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Engraved landscape of reapers harvesting grain under a crescent moon, with dark hills and a striated sky.

Harvest Under a Crescent Moon

Samuel Palmer, 1826

Christ standing with outstretched arms before kneeling apostles, rendered in brown and gold wash.

Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection

William Blake, 1795

Etching of cows grazing beneath trees with a herdsman on a hill, a distant village, and a pale sky.

Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows

Thomas Gainsborough, 1797

Etched rural village at dusk with thatched cottages, a walking figure, cattle, and a rising sun over hills.

The Bellman

Samuel Palmer, 1879

Hand-colored title page reading AMERICA PROPHECY with clouds, robed figures, and a fallen figure above dark waves.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 2, Title Page

William Blake, 1793

Pen and wash sketch of Karnak at dusk showing broken columns and a flat horizon under a pale sky.

Karnak, 10:00 pm, 22 January 1867 (213)

Edward Lear, 1867

Etching of a shepherd piping beside a tree as sheep gather at a wooden fold under a dramatic evening sky.

Opening the Fold

Samuel Palmer, 1880

Winged figure crouches head-bowed on a ledge beside a nude woman holding a child under a dark, fiery sky.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece

William Blake, 1793

Engraved print with two oval portraits of bearded men, a central lion with a globe, putti, and ornate scrollwork.

Paulus Pontius - Antonius Van Dyck Eques and Peter Paul Rubens Eques - Google Art Project

Paulus Pontius, 1618

Engraving of a fortune teller in a headscarf reading the palm of a seated woman in a feathered hat, with a girl beside her.

The Fortune Teller

John Keyse Sherwin, 1784

Hand-colored Blake plate: a nude man crouches amid dark flames beneath blue handwritten verse on a cream page.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 12,

William Blake, 1793

Engraved portrait of a bearded man with curly hair in a dark cloak and lace collar, hand on chest, with Latin inscription bel

D. Petrus Paulus Rubbens Eques

Paulus Pontius, 1630

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a cap and cloak, seated beside a drape, with Latin inscription below.

Icones Principum Virorum

Robert van Voerst, 1630

Engraving of the Good Samaritan tending a wounded man beside a white horse, dog and rocky wooded landscape.

The Good Samaritan

Simon François Ravenet, 1772

Engraved reproduction of an ornate allegorical ceiling with a central oval of cherubs and winged figures, framed by smaller p

From the Painting of the Ceiling in the Banqueting House at White-Hall in the Year 1720

Simon Gribelin, 1720

Etching of Whitehall Palace seen from the Thames, with rowing boats and a barge on the water in the foreground.

Palatium Regis Prope Londinum, Vulgo Whitehall

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Engraving of Christ at the Pool of Bethesda with an angel above, surrounded by sick figures beneath trees and an arcade.

The Pool of Bethesda

Simon François Ravenet, 1772

Engraved oval portrait of Charles I in armour with long hair, white collar and chain, against draped fabric.

Charles I

William Faithorne the Younger, 1658

Engraving of William Hogarth seated at an easel, palette in hand, painting a sketch of the Comic Muse beside a column.

Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse

William Hogarth, 1764

Engraved view of a crowded city lane with brick houses, tall chimneys, figures and a railway viaduct under smoke.

YCBA London a Pilgrimage 06

Gustave Doré, 1872

Pencil sketch of an old wooden alms box with iron bands and a pitched roof on a stone base, drawn on tan paper.

An Ancient Alms Box, Walsingham Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1805

Engraving of a London street where a coachman whips a fallen horse beside a carriage, sheep and onlookers.

The Second Stage of Cruelty: Coachman Beating a Fallen Horse

William Hogarth, 1751

Engraving of a hooded figure on a rocky ledge overlooking a river and a moonlit city skyline with domed buildings.

YCBA London a Pilgrimage 07

Gustave Doré, 1872

Pencil drawing of a church spire rising above riverside cottages, with a moored boat and trees along the water.

Great Marlow Church, Buckinghamshire

Thomas Girtin, 1795

Engraving of boys torturing animals in a city street, with a crowd watching and a church spire behind the buildings.

The First Stage of Cruelty: Children Torturing Animals

William Hogarth, 1751

Engraved view of a crowded brick city street with chimneys, rooftops, barrels, and a smoky viaduct in the distance.

YCBA London a Pilgrimage 06 (cropped)

Gustave Doré, 1872

Grey wash drawing of a village with a church steeple below steep, wooded mountains and patchwork fields in a valley.

Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France

Henry Swinburne

Engraving of a public dissection with surgeons, spectators, skeletons, a dog and a corpse on a round table.

The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty

William Hogarth, 1751

Five Classical Heads

Inigo Jones, 1630

Hooded figure in a cloak points a staff toward distant mountains and sea under a pale, cloudy sky.

A Peasant of Mount Erix

Henry Tresham, 1783