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Engraving of two elderly figures in oval frames: a woman in a headscarf on the left and a man in a flat cap on the right.

Trijn Bulle-bacx en Voorsichtighe Oenne

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1612

Engraving of two oval medallion portraits of men in caps, one grimacing and one with a serious, bearded face.

Ael Pieter-mans en Bedorve Sloof om 't Geldt

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1612

Engraving of two oval portraits: a shouting bearded man on the left and an older woman in a hood on the right.

Hansje Singh in 't Veldt en Blaeuwe Aecht

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1612

Engraving of the stoning of Saint Stephen, a haloed kneeling figure surrounded by men throwing stones in a rocky landscape.

Stoning of Saint Stephen

Raffaello Schiaminossi, 1608

Ink calligraphy model with looping flourishes, a large decorative initial, and lines of Dutch handwritten text on pale paper.

Design for a writing sample: Marcus Curius (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing sample with dense Dutch text and elaborate looping flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: Highly learned Wise (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing exemplar with Dutch text surrounded by large looping flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: The Mayors (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing exemplar with ornate looping flourishes framing handwritten Dutch text.

Design for a writing sample: To S. Jaques Olis (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a Dutch calligraphy writing exemplar with ornate looping flourishes and decorative initials.

Design for a writing sample: Honorable wise provident (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved calligraphy specimen with flourished letters, scrolls and a dedication text in Dutch, by Jan van de Velde, 1605.

Design for a writing sample: The honorable pious Hans vanden Velde (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Design for a writing sample: To Mons. Jean vande Veke (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved writing model with flourished calligraphic border framing French dedicatory text and a large decorative signature.

Design for a writing sample: To very expert (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved calligraphy specimen with French text beside an alphabet, framed by large swirling pen flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: Nothing avails men (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Ink calligraphy specimen with looping flourishes, a dedication to H. Gout, and a tall ornamental penwork column at right.

Design for a writing sample: To mons H. Gout (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphy exemplar with flourished script lines and large looping ornamental swashes on pale paper.

Design for a writing sample: To my singular friend (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Ink drawing of a 1605 writing sample with flourished capital letters and cursive text framed by looping scrollwork.

Design for a writing sample: Keepe my wordes (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of looping calligraphic flourishes surrounding a block of 17th-century English script text.

Design for a writing sample: Some man keepeth silence (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphy exemplar with German text framed by elaborate looping flourishes and decorative capitals.

Design for a writing sample: Es ist (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraving of men in 18th-century uniforms at a dinner table, one elderly man dozing in the foreground beside a dog.

Hans Joachim von Zieten sleeping at the table of Frederick the Great

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1800

Engraved sheet of rococo rocaille ornaments, scrolls and leaf forms arranged in rows on a cream paper ground.

Volute- and leaf-shaped rocaille ornaments

Johann Georg Hertel, 1727

Engraved interior of a vaulted medieval abbey library with robed monks, lecterns, carved wooden bookcases and a stone floor.

Library in the abbey of Egmond in the 13th century

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1865

Engraving of an elderly monk writing at a desk by candlelight in a wooden stall, with a crucifix on the wall.

Melis Stoke writing his rhyme chronicle, c. 1300

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1865

Engraved harbor scene with sailing ships, rowing boats, a wooden jetty and towers of a town along the far shore.

Dorestad in the 8th century

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1865

Engraved print of an older man in an armchair with his arm around a child seated before a fireplace.

Two figures by a fireplace

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1845

Print of a woman in a windswept cloak leading a calf on a rope past a wooden fence, with birds flying above.

Woman with a calf

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1845

Engraving of two children on a beach, seen from behind, with a large woven basket and the sea beyond.

Outward voyage

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1861

Engraving of a figure in a headscarf reclining on a grassy dune, looking toward a calm sea with birds in the distance.

Dreams

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1859

Engraving of a fisherman in a cap mending a net, seated by a harbor wall, with sailboats on the calm sea behind him.

Mending nets

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1861

Engraving of two men struggling with an anchor in rough sea waves, with a sailing boat on the horizon.

The anchor

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1861

Engraving of a crouching man reaching toward a toddler beside a standing woman, with a bird on a fence and a village behind.

First steps

Johann Heinrich Maria Hubert Rennefeld, 1861