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Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds: Christ child in a manger, Virgin Mary, kneeling shepherds, and angels in clouds

Adoration of the Shepherds

Cornelis Cort, 1567

Red chalk drawing of mourners lowering the dead Christ onto a stone tomb, with veiled women and a bearded man looking on.

The Entombment

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 18th century

Chalk drapery study on blue paper showing a veil and folded sleeve with white highlights.

Drapery study for the Madonna Litta

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, 1490

Grey wash drawing in oval format showing a radiant monstrance among clouds and angels, with allegorical figures and a globe b

Veneration of the Eucharist by the Peoples of the World (Allegories of the Four Continents)

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1720-74

Study for the Head of the Infant Christ at the Breast of the Virgin

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, 1490

Brown ink drawing of robed onlookers, an armored man, and a reclining nude figure under a draped canopy.

Saint Anthony of Padua and the Miracle of the Miser's Heart

Antonio Lombardo, 1501

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Christ Child with saints in clouds, an angel pouring from a vase toward souls below.

The Virgin and Saint Joseph with Saint Anthony of Padua Seated in the Heavens Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory,…

Pietro Antonio de' Pietri, 1690/1710

Grey wash drawing of a baroque design with a winged angel, a bishop, a haloed saint with a skull, and a coat of arms.

Design for a Stained Glass Window or Frontispiece with the Arms of a Cleric

Johann Heiss, mid-17th-early 18th century

Engraving of a seated writer at a desk with an angel, a boat of figures on water, a walled city, and a dog and bird below.

Jean Duvet as Saint John the Evangelist

Jean Duvet, 1555

Blue-grey wash drawing of a female saint rising through clouds among angels and putti, with a crowned figure above.

Apotheosis of a Female Saint

Giacomo Farelli, 1700

Pen drawing of Christ carrying a cross through a crowd of soldiers, with a town and tower in the background.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Wolfgang Huber, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of a pastoral scene with camels, cattle, goats, spearmen and two wrestling figures on a bank.

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Augustin Hirschvogel

Brown ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier with spear and shield, with two head studies in the lower left.

Soldier Running :Study for Figure in Left Foreground, "Betrayal of Christ," Rome, S. Maria della Consolazione, Mattte…

Taddeo Zuccari, 1520

Pen-and-ink print of robed figures at a rock spilling water, with animals drinking and people filling jugs, tents in the dist

Moses Striking the Rock

Augustin Hirschvogel

Engraving of Saint George on horseback fighting a dragon, with a kneeling princess and a castle on a cliff at right.

Saint George and the Dragon

Master AG, c. 1480/1490

Woodcut-style landscape with tall trees, a town, rocky peaks, a distant sea, and a seated figure writing at lower right.

Saint John on Patmos

Master H.W.G., c. 1545/1555

Engraving of a bearded saint with halo, holding a staff and book, standing barefoot on a mound, with inscriptions below.

Saint Engelmundus

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Pen and ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist with a lamb in a wooded wilderness, within a circular format.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1510-15

Brown wash drawing of Abraham raising a sword as a winged angel restrains him over a nude youth, Isaac.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Johan Carl Loth, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling haloed woman looking up at a haloed barefoot figure holding a cross, with lilies behind.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Master of the Drapery Studies, ca. 1490

Loose pen and ink sketch of the Holy Family with St. John the Baptist over a faint grid.

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

Anton Raphael Mengs, mid-18th century

Etching of a country road with trees, horses, cattle and a ruined abbey on a hill, by J.M.W. Turner, 1811.

Saint Catherine's Hill Near Guilford

Joseph Mallord William Turner, published 1811

Pen and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child in glory with angels above, and a winged warrior driving a falling demon below.

Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Mastelletta; Angel Gabriel Driving Lucifer from Heaven, Study after Marcanton…

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil drawing of the Lamentation of Christ with mourning figures, cypress trees and a distant landscape.

The Lamentation

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1840-45

Sepia drawing of Christ gesturing to sleeping disciples in a rocky garden, with an angel appearing in a cave behind.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1848

Pen and gray wash drawing of a bearded saint presenting a young boy to the Virgin on clouds, with putti and columns.

Saint Stephen of Hungary Presenting his Son, Saint Emeric, to the Virgin

Franz Xavier Karl Palko, 1740-67

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child on steps, a kneeling king offering a vessel, and attendants by a colum

Adoration of the Magi

Attributed to Francesco Brizio, c. 1595

Etching of the Holy Family beside a column, with God the Father and cherubs in clouds above.

Holy Family

Giulio Carpioni, 1640/1660

Red chalk drawing of a winged angel above kneeling figures, sheep, cattle and a donkey in a rocky landscape.

The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1655

Etching of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary, with three mourners and a cross in a landscape.

Pietà (the "Christ of Caprarola")

Annibale Carracci, 1597

Brown ink drawing of the Madonna and Child enthroned between two bishops, with a young saint and putti pulling back curtains.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Bishops with St. John

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of shepherds adoring the Virgin and Christ Child in a rustic stable interior.

Adoration of the Shepards

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century