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Engraved bust portrait of a man in ornate military uniform with epaulettes and medals, captioned Alexander II.

[Portret Aleksandra II, cesarza Rosji]

Paul Neti, 1800

Hand-coloured print of villagers dancing and listening to a harpist in front of a rustic barn with trees.

Scenes from common life

Josef Lanzedelly, 1800

Engraving of a Roman triumphal procession with a chariot, soldiers, crowds, classical temples and winged figures in the sky.

Triumph of Constantine after his victory over Maxentius on October 29 of the year 312 AD

Nicolas Henri Tardieu, 1749

Engraved 1751 view of Chelsea Royal Hospital and Ranelagh Rotunda across the river, with rowing boats in the foreground.

A View of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea & the Rotunda in Ranelaigh Gardens = Vüe de l'Hopital royal des Invalides à C…

Thomas Bowles, 1751

Hand-colored print of a market street scene with a stout man in a blue coat, fruit vendors, boys, and scattered apples.

The Spiritual Breakfast

Josef Lanzedelly, 1800

Engraving of Windsor Castle across the Thames with boats, swans, and figures fishing on the bank in the foreground.

A View of the Royal Palace of Windsor = Vüe du Palais royal de Windsor : á vingt un miles de Londrés

Nathaniel Parr, 1751

Engraved interior with a seated woman, a servant girl holding a candle, and a mirror, with French verse below.

The Beauties of Every Floor

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1800

Hand-coloured print of a crowd watching a pink hot air balloon rise over the courtyard of Versailles palace in 1783.

Aerostatic experiment made at Versailles on 19 Sept. 1783 [...] = Attempt made at Versailles on 19 Sept. 1783 [...]

Balthasar Friedrich Leizel, 1783

Circular etching of an angel leading Saint Peter from prison past sleeping guards, with light rays and stone arches.

[Deliverance of St. Peter]

Johann Michael Frey, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded monk holding a book beside a cross, with a Polish inscription below.

Venerable servant of God Father Rafał Chyliński, Franciscan fell asleep in the Lord [...]

Secondo Bianchi, 1778

Engraving of a mounted knight in a plumed hat speaking to a kneeling woman, with armored attendants and donkeys on a road.

[Meeting with Dulcinea, illustration to "Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes]

Daniel Berger, 1781

Etching of a couple embracing near an arched building as a woman in a bonnet waves from a garden, with a tree and distant tow

The happy rescue

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1797

Engraved print of a mounted gendarme in a tricorn hat on a rearing horse, with a tower and sky behind him.

Gendarmerie [...]

A. J. Defehrt, 1756

Engraved print of a formal garden with a central fountain, hedge maze walls, domed pavilions, obelisks and strolling figures.

Second Pleasure Basin of the Labyrinth

Karl Remshard, 1735

Engraving of villagers gathered on a road as two men in period coats shake hands, with thatched cottages and trees behind.

[Illustration for the work "The Fishermen" by Johannes Ewald]

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1784

Silhouette portrait of a man in uniform with sash and star, inside a red engraved ornamental border with allegorical figure.

Friedrich Ludw. Karl Prince of Prussia; born the 5 November 1773

W.H. Mewes, 1790

Engraved portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a rococo frame, with German inscription below.

Johan Martin Chladenius, Doctor of Holy Scripture, and Professor at Erlangen

Johann Christoph Sysang, 1749

Faded 1733 print of a man in military dress within an oval frame, with lettering below and a library stamp.

Lebrecht Gottfried Janus, General by the Muscovite Cavalry

Martin Bernigeroth, 1733

Engraved allegory: Minerva beside a bust crowned with laurel by a winged figure, with a seated writer and classical ruins beh

Virtue fosters [she crowns] herself Minerva

Carlo Antonini, 1770

Engraved architectural elevation of two stacked portals with rusticated walls, arches, pediment and helmeted trophies.

[Two portals decorated with panoplies]

Aniello Cataneo, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair and lace bodice, with a printed caption naming Françoise Marie de Bourbon.

Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Orleans, wife of the Duke of Orleans, Regent of the Kingdom

Martin Bernigeroth, 1733

Engraved river landscape with seven mountain peaks on the horizon, sailing boats on the water and large clouds overhead.

The Seven Mountains Coming from Bonn = View of the Seven Mountains Coming from Bonn

Hendrik de Leth, 1767

Engraved village scene of a fortune teller reading a woman's palm beside a large tree, with a dog and cottage.

David Teniers has his wife's fortune told

Benedikt Winkler, 1797

Engraved print of a haloed figure reaching toward a girl on a canopied bed while mourners and a kneeling man look on.

[Resurrection of Jairus's daughter]

C. W Griessmann, 1785

Engraving of a draped woman and turbaned men on a hill, with a distant castle and river landscape under cloudy skies.

The Slave at Auction

Pierre François Basan, 1797

Engraving of two gentlemen in 18th-century dress before a tree and classical ruins, one holding a portfolio.

The two brothers

Samuel Gottlob Kuetner, 1789

Hand-coloured print of a brown and white cow with a bell on a grassy slope beside a wooden fence.

Cow = The Cow

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1767

Hand-colored engraving of a sheep beside a wooden fence with trees, labeled Ovis, Das Schaf, La Brebis.

Sheep = The Sheep

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1767

Etching of a gnarled tree with exposed roots and leafy branches, with the inscription Daniel Düringer and No. 1 below.

[First plate of an unidentified landscape series]

Daniel Düringer, 1755

Etching of a seated boy wearing a feathered cap, drawn in loose hatched lines within a triangular plate.

[Boy in a cap with a feather]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1774