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380 artworks

Pen Box with Birds, Butterflies, and Flowers

Fathallah Shirazi, 1886

Printing Plate: Nude with Hands Behind her Head (vertical)

Armand Séguin, 1889

Pen Box with Riverscape, Female Portraits, and Turkeys in Medallions

Mirza Mustafa Shirazi, 1890

Woodblock: Francis James Child

Gustav Kruell, 1897

Pen Box with the Virgin and Child, and Parrots in Medallions

Muhammad Baqir Samirumi, 1905

Pen Box with Persian Women in Medallions

Muhammad Baqir Samirumi, 1909

Pen Box with European Women in Medallions

Muhammad Baqir Samirumi, 1918

Pen Box with Battle and Hunting Scenes

Asad-Allah Dizfuli, 1918

Copper plate: Walchensee

Lovis Corinth, 1919

Printing Block: David Playing His Harp before Saul

Lucas van Leyden, 1950

Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, from the series Ehon butai ogi

Designed by Ippitsusai Bunchō

Woodblock: Saint Sebastian

Anonymous Germany

Stencil

John Singer Sargent

Printing Plate: Francis Calley Gray

Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling

Copper Plate: “Saint Barbara”

After Israhel van Meckenem the younger

Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing a Kuniyoshi image, the reverse showing Sawamura Tanosuke from the series Mitate rokkasen

Designed by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Double-sided wood printing block from Book on the Process of Woodblock Printing (Hanga shūsatsu junjo chō), with a design of Compared Poems of the Four Seasons (Shiki no kuawase)

Designed by Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮

Wood-engraving block: "So lovely twas, that God Himself scarce seemed there to be"

Gustave Doré

Woodblock: Witches' Sabbath

Unknown

Woodblock: Witches' Sabbath

Hans Baldung Grien

Wood-engraving block: "Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, and yet I could not die"

Gustave Doré