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Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

The Five Orders of Periwigs

William Hogarth · November 1761

清石濤(朱若極) 遊張公洞圖卷 · Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto

Shitao · ca. 1700

池大雅書「楓橋夜泊」屏風 · "Maple Bridge Night Mooring"

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1770

The Battle-Array of Carberry-hill near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots to the Confederate Lords of Scotland, and the Escape of Earl Bothwell

Mary, Queen of Scots · George Vertue · John Oliver · Livinus de Vogelaare · Robert Peake the Elder · 1742

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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century

The Political Clyster

William Hogarth · Robert Sayer · January 1757

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth · September 30, 1747

William Hog-garth Esq. Drawn from the Life

William Hogarth · John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute · Anonymous, British, 18th century · 1763

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea (Industry and Idleness, plate 5)

William Hogarth · September 30, 1747

Gin Lane

William Hogarth · February 1, 1751

Title Page, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1749–50

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

A Charm for a Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, & Destroyed Jan 1 1799 to the Confusion of its Affiliated Friends

Charles James Fox · Thomas Rowlandson · Henri Merke · James Whittle · Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Pitt · January 1, 1799

Veduta interna dell'Atrio del Portico di Ottavia (Internal View of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia), in: 'Vedute di Roma' (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1760

Plan of the Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella, wife of the Triumvir Marcus Crassus..., from Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), tome 3, tavola 49

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Angelo Rotili · published 1756–57

Means by which the large blocks of travertine and marble were lifted during the construction of the large Tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), tome 3, tavola 53

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Angelo Rotili · published 1756–57

Group Pilgrimage to the Jizo Nun

Ike no Taiga · 1755/65

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Utagawa Hiroshige · 19th century

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Utagawa Hiroshige · 19th century

Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green

Thomas Rowlandson · John Raphael Smith · December 15, 1785

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1788

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

Thomas Rowlandson · S. W. Fores · Charles James Fox · Mrs. Mother Windsor · George, Prince of Wales · April 22, 1784

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Yosa Buson · ca. 1780

与謝蕪村筆　奥の細道図扇面 · Scene from The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Yosa Buson · ca. 1780

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Yosa Buson

風流江戸八景　真乳山の暮雪 · Evening Snow on Matsuchi Hilll, from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1765–70

清石濤 (朱若極) 花石圖軸 · Hibiscus, Lotus, and Rock

Shitao · ca. 1705–7

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Shibata Zeshin · 18th–19th century

Juvenile Instructions of the Boy Monju (Chigo monju osana kyokun)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1801

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

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Nainsukh · ca. 1775–80

Landscape containing fifteen silhouettes

Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre · Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France · Catherine II, Empress of Russia · Louis XVII · Louis XVI, King of France · Marie Antoinette, Queen of France · Anonymous, German, 18th century · 1793–1800