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Fables, Vol. I & II
John Gay
1729–47
A Cake in Danger
Thomas Rowlandson
April 20, 1806
Fables
John Gay
1793
The Beggar's Opera
William Hogarth
1728
Fables
John Gay
1792
The Beggar's Opera, Act III
William Blake
July 1, 1790
The Beggar's Opera, Act III
William Blake
July 1, 1790
The Beggar's Opera, Act III
William Blake
1790
The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals
John Gay
1714
Fables
John Gay
1727
Fables
John Gay
1778
The Beggar's Opera
John Gay
1937
Benefit Ticket for Milward
Samuel Ireland
1788
Wholecloth quilt
British
1747
The Beggar's Opera
Claud Lovat Fraser
1921
Key with List of Performers and Audience to: The Beggars Opera
William Hogarth
July 1, 1790
Gay's Fables [School piece or Penmanship sheet]
John Farrell
ca. 1783
Benefit Ticket for Walker
William Hogarth
ca. 1735
Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others, in Three Parts
Thomas Bewick
1878
Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books
Ovid
1717
Ring Brooch
Western European
first half 14th century
Chess Piece in the Form of a Knight
Western European, possibly England
ca. 1350–60
Wedding pumps
Wanamaker's
1908
Elder of the Apocalypse
French
ca. 1100
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
1524–27
The Man of Sorrows
Italian
last quarter 14th century
Vignette honoring William Pattison, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Congreve, John Gay and James Thomson, from Bowyer's edition of Hume's "History of England"
James Parker
1797
Frieze
John Piper
ca. 1954
The Book of British Ballads, Vol. 2
Samuel Carter Hall
1847
Boxer
Richmond Barthé
1942
City Foulers-Mark!
Thomas Rowlandson
1799
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2
William Hogarth
June 25, 1735
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2
William Hogarth
June 25, 1735
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2
William Hogarth
June 25, 1735
Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle
Jehan Aert van Tricht
ca. 1500
The Cathedrals of Wall Street
Florine Stettheimer
1939
The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya
Utagawa Hiroshige
8th month 1857
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
The Abolitionists in the Park
Nicole Eisenman
2020–22