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A work made of graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper.

Play Sculpture Design for Museum of Modern Art Competition, Design Sketch, 1954

Arthur Alfonso Carrara

A work made of galvanized iron.

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles), 1914/1959

Marcel Duchamp

A work made of slip-coated stoneware.

Ewer, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 13th century, with modern lid

A work made of woodcuts with text in reddish-brown and black ink, on cream japanese paper, folded into a booklet and bound with red string.

Advertising brochure: An Ancient Medium in a Modern Rendering, 1914

Gustave Baumann

Collection of Modern Songs: Notebook 7 (Colección de Canciones Modernas: Cuaderno Núm. 7)

Collection of Modern Songs: Notebook 7 (Colección de Canciones Modernas: Cuaderno Núm. 7), 1920

Manuel Manilla

A work made of manuscript with 259 folios, six miniatures and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with dutch inscriptions in littera textualis, in blackish brown ink, ruled in graphite, on parchment, in a modern binding of brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped designs on the endbands, and with machine cut edges, marbled in red and blue.

Book of Hours, c. 1420 (20th century binding)

Master of Zweder van Culemborg

Collection of Modern Songs: Adelita No. 9 (Coleccion de Canciones Modernas: Adelita No. 9)

Collection of Modern Songs: Adelita No. 9 (Coleccion de Canciones Modernas: Adelita No. 9), 1920

Manuel Manilla

A work made of manuscript with 230 folios, 12 full-page miniatures and other decorations in gold leaf, tempera and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in latin and french in dark black ink, ruled in red with red rubrics, on parchment, with two parchment fly leaves upper cover, three parchment fly leaves lower cover, sheets with gilded edges, in modern binding of brown morocco leather over wooden boards.

The Visitation, from a Book of Hours, c. 1440-1445

Master of the Privileges of Ghent and Flanders

A work made of woodcut and letterpress in black, with additions in pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, in modern full red calfskin, sewn on raised bands, with blind fillets around inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, and hand-sewn silk headbands.

The Small Woodcut Passion, 1511

Albrecht Dürer

New Collection of Modern Songs for the Current Year: Number 10 (Nueva Coleccion de Canciones Modernas para el Presente Año: Número 10)

New Collection of Modern Songs for the Current Year: Number 10 (Nueva Coleccion de Canciones Modernas para el Presente Año: Número 10), 1920

José Guadalupe Posada

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Elopement Scene in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (Katsuragawa renri no shigarami, michiyuki), from the series "A Selection of Ancient and Modern Dramas (Kokon Joruri zukushi)", c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, 2011

Ben Fry

A work made of manuscript with 58 full-page miniatures on parchment, with gothica textualis inscriptions in red (probably post-production addition) and black in french and latin (only on ff. 9v-10r), ruled in graphite, with 2 (modern) fly leaves upper and lower cover, and with trimmed edges and modern cardboard binding.

Cycle of Old and New Testament Images, Possibly Prefatory Cycle for a Psalter, c. 1250 (bound 2003)

A work made of book with letterpress and one etching and aquatint, seven lithographs, and one collotype plus illustrations on ivory wove paper.

Cézanne, 1914

Paul Cezanne

A work made of pencil on tracing paper.

Good Housekeeping’s “Better Living” House for Modern Living, Exterior Perspective Sketch, 1939–1940

William Ferguson Deknatel

A work made of hand-colored etching on paper.

Ancient and Modern Military Dandies of 1450, published February 8, 1819

George Cruikshank

A work made of full black morocco binding with onlay; metal corset stay attached to spine; title stamped in gold on spine; mauve endpapers printed with wire-mesh pattern; original paper covers bound in.

Le surmâle: Roman moderne (Superman: A Modern Novel), Published 1945; rebound 1945-1950

Mary Reynolds

A work made of manuscript with 214 folios, 17 miniatures, ten historiated initials and two full page miniatures, with borders and initial letters in tempera and gold leaf, text pages ruled in graphite with latin littera textualis formata inscriptions in black inks, on parchment, bound in modern red velvet over cardboard, with gilded and trimmed edges.

Psalter, 1280/95 (20th century binding)

The Modern Illusionist: Extensive and Thought-out Collection of Fortunes of Prestidigitation, Slights of Hand, Etc., Part 1 (El Ilusionista Moderno: Extensa y Excogida Coleccion de Suertes de Prestidigitacion, Escamoteos, Etc., Fraccion 1)

The Modern Illusionist: Extensive and Thought-out Collection of Fortunes of Prestidigitation, Slights of Hand, Etc., Part 1 (El Ilusionista Moderno: Extensa y Excogida Coleccion de Suertes de Prestidigitacion, Escamoteos, Etc., Fraccion 1), 1889

Manuel Manilla

A work made of square with gold brocaded chrysanthemum design with leaves on a gold satin ground.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1900/20, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)/ Republic Period (1912–1949)

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