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Hand-colored caricature of a grinning horned devil holding a sleeping child in a striped blanket, with flames below.

The Devil's Darling

Thomas Rowlandson, March 12, 1814

Printed broadside titled The Devil's Darling with verse in which the Devil addresses his child, published by R. Ackermann.

The Devil's Darling: Text

London Rudolph Ackermann, March 12, 1814

Pencil sketch of a Gothic cottage elevation with gabled roofs and pointed windows, above a labeled floor plan with dimensions

Design for Small Gothic Cottage, Design IV from The Architecture of Country Houses

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Oval engraved portrait of a young man with curly hair, embroidered doublet and sword hilt, with a verse below.

Charles of Gonzague and of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and of Retellois, Governor of Champagne and Brie at age eighteen

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Pencil architectural sketch of a wood farmhouse with two floor plans, an elevation showing chimneys and dormers, and notes.

Design for Bracketed American Farm House, Design XVII from The Architecture of Country Houses

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Etching of a ruined classical arch with two standing figures on rocks, crumbling ruins and trees on the right, and small figu

Le Pan de Muraille

Henri Mauperché, 17th century

Engraving of a veiled, robed woman beside a plinth holding a palm branch, with a harp resting against the base.

Robed woman standing next to a plinth, her right hand bears a palm branch, a harp rests against the plinth

Claude Mellan, ca. 1620-88

Etching of Saint John the Baptist with a halo, holding a staff beside a resting lamb in an oval wooded landscape.

Saint John the Baptist

Balthazar Moncornet, 17th century

Engraved half-length portrait of Michaelis de Marolles in a dark cloak and white collar, with Latin text below.

Michaelis de Marolles

Robert Nanteuil, 1657

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair and pearl necklace, inside an inscribed frame, dated 1653.

Portrait of Louise Marie, Queen of Poland and Sweden

Robert Nanteuil, 1653

Etching of figures performing an ancient sacrifice at a draped altar beneath trees, with a smoking offering and pouring jug.

Ancient Sacrifice

Philippe Louis Parizeau, 18th century

Etching of two putti with grapes and a jug beside a reclining figure, with a hazy landscape behind them.

Bacchanal

Pierre Parrocel, 17th-18th century

Etching of nude children playing outdoors, with a bearded man carrying a child on his shoulders and a draped cloth behind.

Children's Game

Pierre Parrocel, 17th-18th century

Engraving of a peacock carrying a cherub, framed by grapevines, a wine barrel, and two perched peacocks, with a Latin motto a

Epithalamium

Bernard Picart, 1726

Etching of a fortified town on a peninsula with a church spire, sailing boats on water, and figures in the foreground.

View of a peninsula with figures and ships with bare masts, in the right foreground five figures congregate around tw…

Matthijs van Plattenberg, ca. 1625-60

Engraved oval print of a vase with serpent handles, a satyr mask base, and a nude figure riding a goat.

Vase with mask, a nude cup-bearing figure riding a goat followed by a satyr, and reptile handles, an oval composition…

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1751-58

Physionotrace

Etched view of a round columned temple beside a palm tree, with figures and a cart on a dirt road in the foreground.

Tempio del Sole (Temple of Cybele in the Piazza della Bocca della Verità)

Israël Silvestre, ca. 1640-91

Etching of a wooded landscape with a stone pedestal, vases, standing man, seated figure, dog, and distant castle.

Nancy, from "Diverses Veue et Perspectives nouvelles de Rome, Paris et des autres lieux"

Israël Silvestre, 1640-79

Etching of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris with a cross on a stepped platform, a domed pavilion, and people and carriages in the

View of the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in the foreground a cross on a stepped platform and a freestanding d…

Israël Silvestre, ca. 1636-91

Engraved title page with an ornate cartouche, a grotesque mask at top, and the title Figures Françoises et Comiques.

Frontispiece for "Figures French and comic" (Figures francoises et comiques)

Engraving of a seated woman in period dress holding a closed fan, with a drawn curtain and a tree and clouds behind her.

A seated woman holding a closed fan before a drawn curtain, a tree and sky beyond

Henri Simon Thomassin, ca. 1710-41

Etched print of a standing officer in a long coat and tricorn hat with a sword, trees behind him.

Man in officer's dress, with sword hanging at left hip, shown in frontal view with his head turned toward the left, t…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1700-39

Etching of a man in a tricorn hat holding a vine-wrapped staff, with trees and a cottage in the landscape behind him.

Man in tricorn hat and overcoat, shown in frontal view and holding a staff with a winding vine, landscape with trees…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39

Engraved print of a woman in pilgrim costume with a walking stick and shell-decorated cape, with a sailboat in the distance.

Actress Charlotte Desmares playing the role of a pilgrim, shown from behind with her head turned toward the right, sh…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a wooden box, with straps hanging from it.

Seated man with box in his lap, he rests his right elbow on a taller box

Edmé Jeaurat, ca. 1715-38

Engraving of a monkey dressed in a robe and beret, seated at an easel holding a palette, with a painting on the wall behind.

Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a f…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1700-1739

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair, holding a pen, wearing a Legion of Honour medal, dated 1814.

Portrait of J. Louis David

Eugène Bourgeois, 1814

Daumier lithograph of a seated woman and a man on a sofa as an older man peers through the doorway, with papers on the floor.

May I come in my dear, or are you still collaborating with Monsieur?, plate 29 from "The Bluestockings"

Honoré Daumier, May 30, 1844

Pen and wash drawing of architectural ornament with scroll brackets, a capital, a garlanded cornice, and winged putti.

Architecture

Michelangelo Colonna, 17th century