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Pencil sketch of a man standing by a well with a crane and bucket, bare trees and hills behind, and a small head study.

Sketch of a man by a well

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etched title page with an ornate urn, fountain, reclining figures and overgrown ruins beneath the lettering Vedute di Roma.

Title page, from Vedute di Roma Disegnate ed Incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Ve[nez]iano (Views of Rome Dr…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of bare trees on a hillside with ravens perched in branches and flying over a dirt road under an overcast sky.

L'Arbre aux corbeaux (Tree with Ravens)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1867

Etching of cows drinking at a pond beneath large trees, with a distant herd and open sky in the background.

Les Vaches au marais (The Cows at the Swamp)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1850

Etching of an artist sketching inside a small wooden boat cabin, with a window view of sailboats on a river.

Le Bateau-Atelier (The Boat-Studio)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Pen and ink drawing of a seated man in a cap painting at an easel in a cluttered studio with a draped curtain.

"There the pale artist..." - illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New York: 1902), p. 95

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Etching of a hilly landscape with a carriage on a road, arched bridges, trees, and a distant town under a cloudy sky.

Mountain Landscape with Five Bridges, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1735

Pen and ink study of arched interior with columns and hooded kneeling figure, preparatory sketch by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Study for "Vigil" in The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of two men in Elizabethan dress grappling beneath trees, with a third man standing at right.

Oliver: "Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?", illustration for Act I, Scene i, As You Like It

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Etching of the Piazza di Spagna in Rome with a fountain, carriages, pedestrians, and the Spanish Steps rising to a church.

Veduta di Piazza di Spagna (View of the Piazza di Spagna), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Pen and ink study of a woman in a period gown entering a room while a maid in an apron waits beside a staircase.

Enter Mrs. Hardcastle & Maid, study for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1886

Etching of a figure in a rowboat on a calm river beside dense trees and grassy banks under a pale sky.

Un Coin de Riviere

Alphonse Legros

Hand-colored engraving of several brick Harvard College halls behind trees, with a rider on a white horse on a road in front.

North East View of the Several Halls of Harvard College

Fisher, 1823

Lithograph of steamships and sailing vessels in a moonlit sea action, with smoke and American flags, hills beyond.

Moon Light View of the Action off Anton Lizardo, March 6th, 1860

J. H. Bufford and Son's, Lith., 1860

Pencil and wash drawing of a log cabin with stone chimney in a forest, with a canoe on the ground nearby.

Hotel Conway on the Black Water

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a stream lined with trees, rocks, and a wooden post, with a small figure on a path.

Landscape with figure

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil drawing of a mower swinging a scythe in tall grass, with two more mowers and trees in the distance.

Bob's Dilemma (or "The Mowers")

Winslow Homer, 1881

Pencil sketch of a shaggy prehistoric elephant with curved tusks on yellowed tracing paper, with a handwritten note above.

Sketch of a rhinocerous-like animal, from Man Before Metals by N. Joly

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of revelers in checkered costumes drinking by a hearth while a seated woman watches from the left.

Sir Toby and his Companions, illustration for Act II, Scene iii, Twelfth Night

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Etching of a coastal landscape with tall trees, classical ruins, cattle, sailing ships and figures on the shore.

The Rape of Europa

called Claude Lorrain Claude Gellée, 1634

Hand-colored print of the frigate Philadelphia grounded off Tripoli, smoke rising, gunboats and a walled city nearby.

The U.S. Frigate Philadelphia on the rocks off Tripoli (From the U.S. Military Magazine Army and Navy, Vol. II)

E. J. Pinkerton, 1840

Botanical lithograph showing four stages of herbaceous plant grafting on rose stems, with labeled captions in French.

Journal De L'Academie D'Horticulture

Hand-colored print of soldiers manning cannons in earthwork batteries above a river valley with sailboats and a steamboat.

Siege Battery, West Point - Looking North

Charles Parsons, 1859

Hand-coloured print of warships with flags and cannon smoke attacking a shoreline fort, with rowing boats on choppy water.

Attack of Fort Oswego, on Lake Ontario

Captain Steele, 1817

Engraved view of a Roman palazzo facade with arched windows and sculpted pediment, with pedestrians on a street below.

Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale per le Segreterie de Brevi et della Sacra Consulta (View of the Palazzo B…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1729

Pencil and ink sketch of a young woman in a bonnet and long dress, looking over her shoulder, on a cream sheet.

Study of an unidentified young woman

Edwin Austin Abbey

Lithograph of a drawing master with spectacles correcting a seated student's sketch of a figure, with a plumb line and a clas

Mission pénible et délicate du professeur de dessin, c'est à lui qu'est reservée constamment la tâche difficile de re…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Etching of ruined arched substructures of Maecenas's villa at Tivoli, with overgrown trees and a small walking figure below.

Avanzi della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli . . . (Remains of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli . . . ), from Vedute di Rom…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1763

Hand-colored print of the clipper ship Electric under full sail with a steamer, small sailboat, and lighthouse on the coast.

Le Clipper Americain Electric

Louis LeBreton, 1854

Etching of a bull charging toward a man standing on a draped table in a bullring, with spectators watching nearby.

Otra locura suya en la misma plaza (Another Madness of his in the Same Ring), Plate 19 from La tauromaquia

Francisco Goya, 1815

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a two-story country house with a long porch, dormers, chimneys, and trees.

Sketch of a country home

Edwin Austin Abbey

Dark lithograph of a man seated at a desk under a lamp, writing among scattered papers in a shadowy room.

Sous la lampe (Under the Lamp), from Stéphane Mallarmé's translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

Édouard Manet, 1875

Etching of Doric temple ruins with fluted columns, fallen stones, cloaked figures and goats in the foreground.

Autre vue interieure des restes du Collège supposé des Anfictions (Another Interior View of the Remains of the So-cal…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Hand-colored lithograph with three river views of Kingston Point, Vleight Bergh and Rondout, NY, showing boats and cliffs.

Three Views on one page ; Kingston / Point (At top to left) ; Vleight Bergh (at top to right); Rondout, NY (bottom)

Lithograph of the paddle steamer Baltic under steam in rough sea, with smoke from its funnel and smaller boats nearby.

The United States Steam Ship Baltic

Charles Parsons, 1855

Etching of a misty river with a barge, a rowboat, and a factory chimney sending up smoke, with poplar trees on the left bank.

L'Île Lacroix, à Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1887

Graphite drawing on grey paper of a muscular male nude falling diagonally with outstretched arms and legs.

Falling Figure

Joseph Parrocel

Etching of a canal town with arcaded buildings, barges, a horse-drawn carriage and people on the quay under a cloudy sky.

Mestre, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1741

Pencil sketch of two women in swimsuits seen from behind and a seated child at left, drawn in loose outline.

Four Figures on Beach, probably in Provincetown

Charles Demuth, 1934

Hand-colored lithograph of a rider with a rifle on a bay horse in windblown prairie grass, with other riders in the distance.

A Check "Keep your distance!"

Nathaniel Currier, 1853

Etching of the ancient Roman Forum showing a ruined column, a fountain, cattle, riders and buildings under a cloudy sky.

Veduta del Sito, ov'era l'antico Foro Romano (View of the Site of the Ancient Roman Forum [with the Temple of Castor…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756

Etched woodland scene of a shaded path lined with tall trees and dense foliage, with an open sky on the right.

Rue des Bruyères à Sevres, ou Au Bas-Meudon

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Etching of a river under leaning trees with cattle in a boat, a rower, a crescent moon and a distant windmill.

Bois de la Haye

Paul Huet, 1867

Etching of the ruined Tomb of the Scipios with overgrown masonry, fallen stone fragments, and small figures in a landscape.

Tav. 18 Sepolcro della famiglia de'Scipioni (Pl. 18 Tomb of the Scipios), from Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed al…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Engraved interior of a crowded room with couples dancing while a fiddler plays and onlookers sit along the walls.

Legend of Sleepy Hollow, sheet 4 of 6

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1849

Etching of the Castello dell'Acqua Felice fountain in Rome with a church beside it and figures in the street.

Veduta del Castello dell'Acqua Felice . . . (View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Felice . . . ), from Vedute di Rom…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1751

Lithograph of two horses drinking from a bucket held by a stable hand in a top hat, with a broom-holding worker beside them.

Deux chevaux de poste à la porte d'une écurie (Two Post-Horses at a Stable Door)

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Hand-colored print of two whaling ships trapped among jagged Arctic ice floes under a pale sky.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871, Pl. I

John Perry Newell, 1872

Black and white print of beached sailing boats on wet sand at low tide under a turbulent, cloudy sky.

Maree Basse (maniere moire)

Eugène-Louis-Gabriel Isabey, 1831

Hand-colored print of the clipper ship Red Jacket under full sail among ice floes and icebergs off Cape Horn, with penguins.

Clipper Ship "Red Jacket" / In the ice off Cape Horn on her passage from Australia to Liverpool, August 1854

Charles Parsons, 1855

Etching of a bull charging toward a matador seated backward on a chair in a bullring, with spectators at the barrier.

Temeridad de Martincho en la plaza de Zaragoza (The Daring of Martincho in the Ring at Saragossa), Plate 18 from La t…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraving of a seated couple in a columned room, with a cherub and flower basket, looking out onto a garden fountain.

The Four Seasons: Spring

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Etching of a nymph and small satyr with two goats beneath a tree in a open landscape, with a distant town.

A Nymph with a Small Satyr and Two Goats, from Vari capricci (Various Capriccios)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740

Etching of the beheading of St. John the Baptist, with a woman holding a platter bearing the severed head among onlookers.

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Georges Lallemand, 1625

Sepia engraving of Venus on a chariot above grieving putti and a sleeping figure beneath a tree, with a swan in the foregroun

Venus Distraught over the Death of Adonis, plate 28, from Raccolta di alcuni disegni del Barberi [sic] da Cento detto…

Tommaso Piroli, 1764

Brown wash drawing of a windmill beside a canal with a second windmill on the flat horizon under cloudy sky.

Windmills in a Landscape

Etching of an ancient stone sepulchre with garland reliefs, arched niches and a gabled roof, with Latin caption below.

Sepulchrum Mariae Honorij Imp. Uxoris... (Page 1 of the Latin text of Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762

Etching of the Piazza di Monte Cavallo in Rome with colossal horse statues, a fountain, carriages and palace facades.

Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo (View of the Piazza di Monte Cavallo [now the Piazza del Quirinale with the Quir…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Two etched views of a Venetian waterfront with a domed church, rooftops, moored boats, and figures among stone rubble.

The House with the Inscription, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1741

Pencil sketch of a house on a path with trees, grasses, two birds perched above fruits and vegetables on a plate.

Untitled [doves, fruits, vegetables, house, written notes]

Pencil and charcoal sketch sheet with robed figures holding spears above and studies of hands, feet, and a boat below.

Sheet of sketches for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library (recto); Unidentified sketch…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and an entablature with small figures among Roman ruins under a cloudy sky.

Tav. 7 Tempio di Giove Tonans 1. Tempio della Concordia (Pl. 7 Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer] 1. Te…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Pen and ink sketch of a man in a curled wig seated at a table with a candelabra and wine glass, with a servant beside him.

Sketch for The Noble Patron

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pencil sketch of a country road through grassy fields, with tall trees on the right and a fence and buildings in the distance

Landscape with road running through

Edwin Austin Abbey