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Pen and grey wash drawing of the Holy Family with young Saint John and a lamb beneath a tree, with a distant town.

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Hans Krumpper, n.d.

Etching of a treehouse with draped canopy, bells, and three figures among flowers, pines, and rococo scrollwork.

Treehouse

the Elder Jean Jacques Avril, 1773

Engraving of well-dressed figures giving clothing to a ragged man, woman and child in an arcaded hall with a garden view.

Clothing Beggars, from "Acts of Mercy"

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraved title page with putti among an easel, palette, brushes, a bust and a child drawing at a board.

Fourth Book of Groups of Children

Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Engraving of a central female bust in an oval, flanked by women, with reclining figures and ornamental frieze below.

Bust of a woman flanked by three women on each side, set within an elaborate frame

Battista d'Agnolo, ca. 1540-80

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, with a radiating halo behind her head and a cushion below.

Virgin and Child

Round etching of the Virgin and Child with the infant Saint John holding a cross-shaped staff, against hatched background.

The Virgin and Child with Saint John, a round composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a herdsman on horseback driving cattle and goats across a stream below a rocky cliff, with a woman carrying a chil

Le Troupeau Traversant Le Ruisseau

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Engraving of a frieze-like procession of satyrs, children and robed figures beneath draped curtains, with a banquet scene at

Frieze-like composition of figures walking alongside draped curtains: at left satyrs and children bear a statue of Ba…

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1617-25

Etching of a travelling procession with plumed riders, cloaked women with infants, and walkers carrying long poles across an

The Marching Gypsies (Les bohémiens en marche), also called The Advance Guard (L'avant-garde)

Jacques Callot, 1621-31

Etching of a travelling caravan with a cart, mounted riders, a cracking whip, and many figures walking on foot.

The marching gypsies: the rear guard (Les bohémiens en marche: l'arrière-garde), also called The Departure (Le départ…

Jacques Callot, ca. 1592-1635

Etching of the Virgin and Child with young Saint John and a lamb on a hillside, with a distant town and mountains.

Seated Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a lamb on a hillside

Orazio Farinati, 1580-1616

Etched horizontal frieze of acanthus scrolls with embracing figures and a reclining cherub in a central medallion.

Design for a Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls with the Theme of Love, plate 7 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Orna…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645-50

Etched decorative frieze with acanthus scrolls, a child between two dogs at center, and sea horses above.

Design for a Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls and a Child flanked by Dogs in the Center, plate 8 from "Decorative friezes…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645-50

Etched frieze of two infants with scrolled legs in water, a dolphin at right, and small grotesque heads below.

Two infants standing in the water at center with their legs as scrollwork, below three small sketches of heads, plate…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1638-43

Etching of seven ornamental vases with flowers, the central vase held up by three infants holding ewers.

Seven vases, the vase in the middle formed by three infants, each holding an ewer, plate 3 from "Collection of Variou…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of a boy holding a young leopard beside a reclining leopard, framed by a tall scrolling acanthus ornament.

A young boy holding a young leopard in his arms, the mother leopard laying below, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Orn…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of a girl lifting a rabbit toward a dog in a scrolling ornamental frame, with a second dog at her feet.

A young girl, seen from behind, lifting a rabbit into the air for a dog above to grasp, another dog at her feet, from…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of a young boy in a plumed hat riding a rearing horse across a landscape under a cloudy sky.

Don Baltasar Carlos on horseback, after Velázquez

Francisco Goya, 1778

Etching of a baker's boy in cap and apron carrying a basket of bread and a baguette on his back.

Baker Boy

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1746

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ and three onlookers, one holding a candle, under a stone arch.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Abraham Blooteling, after 1650

Etching of a kneeling woman in a headscarf facing a small girl in a patterned dress beside a stone wall.

The Charming Doll

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1742

Engraving of a violent scene in a church interior with armed men attacking figures, framed by biblical text and emblem border

Dissidium In Ecclesia, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1575-1617

Hand-colored print of visitors in period dress admiring mounted knights and suits of armour in a long armoury hall.

The Horse Armoury in the Tower

Thomas Rowlandson, January 1, 1800

Hand-colored caricature of three figures, a stout British officer, a woman with a child, and a French officer, gesturing at o

Recontre d'Anglais a Paris; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 23

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, ca. 1815

Hand-colored 1815 print of three stylized fashionable figures in London-style dress, including a man in a top hat between two

L'Amour et les Graces Arrivant de Londres; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 24

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, 1815

Engraved title page with rococo cartouche, two putti and a standing nude figure framing the lettering.

Title Page, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

François Boucher, 1735

Etching of five nude putti and a wreathed satyr playing with grapes and drapery across a shallow ground.

Five boys and a satyr, from "Paedopaegnion"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Engraving of a haloed woman handing a bowl to a bearded beggar while a child holds his leg beneath an arch.

Alms-giving, from "Christian Virtues"

Raphaël Sadeler, 1589

Engraving of the Nativity: Mary holds the infant Christ beside an elderly man while angels and cherubs gather on clouds above

The Nativity