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Krishna Brings the Messenger Akrura Inside Nanda’s House: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana Manuscript

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1620–30 · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Plan and view of the city of Arras

Stefano della Bella (d. 1664)

1641 · Etching

Francesco I d'Este Receives the General of the French King's Army in Italy, depicted in a room beneath The Rape of Europa, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

1659 · Etching

A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs, to Greenwich, on the North, or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point on the East, or Sound River, Shewing the Several Street, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort, & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds with and without the Town, Survey'd in Winter 1766-66 [The Montresor Plan]

Peter Andrews (d. 1782)

1768 · Etching and engraving; first state

A Plan of Operations of the King's Army, under the Command of General Sir William Howe, K.B., in New York and East New Jersey, against the American Forces Commanded by General Washington, From the 12th of October, to the 28th of November 1776...

Claude Joseph Sauthier (d. 1802)

February 25, 1777 · Hand-colored etching and engraving

Woodchoppers' Huts in a Virginia Forest. On the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Wood Supplied U.S.M.R. Railroads under Supervision of Major Brayton

Andrew Joseph Russell (d. 1902)

June 1863 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

"Peacemaker" Colt Single-Action Army Revolver, serial no. 4519

Samuel Colt (d. 1862)

1874 · Steel, iron, wood

[Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946]

U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps

1946 · Gelatin silver print

The Prospect of Chester the South and West Side, and The Ground Plan of Chester (from Daniel King's "The Vale-Royall of England" and "A Short Treatise of the Isle of Man")

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1656 · Etching; first state of three ? (NH)

A Plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & East New Jersey, with a particular Description of the Engagement on the Woody Heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th of August 1776, between His Majesty's Forces Commanded by General Howe and the Americans under Major General Putnam, Shewing also the Landing of the British Army on New-York Island, and the Taking of the City of New-York &c. on the 15th of September following, with the Subsequent Disposition of Both the Armies [The Howe War Plan]

William Faden the Younger (d. 1836)

[October 19, 1776], reissued October 4, 1777 · Hand-colored engraving; fifth state

A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the Command of General Sir WIlliam Howe, K. B., in New York and East New Jersey...against the American Forces Commanded by General George Washington, from the 12th of October to the 28th of November 1776

Claude Joseph Sauthier (d. 1802)

1777 · Hand-colored etching and engraving

Parts of the Counties of Charlotte and Albany, in the Province of New York; being the Seat of War between the King's Forces under Lieut. General Burgoygne and the Rebel Army, from the London Magazine

Thomas Kitchin (d. 1784)

1778 · Etching and engraving