Engraving
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Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre
Woodblock print · Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Kuniyoshi's triptych (c. 1844) is one of the masterworks of ukiyo-e, the sorceress Takiyasha summoning a giant skeleton from a scroll of spells.Crosses Ukiyo-e × Japanese Mythology, bringing a non-Eur
A Man Offering Gifts at the Altar of Venus
Stipple engraving · Francesco Bartolozzi
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) was among the most celebrated engravers of the eighteenth century. Born in Florence, he settled in London in 1764, became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 176
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Woodblock print (Japanese ukiyo-e) · Katsushika Hokusai
Created around 1831 as part of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki Nami-ura) is the single most-recognized image of Japanese
Melencolia I
Engraving · Albrecht Dürer
Engraved by Albrecht Dürer in 1514, Melencolia I is the most analyzed single print of the entire Northern Renaissance. A winged personification of Melancholy sits at the right, head propped on her han
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Etching (aquatint) · Francisco Goya
Plate 43 of Goya's Los Caprichos, etched between 1797 and 1799 and published in 1799. A man, a self-portrait of Goya as the engraver, slumps asleep across a writing desk, surrounded by owls, bats, and
Don Quixote (Doré illustration)
Engraving · Gustave Doré
From the 1863 illustrated edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, this Doré engraving shows Don Quixote in his library surrounded by chivalric romances, the books that have driven his imagination into the
Pornokratès
Etching (heliogravure) · Félicien Rops
Completed in 1878, Pornokratès, also titled Lady with Pig, is the canonical work of Belgian decadence and Félicien Rops's most reproduced image. A nude woman walks blindfolded across a stone parapet,
