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Watercolor of a ship's deck with winches, rigging, a large sail and crew working toward the bow, with open sea beside it.

The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a two-masted ship and sailboats in a calm harbor below hills and a row of coastal houses at dusk.

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865

Watercolor of a Newfoundland village with wooden houses, fences, pigs, chickens, and a tall telegraph pole.

First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Crowd of men cheering and tossing hats outside white wooden houses, with a telegraph tower in the background.

September 8th at Heart's Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a large steamship with tall masts and flags on choppy sea, with other vessels and stormy clouds beyond.

Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a steamship deck with rigging, flags, smokestack, crew at work, and the open sea beyond.

View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of ships at anchor in a moonlit bay, with a bright glow and a fire on the hills at right.

The Bay of Bull Arms, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Bonfires Lighted on the Hills to Notify of the Arrival of the Cable…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Etching of crumbling Roman brick ruins with arches and trees, with small figures among the remains under a cloudy sky.

Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro (Piazza of Gold) (Veduta degli Avanzi della Circonferenza delle antiche Fabbriche d…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1776

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and carved frieze beside a Roman street with houses, trees, figures and animals.

The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1756

Etching of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius beside the Porta San Paolo city gate in Rome, with ruins and figures on a road.

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius, with the Porta S. Paolo and adjoining road (Veduta del Sepolcro di Cajo Cestio), from "…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1755

Engraved landscape of a castle above trees, with a shepherdess and goats, a man with a dog, and a fisherman by a stream.

Sieben Gegenden aus Salzburg und Berchtesgaden Geordnet nach den sieben Tagen der Woche, verbunden durch zwey allegor…

Ferdinand Olivier, 1823

Pencil drawing of a stone church with a crenellated square tower and pinnacles, showing a proposed restoration of Holy Trinit

Proposed Restoration of the Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, Old Clee, Lincolnshire

James Fowler, 1876-77

Engraved print of Michelangelo's Last Judgment with nude figures rising from graves and a boatman in a skiff at lower right.

Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraving of nude angels carrying a large cross and a laurel wreath through clouds, with a crowd of saints below.

Angels Carrying the Cross with Saints below (upper left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraving of muscular angels carrying a pillar among clouds, with a crowd of figures reaching upward below.

Angels Carrying Pillar with Saints Below (upper right section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraving of Christ as judge on a cloud, surrounded by saints and crowds of nude figures in the Last Judgment.

Christ as Judge Surrounded by Saints (upper central section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraved Last Judgment composite with trumpeting angels, nude figures and devils dragging souls downward, with a crowded boat

Trumpeting Angels and Damned Souls Being Pulled Down by Devils (lower center and right section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Contribution Receipt of the Special American Hospital in Paris for Wounds of the Face and Jaw

Auguste Rodin, 1916

Engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I holding an orb and scepter, wearing a crown and large ruff, with Latin text.

Queen Elizabeth I

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1592

Etching of an Egyptian-style architectural design with sacred animals above, seated figures, sphinxes, and distant pyramids.

Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e G…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Engraving of a warrior seizing an elderly man at an altar while women flee and a youth lies dead in a burning colonnaded hall

The Sack of Troy-Pyrrhus Killing Priam

Pierre Lombart, before 1654

Hand-colored sketch of a man in a green coat leaning over a woman in a white dress with blue trim in a room.

Design for "Hooking and Eyeing," a wood engraving published in "Punch" (recto); Sketch of two women and a man (verso)

John Leech, 1851

Watercolor elevation of a symmetrical Tudor-style cottage with gabled wings, columned veranda and lattice balcony, by Humphry

Design for a Cottage Ornée in the Tudoresque Style

Humphry Repton, late 18th-early 19th century

Ink and wash drawing of a classical stone gateway with central arch, flanked by lodges and a large tree beside a drive.

Entrance to Laxton in Northamptonshire

Charles Randle, 1825

Watercolor design of a wall with a central hunting medallion, flanking arched panels of fruit and still life, and gilt orname

Design for Decorative Panels with Hunting Scenes Inset

J. S. Pearse, 1854

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate throne design with a draped canopy, scalloped arch, columns and stepped dais.

Design for a Throne (recto); Recumbent Figure (verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pencil sketch of classical figures: a draped woman, cherubs on clouds, a helmeted warrior and a reclining figure with a shiel

Scene with Classical Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pencil design for an ornamental frieze with a shell, scrolling acanthus leaves and a bearded satyr's head.

Design for Ornamental Frieze with Shell, Foliage and Satyr's Head (recto); Figural Studies (verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Group of Sea Nymphs

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen drawing of an ornate bed alcove design with swagged curtains, putti, and scrolling foliate ornament.

Design for Bed Alcove (recto); Studies for Statues and Carvings on Bed (verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40