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[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

Procession d'une nouvelle Mariée qui se rend chez son Mari / Plegtige ...

Dutch (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Recto: top center: (banner in sky, in French) PROCESSION d’une nouvelle MARIÉE qui se rend chez son MARI ; l. l.: J. v. Schley sculp. ; bottom c... 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

No. 2. Veduta dei ponti della valle presso maddaloni nella provincia d...

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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.

Veduta del foro romano dall'alto, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Armi.

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

Veduta della Chiesa e Piazza d'Ognissanti

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Papini, Jos.

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

Veduta dello stato attuale del Ponte Meolle, anticamente

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Penna, Agostino.

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."

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait drawing

Ilka Kolsky's drawing with pen. (General) Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Scotch terrier and pups after Henrietta Ronner

Print shows a Scotch terrier sitting in a basket that has fallen over, with four pups, one at a green food or water dish, and with a piece of cloth covering straw on the floor. From series: Fac-similes of Wate... 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

"Early morning" Louis K. Harlow ; by Louis K. Harlow

Print shows a landscape view with a man walking on a dirt road, with a fishing pole over his shoulder, toward a river, at sunrise. S12977 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left. Label on verso wi... 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

Spring JMazzanovich ; by J. Mazzanovich

Print shows a landscape view of a country scene with flowering trees in bloom, wetlands, cart path, and a young girl picking flowers; beyond the trees and split-rail fence on the right may be a farmhouse. T3813... More

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

Copy of water color by a French artist. The Red Cross protecting manki...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Ex. Indef to Mr. Odlin. Group title: Posters. Gift; American ... More

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

Joly, dans La Belle au Bois Dormant (Joly, in Sleeping Beauty)

French (artist nationality) draughtsman, engraver, lithographer, and actor (artist role) Verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/224 (inscription) Etching. (medium) Fine condition. Trimmed to image, except for a quarter... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain illustration drawing

Ilka Kolsky's drawing. 6 of 8 consecutive works. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. De la Flute. Joueur de plusieurs instrumens. (Monsieur De la Flute...

French (artist nationality) engraver and painter (artist role) Recto: bottom center: Mr. De la Flute. / Joueur de plusiers instrumens. ; encased in mylar, glued to the mat, is a fragment, possibly removed from ... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Artwork at Timberline Lodge, halfway up Mount Hood in Oregon

Created by a W.P.A. worker at the lodge, during the Great Depression. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the d... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

Artwork detail at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

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.

Shirley W. Sheldon, water color painter, Saunderstown, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-5, Shirley W. Sheldon, Waterway, Saunderstown, with her paintings; 6-8, Dutch Island light house in oil; 8-9, Dutch Island light house in water color; 10-13, Dutch Island; 14-17, Saunderstown scen... More

[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.

La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille (The Artistic Struggle / Quadrille)

printed by Guillet, Paris, lithographer (artist notes) French (artist nationality) genre painter, illustrator and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l. (signed) J Worms ; u. c.: La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille; l. ... More

Veduta dell'Arco fabbricato in onore d'Augusto ...

Print shows a view of the arch built in honor of the emperor Augustus.

[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

Das Armbrustschiessen zu München 1599 (The Crossbow Archers in Munich...

German (artist nationality) painter and engraver on copper and wood (artist role) Recto: top center: (title, in old German) Abriss dess Schüessplats auf dem Plachfelt neben dem fl. Lusthauss. ; l. r.: (oval sta... 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

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

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

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.

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