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• Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1900), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• La donna in effigie attraverso i secoli / (Torino : Roux Frassati, [1900]), by Armand Pierre Marie Dayot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Weib in der antiken Kunst / (Jena : E. Diederich, 1924), by Maximilian Ahrem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le nu dans la peinture moderne, 1863-1920 / (Paris : G. CreÌ€s, 1924), by Francis Carco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Frau in der venezianischen Malerei; ein Versuch. (München, F. Bruckmann, 1899), by Emil Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beauties of Moore: a series of portraits of his principal female characters, from paintings by eminent artists, executed expressly for the work. (London, Chapman and Hall, 1846), by Edward Francis Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical. (New York, Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in sacred history a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical and legendary sources, by Harriet Beecher Stowe./ Illustrated with twenty-five chromo-lithographs, after paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Horace Vernet ... and others ... (New York, J.B. Ford and company, [1873]), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie en rose. ([Paris : s.n.]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fair women : the Grafton Galleries. (London : Grafton Galleries, 1894), by England) Grafton Galleries (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• La femme & l'amour. (Paris, E. Sansot et cie, 1907), by Honoré de Balzac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Offering to beauty : composed of the choicest descriptions of female, loveliness, virtues, accomplishments, attractions, and charms ; comprising the poetry of woman / (Lowell : Merrill and Straw, 1853), by J. W. Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La femme dans la caricature française; orné de 448 illustrations dans le texte et 72 gravures hors texte en noir et en couleurs, d'après les plus rares et plus amusantes caricatures de toutes les époques. (Paris, A. Méricant, [1907?]), by Gustave Kahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un pittore di donne e di eroi, Andocide /, by Eugenio Giovannetti and active approximately 525 B.C.-510 B.C. Andokides Painter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les femmes dans la comédie française et italienne au 18e siècle, (Paris, A. Fontemoing, 1899), by Charles Dejob (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il libro della bella donna / (Milano : G. Daelli, 1863), by Federico Luigini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beautiful women in art ... (New York, [Associated newspaper school], 1913), by Thomson Willing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the Greek heroines. (London, G. Bell and Sons, 1880), by Louisa L. J. Menzies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts. (Paris : G. Steinheil, 1894), by G.-J. Witkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fair women : reproductions by the collotype process of some of the principal works exhibited at the Grafton Galleries in 1894 / (London : Blades, East & Blades, 1894), by England) Grafton Galleries (London and Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fair women in painting and poetry. (London, Seeley; New York, Macmillan, 1894), by William Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die frauenfeindlichen Dichtungen in den romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des XIII. Jahrhunderts, (Halle a. S., M. Niemeyer, 1914), by August Wulff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe's female characters / (New York : G. Kirchner, [pref. 1867]), by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, George Henry Lewes, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lovely woman, ([Indianapolis] Bobbs-Merrill, [c1910]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fair Americans / (New York : Scribner's, 1911), by Harrison Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenaus frauengestalten / (Stuttgart : Carl Krabbe, 1902), by Adolf Wilhelm Ernst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Konstanze-Griseldistypus in der englischen literatur bis auf Shakespeare ... (Rathenow, 1903), by Ortgies Siefken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beauty; illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in woman : Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. / (London : E. Wilson, 1836), by Alexander Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Findens' tableaux of national character, beauty, and costume. Containing a series of sixty-one illustrations, engraved by and under the superintendence of W. and E. Finden. With origianl tales in prose and poetry, written expressly for the work, by the Countess of Blessington, Miss Mitford, L.E.L. ... and others of the most popular authors of the day. (London, Pub. by T. G. March, 1843), by William Finden and Edward Francis Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• XXIV bits of vers de société : with fac-similes of water- color sketches by H.W. McVicar. Together with illustrations in black-and- white by various artists. (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1890]), by Frederick Abbot Stokes and H. W. McVickar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauengestalten der griechischen Sage und Dichtung, (Leipzig L. Fernau, 1879), by Lina Weller Schneider (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Finden's tableaux of the affections : a series of picturesque illustrations of the womanly virtues ; from paintings by W. Perring ; edited by Mary Russell Mitford. (London : C. Tilt, 1839), by Mary Russell Mitford, William Perring, Edward Francis Finden, and W. Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finden's gallery of the graces : a series of portrait illustrations of British poets / (London : C. Tilt, 1837), by W. Finden and Edward Francis Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of the Bible in art, by Clara Erskine Clement ... (London, D. Nutt, 1900), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The heroines of Shakespeare : comprising the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet. (New York [etc.] J. Wiley, 1849), by Charles Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finden's Byron beauties : the principal female characters in Lord Byron's poems ; engraved from original paintings, under the superintendence of W. and E. Finden. (London : C. Tilt, 1836), by George Gordon Byron Byron, Edward Francis Finden, and W. Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauenbildnisse aus fünf Jahrhunderten. (Berlin, L. Simon, [191-?]), by Paul Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women of the Old Testament : meditations on some traits of feminine character recorded in sacred history / (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female characters of Goethe / (New York : Theodore Stroefer ; Munich : Frederick Bruckmann, [1867]), by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and George Henry Lewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Félicien Rops / (Paris : Librarie artistique et littéraire, [1909?]), by Rudolf Klein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le miroir des plus belles courtisannes de ce temps = Spiegel der alder-schoonste cortisanen deses tijts = Spiegel der allerschönsten Cortisannen diser Zeyt. ([Utrecht?] : Ghedruckt voor den autheur, anno 1631), by Crispijn van de Passe and Francis Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Song bin hua ying : [er juan] / ([China : s.n.], Qing Guangxu 13 nian [1887]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beautiful women of twelve epochs, (New York, Printed by the Gast art Press, [c1890]), by Frank Leslie, illust. by Lydia Frances Gwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of history : typical heroines of mythology of Shakespeare, of the Bible / (New York : Abingdon Press, [c1914]), by Frank Milton Bristol (page images at HathiTrust)
• La donna nell'arte. (Roma : Tipografia della Camera dei deputati, 1886), by Luigi Tosti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dichter und Frauen. (Hannover, Rümpler, 1859-66), by Karl Frenzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die böse frau in der deutschen litteratur des mittelalters, (Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1912), by Franz Brietzmann and active 13th century Stricker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman in sacred history : illustrated by modern art : a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources / (New York : J.B. Ford and Company, 1876), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's heroines; characteristics of women, moral, political, and historical. (Philadelphia : H. Altemus, [c1899]), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die "Dame d'intrique" in der französischen originalkomödie des XVI und XVII jahrhunderts, (Halle a.S., M. Niemeyer, 1916), by Charlotte Dietschy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La femme dans l'oeuvre de Chretien de Troyes / (Paris : Picard, 1909), by Myrrha Lot-Borodine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspeare's heroines. With twenty-six portraits of famous players in character. (London, George Bell, 1897), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Professionnelles beautés / (Paris : F. Juven, [1905]), by Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les peintres de la femme. Microform (Paris, E. Dentu, 1888), by Alix Laincel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Frau in der bildenden Kunst; ein kunstgeschichtliches hausbuch, (Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1905), by Anton Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le nu au Louvre / (Paris : E. Bernard, 1891), by Armand Silvestre and Musée du Louvre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman in sacred history : a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources / (New York : J.B. Ford, 1873), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Frau in der Karikatur / (München : Albert Langen, 1907), by Eduard Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A young man's fancy / ([Indianapolis] : The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1912), by Coles Phillips and E. Stetson Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A gallery of girls / (New York : Century Co., 1911), by Coles Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Findens' tableaux. A series of picturesque scenes of national character, beauty, and costume. (London, Charles Tilt, 1838), by W. Finden, William Perring, Edward Francis Finden, and Mary Russell Mitford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great portraits, women, (Boston, Mass., Bates & Guild company, 1909), by Philip Leslie Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics of women; moral, poetical, and historical, (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bachelor belles, (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1908), by Theodore B. Hapgood, illust. by Harrison Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Félicien Rops / (Paris : Librarie internationale, [1909]), by Gustav Kahn and Félicien Rops (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Frauengestalten im attischen Drama, (Wien und Leipzig, W. Braumüller, 1922), by Karl Kunst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frauen-Schönheit; ihre Darstellung in hervorragenden Werk alter und moderner Meister; eine Auswahl. (Mu̲nchen, [1920]), by Franz Hanfstaengl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La femme dans l'art : les protectrices des arts, les femmes artistes / (Paris : J. Rouam, 1893), by Marius Vachon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Characteristics of women; moral, poetical, and historical, (Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin company, 1900), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dream of fair women, (Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1907]), illust. by Harrison Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shakespeare gallery : containing the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet / (London : C. Tilt, [1840?]), by Charles Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• XXIV bits of vers de société; with twelve full-page illustrations by H. W. McVickar, together with numerous illustrations by other artists. (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1895]), ed. by Frederick Abbot Stokes, illust. by H. W. McVickar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Womanhood in art / (San Francisco : P. Elder, c1905), by Phebe Estelle Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty illustrated by an analysis and classification of beauty in woman : with a critical view of the hypotheses of Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. /, by Alexander Walker and printer C. and J. Adlard, contrib. by Henry G. Bohn, illust. by Henry Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ehon imayō sugata / (Tōkyō-shi : Fūzoku Emaki Zuga Kankōkai : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Taishō 5 [1916]), by Toyokuni Utagawa and Sanba Shikitei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les femmes de la Bible, principaux fragments d'une histoire du peuple de Dieu, (Paris, Garnier fréres, 1850), by G. Darboy, illust. by Gustave Staal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die frauen in der kunstgeschichte. (Berlin, Guttentag, 1858), by E. Guhl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les femmes blondes selon les peintres de l'école de Venise, (Paris, A. Aubry, 1865), by Armand Baschet and F. Feuillet de Conches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Frau in der Karikatur / (München : A. Langen, Verlag für Literatur und Kunst, 1907), by Eduard Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beauties of Moore : a series of portraits of his principal female characters, from paintings by eminent artists, executed expressly for the work / (London, New York : J. Tallis, [1853]), by Edward Francis Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vi kvinder og vore digtere. (Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & co., 1896), by Laura Marholm, trans. by Olaf Broch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homers Frauengestalten, (Strassburg i.E., Leipzig, J. Singer, 1910), by Hanna Schaeffer Gräfin von Pestalozza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Las mujeres de Cervantes, (Barcelona, Montaner y Simón, 1916), by José Sánchez Rojas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Zeitseele in der modernen Litteratur und Kunst. Zwei kapitel: die weib- und die naturauffassung. (Halle a. S. : C.A. Kaemmerer, 1895), by Siegmar Schultze-Galléra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ...Die Frau in der Karikatur. (München, A. Langen, Verlag für Literatur und Kunst, 1907), by Eduard Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das weib in der antiken kunst. Mit 295 tafeln und abbildungen. (Jena, E. Diederichs, 1914), by Maximilian Ahrem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hyakka bijin gafu : Ukiyoeshi / (Ōsaka : Darumaya Shoten, Taishō 2 [1913]), by Shuntei Maeno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The century of queens. With sketches of some princes of literature and art. Illustrated. (New York, J. Miller, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shakspeare gallery : containing the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet / (London : D. Bogue, [185-?]), by Charles Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• The century of queens : with sketches of some princes of literature and art. (New York : J. Miller, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideals of life in France, or, How the great painters portray woman in French art : two hundred and twenty-five copper-plates made in Paris especially for this work by Goupil & Co., from oil-paintings and drawings : with essays on art in France / (New York : Appleton, c1890), by George William Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Classics, by Mary C. Sturgeon (Gutenberg ebook)

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