Enlightenment Pages
Eighteenth-century books and letters.
池大雅書 「楓橋夜泊」屏風 · "Maple Bridge Night Mooring"
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1770
The Reconciliation (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)
Samuel Johnson · James Boswell · Samuel Collings · Elizabeth Jackson · Thomas Rowlandson · June 20, 1786
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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
Songs of Experience: The Tyger
William Blake · [1794] printed ca. 1825
Allegory of Vigilance
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1772
Study for an Inkstand
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740–45
A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study
Charles James Fox · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · The Right Honorable Edmund Burke · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Humphrey · Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784
Seated Man Reading
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1774
Group Pilgrimage to the Jizo Nun
Ike no Taiga · 1755/65
An Irish Howl
Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1799
Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at Football
Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · William Pitt · Charles James Fox · February 7, 1784
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Sharaku · 1794
An Academy by Lamplight
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · William Pether · William Pether · February 20, 1772
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Shibata Zeshin · 18th–19th century
The Cumaean Sibyl (after Michelangelo)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Jean Robert Ango · 1767
Seated Youth
Raphael · 18th century
St. Matthew
William Blake · 1799
Study after Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' with color notes
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · Anonymous, Italian · 1600–1700
Juvenile Instructions of the Boy Monju (Chigo monju osana kyokun)
Katsushika Hokusai · 1801
The Chest Containing Various Teachings (Kyokun zonagamochi)
Katsushika Hokusai · 1784
Paul Before Felix
William Hogarth · c. 1751
The Representative of the French People in Office
Jacques Louis David · baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 1794
Death of Ananias
John Constable · 1795
Landscape containing "Four Secretly Hidden Silhouettes"
George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · Charlotte, Queen of England · Marie Antoinette, Queen of France · Louis XVI, King of France · Anonymous, German, 18th century · 1793–1800
An Elderly Man in Prayer
Rembrandt · 1660s or later
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Nainsukh · ca. 1745–50
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Nainsukh · ca. 1775–80
Portrait of an unidentified court dwarf with books, after Velázquez
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1778
Title Page from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1749–50
The Adoration of the Magi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1740
The Last Communion of St. Jerome
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1726
Design for a Frontispiece: Love Staying the Hand of Time
François Boucher
Diploma of the Freemasons of Bordeaux
François Boucher
Antoine Watteau
François Boucher · c. 1727
Yoshiwara Picture Book: Annual Events, or Annals of the Green Houses, (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji)
Kitagawa Utamaro · 1804
The Courtesan Karauta of Chojiya Reading a Book (from the series Six Authors of the Green Houses)
Kitagawa Utamaro · late 1790s
Prayer for the Flowering of the Rods
Giotto · n.d.
Wedding Procession of Mary and Joseph
Giotto · n.d.
Woman Resting Her Head on a Book
Angelica Kauffmann · 1770
The Circumcision
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1764
Saint Luke
Paolo Veronese · n.d.
Architectural Sketches
Canaletto · c. 1720
Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles
Charles Le Brun · Bernard Picart · early 18th century
Moses Saved from the Waters
Hubert Robert · n.d.
The Monument of Doctor Lawrence Humphrey
John Flaxman Jr. · n.d.
Boy Reading
Guercino · n.d.
Madonna del Sacco
Andrea del Sarto · n.d.
Flight into Egypt: Title Page
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1750–53
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