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Hand-colored caricature of a jealous man holding a candle over a sleeping woman behind a pink bed curtain.

Hatred or Jealousy (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

Thomas Rowlandson, January 21, 1800

Etching of a caricatured old maid in a flowered bonnet and a grimacing bachelor in a ruffled wig, illustrating Despair.

Despair (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

Thomas Rowlandson, February 21, 1800

Hand-coloured print of Death with a dart entering a cluttered bedroom where an old man reads in bed by candlelight.

The Antiquary's Last Will and Testament (The English Dance of Death, plate 2)

Thomas Rowlandson, April 1, 1814

Pen and watercolor design for a Baroque ceiling with putti, flower garlands, scrolled stucco and a round oculus.

Design for a Ceiling

Faustino Trebbi

Pen and watercolor design of a classical interior wall with arch, Corinthian columns, balcony balustrade and a flower urn.

Design for Part of a Wall Elevation with a Balcony flanking an Arch

Faustino Trebbi

Engraving of a melancholic seated man in an interior with a dog and cane, with a village scene visible through an open door.

Dolor (Sorrow)

Raphaël Sadeler, Antwerp 1560-1628 Venice?

Etching of elderly monks chanting in wooden choir stalls while a kneeling monk bows in the dim foreground.

Monks Chanting

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1795

Etching of a forest path with tall trees, travelers on horseback, a donkey, and a cart moving into the distance.

Entrance to the Forest of Fontainebleau

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1764

Etching of a river bank with ruined towers, a rowboat, rocky outcrop, and a distant town under clouds.

Old Towers on a River Bank

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of four studied heads: a downcast young woman, a bearded man in a fur cap, an old man in a cloak, and an old woman in

Study of Four Heads

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1770

Etched landscape with cattle and riders on a path, a river and wooded slope, a hilltop town, and distant mountains.

Landscape after Van der Cabel

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, ca. 1773

Etching of aqueduct ruins over a river with a rocky cliff, trees, and a small boat with figures in the foreground.

Ruins of an Aqueduct

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of coopers working among wooden barrels in a dim vaulted stone cellar, with a ladder and a pitcher visible.

The Coopers

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, late 19th century reproduction of 1790 original

Pen and wash drawing of a seated woman gesturing to a winged Cupid hiding his face in a wooded grove with putti.

Cupid's ruse

Hans Veit Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1792

Etching of a goatherd leading a goat past a lake, with a tall tree on the left and a cliff with a castle in the distance.

Goatherd, from "Ten Landscapes" (Suite de Dix Paysages)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Engraving of a woman with a boar's head and onlookers, with Latin verse below, after Rubens.

Atalanta and Meleager

Cornelis Bloemaert, 1618-84

Brown wash caricature drawing of a man with curly hair, large nose, and striped collar, signed Horace Vernet.

Caricature of Charles-Henri Plantade (?)

Horace Vernet, 19th century

Etching of the Trafalgar Tavern at Greenwich, with a dining table in the foreground and men and a rowboat by the riverside.

Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich

James Tissot, 1878

Etching of a brick archway with a standing man in white turban and two seated men smoking in a dim guardhouse.

Arnaut Guardhouse in Cairo

Paul Adolphe Rajon, 1868

Etching of a rocky landscape with a gnarled tree, a woman washing at a stream, and a man on a donkey on the left.

Title Page, from "Ten Landscapes" (Suite de Dix Paysages)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of a goatherd with a goat beside a river, a tall tree on the left and a cliff with a building in the distance.

Goatherd

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of a wooded island in a river with a rowing boat, trees, a stone tower and a ruined building on a hill.

Wooded Island, plate 3 from "Ten Landscapes" (Suite de Dix Paysages)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of a river landscape with trees, mountains, and herdsmen leading cattle through shallow water.

Landscape after Fouquières

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Etching of a gnarled tree with new leaves over grazing cows, a sheep, and seated figures in a pasture.

Spring, after a drawing made at Saint-Chamond

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1795

Etching of a thatched cottage beside a forest path with tall trees and small figures, including a rider on horseback.

Cottage at the Entrance to a Forest

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Etching of costumed street musicians on a platform before a stone archway, with a crowd of townspeople gathered below.

The Little Charlatans

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1773

Etching of a stone mill beside waterfalls and a rocky cliff, with rowing boats and figures on the water in the foreground.

The Italian Mill

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1771

Study of Eight Heads

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1795

Etching of a farm interior with barrels in an arched barn, a donkey, goats, chickens, and a seated family under a tree.

Interior of a Farm at Saint-Jean-de-Touslas

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1793

Etched landscape of a river with tall trees, grazing cattle, figures resting, a stone ruin and a church spire.

Landscape at Ambronay

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1796