18th Century Social Commentary

Engravings depicting societal themes of vice and morality, featuring brothels, auctions, and employment with a satirical tone. Rich details and dark humor illustrate life's challenges.

Antwerp, Galle, Philips, Florence, Straet, Jan van der, Nova Reperta, New inventions and discoveries, Medicine against syphilis, verso middle - stamped, Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis On the right, the stem of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum is chopped into pieces by a servant. Other servants make a medicine from the pieces of bark. On the left, a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the debauchery that is the origin of syphilis. The print is part of a nineteen-part series on new inventions and discoveries., print, prints, width 270 mm, height, 187 mm, South Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1589 - 1593, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1523 - 1605-11-02, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Pl. 9. The idle 'prentice betrayed by his whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice , Prostitutes, Law enforcement officers, Bribery. William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1 April 1732 William Hogarth British Set outside the Bell Inn, London. Mary Hackabout, a country girl, has just arrived on the York Wagon and is examined by an extravagantly dressed bawd Mother Needham. Behind them a clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter but a lecherous old gentleman (Colonel Charteris) eyes the girl with anticipation.. A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1 399540

Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel keeper, Mother Needham; in the background Colonel Francis Charteris stands at a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1732.

Employment Bureau. Artist: Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604-1676 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)Plate: 10 3/16 × 13 1/4 in. (25.8 × 33.6 cm). Publisher: Jean I Leblond (French, ca. 1590-1666 Paris). Series/Portfolio: Trades (Les Métiers). Date: 1633. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Satire on the art auction, William Henry Toms, after Egbert van Heemskerck (II), c. 1730 - c. 1735 print Interior of a dark auction room with monstrous figures. The scene is highlighted by three candles on a trident, held by a figure with a monkey's head. On an increase on the right, the auctioneer waves his hammer. Next to him, a figure with the head of a donkey holds a painting up. On the left, a figure with a monkey head holds an artist a knife against his throat. There are paintings on the wall, including 'Ostard', 'Van Dyke' and 'Van Velde'. With eight -line caption in English. paper etching / engraving art sale, auction. political caricatures and satires. monsters with animal head. picture, painting. painter in non-work situation

A representation of 'A Rake's Progress, Plate 7 Happy the Man...', 1735

Amsterdam, Schenk, Leonard, 't Aapenspel in de Werelt, Apenspel in de wereld, Apengezin in hun huis, verso - stamped, The quiet family life of an ape family. Part of a series consisting of a title print with 16 unnumbered plates from ca. 1720 in which monkeys appear as people in all kinds of scenes from everyday life. Each print with a two-line verse in the caption., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 153 mm, width 198 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1696-02-26 - 1767-06-11, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Buys, Jacobus, Northern Netherlands, Vinkeles, Reinier (I), Interview with the princess at Goejanverwellesluis, 1787, verso - stamped, Interview of Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia with the deputies of the committee from Woerden, in the house at Goejanverwellesluis, 28 June 1787., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historical plates, height 231 mm, width 154 mm, 1741-06-19 - 1816-01-30, print maker, printmaker, 1795 - 1795, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, intermediary draughtsman

Killed at a woman named Dirkje Gerrits in Haarlem, 1617; Changed magic. Van Zekere Dirkje Gerrits happened within Haarlem. Ao. 1617. Requested magic at a woman named Dirkje Gerrits in Haarlem, 1617. Interior in which a group of people has collected around a woman on the ground. At the print a leaf (later date) with handwritten title.

Antwerp, Galle, Philips, Florence, Straet, Jan van der, Nova Reperta, New inventions and discoveries, Medicine against syphilis, verso middle - stamped, Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis On the right, the stem of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum is chopped into pieces by a servant. Other servants make a medicine from the pieces of bark. On the left, a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the debauchery that is the origin of syphilis. The print is part of a nineteen-part series on new inventions and discoveries., print, prints, width 270 mm, height, 187 mm, South Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1589 - 1593, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1523 - 1605-11-02, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Monkey on his sickbed, Leonard Schenk (Possible), 1720 - 1767 print On the right is a monkey on his sickbed. On the left, a doctor prepares a lavement. Part of a series consisting of a title print and records in which monkeys figure as people in all kinds of scenes from daily life. The print has a two -way verse in Dutch. Amsterdam paper etching animals acting as human beings. monkeys, apes. physician, doctor. patient, sick person. purging

The self -sacrifice of Mayor Pieter van der Werff, 1574, 1774 print The self -sacrifice of Mayor Pieter van der Werff, during the siege of Leiden, 1574. Interior with Van der Werff that provides bystanders the sword, near candlelight. Netherlands paper etching Leiden

Credulity, Superstition & Fanaticism, Print made by Charles Mottram, 1807-1876, British, after William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, 1833, Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Amsterdam, Visscher, Nicolaes (I), Ostade, Adriaen van, Northern Netherlands, Jan de, Peasant dance in a barn, verso - stamped, In a barn, several couples are dancing exuberantly, accompanied by the playing of a bagpipe player and a violinist. Others watch, smoke their pipes or have a conversation., print, prints, height 260 mm, width 354 mm, 1633 - 1692, print maker, printmaker, 1643 - 1709, paper, etching, etchings, 1610-12-19 - 1685-04-28, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1618-01-25 - 1679, publisher

Several monkeys are enjoying themselves in an inn The monkeys in the back drink and smoke pipe, while the monkeys in the front play tric-trac Part of a series consisting of a title print and plates in which monkeys figure as humans in various scenes of everyday life The print has a two-line verse in Dutch, Apen in een herberg Apenspel in de wereld 't Aapenspel in de Werelt , print maker: Leonard Schenk, (possibly), print maker: Matthijs Pool, (possibly), publisher: Leonard Schenk, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1720 - 1767, paper, etching, h 156 mm × w 201 mm

Teniers, David, Kaiser, Johann Wilhelm (I), Dutch masters, Interior with a boy beating a drum, verso - stamped, Interior with coats of arms on the right and a boy beating a drum. In the background are several men with hats in a room. This print is part of a series of 25 prints after Dutch masters. Above the image: PL XIII., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 170 mm, width 216 mm, Dutch, 1813-01-05 - 1900-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1823 - 1900, paper, papier, chine collé, etching, etchings

Title print by J. Zwelfer, Pharmacopoeia Augustana Reformata, Dordrecht 1672., Romeyn de Hooghe, 1672 print Title print by J. Zwelfer, Pharmacopoeia Augustana Reformata, Dordrecht 1672. For wall on which is the title of the book, a woman is in melancholic position at the table with herbs, recipe book and pharmaceutical objects. Netherlands paper etching / engraving pharmacy, pharmaceutics

Entertainment as propaganda, William Hogarth, 1755 print Text in English in the lower margin. In an inn, two election candidates try to convince citizens with the help of inadequate means. Outside, people of the old policy demonstrate. paper etching / engraving voting propaganda. political caricatures and satires

Monkey on his sickbed; Monkey game in the world; 't Aapen play in the world. Monkey lying on his sickbed, a doctor makes a lavement ready. Part of a series consisting of a title print with 16 unnumbered plates from approx. 1720 in which monkeys like people figurine in all kinds of scenes from daily life. Each print with a two-legged fresh in the caption.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 8 June 25, 1735 reissued 1763 William Hogarth British. A Rake's Progress, Plate 8 399561

Augsburg, Küsel, Mathäus, Fine arts, Printmaking, verso - stamped, The workshop of a printmaker. At a table by the window a man is working with a burin in a copper plate. The plate is lying on a cushion. At the same table sits an apprentice. He is looking at the boy who, sitting on a chair, is copying the large sculpture in the workshop. His first sketch is lying on the floor. Through the doorway there is a view of a printer's workshop. There a man is working on a plate press, while the boy next to him is inking the copper plate. Below the image four lines of text in Latin. The print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, prenten, height 135 mm, width 160 mm, German, 1629-02-12 - 1681, print maker, prentmaker, 1680 - 1680, paper, papier, etching, etsen

Hugo de Groot is received in Antwerp by Grevinkhoven, 1621, 1768 - 1771 print After his escape from Loevestein in Antwerp, Hugo de Groot is received by the former Rotterdam pastor Nicolaas Grevinkhoven, March 23, 1621. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving Antwerp

Samuel Ireland, active 1760-died 1800, British, Banditti Regaling.

William Hogarth, The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by his Accomplice, 1747 The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by his Accomplice

Death of a man, Moses ter Borch, c. 1662 - before 1667, draughtsman: Moses ter Borch, Zwolle, c. 1662 - before 1667, paper, brush, h 305 mm × w 208 mm

Amsterdam, Pool, Matthijs, Apenspel, Monkeys as pharmacists, ca. 1720, verso - stamped, Monkeys as pharmacists and customers in a pharmacy. In the caption verses in French and Dutch. Print no. 7 in a series of 16 prints from ca. 1720 in which monkeys appear as people in all kinds of household scenes., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 163 mm, width 204 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1676 - 1740-03-25, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

UN DEJEUNER, au petitjour.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Engraving by A. Paul after T. Rombouts.

Count de Peltzer lying mortally wounded on his bed attended by his fiancée Mlle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, and a boy bringing soup for the dying man. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.

Karl VI., Roman-German Kaiser Stecher: Dutzer, Andressecher: Dunter, Joseph (1683) Dating: 1715/1740

Frontispiece to "The Humours of Oxford". Artist: After William Hogarth (British, London 1697-1764 London). Author: Illustrates James Miller (British, Bridport, Dorset, 1704-1744 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 4 13/16 in. (18.5 x 12.3 cm). Engraver: Thomas Cook (British, 1744-1818). Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (London). Date: November 1, 1807. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wael, Cornelis de, Italian craftsmen and sellers, Chestnut seller, verso lower left - stamped, A man roasts chestnuts in front of his shop. Two women sell nuts and fruit at the stall under the awning. In the margin a caption in Latin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 100 mm, width 126 mm, Work conception, Zuid-Nederlands, 1592-09-07 - 1667-04-21, after a design by, 1613 - 1667, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker

Marriage à la Mode: Plate II, 1745. William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). Etching and engraving; platemark: 38 x 46.4 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.).

Washington's interview with his mother. Mrs. Washington influences her son George not to go as midshipman.. Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887). Portraits. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799, Washington, George, 1732-1799, Families , 1750-1759, Interiors , 1700-1799

The curate and barber disguising themselves , Barbers, Clergy, Impersonation, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints

On the organs according to the image of Gisbert Flüggen. A clip from a German magazine. Brend'amour, Franz Robert Richard (1831 1915), Paul, Ernst Wilhelm (1856 CA 1930), Flüggen, Gisbert (1811 1859)

Boar's Head Tavern: Prince Hal, Falstaff and Poins (Shakespeare, First Part of Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4) 1825-40 Charles Heath, the elder. Boar's Head Tavern: Prince Hal, Falstaff and Poins (Shakespeare, First Part of Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4). After Robert Smirke (British, Wigton, Cumberland 1752/53-1845 London). 1825-40. Etching and engraving. Charles Heath, the elder (British, London 1785-1848 London). Prints

Hugo de Groot is in bricklaying clothing on the Markt in Gorinchem, 1621, 1768 - 1771 print After his escape from Slot Loevestein on March 22, 1621, Hugo de Groot is in bricklaying clothing on the Markt in Gorinchem, together with Abraham Daatselaar. Netherlands paper etching / engraving Gorinchem

Scene in a Painter's Room. 1700. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

'Concert Monstre' of 'Musical Congress' Extraordinary!, Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797-1868, Irish, Printed by Thomas McLean, 1788-1875, British, Published by Thomas McLean, 1788-1875, British, 1849, Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper, Sheet: 11 11/16 x 17 5/16 inches (29.7 x 44 cm) and Image: 10 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (26.7 x 34 cm), chaos, children, conductor, drums, barrel, fighting, France, free trade (economic concept), genre subject, hats, horns, ideology, knives, liberty, men, music, musicians, parody, political, politicians, revolution, satire, satirical, score, sketches, uniforms, violins, women

A man caresses a woman; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.

City sign academy in Amsterdam, 1764-1767, Reinier Vinkeles (I), 1768 print The city sign academy (sign academy) above the De Garde Corps in the Leidsepoort in Amsterdam in the year 1764. The drawing academy moved to the Town Hall on Dam Square on December 4, 1767. A group of male drawing pupils in a fairly dark interior in the event of the lamb obligation to be drawn to a male nude model, seen the model standing from the front. With empty margin at the bottom. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving drawing-lesson Leidseplein

William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, An Election Entertainment, Plate I, 1755-58. Engraving.

Emperor Charles V picking up Titian's Paintbrush. Pietro Antonio Novelli (1729-1804). Black chalk, pen and brown and black ink, with grey wash. 35.7 x 48.5cm.

France - 16th century - Nostradamus at court of Catherine de Médicis casts horoscope of her children, future kings of France. Engraving

An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election February 1755 William Hogarth British. An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election 368373

Great success in heart! / We have seen kings marry shepherds ... Attention ... a foreign princess becomes enlightened / at the parade of a young French and brown corporal, that she makes it removed in her states ... he is served, / Housed, heated, whitened, illuminated and lying with the government ... at the expense of the princess ... / No. 7. (title registered) | Eight: IFF 48 album (dummy title)

Boer receives devils in his house; Das Tau, Förecht der Wauwau.

StraScène with Damon with backpack and his father -in -law with rod, Nicolas de Larmessin (III), After Jean Baptiste François Pater, c. 1734 - c. 1743 print With eight -line fresh in French and Latin. paper etching partner deceived. knapsack, rucksack. dog. street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). mother and baby or young child

Lazio Latina Cori S. Salvatore0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, painting, wooden crucifix. The church contains frescoes of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi by the Tuscan artist Anastasio Fontebuoni (1610). Exterior, altar, crucifix, and paintings. General Notes: There were two sets of prints which have now been integrated into a single numerical sequence. Many of the prints have duplicates. 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.

Wives at Table During the Absence of their Husbands. Artist: Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604-1676 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (26 × 34 cm). Publisher: Jean I Leblond (French, ca. 1590-1666 Paris). Date: ca. 1636. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

people women 16th - 18th century caricature on oppressed husbands copper engraving coloured by Abraham Bosse (1602 - 1676) Paris France mid 17th century private collection,

City Courtship 1786 Imitator of Thomas Rowlandson. City Courtship. Imitator of Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1786. Etching. S. W. Fores (London). Prints

Marriage A-La-Mode. Plate I. The Contract. 1745. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a Christian plate 2. 1747. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

The lottery , Gods, Allegories. John D. Merriam Collection

Eugène Delacroix, Players Enacting the Poisoning of Hamlet's Father (Act III, Scne II), 1835 Players Enacting the Poisoning of Hamlet's Father (Act III, Scne II)

Crying and desperate figures in a cell. .

Print made by William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, Plate 1, The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms, 1747. Etching with line engraving.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.5. Dated: 1732. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Hogarth.

An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phis (Hablot K. Browne).

Women on maternity visit; Le Mariage à la ville.

A barber's shop in which men demonstrate the sense of sight. Etching by W. Peeters after C. de Wael.

The four overs of the Archy (St Sebastiaan) Doelen in Amsterdam, 1653, Joachim Jan Oortman Jr., After Bartholomeus van der Helst, After Marchais, 1812 print The four overs of the arched goals or St Sebastiadoetel in Amsterdam, 1653. The overs are from left to right: Frans Banning Cocq, Jan van de Poll, Albert Dircksz Pater and Jan Willemsz Blaeu. The overs sit around a table in front of a cupboard in which showcases are displayed. They also hold a showcase in their hands, decorated the royal staff with a bird and the militia's militia chain with a medallion in the form of a bird. The goalkeeper brings in the ceremonial silver drinking horn from the guild. On the left is a dog, on the right in the background two shooters. Paris paper etching / engraving historical persons (+ specific ways of representation of historical persons) Amsterdam

Disobedient slave being taken to prison, 1585, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

17th century illustration by Joseph Lunghi, from the series 'Life of the Whore' circa 1680

Sculptor Receives Visitors. Artist: Nicolaas Aartman (Dutch, Amsterdam 1713-1793 Amsterdam). Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 5 9/16 in. (9.8 x 14.2 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Cheerful company, William Baillie, after Jan Miense Molenaer, 1774 A cheerful company at a table. A woman is sitting at a table with food. A man puts his arms around her. Another man plays Luit for a drunk woman. There is a dog at her feet. A boy plays the violin behind it. The print is part of an album. paper etching A cheerful company at a table. A woman is sitting at a table with food. A man puts his arms around her. Another man plays Luit for a drunk woman. There is a dog at her feet. A boy plays the violin behind it. The print is part of an album. paper etching

DECEMBER - OF THE GOOD BOUDIN GRAS AND Dirty François Queverdo (1748-1897). Deember: good fat and salty Boudin. Engraving.

Players Enacting the Poisoning of Hamlet's Father (Act III, Scne II). Dated: 1835. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: EUGENE DELACROIX.

The Royal Family of France / Royal Family of France (IT)

Anne Page, Slender and Shallow - 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' Act III, Scene IV, Charles Burt, 1822-1894, American, after Charles Robert Leslie, 1794-1859, British, 1850, Engraving, Sheet: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (49.5 x 59.7cm)

Peter denies Christ, Willem Outgertsz. Akersloot, after Pieter de Molijn, 1629 - 1647 print The house of the high priest Kajafas in the night. In the foreground, soldiers fell in front of a fireplace, behind them the apostle Peter who talks to a maid. On a balustrade is Kaja bass with a group of soldiers. On the left on an increase De Haan for the inscription SPQR on a wall. Under the show a verse in two couplets of four lines each in Latin by T. Schrevelius. Netherlands paper engraving Peter denies Christ, usually before a girl-servant and some soldiers

A Fish Market; from Divers sujets Remarquables tirez de L'Histoire Greque 1652 François Chauveau. A Fish Market; from Divers sujets Remarquables tirez de L'Histoire Greque. François Chauveau (French, Paris 1613-1676 Paris). 1652. Etching. Prints

Hudibras in tribulation. 1726. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Morning. Dated: 1738. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Hogarth.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms, plate 1., 1747

Charles Grignion after William Hogarth, Canvassing for Votes, 1757 Canvassing for Votes

L. Truchy, 1721-1764, Pamela dressed in order to meet Mr. B. at Sir Simon Darnford's, is prevented by the sudden arrival of Lady Davers, who forceibly detains her, & loads her with the bitterest reproaches that rage & disdain could suggest, her Nephew is looking over.., 1745. Engraving.

Cruelty in perfection , Dead persons, Criminals, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Four stages of cruelty. William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints

Jupiter and Mercury in the house of Philemon and Baucis. prints, engravings, works on paper

A Masonic Anecdote”, Alessandro di Cagliostro, after James Gillray Caricature, Book Illustration from Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910

Tobias curing his father's (Tobit) eyesight three others and a dog look on. Line engraving by J. Jenkins after A. Carracci.

Print made by Florence Claxton, active 1855-1889, British, Platts Spinning Machine, undated. Wood-engraving.

Reproduction of drawing: Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), Spring fashions; from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1866, p. 229. Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), draughtsman, cartoonist, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher, Zabłocki, Feliks (-1874), woodcutter

Five service stomachs view a magpie in a cage, Jan Luyken, 1693 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing house personnel, servants. bird in a cage

Spitalbrauerei the oldest brewery in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863

Northern Netherlands, Cartoon on acquittal in the lawsuit brought against the patriotic weekly De Politieke Kruier, 1785, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the lawsuit brought on 16 April 1785 by the two Amsterdam mayors J. Rendorp and WG Dedel against JC Hespe and J. Verlem, writer and publisher of the patriotic weekly De Politieke Kruier, and the acquittal of Hespe pronounced on May 19. The porter is led out of prison by Liberty, the Dutch lion chases the two dogs back into their kennels. On the sheet below the plate a verse in two columns., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 304 mm, width 229 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1785 - 1785, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, letterpress

The Four Times of Day, 1738. William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). Engraving;

Robert Dighton, 1752-1814, British, Administering the Oath at Highgate, undated. Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper.

Robespierre lies injured in the public health committee on July 28, 1794. French Revolution 18th century. History of France, old engraved illustration

Operation in Health Room, J. Seuler, 1693 print A group of people people watch how a patient, tied up on a table, is relieved of his bladder stones. The operation supplies are ready on another table. A four -poster bed in the background. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Utrecht paper etching / engraving operation, surgery. four poster bed

Night , Fires, Traffic accidents, Carriages & coaches, De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746. Holt Collection

Weighing the Deer.".

Print made by unknown artist, The Humrous Farce of Jobson and Nell, ca. 1743. Engraving.

17th century illustration by Joseph Lunghi, from the series 'Life of the Whore' circa 1680

LE BAL MUSARD.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

Company arrives at an inn, Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin (II), After Jean Baptiste François Pater, 1731 print France paper engraving / etching (SCARRON, ROMAN COMIQUE) specific works of literature (with AUTHOR, Title). hotel, hostelry, inn. ass, donkey

An Awkward Position, from "Illustrated London News". Artist: After Abraham Solomon (British, London 1824-1862 Biarritz). Dimensions: Image: 6 1/8 in. × 9 in. (15.5 × 22.8 cm)Sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16.4 × 23.5 cm). Engraver: Harvey Orrin Smith (British, active 1847-70). Date: June 14, 1851.The incident shown is described by a biographer: "When Oliver Goldsmith resided at Islington, he sometimes extended his walks to the White Conduit House, then in the fields...While strolling one day in the gardens, he met three females of the family of a respectable tradesman, to whom he was under some obligation. He kindly conducted them about the garden, treated them to tea, and ran up a bill in the most open-handed manner imaginable; it was only when he came to pay that he found himself in one of his old dilemmas: he had not the money in his pocket. A scene of perplexity now took place between him and the waiter, in the midst of which came up some of his acquaintances, in whose eyes he wish

The King has the National Assembly, February 4, 1790 The King at the National Assembly, February 4, 1790 ". Anonymous print.

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