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Colorful caricature mural study with police officer, cowboy on horse, helmeted figure, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #2:

John Decker, 1940

Pencil sketch of soldiers and onlookers in a street before a two-story building, with a carriage and a caption reading John B

John Brown Brought Out for Execution

Albert Berghaus, 1850

Hand-colored engraving of a market hall on a city street with trees, brick houses, and people leading a garlanded white ox.

New Market

William Russell Birch, 1790

Caricature mural study showing a row of exaggerated figures in top hats, a red gown, and a child, under painted clouds.

Mural Study #4:

John Decker, 1940

Engraving of a horse-drawn carriage on a cobbled street with a woman passenger, a coachman, and a bearded man in an apron.

Escape with a Lady, as her Coachman, with Master’s Horse and Carriage

FOY, 1870

Hand-colored print of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington, with carriages, a rider and pedestrians on the street.

Patent Office

Edward Sachse & Co, 1850

Colorful caricature mural study with exaggerated figures, a steam train, trumpeting cherubs, and a police officer on railway

Mural Study #1: Perils of Pauline/Keystone Cops

John Decker, 1940

Wood engraving of an armed confrontation near a farmhouse, with a fallen man in the foreground and a mounted rider at right.

The Christiana Tragedy

John Osler, 1870

Engraving of a bearded man kneeling by a campfire in a forest, with smoke rising, a knife and pan on the ground.

Living in a Cave

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, 1870

Engraving of the Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with classical columns, carriages and pedestrians on the street.

United States Patent-Office Department, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Patent Office, 1860

Colored postcard view of the U.S. Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with columns, an American flag, and a lawn.

U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

A. C. Bosselman & Co, 1920

Hand-colored postcard of the Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columned facades, an American flag, and pedestrians on t

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

B. S. Reynolds Co, 1910

Colored postcard view of the neoclassical Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with columns and pedestrians on the str

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

The Rotograph Co, 1910

Engraved seascape of the frigate Constitution in battle with the British frigate Guerriere amid smoke and rough sea.

U.S. Frigate Constitution with Commander Isaac Hull

Cornelius Tiebout, 1810

Engraving of four people rowing a small boat across choppy sea, with sailing ships and a lighthouse on the horizon.

Crossing the Bay

William Thomas Cope, 1870

Hand-colored postcard of the Washington Patent Office building with pedestrians and parasols on a wide street.

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1900

Engraving of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington with columns, carriages on the street, and pedestrians under clouds

Patent Office, Washington

Benson John Lossing

Colored postcard of the U.S. Patent Office in Washington with columns, an American flag, and pedestrians on the street.

U. S. Patent Office, Washington

B. S. Reynolds Co, 1920

Hand-colored lithograph of a canvasback duck with a bearded man's face, with an easel and painter's palette behind it.

Canvas Back

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Sepia lithograph of the U.S. Patent Office with columns, horse carriages and streetcar, plus an inset of the North Hall museu

The U.S. Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1880

Hand-colored engraving of the U.S. Patent Office building with columns and carriages on a street in front.

U.S. Patent Office

R. Metzeroth, 1850

Colored view of the U.S. Patent Office in Washington with columns, an American flag, and pedestrians on the street.

U.S. Patent Office

B. S. Reynolds Co, 1920

Hand-colored engraving of a river port with sailing ships and a wharf, framed by a large tree, with figures and a horse in th

The City and Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware from Kensington

William Russell Birch, 1800

Engraving of a man lying on a train car roof with a lantern, passing through a forested mountain valley.

Escaping from Alabama on Top of a Car

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Engraved street view of the neoclassical Patent Office building with columns and a pediment, with a horse-drawn carriage in f

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1830

Hand-coloured engraving of the frigate United States capturing the British frigate Macedonian at sea, with gunsmoke and storm

Capture of H. B. M. Frigate Macedonian, Capt. J. S. Carden by the U. S. frigate United States, Stephen Decatur, Eqr.,…

Benjamin Tanner, 1810

Colored postcard of the U.S. Patent Office building in Washington D.C. with columns, striped awnings and a flag.

U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Illustrated Post Card Co, 1910

Engraving of Civil War soldiers and mounted officers fighting under heavy smoke, with fallen men and an American flag.

Battle of Bull Run

Harper's Weekly, 1860

Hand-colored lithograph of a fish with a mustached man's face and bow tie, resting among grass beside a musical-note slab.

C-Bass

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored print of the U.S. Patent Office building with columns, carriages, and riders on horseback in the street.

U.S. Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1850

Colored print of a busy Broadway street with pedestrians, carriages, omnibuses and shop signs.

View of Broadway

Henry Bricher, 1840

Hand-colored print of a mounted officer with sword leading blue-coated infantry toward a fort with the Mexican flag, under sm

Winfield Scott

Colored postcard of the white neoclassical Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with carriages on the street and a fla

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Foster & Reynolds, 1900

Hand-colored engraving of a tree-lined Philadelphia street with brick houses, a carriage, and people in period dress.

View in Third Street from Spruce

William Russell Birch, 1800

Hand-colored postcard view of the neoclassical Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with striped awnings and columns.

Patent Office

A. C. Bosselman & Co, 1920

Caricature of two men with large heads on winged cherub bodies leaning on a ledge, with small comic figures in clouds above.

Robson & Crane

Stuart Robson, 1880

Hand-colored print of the U.S. Patent Office building in Washington with columns, carriage and pedestrians.

U.S. Patent Office

Edward Sachse & Co

Engraving of two rowboats with men fighting with oars and poles on choppy water under a cloudy sky.

Fight in Chesapeake Bay

Thomas Sipple, 1870

Bird's-eye engraving of Washington D.C. and the Potomac River with ships, street grid, and a numbered key of landmarks.

Washington D.C. and its Vicinity

Etching of a seated man in a wide hat sketching among standing onlookers, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

J. A. M. Whistler Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Engraving of people descending a wooded bank to a schooner at night, with wagons among trees and a moon over water.

Heavy Weights - Arrival of a Party at League Island

John Osler, 1870

Engraved battle scene with officers on horseback, smoke-filled ridges, fallen soldiers and American and British flags.

Battle of New Orleans

Joseph Yeager, 1810

Engraving of Mirabeau greeted in a forest by robed men, a winged genius holding a Free France banner, and a rowboat.

Mirabeau Arrive Aux Champs Élisées

Louis-Joseph Masquelier, 1790

Etching of a man in a hat hauling a line in shallow water toward a smoking cone device, with a shore crowd and flag behind.

Bombastes Captures Fort Fisher By Means of a Patent Volcano

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved scene of a man in a dark coat greeting a crowd of robed men and porters beside thatched huts, with an American flag

Stanley Meeting Livingstone

Colored print of a ceremonial shoreline landing with uniformed troops, robed officials, banners, and many ships anchored in t

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-hama, Japan,…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Hand-colored print of officers aiding a wounded major beside a black horse, with a cannon and battle smoke behind.

Major Ringgold, Mortally Wounded

Edward Williams Clay, 1840

Lithograph of a seated man in civilian dress conferring with uniformed officers gathered among rocks and trees.

Council of War

Peter Kramer, 1861

Etching of an armored, plumed figure with a spear striding through a busy street with horses, signs, and a seated woman.

Bombastes, Conqueror of New Orleans

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved battle scene of soldiers with flags and smoke in a town square, a fallen drummer in the foreground, and women and a

Death of Major Pierson

James Heath, 1790

Sepia engraving of Ashland, Henry Clay's house, with a classical facade framed by large oak trees and a lawn.

Henry Clay

John Sartain, 1850

Etching of a rider spurring a galloping horse across a field toward a fort with a flag, smoke and soldiers nearby.

Bombastes is Ubiquitus

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of an officer kneeling beside his fallen white horse, with a cannon and soldiers in battle behind.

Samuel Ringgold

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Engraved group portrait of Japanese embassy members in traditional dress with swords, seated and standing with Western attend

The Japanese Embassy and their Attendants

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Etching of a mounted trumpeter charging toward a water pump, with soldiers, flags and a crouched figure beside it.

Conquest of Ye Pump

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Two-panel political cartoon by Thomas Nast: a bowing man beside a Jeff Davis bail sign, and a muddy-booted man facing a newsp

What I Know About Horace Greeley

Thomas Nast, 1861

Multi-panel colored cartoon showing a man struggling with housekeeping, with a central scene of a man waving farewell to a wo

The Boy Stands on the Burning Deck

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Caricature drawing of a ship labeled Experiment, with Andrew Jackson at the stern and idle sailors on deck.

Experiment in Full Operation

Anthony Imbert, 1820

Engraving of Confederate Mississippi troops marching with raised bayonets past mounted officers and flags under trees.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Frank Vizetelly, 1861

Lithograph group portrait of Union army officers in uniform, three seated at a table with swords, others standing behind.

Champions of the Union

Charles Wilkes, 1861

Lithograph of ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimac in battle at Hampton Roads, surrounded by interior ship detail views.

The First Naval Conflict Between Iron Clad Vessels

Charles Parsons, 1860

Hand-colored print of two officers standing on a dirt road, with mounted soldiers and a tent camp behind them.

Surrender of General Joe Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston, 1861

Satirical print of a dancer on a swan boat with a cupid, waves below, and a steamship on the horizon.

Lola Coming

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Lithograph of a family in an ornate parlor: a bearded man reading a newspaper, a girl, two women, and a marble fireplace.

Horace Greeley and Family

Otto Knirsch, 1870

Political cartoon of two bearded men at a pit, one holding a newspaper nominating Horace Greeley, with a goat and a domed bui

Cincinnatus

Thomas Nast, 1870

Engraved crowd scene of a paddle steamer landing with Japanese and American flags, soldiers, and a procession carrying a box.

The Landing of the Japanese Embassy

A. F, 1860

Etching of football players tackling on a field, with classical columned buildings and a stadium in the background.

Red Grange

Henry Farré, 1920

Engraved battle scene of massed soldiers, cannon smoke, and flags near New Orleans, with a portrait medallion below.

A Correct View of the Battle Near the City of New Orleans, January 8, 1815

Francisco Scacki, 1810

Political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing two men carrying a figure on a stretcher toward a gate, with a train and animals nea

We Are on the Home Stretch

Thomas Nast, 1870

Hand-colored print of uniformed troops and drummers drilling before a tiled-roof temple with pine trees and spectators.

Exercise of Troops in Temple Grounds

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Colored lithograph of the naval battle between the Kearsarge and Alabama, with a listing ship, smoke, and crew in boats.

The Fight Between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" Off Cherbourg, June 19, 1864

Gustav W. Seitz, 1861

Satirical lithograph of seven caricatured figures with speech bubbles, captioned The Great Republican Reform Party.

Great Republican Reform Party

Louis Maurer, 1861

Political caricature lithograph of two ships at sea, uniformed men on a rocky shore, open chests and papers with printed labe

Andrew Jackson

Henry R. Robinson, 1830

Engraving of soldiers supporting a dying officer on a smoky battlefield beneath tattered flags and a bare tree.

Death of General Montgomery

Johan Frederik Clemens, 1790

Engraved scene of soldiers wrestling a rearing horse in an arena while a rider falls, with a boy and spectators nearby.

Occupation of Ye Wicked City of Baltimore

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored print of naval officers under a large tree overlooking a hillside village and a procession of uniformed men.

Return of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron from an Official Visit to the Prince Regent at Shui, Capi…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Engraving of a sugar plantation with sugarcane, banana plants, a worker with a hoe, and buildings beside a river.

Plantation Scene - Sugar

Felch & Riches, 1850

Hand-colored print of a crowd under a canopy at a cornerstone ceremony in Honolulu, with mountains behind.

Lot Kamehameha

G. H. Burgess, 1860

Colored print of an American cutter rowing through a fleet of Japanese boats on a bay, with a snowy mountain behind.

Passing the Rubicon

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Engraving of a plantation scene with oxen hauling cotton bales over a bridge while workers pick cotton in the field.

Cotton Picking

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraving of people boarding a steamboat gangplank at a dock, with men in top hats, women, children, and a Camden and Amboy s

Rescue of Jane Johnson and her Children

Jane Johnson, 1870

Colored lithograph titled Heroes of the Colored Race with three central portraits, eagle and flags above, and scenes of farm,

Heroes of the Colored Race

Joseph Hoover, 1861

Engraving of a desert caravan with camels and turbaned men, with bearded captives seated in the foreground among scattered bu

Christian Slavery in Barbery

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraving of a tall man in a top hat walking through a street with soldiers while a crowd cheers and tosses hats.

Lincoln in Richmond

Lambert Hollis, 1861

Engraved group portrait of George Washington and family seated at a table with a map, globe, and standing attendant.

The Washington Family

Edward Savage, 1790

Engraving of enslaved Africans being inspected and restrained on a shore beside a sailing ship, with a seated merchant at lef

African Slave Traffic

Felch & Riches, 1850

Pen-and-ink caricature of a woman in a bonnet and crinoline speaking to a seated bearded man at a desk beside a US map.

Mrs. North and Her Attorney

Sir John Tenniel, 1860

Engraved portrait of a bearded seated man, a boy, a standing young man, and a woman in black at a draped table.

Lincoln and Family

William Sartain, 1860

Caricature of an American jockey in pale blue silks riding a galloping chestnut racehorse past a white rail.

An American Jockey

Godfrey Douglas Giles, 1890

Hand-colored lithograph of a crowd in a tropical clearing as a rifle is fired, with thatched huts, palms and gunsmoke.

Catlin the celebrated Indian traveller and artist, firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a tribe of Carib Indians…

John M. McGahey, 1850

Line drawing of a tilted ship mast and wreckage in choppy water, with wooded shore and distant sailboats.

Stone Blockade Off Charleston

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Political cartoon Jingo: Liberty between two heads labeled Free Trade and Protection, with poor and prosperous families below

Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine

Grover Cleveland, 1880

Decorative lithograph of a parade on a tree-lined avenue, framed by portrait busts, flags, and vignettes of labor, school, an

The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accompli…

Metcalf & Clark, 1861

Pen-and-ink drawing of mounted riders and horses gathered at a stream beside trees, with a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat

General Stewart's Return from Pennsylvania

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved newspaper spread of General Garfield's home and offices in Mentor, Ohio, with a central parlor scene.

James Garfield

James Abram Garfield, 1880

Engraving of an allegorical tomb scene with robed figures, palm fronds, and a winged figure beside a sarcophagus under a Goth

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Charles Macret, 1770