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Etching of a hunchbacked figure seen from behind, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, cloak and boots, with a rolled bundle.

Le Buveur Vu de Dos (The Drinker Seen from Behind), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pyg…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a grotesque masked figure with crooked legs holding a sword, from Jacques Callot's hunchback series.

L'Homme Masqué aux Jambes Torses (The Masked Man with Crooked Legs), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Le…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a stout man seen from behind, with a plumed hat, a row of back buttons, a sword, and one outstretched arm.

L'Homme au Gros Dos Orné d'Une Rangée de Boutons (Man with a Large Back Ornamented with a Row of Buttons), from "Vari…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a hunchbacked man in a feathered hat grasping a long sword, grimacing, standing on a ground line.

L'Homme S'Apprêtant a Tirer son Sabre (Man Preparing to Draw his Sword), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée auss…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Le Duelliste a L'Épée et au Poignard (The Duelist with a Sword and Daggar), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée a…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a grotesque hunchbacked duelist in striped costume lunging with two curved sabres.

The Duelliste aux Deux Sabres (The Duelist with Two Sabres), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a small grotesque dwarf in a wide hat and cloak playing a violin, by Jacques Callot.

Le Joueur de Violon (The Violin Player), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les N…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

L'Estropié au Capuchon (The Beggar Wearing a Hood), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pyg…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a stout hunchbacked man in a feathered cap raising a cup and holding a jug, by Jacques Callot.

Le Beveur vu de Face (The Drinker Viewed from the Front), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, L…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Engraving of a night cellar with a fireplace, a woman holding a lantern, and men gambling and sleeping among overturned furni

The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken into a Night Cellar with his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, pl…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard as a man with a cane looms over them, skulls and bones nearby.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved street scene of musicians and drummers in a wedding procession beside a shop doorway with onlookers and a dog.

The Industrious 'Prentice Out of his Time and Married to his Master's Daughter: Industry and Idleness, plate 6

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a rowing boat on choppy water with an apprentice, a woman in a cloak, and a man at the oars; ships behind.

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a sailor and a woman startled in a cluttered garret bedroom beside a fireplace and bed.

The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman sharing a hymnal in a pew, organ and congregation behind.

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: IIndustry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman singing from a hymnal in a pew, an organ and congregation b

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk beside a workshop of spinners, with a cat and dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Etching of seated men in ruffed collars at a table, one balancing an egg, with a standing figure and column behind them.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth, December 1, 1753

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a well-dressed man and a book at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved courtroom scene of a seated alderman before accused apprentices, with a clerk writing and a crowd behind a railing.

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought Before Him & Impeached by his Accomplice: Industry…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved still life of piled arms, trumpets, shields and flags on a plinth, with a subscription receipt printed below.

A Stand of Arms, Musical Instruments, etc.

William Hogarth, March 1749-50

Lithograph of a young woman in a corset and chemise beside a hanging petticoat, a hatbox in hand, in a cluttered room.

Rien n'est si joli que la fable, si triste que la vérité!, plate 30 from the suite Les Lorettes, published in "Le Cha…

Paul Gavarni, October 21, 1842

Two circular etched compositions with framed vignettes of elephants, lions, monkeys, birds and hunters in landscapes.

Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, after 1755

Engraving of a reclining piper under a large oak beside a standing shepherd gesturing toward grazing cattle and sheep.

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Robert Willemsz de Baudous, after 1590

Etching of a couple embracing in a rocky cave as a turbaned servant spills a bucket and another man looks on.

L'intrigue découverte

Hand-colored caricature of three figures, a stout British officer, a woman with a child, and a French officer, gesturing at o

Recontre d'Anglais a Paris; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 23

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, ca. 1815

Hand-colored 1815 print of three stylized fashionable figures in London-style dress, including a man in a top hat between two

L'Amour et les Graces Arrivant de Londres; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 24

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, 1815

Lithograph of a hunched man with a lantern gathering pamphlets beside a tombstone at night, with a basket on his back.

Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"

Bénard, ca. 1830

Etching of a seated woman reading beside a standing man with a wicker basket, with foliage behind them.

Sheet of Sketches, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

François Boucher, 1735

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man greeting a gaunt man holding a fish, with a pierrot figure and street crowd behind.

Hé c'est l'ami Carême!, Musée Grotesque No. 53

Aaron Martinet, early 19th century