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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Hand-coloured engraved pilaster design with classical figures, medallions, grotesque panels and a fruit garland, numbered IV.

[Raphael's Loggie] : [pilaster]. Num. IV

Giovanni Ottaviani, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a tall decorative pilaster with classical figures, grisaille reliefs, putti and gilded ornament.

[Raphael's Loggie] : [pilaster]. [N. 11]

Giovanni Volpato, 1776

[Bust of an old Jew]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1784

Hand-coloured print of a decorative arch with a chariot scene, columns, a fruit garland and a Latin inscription below.

[Raphael's Loggie, archivolt and lunette] : Having subdued Syria, David took golden weapons, and brought them down to…

Giovanni Ottaviani, 1776

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded ruler with sceptre and orb, above a French caption tablet and crossed weapons.

[Alexis, Tsar of Russia]

Jean Louis Charles Pauquet, 1800

Etching of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with a halo, surrounded by cherubs and angels above a stone pedestal.

[Assumption of the Virgin Mary]

Carlo Maratti, 1713

Engraving of a skeletal mounted general with plumed helmet and sword, accompanied by a cloaked skeleton and skeletal horse.

The General

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1791

Engraving of a harlequin figure in a patterned costume and mask, hand to face in a weeping pose, with trees behind.

[Weeping Harlequin, from the cycle "Les Comédiens Italiens"]

François Joullain, 1734

Engraving of a white stag with unusual antlers standing in a forest clearing with trees and foliage.

This white fir stag with shown rare growth of antlers [...]

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1763

Engraved print of a haloed robed figure facing a kneeling bearded man with a staff, framed by classical columns and an arch.

[Saint Paul?]

Stefano Mulinari, 1800

Engraving of a helmeted warrior and seated woman with satyrs hauling a beam under trees, with French verse below.

Manhood

François Joullain, 1725

Engraving of a bird catcher leading a horse loaded with cages and an owl, with dogs on a forest path.

Bird catcher on the bird-trap pulling with his equipment = Birdcatcher on the bird-catching ground pulling the nets

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1780