
Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Unrecorded maker
last decade of the 1st century BCE · Fresco
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Unrecorded maker
last decade of the 1st century BCE · Fresco
Cleared · Public Domain
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Landscape with Tower at Seashore
Filippo Napoletano (d. 1629)
1600–1614(?) · Drawing, pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite; framing lines in graphite
Cleared · CC0
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The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored
William Simpson (d. 1899)
ca. 1885 · Watercolor over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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An Inhabited Ruin on the Bank of a River
Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)
ca. 1630–40 · Pen and two shades of brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist
Cleared · Public Domain
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Square Tower Used as Inn near a River
Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)
ca. 1641 · Engraving and etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pevensey Castle, from "English Views"
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
1652–77 · Etching, third state of three
Cleared · Public Domain
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Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and silver inlay on nashiji ground
Cleared · Public Domain
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Morpeth North, part IV, plate 21 from "Liber Studiorum"
Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)
March 29, 1809 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Plate 10, from "World in Miniature"
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
1816 · Hand-colored etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Forest Edge with Peasants and a Village in the Background; verso: Landscape Sketch
Pieter Barbiers II (d. 1842)
1761–1842 · Black chalk, with brush and brownish-gray wash; framing line in black chalk, by the artist
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Ruins of the Abbey
Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)
1856 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Landscape with a Distant Boats and a Tower, Two Men Talking at Right
James Basire, the elder (d. 1802)
1764 · Etching, printed in brown ink
In copyright
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