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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 a bacchanal with drunken Silenus supported by a satyr, putti, a donkey, within an octagonal grapevine border.

Bacchanal with drunken Silenus

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1619

Etching of a kneeling woman opening a birdcage while a bird flies off into the sky, with a landscape behind.

Woman frees bird from cage

Geertruida Margaretha Jacoba Huidekoper, 1839

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of a seated man in feathered headdress, beaded necklaces and green blanket, holding a club

Portrait of a man, Appanoose, a Sauk chief

John T. Bowen, 1836

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

Engraving of a church facade with arched doorway, round window, obelisk and cart, under a cloudy sky.

Templum Minervae, Santa Maria Supra Minervam in Rome

Michiel van Overbeek, 1688

Etching of a Rotterdam canal street with gabled houses, a bare tree, a lamp post and a wooden jetty above the water.

View of the Bierhaven and the Oranjestraat in Rotterdam

Willem Witsen, 1896

Engraved allegorical design with a central urn, a dove in radiating light, angels, and ornate acanthus scrolls on a pale shee

Allegory on Teresa of Ávila

Jean Théodore Joseph Linnig, 1845

Pencil drawing of a young couple in 18th-century dress sharing a sheet of music, the man leaning close to the woman.

Singing couple

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Tavern interior with two men at a table, one smoking a pipe and one raising a glass, a woman nursing near the hearth.

The Tavern

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Drawing of a woman as Diana with crescent moon tiara, laurel wreath and bow, rendered in chalk and watercolour on grey paper.

Diana

Abraham Delfos, 1795

Pencil drawing of a seated elderly woman in a white head cloth holding a knife, with a wooden spoon on the floor.

Seated woman with knife

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Woman in a blue fur-trimmed jacket spinning at a wheel beside a sleeping dog, in a wood-panelled interior, colour drawing.

The Spinner

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Engraving of a robed female figure holding a burning orb beside smoking rocks, framed by rococo scrollwork.

The beginning

Jeremias Wachsmuth, 1758

Engraving of a winged robed figure with a star above its head, pointing across a river in a framed wooded landscape.

The sensible soul

Jakob Wangner, 1758

Engraving of a horned bearded figure with a crook beside a tree and waterfall, with a tiered circular building behind him.

The world

Jeremias Wachsmuth, 1758

Engraving of a crowned female earth figure with grape staff, beside an opening ground and burning tents, with Latin and Germa

The earth

Jakob Wangner, 1758

Engraving of winged Father Time with an hourglass beside columns, a globe, a sundial and putti, titled De tijd.

The time

Jeremias Wachsmuth, 1758