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Self-Portrait

Salvator Rosa · ca. 1647

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch · ca. 1660–62

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Albrecht Dürer · 1526

The Calling of Saint Matthew

Jan Sanders van Hemessen

『閨の雛形』　正月 · Plate from the Erotic Book Mounds of Dyed Colors: A Pattern Book for the Boudoir (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata), First Month

Okumura Masanobu · ca. 1736–44

Portrait of an Olivetan Monk

Baldassare Peruzzi

Two women of the zodiac standing beneath the signs of Libra and Scorpio

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · Marcantonio Raimondi · ca. 1517–20

Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.

Joshua Reynolds · 1788

Palais Du Cirque à Chichen-Itza, Intérieur d'une salle

Désiré Charnay · 1859

Writing the Emancipation Proclamation (from Confederate War Etchings)

Adalbert J. Volck · 1861–63

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

Philip Dawe · R. Sayer and J. Bennett · March 25, 1775

The Alternative of Williams-Burg

Philip Dawe · R. Sayer and J. Bennett · February 16, 1775

A Sailor's Will

George Murgatroyd Woodward · Thomas Rowlandson · May 25, 1805

Book Cover

Italian (Sienese) Painter

Phillis Wheatley

Archibald Bell · Scipio Moorhead · Phillis Wheatley · 1773

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)

Philip Overton · John Cooper · William Hogarth · Samuel Butler · February 1725–26

Basile, my friend, your word is going to be askew, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 20, 1870

Walter Frères · Honoré Daumier · Arnaud de Vresse · January 20, 1870

John Thomlinson and His Family

Arthur Devis · 1745