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Etching of a haloed figure with raised arms teaching a crowd, with kneeling sick and seated people in the foreground.

The Hundred Guilder Print

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of a haloed figure preaching from a stone platform to a crowd in a dim arched hall, with kneeling figures in the fore

Christ Preaching, called La Petite Tombe

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1657

The Fourth Oriental Head

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1635

Etching of a young woman with long curly hair against a crosshatched architectural background.

The Great Jewish Bride

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Etching of men in robes and hats gathered in a dim synagogue interior, with two elderly men conversing at left.

The Synagogue

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of a beggar family receiving alms at a doorway, with a man giving coins and a mother carrying a child.

The Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Family Receiving Alms

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of a kneeling young man embraced by an older cloaked man on stone steps, with onlookers at a doorway.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Etching of a man in a beret and fur-trimmed coat leaning on a stone wall, looking toward the viewer.

Self-Portrait, Leaning on a Stone Wall

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1639

Etching of Peter and John at a temple gate, with a seated beggar at their feet and a crowd on the steps beyond.

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659

Engraving of Hercules with a raised club fighting a many-headed hydra beside a tree and rocks.

Hercules Killing the Hydra of Lerna

Battista Franco Veneziano, after 1552

Etching of a seated man in a lace collar reading a book beside a window, with a triptych and skull in a dim room.

Abraham Francen, Apothecary

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1656

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man raising one arm beside a tree, with draped cloth and faces in the rocks below.

John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers and mourning women, with a rocky landscape and tree behind

Christ Carrying the Cross

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1552

Engraving of a centaur carrying off a draped woman as an archer draws a bow beside a tree, with a reclining nude holding flow

The Abduction of Dejanira

Battista Franco Veneziano, 16th century

Engraving of a kneeling haloed figure beside a column with a standing woman, framed by scripture and small religious scenes.

Remissio Peccatorum, from "The Allegories on the Christian Creed"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1598

Red chalk drawing of a barefoot fisherman in a tricorn hat carrying a net, with a boat on the shore behind him.

A Fisherman Pulling a Net

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1774

Engraving of two winged angels flying diagonally, each holding a flaming torch against radiating light lines.

Two Angels or Winged Genii Carrying Torches

Battista Franco Veneziano

Six Heads, Three Feet, Two Ears, Six Eyes, Four Lips

Battista Franco Veneziano, 16th century

Engraving of the Annunciation: the Virgin kneels at left as an angel with a lily approaches, under God and clouds with angels

The Annunciation

Battista Franco Veneziano, before 1557

Engraving of an angel halting an elderly man's raised knife over a kneeling boy, with a ram and fire nearby.

The Angel Staying the Arm of Abraham

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of robed figures in a temple, some prostrate before a pedestal beneath a radiant light with winged figures above.

The Philistines Place the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple of Dagon

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1540

Etching of a bearded Saviour figure with arms raised, standing on clouds in a cloak, surrounded by radiating light lines.

The Saviour Covered in a Large Cloak

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of a winged angel seated on hatched clouds, arm raised and gazing upward, in a draped robe.

Angel Seated on a Cloud

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1560

Engraving of the Entombment of Christ: two men carry a body while a haloed woman looks on, with a skull and crown of thorns n

The Entombment of Christ

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of a chaotic village festival with masked revelers dancing, tossing balls, and musicians playing in a pavilion.

The Festival of Fools

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, after 1570

Engraving of a sprawled merchant as monkeys steal coins, goods and instruments from him in a forest clearing.

The Merchant Robbed by Monkeys

Pieter van der Heyden, 1562

Drawing of a man approaching a wounded woman by classical ruins, with a flying cupid, dogs, and tall trees.

Silvio Approaches Dorinda whom He Has Wounded with an Arrow (Il Pastor Fido, act IV, scene 8)

Richard van Orley, ca. 1700

Grey wash drawing of Christ on a cross appearing above a kneeling monk, with angels, putti and watching saints on steps.

Christ Appearing to St. Bernard

Johann Georg Wolcker, 1700-1766

Grey ink and wash drawing of tall trees and a sunlit forest path with two small figures in the distance.

Woodland Scene

Pieter George Westenberg, 1819

Etching of a peasant hut beside tall spruce trees, with a smoking chimney, fence, meadow and stream in the foreground.

Peasant's Hut at the Edge of a Forest

Johan Christian Dahl, 1828