17th Century Portraits and Allegories

A collection of engravings depicting historical figures and allegorical representations in elaborate attire, showcasing rich details and intricate designs.

Clio, anonymous, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1592 - 1667 print The sitting Clio, the muse of history, holds a writing table and an ink jar in her right hand in her right hand. Books on her feet on the left. paper engraving / drypoint Clio (one of the Muses); 'Clio' (Ripa)

Maria Stuart, Princess of England at the age of just under ten years: Knee piece standing standing, half of the left, with side hairlocks, pearl enclosure at the Hünthaupt, Pearl necklace; in décolleted dress with lace trim on cutting, shoulder parts and cuffs; Left back arm supported on chair back; in the background left pilaster, right drapery, behind her window opening with views of clouds; in hatched, outward rectangular articulated round arch framing, top with central ornamental sleeve and two raised corner pieces, on both sides half height narrow, below in the volute ending outer pillars; On the lower framing area three-line Latin. Legend with indication of the year of birth and month; Most right name of the stecher. Copper engraving by Pieter de Jode d. J.

Portrait of the Bergomas Barzizizizizi region

Sibille Van Cumae, Simon Frisius, 1648 - 1656 Sibille van Cumae, Halven Lijve, with her arm on a book. Northern Netherlands paper engraving / etching Cumaean sibyl

Face; Visus; Five senses. Personification of the sense face. A woman makes himself up for a mirror on a base. Behind her is an eagle, a bird with sharp sight, on a balustrade.

Graham, Mary Ann .

Paris, Breton, Richard, Desprez, François, Recueil de la diversité des habits, Series of various costumes, La bisquine, Woman in Basque costume, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 145 mm, width 85 mm, French, print maker, printmaker, 1562 - 1562, paper, papier, woodcut, Publication (Event), Publication, 1524 - 1571, publisher

De Piskijker, Elisabeth Marie Simons, after Willem van Mieris, 1760 - 1834 print A doctor studies urine in a urinal that he holds above his head. On the table in front of him are the basket and a belly bottle belonging to the urinal. Next to it is a spoon. A bookcase in the background. At the bottom of the print a poem on medicine in Dutch and French. Brussels (possibly) paper etching / engraving urinal (and basket). physician, doctor. study; 'studiolo'; library

Copper engraving by Paulus Pontius depicting Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain around 1630, showing her royal attire and facial features.

Ada, Countess of Holland.

Goltzius, Hendrick, The Nine Muses, Urania, verso - stamped, The seated Urania, the muse of astronomy, holds a globe in her hand. Next to her lie an armillary sphere and a book., print, prints, height 217 mm, width 146 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1592 - 1667, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01

Amsterdam, Laurensz, Hendrick, Goltzius, The three divine virtues, Fides, Faith, verso - stamped, The personification of Faith, one of the three divine virtues, with a cross, a writing tablet and a pen in his hands. On the right in the background the Last Supper. Around the image a marginal inscription in Latin., print, prints, diameter 277 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1607 - 1648, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, after a print by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Catherine Biancelelli Tite Colombine Jean Mariette. "Catherine Biancollelli Dite Columbine". Engraving.

Portrait by Joachim von Sandrart the Elder depicting a cavalier, executed in black chalk on blue paper.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Heinrich Aldegrever; German, 1502-c.1560. Date: 1528. Dimensions: 80 x 55 mm (plate); 86 x 62 mm (sheet). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The month of June. In the foreground a milkmaid next to two sheep. She carries a yoke with a jug of milk. In the background a farmer is milking a cow. The print has a four-line German caption about the month of June, June Iunius The twelve months (series title)., print maker: Caspar Luyken, Caspar Luyken, anonymous, Neurenberg, (possibly), 1698 - 1702, paper, etching, engraving, h 309 mm × w 200 mm

June, Caspar Luyken, 1698 - 1702 print The month of June. In the foreground a milkmaid next to two sheep. She wears a yoke with a cane milk. In the background a farmer milks a cow. The print has a German caption of four lines for the month of June. Neurenberg (possibly) paper etching / engraving Cancer (zodiacal sign of June). June; 'Giugno' (Ripa). landscape symbolizing June. June and its 'labours'. milkmaid. carrying something with yoke. milking. sheep. cow

Katharina, Infantin by Portugal.

Vipsania Agrippina .

Judith and the Head of Holofernes 15751607 Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam Netherlandish. Judith and the Head of Holofernes 399196

Rohan-Guemené, Armand Jules de.

Reading woman, Willem Basse, 1633 - 1672 print Reading woman sitting at a table. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving reading

Maria, Queen of Hungary.

Castro, Paolo de Stechher: Bry, Theodor de

. Bust of the frygic sibille. In her left hand she holds an olive branch and a sword in her right hand. The show is caught in a medallion with a peripheral in Latin. In the margin a six-line caption in Latin. Print from a series with the twelve sibiles.

Civis Coloniensis Filia. Dated: 1643. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Wenceslaus Hollar.

Friedrich V., Elector of the Palatinate.

Mazarin, Jules.

Portret van Elizabeth Wriothesley, anonymous, after Anthony van Dyck, c. 1678 - c. 1680 print print maker: Englandpublisher: London paper historical persons - BB - woman

Statue of Cybele or Terra Mater, Roman goddess of the earth, with tympanum drum and naiskos headdress. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by A. Deangelis from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820.

Marianna Née Świdziński Lanckorońska (1737 Sulgostów 1826 Warsaw) Coat of ARSS Half Kozyic Kasztelanowa Połaniecka, WIFE of Stanisław Piotr Lanckoroński unknown

Decoration, print maker: Nicolaes de Bruyn, Frederik de Wit, 1581 - 1656

Drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc depicting a woman from Siena using brown pen with red and gray watercolor on a leaf with a pierced decorative strip, dated 1650-1664.

Friedrich I, Duke of Lorraine.

L'Hiver de Winter, Print made by Pieter Schenck, 1660-1719, Dutch, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper, Sheet: 10 × 7 3/8 inches (25.4 × 18.7 cm), Plate: 9 3/4 × 7 1/16 inches (24.8 × 17.9 cm), and Image: 9 1/8 × 7 1/16 inches (23.2 × 17.9 cm)

Swiss woman going by the city of Baselle, Anonymous, After Wenceslaus Hollar, 1662 Woman in traditional costume from Basel. paper etching Basel

Kaiserin Maria Theresia, after, Martin van Meytens , Artist, after, Martin Altomonte , Artist

Umbria Perugia Norcia S. Agostino4. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Three prints of the exterior; the rest of the coverage is of the interior nave, altar, choir, crucifix, paintings, frescoes, and sacristy. Other prints form part of the numerical sequence for S. Agostino, even though the two monuments have never been part of the same complex. Coverage is primarily of the carved wood ceiling and the sculpture embedded in it. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Portrait of Clemens Wenceslaus

Wszyscy Święci w MNK Schmitner, Franz Leopold (1703 1761)

Sadeler, Aegidius, Johann (I), Angel with ladder, hammer, nails and ointment jar, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 68 mm, width 53 mm, South Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1580 - 1600, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1570 - 1629

Studies for the Instruction of Painters, two suites. Rome, c. 1630, Print made by Francesco Curti, 1610-1690, Italian, after Giovanni Guercino, 1591-1666, Italian, Published by Giovanni Domenico de Rossi, active 17th century, Italian, ca. 1633, Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (22.2 × 31.8 cm) and Binding: 9 inches (22.9 cm)

Cleobulus from lindus; Cleobulus Lindius; The seven ways of Greece. A man dressed in a long cloak, seen on the left, the right hand out. For him an altar with a statue of Minerva. A semi-closed curtain behind him. Under the show a seven-line Latin poem. This print is part of a series of eight prints: a title print and seven numbered portraits of Greek ways.

Seamstress, Wallerant Vaillant, 1669 - 1677 print In a room, a young woman with a sewing cushion is sewing on her lap by the window. On the table for her an open music booklet and a lute. paper sewing. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo

Mathilde of Wittelsbach.

Sitting, peeling woman, Abraham Delfos, 1741 - 1820 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen / brush

Félon, François de Salignac de la Mothe.

Anne Bill. mystic wife of printer John Bill, died 1621. Veiled bust within oval frame held by angel at an altar with musical instruments in flames. From Martin Day's funeral sermon Peplum Modestiae in Monument of Mortalitie, 1621. Aeterna Memor. et Quiet An. Billae Uxori lectiss et dilectiss Io Bill. Copperplate engraving from Samuel Woodburns Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martins Lane, London, 1816.

Portrait of the Sultane Donice; Donice Scanderbegi Uxor; Vitae et icones Sultanorum Turcicorum. Round portrait of the Sultane to example a coin. In a decorative frame with flowers, squirrels and giraffes, with Latin top and caption.

Matrona Ferrarese; Ancient habits, modern and worldwide .... mirror image and other rug; Same attitude

London, Boydell, Josiah, John, Italy, Dolci, Carlo, Bartolozzi, Francesco, Maria, verso - stamped, Maria in tears. Text and a shield flanked by angels in the lower margin., print, prints, height 164 mm, width 120 mm, Italian, 1727-09-25 - 1815-03-07, print maker, printmaker, 1769-11-01 - 1769-11-01, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1616-05-25 - 1686-01-17, after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, English, 1719 - 1804, publisher, uitgever, 1752-01-18 - 1817-03-27

Bust of a woman, possibly a self-portrait of Maria de "Medici. .

Portrait of Frank van Borselen. Portrait in half of the front under a bar of the Zeeland nobleman Frank van Borselen, with hat. A crowned coat of arms is shown to the right of the nobleman. Below the portrait is a game playing company depicted, surrounded by a graceful table. The name and titles of the portrayed are in the margin.

Sibille van de Hellespont, Romeyn de Hooghe (attributed to), after Romeyn de Hooghe, 1688 print Sibille van de Hellespont Netherlands paper etching / engraving sibyls (with NAME)

Albia Terentia, mother of Otho, Emperor of Rome. Line engraving, 16--, after A. Sadeler after Titian.

Summer, 1652 - 1711 print paper etching / engraving year divided into four seasons. summer, 'Aestas'; 'Estate' (Ripa). agricultural implements: sickle. cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)

The Virgin Annunciate; Lazzaro Bastiani (Italian, died 1512, active about 1459 - 1512); Italy; about 1464 - 1468; Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash; 10.2 x 8.4 cm (4 x 3 5,16 in.)

Ferdinand II, Grand Dear of Tuscany Stecher: Kilian, Lucas

Standing Dominican or Servite Holding a Book and Staff (recto); Study of two warriors (verso). Artist: Bernardino Poccetti (Italian, San Marino di Valdelsa 1548-1612 Florence). Dimensions: 11 3/16 x 6 15/16in. (28.4 x 17.6cm). Date: 1548-1612. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of William III, Prince of Oranje -Nassau, King of England, Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen, After Adriaen van der Werff, 1697 - 1709 print Portrait of William III, Prince of Oranje-Nassau, King of England, in an oval that is held by a standing allegorical female figure and a sitting Minerva. The portrait is crowned by a putto. Antwerp paper engraving Aegis: shield with Gorgon's head (attribute of Minerva). specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Minerva; Minerva as patroness. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Bliżej Kultury Wyszkowski, Piotr ( 1832), Stachowicz, Michał (1768 1825)

Hungarian Krijgsman, 1569 Hongaarse Krijgsman. Onderdeel van het kostuumboek getiteld 'of nearly the age of our attitude, never before this Aediti', Venetië 1569. Heruitgave shipped 1569 van de Eerste editie shipped 1563. paper engraving fashion plates Hungary

Salome with the head of John the Baptist, 1660 print She shows the head on a scale. Next to her an old man, possibly Herod. This print is part of an album. paper etching / engraving the head of John the Baptist on a platter

Italy, Rustici, Francesco, Brunetti, Orazio, Saint Agnes, verso - stamped, Saint Agnes with a flax branch in her hand, a sword thrust into her breast and a lamb before her. Text in bottom margin, print, prints, height 214 mm, width 146 mm, 1630, print maker, printmaker, 1640 - 1740, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Italian, 1595 - 1626-04-16

Artist: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528, The Virgin Crowned by TwoAngels, Engraving, 15 × 10.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4in.), Made in Germany, German, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Porter Van Koning Jacobus II Van England, David Loggy, 1643 - 1692 print Portrait of Jacobus II, king of England and Scotland, back. paper engraving

Portrait of the painter Raphael, Paulus Pontius, 1616 - 1657 print Antwerp paper engraving portrait, self-portrait of painter

Portrait of Marcia Furnilla; Famous Roman women. Marcia Furnilla, second wife of Emperor Titus.

Zieger, Johann Stecher: Fleischmann, August Christian

Godewyk, Margaretha of.

Science, Jan Saenredam, After Hendrick Goltzius, 1615 print The personification of science is in front of a building and is working with a passer. There are still a few buildings in the distance. Under the show a Latin sentence with an explanation of virtue. paper engraving symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ science, 'Scientia'; 'Scienza', 'Studio' (Ripa)

Judit with the head of Holofernes. Judit with raised sword in her left and head of Holofernes in her right hand. At the top left a framework with a Bible quote from Judit 13 in Latin.

. Bust of the Tiburtine Sibille. In her left hand, she holds a palm branch in her right hand. The show is caught in a medallion with a peripheral in Latin. In the margin a six-line caption in Latin. Print from a series with the twelve sibiles.

Marches Pesaro e Urbino Urbino Museo del Duomo "Albani"51. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Sculpture, paintings, panel painting, triptychs, polyptychs German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Sassoferrato, Bartolo da Stecher: Bry, Theodor de

The bedroom girl. / 83. (registered title) | Almanach useful and pleasant from the lottery of the Royal Military School. (title of all)

Farmer girl at a well, anonymous, 1700 - 1799 print France paper etching / engraving farmers. well

Strasbourg Woman. Wenceslaus Hollar; Czech, 1607-1677. Date: 1644-1650. Dimensions: 92 × 58 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Etching on gray Asian paper. Origin: Bohemia. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Martin Schonguer (around 1450-1495). Les Vierges Sages: Fifth Virgin Sage (Bartsch 81). Engraving (chisel), 1480-1485. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 76855-15 Acking, art medieval, Christianity, woman, engraving with chisel, Christian iconography, religious iconography, light lamp, Middle Ages, New Testament, biblical character, wise virgin, XVEME XVE XV 15th 15th 15th century, engraving

Portrait of Margaretha van Bavaria, Adriaen Matham, 1620 print Portrait of Margaretha van Beieren, standing in imperial clothing with a scepter in her hand. Print from a series of 36 prints with portraits in full of graves and engines of Holland. Haarlem paper engraving nobility and patriciate; chivalry, knighthood

Young Zurich Woman Made 1649 Bohemia. Etching on gray Asian paper . Wenceslaus Hollar

De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo libri dve, De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo libri dve, Vecellio, Cesare, ca. 1521-1601, 1590

Sophie of Wittelsbach.

Lamoignon, Marquis de Basville, Guillaume I. de.

Johann I, Zápolya King of Hungary.

Pallas Athena standing on a globe, holding a spear in her left hand and her shield in her right. Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome); or after Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499-1546 Mantua); Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century; After Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini () ca. 1480-before 1534 Bologna ()). Dimensions: 10 9/16 x 5 7/8 in. (26.8 x 15.0 cm). Publisher: Antonio Salamanca (Salamanca 1478-1562 Rome); Nicolaus van Aelst (Flemish, Brussels 1526-1613 Rome). Date: ca. 1520-40. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Bavaria Jacoba. Portrait in half of Jacoba van Bavaria, Countess of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut. Jacoba is veiled and prays with her hands collapsed, to the left of her is a crowned coat of arms surrounded by the gate of the Dutch garden. On top of the left of the niche is a heart-pierced heart arrow, surrounded by chains. On the right is a crown pierced with burning torch showing two brilliant birds. Under the portrait a representation of the wedding of Jacoba van Bavaria with Frank van Borselen, surrounded by a graceful table. The name and titles of the portrayed are in the margin.

Bossuet, Jacques Benigne.

Sibille Van Erythrae, 1546 - 1562 print The Sibille of Erythrae sitting with a book in her right hand and pointing with her left hand. In the background on the left a round building in a landscape. This print is part of an album. paper engraving Erythraean sibyl

. Portrait of the poet and print maker Anna Maria van Schurman, standing at a table in a departure. In her hand a medallion with her own figurative and in the background the Domkerk in Utrecht.

Portret van Isabella Clara Eugenia, infante van Spanje.Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infante of Spain, Aartshertogin of Austria, kneeling, with behind her the holy Elisabet holding a book and a crown with flowers.

Woman on her toilet, Bernard Picart, 1705 print A woman is sitting at her toilet table on which a mirror and powder boxes. She keeps a comb in her hand. She wears a dress that leaves her breasts almost uncovered. Paris paper etching / engraving making toilet - AA - (for) women. whore, prostitute

A brown pen drawing with chalk traces by Sébastien Le Clerc depicting a Swiss person, with gray wash, mounted on a leaf with a pierced decorative strip, dated between 1650 and 1664.

Portrait of Giotto, 1675 - 1679 print Print is part of an album. paper engraving historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of painter

January, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Robert Sayer, 1725-1794, British, 1767, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 17 × 11 inches (43.2 × 27.9 cm), Plate: 14 × 9 7/8 inches (35.6 × 25.1 cm), and Image: 12 1/8 × 9 7/8 inches (30.8 × 25.1 cm)

Marie Anna, Archdukezogin of Austria.

Bagpipe player, Pieter Nolpe (Possible), 1623 - 1652 print With two -way fresh in Dutch under the portrait. paper engraving bagpipe, musette

Attributed to Crispyn de Passe the Elder, ca. 1565-1637, Dutch, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, 1596. Engraving.

A black chalk and white brush copy by Johann Christian Klengel after Bernardo Strozzi from 1766-1767 depicting David with the head of Goliath, executed on bluish paper with pencil traces in the left eye and black edging lines.

A man wearing a beret with plume on the head., Mansbuste, print maker: Abraham van Strij (I), (signed by artist), Dordrecht, 1763 - 1826, paper, etching, h 105 mm × w 79 mm

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