Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Septimus Severus, 194-195, issued by Septimius Severus

Ancient Roman

"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens, 1852

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Women in Front of a Café, Evening, c. 1877

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Mill of Pont Maupuit, c. 1900

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Assouan, 1857, printed 1862

Francis Frith

Plate with Moses Striking the Rock, c. 1545

Urbino Potteries

Coin Depicting Pegasus, about 500-450 BCE

Ancient Greek

"- Oh my God, Mama, mama!........ For heaven's sake..... my daughter, my daughter!!!," plate 26 from Pastorales, 1845

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

View of the ancient structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido, and like others, built by Marcus Agrippa in the time of Augustus when he cleaned all of the sewers leading to the Tiber, from Views of Rome, 1776, published 1800–07

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Views of Rome, 1762, published 1800–07

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Antoninianus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Pupienus, 238 (April-June), issued by Balbinus and Pupienus, coemperors

Ancient Roman

Together or Alone III, 1981

John E. Dowell, Jr.

The Disadvantage of Buying a Newspaper That is Publishing the News Twelve Hours Before the others. “- How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper,” plate 139 from Actualités, 1848

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Reliquary and Printed Konpon Darani Text, Nara period (710–794), c. 770

Hispano-Moresque Plate, 1500/1650

Head of a Woman, 1890s

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

The Song of the Dog, 1876–77

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Galerius Maximianus, 307-310

Ancient Roman

Plate with Isaac Blessing Jacob, 1540/1545

Urbino Potteries

Bowl with a Bust of Mucius Scaevola, 1535/45

Faenza Potteries