Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Taiyin Xing Jun" ("Daoist God of the Moon"). Probably from Beijing.

20th centuryChinese

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Pestilence

Marcantonio Raimondi, 16th century

16th centuryItalian

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General Hu Zhuoyan (Ko Enshaku) Holding a Chinese Zither, fifth from the series Five Intrepid Generals of the Tale of the Water Margins (Suikoden go koshōgun), with poems by Funenoya Tsunabito and Nenneisai Inaba

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1828

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Tōto shōkei ichiran)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1800

Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper

Japanese

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Hunters Capturing Leopards with Bait in Baskets

Antonio Tempesta, 1627

17th centuryItalian

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Fire

Renée Élisabeth Marlié Lépicié, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

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Venus on her way to Cyprus

Gérard de Lairesse, c. 1677-1680

Etching on cream antique laid paper

17th centuryDutch

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Cardinal

Herman Swanevelt, 17th century

17th centuryDutch

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Minamoto no Yoritomo Hunting at the Foot of Mount Fuji (left half of a diptych)

Torii Kiyonaga, Mid Edo period, 1785

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Saint Marguerite

Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers, 1832

19th centuryFrench

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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger, 19th century

19th centuryFrench