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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Etching of a boar, deer and heron lying dead on the ground, rendered in fine hatched linework.

Boar, deer, heron and other game

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of a sleeping nude infant reclining beneath a tree with two birds in the branches and a club beside him.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Etching of a busy courtyard with horsemen, a carriage, and figures before brick and timber buildings with smoking chimneys.

Arundel House from the North

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etched prospect of walled Tangier with a harbor bay, sailing ships, fortified walls, and soldiers on the hills.

Prospect of the Lower Part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of Tangier's rooftops and hilltop castle walls with a flagged tower, horses and figures in the street below.

Prospect of the inner part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of a man riding an ox in a barn while a snarling dog guards a hay manger.

The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Etched view of a busy courtyard at Arundel House in London, with horses, a carriage, figures and smoking chimneys.

Arundel House from the North (copy)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Engraving of a funeral procession with clergy, mourners and a draped horse crossing a town square lined with buildings.

Funeral of General Johan Baptiste von Taxis (from Jules Chifflet, "Les marques d'honneur de la Maison de Tassis," Ant…

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Drawing of tall oak trees over a sandy path, with a woman and child seated at left, a dog drinking, and a distant village.

Woman and Child Sitting next to a Road

Egbert van Drielst, 1760-1818

Engraving of Venus reclining while Cupid holds a mirror and attendants dress her hair, with a chariot in clouds above a class

Plate 1: The Toilette of Venus; Venus reclining at center, gazing into a mirror held by Cupid, attendants fix her hai…

Étienne Baudet, 1672

Engraving of a woman reclining in a canopied bed as a servant brings her a cup, with two small dogs on the floor.

Le Bain (the Bath)

Sigmond Freudeberg, 1774

Woodcut of Saint Simon's martyrdom: a bound figure sawn on a frame, crowd and rider nearby, castle on hill.

Simon, from The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Pencil sketch of an armored knight riding a horse with a dog below, banners reading Majority and Socialism.

The Knight and His Companion

Sir John Tenniel, 1887

Grey wash drawing of lions attacking a rearing horse and two men on the ground, with a distant landscape.

Lions Attacking Two Men and a Horse

James Ward, 1801-59

Engraving of Venus and Adonis with a spear, hunting dogs, cupids, a boar, and a distant landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Woodcut print of a trident-bearing god in a chariot pulled by horses across a rocky landscape under stormy clouds.

Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

Giuseppe Scolari, 1590-1607

Engraving of mythological figures: nude women, a seated god with a sleeping cupid, a rearing chariot, and an eagle carrying a

Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Trojans pulling a wooden horse through a city gate, with soldiers, horsemen and men carrying sacks in the foregr

The Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city

Giulio Bonasone, 1545

Woodcut of Venus in a chariot drawn by doves above cupid, with musicians and couples in a garden below.

The Dominion of Venus, from 'The Seven Planets'

Girolamo Grandi, 1533

Engraved frieze of putti leading Cupid's goat-drawn chariot, with a lion, torches, trumpets and a banner in procession.

A frieze arrangement depcting the Triumph of Love; Cupid in a Chariot led by goats, many other putti filling the comp…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche on a chariot drawn by birds, with winged children and a distant landscape.

The triumph of Cupid and Psyche who are seated on a chariot drawn by two birds restrained by children

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-67

Engraving of warriors fighting and figures fleeing a burning city, with a seated figure and smoke rising from ruins on the ri

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of gluttony with drinkers at a table, giant barrels, grotesque creatures, and a burning town with a windmill-headed

Gluttony (Gula) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Grey wash frontispiece with a classical frame reading TASSO, showing an embracing couple and sheep in a wooded pastoral scene

Fronticepiece for Tasso's Poems

Richard Westall, late 18th-mid-19th century

Sepia drawing of visitors in period dress strolling among classical ruins with carved masks, columns, and a large tree.

Visitors Inspecting Classical Ruins

Louis Jean Desprez, n.d.

Brown ink and wash sketch of a seated knight in armor and a robed monk raising a goblet, with a dog at left.

Book illustration: Knight and Monk

John William Wright, 1820-48

Hercules wrestles a lion among gnarled trees in a green-toned woodcut, with a club resting in the foreground.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Niccolò Vicentino, 1540-50

Engraving of Saint Lawrence on a fiery gridiron, held by soldiers, with an angel above offering a palm branch.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Lucas Vorsterman, 1621

Drawing of a Corinthian capital with a winged horse and winged lion flanking a central crown above a fluted shaft.

The British Order: Elevation of a Capital and Part of the Fluted Shaft

James Adam, 1762

Engraved gallery interior with statues, workers unrolling a tapestry, courtiers and dogs, with a caption and coat of arms bel

Colbert Visiting the Gobelins

Sébastien Leclerc I, ca. 1665