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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Etched landscape of a manor house behind a stone wall, with a carriage, wagons, walkers and large trees on a road.

Forsmarck

Pastel sketch of a fisherman in cap and blue overalls standing beside a wooden mast and boat on a green-toned ground.

Fisherman, Isle of Shoals

Childe Hassam, 1903

Grid of twenty-five panels showing lions, tigers, elephants, camels, deer and other animals in silver on mauve paper.

Endpaper with Animals

Eight ornamental panels of rococo scrollwork and floral motifs printed in copper ink on green paper.

Endpaper

Giovanni Antonio Remondini and Giovanni Battista Remondini, c. 1760

Endpaper with dense reddish-brown floral and scrolling vine pattern on a gold ground within a rust-colored border.

Endpaper with Floral Pattern

Unknown artist

Pink sheet with dense gold mixed floral pattern of blossoms, leaves and scrolling vines inside a thin gold border.

Endpaper with Mixed Floral Pattern

Unknown artist

Green block-printed sheet with rows of animals including an elephant, lions, deer, horses and dogs around a standing hunter.

Endpaper with Animals

Unknown artist, c. 1790/1850

Gold figures of men and women in period dress on a maroon ground, arranged in four rows with flowers, animals and a palm tree

Endpaper - "Zwarg Gesellschaft"

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Printed sheet in rows of small figures depicting many trades and workshop scenes, in a golden-brown ink on tan paper.

Endpaper with Scenes of the Trades

Johann Carl Munck, 1777

Printed sheet in olive-green ink on pink paper showing many birds in rows, including roosters, peacocks, herons and owls, wit

Endpaper with Birds

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Gilded printed sheet with thirty-two panels of haloed saints in rows, each labeled with a name beneath.

Endpaper with Saints

after Johann Lechner

Gold and blue checkered decorative endpaper with small floral motifs in each square, framed by a deckled blue-grey border.

Endpaper

Rust-red decorative paper with rows of gold birds including a peacock, turkey, owl and stork, plus a Nuremberg inscription.

Endpaper with Birds

Johann Georg Eckart

Gold-printed endpaper on blue ground showing four framed scenes of figures, including a horse, a blacksmith and soldiers.

Endpaper with Four Circus (?) Scenes

Unknown artist

Red endpaper printed in gold with three bands of courtly scenes showing armored figures, horsemen, castle walls and a seated

Endpaper with Three Bands of Courtly Scenes

Unknown artist

Blue sheet with rows of small orange-brown vignettes showing people working at many trades and domestic tasks.

Endpaper with Scenes of the Trades

Tan paper endpaper with rows of gilt-printed animals including lions, elephants, camels, zebras, and deer.

Endpaper with Animals

Georg M. Maisch, c. 1790

Black-and-white print of two nude figures separated by a dark band with geometric symbols, with animals and faces in the text

Unknown subject (Let Him look up into the Heaven and laugh in the bright air)

William Blake, possibly c. 1805

Lear and Cordelia

Jr. after William Blake Thomas Butts, probably c. 1806/1808

Engraving of a bearded, muscular man in loose drapery standing among rocks by the sea, with light rays in the sky.

Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion

William Blake, c. 1803/1810

Etched card by William Blake reading Mr. Cumberland, surrounded by flying figures, a reclining man, and sheaves of wheat.

George Cumberland's Card

William Blake, 1827

Etching of a rustic camp shelter with crossed poles, two seated figures, a barrel, dense trees, and boats on water at right.

The Camp of Stothard, Blake, Ogleby

Thomas Stothard, c. 1780

Hand-colored engraving of a seated woman in a white dress and green sash, with a distant city skyline behind her.

Mrs. Q.

William Blake after François Huet, 1820

Engraving of a draped woman leading a lion beside flames, with a castle and mountains in the landscape behind her.

Fortitude

Engraving of baby Moses in a reed basket on the Nile, with a kneeling woman, a standing figure, a sphinx and pyramids.

The Hiding of Moses

William Blake, 1824

Woodcut of Saint Anthony tempted by demons in a fantastical landscape with ruined towers, flying monsters and robed figures.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Jan Wellens de Cock, 1522

Engraving of a seated nude woman removing a thorn from her foot, with a rabbit, palm trees, and a distant hilltop town.

Venus Extracting a Thorn from Her Foot

Engraving of Vulcan hammering metal at an anvil with cupids assisting and a nude Venus standing nearby.

Vulcan at the Forge

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child with an angel, a young boy holding a fish, and an old man reading beside a lion.

The Virgin with a Fish

Bearded figure in white robe with open arms before three kneeling men under a golden glow, in a watercolor print.

Christ Appearing to His Disciples After the Resurrection

William Blake, c. 1795