18th Century Social Commentary

Engravings illustrating social scenarios and interactions typical of the 18th century, infused with humor and moral undertones in domestic settings.

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 2 Quarrels with her Protector. 1732. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743-1781, British, Lady Rushout and her Children, 1778. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Illustration depicting an older sister comforting her young sister. Illustrated by Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) an English painter. Dated 19th Century

Cartoon in which the Dutch Virgin Tea pours for the Japanese company, 1862, 1862 print Cartoon in which the Dutch Virgin Tea pours for the Japanese company. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 24, 14 June 1862. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.. afternoon tea. cup of tea Japan

Mosieu, mademoiselle doit souper cette nuit avec ce petit jeune homme delettres…. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

M. and Mrs de Saint Wast welcoming Miss de Beauregard, 1760 Carmontelle. "MR. and Mrs de Saint Wast welcoming Miss de Beauregard, 1760". EN 1760-1760.

Ah!...quelle singulière éducation vous donnez à votre fille.... Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1844. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (23.9 × 24.2 cm). Printer: D. N. Shury (London). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: December 14, 1804. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A Tea Garden, Francis David Soiron, Born 1764, after George Morland, 1763-1804, British, 1790, Stipple engraving, printed in color, Plate: 18 1/2 x 21 3/8in. (47 x 54.3cm), dog (animal), genre subject, pond, teacups, teapot, toys

An engraving depicting the Crown of Hops: engraving of the picture by William Frederick Witherington 1820

Coquetry, English colour engraving by W Ward, 1810

Drawing (Italy); Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823)

Si son de otro linage. (Perhaps They Are of Another Breed.), pl. 61 from the series Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters ofWar). Artist: Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828

Despedida de la Princesa de los Ursinos en Jadraque. En 23 de diciembre de 1714 la Reina Isabel de Farnesio, nueva esposa de Felipe V, ordena a la Princesa de los Ursinos, Marie-Anne la Trémoille, que parta inmediatamente a Francia. Grabado de 1870.

The Good Education 1749 France. Engraving in black on cream laid paper . Jacques Philippe Le Bas

Reine d'Etrurie 1860s Pierre-Louis Pierson French. Reine d'Etrurie 261368

Photo production of painting by Paul Delaroche: Sainte Amelie, Reine de Hongrie.

A Fortune Teller Reads a Gentlemans palm, by Michelangelo Meris, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey' - Yorick (Laurence Sterne) and Maria walking, 1842. By Ford Madox Brown. This watercolour illustrates a scene from Laurence Sterne's novel 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'.

Le Contrat. Dimensions: plate: 40.7 × 46.9 cm (16 × 18 7/16 in.) sheet: 42.9 × 49.3 cm (16 7/8 × 19 7/16 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Maurice Blot after Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

Johann Jakob Mettleiter and Johann Elias Haid view prints at the table, Johann Elias Haid, after Johann Jakob Mettleiter, 1784 print Augsburg paper etching historical persons. collecting and exhibiting products of the fine arts. portrait, self-portrait of graphic artist. portrait, self-portrait of painter

Paris, Gihaut frères, Villain, Jean-François, Delacroix, Eugène, Hamlet, Hamlet et Ophélie, Hamlet leaves Ophelia, verso - stamped, Print is part of a cover with fourteen prints., print, prints, height 415 mm, width 308 mm, 1798 - 1863-08-13, print maker, printmaker, 1834 - 1864, paper, chine collé, lithography (technique), French, 1790, printer, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Three Studies of Seated Women. Jean Antoine Watteau; French, 1684-1721. Date: 1710-1720. Dimensions: 260 × 370 mm. Black, red, and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Virtue and virtue, Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger, After Pierre Prud'Hon, 1796 - 1799 print Paris paper etching / engraving figure representing a Virtue vs. a Vice. satyr(s) (in general)

MOZART , WOLFGANG AMADEUS. COMPOSITOR AUSTRIACO. 1756 - 1791. " MOZART EN CASA DE MADAME POMPADOUR ". GRABADO SOBRE UN CUADRO DE V. DE PAREDES. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.

Alexander meets Luise, queen of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, at Memel. Date: 10 June 1802

The Snack mid to late 18th century Louis Marin Bonnet. The Snack. Louis Marin Bonnet (French, Paris 1736-1793 Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne). mid to late 18th century. Stipple and wash manner. Prints

Here Poor Boy, Print made by Charles Wilkin, 1750-1814, British, after Sir William Beechey, 1753-1839, British, 1796, Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 20 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (52.1 × 42.5 cm) and Image: 18 × 15 inches (45.7 × 38.1 cm), beggar, children, coin, genre subject, river, Spaniel, stick, trees

In the Zoological Garden. Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833-1914 Sèvres). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/8 in. (24.6 × 33.4 cm)Plate: 8 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (21.3 × 22.3 cm). Date: ca. 1873. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Le Monument du Costume. This series of plates centres on the fashion, interiors and etiquette of the wealthy French elite around 1776. We follow a young lady du bon ton (of good taste) from the time of her pregnancy until her return to society life. At home, she is shown in a negligée 1 2 3. For a horseback ride in the Bois de Boulogne, she chooses an Amazonian riding outfit 4, and when paying a visit to Marly, the kings country residence, she dons a robe à la polonaise 5. The opera demands a robe à la française, with a skirt so wide that she can pass through doorways only sideways 6.

'The First Ear Ring', 1849.Artist: William Greatbach

Johannot Alfred (1800-1837). "Marie Stuart blessing Roland Groeme and Catherine Seyton". Watercolor on paper. Around 1830. Paris, Museum of Romantic Life. 157073-6

A man puts his hand into his purse to pay for the services of a young woman, as another hands her a pair of earrings. Mezzotint by J. Faber after P. Mercier.

. During a party in a ballroom, the Duchess of Burgundy is killed by her husband with a dagger.

Wszyscy Święci w MNK Kasprzykiewicz, Feliks (1840 1915)

Ladies of fashion at the theatre. Date: 1796

The Sons of Rubens, steel engraving after a painting by Rubens, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original.

Set of eight (5): Cries of London, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1799, Etching with aquatint, colored by hand, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 3/4in. (36.8 x 29.8cm)

Design for a Book Illustration: a Man Approaching a Woman Playing a Harp. Artist: Anonymous, German, 19th century. Dimensions: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 in. (9.2 x 6.8 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Paris, Falconer, Schiedam, Roelants, Hendrik Adriaan Marius, Gonin, Guido, Chaillot, A., Het Toilet, 15 March 1879, No. 9, bottom center - engraved, Print from the fashion magazine Het Toilet (1877-)., fashion print, prints, costume and fashion prints, HET TOILET, SCHIEDAM - HAM ROELANTS, height 363 mm, width 262 mm, French, print maker, printmaker, 1879 - 1879, fourth quarter 19th century, paper, hand coloring, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1833 - 1906, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, printer

Bride's toilet according to Romberg's image. French magazine Jackson, Mason (1819 1903), Romberg (n.n.)

The Optical Illusion, 1794 (engraving); by Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845); L'Optique. Louise Sebastienne Danton (nee Gely); George Danton's second wife and his elder son Antoine, by his first marriage, engraved by Frederic Cazenave, after a painting by Louis-Leopold Boilly. The woman and child watch a stack of "Vue d'Optiques" with a Zograscope optical viewer. 1794

The letter reader, draughtsman: Abraham Delfos, after: Louis de Moni, 1795, paper, brush, h 270 mm × w 223 mm

Table of Paris, the Tuileries Garden: The Cafe Very, the terrace of the leafs Georg-Emmanuel Opiz. Paris painting, the Tuileries Garden: The Very Caf�, the terrace of the leaf.

Design for a Book Illustration: a Man Approaching a Woman Playing a Harp 19th century Anonymous, German, 19th century German. Design for a Book Illustration: a Man Approaching a Woman Playing a Harp 335766

The walk in the park Louis-Roland Trinquesse (1745-1800). "The walk in the park". Drawing.

Marie Antoinette by Luigi Schiavonetti, Etching, watercolor, 1794, Rococo, 1765-1810) State Museum of History, Architecture and Art, Rybinsk 39, 3x49, 3

Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704-1767, La benedicite, undated. Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

The Proverbs: Feminine Folly, 1864. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching and aquatint;

In a room, a gentleman stares at a lady sitting on a sofa and covering her face with her hands, scene from Maitre Gratien (Master Gratien), by Leon de Tinseau (1844-1921), illustration from the magazine L'Illustration, year 50, no 2589, October 8, 1892.

Colored skiolet icon with motifs of woman and man.

Gerson's department store lobby, Werdersche Markt, Berlin, Germany, woodcut by Richard Bong (1853-1935) from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1892-1893, Year VII, No 11, Berlin.

Taxi Dance Hall. Reginald Marsh; American, 1898-1954. Date: 1951-1952. Dimensions: 457 x 609 mm. China ink on cardboard, double-sided, one side varnished. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

A Fruit Market, from The Houghton Gallery Published 1775 England. John Boydell embarked on a monumental publication documenting the art collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Britainís first prime minister. Boydell contracted 45 engravers to create 162 prints, of which Richard Earlomís are considered the most notable.Motivated by nationalistic pride, Boydell sought to broadcast British patronage and connoisseurship of art to an international audience, as well as to encourage Parliament to purchase the collection for the nation from Walpoleís grandson. His efforts were not entirely successful; Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia, eventually acquired the entirety of Walpoleís holdings. Regarded as one of the finest groupings of Old Master European paintings, these worksóincluding A Fruit Market (1618/21) by Frans Snyders, reproduced in this mezzotint by Earlomócan be seen at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.. Mezzotint with engraving in black ink on ivory wove paper . Ric

An Amorous Turk 1798 Thomas Rowlandson A Turkish man embraces a young woman with a large feather in her hair.. An Amorous Turk. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1798. Hand-colored etching. Prints

The Camp Laundry February 14, 1782 Anonymous, British, 18th century British. The Camp Laundry 343748

English novelist George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) wrote the novel Romola in 1862-63, set in 15th-century (Renaissance) Florence.

The Market Lass, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Laurie & Whittle, 1755-1836, British, 1794, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 inches (41.6 × 27.9 cm), Plate: 13 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (34.9 × 25.1 cm), and Image: 11 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (29.8 × 25.1 cm)

My family, first stone , Artists, Family members, Families, Bellows, George, 1882-1925. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Public house scene; six women and two men Constantin Ernest Adolphe Hyacinthe Guys (1802-1892), draftsman and French painter. Public house scene; Six women and two men. Feather, ink bistur, pencil, gray wash.

Print made by Thomas Ryder, 1746-1810, Irish, Female Curiosity, 1799. Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British, The Meadow, ca. 1820. Oil on panel.

The dangerous credulity, Duchess of Mazarin, mistress of Charles II of England and the Duke of Kolbert disguised as a matchmaker, 1810

Cottage piety'. To J. Webster. With addresses of Boys and Gambart, print maker: George Henry Phillips, after: Thomas Webster, publisher: Thomas Boys, 1819 - 1825, paper

The Camp Laundry. Artist: Anonymous, British, 18th century. Dimensions: 13 x 9 7/8 in. (33 x 25.1 cm) (image)14 3/16 x 10 1/8 in. (36 x 25.7 cm) (sheet). Publisher: Robert Sayer (British, Sunderland 1725-1794 Bath); John Bennett (British, active from 1760, died 1787 Islington). Date: February 14, 1782. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Qalaley Volucture He and Conlines Joseph, Joseph is about Patana, Savaneob, 1876 1876 1876 print paper historical persons. adult man. adult woman. boxes, loges ~ theatre, etc.

France, Paris, Happy family

School Mistress. François Bernard Lépicié (French, 1698-1755); after Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (French, 1699-1779). Date: 1735-1745. Dimensions: 168 × 201 mm (image); 217 × 210 mm (image/plate); 385 × 285 mm (sheet). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Jacques Callot, The Winder and the Spinner, c 1623 The Winder and the Spinner

Design for in Holland stands a house: Silhouettes of men and female on tea, Nelly Bodenheim, 1884 - 1917 drawing Design for a print. paper. deck paint. pencil brush .

The good kind number 15 - The Colin Maillard Jean Fran�ois Bosio (1764-1827). "The good kind number 15: The Colin Maillard, 1803".

The dresser'. Engraving by Vela after a painting by the Spanish painter Antonio Cabral Bejarano (1788-1861). La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

The caption on this 1903 image reads: Cleopatra before Julius Caesar from painting by Gerome. It appeared in the book History of Egypt by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. Aware that Caesar's diplomatic intervention could help her regain the throne. The year was about 48 B.C. From her brother Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra hatched a scheme to sneak herself into the palace at Alexandria where Julius Caesar was at the time preparing for a conference to bring the warring siblings to an agreement. She wanted an audience with Caesar. She persuaded her servant Apollodoros to wrap her in a carpet (or, according to some sources, a sack used for storing bedclothes), which he then presented to the 52-year old Roman. Jean-Leon Gerome (1824 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.

Nicolas de Larmessin IV after Nicolas Lancret, L'enfance, 1735 L'enfance

Four putti with two pigeons in a basket of roses on a pillow; Le Nid d'Amour ...

The correct kind: the underside of the candlestick Georges-Jacques Gatine. "The good kind number 46: the underside of the candlestick, 1811".

The Female Correspondent. Dated: 1771. Dimensions: plate: 50.4 x 35.5 cm (19 13/16 x 14 in.) sheet: 51.8 x 36.6 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.). Medium: mezzotint on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: James Watson after Gabriel Metsu.

The Conversation. Dating: c. 1850 - c. 1899. Measurements: h 27.1 cm × w 32.8 cm; d 6.3 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: David Bles.

An episode in The sorrows of young Werther, by Goethe: Albert, the husband of Charlotte, asks his wife to comply with Werther's request to lend him his pistols; she hands them to Werther's servant boy, knowing that Werther will shoot himself with them. Line engraving by P. Bonato after J.H. Ramberg.

Queen Katherine, Queen Consort of Henry VIII of England, (19th century).Artist: Charles W Sharpe

France, 19th century. A ball in Paris, 1888. Engraving from a watercolour by Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931)

The Schoolmistress 1740 Bernard Lepicié. The Schoolmistress. Bernard Lepicié (French, Paris 1698-1755 Paris). 1740. Etching and engraving. Prints

Napoleon I ... Josephine ...

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