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Watercolor drawing of a hunting party with dogs and horsemen beside a castle on a hill and village houses.

Landscape with a Hunting Party

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 19th century

Etching of a turbaned horseman with a bow on a rearing horse, with figures and riders in a distant landscape.

A Moorish horseman facing the left, standing and seated Turks in the middle ground, and other horsemen in the backgro…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etching of a young sailor and an old bearded man seated by the sea with a dog, sailboats at right.

A young sailor and an old man sitting by the sea

Stefano Della Bella, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a warrior carrying a woman as a horse, soldiers and a child appear in a dramatic scene.

The Rape of the Sabines

Willem van Mieris, late 17th-mid 18th century

Watercolor of cattle and sheep resting under beech trees, with shepherds and a distant castle on hills.

Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest

the younger George Barret, ca. 1840

Watercolor of cattle drinking at a pool in a valley flanked by rocky cliffs, with sheep grazing on the slopes.

Cattle at a watering hole in a valley

John Henry Mole, 1846-86

Etching of a horseman leaping on a rearing horse in a riding school, directed by a swordsman, with dogs and a stable.

A riding school, a horseman with sword jumping directed by another man with a sword in center, a man standing next to…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645

Etching of two women walking right past a ruined arch, with a horseback rider and a small building in the background.

Plate 3: two girls walking towards the right, seen from behind, a woman on a horse to right in background, from "Dive…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Etching of a deer hunt with two horsemen galloping right behind dogs and a deer, with large trees at left.

Plate 4: a deer hunt, two horsemen galloping towards the rightbehind three dogs and a deer, a group of trees to left,…

Stefano Della Bella, after 1642

Etching of a battle on a bridge with a horseman and footsoldiers fighting, smoke rising, and a title panel reading Varie figu

Combat on a bridge, a horseman and two footsoldiers battle with swords at bottom right, one footsoldier on the ground…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645

Etching of a cavalry skirmish with swordsmen on horseback, a fallen man and smoke over a distant battlefield.

A skirmish, two horsemen battling with swords to the right, men carrying a flag running away towards the right, a dea…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645

Etching of a horse-drawn cart loaded with goods and people, a dead horse in the foreground, and a distant army and cannons.

A horse drawn cart carrying people and goods, dead horse in the foreground, plate 1 from "Various Military Caprices"…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a cannon on a carriage with soldiers and barrels, a ruined tower at left and a distant town with smoke at right.

A cannon to the left, a town in the background, plate 2 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a skeleton in a plumed hat riding a skeletal horse over a battlefield littered with fallen soldiers.

Death on a Battlefield, from "The five deaths" (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646-47

Engraving of a nude man seated under a tree among a lion, horse, sheep, rooster, serpent and birds, with verse below.

Adam and the Beasts, Frontispiece to Hayley's "Ballads"

William Blake, June 1, 1802

Etching of a black and white cat reaching toward carnations beside a lattice railing and window.

Cat and Flowers

Édouard Manet, 1869

Mezzotint of a horse outside a stone farrier's shop, with a man and child at the window under a moonlit sky.

The Farrier's Shop

William Pether, December 1, 1771

Etching of a Polish horseman in fur cloak and feathered hat riding right, within a circle, with attendants and horses behind.

Polish horseman facing right, a circular composition, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hong…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Moorish horseman in profile facing right, in the background a pyramid at left, many figures and an elephant, from 'Fi…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etching of two women walking left past a crumbling arch, with a rider on horseback and a rustic house in the distance.

Two girls walking towards the left, seen from behind, a woman on a horse to left in background, plate 3 from "Diversi…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

A horse in profile facing the left, about to descend from a mound, a horseman to left in background, plate 4 from "Di…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a peasant on horseback talking to a standing man beside the horse, with a hilly landscape behind them.

A peasant on horseback in profile facing the right, holding a basket and talking to another man standing behind the h…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of two horses on a grassy bank, a horseman and sheep flock on a ridge to the left, under a cloudy sky.

Two horses ascending the bank of a river at right, following a procession of horses and one horseman to the left, pla…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a horseman descending a riverbank with a second rider crossing the river to the right.

A horseman descends a riverbank, another horseman in river to right, plate 8 from "Diversi capricci"

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a chaotic cavalry battle with rearing horses, sword-wielding riders and smoke, with an orderly army in the distanc

A battle on horseback, from "Peace and War" (Divers desseins tant pour la paix que pour la guerre)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Pencil drawing of an angel with a staff beside two embracing men at a stone doorway under a vine pergola, with a dog.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Carl Gottlieb Peschel, 1829

Etching of a woman from behind wrapping a child in a shawl, with small figures and a horse in the background.

A poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in ba…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a herdsman on horseback leading cattle down a hill, with a stone pine and a distant tower.

Herdsman atop a horse, seen from behind, leads his cattle down a hill, a tower on a hill to left in the background, p…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Polish horseman in profile facing right, a tower and other figures on horses in background, a circular composition, f…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etching of a turbaned man beside a horse with feathered plume and bridle, holding a spotted leopard pelt.

Black slave carries a leopard pelt and holds the bridle of a horse, from "Several heads in the Persian style" (Plusie…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649-50