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National Gallery of Art

14,479 works

Pen drawing of allegorical figures around a knight whose red heart is being grasped with pincers, with labeled banners.

"Do Not Eat Your Heart Out" [fol. 22 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a haloed bearded man carrying sticks, a crucifix, a lion, and a seated youth under a tree.

"Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures: a crowned man with scales, two blindfolded women turning a wheel, and two men holding a h

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a building facade with labeled allegorical figures, a staircase, and banners reading Cras and Tempus.

"Do Not Sit on the Grain Measure" [fol. 12 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a spectacled woman riding a horse beside a veiled woman, with banners reading Credulitas and Mater spe

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink allegory: Hope reaches toward a banner among sad monks, joyful dancers, fearful figures and soldiers.

Hope, Reaching for Heaven, Stands among Sad and Happy Men, Joys, and Fear [fol. 19 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Ink and wash drawing of a sick man in bed, a miser, a kneeling man, and a red-robed ape beside an apple tree.

An Ape in Purple with a Sick Man, a Good Man, and a Miser [fol. 36 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed man in a niche, swallows and flies near a window, and three storks with red legs.

"Do Not Have Swallows under the Same Roof" [fol. 40 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1514

Pen drawing of bearded Pythagoras in a hooded robe beside a flowering bean plant labeled Fabe, on a grassy mound.

"Do Not Eat Beans" [fol. 25 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and brown ink drawing of a group of figures surrounding a central man in a pointed-eared hood, early 16th century.

"Do Not Wear a Tight-Fitting Ring" [fol. 23 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a feathered-capped figure gesturing beside a nude child holding a long sword over rocky ground.

"Turn aside the Sharp Sword" [fol. 44 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man in pleated garments raising a sword, with two crowns on a hill behind him.

"Do Not Break the Crown" [fol. 43 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man raising a sword while reaching toward a blazing fire on a stone hearth.

"Do Not Poke the Fire with a Sword" [fol. 20 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling jester tying a knot in the tail of a dolphin-like sea creature in wavy water.

"You Are Tying a Dolphin by the Tail" [fol. 17 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a fool in a donkey-eared hood tipping a basket of flowers into a trough for three pigs.

A Fool Feeding Flowers to Swine [fol. 42 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a jester with bells on his cap pouring red liquid from a chamber pot, standing on a hatched mound.

"Do Not Put Food in a Chamber Pot" [fol. 24 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man in a red hood feeding meat to a lion in an octagonal pit with other lions.

"Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws" [fol. 38 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Colored drawing of a man raising a sword toward a face-like sun, with a second figure in a patterned cloak beside a building.

"Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Colored drawing of an allegorical scene with kneeling figures, a seated ruler on a throne, a woman holding a red heart, and a

The Calumny of Apelles [fol. 6 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen drawing of an archer aiming a bow upward at a night sky with moon, sun and stars, with a church and hills beside him.

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a winged figure with a sphere on a column, a woman in a tower niche, and a man pointing, with Latin text.

The Statue of Opportunity, a Passer-by, and Remorse [fol. 8r]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a winged statue with a mirror and globe atop a turreted building, with a man passing by and Latin text.

The Statue of Opportunity and the Passer-by [fol. 8 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a standing woman with long hair in a pink cloak and grey gown, with faint inscriptions.

Personification of Friendship (Amicitia) [fol. 2 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Print of a seated man among women at a banquet, with a goblet, lute player, fruit table and distant city through an arch.

The Prodigal Son Living with Harlots

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert after Maerten van Heemskerck, 1548

Pen and ink drawing: a kneeling figure holds a basin as a standing man releases a red stream into it, labeled Dilectio.

"Do Not Make Water on Clippings from Nails or Hair" [fol. 30 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Engraving of a kneeling man embraced by an older bearded father under an arch, with onlookers and a burning town behind.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert after Maerten van Heemskerck, 1548

Brown lithograph of a boy in suspenders bending over a stone beside a hammer, with grass and rocks around him.

The Stone Breaker

Firmin Gillot after Gustave Courbet, after 1849

Arched drawing of the Virgin's coronation surrounded by angel musicians playing organ, lute and cello, with saints and putti.

The Coronation of the Virgin with Angel Musicians and All Saints

Master J.N., c. 1590

Watercolor of a woman in a headscarf standing in a farmyard with chickens, milk cans, and a farmhouse porch behind her.

A Sick Chicken

Winslow Homer, 1874

Watercolor of a boy seated on a tree branch and a girl in gray reaching up toward him beside a rail fence.

On the Fence

Winslow Homer, 1878