Engraving and etching printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream

16th centuryNetherlandish

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Illustrated Satirical Poems About Famous Scenic Views in Edo (Kyōka Edo meisho zue), 14 volumes (in 13 bindings)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, dated 1856 (Ansei 3, 5th month)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Costume from Cervara

Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1810

19th centuryItalian

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Bookplate of Frederick Ayer, Jr.

Sidney L. Smith, 19th-20th century

19th-20th centuryAmerican

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Harima Province, Maiko Beach (Harima, Maiko no hama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, 1854 (Kaei 6, 12th month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Hiroshige hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

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Traveller Returning in a Storm

Johann Christoph Erhardt, 19th century

19th centuryGerman

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Vision of S. Romualdo

Johann Metzger, 19th century

19th centuryGerman

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L'Hotel de Ville de Paris

Henri Alexandre Saffrey, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

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The Magnificent One

Jean Baptiste Tilliard, c. 1795

18th centuryFrench

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 7th as Iga no Jutaro, with poems by Ikyōan Toshinobu and Shicido Kenba

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Edo period, 1823

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Richmond Bridge, Surrey

John Walker, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryBritish