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Allegorical and Historical Illustrations

Illustrations and woodcuts depicting allegorical narratives and historical events, capturing social themes and historical figures in detailed artistry.

Hondius, Hendrick (I), Cock, Hieronymus, Southern Netherlands, Doetechum, Lucas van, Joannes van (I), Funeral procession of Emperor Charles V, 1558, Part of the procession, no. 12, Five participants in the procession, horses and the banner with the coat of arms of Sardinia. Part of the series of prints of the Funeral Procession of Emperor Charles V on 29 December 1558 in Brussels., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 239 mm, width 345 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1530 - 1605, print maker, printmaker, 1559 - 1559, third quarter 16th century, first quarter 17th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), - 1589, 1518 - 1570-03-10, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, publisher
Hondius, Hendrick (I), Cock, Hieronymus, Southern Netherlands, Doetechum, Lucas van, Joannes van (I), Funeral procession of Emperor Charles V, 1558, Part of the procession, no. 12, Five participants in the procession, horses and the banner with the coat of arms of Sardinia. Part of the series of prints of the Funeral Procession of Emperor Charles V on 29 December 1558 in Brussels., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 239 mm, width 345 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1530 - 1605, print maker, printmaker, 1559 - 1559, third quarter 16th century, first quarter 17th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), - 1589, 1518 - 1570-03-10, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, publisher
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Brass Plate for Mrs. Hale, Daughter of Porter, Walthamstow Church, Daniel Lysons, 1762-1834, British, between 1796 and 1811, Graphite, watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (34.9 × 27.3 cm), architectural subject, historical subject, praying, robes, England, Europe, London, United Kingdom
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History of Germany. Middle Ages. 1450-1500. From left to right, 1: jester, 2: knight, 3: bailiff, 4: citizen, 5: carpenter, 6-7: plowmen. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume VII, 1881.
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Part of the funeral procession of Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau-Dietz in Leeuwarden (plate 5), 1633, 1634 print Part of the funeral procession with a horse and standard -bearers. At the top of the names of the people depicted. Plate no. 5 In the press series of the funeral of Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau-Dietz in Leeuwarden, January 3, 1633. The weapons and banners are colored. This sheet stuck together with magazines 6, 7 and 8. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Leeuwarden paper etching / engraving cortege, funeral procession Big church
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The Highlanders medley, or the Duke triumphant. British Cartoon Prints Collection . William Augustus,Prince, Duke of Cumberland,1721-1765. , Charles Edward,Prince, grandson of James II, King of England,1720-1788. , Kilmarnock, William Boyd,Earl of,1704-1746. , Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone,Lord,1688-1746. , Cromarty, George Mackenzie,Earl of,approximately 1702-1766. , Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746. , Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746. , Britannia (Symbolic character),1740-1750. , Gallows,1740-1750. , Hangings (Executions),1740-1750.
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Parthian armour from the Column of Marcus Aurelius 1, Dacian helmet, sabre and shield from Trajan's Column 2, and Parthian and Dacian weapons from Trajan's column 3. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.
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Poetry. Copla by poet and notary Valencian Andreu Martin Pineda (d.1566). Engraving, 19th century.
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History of Germany. 1300-1350. From left to right, 1-2: dames, 3-4: noblemen, 5: armed citizen, 6: menestral. Chromolithography. Detail. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume VI, 1885.
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Seven Electors elect Heinrich Count of Luetzelburg as Roman King of Frankfurt on 27 November, miniature from the Balduineum of the Balduin Document Book, digital improved reproduction of an original from 1880, Germany, Europe
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Hábitos de condenados por la Inquisición. Grabado de 1592. Facsímil de 1877.
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Portraits of Turkish Sultans late 16th century Anonymous This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Inst
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Copper engraving 'Heumonat and August' by Sebald Beham, depicting summer agricultural work including haymaking in July and August.
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Ancient Roman painting. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Painting, Roman
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Drie Zwitserse Vrouwen, Gekleed Volgens de Mode Van approx. 1580; Donne Sumbere. Prent Uit album 'of the real portraits of the habits of TVTTE The parts of the world carved in copper for OPRA by Bartolomeo Grassi', 1585.
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An impecunious Lord sells his mortgage to a money lender Date: 1773
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Page, master and valet, 1440-1450 (1882-1884). Artist: Unknown
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Werden, Jacques van, Southern Netherlands, Vorsterman, Lucas (II), Proclamation in Ghent of Charles II of Spain as Count of Flanders (sheet 8), 1666, Ceremony on the Vrijdagmarkt in Ghent at the proclamation of the Spanish king Charles II as Count of Flanders, May 2, 1666. Sheet 8 in an unmounted ensemble of 12 plates of the ceremony and cavalcade on the square and 118 portraits of the dignitaries present at the ceremony., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 343 mm, width 473 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1624-05-27, print maker, printmaker, 1666 - 1667, third quarter 17th century, derde kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, graveren (drukprocedé), intermediary draughtsman
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Coloured illustration of playing cards portraits of kings and queens from Rouen published by Pierre Marechal 1567.
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Germany, Lvthervs Trivmphans, Triumph of Luther (copy), Triumph of Luther, ca. 1520-1550. The church reformers led by Luther in contrast to the Catholics led by Pope Leo X. Luther standing on a hill with the Bible in his hands, at his feet an army of reformers including Melanchthon and Hus. On the right the united forces of all kinds of militant exponents from the Roman Church: Jesuits, monks with torches, church scholars with writing pens and armed with liturgical objects. In the center the pope seated on a shaky throne about to fall. In the foreground Friedrich Stapellage (Staphylus), a Protestant converted to Catholicism. Cartoon on the Roman Catholic Church. Reduced and mirrored copy of the original print from 1568, top right: pl. 19.C., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 210 mm, width 270 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1800 - 1899, 19th century, 19e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etsen
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The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik (plate no. 24), 1647, Pieter Nolpe, after Pieter Jansz. Post, 1651 print The funeral procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in The Hague on 10 May 1647. Plate no. 24 with part of the procession, above the people are their name and function. Part of a series of 30 plates and 20 text magazines, intended to be stuck together. paper etching / engraving cortege, funeral procession
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English Coffee House, 1674. Engraving.
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Louis IX of France (Saint Louis 1214-1270). Louis dying of plague or dysentry at Tunis on his second Crusade. Nineteenth Century Trade Card Lithograph
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To your glide kite, / is, dear youth, deez 'print dedicated, Theodorus Johannes Wijnhoven -Hendriksen, 1832 - 1850 print Leaf with 8 performances of figures to cut out and stick it on a kite, including the sun, the moon and Roman soldiers. Numbered at the top right: No. 39. Rotterdam paper letterpress printing waxing moon represented as face. sun represented as face, wheel, etc.. the soldier; the soldier's life
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Costumes from the mid 17th century, including a portrait of Regina Christiana von Sandrart, a brewer and his bride from Cologne C,D, French women G,H, Queen Marie Eleonore of Sweden E, Queen Christine of Sweden F. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithograph by A. Volkert and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.
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Ilustration of the popular poems of Valero Fuster, Valencian author (16th century). Valencian satire school. Spain.
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Funeral procession of Willem Frederik, Count of Nassau-Dietz (magazine 11), 1665; Mourning-Staetelijcke corpse splendor in the uyt-vaert and begraefenisse from the discharged body of (...) Wilhelm Frederich (...) Died within Leeuwarden (...) Den Een-and-TwinTichsten October, MDCLXIV. And Aldaer in 't Choor van de Jacobijner Kerck, Den Vyfthienden December MDCLXIV. Old style (...). Funeral procession of Willem Frederik, Count of Nassau-Dietz, in Leeuwarden on January 6, 1665. Part of the funeral procession. Plate No. 11 in an ensemble of 25 unassembled numbered plates and two text sheets that together form a long fries.
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Costume design for classical figures, 16th century. Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldi
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'Gilbert a Becket, Thomas a Becket', c1860, (c1860). Artist: John Leech.
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Serie Christoph Kolumbus, Einschiffung in Palos, 3. August 1492 / Christopher Columbus series, embarkation in Palos, August 3, 1492, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei,.
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The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik (plate no. 16), 1647; The funeral procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in 's-Gravenhage in 1647; Begreijdisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, By der Gatien God's Prince by Orange, Grave of Nassau & C.The funeral procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in 's-Gravenhage on 10 May 1647. Plate no. 16 with part of the procession with standard bearers and two Horses, above the people are their name and function. Part of a series of 30 plates and 20 text sheets, intended to be stuck together.
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Antiquaries: twenty portraits of historians. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
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Detail of design of folder for Nazing by Johannes Ter Gouw, 1865 ..
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Portrait of King William III of England, William of Orange. In ermine mantle of doublet, breeches, hose, holding a sceptre. Emblems indicate the Siege of Londonderrry, Battle of the Boyne, Battle of La Hogue, and death of King James. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Mary Ann Rundall from A Symbolical History of England, from Early Times to the Reign of William IV, J.H. Truchy, Paris, 1839. Mary Ann Rundall was a teacher of young ladies in Bath, and published her book of mnemonic emblems in 1815.
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Consultation between Fairfax and Cromwell, 1649, 1649 - 1650 print Leaf with the portraits of Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. Under the record, the magazine is printed on the magazine in 3 columns in Dutch between Fairfax and Cromwell about the situation in England after the capture and the decapitation of the English king Charles I in London on January 30, 1649. A lion's head behind Fairfax, behind Cromwell a fox. Northern Netherlands paper engraving / letterpress printing violent death by beheading. on the scaffold or place of execution. lying in state
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The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik (Plate No. 28), 1647; The funeral procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in 's-Gravenhage in 1647; Begreijdisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, By der Gratien Gods Prince by Orange, Grave of Nassau & C.The Funeral Procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in 's-Gravenhage on May 10, 1647. Plate No. 28 with a part of the procession with Members of the Boards of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, Above the persons is their function. Part of a Series or 30 plates and 20 text sheets, intended to be Stuck Together.
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Consultation between Fairfax and Cromwell, 1649; The bloody t'joint speech, of fairfax and crumwel. Sheet with the portraits of Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. Under the plate printed on the blade is a consultation in 3 columns in Dutch between Fairfax and Cromwell about the state in England after the imprisonment and beheading of the English king Charles I in London on January 30, 1649. Behind Fairfax a lion's head, behind Cromwell a fox.
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Bilderserie berühmte Maler, Rafael Santi und Tiziano Vecellio, Italien, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhunder...
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Still, Bloemaert! is your sign book (...); New Hollandsche childrens prints. Leaf with 12 portraits of historical figures, including Abraham Bloemaert, Harmanus Boerhaave and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. Under every performance a four-line verse. Numbered upper left: No. 43.