Hecta (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Demeter, 400-350 BCE

Ancient Greek

Study for a second edition, never published, of Colle's "La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV", Act III, Scene 10, before 1766

Hubert François Gravelot

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Marcus Claudius Marcellus, 50-49 BCE, issued by Roman Republic, P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (moneyer)

Ancient Roman

Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1770–80

C. Luigi Valadier

Fête du Trône, 1925

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

Negative Cat, c. 1926

László Moholy-Nagy

Mother's Day, from the series "Born Hip", 1962

Billy Abernathy

Hot Water Pot, 1850

Gorham and Thurber

Dieter Appelt (B), New York, September 12, 1995, printed 1995

Irving Penn

Pendant, 1900–17

Jessie M. Preston

Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative), 1967

Mel Bochner

Concho Belt, 1880s

Navajo (Diné)

Patch Box, 1721–25

John Dixwell

Two Apaches in Paris, c. 1932

Brassaï, (Gyula Halász)

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Alexander the Great, 93-92 BCE

Ancient Greek

Blind boy who lost his arms during the war has learned to read with his lips, Rome, c. 1948

David Seymour

Diobol (Coin) Depicting Forepart of Lion, 478 BCE and later

Ancient Greek

Willem de Kooning, Long Island, New York, September 26, 1983, printed 1984

Irving Penn

Globular Huqqa Base with Floral Design, 19th century

Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

Alfred Stieglitz