Allegorical and Mythical Figures

Engravings of women representing various themes and allegories, featuring classical attire and poses, often set in architectural niches or symbolic backgrounds.

Jacques Stella, Sibylla Europa, 1625 Sibylla Europa

Drawing, Standing Youth; Italy; pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

17th Century tarot cards by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1632-1718). Originating from Bologna.

Statue of Diana; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani I. Statue of Diana, the goddess of hunting, dressed in classic robe to the knee. In her one hand she wears a bow, in the other hand the fragment of an arrow. On her back she wears a arrow sleeve, next to her is a dog at a tree stump. On the stump the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a series to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

A muse. Etching by F. Perrier.

Anonymous / 'The Virgin of Sorrows'. XVII century. Black chalk on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Hilde Preand, König there.

Patience, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1600 print The female personification of patience (patientia), who has focused her eyes to heaven. She holds the cross and embraces the Lamb of God. Landscape with city wall in the background. Print from a series with theological virtues. Cologne paper engraving Patience; 'Patienza' (Ripa)

The sacred music, bas relief of the statue of Beethoven in Bonn, vintage engraving. The sacred music, bas relief of the statue of Beethoven in Bonn, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673383

Copper engraving from 1500-1540 depicting Lucretia, illustrating the Roman noblewoman in Renaissance art.

Erato, plate fourteen from Apollo and the Muses 1460-1470 Italy. The deck of fifty so-called Tarocchi are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.. Engraving on paper . Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

The Good Shepherd 1715-70 Gottfried Eichler the Younger German. The Good Shepherd 368563

. Summer in the form of a woman in seventeenth-century clothing. A range in one hand, in the other a sickle. In addition to her a cornfield and a bundle of choirs. The print has a French caption and is part of a series with the four seasons as subject.

Moses with the tables of the law. .

Statue of a caryatid, a sculpture representing a woman. It is used in architecture in place of a column or pillar in portals and the articulation of facades, from the Villa Albani, historic Rome, Italy, digital reproduction of an 18th century original, original date not known, Europe

The sacred music, bas relief of the statue of Beethoven in Bonn, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846.

Cleopatra, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1574 - 1637 print Cleopatra commits suicide and keeps the snake on her bare chest. In the foreground there is a chained monkey that smells on a flower. In the middle of a motto in Latin that refers to Cleopatra's immoral act. In the margin a two -way caption in Latin. paper engraving death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

Female Head, 1598. Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570-1629). Engraving;

Kneeling Woman next to Plant, Anonymous, After Gerard Edelinck, After Charles Le Brun, 1688 - 1698 print A kneeling woman sits next to a plant. This print is part of an album. Netherlands paper engraving kneeling figure - AA - female human figure. plants (in general)

Study of a Man Walking towards the Left Holding a Staff. Dimensions: Overall: 28.1 x 21.3 cm (11 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.) support: 37 x 30.2 cm (14 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash heightened with white over red chalk on blue paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Girolamo Siciolante.

Wood Engraving. Vignette.; engraving and etching; 47 x 48 in (199.4 x 121/9 cm); 1945-200-279

Two drapery studies of a man walking, to the right, Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, draughtsman: Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, prepared paper, h 492 mm × w 369 mm

Polyhymia. Hendrik Goltzius (Netherlands, Mülbracht now Bracht-am-Niederrhein, 1558-1617). Holland, 1592. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). "Knowledge of God and the seven Christian virtues: temperance, n ° 8. (Hollstein (Volume 3, page 78); Bartsch 136)". Chisel. 1539. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 123050-7 Chisel, 16th 16th XVI 16th 16th 16 Center

Temperance. 1539. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Design of a decorative sculpture with female figure holding a statuette of Nike and a kneeling man with a vase. Carrier-Belleuse, Albert Ernst (1824-1887), draughtsman, cartoonist

Young priestess holding a jar and a plate with three figs, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Filippo Morghen from a drawing by Paderni, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume I, plate 22, 1757-1787, Naples.

. Cloud cover with the H. Cecilia. Right next to her a harp that she holds with her right hand.

Copper engraving by Egbert van Panderen depicting Saint John, produced between 1595 and 1637, showing detailed Flemish religious engraving and figure composition.

unknown, Bolswert, Schelte Adamsz., Rubens, Peter Paul, Sancta Catharina virgo et martyr, H. Catharina, Saint Catherine of Alexandria as a martyr with a broken wheel., print, prints, height 387 mm, width 252 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1586 - 1659-12-12, print maker, printmaker, 1596 - 1659, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1577-06-28 - 1640-05-30, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, granter of privilege

Statue of Ceres, 1636 - 1647 print Statue of a woman with (presumably) corners in her left hand. Probably the goddess Ceres. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) Ceres (Demeter)

St. John. 1545 - 1546. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Study of a seated woman with a heavy pleated cloak. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 355 mm × w 259 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Goddess with cornucopia. An image of a goddess with a cornucopia filled with fruits in her arm. With her other hand she leans on a helm. The image comes from the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani, whose weapon on the base can be seen.

Statue of a woman, Claude Mellan, 1636 - 1637 print Rome paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Lazio Roma Rome Episcopal Complex (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Baptistery, Cathedral, Cloister)01. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Exterior views of 5th c. baptistery, restored in the 17th c. Interior views of baptismal urn (16th c.), carved walls, ceiling and wall painting; of mosaics and bronze doors in Cappella del Battista; of altar and mosaics in Cappella di S. Venanzio; of mosaic and statue in Cappella di S. Giovanni Evangelista. Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, sculptural fragments, fresco painting, painting, coffering, tiling, stucco. Views 756-886 are of the cathedral. Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculptural fragments, architectural fragments, tombstones, mosaics, sculpture, fresco painting, sculptural relief. Object Notes: Hutzel includes guidebook in German on the site. prints matched to negs General Notes: Views 756 thru 886 are of the Baptistery. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s u

Sculptures of a young and an old woman. .

Standing woman with a broom. Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Giovanni Girolamo Balzani. Draughtsman: Pietro Francesco Cittadini. Dating: 1600 - 1699. Measurements: h 233 mm × w 158 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Te Deum Laudamus. Artist: After Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625-1713 Rome). Dimensions: Plate: 15 15/16 × 11 7/16 in. (40.5 × 29 cm)Sheet: 20 1/16 × 15 3/16 in. (51 × 38.6 cm). Engraver: Robert Strange (British, Orkney, Scotland 1721-1792 London). Date: 1765-69. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Lons, Dirk Eversen, unknown, Sadeler, Aegidius, Theatrum Passionis Christi, Instruments of the Passion, Angel with the column, rod and whip, verso center bottom - stamped, Angel holding the whip and the column to which Christ was tied during his flagellation. On a table in front of the angel the rod. The print has a Latin caption, print, prent, prints, prenten, height 155 mm, width 109 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1570 - 1629, print maker, printmaker, 1580 - 1629, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, 1600 - 1686, publisher

Statue of a sitting consul, 1636 - 1647 print Statue of a sitting consul with a scroll in his hand. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. male persons from classical history

Barbarigo, Giovanni Francesco, Rome, Audenaerd, Robert van, Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente, Personification of Geography, verso - stamped, A console with a woman as a personification of Geography or Land Description. In her hand she holds a compass with which she wants to measure the globe. In her other hand she holds a geometric quadrant. The print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 183 mm, width 181 mm, 1663 - 1743, print maker, printmaker, 1673 - 1743, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Italian, 1658-04-29 - 1730-01-27, patron

Francesco Rosaspina, Allegory of Fortitude Allegory of Fortitude

The International Exhibition: "Memory", marble statue, by W. Brodie, R.S.A., 1862. 'The look is sorrowful, and we remember that what we can recall of the past is too generally sad. About the sweet mournfulness of the mouth we linger reluctantly, as over our own mixed memories. The eyes, lost under heavy, drooping, sorrowful eyelids, lead us to revert to the mind wandering in the shadowy but immortal past. There is more portrait-character in the face of this statue than is usually seen in ideal subjects; but, whether intentional or not, this does not destroy the sentiment or idea soug

Sculpture at Persepolis, from Le Bruyn's Travels. Dated: published 1829. Medium: lithograph proof before letters. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Maria Denman after John Flaxman.

Bathsheba, the mother of King Solomon, in the bath, bare-breasted woman, copperplate engraving by H. Goltzius, 1583, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Allegory on the Death of George Washington 1800 Jacques Kuyper Jacques Kuyper produced this drawing as a frontispiece design for the printed edition of a eulogy composed upon the death of George Washington by the Dutch writer, philosopher, and lawyer Johannes Kinker (1764-1845).1 The image appears to be an allegory of the creation of the eulogy, written in the form of a lyric poem—both ode and lament. The female figure seated beside Washington’s tomb holds a writing implement and a tablet, seemingly pausing to receive inspiration, or instruction, from the winged creature behind her gesturing toward the gravestone. Amidst the swirling clouds and streaming light, a lyre (symbol of lyric poetry) appears. At lower left is the seal of Amsterdam’s Felix Meritis Society, where Kinker delivered the eulogy in March of 1800. Established in 1776 to promote the arts and sciences, this society embraced the Enlightenment ideals with which Washington and his young nation were associated. Kuyper was

The Prophet Elias. Artist: After Laurent de La Hyre (French, Paris 1606-1656 Paris); Nicolas Pitau (French, Paris before 1670-1724). Dimensions: sheet: 16 3/4 x 11 in. (42.6 x 28 cm). Publisher: Published by Herman Weyen (Flemish, died Paris, 1672). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Two women, Anonymous, After Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1670 - 1706 print A woman is leaning against a wall, her arm rests on a stone block, right a woman with the face to the left. Title print for a series of prints to figures from the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. paper engraving adult woman

The assumption of the Virgin, who rises with arms outstretched, angels supporting her from below, after Reni. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 24 5/8 × 16 9/16 in. (62.6 × 42 cm). Engraver: Carl Ernst Christoph Hess (German, Darmstadt 1755-1828 Munich). Publisher: Valentine Green (British, Salford 1739-1813 London); Rupert Green (British, London ca. 1768-1804 London). Date: 1792.Verso is not visible as print is laid to another sheet of paper. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The egalite Legality. Print, anonymous.

Euterpe, Charles David, Franco Estius, Pierre Firens, 1618 - 1622.

Personification of Music, Arnold Houbraken, 1710 - 1719 print The personification of music, which plays a winch. There is a flute and a piece of sheet music on the ground. In the background a figure, probably Arion, sitting on the back of a marine animal while playing on a winch. Print from a series of 41 symptoms. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving 'Musica' (~ quadrivium); 'Musica' (Ripa). 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa). lyre, cithara, psaltery. (story of) Arion

Woman with Mirror. Dating: 1540 - 1570. Measurements: h 20 cm × w 12.5 cm × d 1.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Lambert Sustris (circle of).

Power; Fortitudo. Female personification from Fortitudo, half. She is dressed in a purple dress, who bare one of her breasts. She includes a broken column, in her other hand. Column ornament.

Boni, Pietro.

Young man, crowned with ivy, and a simulacrum of a goat in a temple, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Nicola Billi from a drawing by Vanni, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume II, plate 38, 1757-1787, Naples.

Prophet Zacharia; Zecharius; Paintings in the Sixtin Chapel. The Prophet Zechariah sitting with a book in the hands. Two small figures behind the prophet. One of the prophets of Michelangelo's ceiling painting. Title in undermarge and numbered at the bottom right: 27.

Pictured here is the Greek goddess Demeter, taken from a mural painting in Pompeii(the italian owen destroyed in 79 A.D. in the eruption of Vesuvius. Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and presides over grains and the fertility of the earth. Although she was most often referred to as the goddess of the harvest, she was also goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death. Her Roman counterpart was Ceres.

Laziness, Johannes Wierix, 1609 print Landscape with the female personification of laziness (pigritia). She put her one hand against her chest in her under her drapery. print maker: Antwerppublisher: Delft paper engraving / letterpress printing Sloth, Indolence, 'Acedia', 'Desidia'; 'Accidia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins

Scholastika, Heilige.

Temperance, from The Seven Virtues, Temperance or the Measure or the Measures, Temperance, is one of the seven Platonic cardinal virtues, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a old original.

Copernicus monument in Toruń, from: Kłosy 1873, vol. XVI, No. 399, p. 129 TECK, Christian Friedrich (1776 1851), Zajkowski, Andrzej (1851 1914)

Justice

H Mattias, Johannes Wierix, Anonymous, 1579 - 1629.

Two musical angels, detail from Pietro Peruginos "Assumption of the Virgin Mary" (Pala di Vallombrosa), Galleria dell'accademia, Florence. .

L'Asie from playing cards "Jeu d'Or" 1700-1799 Anonymous, French, 18th century. L'Asie from playing cards "Jeu d'Or". Anonymous, French, 18th century. 1700-1799. Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

Louis XIV (King of France), Paris, Picart, Bernard, Jupiter and Eagle with the Nymph Asterié, Jupiter and Asteria, recto lower right and upper right - handwritten in brown ink, Jupiter, in the guise of an eagle, abducts the nymph Asteria., print, engraving, prints, verso - stamped, 487, height 80 mm, width 104 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1707 - 1707, first quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving (printing process), French, 1638-09-05 - 1715-09-01, granter of privilege

Piety, Anonymous, Jan Saenredam, Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 - 1595

Sibille Agrippina, Anonymous, After Pieter de Jode (I), After Abraham Bosse, 1600 - 1699 print African woman as the Sibille Agrippine paper engraving Agrippine Sibyl

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