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Etching of St Paul's Cathedral dome and columned west front seen down a narrow London street between tall buildings.

Saint Paul's, Fleet Street, London

Joseph Pennell, 1905

Lithograph portrait of an elderly man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark cloak with a cross, with French text below.

Joseph Xavier Tissot, in religion Father Hilarion. Lithograph by A. Lalauze [?]

Adolphe Lalauze

Brown wash drawing of Christ being disrobed by soldiers before a crowd, with a ladder and mountain landscape behind.

The Disrobing of Christ

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1785-90

Etching of Gothic towers rising above trees, reflected in still water, framed by dark trees on both sides.

Westminster's Towers, from Saint James Park

Joseph Pennell, 1905

Oval lithograph portrait of an elderly bald man in a white clerical collar and cassock, captioned S. Vincenzo de Paoli.

Saint Vincent de Paul. Lithograph by A. Guardassoni

Alessandro Guardassoni

Pastel drawing of a young child with short hair in a pale draped garment against loose blue strokes.

Young Saint John

Berthe Morisot, 1890

Etching of the tall tiered tower and spire of Saint Mary-le-Strand church with surrounding London buildings and street.

Church of Saint Mary-le-Strand

Joseph Pennell, 1906

Engraving of Saint Bruno kneeling and praying in a rocky wilderness, with a dog, skull and book nearby.

Saint Bruno praying in the wilderness. Engraving after C. Mellan

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Virgin and Child with two women in an oval composition, washed and heightened in white.

Virgin and Child with St. Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Anne (?)

Battista Franco Veneziano, c. 1545

Etching of a London street with a stone archway, shop signs, a walking figure, and brick buildings with chimneys.

Saint Bartholomew's Gate

Joseph Pennell, 1907

Sepia etching of a man in a cap pointing from an easel holding a Virgin Mary toward a procession outside a window.

Pier Leone Ghezzi standing before his easel on which is placed an image of the Virgin Mary, and pointing out of the w…

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Red chalk drawing of a muscular nude man seen from behind, seated with arms raised, with faint sketch lines around him.

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

Michelangelo, 1510-1511

Etching of a crowded city square with a tall colonnaded building, street lamps, a statue, and pedestrians in period dress.

Saint Paul's Pavement

Joseph Pennell, 1905

Watercolor of the seated Great Buddha at Kamakura with eyes lowered, framed by a bamboo canopy, stone lantern and green folia

The Great Statue of Amida Buddha at Kamakura, Known as the Daibutsu, from the Priest's Garden

John La Farge, 1887

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with a turbaned figure, kneeling elder, Virgin and Christ Child before archit

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1740

Print of the Holy Family in an oval frame with angels, a child with a lamb, and an older man drawing back a curtain.

Holy Family in an Oval Frame

Ludwig Büsinck, 1623

Engraving of Christ bearing the cross through a crowd of soldiers on horseback, onlookers and dogs, with rocky hills behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475-80

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bound figure led past soldiers and onlookers in a dim interior.

Christ Taken before Caiaphas

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1641-42

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary holds the Christ Child while Joseph sits beside her, with a winged child at lower left.

The Holy Family

Orazio de Santis, 1568

Chalk drawing of a woman's head tilted down, eyes lowered, with soft wavy hair in shaded tones.

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Leonardo da Vinci, 1510-13

Drawing of Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child walking under a tree, in brown wash with white highlights.

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

Claude Simpol, c. 1695-1700

Dark monochrome print of a muscular nude man reaching toward a winged radiant figure with rays of light.

The Creation of Adam

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1645/50

Etching of the crucifixion of Christ between two thieves, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below under radiating light.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653

Pen and brown wash drawing of Christ holding a chalice and cross beside kneeling figures, with a sketch of a winged figure on

Christ Holding a Chalice and Cross (recto); Resurrected Christ and Lamb of God (verso)

Alonso Cano, 1666

Brown ink and wash drawing of an armored rider on a rearing horse attacking a dragon on the ground.

Saint George and the Dragon

Follower of Luca Cambiaso, c. 1570

Two turbaned figures meet in a rocky landscape, one on a black horse beside a man seated on a brown camel, framed by Persian

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Mustafa ibn Vali, ca. 1595

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded man in a robe among turbaned onlookers, with a seated veiled woman in the foreground.

The Meeting of Christ with Martha and Mary after the Death of Lazarus

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1662-65

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with a mitred saint and two infants beneath a draped canopy.

Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist and Ecclesiastic Saint

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining bearded male figure gazing upward, with hatched shading on tinted paper.

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1510-11

Red chalk drawing of robed apostles gathered around a stone tomb beneath an arched background, gesturing and looking upward.

The Apostles Gathered Around the Tomb of the Virgin

Camillo Procaccini, c. 1594

Engraving of Saint Jerome writing at a desk in his cell, with a sleeping lion at his feet and an hourglass on the wall.

Saint Jerome in his Cell

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58