19th Century Illustrations

Illustrative engravings capturing historical figures and events, with a focus on narrative scenes from literature and folklore.

Don Duixote's madness. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

Girl from a rich family sits dreamily in the garden under a rose bush. She dreams of many adoring men who want to be with her, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Image reproduction: Julian Fa AT (1853-1929), recently goes; Fa AT, Julian (1853-1929), Bong, Richard (1853-1935), around 1895 (1890-00-00-1899-00-00);

We know little about JUSTINA shown here with Alfonso I of Ferrara, who we may suppose is making improper suggestions which she will resist aided by the unicorn, symbol of purity. Date: flourished circa 1520

The Months: February, 1880. 'A special day of interest to many in the present month, is the festival of St. Valentine, although there is no recorded incident of his life that can have given rise to the various jocular customs associated with his anniversary. Whatever, however, may be the historical origin of the celebration, whether heathen or Christian, there can be no doubt of its antiquity. According to an old tradition to which Chaucer refers, birds choose their mates on St. Valentine's Day; and hence in the "Midsummer Night's Dream" Theseus asks: "Good morrow, friends, St.

Wood engraving titled 'Entry to The Fetish Hut in Lunda'. Dated 19th Century

Will He Clear It, 1873. Artist: Joseph Swain

Les Hautes Rivieres, vintage engraving. Les Hautes Rivieres, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679585

Historic steel engraving by Ferdinand Rothbart, 1823 - 1899, a German illustrator, a young couple drinking wine in front of a ruined castle, a romantic scene from the poem Bergschloss by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A cartoon depicting Britannia coming to the aid of Hibernia (Ireland) and her starving, destitute population. Illustrated by John Tenniel (1820-1914) an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist. Dated 19th century

Switzerland, 19th Century

A Shepherdess and Her Flock in the Shade of Trees. Artist: Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814-1875 Barbizon). Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (37.4 x 27.3 cm). Date: 1854-55. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hay Makers in a Storm, Charles Knight, 1743-c.1826, British, after Richard Westall, 1765-1836, British, 1798, Colored stipple engraving, Sheet: 20 1/4 x 15 1/2in. (51.4 x 39.4cm)

Hercules separates the Rotsen Calpe and Abila (the pillars of Hercules), 1804 print Hercules separates the Rotsen Calpe and Abila (the pillars of Hercules). Print no. 10 on page 6 in the album 'Raccolta di Soggetti pictures', a Prentalbum with 42 numbered etchings on 28 pages of Luigi Sabatelli (I) himself and from students to his design. paper etching Hercules thrusts the rocks Calpe and Abyla apart, or forces the two rocks into temporary union

Balisaire. Artist: Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers, French, 1779-1857

El hombre y las fieras. Cacerías y pescas primitivas. Caza de la serpiente víbora en las estepas del Kurdistan por medio de una tenaza. Cromo de Chocolates Eduardo Pi. Años 1936. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

Peter III of Aragon (1240-1285), so-called "the Great". King of Aragon, Valencia (as Peter I) and Count of Barcelona (as Peter II). Equestrian portrait. Engraving by Serra Pausas. "Glorias Espanolas" (Glories of Spain). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1890.

Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West. Illustration for Bret Hart's poem 'Little Nell', engraving

Russian Slave Life Sergej Vasil'evic Ivanov (1864-1910 Russian)

Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and his guide, Virgil, to carry them across the Styx. Illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante Inferno, Canto III. Wood engraving 1861

Tom and Eva, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1853.

Submersion of the city is the capital of the cornouaille (Bay of dead) in the fifth century of our era, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.

Engraving by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator for Purgatory by Dante Alighieri Canto XV lines 103 to 106

Serre Lemchez, in Paris, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1855.

THE WOUNDED RAM

The Wood Cutter, drawing with pastel

An engraving depicting a public washing and bleaching field. Dated 19th century

The Show (La Parade). Nicolas Antoine Taunay; French, 1755-1830. Date: 1784-1787. Dimensions: 37.5 × 43.7 cm (14 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.). Oil on panel. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

For passage of Oberhasli, vintage engraving. For passage of Oberhasli, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660156

The Watch Over the Tomb (La garde du Tombeau) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). , 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (27 x 21.9 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Lying on the ground, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne 3 Russian and 3 English, 1872.

'Gathering Fruit', late 18th century.Artist: William Hamilton

Marina, View of Capri Édouard Alexandre Sain (French, 1830-1910). , 1872. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 53 in. (64.8 x 134.6 cm). European Art 1872

Natives opposing Captain Cook's landing, Australia, 1770 (1886).Artist: W Macleod

Native playing a flute on a raft, French Guiana, South America. Drawing by Edouard Riou (1833 - 1900) From Cayenne to the Andes (1878-1879) by Jules Crevaux (1847 - 1882) Le Tour du Monde 1880

Illustration for 'Le Trésor d'Arlatan' 1897 Edition, of the novel by Daudet. Illustrations by H.T. LAURENT-DESROUSSEAUX. Alphonse Daudet (French; 13 May 1840 - 16 December 1897) was a French novelist.

An engraving depicting treading the grapes; Istria, Croatia, (Yugoslavia). 1836

Long live France! Table by Jundt, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873.

Grosse Waesche, woodcut from the yearbook Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, 1900

KIT, A MEMORY; BY JAMES PAYN

A man fishing on a river has caught a fish on the end of his line, the gilly is offering to help reel it in. Coloured wood engraving by E. Froment after J.E. Hodgson.

Margrave Christoph I of Baden, 1453, 1527, abolishes the Fehmgericht in his lands, historical wood engraving, 1886, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, exact date unknown

'EREBUS AND TERROR,' BY J.W. BOTTOMLY

Abruzzo L'Aquila L'Aquila S. Maria di Collemaggio5. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, wall painting (13-15th centuries) Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture (18th century), sculpture, frescoes, wall painting, metal crucifix Coverage of the paintings; some views of interior architectural features. 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.

The Great Elector (Frederick William), after the painting by W. von Camphausen, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

Les Bergers. Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839 - 1917)

The explorer Lamarche in La Trocha, province of Darién, Republic of Panama. Central America. Explorations in the Isthmus of Panama and Darien 1876-1878 by Armand Reclus (1843 - 1927) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1880

Russian Boyarina, 16th century, Historical illustration, circa 1886

To Arkadia according to the painting of Wilhelm Kraya. A clipping of ears 1883 (2) 381 Kray, Wilhelm (1828 1889), Knesing, Theodor (1840 1927)

This route causing great tired, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.

Spain, Asturias. Council of Oviedo. After mass. Composition and drawing by J. Cuevas. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

Dutch school. Detail from the shutters of the Haywain (closed tryptich): bagpiper on the river banks. 1490 . Madrid, Prado museum. Author: JHERONIMUS VAN AKEN-EL BOSCO-J. BOSCH. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Life in Camp, Part 1: A Shell is Coming. Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. (10.4 x 6.1 cm). Publisher: Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts). Date: 1864. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about melons. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Green Apples, 1868. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

'The Fight Between Robin Hood and Little John', 1932. Robin '...encountered a lusty fellow who might well have caused the bravest heart to quail, for he was quite seven feet high...They chanced to meet on a long bridge that was too narrow to permit them to pass one another, and neither felt willing to make way. "Go back", ordered Robin, "I wish to cross". "Go back yourself", shouted the other...throwing aside his bow Robin stepped into a thicket to procure a stout oak sapling. "Now", said he, "shall we fight this matter to a conclusion, and he who

Menhir and stone table in Khasia in 1880, Bengal, India, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century painting, exact original date unknown, Asia

Orphans, historical wood engraving, 1886

Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Children's Literature

Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for illustration of Atala by Chateaubriand, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Spain, Asturias. Council of Oviedo. After mass. Composition and drawing by J. Cuevas. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver.

Barking Timber in Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire 1818 () Joshua Cristall British A significant watercolorist in his lifetime, Cristall was largely forgotten after his death, only rediscovered in 1950 by Graham Reynolds who declared that Cristall’s watercolors provided the basis for Cotman’s first and greatest style and even anticipated Cezanne’s innovations. The artist's mature work is distinct among his contemporaries for focusing on the human figure, and this drawing demonstrates his abiding interest in themes of rural work. He likely encountered these bark workers in Witchwood Forest, Oxfordshire and, although certainly aware of precedents by Thomas Gainnsborough and George Morland, Cristall adds a distinct quality of classical nobility. The artist's compositions often focus on a comely young woman, but avoid sentimentality and a sense of narrative, leaving the subjects detached while engaged in commonplace activity.. Barking Timber in Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire. Joshua Cristall (B

Cartoon - Why Farmers Hate Them Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Russische Flößer mit einem Schwimmer auf dem Fluss Pregel, Russland, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. J...

Tomb of the Yanga people, in the Doulougou Department of Bazega Province in central Burkina Faso, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

He Healed the Sick. Date: ca. 1930. oil on wood. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Die Torheiten der Liebe, hollaendische Satire auf den alten Mann, der am Rande des Grabes noch eine junge Frau heiraten will, digital verbesserte Reproduktion aus einer Veroeffentlichung des Jahres 1880, The follies of love, Dutch Satire to the old man, who at the edge of the grave still freed a young woman, digital improved reproduction from a publication of the year 1880

Ayer's Pill. Ayer's Pill

Coasting Out of Doors Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). , 1859. Wood engraving, image: 7 x 4 1/2 in. (17.8 x 11.4 cm);. American Art 1859

Mont Blanc first ascent monument. Monument to Benedict de Saussure in Chamonix by French sculptor Jean-Jules Salmson, France. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Historia Antigua. Roma. Circo romano, el emperador matando fieras desde el anfiteatro. Grabado alemán de 1865.

Judge Magazine: For Another Twenty Years, Judge Magazine

Elisha Kent Kane 1820 to 1857. American physician and Arctic explorer. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

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