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Engraving of an elegant 18th-century interior with men at a table holding papers, a seated woman, and a dog.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, April 1, 1745

Engraving of a disordered room with a man leaning over a kneeling woman, a fallen sword, and startled onlookers at the door.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V

the elder Simon Francis Ravenet, April 1745

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century drawing room with a seated man, a woman at a tea table, and a surprised standing man.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II

Bernard Baron, April 1, 1745

Engraving of a bearded man hauling a fishing net beside a sea serpent, with a trident figure and ships on a coast.

Zebulun, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a seated bearded patriarch beside a coiled serpent, a rearing horse with an archer rider, and a reclining woman.

Dan, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a reclining muscular man beside a horse, with a figure holding a globe on a pedestal at right.

Issachar, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a nude warrior with sword and spear, a wolf beside him, and a battle with a burning city behind.

Gad, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of two seated nude men beside a deer, one holding a serpent-wrapped staff, with a landscape behind.

Naphtali, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular man beside a wolf attacking a sheep, with a winged serpent-tailed figure above and ruins behind.

Benjamin, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a crowned bearded man with a scepter and lion beside a standing nude figure, with classical ruins behind.

Judah, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a kneeling muscular man with a goat, a seated woman with grain and fruit, and farmers working fields behind.

Asher, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a nude young man with a bow beside a stone block, a seated woman, a sheep, and a winged figure in a landscape.

Joseph, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular man with a raised club beside a bear, with a kneeling figure and nude woman at right and soldiers in

Levi, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular bearded man gesturing beside a wolf, with a seated woman pouring water at a fountain and a cherub.

Reuben [Genesis 49:3-4], from the series The Twelve Patriarchs

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular armored man with a sword and skull among ruins, a draped woman, a cat, and a distant classical city.

Simeon, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist, a dove in rays of light above, and angels at right.

The Baptism of Christ

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Engraving of a violent battle with nude and armored men, a rearing horse, and a divine figure in clouds above.

The Conversion of Saul

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Watercolor of a small roadside shrine with a Madonna niche beside a sunlit road, framed by trees and a rocky bank.

A Roadside Chapel near Tivoli

August Lucas, 1835

Engraving of the Last Supper with Christ at a long table surrounded by apostles, a dog and ornate ewers in the foreground.

The Last Supper

Gaspare Osello, 1564

Etching of a bearded man sleeping under a gnarled tree while a raven flies toward him, with ruins and an aqueduct in the dist

Elijah Fed by Ravens

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1549

Engraving of two nude male fencers in lunging stances, crossing swords against a hatched background.

Two Fencers, from Fencers, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1552

Engraving of the Last Judgement: Christ on a globe among clouds, trumpeting angels, and crowds of nude figures below.

The Last Judgement

Cornelis Bos, ca. 1548-50

Engraved print of a sibyl with a tray and three women inside an ornate frame decorated with putti and satyr masks.

The Cumeaean sibyl walking to the right and carrying a tray, followed by three women, set within an elaborate frame

Battista d'Agnolo, ca. 1540-80

Grey wash sketch of ruined Roman arches and masonry overgrown with shrubs and a tree, from a sketchbook page.

Roman ruins (recto). Three figures in classical robes (verso) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 1)

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1774-75

Brown ink drawing of a distorted soldier on horseback in catoptric anamorphosis, arranged in an arc above a circle.

Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius)

Jean François Niceron, ca. 1620-40

Ink and pencil architectural plan with columns, piers, and a circular central space, study for San Giovanni in Laterano.

Studies for the Nave and Narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome (recto and verso)

Francesco Borromini, ca. 1646-55

Drawing of a formal garden with a central pond, classical columns, statues, and a boat carrying figures.

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1700-1720

Etching of a gnarled tree and a hunter with dogs in a hilly landscape with pines and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a hunter and his dogs

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of Puritan townspeople in a market place, with a woman holding an infant before a wooden door.

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Pen drawing of a crowd on a wooden scaffold in a village, with kneeling figures and a standing woman by a pillory.

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879