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New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Clockwork, plate 5 by Theodoor Galle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Clockwork, plate 5

Theodoor Galle (d. 1633)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

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New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Eyeglasses, plate 15 by Jan Collaert I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Eyeglasses, plate 15

Jan Collaert I (d. 1581)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

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New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Oil Painting, plate 14 by Jan Collaert I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Oil Painting, plate 14

Jan Collaert I (d. 1581)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Watermill, plate 10 by Jan Collaert I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Watermill, plate 10

Jan Collaert I (d. 1581)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Tom Jones Assisting Molly Seagrim in the Churchyard by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tom Jones Assisting Molly Seagrim in the Churchyard

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (d. 1812)

1775 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing

Cleared · Public Domain

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A blot-lake with boat, surrounded by trees by Alexander Cozens, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A blot-lake with boat, surrounded by trees

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

1750–86 · Graphite, brush and black ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Fallen Tree by Alexander Cozens, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fallen Tree

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

ca. 1785 · Aquatint with additions in brush and gray wash and graphite

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No open reproduction

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A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, Plates 1-8

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

1786 · Etching, aquatint, mezzotint

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No open reproduction

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A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, Plates 19-37

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

1786 · Etching, aquatint, mezzotint

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No open reproduction

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A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, Plates 38-43

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

1786 · Etching, aquatint, mezzotint

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, Plates 9-18

Alexander Cozens (d. 1786)

1786 · Etching, aquatint, mezzotint

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Study of Trees and Shrubs with a Seated Figure

William Havell (d. 1857)

1804–6 · Pen lithograph on yellow-ocher aquatint mount

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