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A printed invitation with a decorative frame featuring cherubs, flowers, and musical instruments surrounding the text.

Invitation to a Ball, 1715 - 1790

Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune

An etching of a figure wearing a pyramid-shaped costume.

Young Monk, 1727 - 1792

Benigno Bossi

A print portrays two men and four women listening as one man reads from a piece of paper.

The Miserable Calas Family, 1721 - 1775

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delafosse

An etching portrays several figures holding onto a seated man in the center of a dark room, with other figures in the background. At the left of the room, soldiers guard a door, allowing a man inside the room.

Calas Bidding Farewell to His Family, 1726 - 1801

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

A diagram depicts different views of the interior of a slave ship, labelled with figure numbers and letters. There is a body of text underneath the diagram.

Description of a Slave Ship

British

An illustration of numerous figures wearing robes and turbans standing in a large room with many windows.

The Reception of an Ambassador by the Grand Vizir at the Sublime Porte, 1734 - 1808

Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse

Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen (New Experiments and Samples of Paper Made without Rags or at Least a Small Addition of Those Materials) (5 vols.)

Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen (New Experiments and Samples of Paper Made without Rags or at Least a Small Addition of Those Materials) (5 vols.), 1718 - 1790

Jacob Christian Schäffer

An illustration portrays a man wearing a suit attached with wing-like parachutes leaping into the air.

Frontispiece to La découverte australe par un homme-volant, ou Le Dédale Français (The Discovery of the Austral Lands by a Flying Man; or, The French Daedalus) (vol. 1), 1734 - 1806

Author: Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne

An engraving of a palace with trees on either side.

Haiyantang Dongmian (Calm Seas Palace), plate 12, from Changchun yuan shuifa tu (Pictures of the European Palaces and Waterworks), active at the Manchu court, c. 1749 - 1793

Ilantai

An engraving of two buildings surrounded by a labyrinth.

Huayuan Zhengmian (Labyrinth), plate 5 from Changchun yuan shuifa tu (Pictures of the European Palaces and Waterworks), active at the Manchu court, c. 1749 - 1793

Ilantai

Pentecost

Pentecost, c. 1491/92 - 1542

Bernard van Orley

Detail, Torre de las Infantas, Alhambra, Granada

Detail, Torre de las Infantas, Alhambra, Granada

Rafael Señán González

Detail of Carving

Detail of Carving, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Stencil

Stencil, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Stencil

Stencil, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Landscape Study for Le Vent (Terrasse de Vezelay)

Landscape Study for Le Vent (Terrasse de Vezelay), 1865 - 1898

Charles-Marie Dulac

Studies of Quarry Workers and Architectural Sketches; verso: Quarry Workers

Studies of Quarry Workers and Architectural Sketches; verso: Quarry Workers, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Studies of Quarry Workers (recto and verso)

Studies of Quarry Workers (recto and verso), 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Details of Scales for "Judgment" Lunette, Boston Public Library (recto and verso)

Details of Scales for "Judgment" Lunette, Boston Public Library (recto and verso), 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Sketches of Scales for "Judgment" Lunette; verso: Sketches for Boston Public Library Lunettes, including "Heaven"

Sketches of Scales for "Judgment" Lunette; verso: Sketches for Boston Public Library Lunettes, including "Heaven", 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

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