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Grey wash drawing of a shepherd seated under a ruined classical arch beside a statue of Hercules, with a distant landscape.

A Shepherd under a Ruined Arch with the Farnese Hercules

Johannes Antiquus, 1726-50

Eugénie, Empress of the French (Eugénie, Impératrice des Français)

Léon Alphonse Noël, after 1854

Etching of a sinking sailing ship in smoke, crew in lifeboats and swimmers in rough sea, with a steamship at left.

Combat Naval (L'Alabama coulant sous le feu de Kearsage)

Charles Longueville, August 1864

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bound nude man at a column, attacked by turbaned figures with a torch, in an arched setting.

The Flagellation of Christ

Matthäus Gundelach, 1632

Etching of a figure in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered cup aloft.

Balthasar, from Three Magi series

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of a great windblown beech tree with twisted roots, with two small figures and a dog in woodland at left.

The Great Beech (Two Farmers with their Dog)

Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1652

Etching of a great tree with a spiral wooden staircase on a stone terrace, surrounded by tall pines and small figures.

The Tree House at Pratolino

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1653

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660

Etching of a nude man, a seated woman, and onlookers beside a tree and rocky tomb opening, numbered 17.

The Discovery of the Tomb of Punchinello, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Lithograph of a tree seen through a six-pane window in a dark interior, with leaves scattered across the light sky.

Day (Le Jour), from the series, Dreams (Songes), plate VI

Odilon Redon, 1891

Etching of Paris riverside with tall buildings, smoking chimneys, a stone embankment with onlookers, and moored boats with la

The Mortuary, Paris (La Morgue)

Charles Meryon, 1854

Engraving of a young boy riding a large eagle in flight above a landscape with a river, trees, and a half-timbered house.

Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1505

Woodcut of the Holy Family with angels holding a crown, three hares in the foreground, and a landscape with a castle.

The Holy Family with Three Hares

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-98

Engraving of a crowned king fleeing a unicorn through a forest, with armored horsemen and a stone archway nearby.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series

Jean Duvet, ca. 1555

Engraving of the moon in its final quarter, with craters and a bright crescent against dark hatched lines.

The Moon in its Final Quarter

Claude Mellan, 1635

Print of a young man in a plumed hat holding a tall pole, with a lace collar and dark doublet against a dark background.

The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1658

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Etched design of an ornate fireplace with a bird in a shell, armor frieze, overmantel with candelabra, and flanking chairs.

Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769 (?)

Engraved plate with a sedan chair, coach, two clocks, and an ornate console table with griffin supports and an urn.

A sedan chair, a coach, a commode, a side table and two clocks (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, une commode, une cons…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Sepia print of a ruined Gothic abbey with arched windows, a seated figure on a slope, and a windblown tree.

Rivaux Abbey, Yorkshire, part X, plate 51 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, May 23, 1812

Engraving with a seated bearded man, a skeleton, winged allegorical figures, and an oval portrait of a woman with a skull-hol

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller

Aegidius Sadeler, 1600

Etching of a young nude girl riding a satyr within an oval frame surrounded by leafy foliage, with a vessel on the ground.

A Young Girl Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of a priest baptizing an infant as a young man holds the child and a veiled woman looks on beside a font.

Baptism, from "The Seven Sacraments"

Johann Anton Riedel, 1754

Pen and wash design drawing of three rococo ribband back chairs with carved ribbon splats and cabriole legs.

Ribband Back Chairs

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of three thatched gabled cottages beside a dirt road, with a large tree on the right and a distant village at left.

Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Etching of a bull attacked by dogs in a bullring while a mounted horseman in a plumed hat watches from the right.

Plate 25 from "La Tauromaquia": They loose dogs on the bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull above a crowd of spectators tumbling over a wooden barrier in a bullring, by Goya, 1816.

Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Tor…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Hand-colored caricature of exaggerated musicians playing flute, double bass, piano, horn, trombone and violin together.

The Pic-Nic Orchestra

James Gillray, April 23, 1802