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Etching of many dead fish, eels, a lobster and shellfish heaped on a ledge and in baskets, with numbered labels below.

Fish, eels, shellfish and crustaceans (22 different varieties), lying dead on a table and in baskets. Etching, by G.…

Pieter Andreas Rijsbrack

Pencil and wash drawing of a man with long wavy hair and a collared shirt, labelled Descartes beneath.

René Descartes: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Hand-coloured engraving of a yellow iris with purple-veined falls, buds on the stem, and a long green leaf beside it.

A yellow iris (Iris variegata): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by J. Sowerby, c. 1787, after himself

Woodcut of women and a child walking past western-style buildings on a city street, with a carriage in the background.

A city with western-style buildings (in Japan?), in which a western couple are observed by Japanese. Woodcut after Ky…

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Colour woodcut of cherry blossom trees over a riverbank with children, a kimono-clad woman, a mask vendor, and boats on the r

The Mukōjima embankment: a street vendor sells articles to caricatures of contemporary figures under the cherry bloss…

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Etching of fishermen and boats by a rocky cliff, with a large sailing ship and a lighthouse in the harbour beyond.

Men in fishing boats near a harbour. Etching attributed to F. Vivares after C.J. Vernet

Hand-coloured etching of a spotted sea leopard seal on a rock in the sea, with seabirds and icebergs behind it.

A sea leopard (phoca leopardina) sitting on a rock in the sea. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars after J. Stewart

Lithograph of a crowded army hospital interior with wounded soldiers on cots, attendants, and hanging laundry.

Interior of a shielded hospital, Antwerp, with army patients and wounded men. Lithograph by D. Raffet, 1852

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Coloured aquatint of a Hindu temple interior with stone columns, timber ceiling and small figures on the floor.

Interior of a Hindu temple, Deo, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800

Colour woodcut of a kabuki theatre audience watching two sword-wielding actors on stage beneath paper lanterns.

Interior of a Kabuki theatre while a performance is in progress. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858

Utagawa Kunisada

Ink and wash drawing of women in headscarves carrying an icon in a village procession past thatched cottages, watched by a ch

A religious cholera procession in rural Russia. Pen drawing by I.A. Wladimiroff

Ivan Alexéiévitch? Wladimiroff

Engraved grid of twenty labelled bust portraits of religious thinkers and theologians in period dress.

Churchmen: twenty portraits of religious thinkers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825

John William Cook

Etching of a robed preacher above a crowd on open ground before city buildings, with engraved verse captions below.

The Moorfields congregation with George Whitefield, representing religious mania. Etching by G. Bickham

Etching of a group rehearsing music indoors, with a violinist, a boy reading sheet music, and a bearded man conducting.

A musical rehearsal for a Jewish religious service (?). Etching by E. Moyse, 1865

Brown frieze of four dancing half-human, half-animal figures with tails under a decorative border.

A frieze depicting dancing half-human, half-animal figures. Process print, 1921

Etching of tall trees beside a meadow and river, with a distant view of Oxford towers and spires under clouds.

City of Oxford: a glimpse of the city from the meadows. Etching by J. Roffe

Etching of Oxford's distant skyline of spires and domes seen across a meadow, framed by trees, with figures and cattle.

City of Oxford: distant view from the meadows. Etching by S.W. Reynolds

Samuel William Reynolds II

Coloured lithograph of a busy bazaar in Kandahar with striped awnings, a citadel, mosque domes and mountains behind.

City of Kandahar, with main bazaar and citadel, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after Lieutenant James…

Engraving of Oxford's spires and dome across meadows, with grazing horses, a river, and a gas works chimney.

City of Oxford: from the gas works and meadows. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1835, after F. Mackenzie

Frederick Mackenzie

Hand-coloured lithograph of Bagnères de Bigorre town in a valley with a river, fields, and snowy Pyrenean mountains behind.

Landscape mountain view of Bagnères de Bigorre at midday. Coloured lithograph by V. Petit after himself

Victor Jean-Baptiste Petit

Coloured lithograph of robed figures and camels resting by a stone well beneath hills and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with group of figures with camels at the site of the well of Jacob, Shechem. Coloured lithograph by Louis H…

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a kneeling saint, a lion, and a wooden cross beside a cliff.

Saint Jerome in a landscape. Etching by H. van Swanevelt

Herman van Swanevelt

Etching of a stormy sky over a flat landscape, with three large trees on a hill at right and a distant town.

A storm over a Dutch landscape. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn

Monochrome woodblock print of a conical mountain above mist, with trees and a boat on a river and reeds in the foreground.

A mountain landscape beyond a river. Woodcut by Gekko, early twentieth century

Ink drawing of an écorché male figure with exposed muscles leaning on a pedestal before classical ruins and a stone bridge.

An anatomical figure (écorché) in a classical landscape. Drawing by A. Joron

Anatomical engraving of a standing man with exposed muscles, set in a landscape of towns and a bridge.

Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543

Andreas Vesalius

Chalk lithograph of a shaggy black and white sheepdog standing in a rocky, cloudy landscape, signed H. Walter 1822.

A young sheepdog standing in a mountainous landscape. Chalk lithograph by H. Walter

A dog in a landscape, facing right. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1825

Etching of two spotted deer with collars in a formal garden with stone steps, statues and trees under a cloudy sky.

Two spotted Asian bucks in a landscape garden. Etching by M. E. Ridinger

Martin Elias Ridinger

Anatomical plate of a muscle figure seen from behind, standing in a landscape with a bridge and town.

Muscle man, in a landscape, seen from the back. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543

Andreas Vesalius