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Drawing of a wigged man in 18th-century dress, hand on hip, rendered in white chalk on blue-grey paper.

Half-length portrait study of a wigged man

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Ink and white chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated man in a wig with a dog and a book beside him.

Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Chalk drawing of a woman in a lace cap and satin dress with bows, shown in an oval frame on grey paper.

Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a young woman with curled hair, lace trim, and bow-decorated sleeves in a half-length pose.

Half-length portrait study of a young woman with long hair

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Blue-paper drawing in white chalk of a young woman with curled hair and lace collar, in an oval frame.

Bust-length portrait study of a young woman with a striped shawl

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Watercolor landscape of a stream, shepherd with cattle, wooded hills, and a hilltop building under clouds.

Licenza, near Rome: Horace's Villa

William Havell, ca. 1828-29

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged and draped allegorical figures above a skull on a tomb.

Allegorical Design for a Tomb

André Lebrun, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of the Virgin and infant Christ ascending on clouds above arches and small figures.

The Assumption of the Virgin with the Five Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary

Georg Pecham, late 16th-early 17th century

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of nude and draped female figures among trees in a woodland scene.

Diana and Callisto

Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, 1725-61

Pen and ink design for a circular platter with woven lattice field, floral border and central cartouche.

Design for a platter

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and ink study with white highlights showing soldiers, a horse, and a crouching man around a stone block.

Historical Scene (Composition Study for Chapelle de Guise)

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Pen drawing of the Annunciation: a praying Virgin seated in a gothic arcade as an angel with a lily branch approaches.

The Annunciation

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1808-62

Grey wash drawing of an armored infantryman in a helmet drawing a long sword, with white highlights on the armor.

An Infantryman Drawing his Sword

Jacob Matthias Weyer, 1640-91

Engraving of a reclining man and standing woman in an elegant 18th-century interior with canopy bed and cupid sculpture.

La Carquois Épuisé (The Empty Quiver)

Pierre Antoine Baudouin, 1775

Engraving of an alchemist's cluttered workshop with furnaces and flasks, and a snowy street scene with a hospital through a w

The Alchemist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, after 1558

Engraving of a crowded tavern where a quack performs a stone operation on a seated patient, surrounded by grotesque onlookers

The Stone Operation or the Witch of Mallegem

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

Watercolor sheet of butterflies, moths, a green dragonfly, and beetles scattered on a pale background.

Insects, Butterflies, and a Dragonfly

Jan van Kessel, 1662

Pen and grey wash sheet of figure studies, with a seated official questioning two turbaned men at a table in the lower right.

Figure Studies, Including Scenes of Interrogation

Honoré Daumier, ca. 1860

Watercolor drawing of a canopied chariot procession with bishops, horses, and flying angels in a forest setting.

The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of…

Otto van Veen, 1615-20

Pen and wash drawing of a narrow rocky gorge with figures on ledges and a rowing boat on the water below.

Figures Boating in a Gorge near Sorrento

Daniël Dupré, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a boy in a tricorn hat resting his cheek on his hand, leaning on draped fabric.

Portrait of a Boy

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1720-75

Engraving of a nude Nereid riding a sea centaur among sea creatures, with a man blowing a conch and cupids in the clouds.

A Nereid Riding a Sea Centaur Accompanied by Other Sea Creatures

Angiolo Falconetto, ca. 1540-60

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure at the base, and a standing man.

The Crucifixion

Giuseppe Salviati, 1556

Engraving of robed figures with a celestial globe, open book and classical colonnade, with a landscape and reclining man in t

Frontispiece to "Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitolato Giardino di Pensieri"

Giuseppe Salviati, 1540

Title page of Thronus Justitiae with a central engraved vignette of the allegorical figure of Justice holding scales and a sw

Typographic Title Page with a Vignette Depicting the Allegorical Figure of Justice, from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim…

Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, 1606

Etching of two hunters and a dog on a wooded hill overlooking a river valley, with a castle on a cliff and a distant city.

The Rabbit Hunt

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

Etching of a nude muscular man straining against a tree stump in a rocky landscape under a cloudy sky.

Milo of Croton

Philippe Auguste Hennequin, n.d.

Hand-colored bird's-eye map of Antwerp with a star-shaped citadel, harbor ships, and four figures in costume at the bottom.

View of Antwerp from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Joris Hoefnagel, 1572-94

Sheet with four engravings of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine showing Virgin, Child, an angel with a wreath, and seated

Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro

Engraving of a group of draped Roman-style men with a horse, a tree and a dagger, gathered in an outdoor scene.

Group of Roman Figures

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45