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A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
warp: count: 8 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameter: 0.8–1.0 mm
weft: count: varies from 17 to 30 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–1.0 mm; silk: three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2 mm.

Four Servants, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope from The Story of Odysseus, c. 1650

Jan van Leefdael

A work made of bronze.

Bust of Sulla, Late 19th century reproduction

A work made of oil on canvas.

Slumber Party, 1983

Eric Fischl

A work made of chromogenic print; from an edition of six with two artist's proofs.

"Hilton Head Island, S.C., USA, June 22, 1992," from Beach Portraits, 1992

Rineke Dijkstra

A work made of cisele voided satin velvet.

Fragment, 16th century

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 28: Nagakubo, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of gelatin silver print.

"E" Town, New Mexico, 1930, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

A work made of etching on ivory laid paper.

Drunken Silenus, 1628

Jusepe de Ribera

A work made of oil on canvas.

Christ Receiving the Children, c. 1655

Sébastien Bourdon

A work made of glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, and lead.

Saints and Worshippers in Adoration, 1510-15

A work made of oil on canvas.

Jim and His Daughter, 1923

Walter Ufer

A work made of enamel on aluminum.

Maggie's Brain, 1995

Christopher Wool

A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.

Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862

Gustave Courbet

Painting of a figure with a face that seems to be bisected at center and mirrored, with a set of green eyes and a set of red eyes below. Though the figure has one head, it has two bodies: a nondescript male torso at left and a female torso with prominent breasts at right. The background is a uniform blue. A spiny yellow vine suggests a neck at left. At right, another suggested neck features cone-like protrusions identical to the nipples on the female torso.

Gemini, 1938

Victor Brauner

A work made of glass, mold-blown technique.

Flask in the Shape of a Date, 1st century

Ancient Roman

A work made of black chalk on cream wove paper (discolored to brown), laid down on cream japanese paper.

Study of a Seated Man, 1905

Pablo Picasso

A work made of lithograph on tan wove paper.

Bust of a Woman, 1933

Ivan Albright

A work made of woodcut in black on ivory laid paper.

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1505/07

Hans Baldung Grien

A work made of manuscript with 182 folios, 11 miniatures, 15 historiated initials and other decorations in tempera, gold leaf and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in latin and french, in light black ink, ruled in red, on parchment, bound in leather stamped with various designs.

Book of Hours for the Use of Limoges, 1480/1500 (late 15th century binding)

Master of Catherine Gentille

A work made of etching on cream wove paper.

Hammock, 1947

Alfredo Zalce

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