The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Kamakura no Gongoro Kagemasa (?) in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1768 (?), c. 1768,…

Bacino di San Marco with the Dogana del Mare and Santa Maria della Salute, c. 1793, Francesco Guardi, style of, Italian, 1712-1793, Italy, Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces…

Drum Bridge and Yuhi Hill at Meguro (Meguro Taikobashi Yuhi-no-oka), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), 1857, Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, Japanese,…

Kameyama—No. 47, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi), also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52, Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, Japanese,…

Good Taste, published September 15, 1895, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923, France, Photorelief print in red and black on ivory wove paper, 271 × 231 mm (image),…

Beaker, c. 1590, Bohemian or German, Bohemia, Colorless glass and enamel, H: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.), diameter: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.)

The Leper (Lazarus Klep), c. 1629, Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Holland, Etching on ivory laid paper, 83 x 62 mm (image/sheet)

Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, 1742/45, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1696–1770, Italy, Oil on canvas, 73 1/2 × 102 1/8 in.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Trajan, AD 98/99, Roman, minted in Rome, Roman Empire, Silver, Diam. 1.8 cm, 2.87 g

Hexas (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Demeter, after 241 BC, Greek, Greece, Bronze, Diam. 1.7 cm, 3.21 g

Alestes kotschyi, Print, 1700-1880

Pair of Agata Vases, c. 1887, Joseph Locke, American, 1846–1936, Made by New England Glass Company, American, 1818–1888, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Blown glass, H.: 42.2 cm (15…

Women Coming Ashore from a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River, c. 1785, Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese, 1752-1815, Japan, Color woodblock print, oban triptych, 39.4 x 26.4 cm (right sheet), 39.3 x 26.0…

Death of Samson, n.d., probably Italian, Late 16th Century, Italy, Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, 286 x 339 mm

Amiurus catus, Print, Ameiurus, Ameiurus is a genus of catfishes in the family Ictaluridae. It contains the three common types of bullhead catfish found in waters of the United States, the…

Potpourri Vase, c. 1765, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, London, England, c. 1745-1784, Chelsea, Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels and gilding, 18.7 × 8.7 cm (7 3/8 × 3 7/16 in.)

Scarab: Cross Pattern, Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 15 (about 1650–1550 BC), Egyptian, Egypt, Glazed steatite, 1.3 × 0.8 × 0.6 cm (1/2 × 5/16 × 1/4 in.)

Combined Axe-Flintlock Gun-Dagger, 1660/80, East German or Polish (Silesia, possibly Teschen), Silesia, Steel, fruitwood, staghorn, and mother-of-pearl, L. 84.1 cm (33 1/8 in.)

Fragment, 17th century, Italy, Linen, plain weave, embroidered with silk floss in flame stitch, 17.7 x 19.2 cm (7 x 11 1/2 in.)

The Actor Yoshizawa Iroha I as Tamamo no Mae (?) in the Play Sakuya Kono Hana no Kaomise (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1776 (?), c. 1776, Katsukawa Shunsho…

Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife, 1742, Charles-Antoine Coypel, French, 1694-1752, France, Pastel on blue laid paper, pieced, laid down on canvas, and stretched on a wood stretcher, 905 ×…

Tomimoto Toyohina, from the series Famous Beauties of Edo (Edo komei bijin), c. 1793/94, Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿, Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806, Japan, Color woodblock print, aiban, 33.6 x 23.3 cm

The Harugoma Dance, c. 1767/68, Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信, Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770, Japan, Color woodblock print, chuban, 10 5/8 x 8 in.

H. R. H. Princess Ingeborg of Sweden I, 1900, Anders Zorn, Swedish, 1860-1920, Sweden, Etching on white wove paper, 299 x 244 mm (image/plate), 386 x 301 mm (sheet)

Alpine Landscape, n.d., Alexandre Calame, Swiss, 1810-1864, Switzerland, Etching on paper, 203 x 156 mm (image), 221 x 164 mm (plate), 359 x 277 mm (sheet)

Towel, 19th century, Turkey, Turkey, Embroidered, 127 x 46 cm (50 x 18 1/8 in.)

Ochanomizu in the Eastern Capital (Toto Ochanomizu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei), 1858, Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, Japanese, 1797-1858, Japan, Color…

Battle of Cavaliers and Infantrymen, 1550/1572, Etienne Delaune, French, c. 1519-1583, France, Engraving on paper, 66 × 220 mm (image/sheet, cut within platemark)

Biconical Bead with Bird, Geometric Period (800–700 BC), Greek, Thessaly, Greece, Bronze, 4.3 × 3.3 × 1.1 cm (1 11/16 × 1 1/4 × 3/8 in.)

War Chief of the Zuni Indians, 1873, Timothy O’Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882), commissioned by George Wheeler for the War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, United…

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Trajan, AD 103/111, Roman, minted in Rome, Roman Empire, Silver, Diam. 1.9 cm, 3.15 g

The Madame B Album, 1870s, Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, French, 1831–1906, France, Albumen print with watercolor (in album), 29.2 × 41.9 cm

Brandès and le Bargy, in Les Cabotins, 1894, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864-1901, France, Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 432 × 334 mm (image), 539 × 379 mm (sheet)

Beaker (Humpen), 1693, Germany, Saxony, Saxony, Glass with enamels, 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.)

Emperor Nicolas working in his cabinet, plate 94 from Actualités, 1850, Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879, France, Lithograph in black on white wove paper, 208 × 269 mm (image), 259 ×…

Salomé, 1605/10, Hans von Aachen, German, c. 1552-1615, Germany, Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper, 189 x…

Panel, 1706/09, England, Spitalfields, England, Silk, 4:1 damask weave, 101.6 × 49.2 cm (40 × 19 3/8 in.)

Unfinished Sketch of Lady Haden, 1895, James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903, United States, Lithograph in black ink, with scraping, on cream laid paper, 300 x 200 mm (image), 2,884 x 209…

Double Birds on Openwork Sphere with Post, Geometric Period (800–600 BC), Greek, Thessaly, Thessaly, Bronze, 5.7 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm (2 1/4 × 7/8 × 7/8 in.)

Landscape with Gate at Sunset, n.d., Hugh Huntington Howard, American, 1860-1927, United States, Watercolor on ivory wove paper, laid down on gray wove paper, 136 x 192 mm

Georges Clemenceau and the Optomotrist, Mayer, from Au Pied du Sinaï, 1897, published 1898, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864-1901, France, Lithograph on grayish-ivory wove chine, 175 × 145…

Couple in 17th Century Dress Standing Before Entrance to Park, 1864, Charles de Anson, British, 19th century, United Kingdom, Graphite, heightened with white gouache, on pale green wove paper,…

Genius with the Alphabet, 1542, Sebald Beham, German, 1500-1550, Germany, Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, 42 x 77 mm (image/plate), 43 x 78 mm (sheet)

Parody of a daimyo procession, c. 1805/07, Utagawa Toyohiro, Japanese, 1773-1828, Japan, Color woodblock print, 1 of 12 sheets (see 1928.391-402), 24.5 x 9.6 cm

Paperweight, Mid 19th century, English, England, Glass, Diam. 7.6 cm (3 in.)

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Empress Julia Domna, AD 196/211, Roman, minted in Rome, Roman Empire, Silver, Diam. 1.9 cm, 2.82 g

The Rabbi, 1778, William Pether (English, 1731/38-1821), after Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), England, Mezzotint on ivory laid paper, 457 × 354 mm (image), 508 × 355 mm (plate), 553 ×…

Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit, c. 1850, Miles Birket Foster, English, 1825-1899, United Kingdom, Etching, retouched in graphite, on ivory laid paper, 188 x 115 mm (image), 228 x…

Flintlock Belt Pistol, 1775, Scottish, Leigh, Thomas Murdoch, active 1775-1790, Scotland, Steel, silver, and horn, L. 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.)

The Meet (Picture), 19th century, Thomas Stevens (English, 1828–1888), England, Coventry or London, England, Silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts

The Stilts, n.d., Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793), after Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745-1811), France, Aquatint on paper, 134 × 173 mm (image), 193 × 202 mm (sheet)

Shepherd Chases Away Wolf, from The Pastorals of Virgil, 1821, William Blake, English, 1757-1827, England, Wood engraving on off-white wove paper, 34 × 73 mm (image/block), 48 × 77 (sheet)

Decilitre Measure, 1875/1895, Maison Le Seigneur, Deverre, Caen, France, Caen, Pewter, 10.8 × 8.9 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/2 (incl. handle) in.)

Ara severus, Print, The chestnut-fronted macaw or severe macaw (Ara severus) is one of the largest of the mini-macaws. It reaches a size of around 45 cm (18 in) of which around half is the length…

Portfolio Cover for Picturesque Views of American Scenery, No. I, 1819/21, John Hill (American, 1770-1850), after Joshua Shaw (American, born England, c. 1777-1860), published by Matthew Carey &…

Agama cristatella, Print, 1700-1880

Paperweight, Late 19th century, New England Glass Company, American, 1818-1888, United States, Glass, Diam. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Candlestick, 1775/1800, China, Jingdezhen, Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding, H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), Base diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Castle on Height near Geneva, 1836, Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775–1851, England, Watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card, 160…

House with a Turret, rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris, 1852, Charles Meryon, French, 1821-1868, France, Etching on ivory wove paper, 247 × 131 mm (image), 247 × 133 mm (plate), 295 × 157 mm (sheet)

Arctonyx collaris, Print, The hog badger (Arctonyx collaris), also known as the greater hog badger, is a terrestrial mustelid native to Central and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable in…

View from Palace Terrace at Saint Germain on Laye, from Twenty Views in Paris and its Environs, published 1802, Thomas Girtin (English, 1775-1802), aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler…

Le Lever de la Mariée, 1781, Philippe Trière (French, 1756-c. 1815), after Jean Démosthène Dugourc (French, 1749-1825), France, Etching and engraving in black on ivory wove paper, 475 × 340 mm

Fan, 18th century, France, Ivory sticks with pierced and gilded decoration, painted paper mount, 26.7 cm 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)

Panel, 1725/50, England, Spitalfields, England, Silk, plain weave self-patterned by two-color complementary ground wefts, 96.2 × 50.9 cm (37 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

Egrets in the Reeds, c. 1774, Attributed to Isoda Koryusai, Japanese, 1735-1790, Japan, Color woodblock print, chuban, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.

Handle-Shaped Jade, Shang or Western Zhou dynasty, 2nd–early 1st millennium B.C., China, Jade, 6 3/4 × 1/2 × 3/16 in.

Colonel Impitt, n.d., Attributed to Samuel Cousins, English, 1801-1887, England, Graphite on cream wove card, 257 × 193 mm

Dance of Death, plate 39 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century, 1567, assembled into portfolio 1937, Hans Holbein, the Younger, after (German, c.1497-1543), assembled by Max Geisberg…

Muzzling the Press, from Puck, published May, 1889, Taylor, C. Jay (American, 1855-1929), Ottmann, J. (American, 19th century), United States, Lithograph on newsprint, 356 x 516 mm

Sutra Cover, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1590’s, China, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in…

Pair of Lappets (Joined), 1760/65, Belgium, Flanders, Mechlin, Mechlin, Linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Mechlin" with a Mechlin mesh ground, 103.5 x 9.7 cm (40 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.)

Sutra Cover, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1590’s, China, Silk, gauze weave with supplementary patterning wefts, 11.6 × 33 cm (4 5/8 × 13 in.)

Cosmetic Container and Applicator, 4th century AD, Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Italy, Glass and bronze, Tube: 16.2 × 7.3 × 3.2 cm (6 3/8 × 2 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.), Spatula: 13 × 1.1 × 0.5 cm (5…

The Ordeal by Arrows (Saint Sebastian), n.d., Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635, France, Etching on paper, 162 × 328 mm (plate), 170 × 339 mm (sheet)

Kesa, late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th century, Japan, 118.1 x 214.6 cm (46 1/2 x 84 1/2 in.)

Globe-Shaped Work Table, c. 1820, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Fruitwood and fruitwood veneers interior with ebonizing and gilding, H. 100.3 cm (39 1/2 in.)

Amulet of the God Khnum, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21–25 (1070–656 BC), Egyptian, Egypt, Faience, 5.4 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm (2 1/8 × 1 × 5/8 in.)

Two Women at the Waterside, c. 1766/67, Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信, Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770, Japan, Color woodblock print, chuban, 10 1/2 x 8 in.

Fragment, 1675/1700, Italy, Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, uncut, and voided velvet, 18.4 x 14.6 cm (7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

De Gli Habiti Antichi, et Moderni di Diuerse Parti del Mondo Libri Dve, Fatti da Cesare Vecellio et con discoursi da Lui Dichiarti. Con Privilegio, 1590, Cesare Vecellio (Italian, c.…

Cameo Portrait of Andrew Jackson, Mid 19th century, Italy, Ivory and hardstone, 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

The Autumn Moon in the Mirror (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei), c. 1766, Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信, Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770, Japan, Color…

Roses in a Vase, 1881/83, Georges Seurat, French, 1859-1891, France, Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper, discolored to tan, edge mounted on tan wove paper, 311 × 240 mm

Coin Portraying Emperor Constantius, AD 250/306, Roman, Roman Empire, Bronze, Diam. 1.6 cm, 1.59 g

Paperweight, c. 1848–55, George Bacchus & Sons, English, founded 1840, Birmingham, Glass, Diam. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate), c. 1860, Francis Seymour Haden, English, 1818-1910, England, Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper, 178 × 333 mm (image/plate), 207 × 350 mm (sheet)

Fragment, 1575/1600, Italy, Silk, warp-faced satin weave self-patterned by plain weave, 38.1 x 20.3 cm (15 x 8 in.)

Scaramucia, Fricasso, from Balli di Sfessania, c. 1622, Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635, France, Etching and engraving on paper, 70 × 92 mm

A Mill, from English Landscape, 1830, David Lucas (English, 1802-1881), after John Constable (English, 1776-1837), England, Mezzotint on off-white wove paper, 142 × 213 mm (image), 175 × 242…

Paperweight, 1847, Baccarat, France, founded 1764, Lunéville, Glass, Diam. 7.6 cm (3 in.)

Illinois Plate, c. 1878/89, Decorated by Joseph S. Potter, American, 1822–1904, United States, Hard paste porcelain, Diam. 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)

Afternoon Tea Party, 1890–91, Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926), printed with Leroy (French, active 1876-1900), United States, Color aquatint with drypoint from three plates, with brush and…

Fire Tongs, 19th century, England, Bristol or Stourbridge, Bristol, Glass, H. 43.2 cm (17 in.)

Overture for The Woman from Seville, for Piano, by Cecile Chaminade, published May 18, 1889, Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen (French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923), published by La Semaine…

Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness (Bhumisparshamudra), Pala period, 8th/10th century, India, Eastern India, India, eastern, Bronze, 16.5 x 13.4 x 6 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

Page of Shikasta Nasta’liq Calligraphy with Floral Margins, Zand dynasty (1750–1794), 1767, Iran, Attributed to Abd al-Majid Taleqani, Iran, Ink, gold, and watercolor on paper, 30.48 x 20.32…

Biography Page from Oeuvres de J. B. Huet, 1796–99, Jean Baptiste Huet, French, 1745-1811, France, Etching on paper, 480 × 350 mm

Herdsman with Cow, Donkey, Sheep, after Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, Dutch, 1621/22-1683, Holland, Brush and brown wash, heightened with white chalk, on brown laid paper, laid down on card, 187 x…

Map of Libya, the Middle East and North Africa, 1478, reprinted 1889, Unknown Artist (English, 19th century), reproduction after a map by Francesco Berlinghieri (Italian, 1440-1501), Italy,…