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Monotone portrait of a mustached man in a dark hat and tie, with a handwritten inscription beneath, on pale paper.

Portrait of Virginie Cardinal's Favorite, the Actor Crochard (illustration for La Famille Cardinal by Ludovic Halévy)

Edgar Degas, ca. 1880

Pencil drawing of a Gothic church with a tall square tower, a canal bridge in the foreground and a city skyline at right.

View of the Laurenskerk, Rotterdam

Gerrit Battem, 18th century ?

Pen and wash drawing of a Renaissance-style table with turned legs and an arcaded stretcher, against a paneled wall.

Design for a Table

A. Damon et Cie., ca. 1870-80

Watercolor design drawing of an X-frame stool with blue upholstered seat and tassel fringe, set against a paneled wall.

Design for a Stool

A. Damon et Cie., ca. 1870-80

Engraved portrait of Galileo Galilei in an oval frame, with cherubs holding a telescope and instruments above.

Portrait of Galileo Galilei set within an elaborate cartouche

Francesco Villamena, 1623

Etching of thatched huts, a raised storehouse and figures by a fence, with trees and hills behind, at Akaroa.

Native Barns and Huts at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, 1845, from "The Voyage to New Zealand (1842-46)"

Charles Meryon, 1860

Color print of a young woman in a flowered straw hat holding fruit, with a figure seen from behind adjusting her hat.

The Hat Pinned with Flowers (Le Chapeau Épinglé)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1898

Soft tonal portrait sketch of a bearded man with flowing beard and tousled hair, signed Renoir, on pale paper.

Auguste Rodin

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1900

Etching of two bathers: one standing nude adjusting a hat, one seated woman touching her bare foot, with hatched ground.

The Two Bathers

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Grey wash drawing of two women in feathered hats and ruffled gowns with a gentleman holding a cane.

Two Ladies and a Gentleman

Louis Binet, 1760-1800

Grey wash drawing of a lady in a plumed hat and ruffled gown dancing with a gentleman, watched by a seated man.

Costume Drawing: Lady and Gentleman Dancing

Louis Binet, 1760-1800

Pencil drawing of a stage set showing a timber cottage cutaway with curtains and a distant town on the right.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior of a Cottage

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a greenhouse stage set with glass roof, draped curtains, potted plants and climbing vines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: a Greenhouse

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Grey ink and wash drawing of a Gothic church interior with pointed arches, balustrades and ribbed vaulting, with grid lines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a domed stage set interior with arches, ornate pilasters and standing figures in niches.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Domed Interior (recto); Sketches for Dome and Doors (verso)

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a grand stage interior with a coffered ceiling, arched colonnades, classical columns and ornate balustrades

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior with Coiffered Ceiling

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Brown wash drawing of Jupiter embracing a white heifer under a tree while Juno watches from a cloud with a peacock.

Jupiter and Io, disguised as a white heifer, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Grey wash drawing of two seated figures beside a white cow and cattle under trees, with a draped cloth hanging overhead.

Mercury Rescuing Io from Argus, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Portrait of a Man

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th century

Engraving of people skating on a frozen canal before a city gate, with a covered wagon on a bridge and bare trees.

Skating before the St. George's Gate, Antwerp

Frans Huys, 1558

Engraving of a griffin with eagle head and wings and lion body, surrounded by plants, a pine apple, insects and butterflies.

A Griffin

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1662-63

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted warrior seizing a kneeling old man at an altar beneath a tree, with women and a fallen soldie

The Sack of Troy: Pyrrhus Killing Priam

Franz Cleyn, before 1654

Watercolor of a deep Swiss alpine valley with steep cliffs, a village on the valley floor, and distant snowy peaks.

The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

John Ruskin, ca. 1866

Pencil and wash sketch of Naples rooftops with a smoking volcano and mountains in the distance.

Naples

John Ruskin, 1841 (?)

Watercolor of a dense forest with gnarled trees framing a pool where a figure wades, a path of trees receding in the distance

Windsor Great Park

Paul Sandby, 1790-99

Watercolor drawing of a ruined classical colonnade with arches, fallen stones, and agave plants in the foreground.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Columned Exterior

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Pen and ink sketch of three nude women in overlapping poses, with handwritten labels past, present, to come along the top.

The Hours

Samuel Shelley, ca. 1800

Printed broadside with 48 numbered vignettes of scenes from General Garibaldi's life, with a portrait at top left.

Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

Juan Llorens, 1862

Brown wash drawing of soldiers tending a wounded comrade on a battlefield, with fallen men and a rifle in the foreground.

The wounded comrade

Nicholas Shiels, 1884-89

Broadside grid of 36 numbered engravings of quadrupeds with Spanish captions, printed in Barcelona in 1862.

Broadside with 36 images of quadrupeds (animals)

Juan Llorens, 1862