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32,885 works

Mezzotint of men in 18th-century dress gathered in a Royal Academy studio with sculptures and a nude model.

The Royal Academy of Arts

Richard Earlom, August 2, 1773

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraving of a wild bacchanal in an oak forest with dancing satyrs, nymphs, musicians and a winged figure with a bow.

Bacchanal

Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1557

Etching of a martyrdom scene: a nude figure on a fiery grill, a seated ruler, soldiers, and an angel descending above.

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Claude Vignon, ca. 1627

Etching of a forest scene with a stone grotto, a crowd of figures in period dress, a seated woman, and tall trees.

The Fourth Spring

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of a coastal landscape with tall trees, sailing ships, cattle, a ruined temple, and a group of women on the shore.

The Rape of Europa

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Engraving of nude damned figures, demons and serpents tumbling downward through clouds into a dark abyss.

The Fall of the Damned

Pieter Soutman, 1642

Etching of the Holy Family: a seated woman holds an infant, a bearded man leans behind her, and a boy with a staff stands bes

The Holy Family

Guido Reni, ca. 1595-1600

Etching of two bound figures beneath a large staring owl perched above them, with a caption reading ¿No hay quien nos desate?

Plate 75 from "Los Caprichos": Is there no one to untie us? (¿No hay quien nos desate?)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a nude figure beside a tree with bearded men and a tall-hatted figure gathered around a goat on the ground.

Two Figures Attentive to Punchinello, with Others, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a woman being carried off by a bearded rider on a horned creature under swirling clouds, dated 1516.

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a seated woman surrounded by playful cherubs climbing and lounging among large trees in a forest landscape.

The Garden of Charity

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Lithograph of nude bathers in a landscape with clouds, rocks and trees, by Paul Cézanne, in soft grey and green tones.

The Large Bathers (Les Baigneurs)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1898

Hand-colored print of a ruined classical villa with an arched facade, fountain, staircase, statues, and figures with animals.

The Villa Sachetti

Jean François Janinet, 1778

Hand-colored stage design of a crowned figure on a crescent moon beneath a vast starry sky with glowing clouds.

Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1847-49

Brown chiaroscuro print of nude men lifting a struggling woman above a rocky base, modeled like a marble sculpture.

Rape of a Sabine Woman

Andrea Andreani, 1584

Woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, angels, a star, and a stone stable.

The Adoration of the Magi, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1502

Engraving of an angel and a young boy walking through a dark wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt, 1613

Engraving of a centaur and a bearded satyr carrying a nude curly-haired man across a rocky landscape under clouds.

The March of Silenus

Christoffel Jegher, ca. 1652

Dark etching of figures gathered around a glowing lantern at night, with a swaddled infant and a reader at right.

Adoration of the Shepherds: A Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1657

Engraving of a man in a tricorn hat carrying a basket of paper whirligig toys on sticks.

Whirligig Peddler

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1742

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a donkey-headed man in a coat reading a book of horse images at a desk, from Goya's Los Caprichos.

Plate 39 from "Los Caprichos": And so was his grandfather (Asta su Abuelo)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Mezzotint of young men drawing a seated female model in a vaulted room with columns and a classical statue, lit by lamplight.

An Academy by Lamplight

William Pether, February 20, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak standing in a wooded landscape with cloudy sky.

Miss Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1792

Engraving of a muscular man carrying heavy wooden gates on his shoulders over rocky ground, in strong black and white.

Samson Carrying the Gates, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1881

Engraving of an old shepherd lying on a hill playing a pipe, with a goat and sheep and timber buildings behind.

The old shepherd lying in a landscape, buildings behind, a goat and a sheep to the left

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1515

Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1530

Etching of two crouching lionesses and a reclining doe, arranged in three stacked studies on a pale sheet.

A Doe and Two Lionesses

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, ca. 1540

Etching of a river ferry with passengers, a riverside inn with travelers and horses, and a town with a spire beyond.

The Ferry

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649