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Saint John the Evangelist

Upper Rhine (Switzerland)

ca. 1480 · Pen and blackish brown ink and gray wash over a black chalk underdrawing (still partially visible in the foliate forms of the throne at the upper right), the thin, pale lines of the preliminary ink drawing clearly distinguishable from the thicker, darker ones on top of them, which have dense, felt-like accumulations of tiny strokes in some of the shadows, but are by the same hand; traces of a curved line in black chalk and partly in brush and gray ink in the lower corners and at the upper right.

Helenus and Andromache Give Presents to Aeneas (Aeneid, Book III)

Master of the Aeneid (d. 1545)

ca. 1530–35 · Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

Dish with Hydrangeas

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1690–1730 · Porcelain with celadon glaze and underglaze blue decoration (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register

Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)

December 1768 · Etching and engraving

Plate 42: Robert Macaire's boarding school, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

1838 · Color lithograph on wove paper; third state of three (Delteil)

Fan leaf showing the interior of an opera house

F. X. Willaeys-Delaire (d. 1900)

probably 1830s–40s · Etching and stipple engraving

The Story of Apollo and Diana: Leto and the Lycian Peasants

Etienne Delaune (d. 1583)

1547–48 · Engraving; first state

Household Troops, or a Sketch of a Few, of the Principal Trustworthy and Confidential Domestics of Worthy and Confiding Families

Isaac Robert Cruikshank (d. 1856)

December 1827 · Hand-colored etching

Household Troops, or a Sketch of a Few, of the Principal Trustworthy and Confidential Domestics of Worthy and Confiding Families

Isaac Robert Cruikshank (d. 1856)

December 1827 · Etching

Bodhidharma

Qi Baishi (d. 1957)

dated 1913 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Shell Ring (Yua)

Unrecorded maker

19th–early 20th century · Tridacna shell

Yam Mask

Unrecorded maker

early to mid-20th century · Fiber, paint