisoners led through a street by a jeering crowd of men and women carrying cudgels, beside a building

Hudibras and Ralpho Made Prisoners and Carried to the Stocks (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudib…

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Brown wash drawing of a sphere-topped column, a manor house and strolling figures among trees on curved paths.

View of Naesse castle and De Coninck's Column from the East

Erik Pauelsen, ca. 1780-84

Engraving of soldiers slaying infants as mothers grieve in the foreground, with a walled city and fleeing crowds behind.

Massacre of the Innocents

Aegidius Sadeler, ca. 1600

Engraving of robed nobles and clergy at a formal oath ceremony in a stone hall, with a writing official at a draped table.

Oath of the Nobles before the Chambre des Comptes

Etienne Pierre Adrien Gois, 1788

Etching of a seated man, a standing woman holding a child, and a bulldog in an interior with a curtain and bust.

The Child and the Bulldog

Marguerite Gérard, 1778

Engraving of a busy inn yard with a stagecoach, travelers, spectators on a balcony, and marching soldiers at right.

The Stage Coach, or Country Inn Yard

William Hogarth, June 1747

Ink sketch of a crouching nude male figure bowed over a long staff, drawn with loose contour lines and brown wash.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair Trying to Hide Himself

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Sepia drawing of a garden with an obelisk, colonnade, swans on a pond, and couples strolling among trees.

The Progress of Love

Pierre Antoine Mongin, 1803

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded ceremonial gathering in an ornate interior with seated figures, clergy and a canopied thron

A Gathering in a Church

Sébastien Leclerc I, n.d.

Woodcut print of eight haloed Austrian patron saints standing in a row, with inscribed names below each figure.

The Patron Saints of Austria

Albrecht Dürer, 1922

Etching of the Expulsion of Hagar: an angel above a grieving woman and child, a bearded man, and onlookers before classical c

The Expulsion of Hagar

Charles Massé, 1646-70

Engraving of a shepherd and cow leading sheep to drink at a stream while women and children gather on the right.

The miracle of the bitter water made sweet (Il Miracolo delle Acque Amare Mutate in Dolci)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Etching of Esau leaving with his family, sheep, dogs, horses and a donkey through a rocky landscape beside a large tree.

Esau and his family parting ways with Jacob (Esau con le mogli figli e sostanze si separa dal fratello Giacobbe)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Engraving of a shepherd driving sheep and loaded donkeys past a tree in a rocky landscape with distant travelers.

Departure of David the Shepherd from the House of His Father (Partenza di David pastore dalla casa paterna)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63