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The plan and elevation of the bridge now called the Ponte dei Quattoro Capi [Bridge of the Four Heads], which in antiquity was called the Bridge of Fabricius after L. Fabricius, the Superintendent of the Streets who built it at the end of the Republic [62 BC]..., tome 4, tavola 18 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

published 1756–57

Cup

Heinrich Mack

early 17th century

Paneling with a statues in niches between pilasters, from Lambris à la française, plate 4, in A Bound Collection of Print Series Including Cheminées et Lambris, Alcoves à la Romaine, Feuillages et autres ornemens..., etc.

Jean Le Pautre

1751

The Young God Ebisu (Waka ebisu) 和歌夷

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

1789

Textile Fragment

second half 17th century

Clock ornament

French

second quarter 18th century

Moss agate and enamel stem cup

South German, probably Augsburg

ca. 1660

Design for a Box-Lid

Hubert François Gravelot

18th century

Vignette (Liv. VIII, Fable II, 3.e vol., page 15), depicting Theseus and the Minotaur, from Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en Latin et en François de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Avec des explications historiques. A Paris Chez Despilly rue saint Jacques à la croix d'or. MDCCLXVII. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi

Nicolas Ponce

1769

The Visit to the Nursery

Gabriël Metsu

1661

Piece

China

early 18th century

Key

Spanish

17th century

Charles Macklin

British, Etruria, Staffordshire

late 18th century

Wilton album, folio 104: plate 6: five soldiers on horseback fighting at center, a fallen soldier at left, and a horse on its side at right, from "Military scenes"

Jacques Courtois

ca. 1635–60

Love Poses in the Narabi Hills (Nure sugata narabi no oka) 濡姿雙の岡

Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信

18th century

S. Arsène, ermite (St. Arsenius, Hermit), July 19th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

Jacques Callot

1636

Pair of jelly molds

British, Staffordshire

ca. 1750

Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

ca. 1745–1750

Fireback

British

18th century

The Death of Ananias: Ananias dying at lower left, St. Peter admonishing him above, townspeople reacting at lower right

1773

Judgment of Solomon

Valentin de Boulogne

ca. 1624–25

Plate 7, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle... for the Use of Learners, from "Outlines"

Thomas Rowlandson

June 27, 1790

Baluster

British

mid-18th century

Livre de Diverse Paysages pour Apprendre à Dessiner à la Plume

Jacques Philippe Le Bas

18th century

Saint Mary Magdalen

Angelo Albanesi

January 15, 1779

Pointed lace

Italian

17th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Samurai with Large Hat Beside a Weeping Willow

Japan

18th century

Title Page depicting a chapel enclosure topped with a cartouche with the coat of arms of France, from Clôtures de chapelles, plate 1, bound in Oeuvres. Vol. II

Jean Le Pautre

published 1659

Panel ornament

French

18th century

Teacup (1 of 6) (part of a service)

Meissen Manufactory

1720–25

Brandy warmer

Paul de Lamerie

1720

Sixth scene, the heavens, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

Stefano della Bella

1637

Medallion of George Washington

British

1778–88

The Five Senses

Nicolas Cochin

17th century

Naissance et Triomphe de Venus (The Birth and Triumph of Venus)

Jean Daullé

18th century

Torricellian barometer

British

ca.1750

Reverse Copy of Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jean Deriancourt

New Modelbüch (Page 30r)

Andreas Bretschneider

1615

Ornament Design for a Thesis on the Device: Quest' un soccorso

Stefano della Bella

ca. 1656

Screen

French

18th century

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