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Brown wash drawing of an elderly man reclining on a couch surrounded by draped onlookers in a columned interior.

The Death of Seneca

Pierre Peyron, ca. 1773

Engraving of a plowman being crowned by a cloaked figure while an eagle flies overhead and a woman raises her arms.

Predestination

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman bowing her head beside a ruined wooden shelter and a tree, with Latin text below.

Calamity

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Daumier lithograph of two seated men under trees, one reading a newspaper, a top hat on a chair beside them.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, from 'The good bourgeois,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 30, 1846

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of Christ before a seated figure on a platform, surrounded by soldiers and onlookers unde

Christ Before Pilate

Thomas Blanchet, ca. 1670-80

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated woman in drapery lighting a fire in a bowl on a tripod stand.

Woman Lighting a Sacrificial Fire

Claude Guy Hallé, n.d.

Wood engraving of elderly veterans with medals seated on benches in a paneled hall with columns and flags.

Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, from "The Graphic," vol. 3

Hubert von Herkomer, February 18, 1871

Watercolor design drawing of a cream and red sleigh with a swan-neck dashboard and rear rumble seat, labeled No. 3848.

Sleigh with Rumble Seat # 3848

Brewster & Co., 1883

Ink and wash design drawing of a blue and black scrolled sleigh with a rumble seat, numbered 3811.

Currical Sleigh with Rumble Seat # 3811

Brewster & Co., 1883

Engraving of a nude woman resting on a stone pedestal beside classical ruins, labeled Poenitentia, with a Latin inscription b

Penitence (Poenitentia)

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a woman with a net and a leopard, with nets, a cage and a fish in a landscape.

Entrapment

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Etching of two men straining under a donkey standing on a man's back, with a second donkey behind them.

Plate 42 from "Los Caprichos": Thou who canst not (Tu que no puedes)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of an old man leaning toward a downcast young woman while onlookers watch behind them.

Plate 14 from "Los Caprichos": What a sacrifice! (Que sacrificio!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a fashionably dressed woman in a black mantilla beside a man with a fan, as an old woman whispers at left.

Plate 5 from "Los Caprichos": Two of a kind (Tal para qual)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Pen and wash design for a ceiling with a central medallion of a seated female figure holding a celestial sphere.

Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy

Giovanni Battista Crespi, 1605-15

Engraving of a German messenger in feathered cap and fur-trimmed cloak, holding a staff, with a horn and dagger at his side.

Costume Plate: German Messenger

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Woman from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Engraved costume plate of a German soldier's wife with feathered hat, rooster, basket and bucket, with banner inscription.

Costume Plate: Wife of a Warrior from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Peasant Woman from Spain, from "Diversarum gentium nostrae aetatis habitus"

Enea Vico, ca. 1555-58

Pencil sketch of two nude male atlantes holding up an entablature, with faint grid lines on the sheet.

Two Atlantes in Conversation

Honoré Daumier, ca. 1855

Engraved courtyard view of a castle with a tall spire, gabled buildings, an arched gateway and small figures.

View of Frederiksborg, Carousel Gate

Jørgen Roed, 1836

Engraved title plate with an oval cartouche reading Le Medaglie del Doni Fiorentino, framed by fruit garlands and scrolls.

Title plate: Le Medaglie del Doni Fiorentino

Enea Vico, ca. 1548

Watercolor sketch of a sunrise with radiating rays through clouds above a river, trees, and distant ruins.

Landscape with rising sun, December 1, 1828, 8:30 a.m

Joseph Michael Gandy, 1828

Pen and ink study sheet of three seated male nude figures with raised arms, drawn in cross-hatched lines on tan paper.

Sheet of studies for "Ex Libris Victor Graf von Rex"

Otto Greiner, 1900

Engraving of an allegorical figure of America with feathered headdress, flanked by bowman, birds, goats and grotesque figures

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Etching of Christ overturning tables among fleeing merchants in a columned temple interior, with a bull and scattered coins.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Etching of an angel in white robes appearing in light above startled shepherds, sheep and cattle on a dark wooded hillside.

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Etching of a young boy speaking to a bearded elder as a crowd in turbans listens, with a scribe writing in the foreground.

Joseph Telling His Dreams

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1638

Brown ink and wash drawing of lovers in a wooded landscape, with hunters chasing animals toward a distant village.

Landscape with Lovers and Hunters

Adam van Noort, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a woman in a bonnet and long skirt standing beside a rush-seated wooden chair.

A Woman Standing next to a Chair

Nicolaas Muys, n.d.