
Portrait of a Man
Jacob Backer (d. 1651)
ca. 1645–50 · Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of a Man
Jacob Backer (d. 1651)
ca. 1645–50 · Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pierre Vernede (d. 1680)
ca. 1650 · Case: rock crystal and enameled gold mounts; Dial: gold, champlevé enamel, and painted enamel; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bedcover
Unrecorded maker
1725–50 · Silk and metal-wrapped thread on linen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bun’ya no Asayasu (no. 36), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Bun'ya no Asayasu)
Utagawa Kunisada (d. 1864)
ca. 1844 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); vertical ōban; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine)
Utagawa Kunisada (d. 1864)
ca. 1844 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); vertical oban; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5
John Sartain (d. 1897)
January–December 1849 · Illustrations: steel engravings, mezzotints, wood engravings, lithographs
In copyright
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Album containing prints clipped from American and British periodicals
Illman and Sons (d. 1900)
1815–60 · Hand-colored etching, engraving, lithograph, mezzotint
In copyright
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Illustrated London Almanack
William Biscombe Gardner (d. 1919)
1876–80 · Illustrations: wood engravings and color lithographs
In copyright
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The Dial, No. 5
Charles Haslewood Shannon (d. 1937)
1897 · Illustrations: woodcuts, lithographs, photomechanical process
In copyright
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Card No. 5, King Peter of Servia, from the World War I Scenes series (T121) issued by Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
American Tobacco Company
1914–15 · Photolithograph
In copyright
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Peter I, King of Serbia, from "Europe During the War"
Anonymous, 20th century (d. 1999)
ca. 1920 · Commercial color lithograph
In copyright
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