Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Tian Wen Kui Xing" ("Kui Xing, Deity of Literary Affairs"). Probably from Beijing.

20th centuryChinese

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The Small River

Harman Naiwincz, 17th century

17th centuryDutch

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The Creation of Adam

Johann Sadeler I, 16th-17th century

Engraving on off-white antique laid paper

16th-17th centuryFlemish

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Saint Flavianus

Jacques Callot, 17th century

17th centuryFrench

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The Temple of Mercury

Anonymous Italy 1699, 17th century

17th centuryItalian

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WISTERIA TIME

Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮

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

Knox Preaching before the Lords of the Congregation

William Greatbach, 19th century

19th centuryBritish

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Alexander Instructing the Macedonian Soldiers

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

17th centuryItalian

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The King Addresses the Crowd at Versailles Saying, "My children I will go to Paris but on the condition that I will be with my wife and children." (6 October 1789)

Jean François Janinet, 1789

Etching and lift ground aquatint on off-white laid paper

18th centuryFrench