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Collage of thirteen ornamental design studies for interior decoration, with scrolls, foliage, animals and painted bands.

Thirteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Red chalk sketch of a horse and a dog in overlapping poses on pale toned paper.

Sketch of Horse and Dog

Dirk Valkenburg, n.d.

Ink and wash design sheet with four corner panels of griffins, birds, dolphins and scrolling foliage around a central motif.

Grotesque designs featuring griffin, birds, and dolphins

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of men and youths with donkeys in a landscape, one man lifting a cup from a grain sack while others react.

Joseph's cup being discovered in Benjamin's sack of grain

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of Saint Mark seated and writing with a winged lion beside him in a stone interior.

Saint Mark writing his Gospel, a winged lion at the right

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Etching of two hunters with a boar, playful cupids, a reclining figure by a fountain, and a wooded landscape.

Meleager and Atalanta

François Chauveau, 1643

Pencil sketches of two birds on tan paper with handwritten notes in the margins.

Sketches of Birds

Henry Stacy Marks, c. 1888

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned emperor at a banquet between columns, with courtiers, a page, and a dog in the foreground.

Episode from the "Gesta Romanorum": The Emperor and the Page

Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500-1537

Tall decorative door design with gilded panels, a dancing woman with a tambourine, and a lower roundel of ducks among flowers

Design for a decorated door

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Etching of a Chicago street with a stone lion sculpture, tall ornate buildings, and pedestrians beneath a hatched sky.

The Lion, Chicago

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of two women conversing on a grassy bank by a stream, with a dog and trees in the background.

Two Women in a Landscape

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a grazing cow beside a tree under storm clouds, with a shaft of light over flat fields and a distant spire.

Landscape with Storm

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of an allegorical procession with a chariot, a winged trumpeter in the clouds, and classical ruins beneath a zodiac s

The Triumph of Modern Art

Jean Barbault, 18th century

Circular engraving of a hooded figure being robbed by a man in a round sphere, with a windmill and carriage behind.

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Engraving in reddish-brown ink of a battle scene with an overturned chariot, fallen soldiers, rearing horses and a banner.

Fall of Antiochus From His Chariot

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Pen sketch sheet with a man aiming a rifle, studies of faces and animal heads, and rococo ornament panels.

Sheet of sketches

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Engraved street view of the Horse Guards building in London with a carriage and pedestrians in the foreground.

Gezicht op de Horse Guards, te Londen

John Shury, 1814

Etching of a girl offering a drink to a small boy in a barn beside cows, sheep and a dog, with a pail hanging overhead.

Le Bonne Petite Soeur

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1765-71

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted rider on a horse gesturing to soldiers, with a standard bearer and dog in the foreground.

Scene from the Life of Saint Bartholomew (fragment)

Erasmus Quellinus, 1620-78

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Engraved metal printing block showing horses pulling a loaded sleigh with riders through a snowy landscape with bare trees.

The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road, for "Antoine's Moose-Yard," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," October 1890

Frederic Remington, 1890

Printing block showing a mounted rider in a hat beside a fence with hounds gathering near the horse in a wooded scene.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington, 1891

Engraving allegory of Africa with a central female figure, an elephant, a lion, palm trees, archers and a chameleon.

Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of crowned allegorical figure of Europe flanked by armed men, a horse, a bear, grapevines and fruit ornament.

Allegory of Europe, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraved allegory of Asia with a central female figure, a camel, an elephant, winged griffins and decorative foliage.

Allegory of Asia, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of allegorical America, a nude woman with feathered headdress riding an armadillo, with hunting and battle scenes b

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Etching of four draught horses pulling a loaded cart across a field, with a driver near the wheel at right.

Draught Horses

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1906

Etching of cavalry riders clashing with swords near trees, with a fallen horse in the foreground and a cloudy sky.

Clash of the Cavalry

Hubert Robert, n.d.

Engraving of an old man embracing a kneeling younger man on a colonnaded terrace, with onlookers and a garden landscape behin

Return of the Prodigal Son

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Engraving of a dying man on a bed attended by angels and a praying woman, with an angel descending in light above.

The Death of Lazarus, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare)

Abraham Bosse, 1620-76