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Daniel Hopfer - [Christ on the cross] / DH.

Original etching: 2nd state. Public domain photograph of 15th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88 Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background. After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... More

Christ curing the lepers / Ain mantoua, 1608.

Print shows Jesus, with his disciples, raising his arm to ten lepers who kneel before him. Monogram of Andreani. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... More

St. John, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attributed to Antonio da ... More

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated on block. Bartsch, 56. LC purchase, 1158.

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with initials on plate. Bartsch, 2. LeBlanc, 2. Nagler I: 280. Coll. mark of Bradley Collection on verso. Bradley Collection.

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congr...

Title from shelflist card. Numerous pencil notes on verso. Ex. coll.: Enzenbert (Lugt, 845).

Agostino Carracci - Dog A. Caraza

Trimmed to image. B259. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The entombment / Raff. da Reggio invent. Andrea Andreano Mant. intagli...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. After Raffaellino da Reggio. Dedication: All Mm. et Cccmo. Sigr. Don Giovane Medici 1... More

[A standard bearer holding the banner of his regiment] / H. Goltzius f...

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 125. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 5]

Plate 5 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [Landscape, with six women bathing]

Marsh Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Veduta del tempio de Bacco

Print shows an exterior view of the Temple of Bacchus in Rome, Italy. Exhibited: "From La Serenissima to the Eternal City : The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome" at The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's C... More

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hubbard Collection. No. 2829-1. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The plundering of the King's cellar, Paris, 10th August, 1793 (i.e., ...

Engraving after contemporary history genre painting depicting events in Paris, France, on August 10th 1792 [date as given in title is incorrect], in particular, the aftermath of the storming of the Tuileries Pa... More

Assis, au près du toy ... à ton Art divin! / A. Watteau pinxit. ; Tard...

Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Tardieu in a park, one painting a picture of a statue of nude woman, the other playing a stringed instrument; and poem to Watteau below image.

King Canute ye Dane in. et sculp: G. Vertue

Canute, King of England, Denmark and Norway, bust portrait, left profile, with ornaments and vignette below portrait depicting the story of Canute and his courtiers. Signed on plate. Illus. from: History of Eng... More

[Interior view of the Temple of Neptune, Paestum, plate 13]

Print shows several men, a cow, and a dog barking at a donkey transporting two barrels, among the columns of the Temple of Neptune in Campania (Paestum), Italy, with lettered key identifying elements of the str... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The fur cloak]

Kennedy, 332 (second state). Signed with butterfly in pencil on recto and on verso. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a) and Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. Am... More

James McNeill Whistler - Little Smithfield

Kennedy, 160. Signed with butterfly in pencil. Coll. mark: B. B. McGeorge (Lugt 394). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled ... More

Profile of Rafaello Morghen Raffaello Morghen se stesso disegnò ed inc...

Mounted on India paper. Halsey 127 (2nd state). Freer Collection, 466. Title from shelflist card.

James McNeill Whistler - [Nora Quinn]

Kennedy, 333 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate, in pencil and on verso. Coll. marks; H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a) and Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342 on verso. Title and other information from B... More

Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre, Comte d'Hunebourg / pei...

Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, full-length portrait, standing, facing right. LeBlanc 36; Nagler 18; Heller 12. Hubbard Collection.

Mr. Kean in Richard the Third Act IV Scene 4 / / painted by J.J. Halls...

Edmund Kean, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, as Richard III.

Paul Gavarni - [Etude, self portrait]

Dated on stone in reverse. Pennell Fund, 65-16. Imp. Bertauts, ... Gavarni. Title from shelflist card.

[The return home] / Lalanne ; Maxime Lalanne inv. & sc.

Signed on plate. No. LC 1041. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Resurrection] / AD [monogram]., Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Great passion series. Library has two impressions. No. 124a: Marsh Collection. No. 124b: source unknown.

Le simoun (Fromentin) / Eug. Fromentin ; M. Lalanne sc.

Print shows palm trees and small buildings during a dust storm, possibly in North Africa. Title from Beraldi: Graveurs du XIXe siècle, 8-9. Signed on plate. Print after painting by Eugène Fromentin. LCF 300. Beraldi, 144

Bay of Naples, Italy - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Francis Seymour Haden - [Battersea Bridge] / S. Haden.

Print shows view of the Battersea Bridge and Old Chelsea from across the Thames River. Title from: The engraved work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. ; an illustrated and descriptive catalogue / by H. Nazeb... More

[Religious figure, possibly Buddha, standing on a lotus, facing slight...

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Via Garibaldi / Otto., Italy. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Print showing a canal in Venice. Signed in pencil with artist's stamp. Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series, no. 32. Exhibited: "Whistler and his circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery, Wa... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The traghetto, no. 2]

[His First Venice series] Kennedy, 191 (fourth state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collect... More

Joseph Pennell - The Rising Sun Tavern

[In Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and His Views on the Old Germantown Road series] Wuerth, 18. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congres... More

Joseph Pennell - Robert's Mill - Engraving, Public domain image

Prints shows grist mill with waterwheel along old Germantown Road in Pennsylvania. Library has two impressions. No. 15: [In Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1882, and His Views on the old Germant... More

The old market, Florence, [Italy]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence - Drawing. Public domain image.

Three people on bridge in front of another bridge and buildings.

[Cattle fording a river]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a boy herding cattle across a ford in a river. Signed on plate and in pencil.

James McNeill Whistler - [Salvation Army, Sandwich]

Print shows crowd of people with flags in Cattle Market, Sandwich, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title and some o... More

MCC / I.M. Gaugengigl. - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a man, full-length portrait, wearing 13th century clothing with bow and arrows and carrying a long staff. U30256 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on plate in lower right corner. Printed below image: "... More

Le Palais de Machines / A. Lepere.

Made to illustrate article of same title by Frantz Jourdain, published in Revue illustré, 1889. L'Architecture à l'exposition universelle series. Signed in ink and numbered 5/35.

James McNeill Whistler - [Nocturne, dance house]

Print showing light from a street light and windows at night. Title from Beall. Signed with butterfly in pencil. Kennedy, 408 (trial before first state) American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of... More

Julian Alden Weir - [The blacksmith's shop]

Zimmerman, 83 (first state). Signed on plate and in pencil on image. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... More

The Gate of Justice, [no. 1]. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Alhambra, Spain. Lithograph by Joseph Pennell, 1860-1926. Wuerth, 13. Signed in pencil. Pennell Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Spain Alhambra; Gates; ... More

[St. Michael's Mount and Bay] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[His Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall series] Wuerth, 99. Signed on stone. One of 20 subjects in Macmillan portfolio. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress ... More

Ernest Haskell - The torse of the witch

Pousette-Dart, p. 35. Edition of 25. Signed on plate and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... More

Rising to the natural fly / Louis Rhead.

Brook trout going after a fly. Signed on plate. Copyright by Louis Rhead.

Joseph Pennell - [Railway station, Pittsburgh]

Bird's-eye view of railway station, boats on river, and skyline, Pittsburgh, Pa. Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection.

[The jaws, Chicago] / Pennell.

Drawbridge, raised. Title from American prints in the Library of Congress ... compiled by Karen F. Beall.... Signed in pencil. Wuerth, no. 589 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the colle... More

From the Library [of Congress] steps

Looking toward U.S. Capitol. Lithograph by Joseph Pennell, 1856-1926. Wuerth, 267. Edition of 25. Signed on stone and in pencil. Pennell Collection. I. Pennell, Joseph, 1856-1926. Washington, D.C. This record c... More

[The Sentinel, from the floor of the valley]

[His Yosemite Valley series] Wuerth, 249. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkin... More

Bamboo road / Bertha Lum. 1910s Japan, public domain image.

Print shows three Japanese with umbrellas under snow-covered trees. Color woodcut copyrighted by Bertha Lum. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Joseph Pennell - Searchlights behind St. Paul's

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell. No. 398 in Wuerth, Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions.

[The Bridge at Hell Gate] / J. Pennell.

Title from Beall. Signed in pencil. Library has 5 impressions. Plate in LC. Wuerth, 670 (first state) American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... Ba... More

Nude with folded hands - Drawing. Public domain image.

Bellows, 95. No. 18. Signed in pencil and and in ink. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore :... More

Hawaii - Hawaii / CWB. - A painting of a man on a surfboard riding a w...

Surfer riding wave. K133951 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed with monogram: CWB; titled and dated on block.

Joseph Pennell - Second Street market

Print shows Philadelphia's Second Street Market. Library has two impressions. No. 748-1: Wuerth, 748. Edition of 50? Plate in LC. Gift; Pennell Collection. Published in: American prints in the Library of Congr... More

Joseph Pennell - [Polo grounds, New York]

Library has two impressions. No. 768a: Wuerth, 768. Edition of 30? Inscription on plate: Joseph Pennell drew this August 1921. Plate destroyed. No. 768b: Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil. Ex. coll.: ... More

Voices from the Cliffs - Public domain engraving

2 women with baskets and 1 woman with large fish net on shore; sailboat in right backgrd. Wood engraving by Timothy Cole, of etching, same title, by James David Smillie. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr.) - WOMEN PO... More

[Sunset from Williamsburg bridge. 1915], engraving, Library of Congres...

Title and date from Wuerth, 674. 2nd state; addition work in sky and on water. Stamp on verso JP/ER (Lugt no. L874a). Exhibited: Pennell Legacy, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1983.

Engaged man sings-- "Dearest wilt thou then as now?" / J. Whistler.

Man and woman seated by window, and another man looking in the window with an astonished look. Signed & dated on stone & in pencil. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / com... More

[Longhouse, Dyer's, Amsterdam]. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Signed in pencil with butterfly. Public domain scan of Dutch 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The lamp]. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman sitting in a chair, relaxing, with a large lamp on a nearby end table. Title from mount. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Inscribed in pencil on bottom center: Edition de 25 epr... More

Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Ja...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, in oval on pedestal with poem. Tiré du cabinet de M. Le Ray de Chaumont &c. After painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. Publi... More

Edgar Degas - [Aux ambassadeurs Mlle. Bécat]

Woman on stage(?) bowing. Stamp of Atelier Degas. Delteil, 49. Pennell Fund (520006).

Market scene / MBP. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Women with baskets of green produce(?) in market. Pennell Fund 540031. MIA no. 97-53. Exhibited: "Prendergast in Italy" at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2009 ; Peggy Guggenhei... More

Maternal caress. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Title from Beall. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Signed with artist's monogram stamp on bottom center of plate. Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy. Insc... More

The marriage of St. Catherine - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows St. Catherine kneeling next to the infant Jesus seated on his mother's lap. Jesus gives Catherine a ring. Anonymous artist. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photog... More

[Adam and Eve in Paradise] / L.C.

Adam and Eve beneath an apple tree surrounded by animals. Heller, 8 Hubbard, p. 69 Le Blanc, 8 Exhibited: World Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1001-2003.

The gates Pedro Miguel / J. Pennell.

Drawing shows construction of the Pedro Miguel lock gates at the Panama Canal. [Panama Canal series] Edition of 50. Signed and titled on stone on lower right. Signed and titled in pencil on center and lower le... More

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 177...

A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, o... More

Veduta del Castello dell' Acqua Paola sul Monte Aureo

Print shows a view of the Castle Acqua Peola, with numbered key. Hind, no. 21 Focillon, no. 736 Exhibited: "From La Serenissima to the Eternal City : The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome" at The Mitc... More

Domenico Beccafumi - Three male figures

Print shows three nude men seated. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate title from "The 'Pembroke' album of chiaroscuros : A revised list by Alan M. Fern and Karen F. Beall" in Shaw, Renata, Graphic ... More

[Virgil suspended in a bucket] / L.

Public domain scan - 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veduta del Tempio di Antonino e Faustina in Campo Vaccino

Print show a view of the temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Le Blanc, no. 17 Nagler, no. 17 Béraldi, no. 14 Smith College (Mass.) Art Museum Cat., no. 134 Forms part of: Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection (Libr... More

[Going to the fair] / Helen Hyde.

Adults, carrying children in litters, approaching bridge, going toward tents at fair, Japan. K13407 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Monogram "HH" and four-leaf clover device in block. Copyright by Hele... More

[The Virgin with child holding a book] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Meder, 212. Bartsch, 102. Bradley Collection.

St. Christopher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

St. Christopher walking through water with cherub on shoulder. Public domain scan of 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The visitation], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... More

Circe, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Circe, standing on a wharf with dragon-like serpents, offering a drink to sailors as their ship passes. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate title from "The 'Pembroke' album of chiarosc... More

The philosopher, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Itali...

Allegorical print showing a man sitting in a chair, thinking. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After P... More

Christopher Columbus. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry. Proof impression of the plate printed on page 3 of Theodor de Bry, ed., Americae pars quinta (German edition: Americae das funffte Buch), Frankfurt, 1595. (Copies in Rosenwal... More

Parmigianino - Surprise / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Allegorical print showing, in an oval, a man as Surprise, one of the states of emotion, with his arms spread as though startled by what he sees. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... More

Sculptura in æs / Ioan Stradanus invent. ; Phls Galle excud.

Print shows an interior view of a workshop with several men and boys engaged in the various activities involved in the etching, engraving, and printing of illustrations. Caption continues: Sculptor noua arte, ... More

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Sibyll, Guido Reni, engraving, Library of Congr...

Print shows a seated woman holding a tablet and quill, conversing with a putto. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More

[Vue du Louvre] / Callot, fec. - Public domain book illustration, Libr...

The Louvre, Paris, France, with many boats on the Seine in foreground, during annual jousting contest.

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Head of the Virgin, Guido Reni

Print shows Virgin Mary. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, , no. 8... More

Cette figure vous montre comme on imprime les planches de taille douce

Print shows three men working in a printshop preparing a plate for the press and operating the press. Le Blanc, 745 Duplessis, 1388 Forms part of: Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection (Library of Congress). Publ... More

Veduta dell' arco di Costantino, e dell' anfiteatro Flavio detto il co...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of ruins with the Arch of Constantine in the foreground and the Flavian Amphitheater or Colosseum in the background, with numbered key. Some of the men appear to be examining the r... More

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [Landscape with rough terrain and w...

Marsh Collection. LeBlanc, no. 4.

[The market at Dolo] / A. Canal., f.

Title from shelflist card. Signed in pencil. Constable, 19. Pallucchini, 19. George Lothrop Bradley Collection.

[The grand school master] / DB, 1780.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated in pencil. Restrike, published in 1820 by Potrelle & Chaillou. LeBlanc, 31. Bartsch, 80.

James McNeill Whistler - [Chapel doorway, Montresor]

Kennedy, 395. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. mark: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a); Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Gray's Inn Place]

Kennedy, 297 (second state). Signed with butterfly on plate, in pencil and on verso., Note on verso: no. 3, selected proof. Ex coll.: W. H. Buston. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the... More

Dance of the Indians of the Mission of St. Joseph in New California / ...

Six Native Americans with elaborate body markings and hairstyles, dancing. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Penn's Tree, with The City & Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delawa...

Engraving by William Birch, 1755-1834. Published...by W. Birch, Springland Cot, near Bristol. In: William Birch & Son, The City of Philadelphia...as it appeared in the year 1800..., Philadelphia, 1800, no. 1. T... More

Paul Gavarni - Gavarni - Public domain portrait engraving

Gavarni lith. Imp. Bertauts, Paris. On shelflist card: 43534. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albrecht Durer - Nemesis (the great fortune)

Allegorical figure of winged goddess of divine retrobution. Engraving and etching by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 72; Hollstein 72; Bartsch 77; Panofsky 184. Signed with monogram on plate. Coll. mark on ver... More