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A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Augustus, 2 BCE-4 CE

Ancient Roman

A work made of pen and black ink, with traces of black chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper.

Study for the Vignette-Frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Book I, c. 1768

Hubert François Gravelot

A work made of silver.

Argenteus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Diocletian, 300, issued by Diocletian or Maximianus

Ancient Roman

A work made of sterling silver, ebony.

Teapot, 1960

William Frederick

A work made of silver and wood.

Teapot, 1848

Obadiah Rich

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Alexander the Great, 297-281 BCE, issued by King Lysimachus of Thrace

Ancient Greek

Black-and-white photograph of six trees in the snow. The tall black trees with thin, spiny branches contrast with the light gray, empty sky, and the stark white ground covered in fresh snow.

Chicago, 1950

Harry Callahan

A work made of silver.

Stater (Coin) Portraying Mithrapata, 380-375 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso, 1918

Alfred Stieglitz

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Underfoot XXX, New York, August/September 2000, printed November 21, 2000

Irving Penn

A black-and-white print of a 19th-century woman in a frilly dress, staring to the right in a pensive manner. She wears three pearl necklaces and holds flowers.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, May 1870

Julia Margaret Cameron

A work made of gelatin silver print in acrylic frame; edition number five of six.

Cremaster 5: The Queen of Chain, 1997

Matthew Barney

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Plastic-Covered Tree Near Lawrence and Kenmore, Chicago, 1984

Luis Medina

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Hot Dog Stands: Sammy's, Division Street, from the series "Hot Dog Stands", 1987

Patty Carroll

A work made of silver.

Caudle Cup, c. 1683

Cornelius Vanderburgh

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Marcel Duchamp, New York, April 30, 1948, printed 1984

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning, New York, March 20, 1947, printed 1983

Irving Penn

A work made of silver.

Scissors, Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th or 9th century

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Nude No. 158, New York, 1949/50, printed 1949/50

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Chicago 224, 1953

Aaron Siskind

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