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Etched print of three figures in 17th-century dress with plumed hats and swords, plus a small sketch of a plumed head.

L'Enrolement des Troupes (The Enlistment of the Troupes), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée auss…

Jacques Callot, 1614-20

Etching of a richly dressed woman in a court procession with guards, attendants, children and onlookers before classical buil

La Grande Duchesse Marie des Jeunes Filles (The Great Duchess Marie des Jeunes Filles), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier…

Jacques Callot, 1614-20

Engraving of a mounted commander pointing toward marching soldiers with pikes and banners, a distant army and a laden pack ho

Les Troupes en Marche (The Marching Troops), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Bataill…

Jacques Callot, 1614-20

Engraving of a city square with workers measuring grain, pack animals, a haloed figure gesturing, and a reclining beggar in t

Les Mesureurs de Grains (The Grain Measurers)

Jacques Callot, ca. 1610

Engraving of a snowy-season farmyard with a man chopping wood, a laden donkey, a butchered pig, and villagers near a thatched

L'Hiver (Winter)

Jacques Callot, ca. 1610

Engraved frontispiece with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler above an allegorical bas relief of satyrs, a chariot, and Britan

The Frontispiece and Its Explanation (Plate 1: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of two mounted riders on a road beside a brick house, with a dog, a market woman and a man with a barrel.

Sir Hudibras His Passing Worth the Manner How He Sallyed Forth (Plate 2: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

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

The Adventure of the Bear and the Fiddle (Plate 3: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a mounted knight, a squire, and a man climbing a wall to hang a fiddle, with onlookers and verse captions below.

Hudibras Triumphant (Plate 4: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Etching of a woman with a raised sword among armed men outside buildings, with a fallen man at her feet and a bridge at left.

Hudibras Vanquish'd and Protected by Trulla (Plate 5: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a man in wooden stocks in a yard, watched by a crowd including a woman in a black cloak.

Hudibras in Tribulation (Plate 6: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a noisy street procession with riders, a crowd, a brick house and a tavern balcony, with verse below.

Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (Plate 7: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraved scene of two men at a table with astrological charts, a skeleton, hanging creatures and a cat, with verse captions b

Hudibras Beats Sidrophel and His Man Wacum (Plate 8: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a devilish figure with a sword over a seated bearded man, a woman in a doorway, and a cloaked figure in an inter

Hudibras Catechized (Plate 9: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of men seated at a table in a room with hanging hats, with verse text below, by William Hogarth.

The Committee (Plate 10: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraved street scene of a crowd burning effigies at Temple Bar, with onlookers on a balcony and verse printed below.

Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar (Plate 11: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a knight consulting a lawyer in a book-lined office, with clerks writing and dogs on the floor.

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Plate 12: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of an ornate cross-shaped pendant with two flying cherubs, two seated nude men, and decorative motifs.

Cross-shaped Pendant and Four Other Motifs

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

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

Engraving of two nude male figures holding ornamental scrollwork motifs beside a large octagonal decorative panel.

Octagonal Case and Two Other Motifs Held by Ignudi

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

Engraved ornamental print with central oval cartouche, grotesque masks, putti, tasseled side panels, and sea monsters below.

Oval Pendant or Case and Two Bezel Designs

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

Engraved ornament sheet with a central lozenge pendant of scrollwork, two griffins below and two hanging trapezoid motifs abo

Lozenge-shaped Pendant and Two Trapezoid Motifs

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 plate of a classical helmet with a lion crest, flanked by ornate shields and winged figures, with a Latin inscriptio

Plate from "Divers Trophées" (Weapon Trophies after the Façade of Palazzo Milesi in Rome)

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1651

Oval etched landscape on blue paper with three small figures by a stream, trees, hills and clouds.

Landscape with Three Figures

Felix Meyer, 1677

Engraving of figures working in a printmaking studio with a copper plate, a printing press, and prints hanging on a line.

The Printmaking Workshop

Pellegrino dal Colle, 1750-1800

Pencil sketch of men and women seated on a hill talking, with pine trees, horses and distant mountains behind them.

Men and Women Enjoying a View

Martinus Rørbye, 1823-48

Engraving of two women bathing a bearded man in a wooden tub beside a window, dated 1541.

Buffoon and the Two Bathing Women

Sebald Beham, 1541

Engraving of the Virgin's deathbed in a room with mourners, a bishop with candle, a fireplace, and a cat.

The Death of the Virgin

Philips Galle, 1574

Engraved village festival with brawling peasants, a church tower, thatched houses, stalls and a windmill on a distant hill.

The Kermis of Saint George

Johannes van Doetecum I, ca. 1559; printed 1601