Plate 1: the genius of drawing, a child with wings, seated on a rock in center turned towards the right, holding a drawing pad and pen, ruins including a triumphal arch to right in the background, the title page from 'The Principles of Design' (I principii del disegno)

Plate 1: the genius of drawing, a child with wings, seated on a rock in center turned towards the right, holding a drawing pad and pen, ruins including a triumphal arch to right in the background, title page from "The Principles of Design" (I principii del disegno)

Stefano della Bella, Pierre Mariette

Plate 1: the genius of drawing, a child with wings, seated on a rock in center turned towards the right, holding a drawing pad and pen, ruins including a triumphal arch to right in the background, the title page from "The Principles of Design" (I principii del disegno)

Stefano della Bella

Amphion, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Etched by Stefano della Bella, Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Louis XIV, King of France, Henri Le Gras, Cardinal Jules Mazarin

Marforius

Attributed to Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Lafreri

Boy Sketching Ruins

Charles Hutin

Marforius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Attributed to Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Lafreri

Title page: Homage to Mantegna, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, After school of Andrea Mantegna

Youth with two old Men

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century, After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

The River Nile

Cornelis Bos

Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma

Giovanni Battista Nolli, Carlo Nolli, Rocco Pozzi, Pietro Campana de Soriano, Stefano Pozzi

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Laocoön and his two sons being attacked by serpents upon a pedestal, a temple to Minerva behind them, another temple and the sea in the background

Marco Dente