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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

Engraved religious print of a crucified Christ with angels and a kneeling monk in an ornate arch, labeled Imitation.

Imitation

Charles Albert Waltner, 1900

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

Engraving of two Corsican hunters in plumed caps, one holding a staff and one holding a musket, on rocky ground.

[Hunters of the Island of Corsica]

Sébastien Leroy, 1800

Etching of a man in a cloak peering into a cage in a vaulted cell, with a kneeling figure and a seated woman on a stone floor

Jacques of Armagnac Duke of Nemours in prison = Jacques d'Armagnac de Nemours en prison. 10

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1793

Etching of a peasant woman with a child and a man beside a wheelbarrow and rake, under a crescent moon over flat land.

[The day's work done]

Frédéric-Emile Jeannin, 1900

Etching of warriors and a woman with a child amid burning ruins, with a nude figure fallen in the foreground.

[Scene from the Trojan War]

Henri Toussaint, 1911

Etching of Ariadne kneeling on a rocky shore, reaching toward a distant sailing ship on rough sea.

[Illustration to "Theseus" by Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker] : [Incipit:] Theseus leaves Ariadne on the island of Naxos. 4

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1794

Etching of a narrow cobbled street with tall townhouses and a church tower rising in the distance, dated 1929.

[Piwna Street]

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929

Small etching of a bearded man in a turban with a feather plume, turned to the left, with a stern expression.

[Bust of a distinguished nobleman]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1787

Etching of a standing man by a cave with a seated figure inside, a horse among trees at right, and a German caption below.

[Virgil's Aeneid travestied by Blumauer] : What both lovers did in the cave [...]. 9

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1789

Etching of a narrow street between dark angular buildings, with a lit facade and shop signs at the far end.

[Wąski Dunaj]

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929

Engraved print of a robed man in a cap meditating on a tree-lined garden path, with German caption below.

[Illustration to "Berliner Genealogischer Kalender auf das Jahr 1789"]

Johann Friedrich August Clar, 1788

Etching of a stout man raising his hands while a uniformed officer in a tall hat grips his shoulder before a fence and bare t

[Anecdotes from the life of Frederick II]. Anecd. XI, Here I am

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1788

Stanislaus Augustus King of Poland

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1771

Engraving of women shelling peas at a city market stall under an awning, with a child and dog in the foreground.

May : the female pea-shellers

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1782

Engraved half-length portrait of a woman with curly hair and a white drape, leaning on a stone parapet.

[Portrait of a woman]

Jan van Troyen, 1660

Engraving of a woman in a headscarf giving alms to two ragged boys, one leaning on a staff, with a small child beside her.

[Caritas]

Giuseppe Sforza Perini, 1776

Etching of an old whitewashed townhouse with a decorative gable, a shop front and pedestrians on a cobbled street.

[Houses on Kanonia] : [Inc.:] News about old Warsaw

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929

Etching of a highland woman with a sack on her back walking past a cottage toward mountains.

[Highlander woman against the background of Giewont

Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski, 1903

Hand-colored engraving of a brown hare sitting among flowers, grass and leafy shrubs, with Latin and German titles above and

Lepus campestris = Common field hare

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1767

Engraved 18th-century interior scene with elegantly dressed figures conversing near tall windows and an ornate mirror.

[Illustration for "The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters Published from the Originals by the Ed…

Johann Michael Stock, 1770

Engraved print of a priest in lace-trimmed surplice and cassock holding a biretta, standing on a grassy hillside.

[Priest of the Island of Corsica]

Sébastien Leroy, 1800

Etching of a seated woman and a gesturing standing man beside a desk, with a window and bookshelves in a room.

[Illustration for the comedy "Liebe nach der Mode" by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner] : [Incipit:] Really, Mama was rig…

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1784