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

Pardon, beautiful lady . . .

Paul Gavarni

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

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

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

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

Jōhōji Kōjo

Fragment of Ribbed Silk

Unidentified Artist

Illuminated sarlawh of the fifth section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 189), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Clavus (tunic band): Lines of Rosebuds

The sarlawh of the third section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 90), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

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

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before him and Impeached by his Accomplice

William Hogarth

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

Paul Gavarni

Folio 478 from a Manuscript of the Qur'an: Sura 114 (recto)

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

Banditto Taking His Post

John Hamilton Mortimer

Rest in the Park

Charles Jean Louis Courtry Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater

The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, and Married to his Master's Daughter

William Hogarth

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

"My dear friend, we have discovered that yesterday evening at the show..."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

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

Henrietta Maria, Queen of England

Paul Adolphe Rajon Anthony van Dyck

Humiliation of Vitellius

Pierre Chenu Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

The Ewe and the Bush

Claude Gillot

Village of Avray: Boating Pond

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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

Dalliance With a Dog

Thomas Rowlandson

The Present and the Future

Nicolas Henri Tardieu Charles-Antoine Coypel

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

The Ox and the Mite

Claude Gillot

Standing Woman with an Iron

William Morris Hunt

Christ Carrying the Cross

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Letter E

Anonymous France 1599

Backgammon Players

David Deuchar Adriaen van Ostade