19th Century Social Scenes

Historical illustrations depicting various social scenarios from the 19th century, including bazaars, cafes, and public interactions, capturing the essence of daily life and community dynamics.

Mexican men and women, Mexico, engraving

Woman's crusade against intemperance. Pleading with a saloonkeeper, circa 1874

In the Bazaar of Cairo, 1869, Egypt, Historical, Reproduction of an original with a scene from the 19th century.

Inside a Parisian cafe. (2 of 4) Date: 1865

The Home of Drunkeness from History of Alcoholism by unknown artist, woodcut print

The French Siege of Paris: selling fragments of shells in the Avenue des Champs Elysées, 1871. 'The townspeople of Paris nevertheless venture into the Champs Elysées, attracted by curiosity, near enough to hear the noise and see the smoke of the exploding shells, fragments of which are constantly picked up and offered for sale, as relics or tokens in remembrance of these strange events...In our Special Artist W. Simpson's sketch of a scene in the main avenue of the Champs Elysées on May morning, which was taken just at the rear of the Porte Maillot battery, it is curious to o

Illustration depicting a London policeman holding up traffic for pedestrians. Dated 19th Century

Children at play in the East London Hospital for Children. Wood engraving by J. Swain after G.W. Ridley, 1872.

An enthusiastic family in the garden Date: 1879

Illustration showing Charles James Fox (1748-1806), English Liberal statesman. The Duchess of Devonshire, a supporter of Fox, bartering kisses for votes at the Westminster election at which Fox was a candidate

Mexican men and women, Mexico, engraving

Shaking.A woman is served by a man for an inn.

THE STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES

An engraving depicting parlour maids serving at table. Dated 20th century

The boatmen of the Weser chop Papin's steamboat in pieces

Little intimate evening at a grocer. / 2 (title registered (letter)) | The Parisian evenings. (Title of all)

Citizens in Spain in typical dress around 1870, from left, Murca, Aragon, Valencia, Andalusia, Castilla, Asturias, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown

European immigrants arriving at New York City's Castle Garden in 1858. German immigrants smoke their distinctively shaped pipe (at left) and Irish immigrants (right) wear their high hats and knee britches.

Engraving showing a sumptuous barber's saloon lined with mirrors, New York, 1870. Date: 1870

Engraving depicting William Penn treating with Indians. William Penn (1644-1718) an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, founder of the State of Pennsylvania. Dated 19th century

Merchants at Tunisian bazaar. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1878.

A black mother and her child are kidnapped in a northern United States city by slave traders to be smuggled and sold into southern slavery. Freed black slaves and free born blacks alike were targeted.

WINNING THE GLOVES. ENGRAVING 1876, man, ladies, interior, sleeping, gathering,

Behind the counter stands the owner of the art dealership with a painting in his hands. In front of him stands the woman trying to sell the painting with her son carrying a portfolio under his arm. On the left two men looking at a print of a ballet dancer, Mother and son at an art dealer., draughtsman: anonymous, after: Emily Mary Osborn, in or after 1857 - c. 1900, paper, brush, pencil, h 202 mm × w 254 mm

A supercilious surgeon standing outside his shop, two tramps approach him with a dead cat. Etching by C.S.G.

Print, Thanksgiving Day - The Dance; Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910); Published by Harper's Weekly; USA; wood engraving in black ink on paper; Image: 16.5 × 23.5 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

An engraving depicting the gathering apples for cider. 1877

Traditional hat market in Leeuwarden city, Friesland, The Netherlands, Europe. Friesland, Dutch newspaper De Aarde en Haar volken, 1883. Le Tour du Monde 1886

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GOLDEN LANE COSTERMONGERS' MISSION: THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY REVIEWING THE DONKEYS, 1875

Illustration depicting a father and daughter bringing food for roasting to the local baker to be cooked. Illustrated by John Tenniel (1820-1914) an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist. Dated 19th Century

Groups of men sitting at tables smoking and having a merry time: one man has fallen to the floor and spilled his tankard of ale. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.

State of culture in the late 18th and early 19th century, On the move, three people sitting in front of a post office during a break in the journey, H...

Wood engraving, print of African American woman cooking, man seated alongside and three children, with a man from the Ku Klux Klan aiming a rifle in the doorway, by the artist Frank Bellow (1828-1888)

These are the Customers, youthful and old, That drink the strong drinks which are sold night and day At the bar of the Gin-shop, so glittering and gay. Illustration no. 3 of 12 by George Cruikshank to The Gin-Shop, an improving rhyme warning against the dangers of alcohol and its ruinous effects. Date: 1868

Caroline Chisholm, The Emigrant's Friend', Sydney, Australia, c1845. Artist: Unknown

Plate 7: a street musician and a child accomplice playing before a group of seated figures , from the series of customs and pastimes of the Spanish people 1850 Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer. Plate 7: a street musician and a child accomplice playing before a group of seated figures , from the series of customs and pastimes of the Spanish people. Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer (Spanish, 1825-1877). 1850. Etching. Prints

Barge at the evening halt. Bargee and his family enjoying a rest and a meal. Typical scene on the Grand Junction and Regents Canals, England Wood engraving, London, 1874.

Gentleman dancing in front of a bride's hut, Romania. Europe. Travel to the mining regions of western Transylvania by Jacques Elisee Reclus, 1873

'My child, my Lucinda,' said the good man, kissing her fondly.

Emigrants to the United States in Hamburg W. Roemer Etching

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES OPENING THE CENTENARY HALL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS.

Cartoon depicting a farmer wondering just how much use his new Land Girl is going to be. Dated 20th Century

Old Indian women making shisha. Great Chaco, Bolivia, South America. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Expedition to the Pilcomayo Delta by French explorer Emile Arthur Thouar from Le Tour du Monde 1889

Illustration depicting a group of young people building sandcastles on the beach. Dated 19th century

Hausmusik in einem bayerischen Gasthaus, Man spielt ein Landler mit Gitarre und Geiger am Wirtshaustisch, 1870, Bavaria, Germany, Historic, digitally ...

Street Characters of Paris: the Boulevard des Italiens, 1870. '...the very centre of lounging Parisian life - the head-quarters, in fact, of that great army of flaneurs who comprise among their ranks men of fortune and position as well as of fashion and pleasure, politicians, financiers, journalists, romance writers, vaudevilleists, actors, and artists...some celebrities of this class have been hit off by our Artist's pencil...the figure at the extreme left is Albert Wolff, the chroniqueur of the Figaro...The stout figure beside him is Timothée Trimm, who made the fortune of the Petit Jou

Bavarian State Exhibition in Nuremberg 1896, Farmers from the Pegnitz Valley, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Europe

Reading boy for a book stall. .

Girl with folded umbrella in a storm wind. A girl walks on a street in hard wind and rain. She has a umbrella that has folded down. Next to her is a grinning boy with the hands in the pockets.

Illustration of a gentleman receiving a lady in Lower Normandy. Dated 1840

In defiance of the law, Father and child begging, 1840

Cartoon depicting a policeman checking on a extremely poor little girl. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting servants playing cards in the kitchen of house. Dated 19th century

An alfresco feast for poor children is staged in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. Date: summer 1864

THE APPROACHING ROYAL WEDDING AT ATHENS, GREECE, 1889: THE GREEK ROYAL FAMILY LEAVING VENICE FOR THE PIRAEUS.

The Hay market, St Petersburg - where many things are on sale, except hay : the lady lower right may have passed out with the excitement, but is more probably drunk. Date: 1877

Engraving entitled 'The Pleasures of Yachting', showing the passengers on a sailing yacht encountering a strong wind. Hats, wigs, seats and even a telescope are knocked asunder by the strength of the wind and the movement of the sea. Date: 1856

Humorous illustration showing a wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher out of an ambulance at Charing Cross station in London and being rather disgruntled at the flowers given to him by a well-meaning lady. Caption reads, Exasperated "Contemptible": "This ain't a blinkin' funeral, mum!" Date: 1918

Cartoon on the judgment of the Supreme Court concerning a hug on public roads, 1860, 1860 print Cartoon on the judgment of the Supreme Court of 9 October 1860 on a hug on the public road in Eemnes. Laan with different pairs that the woman struggles to escape from the kiss or embrace of the man. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 45, November 10, 1860. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper embracing each other, kissing. (lovers) kissing each other Eemnes

Men in a luncheon bar, being served by women. Date: Circa 1860

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A CHILDREN'S SCHOOL TREAT: RETURNING IN THE EVENING WITH THE SPOILS AFTER A PLEASANT HOLIDAY, 1889.

AUNT CHLOE'S VISIT FROM A PICTURE BY A.E. EMSLIE, 1877 engraving

Illustration depicting a daughters beside their mother's deathbed. Dated 19th Century

Engraving showing wealthy Parisians enjoying dinner at Sceaux, with some dining in tree-houses; their food arriving in baskets hoisted up to them. Date: 1872

Lighthouse keepers relaxing after dinner on the Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England. This is the fifth Eddystone lighthouse, designed by James Douglas, engineer to Trinity House, built between 1878 and 1892. Engraving from The Strand Magazine (London, 1892).

19th Century depiction of a medieval scene with a woman drawing water from a well, whilst two travellers converse

Duncan Gray with his family at home, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, Europe

An engraving depicting a lady at an open door, candlestick in hand. Illustrated by John McL Ralston (1868-1889). Dated 19th century

Georgy Porgy the First going out for a ride in his State Coachy Poachy, 1850. Artist: John Leech

Street circus, man without hands shows tricks with the feet / Straßenzirkus, Mann ohne Hände zeigt Tricks mit den Füßen, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

A street barber shaving a small boy in Cairo. Wood engraving.

Dr Syntax enjoys the company of fox hunters whilst smoking his pipe. Date: circa 1820

The flower market, vintage engraving. The flower market, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660343

Hopeful Londoners attending to claim the reward for a lost dog. 1891

We are all honest people, let's kiss, and that it ends, caricature, no 210, pl. 439 Daumier, Honoré (1808 1879), delaunois lithography, Aubert printing (Saly)

COLONIALISMO AFRICANO. Exploradores asistiendo a una fiesta en su honor, en las costas de Níger (1881). Grabado del siglo XIX.

Juggler troupe in a village in Swabia, circus, Germany, Historisch, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known, Europe

Luise Princess of Mecklenburg Fleeing to Memel, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Illustration depicting people skating on a frozen lake. Dated 19th century

HOME FOR NEWS-BOYS IN THE METROPOLIS

A man with an eye patch and a pipe is talking to two other men. Glyphograph after George Cruikshank.

Ronggeng Dance to Java, Carel Christiaan Antony Last, After Auguste van Pers, in or after 1856 print A Javanese dances for a group of spectators on the left. On the right are musicians. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: The Hague paper woman dancing alone Java

Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1864. Foreign Secretary Russell said that the working classes of London were "superior to any other working people in the world," '...and expressed "the highest admiration of their industry, skill, and ingenuity, so many beautiful proofs of which are to be seen in this collection.''...the objects here exhibited are divided into two parts - the products of workmen who have sent specimens of their skill and ingenuity in the trade by which they live, and products of amateurs...

A woman similar to that plate 19, loc. cit., having a child in her lap and another crouching beside her. A burning lamp stands between her and the man who is shown walking toward her from the left back side. Pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper. Date: 1807-08. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Ice skating people, historical illustration, wood engraving, about 1888

Vienna artists' pub, after Gause, ca. 1890

Georgian people from Imereti, Georgia. Eastern Europe. Drawing by Achille Sirouy (1834 - 1904) Excursions in the Caucasus. From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea 1875-1876 by Madame Clara Serena (1820 - 1884) Le Tour du Monde 1880

Familie mit Kindern und Haustieren in der Küche, Bauernhof, Mittelalter, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhunde...

Cartoon depicting a gentleman taking refreshment at his club. Dated 19th century

The prospect of war makes (almost) everyone happy : Frenchmen in the place de la Concorde, Paris, welcome Napoleon's intervention in Italy. Women are less sure. Date: early 1859

PRINCE LEOPOLD AT THE HOME OF HIS AFFIANCED BRIDE, AROLSEN

Illustration depicting a London policeman pulling handcuffs from his pocket as an arrest is made. Dated 19th Century

An engraving depicting a father reading notices while his child sits in a perambulation, during the Siege of Paris. Dated 19th century

Robert Macaire changes words with the waiter in a restaurant, Honoré Daumier, After Charles Philipon, 1837 print paper letterpress printing restaurant. caricatures (human types)

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841. "Let us be beggars," said the child, passing an arm around his neck. "I have no fear but we shall have enough." Nell comforts her grandfather in the shop while the malicious dwarf moneylender Daniel Quilp perches on the back of an armchair and watches them. Date: C.1850

Women and children help at turning the attack on Aardenburg, 1672.Women and Children Help When Turning The Attack on Aardenburg by the French on 29 June 1672. A Woman Gets Bricks Into Smaller Pieces That Are Collected by the Children.

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, THE PRINCESS ROYAL, AND THE PRINCE OF WALES AT LOCH LAGGAN, SCOTLAND

A child has been told her face is dirty, so she wipes it clean while her mother holds the mirror and her brother points to her reflection. Engraving by J. Mitchell after Sir David Wilkie, R.A.

Marktszene in Stolp im Jahre 1880, Deutschland, heute Slupsk in Polen / Market scene in Stolp in 1880, Germany, today Slupsk in Poland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt,.

What are you two conspiring about now, Lionel asked. "THE NEW PRINCE FORTUNATUS", BY WILLIAM BLACK, DRAWN BY W. SMALL, 1889.

Family idyl in the 19th century, farmers' room with parents and three children and four dogs, Bavaria, woodcut, Germany, Europe

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