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A bottle gourd sits in middle of the page, tilted slightly towards right, a butterfly flies in from the left.

Plant and Insect Study: Bottle Gourd; Io Butterfly

Unidentified Artist

Botanical watercolor drawing of a stem and leaf of the Amaranthus plant.

Plant Study: Amaranthus

Unidentified Artist

In the forest, a man is seated in front of an easel, painting a landscape.

The Artist Sketching, 1807 - 1868

William Sidney Mount

A black-and-white photograph portrays an empty plaza at night, illuminated by streetlamps after a rainstorm.

Reflections: Night - New York, 1864 - 1946

Alfred Stieglitz

Delicate rendering of bamboo on right with small birds flying around at various angles, some perched in the branches.

Bamboo and Sparrows, 1868 - 1923

Kunii Oyo 国井応陽

A led-glazed ware figure of a man standing upright and wearing a long, wrapped jacket. He wears a flat headpiece that covers the sides of his head. He has a long, straight beard.

Standing, Bearded Male Figure, Probably a Guardian Warrior, Wearing Helmet with Protective Neck and Ear Flaps, Cape, and Pointed Boots, with His Arms at His Sides

Chinese

Full length portrait of a seated man holding a ceremonial wooden pipe

Upi-t-ya-hde-a, Tail-Feather Joined. A Wa-pe-ton Sioux [Lakota] Chief. Dakota., 19th century

Negative by McClees Gallery

A scene in a late Eighteenth Century printer’s shop

Jane Avril at the Lithography Workshop, 1864 - 1901

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A jade sculpture of a turtle from a bird’s eye view. The turtle’s shell has an engraved, geometric pattern and its feet are underneath the shell with its toes poking out. The turtle’s head is turned to the left and tail turned to the right.

Small Jade Turtle in the Round

Chinese

A wooden sculpture of a slender person standing upright on a detailed pedestal. They are wearing draped cloth that covers their legs and goes across their shoulder and chest. They are wearing a small headpiece and have short hair.

Standing Arya-Avalokiteshvara (Shō Kannon bosatsu) on a Lotus Base, one from a set of 1,000 images formerly in Kōfuku-ji, Nara

Japanese

Nine Japanese people in kimonos and robes hang out on a wooden deck viewing Mt. Fuji in the center background.　

Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaidō), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) , 1760 - 1849

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

A large monkey dressed in orange robes with green and gold accents and boots walks forward facing left.　

The Monkey King Sun Wukong (Jp. Songokū), 1786? - 1868

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Portrait of a young man with cropped, dark-brown hair, clothed in a white shirt and black cloak.

Alphonse Pierre Hennet de Goutel (1815-1887), 1819 - 1856

Théodore Chassériau

A rectangular carpet with a thick orange border that has a dark green, red, and white geometric floral pattern. At the center is a smaller rectangle space that has a large red shape that is rectangle at the bottom and comes to a diamond shape at the top. It is detailed with a white border and above it is a simple geometric floral motif in green and red with a white background.

Prayer Carpet

Turkish

Tekke Bag Face

Tekke Bag Face

Turkmen

A rectangular textile fragment showing two vertical bands in black depicting lions, rabbits, riders, dancers/hunters, birds, and flowers on a yellowed, off-white ground.

Tunic Front: Riders and Dancers

Byzantine

Portrait of a Youth Wearing Red Trousers and a Green Tunic

Portrait of a Youth Wearing Red Trousers and a Green Tunic

Ottoman

Madhumadhavi Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Madhumadhavi Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Indian

Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna in the arms of their mothers, while their father Dasharatha converses with priests (painting, recto; painting, verso), illustration from a Ramayana series

Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna in the arms of their mothers, while their father Dasharatha converses with priests (painting, recto; painting, verso), illustration from a Ramayana series

Indian

Fragment: Floral Pendants

Fragment: Floral Pendants

Coptic

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