Johann Pleitner

Jakob von Sandrart

What's the matter with you?

Paul Gavarni

Three or four wretched pints : that changes the look of things!

Paul Gavarni

And your geometry . . . let's see! Beauminet, what is a circle?

Paul Gavarni

Johann Christoph Haller von Hallerstein

Jakob von Sandrart

Nonsense! As if civil law required me to keep you in such finery!

Paul Gavarni

Zoerarde

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Pardon, beautiful lady . . .

Paul Gavarni

Peter Engelhardt Dietherr

Mathys van Somer

Brocaded tape with hexagonal designs

Woven Shawl Edge with Fringe Border

Aydin kilim carpet

Unknown Artist

Death of Atilius Regulus (detail)

Jeremias Wolff Salvator Rosa

Johann Christoph Arschwange

Philipp Kilian Daniel Preissler

Embroidered Cloth

Temple of the Benevolent Goddess

Giacomo Lauro

Textile Fragment with Woven Border

Folio 4 from a Manuscript of the Qur'an: Frontispiece, Sura 2: 1-5 (recto), Sura 2: 6-16 (verso)

Fragment of Silk Lampas

Unidentified Artist

Sandflowers

Kitaoka Fumio

Shoulder Band (Clavus): Floral Design

Folio from an Illustrated Manuscript of a Compendium of Knowledge (Jung), made for Shah Sulayman

Capital V

Anonymous France (Paris) 1528 Simon de Colines

S. Peter Penitent

Jonas Umbach

Sample: yellow; grey; blue and red

Bauhaus Weaving Workshop

The Oak Tree (Kashiwagi), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 36 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Jōhōji Kōjo

Fragment of Ribbed Silk

Unidentified Artist

Clavus (tunic band): Lines of Rosebuds

Pieta Tapestry

Unidentified Artist

Folio from an Illustrated Manuscript of a Compendium of Knowledge (Jung), made for Shah Sulayman

Spouses owe one another mutual fidelity, help, assistance . . ."

Paul Gavarni

Bobbin applique

Sketch of Stupa and Avalokiteshvara (?)

Ownership Note (recto), Frontispiece, Introduction (verso), folio 1 from a Manuscript of the Bustan by Sa`di

Unknown Artist

Hôtes légers des rêveries de jeunes filles . . .

Paul Gavarni

Rest in the Park

Charles Jean Louis Courtry Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater

The Story of Dido and Aeneas

Gérard de Lairesse

Jan van der Heyden

Reinier Vinkeles Jacobus Buys

Letter N

Anonymous France 1599

The Statue of Jupiter at Olympia

Philips Galle Maarten van Heemskerck

The Circus Maximus

Giacomo Lauro

What! you see me with a man that you don't know . . .

Paul Gavarni

Reinier Pauw

Jacobus Houbraken Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn

The Hunt for the Handkerchief

Paul Gavarni

Spiritual Salutation [Salute]

Ernst Barlach

Key to Sortie Made by Garrison of Gibraltar

William Sharp

Vigilantia and Acedia (3 of 7)

Pieter Jalhea Furnius

Ruins of the Forum of Nerva

Giacomo Lauro

Landscape with Animals

Jules Jacques Veyrassat Aelbert Cuyp

David Dancing before the Arc; verso: Assumption of Mary

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

The Devil of Pride on Apollonius's Back; Emissaries of the Emperor ordering Apollonius to Become a Knight

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

The Angel of the Lord Smote in the Camp of the Assyrians (2 Kings XIX, 35), Illustration from Bible. Nuremberg, Koberger, 1483

Anonymous Germany (Nuremberg) 1499

Albert Coenraads Burg

Jacobus Houbraken Paulus Moreelse

Mountebank

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

The Beautiful Woman Thaïs; Monk Travelling with his Sister

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

The Amphitheater of Vespasian, known as the Colosseum

Giacomo Lauro

The Village Fortune Teller

Emmanuel de Ghendt Clément Pierre Marillier

The Binding of Achior; Adah and Zillah tormenting Lamech; verso: Job scourged by the devil's whip and his wife's words

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Humiliation of Vitellius

Pierre Chenu Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Would-be monk showing his ravaged body to St. Anthony

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Bernard Picart

Jacob van der Schley Matthäus des Angles

Friar approaching two other monks carrying sand on his back; Friar thrown out of his cloister repenting his sins

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Letter H

Anonymous France 1599

Papa, here is your straw man!

Paul Gavarni

Letter Q

Anonymous France 1599

Avarice and Minos

Claude Gillot

Fragment of Brocaded Fancy Twill

Dalliance With a Dog

Thomas Rowlandson

Flute-player

Albert Meyeringh

The House of C. Cesarius

Giacomo Lauro

Temple of Fortuna Virilis, now St. Mary of Egypt

Giacomo Lauro

Willem Corneliszoon Duivenbooden

Jacobus Houbraken Abraham Delfos

Mocking of Christ

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Standing Woman with an Iron

William Morris Hunt

Christ Carrying the Cross

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Letter E

Anonymous France 1599

Brocaded Plain and Twill Fancy Weave