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Bruce Davidson
Untitled (Three Miners with Mule), from "Welsh Miners"
1981
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon
1983/2.243.7
Frontal view of an altar space surrounded by draped fabrics with different patterns and materials. A staircase ascends out of the frame on the left-hand side of the image.
Felix Bonfils (French (culture or style))
Grotte de la Nativité—Cave of the Nativity
1867 – 1885
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond
1994/2.32.8
Five men sit just outside the rectangular, columned entrances of three grottoes set into the side of a hill. 
Pascal Sebah (Turkish (culture or style))
Béni-Hassan. Grottes du Nord
1875 – 1885
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
1980/1.204
Three partially clothed men wade in hip-deep water. The back of a fourth man is visible on the left. All are elaborately tatooed over their backs and shoulders. They are in a cave, and the edge of a waterfall can be seen to the left. The man in the back is sprayed by the waterfall while ringing a bell with his left hand. The man in the foreground holds a sword up in his right hand.<br /><br /> This is the right portion of a triptych.<br /><br /> Inscriptions: To, Enhiko (Publisher's seal); i 3 aratame (Censor's seal); Toyokuni hitsu (Signature); Ōatari taigan jōju arigatakitsubo (Title)
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Praying for Hits in the Waterfall of Answered Prayers: Ichimura Uzaemon XIII, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Sawamura Tosshō II
1863
Gift of Pearl Sellards
1985/1.171C
This painted miniature Shahnama page was made by the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460 in Baghdad, Iraq. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene depicts <em>Rustam Slays the White Div </em>from the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
Iranian (Iranian)
Rustam Slays the White Div, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
1455 – 1465
Museum Purchase
1963/1.45

James Valentine
Fingale Cave, Staffa, from "Ecosse"
09/03/1869
Museum Purchase
1984/1.294.12
View of a mountain gorge with a fenced-in tunnel path carved through it.
Adolphe Braun (French (culture or style))
Passage de la Tête Noire
1858 – 1877
Gift of Frederick P. and Amy McCombs Currier
1988/1.93

Jan Van Vliet
St. Jerome in his Cave
1631
Museum Purchase
1972/1.163

Heinrich Aldegrever
The Labors of Hercules #13: Cacus
1550
Museum Purchase
1956/1.63
In this long narrative landscape, our eyes trace the journey of the fisherman, who may be standing in the distance on the left. His boat can be seen tucked behing a rock, and the mouth of a small cave. Pink petals of peach blossoms adorn the trees along to shore of a stream.
Chen Shaomei (aka Ch'en Shao-mei)
Peach Blossom Spring
1930 – 1954
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.21
This photograph depicts a sculpture of a slain lion lying in a grotto, carved into a wall of rock.  Above and below the lion is latin text.
Giorgio Sommer (Italian (culture or style))
Luzern Löwendenkmal
1880 – 1914
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. W. Howard Bond
1984/1.307

Heinrich Aldegrever
The Labors of Hercules: The Lernean Hydra (one of the set of 13 prints)
1550
Museum Purchase
1956/1.64
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