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L'Agriculture: Poëme

Pierre Fulcrand de Rosset, Nicolas Ponce, Clément-Pierre Marillier, Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, Charles Louis Lingée, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt · 1774 · bound volume with 7 etched plates, frontispiece, title vignette, and 8 headpieces by various artists ·  Accession ID  1999.142.1

German 15th Century, Mars and Venus, woodcut [restrike], Rosenwald Collection, 1954.12.187

Mars and Venus

German 15th Century · · woodcut [restrike] ·  Accession ID  1954.12.187

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Scènes de la vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (Scenes from the Public and Private Lives of Animals)[Volume 1]

Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville, Louis-Henri Brévière · 1842 · 1 of 2 bound volumes. Volume I: 91 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title and 1 at end of text. Volume II: 114 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title. Both volumes contain numerous headpieces, tailpieces, and other ornamental vignettes. ·  Accession ID  2006.145.1

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Decretalium Gregorii noni liber accuratissime emendatus cum concordantiis

Master DS, Urs Graf I · 1511 · bound volume with 4 woodcut illustrations and letterpress text printed in black and red on laid paper, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with paper labels on spine ·  Accession ID  2001.20.1

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Scènes de la vie Privée et Publique des Animaux [Volume 2]

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville · 1842 · 1 of 2 bound volumes. Volume I: 91 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title and 1 at end of text. Volume II: 114 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title. Both volumes contain numerous headpieces, tailpieces, and other ornamental vignettes. ·  Accession ID  2006.145.2

This is a drawing featuring a complex scene with elements of the divine and mortal realms. The image is filled with various figures and actions across celestial beings above and human figures below, depicted in a linear style suggestive of a narrative composition. In the upper section, angelic figures and ethereal beings are seen amidst clouds. They appear poised in postures that convey communication, exaltation, or proclamation. Below, there is a dynamic portrayal of human figures engaged in interactions or expressive gestures. The architecture suggests a grand temple or cityscape with archways and a bridge. Detailed figures in dramatic poses are also visible in the lower part of the image. Intricate lines and shading create movement and depth, and the monochrome palette emphasizes contrast and detail.
Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, The Last Judgment, 1613/1614, pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash and white heightening over traces of graphite on brown prepared paper, laid down on an eighteenth-century mount, New Century Fund, 2013.177.1

The Last Judgment

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere · 1613/1614 · pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash and white heightening over traces of graphite on brown prepared paper, laid down on an eighteenth-century mount ·  Accession ID  2013.177.1

The image shows a man swimming in the water. He is in mid-stroke with his body above the surface. His body is horizontal, with one arm stretched forward and the other raised, while one leg is bent at the knee and lifted out of the water. The man's facial features are slightly visible with curly hair. He appears to be unclothed. The background consists of intricately drawn lines representing the rippling surface of the water, with numbers "24" and "XVII" appearing in the top left and right corners. The scene is a line drawing.
French 17th Century, Melchisedech Thevenot, L'Art de Nager, demontré par figures, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement, 1696, Bound volume with 35 etched and engraved illustrations, William B. O'Neal Fund, 2004.134.1

L'Art de Nager, demontré par figures, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement

French 17th Century, Melchisedech Thevenot · 1696 · Bound volume with 35 etched and engraved illustrations ·  Accession ID  2004.134.1

Aubrey Beardsley, Withered Spring, pen and black ink heightened with white over graphite, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.1455

Withered Spring

Aubrey Beardsley · · pen and black ink heightened with white over graphite ·  Accession ID  1943.3.1455

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Raccolta inedita di cinquanta scene teatrali le piu applaudite dei teatri Italiani

Lorenzo Ruggi · after 1836 · bound volume with 50 engraved plates ·  Accession ID  1999.62.1

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Schriften

Salomon Gessner, Hieronymous von der Finck · 1770-1772 · bound volume (parts I and II) with 12 etchings by Gessner: 2 title pages; 1 tailpiece; and 9 illustrations ·  Accession ID  2003.90.1