"I urged them to eat some boiled eggs" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals
Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville
ca. 1837–47 · Wood engraving
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"I was a widow" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals
Louis-Henri Brevière|Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville
ca. 1837–47 · Wood engraving
Open full record"I was deprived of the happiness to pick it up... I saw a hundred times an agile rival offer it smiling to our common goddess." from the Little Miseries of Human Life
J. J. Grandville|Auguste Barbant|Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues|Henri Fournier
1843 · Wood engraving
Open full record"I was hungered and ye gave me meat; —naked and ye clothed, me." Matthew XXV: 35–36 (from Sketchbook)
Francis William Edmonds
ca. 1838 and after · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Open full record"I was ignominiously arrested" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals
Honoré de Balzac|Pierre François Godard|J. J. Grandville
ca. 1837–47 · Wood engraving
Open full record"I was in too much need of an omnibus, but as soon as it starts raining, they all seem to disappear as if by magic." from the Little Miseries of Human Life
Auguste Barbant|J. J. Grandville|Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues|Henri Fournier
1843 · Wood engraving
Open full record"I'm de boss of de gang, you'se kin bet," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co.|Knapp & Company
1888–89 · Commercial color lithograph
Open full record"I'm de boss of de gang, you'se kin bet," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co.|Knapp & Company
1888–89 · Commercial color lithograph
Open full record"I'm de Boss Whistler on the block," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
Knapp & Company|W. Duke, Sons & Co.
1888–89 · Commercial color lithograph
Open full record"I'm de Boss Whistler on the block," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co.|Knapp & Company
1888–89 · Commercial color lithograph
Open full record"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3)
Théodore Chassériau|William Shakespeare
1844 · Etching, engraving, and drypoint on chine collé; first edition of 1844
Open full record"Ilar (or Irakht) About to Throw the Bowl of Rice at the King", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Maker not identified
second quarter 16th century · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Open full record"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag
James Gillray|Hannah Humphrey
December 1, 1798 · Hand-colored etching
Open full record"In Piazza"
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
ca. 1791 · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk
Open full record"In Time All the World Likely to be Cossack or All Republican" – Napoleon I (published in "Time")
Time Publishing Co.|Thomas Nast|Charles Anderson Dana
originally published 1889–90 · Relief print and electrotype
Open full record"Infinitely Small" from The Complete Works of Béranger
Pierre Jean de Béranger|J. J. Grandville|Fournier & Perrotin
1836 · Wood engraving
Open full record"Instead of all this..." from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals
Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville|Andrew Best Leloir
ca. 1837–47 · Wood engraving
Open full record"Integer Vitae...", from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil
Max Klinger
1878, later edition · Copper engraving
Open full record"Interior Reception", Folio 36r from a Bustan of Sa`di
Shaikh Zada|Sa'di
ca. 1525–35 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Open full record"Interior" View of Banyan Tree, Calcutta
Unknown
1860s–70s · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Open full record"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi|Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn (?) Husaini, known as al-Mausili|al-Hasan Qawam al-Daula wa'l-Din
dated A.H. 741/1341 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Open full record"Isfandiyar Slays Arjasp", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1330–40 · Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Open full record"Isfandiyar's Fifth Course: He Slays the Simurgh", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1330–40 · Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Open full record"Isfandiyar's Fourth Course: He Slays a Sorceress", Folio 435v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Qasim ibn 'Ali|Abu'l Qasim Firdausi|Aqa Mirak
ca. 1525–30 · Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper
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