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76,167 works

Engraving of Saint Anne holding the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary in an interior with a balustrade, tree, and birds.

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved rococo design of a covered tureen with shell body, acanthus scrolls, and foliage finial, numbered 78.

Pot à Oille

Jacques III Roëttiers, 1740

Etched bust portrait of a man with curled hair, mustache, lace collar and draped cloak, with a caption below.

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etched ornamental plate with two ram heads, acanthus scrolls, ribbons and hanging fruit garlands, symmetrical grotesque desig

Plate, from Ornamenti o Grottesche (Ornaments or Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1610

Engraved scene of a crowded city square with stone buildings, a raised platform, and onlookers watching from balconies.

Ecce Homo (copy)

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved plate of an ornate symmetrical pendant design with scrolling foliage, flowers and beads on a light background.

Design for a Pendant, plate XXI, from the series Tabulae Gemmiferae XXIV

Peter Symony, 1620

Circular engraved design with a jester's head at center, surrounded by scrollwork, dragons, a peacock and mythical figures.

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Engraved pastoral landscape with an arched bridge over a river, grazing sheep, draped figures, and distant mountains.

Jacob and Laban (Il Ponti)

William Woollett, 1780

Engraved oval panel with a crowned nude figure on an eagle, surrounded by grotesque ornaments, scrollwork and squirrels on bl

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, 1580

Engraved rococo ornament with two seated figures in chinoiserie dress, one holding a parasol, beneath scrollwork and a foliag

Conversation Chinoise

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etched rococo cartouche design with a tiger on top, a cherub, grapevines, and a waterfall pouring into a basin.

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraved rococo fountain design with scrolling trelliswork arches, figures, a lion, and a helmet among trees and rays of ligh

Design for Fountain with Trelliswork Arches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo altar cross with radiating rays, cherubs and a seated figure on a scrolled pedestal.

Croix d'Autel (Cross of the Altar), plate 79, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meisson…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical America: a feathered woman with a bow beside a crocodile, parrot, monkey and tropica

America

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)

Francesco Piranesi, 1780

Engraving of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, under a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

Etching of Perseus flying above a sea monster while figures on a shore raise their arms beside a rocky cliff.

Perseus and Andromeda

Michael Hartwagner, 1740

Engraved design plate of a rococo water ewer with a scrolling handle, floral garland, and pedestal base.

Pot à l'eau

Pierre Germain, 1740

Sepia etching of a seated woman and a winged youth writing on a classical monument beside architectural fragments.

Etching with aquatint: Architecture

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Hand-colored engraving of armored warriors in red cloaks beneath a flowering tree, with spears, a striped standard and a hors

The Vow of Jephthah

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Engraving of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin beside infant Christ in a manger, shepherds with a lamb at left, angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Flemish Nicolaus van Aelst, 1600

Two engraved plates of putti: one playing flute and lyre on a pedestal, the other helmeted beside a pelt and winged cherub.

Suitte des Enfants

Michael Hartwagner, 1770

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720