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76,167 works

Book page with six engraved rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche for Meissonnier's Livre de Leg

Title page for Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 13 in Ouvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Hand-colored tinsel picture of a uniformed man reading on a green sofa with a sleeping child in a book-lined study.

"Tinsel Picture": Napoleon in His Study

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1850

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with an animal handle, lion masks, and garlands, labeled Romae ab antiquo repertum.

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Engraving of a crowned child on a tricycle beside a winged figure, while Father Time pushes a 1868 wheelbarrow past a night c

The New Year - 1869

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved pendant design with a central niche showing a female figure and two children labeled Charitas, surrounded by scrollw

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1610

Engraved plate with two rococo vase designs with scrolling foliage, a small cartouche between them, and number 143.

Two Designs for Vase-Like Ornaments

Franz Xaver Habermann, 1740

Ink and wash title page with ornamental frame, flower garland, owl coat of arms, and lettering for Delafosse's 5th collection

Title Page

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Engraving of a chained bearded man lying in a dark cell beside several motionless children on a stone floor.

Ugolino and His Sons

Pietro Bettelini, 1810

Engraving of a shepherd boy resting beside his crook, with sheep, a leaning tree and distant buildings in a green landscape.

A Shepherd Boy

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Hand-colored print of stylized fantastic flowers in grey, pink, blue and orange on a branching stem with feathery foliage.

Fantastic flower motif from "Nouvelle Suitte de fleurs iéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved plate of a reclining river god with reeds and landscape in an oval, framed by an ornate scrolled border.

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved ornamental plate with a central oval of a winged nude figure, surrounded by grotesque scrolls, masks, lions and sphi

Plate 28, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of fighting horses rearing in a hilly landscape with a wolf at lower left and trees at upper right.

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Hand-colored engraving of two bearded men talking beneath a flowering tree, with armed attendants and a horseman nearby.

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Engraved design drawing of an ornate standing cup with a tall domed cover, decorated with masks, cherubs and scrollwork.

Standing Cup with Cover, from "Novum opus cratero graphicum..."

Matthias Zündt, 1550

Engraved vertical ornament with a flaming candelabrum, winged birds, medallions, mermaids and scrollwork on a pale sheet.

Ornamental Candelabrum

Daniel Hopfer, 1520

Engraved ornamental frieze with classical figures, scrollwork, and a central cartouche reading Theodor de Bry.

Plate 1, from a set of four frieze designs

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a cat on a bench, and a man at a sunlit window in an interior.

The Virgin and Child with the Cat and Joseph at the Window

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Etching of Apollo radiating light above a rocky slope with a winged horse, muses with a lyre, and scattered armor and books.

Scene with Apollo

Christian Winck, 1800

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing in a grotto pool, with a hunter with antlers at left, captioned in Latin.

Diana and Actaeon

Michael Hartwagner, 1700

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, with radiant light, a crown of thorns and a distant cros

Pieta

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Etching of a beggar family receiving coins from a man at a house doorway, with a woman carrying a basket and child.

Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraving of a bearded man pointing to his forehead beside a woman holding an ornate covered jar, with a distant landscape.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved heraldic design with a central coat of arms, two armored warriors, a St. George medallion and a Latin inscription.

Arms of the Pfinzing von

Matthias Zündt, 1560

Woodcut title page showing crowned Christ seated on a bench beside a kneeling man, with Latin text above and verse below.

Title Page, The Great Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of three ornate flower vases with serpent handles and carved masks, each holding a bouquet of blossoms.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Engraving of five lansquenet soldiers and a turbaned rider on horseback in a landscape with trees.

Five Lansquenets and an Oriental on Horseback

Albrecht Dürer

Engraving of Venus and Cupid seated in a forge with blacksmiths working at an anvil and weapons scattered nearby.

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, 1700

Etching of figures gathered around an infant in a dim interior with a ladder and barrel at left.

The Circumcision in the Stable

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and a parrot, with a tree and castle in the background.

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of three winged angels standing as a bearded man kneels before them beside a ruined building and tree branches.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with a star crown, holding the infant Christ and a sceptre, standing on a crescent moon.

The Virgin with the Crown of Stars

Albrecht Dürer, 1500