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Etching of Christ healing a paralytic lowered through a roof while a crowd watches, with a Latin caption below.

Healing the Paralytic (Jésus-Christ prouve en guérissant un paralytique, qu'il a le pouvoir de pardonner les péchés)

Brown ink drawing of Rome with Saint Peter's dome, a stone arched bridge over the Tiber, and the round Castel Sant' Angelo.

View of Rome with the Dome of Saint Peter's and the Castel Sant' Angelo

Giuseppe Zocchi, 1744

St James Minor. Plate 1. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Engraving of the Risen Christ with a banner between Saint Andrew holding an X-shaped cross and armored Saint Longinus.

Risen Christ Between Saints Andrew and Longinus

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, c. 1472

Pencil drawing of Saint Philip baptising a kneeling eunuch in water, with a horse, chariot wheel and angel above.

Saint Philip Baptising the Eunuch

Edward Burne-Jones, 1853/98

Engraving of the risen Christ flanked by Saint Andrew with a cross and an armored Saint Longinus with a spear.

The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, c. 1472

Brown wash drawing of riders falling beneath a divine light beam, with angels in clouds above a city wall.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci, ca. 1587-89

Engraving of Christ bound to a column while two men whip him, with armored soldiers and a distant landscape behind.

The Flagellation of Christ, with the Landscape Background

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, 1475/80

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky river landscape with a large tree and two small figures at lower left.

Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Possibly Angeluccio, n.d.

Etching of a couple leaning on a seawall beside a street lamp, with a town of low buildings beyond under a hazy sky.

Fisherman at Saint Ives

Anders Zorn, 1891

Engraving of the Holy Family with young John the Baptist, a bird and a cat in an interior, by Cornelis Cort, 1577.

Heilige Familie met Johannes de Doper en kat (La Madonna del Gatto)

Cornelis Cort, 1577

Engraved frontispiece showing a bearded God figure above a winged angel writing and a veiled seated woman holding a book.

Frontispiece to the Bible

Claude Mellan, 1642

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of the Entombment: mourners around a sarcophagus at a rocky cave, with three crosses and a soldier in the distance.

The Entombment

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, 1485/90, possibly printed in the 18th century

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of two draped standing male figures, one holding a key, in a religious composition.

Saints Peter and Paul

Cherubino Alberti

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child enthroned between two Saints John, with kneeling winged angels in front.

The Madonna Enthroned with Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist

Hans von Aachen, 1589

Black and white woodcut of the crucifixion with angels, mourners, a mounted soldier, and a skull in the foreground.

Crucifixion. From: The large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1497

Etching of a Holy Family in a dim interior, a woman holding a child beside a man at a table by a bright arched window.

Holy Family in an interior

Ferdinand Bol, 1643

Pen and brown ink drawing of Saint George on horseback lancing a dragon beneath a tree, by Moritz von Schwind.

Saint George and the Dragon

Moritz von Schwind, 1825

Woodcut of Saint Jude with halo and staff, flanked by ornamental plant stems, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1510-1515.

Saint Jude, from Christ, the Apostles and Saint Paul

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1510/15

Woodcut of Saint Matthias holding a scroll and book, with a halo, flanked by ornamental foliage borders.

Saint Matthias, from Christ, the Apostles and Saint Paul

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1510/15

Pen and ink drawing of Pilate washing his hands before a crowd of soldiers, with a column, drapery and city behind.

Pilate Washing his Hands

Bernard van Orley, early 1530s

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ being whipped by two men beside a column, with onlookers on a balcony above.

Flagellation of Christ

School of Guercino, n.d.

Loose ink and wash sketch of robed figures tending a body in a stone interior, mourners in the background.

The Laying Out of Christ

Ink and gray wash drawing of a haloed rider on horseback sharing his cloak with a beggar at his knee.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Vittore Carpaccio, 1493-1500

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with flowing hair in brown wash and red chalk against a dark background.

Study for the figure of Moses

Jacob de Wit, 1730-37

Pen and wash drawing of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure on a balcony above a crowd, framed by a border of birds, flowers and urns

Ecce Homo

Maerten de Vos, 1584

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with cherubs and an angel holding a cross, heightened with white.

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Brown wash drawing of the risen Christ rising above a tomb as startled soldiers recoil below.

The Resurrection of Christ

Denys Calvaert, n.d.

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ child in a rocky grotto surrounded by cherubs, with two older men at the sides.

The Adoration of the Magi (Virgin of the Grotto)

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, c. 1500

Head of Saint John the Baptist

Hans Baldung Grien, 1516

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859