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Cottonus Matherus S. theologiae doctor regia societatis Londonensis .....

Known as the first mezzotint portrait published in America, the portrait shows Cotton Mather, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Joseph Sabin made the restrike in 1860 using paper with Watermark of "J... More

Melencolia I / AD [monogram], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy in the sense of an artist's spiritual self-portrait. She is surrounded by many symbolic figures and objects, including a bat carrying the inscription "Melencol... More

[Nocturne, Salute] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing lagoon with the church of the Santa Maria della Salute in the distance. Title from Kennedy. Signed on plate and in pencil on tab with butterfly. Kennedy, no. 226 (fifth state) American prints in t... More

[Callowhill Street Bridge] / Jo. Pennell

Signed on mount. Wuerth, no. 19. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Great Passion: Last Supper] / AD [monogram].

Jesus Christ seated at table with the Apostles. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Grain elevator, Hamburg Harbour] / Pennell.

Wuerth, 378. Edition of 5. (Source: Beall) Title from Beall. Signed in pencil. Watermark: JCA France INGRES. Place of creation based on Pennell's residence at the time of the print's creation. American prints i... More

[Grain elevator, Hamburg Harbour] / Pennell.

Nymphs bathing / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani] 1605.

Print showing a group of nymphs bathing, attended by putti. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After Par... 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 infant Christ prefiguring the passion / BFCA.

Print shows the infant Jesus resting on a cross with a crown of thorns and nails in the foreground. Anonymous artist after Guido Reni. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photogr... More

Anacapa Island. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Drng. by W. B. McMurtrie Engd. by J. A. Whistler J. Young & C. A. Knight. Kennedy, appendix 1. Plate in U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the... More

[The annunciation] - Engraving, Public domain image

Print showing Mary visited by an angel. Schreiber, 26 Hubbard, 365 Hubbard, 226-1. Exhibited: "Origins of European Print Making" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005. The Annunciation is a b... 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

[Witch riding backward on a goat accompanied by four putti] / AD [mono...

Exhibit loan 4197-L. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Evening, Little Waterloo Bridge] / [butterfly monogram].

Print shows bird's-eye view of the Little Waterloo Bridge at evening. Title from Beall. Signed with butterfly on stone and in pencil. Edition of 26. Way, 119 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catal... More

[Last Supper] / AD [monogram]., Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Jesus Christ seated at table with the Apostles. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Glass furnace, Murano], Italy. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Print showing exterior view of glass furnace. Title from Kennedy. Kennedy, no. 217 (first state) American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimor... More

[The bathers] / P. Cézanne. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Co...

Venturi, 1157. Signed on stone. Public domain photograph of erotic art, sexuality, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Souvenir de St. Valery sur Somme / lith. par Eug. Isabey.

Scene at water's edge with houses, people, and boat in foreground. On shelflist card: Paris, publié par Morlot, Galene Vivienna no. 26. London, published by McLean, 26 Hay Market. Hédiard, 9 (2nd state). Penne... 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

Jean Duvet - [Apocalypse], Jean Duvet, 16th century

Title from shelflist card. Verso: stamps of Boston, MFA and HFS. On shelflist card: "2 plates."

James McNeill Whistler - [Longshoremen] / Whistler 1859.

Title and other information from Beall. Signed and dated on plate, "Whistler, 1859." Library has two states identified in Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill W... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The slipper]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading in bed with single slipper on the floor. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchin... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Greenwich pensioner]

Print shows a retired gentleman relaxing in grass in Greenwich, London, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed and dated on p... More

Reteria or net makers, Chioggia, [Veneto, Italy]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The witch's daughter - Drawing. Public domain image.

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. 109. Copyright deposit.

[The bridge of sighs, I], Italy

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Printed by L.H. Meakin for the Cincinnati Museum Ass'n. Printer's stamp, verso. Poole, 14. Pennell Exchange, 430085.

Up and down in Siena / Joseph Pennell, 1883.

Street on hill in Siena, Italy. Signed and dated in pen. Watermark: AJB monogram. Wuerth 83.

The home sweet home of John Howard Payne

Print shows Home Sweet Home, James Lane, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York; now a museum. Signed and dated on plate. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a c... More

Joseph Pennell - [Chelsea, no. II]

Wuerth, 114. Edition of 20? Signed in pencil. Ex coll.: Macmillan. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Garden]

[His Twenty-six etchings series] Kennedy, 210 (sixth state). 30 sets plus 12 printed. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Cong... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Two ships]

Kennedy, 148 (second state). Signed with butterfly on plate. Printed from plate done earlier. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / c... More

Winslow Homer - [The netmenders] / Winslow Homer.

Signed in pencil. Remarque: anchor. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paul Gauguin - Mahana Atua / PGO.

Tahitians around sacred statue. Signed with initials and titled on woodblock. Printed from six blocks. Edition 29/30. Guerin, no. 42 Exhibit loan 4250-L.

James McNeill Whistler - Robert Barr

Kennedy, appendix IV. Pencil note: "To my friend Wm. Merchant, probaby by Pennell W. S[ickert]." Ink note: "Robert Barr etched by Whistler in 1894....45 impressions. No. 39. Sickert.". Title and other informati... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Firelight], portrait

Elizabeth Robins Pennell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left. Title from Thomas R. Way's catalog of Whistler lithographs, no. 103. Signed on stone with a butterfly. Print inscribed: "To ... Jose... More

Joseph Pennell - [Mist on the Thames]

Title and other information from Beall. no. 247-1 Signed in graphite at bottom center, below plate. Library has two impressions, no. 247-1 and no. 247-2 which is printed on blue paper. No. 247-1 Edition of 35? ... More

Joseph Pennell - [The castles, Toledo]

Wuerth, 313. Edition of 30? Signed in pencil. Ex coll.: E. A. Ballard. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compile... More

Wren's city / J. Pennell del. sc. imp.

Title and other information from Beall. Library has two impressions, no. 504a signed and dated in pencil with note: Trial proof, my first mezzotint / J. Pennell del. sc. imp. to David Keppel June 1909; Wren's c... More

Joseph Pennell - Kearney Street, San Francisco

Etching by Joseph Pennell, 1860-1926. Wuerth, 648. Edition of 40? Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Pennell Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; A.W.

[The city under the black mountain]

[His Grand Canyon series] Wuerth, 257. Edition of 25. 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. Be... More

Joseph Pennell - Under marble mountains

Library has two impressions. No. 374a: [His Carrara, the marble city, series] Wuerth, 374. Edition of 15. Signed on stone and in pencil with notes on blue paper. Drawn over with white chalk. Title and other inf... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white drawing of a city, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and ... More

Fox woman / Bertha Lum - Drawing. Public domain image.

Japanese woman in conventional costume with shadowy figures of two foxes. Color woodcut by Bertha Lum, copyrighted by Bertha Lum. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The spirit of the sea - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed and dated 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... Baltimore : John Hopkins Pre... More

The towers of oil / J. Pennell.

Smokestacks with railroad tracks in foreground. Wuerth 568. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Introductions - Cartoon illustration, public domain image.

Lithograph by George Wesley Bellows, 1882-1925. Bolton Brown -imp-. Bellows 31; Mason 97. Edition of 57. Signed on stone; signed in pencil, by Bellows and Brown. Pennell Fund. I. Brown, Bolton, 1865-1936. This ... More

Junks, Wei-hai-wei, China / signature: Bertha Lum

Two boats. Color woodcut copyrighted by Bertha Lum. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[The ugliest bridge in the world, between Camden and Philadelphia]

Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Domain Images - [Negro preacher]

Reference copy may be in LOT 4422-D. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists works; African Americans Eduction; Books; Shelf.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman]

After a drawing by Franc̜ois Boucher. Beraldi, p. 215; Cincinnati Mus. Cat. of Exhibition of Prints, 1941. LC, 44149.

In the garden - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Two Japanese woman under Japanese lanterns. Signed in pencil. Public domain photograph of 190ss woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In the garden - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Two Japanese woman under Japanese lanterns. Signed in pencil. Public domain photograph of 190ss woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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 accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved b...

Print shows Chimney sweeps laughing at girl, who has dropped a pie on the street. The artist's residence and studio appear at left. Includes four line verse: The pye from Bake-house she had brought / But let it... More

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

His Apocalypse of St. John, no. 5. Woodcut by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder, 167; Bartsch, 64. 2nd edition. Signed on block with monogram. Coll. mark: Henri Baron de Triquesi: (Lugt, 1304). Ref. copy may be ... More

Le ventre legislatif, 1834. Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambr...

Print shows the members of the French legislature in session. Plate 18. Signed in pencil. Published in: L'association Mensuelle, Jan. 1834.

[Black Lion Wharf]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Etching by James abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. Whistler's sixteen etchings. Kennedy, 42 (third state). Signed and dated on plate. On Japanese paper. Also known as the Thames Set. Pennell Collection. This ... More

Conspicilla Inuenta conspicilla sunt, quæ luminum, obscuriores detegun...

Print shows a marketplace with a spectacle maker, a shoemaker, and a scribe at their stands as people shop. Fifteenth plate from a series of prints entitled Nova Reperta, engraved by Jan Collaert I after Jan v... More

Edgar Degas - [Aux ambassadeurs Mlle. Bécat]

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

[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

[Woman reading a book (Eloyse et Abailard)] / F. Boucher in del.; Dema...

Color crayon manner print by Gilles Demarteau, 1722-1776. Paris : chez Demarteau. "La lectoise(?)." Béraldi 36. "Treizieme Estampe...No. 218." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

[Lagoon, noon] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing sailing ships and boats in the Venice lagoon. Title from Kennedy. Signed in pencil on tab with butterfly. From: Second Venice Set (Twenty-six etchings). Kennedy, no. 216 (second state) American pr... More

On the bench / M.C.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Woman, seated, three-quarter length, holding baby. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The drunk / Geo Bellows. - A drawing of a man and a woman dancing

Illustration shows a woman struggling with her drunken husband with the aid of her daughter; in the background two small children cower against a bed; there are broken dishes and an overturned chair on the floo... More

Anacapa Island. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

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

[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

[Snow balls] / Bertha Lum. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Japanese children rolling large snow balls. Signed on block with monogram, signed in pencil on image. Exhibit loan 4150-L.

[Small Passion. The expulsion from Paradise] / AD.

Signed with monogram and dated on block. Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. Meder, 127. Hollstein, 127. Bartsch, 18. Panofsky, 238. Exhibited: World Treasures of the Library of Congress - Beginnings, Library of ... More

Developpement de la montre à Roue de rencontre / PP. Choffard fecit.

Composite of ten figures of clock mechanisms, pl. 7. Engraving after a drawing by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. On verso of 1917 color woodblock print by Max Ernst, Battle of the fish.

[Le graveur, Joseph Tourney, half-length portrait, seated, facing left...

Delteil, 4. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 200.

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

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

Point Lobos / Bertha Lum. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Zaandam - Drawing. Public domain image.

Holland prov., Netherlands, with windmills in background. Public domain scan of Dutch 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano / Piranesi feci...

Print shows a view of the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Exhibited: "From La Serenissima to the Eternal City : The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome" at The Mitchell Gallery, St. Joh... More

The Virgin, Child, and a bishop / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]...

Print shows Madonna and Child with bishop kneeling beside them. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Mutis Peui Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photo... More

St. Christopher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Woodcut by Lukas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553. Hollstein, 79 (later impression IIa? without inscriptions and with three breaks in the border; two on bottom and one at upper left); Bartsch, 58; LeBlanc, 12. Wate... More

Fortitude, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Allegorical print shows a woman as Fortitude, one of the cardinal virtues, snapping off a portion of a pillar. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washingto... More

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