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[Morning, deer at stream in a forest] / J. Dupré pinx ; Lalanne sculp.

Signed on plate and in ink below image. Remarque of a squirrel.

Eve after the Fall / Mecarino inventore, Anda. intagliat[o]re Mant[ua]...

Print shows Eve covering herself with a fig tree branch. After Domenico Beccafumi. Dedication: Al S. Guavio Portiani Canonico del Duomo di Siena dedico l'anno MDLxxxvi. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by ... More

Engaged man sings ... Dearest wilt thou then as now

Man seated by woman near window, and another man looking in the window with astonished look. Dated on stone.

James McNeill Whistler - [The unsafe tenement]

Etching by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. Whistler's twelve etchings from nature. Kennedy, 17 (state 3 of 4). Signed on plate. Also known as the French Set. Hubbard Collection. This record contains u... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The wine-glass] / Whistler.

Print shows a bowl or cup-shaped champagne glass. Title from Beall. Signed on plate. Kennedy, 27 (second state) American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Be... More

Les cerfs - Engraving, Public domain image

Deer in woodland setting. Cliché verre by Charles Franc̦ois Daubigny, 1817-1878. Delteil, 134. Henriet, 115. Coll. marks of A. Lebrun (Lugt 140) and A. Beurdeley (Lugt, 421). Pennell Fund. This record contains ... More

Playing go - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows monkeys and rabbits around a gameboard playing a game of "go." Inscribed lower right with Japanese text and chop. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Settei Dec. 1878. From t... More

Old mill at Dingman's, Pennsylvania - Drawing. Public domain image.

Wuerth, 1. Signed and dated in pencil. Plate destroyed. 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

[Self-portrait] / S.J. Ferris Philadelphia. Soc. Etching Oct. 1880.

Print shows Stephen J. Ferris, head-and-shoulders length portrait, left profile, drawing on a plate. Title and other information from Beall. Signed and dated on plate in lower left corner: "S.J. Ferris Phila. S... More

In Venice by moonlight / Otto [artist's stamp].

Print showing a canal, bridge, and buildings by moonlight in Venice. Title from note attached to mount. Signed below plate with artist's stamp "Otto". Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series, no... More

Joseph Pennell - At Lynchburg, [Virginia]

Dilapidated dwellings on hill above stream. Etching by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Wuerth, 42. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data fro... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Piccadilly]

Print shows buildings and people on Piccadilly street in London, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title and some oth... More

Driving home the cows. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a man driving cows down a country road. R8993 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on plate. Donkey head in lower right hand corner of image. Other information from Beall. Etched by Peter Moran; copyright... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Little Dordrecht], engraving, Library of Con...

Print shows wharf along the Merwede in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butterfly on plate. Kennedy... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Turkeys] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing turkeys grazing in courtyard, a woman standing next to a large wellhead, and a building in the background. Title from Kennedy. Signed on plate with butterfly and in pencil. From: Second Venice Set... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The little wheelwright's]

Print shows wheelwright's shop across canal at Dordrecht, Netherlands. Title and other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butterfly in pencil. Ken... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Cottage door]

Print shows girls and baby at doorway. Title and other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks on verso: ... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Nocturne - furnace] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing exterior of a furnace at night with view through opening of the brightly lit interior and of a man at work. Title from Kennedy. Signed on plate with butterfly and in pencil on tab with butterfly a... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Grand Place, Brussels]

Kennedy, 362. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. coll. mark: R. Hartshorne (Lugt suppl. 2215b). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the c... More

"La vitrioleuse" / EG [monogram].

Art nouveau poster showing a mean-spirited woman holding a bowl of "acid", looking back, over her right shoulder, at the viewer, perhaps to see if her actions are being observed. Color lithograph by Eugène Gras... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Count Robert de Montesquiou]

Print shows Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right. Title from Beall. Signed with butterfly on stone. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the... More

The cat and the cherub. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a Chinese boy holding a cat. Cartouche in plate. Signed and numbered (86) in pencil within plate. Titled in pencil below plate. Edition of 100.

Joseph Pennell - Windmills, Schiedam - [Holland]

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Wuerth, 64. Edition of 15. Signed on stone and in pencil. Pennell Collection. I. Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, Holland Series. This record contains unverified data from ca... More

Jules Pascin - [Le Lever] - Drawing. Public domain image.

2/50. Signed in pencil. Blind stamp: Galerie des peintres-graveurs, Paris. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F.... More

Edgar Thomson's Steel Works / Pennell.

Wuerth, no. 517. Signed in pencil. Public domain photograph of air pollution, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Pennell - [Brooklyn Bridge]

[His New York series] Wuerth, 196. Edition of 25. Signed on stone. Cancelled stone. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by... More

Joseph Pennell - Niagara rainbows

[His Niagara Falls series] Wuerth, 176. Edition of 25. Signed and dated on stone. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by K... More

[The embarkation camp, the classic grove]

[His American war work series] Wuerth, 467. Edition of 50. Signed on stone and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compi... More

Made in Germany Geo Bellows - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Co...

Print shows two German soldiers cutting the hands off a young citizen before a large group of soldiers, and in the background, other soldiers assault women. Signed on stone at bottom center: Geo Bellows. Signe... More

Counted out, no. 2 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Printed by Bolton Brown. Bellows, 69. Signed on stone; signed in pencil by artist and printer. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore ... More

Joseph Pennell - [Brooklyn Bridge at night]

Library has two impressions No. 790-1: Wuerth, 790. Plate in LC. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall..... More

Anne in a black hat - Public domain portrait drawing

Girl seated, 3/4 lgth., facing slightly right. Lithograph by George Bellows. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4440 A. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hats; Artists works.

[The doorway] - Public domain illustration drawing

Signed in pencil with butterfly. Sixth state. Kennedy, no. 188. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Battle of Ascalon] / G. Doré.

Engraved by C.W. Sharpe. Copyright by Frank Hunter Potter. Public domain photograph - historical image of Israel, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charing Cross Bridge at night / J. Pennell.

Print shows Charing Cross, London, England, at night, with a bridge across the Thames and street lights illuminating the roadways. Signed in pencil at bottom center, below plate. Edition of 30? Plate destroyed... More

Public Domain Images - The stocking

Print shows a woman seated, facing slightly right, putting a stocking on a child seated on her lap. Inscribed in ink at top right: quartre vingt sixième, D. Charles L. Freer Collection. Breeskin, 129 American ... More

Dempsey and Firpo / Bolton Brown imp. ; George Bellows.

Jack Dempsey knocked out of the ring by Luis Firpo in the first round of their fight at the Polo Grounds in New York on September 14, 1923. Signed in pencil. Mason, no. 181 Myers, no. 117

Building Miraflores lock / J. Pennell.

Signed on stone. Wuerth, 240. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 13

[St. Michael fighting the dragon] / AD.

From Apocalypse series. Exhibited: "Heavenly Craft" at the Grolier Club, New York City, the Library of Congress, and other venues, 2004-2005. St. Michael Conquering the Dragon is a popular subject in Christia... More

Ugo da Carpi - The cardinal and the doctor

Print showing a cardinal and a doctor in conversation. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After Raphael ... More

[The fitting] / Mary Cassatt. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman standing before a large mirror; she is wearing a dress, which another woman is adjusting or marking for a proper fit. Title from mount. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Inscribe... More

Belisaire assis, les yeux couverts d'un bandeau et tenant son casque p...

Print shows a blinded Belisarius, Byzantine emperor Justinian's former general, begging for charity after being accused of treason and disgraced. With annotations by George Perkins Marsh on the verso. Marsh Co... More

[Blossom time in Tokyo] / HH [monogram].

Print shows mothers and children drinking tea and eating among cherry blossoms. K79120 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed with cartouche in a four-leaf clover design and in pencil within image. Copyright by Helen H... More

The bath (the tub). 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman holding a naked child while checking the temperature of water in a small bathing tub. Title from mount. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Signed with artist's monogram stamp on b... More

Edgar Degas - [Au Louvre: musée des antiques]

Two women viewing a statue in the Ancient History Museum at the Louvre. Stamp of Atelier ED Degas. Delteil, 30 (6th state)

Edgar Degas - [Au Louvre: la peinture (Mary Cassatt)]

Print shows two women viewing paintings at the Louvre, as seen through a doorway. Delteil, 29 (20th state) Exhibited: "Pennell Legacy : Two Centuries of Printmaking" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.... 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

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

[Mlle Luquet seated on a couch]

Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, facing right, sitting on a sofa. Title from Beall. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Ex-coll.: Richard Hartshorne (Lugt suppl. 2215b), ownership stamp... More

The Revd. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in ...

Francis Asbury, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, and holding a small book. Stauffer no. 3082.

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

Description from The illustrated Bartsch: the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both heavy with child, greet each other while Zacharias, hat in hand, observes them from the doorway. Dürer's pet dog appears once more a... More

Edgar Degas - La sortie du bain

Etching by Edgar Degas, 1834-1917. Delteil, 39 (4th state). Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bathing; Art. Works.

The pagoda / Bertha Lum. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pagoda with reflection in body of water in foreground. Signed in pencil on border.

View of the Castello Quarter near Casa Jankovitz, where Whistler lodge...

Exhibited: "Whistler and his circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003.

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et f...

Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, half-length portrait, wearing necklace and head ornaments, and with facial markings, facing slightly left. Parthey, 2009 Published in: Many nations: A Library of C... More

Thomas Shotter Boys - Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries / T. Boys.

Print shows a street scene in Paris, France, between the River Seine (left) and Tuileries royal palace (right). Plate 21 from: Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &c, Drawn from Nature & on... More

Point Lobos / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Trees and vegetation growing on rocks, Point Lobos, California(?) Signed and dated in pencil on image.

Georg Pencz - [The Triumph of Time]

Allegorical representation of Time, winged man, on chariot pulled by two deer. Signed with monogram on plate. Inscription: Tempus edax...aut fuerint. Part of series: Six triumphs described by Petrarch. Bartsch,... More

Giulio Romano - Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More

[St. Christopher with infant Christ], engraving, Library of Congress

Title from shelflist card. Stains. Altdorfer, 85. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albrecht Durer - Saint Christopher facing left AD monogram

Print shows Saint Christopher crossing a river carrying infant Jesus on his shoulders. Trimmed to plate mark. Print no. 53 from Marsh Collection.

Albrecht Durer - [St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... More

Heinrich Aldegrever - [Jan van Leyden], 16th century

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 182. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The entombment, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italia...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

The Virgin and Child / Bart. Coriolanus Fecit. Bononiae anno 1630.

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus. 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 albu... More

Christ at the table of Simon the Pharisee / Raphel VRB in Ven, In Mant...

Print shows Jesus sitting at one end of a table at which others are seated. He talks to Simon while another person washes his feet. Earlier attributed to Raphael. Monograpm of Andreani. Title from Graphic samp... More

[L'assaut général des Anglois à la citadelle]

Lieure, 658 (3d state, trimmed). Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The presentation (of Jesus) in the temple (oblong)

Hannah approaches Simeon who is holding Jesus. Etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Rovinski, 49. Bjorklund 40-1 (2nd state). Trimmed inside upper platemark. Gardner Greene Hubbard Collection. ... More

[St. Jerome beside a pollard willow] / Rembrandt.

Print shows a bearded St. Jerome seated, at work on his books at the foot of a large tree trunk. A lion looks out from behind the tree. Hubbard Fund 440061. Title devised. Second state. Rovinski, 103. Bjorklun... More

[David and Goliath]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Etching by Rembrandt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, OT; Artists works; Shelf.

Martinus Hemskerkus Harl / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Martin Van Heemskerk, half-length portrait, standing, facing left. Illust. from: Academia des sciences et des arts ... /Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, LIV. VI., p. 435. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 51

Conradus Detlev a Dehn / Hyacs. Rigaud pinxit. ; F. Chereau lainé scul...

Three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing s...

Signed and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Full-length standing portraits of Charles, Prince of Wales, the future...

After painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.

Der Tod zur Königin. Frau Königin! euer Freud ist aus, springet mit mi...

Figure of death as a naked woman with a snake around her neck, speaking to a queen as she leads her away. The queen answers sorrowfully. Panel in a scroll engraved by Jacques-Antony Chovin. Basel : Johann Rudol... More

Johann Elias Ridinger - Der Anstand auf einen Hirschen..

The hunter and stag at Schleisheim in 1735. LeBlanc, no. 301-400.

James McNeill Whistler - [From Agnes Sorel's walk]

Kennedy, 385. Signed with butterfly on plate, in pencil and on verso. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints ... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Archway, Brussels]

Kennedy, 366. Signed with butterfly on plate, in pencil and on verso. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints ... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Abbey jubilee]

Kennedy, 316 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a): Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. American prints... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Church, Brussels]

Kennedy, 356 (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). Title and other information from Beall. A... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Hôtel de Ville, Loches]

Kennedy, 384. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Lib... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Pierrot]

Kennedy, 407 (fifth state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H.G. Wittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American print... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Seymour seated], engraving, Library of Congr...

Kennedy, 29 (first state). Signed with initials on plate. Coll. mark: P. Burty (Lugt 413). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / comp... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Château Amboise]

Kennedy, 393. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a); Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Librar... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The music room]

Etching by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Village on the banks of a river] / A. Canal f.

Print shows a view across a river of many buildings of an unidentified city; a lone scrawny tree and footbridge dominate the foreground. Title from mount. Hubbard collection. Published in: Viewpoints; a selecti... More

[Goats in the field] - A drawing of a man on a horse with a herd of sh...

Signed on plate. 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 Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 106.

Eugène Delacroix - Lion de l'Atlas. Book illustration from Library of ...

Lion holding rabbit in his paws and jaws. Lithograph by Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863. Delteil, 79 (2nd state); 43534. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4707-B. Another impression C size. This record contains unverified da... More

Funérailles de L'Empereur Napoléon. Passage du cortège dans les champs...

Funeral procession of Napoleon passing on the champs Elisées. Hubbard Collection. Signed on stone. No. 5.

K. William Ye Conqueror del. et sculp. G. Vertue

William I or 'William the Conqueror', King of England, bust portrait, facing front, holding sword, with ornaments and vignette of Brittania in supplication below. Signed on plate. Illus. from: History of Englan... More

Shakespeare--Hamlet--Prince of Denmark / painted by H. Fuseli R.A. ; e...

Act 1, scene 4, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, showing Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost, on platform before the Palace of Elsinor.

[St. Anne receiving the Christ Child from the arms of the Virgin Mary]

Woodcut by Lukas Cranach, the Elder. Ink note on verso of F. Walker, 1856 (or 7)? Hollstein, 75; Bartsch, 68. Border broken in several places. LC Purchase? This record contains unverified data from caption card... More

Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse - Napoléon a Sainte-Hélène Paul Delar...

Print shows Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, full-length portrait, facing front, sitting on rocks on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Signed on stone on lower l... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Nocturne]

Signed on stone with butterfly. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana (Library of Congress). Way, 5.

[Portrait of Theodore Robinson] / J. Alden Weir.

Signed in pencil. Watermark: Fleur-de-lis. Zimmerman, 67. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Via Sant'Agata, Siena] / Jo Pennell.

View through arch looking at street down hill, Siena, Italy. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below plate. Wuerth 84.

San Gimignano / Jo Pennell., Italy

Hill with trees and city in background. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below the plate. Wuerth 52.

[The ploughman] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed 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... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 311. C... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Tilbury]

Print shows view of Tilbury, Thurrock, Essex, England, across the Thames during a naval review for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project websit... More

[Under the willows]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows cows wading in a stream as a young woman sews under a tree. T4540 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on plate and in pencil. In the lower left hand corner a palette and brush. Remarque: 4 swallows flying... More

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