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Allegorical and Mythological Themes

Drawings featuring allegorical figures and classical themes, representing concepts like peace and creativity. Rich in symbolism with a focus on human emotion and artistic expression.

Design for a painting, Allegory of Peace, draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755, paper, pen, brush, h 328 mm × w 210 mm
Design for a painting, Allegory of Peace, draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755, paper, pen, brush, h 328 mm × w 210 mm
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Album 11, David, Jacques-Louis, 1748-1825, pencil, charcoal, ink and wash, 1775-1785
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She Nothing Said, But Pale and Meek, Arose and Knelt Before Him. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 169 x 363 mm. Black, gray and white gouache on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Will Hicock Low.
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Plaque of the autumn of Thorvalds; Der Herbst von Thorvaldsen. Original in Copenhagen; Sculptures Gallery.Sculpture of Danish Icelandic Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
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Scene from the Middle Ages by Armand Point (1860-1932). Drawing of a knight talking with two women
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MEDAL DRAFT: THE LAW PUNITS DEATH FACTORS Augustin Dupr� (1748-1833). Medal project: the law punishes death counterfeiters.
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Earl ofMansfield. Artist: John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815
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Le Magnificenze di Roma. Title page, Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778., 1748 - 1751. Architecture, Italy, Rome, Antiquities, Etchings., 1 print etching; plate mark 16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. (41 x 56 cm.), on sheet 21 1/16 x 29 1/2 in. (53.5 x 75 cm.)
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A pencil drawing by Rudolf Weyr depicting a coat of arms flanked by two putti, showing heraldic design and figures.
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Sculpture "The pet bird." still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Drawing, Design for Clock; Manufactured by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai; Belgium; graphite, pen and black ink, brush and yellow and red-brown watercolor on cream laid paper; 50.3 x 34.5 cm (19 13/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
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Drawing, Virgo, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash over graphite on white laid paper; 14.4 x 20.2 cm (5 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.) matted w/ -1253 Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
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This red chalk drawing by David Teniers the Younger shows five putti with dogs and a vase, executed with wash and reddish tones, with visible damage and brown spotting.
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Design for a wall decoration, Design for a wall decoration with Neptune and his entourage, draughtsman: Rienk Keyert, 1751, paper, brush, pen, h 248 mm × w 393 mm
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Study for a medal Henry Cros (1840-1907). Study for a medal. Feather and watercolor on paper.
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Design for a clock, Pen and black ink, brush and yellow, red watercolor, on cream laid paper, Base of clock supported by tapered feet. Octagonal base decorated with elongated leaf design and bow. Wreaths at either end. On top of clock case, a bust of Homer. A genius, at right, holds a wreath above the bust., Belgium, 1800-1825, timepieces & measuring devices, Drawing, Drawing
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Amazon seated, by Unknown, 62 - 79, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum. Whole artwork. Young woman sitting Amazon column frame griffon.
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Vignette L American. Vignette L, 1840s-1850s. Watercolor and graphite, 4 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (11.7 x 6.7 cm). American Art 1840s-1850s
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Daege Eduard (1805-1883), painting the first dome in the new museum, Berlin (1843): View. Pencil on cardboard, 47.6 x 63.8 cm (including scan edges)
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Lady About to Smoke a Hookah ca.1790 India (Punjab Hills, Kangra) Painting from the Punjab Hills in the second half of the eighteenth century was deeply indebted to earlier Mughal painting styles of that century. Pahari artists became skilled in rendering the illusionistic space, idealized proportions of figures and facial types, and more naturalistic depiction of nature that characterized the late Mughal style. Although the Pahari (hill states) style was more naturalistic than that of contemporaneous Rajasthani painting, each tradition used a stock repertoire of lines to create images. In this example, each feature of the young heroine's anatomy, for example, is a simple curve, from the gentle slope of her inner forearm to the rounds of her breasts or the gentle backward s of her calf. This underdrawing shows something of the artist's thought process as he composed the picture. He has shifted the pavilion to the right,lowered the bottom edge of the picture, and changed the position of
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The Standing Figures. Henry Moore (1831-1995). Watercolour, gouache, coloured wax crayons over penci. Drawn in 1948. 28.9 x 23.2cm.
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Photo reproduction (presumably) of a drawing showing Michelangelo's studio, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 6 March 1475-18 February 1564, was an Italian painter, sculptor, builder, architect and poet, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Francisco Palacios / 'The Annunciation'. Third quarter of the XVII century. Watercolour, Grey-brown wash, Pencil, Pencil ground on yellow laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Master of La Seu d' Urgell. Active in Perpinyà , end of the XV century. Folding doors to an organ depicting Christ with Mary, Mother of God and saints. circa 1495-1498. gilded with gold leaf on canvas
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Figure of a naked warrior (one of six) with helmet, shield and spear from the Tablinum of the house at 11, Regio IX, Insula V. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emil Presuhn's "Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874-1881," Weigel, Leipzig, 1882. German archeologist Presuhn (1844-1881) lived in Italy for eight years and, with Mr. Discanno and Miss Amy Butts, made exact copies of many wall paintings that are now lost.
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Design for a monument to C. Brunings: a bust with putti, Bartholomeus Ziesenis, 1806, Design for a monument to C. Brunings; a bust with putti, to a column., draughtsman: Bartholomeus Ziesenis, draughtsman: Johannes Ziesenis, (rejected attribution), 12-Jun-1806, paper, brush, h 388 mm × w 240 mm
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Front and back of a medal with the portrait of Diane de Poitiers.design for a print.
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Jacques Callot, Two Hearts, 1628 Two Hearts
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The Prince's Progress - Compositional Drawing, 'Too late for love, too late for joy', 1865-66. Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.. A tracing from another sketch for 'The Prince's Progress'.
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Print made by Francesco Curti, 1610-1690, Italian, Studies for the Instruction of Painters, two suites. Rome, c. 1630, ca. 1633. Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
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Study for a religious stained glass window: Saint-Jules (Dummy title)
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Drillopota drinking vessel in terracotta, dwarf with shaved head, and a short tunic that cannot cover his huge member. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.
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Cards depicting angels in a tree branch, feeding babies, reading, birds, hammer, chisel, butterflies, bow and arrow.. Trade cards. 1876 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Bows (Archery), Reading, Angels
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Pedestal of a pilar, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on paper, Vertical rectangle. Below is a plinth. Upon it stands a wreath, supported by two winged women, sitting, with trumpets. For their posture two suggestions are made. Above it is a projecting band with 'PIVS. VI. P. M' Above it are moldings and a curved frieze with festoons supported by a mask. Above it is a band with flutes. Usual background., Rome, Italy, 1780-1790, architecture, Drawing, Drawing
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Illustration for the frontispiece of "Oeuvres poétiques" by French playwright and poet Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676). Engraving by de la Belle. H. Le Gras, Paris, 1641. Colorised.
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Drawing (Italy)
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Design for clock, Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai, Brush and yellow, red watercolor, black wash, graphite, on cream laid paper, Clock sits on footed base, lower front panel shows relief scene of Cupid ferrying Chronos, bow of boat is swan-shaped. Clock at right, with wreath, bowl and box above. At left, a woman holding flowers, gazing in a mirror., Belgium, 1800-1825, timepieces & measuring devices, Drawing, Drawing
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Granada, Alhambra, templete del Patio de los Leones, con un figurante.
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MEDAL PROJECT: The law punishes death counterfeiters and rewards the denundessors Augustin Dupr� (1748-1833). Medal project, the figure of the law assices. Exercise: The law punishes the counterfeiter and rewards the D (down, different reason). Graphic art cabinet document. Mine of lead, between 1748 and 1833.
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The King Actor, by Unknown, 41 - 62, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, from Herculaneum. Whole artwork. Young woman artist seated king actor painting.
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Laboraglia, Gian Girolamo.
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Two putti with medallion, in which Narcissus and Echo, Jacob de Wit, 1744 drawing Design for a painting or decoration. paper. ink. pencil pen / brush Narcissus, gazing in a fountain, falls in love with his own reflection; possibly the nymph Echo peeps at the scene
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Winter, Jacob de Wit, 1740 painting. overdoor The winter season. Three putti warm themselves at a fire basin. Part of a series of the four seasons from 1740 (SK-A-3231/3233). canvas. oil paint (paint) winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) (+ with scenes showing human occupations ~ seasons and months). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. warming oneself at a fire (or hearth, stove, fire-pan, brazier)
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The rich of nature template to, allegories and emblems No, Gustav Klimt -, artist
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Drawing, Decorative Panel: Fames Supporting a Swag beneath a Medallion; Attributed to Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger (French, 1759 - 1795); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, white gouache on white laid paper; 8.6 x 16.2 cm (3 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
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Study for a filigree drawing Augustin Dupr� (1748-1833). Study for a filigree design: the people treading the symbols of the monarchy.