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Title
The Farnese Hercules
Artist
Jacob Bos
Physical Description
This engraving reproduces a colossal marble sculpture of Hercules leaning upon his club, which is draped with a lion skin. Bos carefully records the powerful musculature of the figure and sets the statue within a niche.
Artist Life Dates
active c.1520-c.1580
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1562
Accession Number
1994/2.17
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Venus and Cupid
Artist
Hendrick Goltzius
Physical Description
This black and white print shows a nude woman and young boy with wings within an oval shape.The woman is lounging on a draped surface and has her arm around the boy. He is facing toward her and pushing an arrow against her left breast. Other smaller scenes surround these figures including, a woman in a chariot drawn by swans; a man and a woman conversing in a forest; two figures in a landscape scene and two birds nestled together. Outside the oval in the corners of the work are hearts, flaming arrows and roses . At the bottom is Latin lettering.
Artist Life Dates
1558 - 1617
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1596
Accession Number
1998/2.17
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Empedocles
Artist
René Boyvin
Physical Description
A man wearing a tunic, cape and boots stands in a minimal landscape. His walking stick seems to be falling away from him at the right as the man points upwards toward the sun's rays, as well as extends his right hand towards fire at the lower left.
Artist Life Dates
1525-1598
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1539-1540
Accession Number
1990/1.189
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Saint Sebastian
Artist
Master B of the Die
Artist Life Dates
active ca. 1530
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
16th century
Accession Number
1983/1.154
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Corselet Bearers
Artist
Giulio Campagnola
Physical Description
This print shows a procession of men walking from right to left across the foregound of the picture.They are dressed in short tunics and have laurel wreaths on their heads and some have swords.Some carry poles on which there are breast plates and helmets and some are holding litters piled with furniture, vessels and cups. There is an elephant that is partially shown at the far left.The background area is blank.
There are traces of additional diagonal hatching marks that had been added at a later date; those lines have been removed.
Artist Life Dates
ca.1482-1515
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1498
Accession Number
1997/1.534
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
The Calumny of Apelles
Artist
Girolamo Mocetto
Artist Life Dates
circa 1458-1531
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1505-1507; printed 1540s
Accession Number
1968/1.122
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Madonna by the Wall
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
A young woman, dressed in long robes with her veil drawn over her head, sits next to a wall holding an infant in her lap. She is turned slightly to her right and gazes sweetly upon the child who twists to face the viewer and holds an apple in his left hand. A stream meanders through the landscape of trees and city walls behind them.
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1514
Accession Number
1958/1.95
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Crouching Venus
Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi
Physical Description
A nude woman is seen in profile crouching and turning her head toward the viewer. She is backed up against a short pedestal or wal, on top of which a winged cupid bends towards the woman. On the right side is a slender tree, and behind the figures is an expansive landscape.
Artist Life Dates
ca. 1475-before 1534
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1505-1506
Accession Number
1984/1.289
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
St. Jerome in His Study
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
This engraving depicts a comfortable domestic interior. An old bearded man sits poring over a book at table in the back of the room. A lion and dog rest on the floor in the foreground. Various other objects appear around the room, including a skull, books, slippers, a crucifix, and a pair of scissors.
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1514
Accession Number
1993/2.1
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Adam and Eve Bemoaning the Death of Abel; No. 6 from the Series of 6 Prints 'The
Artist
Lucas Van Leyden
Artist Life Dates
1494-1533
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1529
Accession Number
1952/1.89
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Coat of Arms with the Cock
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
A composition with a heraldic motif: a rooster standing on top of a helmet with visor and throat guard, below which is a sheld or other carving with a rampant lion. Surrounding on either side is vigorous foliage (acanthus leaves).
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Century
Early 16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1503
Accession Number
1960/2.34
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
The Milkmaid
Artist
Lucas Van Leyden
Physical Description
This engraving is horizontally oriented. The length of a cow (with its head to the left and its tail to the right) is the focal point, taking up about a third of the image. At the cow’s head on the left, a barefooted man with a hat leans on a pole and rests his arm on a tree trunk. Behind the man is another cow with horns and he is standing in front of a building. The ground is rocky and a fence made of thin tree trunks runs along the background. At the cow’s tail on the right, is a peasant woman with bare feet. Her head is covered with a cloth and she labors to carry a heavy wooden milk bucket. Several trees and another cow are behind her. A small plaque on the ground in the foreground contains an inscription.
Artist Life Dates
1494-1533
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1510
Accession Number
1961/1.160
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
The Cook and his Wife
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
Two figures dominate the image with little reference to setting other than a low horizon line and some pebbles in the lower left. A man stands tothe lelft wearing simple tradesman's clothes; in his right hand he holds a ladle and another cooking implement. A knife in its sheath hangs at his waist. On his left shoulder stands a bird wtih wings open that is facing the man. To the right is a woman with a headdress and veil and cloak wrapped over one shoulder and in front of her.
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1496-1497
Accession Number
1963/1.93
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
The Magic Picture: Zémire et Azor
Artist
François Voyez
Artist Life Dates
1746-1805
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
1772
Accession Number
1970/1.195
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
The Peasant and His Wife at Market
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
A couple stand in a very dense and congested space, a broken wall behind them. The woman on the left holds a rooster by the feet and is looking at her husband, on the right, who has his hand extended and his holding a money bagin is left hand. At their feet is a stoppered jar and a basket full of eggs.
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1519
Accession Number
2005/2.16
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Descent into Limbo
Artist
Zoan Andrea
Artist Life Dates
active c.1475-c.1519
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1475-1480
Accession Number
1979/1.159
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Devotion of Little St. John the Baptist [Les hommages du petit saint Jean] from a suite of nine scenes of the life of the Virgin
Artist
Anonymous French
Physical Description
The Virgin Mary seated with an infant on her lap. She is surrounded by angels and two saints on either side. To her left, the little St. John the Baptist looks up to her. There is a puti above sprinkling something in the air. Drapes pushed back on either side.
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.542
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Boaz and the Elders. from the Story from Ruth in Gerard de Jode's "Thesaurus Sacrarum historiarum Veteris et Novi Testamenti"
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
A group of men in an outdoor setting of a stone structure all seated having a conversation. Towards the one side you can see two houses in the distance. The men are all wearing cloaks.
Century
16th century
Accession Number
2013/2.534
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Pallas (one of a set of three with Venus and Juno)
Artist
Hendrick Goltzius
Artist Life Dates
1558 - 1617
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1596
Accession Number
1975/1.83
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
Combat of Romans and Dacians (after a relief on the Arch of Constantine, Rome)
Artist
Nicolas Beatrizet
Physical Description
This engraving reproduces a relief sculpture from the second century CE of Roman soldiers under Emperor Trajan conquering the Dacians in what is today Romania. The sculpture was later removed from its original monument built to honor Trajan and incorporated into the Arch of Constantine, erected in Rome by the emperor Constantine between 312 and 315.
The relief depicts mounted Roman soldiers, dressed in their characteristic armor and helmets, surging to the left and right from the center of the scene. A group of soldiers sounding horns stands in their midst. The Romans' vanquished Dacian foes lie trampled beneath the horses' hooves.
Artist Life Dates
c.1515 - after 1565
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1553
Accession Number
1960/2.41
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Title
William of Orange
Artist
Hendrick Goltzius
Artist Life Dates
1558 - 1617
Century
16th-17th century
Object Creation Date
1558-1616
Accession Number
1960/2.44
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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