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76,326 works

Engraved plate of an ornate lidded vase with lion-head handles and a reclining lion relief, with a Latin caption below.

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Pencil sketch of a rider on a galloping horse leading a pack of running dogs down a hillside, with a second rider behind.

Tannery, with His Dogs, Came Galloping Up the Cañon

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Woodblock print of travelers and a horse at a teahouse beside a bridge, with thatched houses and a blue sea behind.

Totsuka Teahouse, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraved portrait of Saint Dominic with halo, crucifix, lily and rosary, surrounded by oval scenes from his life.

Saint Dominic

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1630

Boys raiding a sand-swallow colony on a grassy sand cliff, with birds flying around and eggs scattered on the slope.

Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?"

Edward Lagarde, 1870

Woodblock print of New Year street performers with drummers, kimono-clad women and a man in a patterned robe near pine branch

New Years in Yoshiwara

Katsushika Hokusai, 1840

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded man in a skullcap seated in a carved armchair beside an arched window.

Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraved Harper's Weekly page with vignettes of nurses, women sewing soldiers' shirts, and a wounded soldier in bed.

Our Women and the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched title plate with grotesque ornamental border, winged figures and Dutch text in a central cartouche.

Title plate, from Grottesco in diversche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1570

Engraving of guests toasting around a table at left and a church congregation at right, framed by angels and holly.

Seeing the Old Year Out

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved rococo cartouche design with two horses, scrolling foliage, fleur-de-lis and fruit on a pale page.

Design for a Cartouche Evoking War

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Title page with a hand-colored wreath of flowers and leaves framing French handwritten text, numbered No. 1.

Title page, plate 1, in Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, No.1

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved rococo ornament with scrolls, a seated plumed figure, birds and flowers, by Antoine Aveline, 1730.

Ornament Design with Birds and a Figure

Antoine Aveline, 1730

Engraving of Saint Francis and Saint Clara adoring the infant Jesus in a manger, with rays of light and a Latin inscription b

Saint Francis and Saint Clara Adoring the Infant Jesus

Flemish Pieter de Jode the Younger, 1650

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Engraving of Clelia on a rearing horse crossing a river, with women and soldiers, trees and billowing drapery.

Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a central chariot scene, tritons, birds, armor and dense scrollwork.

Plate 23, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Etched vertical ornament panel with a stag head, boar head, crossed arrows and oak branches by Stefano della Bella.

Ornamenti o Grottesche (Grotesque Ornament)

Stefano Della Bella, 1610

Engraved plate showing two ornate pendant jewelry designs with armillary spheres, sphinxes, and pear-shaped drops.

Two Pendant Designs

Flemish Hans Collaert the Elder, 1580

Engraving of a woman pouring water in an oval frame, with four putti and a shell motif, labeled Temperantia.

Temperance, plate 7 of "VII Virtutim...Imagines"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Six teardrop-shaped ornamental designs with scrollwork and flowers in blue wash, arranged in two rows on a pale sheet.

Six Designs for Components of a Columbine Cup, from the series Allerley Gebuntznierte Fisirungen

Bernhard Zan, 1580

Engraved ornament design of a winged sphinx with garlands and rococo scrollwork, with grape clusters, on a bound page.

Sphynx Ornament Design

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Etching of Saturn, an elderly bearded nude seated on clouds, holding a scythe, by Girolamo Scarselli.

Saturn

Girolamo Scarselli, 1670

Engraved bust portrait of an elderly bearded man in a fur-trimmed coat and dark cap, with a Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Titian

Agostino Carracci, 1580

Engraved ornamental plate with a central female figure with spear inside an arch, surrounded by scrolling grotesque decoratio

Plate 25, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of Saint Jerome kneeling beside a sleeping lion, holding a crucifix, with a skull at his feet.

Saint Jerome

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Engraving of a wooden velvet loom with a weaver seated at the treadles, numbered parts and hanging weights.

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1700

Engraved circular rococo cartouche with scrollwork, an urn with a mask, a column, feathery branches and a distant fountain.

Ornament, Cartouche

Matthias Lock, 1750

Engraving of Flora offering a flower wreath to a reclining Cupid beside a flower-filled urn in a wooded landscape.

Flore et l'Amour

François Boucher, 1740

Etching of a woman with an upswept hairstyle holding an infant against her shoulder, with sparse room lines behind them.

Gardner (Cassatt) Held by His Mother

Mary Cassatt, 1880

Engraved design for a garden fireworks display with a tiered tower, statues, and a palace facade framed by trees.

Projet d'un feu d'Artifice dans un Jardin (Design for Fireworks in a Garden), plate 114, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle M…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740