["The Stars" mezzotint engraving]

Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.
Date: [1797..1856]
Creator: Sartain, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Engraving of a woman holding a cross by Vitali]

Italian engraving print of a woman holding a cross possibly the catholic female saint Margaret of Antioch. The print was a collaboration between painter Guidus Reni and was translated and printed by Pietro Marco Vitali in Rome in 1782. The image is accompanied by descriptive Italian text.
Date: 1782~
Creator: Reni, Guidus & Vitali, Pietro Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Etching of a man with coins]

Etching "Portrait of Man", designed Guercino Da Cento and printed by Austrian printmaker Adam Bartsch, in 1782. The print shows a man illustrated with loose and energetic lines standing and pointing at coins resting on a table.
Date: 1782
Creator: Da Cento, Guercino & Bartsch, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Biblical etching and engraving of a group of men gambling at a table]

Etching and engraving of a biblical illustration showing a group of seven men gambling at a table. The game in question involves coins, cups and dice and takes place in an outdoor courtyard. A small boy appears to be running up to the table to interject into the adult conversation.
Date: 1700
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Etching and engraving of a group of four men conversing]

Etching and engraving of a group of four men conversing circa 1700. The print shows three of the men bowing and acknowledging one other that is facing the others with his back to a glass panned window. Then men all wear or have wings with them with long curls as was the style at this time. They wear knee length coats tied at the hips with sashes. The man standing apart wears a sword at his side.
Date: 1700
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Etching and engraving print of a man begging on a stoop]

Etching and engraving print of a man begging to a group of four men on a building stoop. The image shows a courtyard in the background with two women walking together and a stray dog. The men appear to either be blessing the beggar or turning him away.
Date: 1700
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man swinging an axe at a snake while his wife jumps back in surprise]

Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Satirical print of English political figure Hugh Peters c.1600]

Satirical Print of English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. The engraving, circa. 1600, shows Hugh Peters with a devil on his back with each foot on a stack of books that correspond to church and state while he holds the ties to bags of money that are labeled with "Revenue", "Plunder", "Thimbles" and "Benefices". Symbols of the monarchy and the church appear on the floor by his feet.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Dutch etching "Laden Asses"]

Etching by Dutch printmaker Theodorus van Kessell as part of his series in collaboration with designer Jan van den Hecke the Elder "Alcune Animali" in 1654. The print, "Laden Asses", shows two saddled donkeys resting in an open field with a small village/ farm in the distance.
Date: 1654
Creator: Van Den Hecke The Elder, Jan & Van Kessell, Theodorus
System: The UNT Digital Library