17th-19th Century Social Scenes

Dramatic depictions of social interactions, including characters from literature, family dynamics, and humor in domestic settings, through varied artistic techniques.

Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794). French journalist and politician, prominent figure during the French Revolution. Despite his radicalism he criticised extreme violence during the Reign of Terror. Desmoulins was arrested on 31 March 1794 and imprisoned in Luxembourg Prison (Luxembourg Palace in Paris), sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine on 5 April. Camille Desmoulins with his wife Lucile (1770-1794). Drawing by Emile Bayard. Engraving by J. Ladmiral. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, part 2, 1879.

London Cries: Fun upon Fun. Date/Period: 1759. Genre subject. Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured laid paper. Height: 181 mm (7.12 in); Width: 149 mm (5.86 in). Author: Paul Sandby.

Jeannie Deans in her father's cottage Engraving by George Cruikshank dated 1843 of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian

Clean this with Sapolio.. Clean this with Sapolio.

Man in a print trade. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1775 - c. 1825. Measurements: h 76 mm × w 126 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Johnny in the service of the miser John Squeeze and his prudent niece Amelia Squeeze. Johnny brings a glass of medicine for the dying old man. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

London Cries: Fun upon Fun, Paul Sandby RA, 1731-1809, British, 1759, Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (18.1 x 14.9 cm), children, cries, genre subject, ladder, man, woman, England, Europe, London, United Kingdom

Light Your Honor, Coach unhired 1811 Thomas Rowlandson. Light Your Honor, Coach unhired. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1811. Hand-colored etching. Prints

The Day in the Country. Date/Period: 1865. Etching and drypoint, on chine colle. Width: 259 mm. Height: 188 mm. Author: William Holman Hunt.

Disturbers of Domestic Happiness ca. 1815 After Thomas Rowlandson A house is attacked while two a lady and a young girl sleep on a couch at center. Three bandits wield weapons, and one takes hold of the necklace of the lady. Another group of armed gentleman approach from the stairs at right.An early state before the title. This is a copy of an earlier Rowlandson print.. Disturbers of Domestic Happiness. After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). ca. 1815. Hand-colored etching. Prints

Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794). French journalist and politician, prominent figure during the French Revolution. Despite his radicalism he criticised extreme violence during the Reign of Terror. Desmoulins was arrested on 31 March 1794 and imprisoned in Luxembourg Prison (Luxembourg Palace in Paris), sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine on 5 April. Camille Desmoulins with his wife Lucile (1770-1794). Drawing by Emile Bayard. Engraving by J. Ladmiral. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, part 2, 1879.

Spain. Madrid. The corner of the dangers's street. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Inn Door (A Man escorted by two link boys to a door to the left), undated. Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Comforts of Bath: The Music Master, 1798. Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

The dance of death: the nursery. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1816.

Ya van desplumados, Francisco Goya (1746-1828), 1799, Satires (Visual works), First edition; etching, aquatint, and drypoint; state noted with standard reference number

Engraving depicting Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca (1782-1824) playing the piano. Dated 1803

Georgian art lovers at an exhibition of new paintings at the Royal Academy. Officers, an obese couple, a canon in wig, examine the landscapes and portraits. An Exhibition. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrisons The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831.

Le Beau sexe a l'école de natation. Dated: 1852. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his camp at the folks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764, 1765, Benjamin West, 1738-1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), between 1765 and 1766, Graphite, with pen in black and brown ink, with rubbing and shading on medium, slightly textured, bege laid paper, Sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (25.7 x 21 cm) and Image: 8 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches (20.6 x 15.7 cm), camp (temporary settlement), captives, children, colonel, colonist, costume, earrings, families, fear, flag, hats, Indians, men, military art, mother, rifles, sadness, soldiers, sword, trees, trellis, women, Muskingum, North America, Ohio

At twenty she mocks you the duty you taught her , Anger, Dogs, Fireplaces. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Miseries of the Country, undated. Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper mount with pen and red-gray ink and gray blue wash lines.

Bookseller and Author. Date/Period: September 24, 1784. Painting. Watercolor. Height: 264 mm (10.39 in); Width: 321 mm (12.63 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

Refreshment - At the Great Exhibition, 1862. George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (British, 1834-1896). Wood engraving;

Costumes and Customs. Extravagances of 1834. By Cesar Hipolito Bacle (1794-1838). Isaac Fernandez Blanco Latin American Art Museum. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Cheerful company that is disturbed by death, 1660 Zwolle Paper. Watercolor (Paint). Chalk. Framework lines:. Lines: Ink brush Zwolle Paper. Watercolor (Paint). Chalk. Framework lines:. Lines: Ink brush

A Cake in Danger April 20, 1806 Thomas Rowlandson. A Cake in Danger. April 20, 1806. Hand-colored etching. Prints

Blin, Pierre, Janinet, Jean François, Boucher, François, Les Nourrices, De wetsters, verso center - stamped, Two women with four children., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso bottom center - stamped, verso bottom left - handwritten, JC , height 236 mm, width 159 mm, French, 1752 - 1814-11-01, print maker, printmaker, 1780-08-15 - 1780-08-15, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, aquatint, color printing, Work conception, 1703-09-29 - 1770-05-30, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, printer

Blind man's buff, 19th century parlour games. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859

width 87 mm, 1748 - 1787-08-03, print maker, printmaker, 1758 - 1787, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1616-06 - 1680-07-24, after print by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn. Artist: Attributed to John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821). Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 9 3/16 in. (18.1 x 23.3 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/88-1839). Date: 1811-ca. 1813. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Attributed to John Lewis Krimmel.

French Barracks. Thomas Rowlandson; English, 1756-1827. Date: 1791. Dimensions: 385 x 470 mm. Hand-colored etching on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

MRS. GINX WENT HOME RATHER JUBILANT, SHE WAS A MARTYR, 1876

Spanish Peasants Dancing the Bolero. John Frederick Lewis; English, 1805-1876. Date: 1836. Dimensions: 265 × 372 mm. Lithograph in colors with additional hand- coloring on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Guy Fawkes, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, caught in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament, 5 November 1604. William Parker, Baron Monteagle, and Theophilus Howard, Earl of Suffolk, finding Fawkes and barrels of gunpowder in the basement. Discovery of Guido Fawkes by Suffolk and Monteagle. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott ABecketts Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880.

Engraving by British artist & engraver, William Hogarth 1697ñ1764: frontispiece to Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras', a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War

English gentleman marrying his bride in a stately home before family and staff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1817.

Blazing on the Hearth, The Father Recounting the History to His Children, Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759-1817, British, undated, Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 inches (6 × 7.6 cm), children, family, father, genre subject, hearth, storytelling

The skeleton of Death carries off a Virago from a house while a nightwatchman with lantern looks on. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

France, Louis XV (King of France), Du Fresne de Francheville, Joseph, Gillot, Claude, Huquier, Gabriel, Scènes comiques du Théâtre italien, Scenes from the Commedia dell'arte, Scene from the Commedia dell'arte with Harlequin, Pierrot, Pulcinello and Mezzetino, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 191 mm, width 223 mm, French, 1695 - 1772-06-11, print maker, printmaker, 1729 - 1732, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1673-04-27 - 1722-05-04, after a design by, writer, 1710-02-15 - 1774-05-10, granter of privilege

James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 4 - "Expulsion waits that Son of Alma Mater who dares to shew his face in Boot or Gaiter", 1806. Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

A French Ordinary January 2, 1804 Thomas Rowlandson British. A French Ordinary 392915

Russian merchant makes calcultaions by means of an abacus (schoty). It was used in all shops and markets of Russia. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Chaillot. History of Russia by Jean Marie Chopin (1796-1870). Panorama Universal, Spanish edition, 1839.

Dr Syntax Loses his Wig. Rats eating the Doctor's wig while he is in a four-poster bed with tester (canopy) and curtains. Thomas Rowlandson illustration for 'The Tours of Dr Syntax' by William Combe (London, 1820). Aquatint.

The skeleton of Death helps a large matron onto the fatal Last Stage. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

La danse des chiens, 1850 - 1859, by Carle Vernet (1758-1836). Lithograph, vignette, dimensions 19.5 x 29 cm. Issued in Paris, this artwork features themes of dance, dogs, musicians, and is categorized under 18th-century French art

GRABADO-ESCENA DE CARNAVAL. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

A barber lathering a man's face, other men trying on wigs. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1818, after H.W. Bunbury, 1811.

Mr. Baptist is supposed to have seen something. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

Dancing the Carmagnole around the Tree Of Liberty. French Revolution, France, 18th century.

BRITANNIA DISTURBED BY FRENCH VAGRANTS, LORD TRENTHAM FOR WESTMINSTER, 1749

The Duel (from St Ronans Well), Robert Walker Macbeth (Glasgow, Scotland, 1848 - 1910) 1875-1899

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 4 - 'Expulsion waits that Son of Alma Mater who dares to shew his face in Boot or Gaiter', James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, Published by Hannah Humphrey, ca. 1745-1818, British, 1806, Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches (24.7 x 35.3 cm) and Image: 8 3/4 x 13 11/16 inches (22.3 x 34.8 cm), academic robes, angry, boots, breeches, cane, caricature, cravats, gaiters, genre subject, gesturing, humor, men, mortar boards, parody, pointing, quadrangle, satire, students, tassels, The Rake's Progress at the University (1806), university, youth

CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM - BARCELONA - DETALLE DE PAREJA - GRABADO - CONJUNTO NUMERO 16929. Author: GEORG BRAUN 1541-1622 / FRANS HOGENBERG. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Wandering journeyman in Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, historical woodcut, circa 1870, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th cent...

An engraving depicting a chimney-sweep appearing in the drawing-room fireplace by mistake. Dated 19th century

Bobonne... ne le regarde pas tant!. Dated: 1836. Medium: hand-colored lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Plate 4th. / Singing 4th. / Polder extends his arm to grab me, but ... already his hand is cut off. Ah !! (Registered title (letter)) | The dream. (Title of all)

'Mrs Sextus consoles herself with a Little Party', 1852. Artist: John Leech.

Bow Street Myrmidons Spoiling Bob Booty's Morning Draught, unknown artist, after John Collet, ca. 1725-1780, British, 1781, Mezzotint, Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)

Old Woman and Children Around a Table, Dominique Vivant Denon, French, 1747 - 1825, C. Coltellini, active 1751 - 1781, Etching on paper, An old hag, seated on a block at a low table, is seen telling fortunes to a group of women and children. Another figure in the left background., France, ca. 1780, Print, Print

justice penitentary system sweeping the street punishment for prostitution in Switzerland copper engraving late 18th century private collection,

Strolling Players Rehearsing in a Barn Engraved by G Presbury after Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833

Admirers of a ceiling in the Salon, Philibert-Louis Deucourt, After Carle Vernet, 1824 print paper etching (decorated) ceiling. temporary exhibition, 'Salon'. political caricatures and satires

Louis XVI (1754-1793). King of France. The monarch taking leave of his family. Engraving. Colored.

Illustration (circa 1900), for the story of Don Quixote, a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615

Charles Perrault (1628-1703). French writer. Cinderella. Engraving. Colored.

Cartoon depicting a well-informed post mistress. Dated 19th century

Giuditta Pasta in the role of Medea: she embraces her children (left) and then throws her arms up in anticipation of murdering them (right). Lithograph by John Hayter, 1827.

Treasure Hunt, Artist Unknown

Bernardo Bellotto called Canaletto the Younger (1721-1780). Italian painter. View of Warsaw from the Terrace of the Royal Castle, 1773. Detail. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland.

The Oyster Man Suinin Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA

Engraving by British artist & engraver, William Hogarth 1697ñ1764: Country Inn Yard

Cartoon depicting a chaotic domestic scene inside of a wealthy home. Dated 19th Century

Interior views of Albrechtsburg, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Murals in Albrechtsburg, 1899, Meißen, Albrechtsburg, Böttcher laboriert in der Burg an Gold, Germany

Drawing, Water color; Tarantella dancers; Designed by Saverio della Gatta (Italian, 1777 - 1829); Italy; pen and black ink and water colors on paper.; 20.2 × 26.2 cm (7 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn, Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, Pen and black ink and water colors on paper., Horizontal rectangle. A woman with a baby and two bigger children sits upon the pavement in the southeast corner of the Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples. A dish with corn is in front of her. A child eats one, a woman takes one. A carriage, a soldier, a walking man are shown on the place. Castel S. Elmo and S. Martino are shown in the background. Framing lines. Signature: 'Gatta' in pen and ink at lower right., Italy, 1827, Drawing, Drawing

Engraving of Queen Victoria (1819- 1901) visiting the working men's international exhibition, Agricultural Hall. Dated 1870

An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.

The Fair, c1870, (1903). Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi

The face; Visus Rusticus; Five senses. For a house there is a pedestal with a wicker basket on his stomach in which his merchandise: glasses, mirrors and ribbons. An old woman has put glasses on her nose and looks at herself in a mirror. A man looking through a binoculars.

Bless me Little Father, for I am going to my wedding from Peerless Beauty the Cake Maker, a Russian Fairy Tale

The Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Scene II. Padua in front of Baptista's house. Petruchio, Katharina, Bianca, Baptista, Hortensio, Grumio and Train. From the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, published at the end of the 19th century, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801). Swiss writer, Protestant pastor and founder of physiognomics. Lavater doing studies of physiognomy. Engraving after a painting by M.A. Gilli. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881. Later colouration.

Banker, by Burkmair, 16th cent. Medieval woodcut.

The wandering Jew does not have enough money to get on the omnibus, illustration by Grandville from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 370, Volume XV, March 30, 1850.

The way young men study law in Paris, engraving, mid 19th century

The distressed Poet From the original picture by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,

Sanssouci Palace, Voltaire and Frederick the Great also known as Frederick II, history painting from the 19th century

The Woolpack Inn: Arrival of 'The Flying Waggon'. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. 24.4 x 38.1cm.

Friedrich der Große, Friedrich II. 1712-1786 kauft er als Junge in Tangermünde Brot und Brezel für die Armen, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer ...

John Law (1671-1729). Scottish economist. Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. The Regent, Duke of Orleans, saving Law. Colored engraving.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Don Quixote. Engraving: Don Quixote bound to the Window by the Mischief of Maritornes. 19th century. Later colouration.

SKETCHES IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Amsterdam, Savery, Salomon, Scheyndel, Gillis van (I), Genre scenes, Els Kut, Man on a quay, verso - stamped, A man stands on a quay with bags of stuff on his back. In the background a canal, many figures and a row of houses. The print is part of a series of 32 prints with genre scenes., print, prints, height 54 mm, width 44 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1595 - 1660-12-24, print maker, printmaker, 1638 - 1638, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, 1594 - 1683-10-16, publisher

Festive spirit in Rotterdam on the birthday of Willem V, 8 March 1783, Jacobus Buys, 1783 - 1801 drawing paper. ink pen / brush birthday. festivities on events of national importance. historical events and situations. historical persons Rotterdam

Moses is found. Draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch (signed by artist). Dating: 1655. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 90 mm × w 155 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

La duchesse d'Orleans and her entourage ride out of Paris on horseback. Date: circa 1390

A scene from the commedia dell'arte: A girl resisting the advances of a comedian, and an actress executing a step. Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Black lead, red, black and white chalk. Executed circa 1718. 16 x 14.3cm.

A barber's shop. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.

Thomas Rowlandson, The Peep Show The Peep Show

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