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Allegorical Historical Prints

Engravings depicting dramatic historical and allegorical scenes, featuring themes of mortality, war, and mythological narratives, with intricate details and dynamic compositions.

Montezuma is told of a labourer's dream which predicts the calamaties to come. Date: pre-Conquest
Montezuma is told of a labourer's dream which predicts the calamaties to come. Date: pre-Conquest
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Dune landscape with man waving, basket on arm Verscheyden Beaches and water gesichten gedaen by Jan Percelles (series title), print maker: Gillis van Scheyndel (I), print maker: Jan Porcellis, (rejected attribution), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Porcellis, Noord-Nederland, 1645, paper, etching, h 72 mm × w 93 mm
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An ape with a robe and a crown, with a bodyguard of apes behind, stands on a hill holding up a small clothed ape before an assembly of animals below; illustration of a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching.
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View of the harbor in Caudebec at the mouth of the river Seine, Jean -François Daumont, After Claude Joseph Vernet, 1745 - 1775 print Ships and boats lie on the water. There are groups of figures on the waterfront on the right. In the title numbered: 83. publisher: Parisprint maker: France paper. watercolor (paint) etching / brush sea (seascape) (+ landscape with figures, staffage). sailing-ship, sailing-boat. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. harbour Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf. Seine
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The Battle Near Naples, from "Der Weisskunig" printed 18th century Hans Burgkmair German Der Weisskunig (the white king) is a loosely biographical account of the life of Emperor Maximilian I. The text, composed by Maximilian's secretary Marx Treitz-Sauerwein, is accompanied by illustrations by Burgkmair, Leonhard Beck, Hans Schäufelein, and Hans Springinklee, with the proofs completed between 1514 and 1516. However, they remained unpublished until the blocks were rediscovered in 1775, at which point they were published as a book by Hoffstätter in Vienna. The first edition was published again in 1799 by S. Edward in London with the French title, "Tableaux des principaux evénemens de la vie et du regne de l'empereur Maximilien I." It includes 236 woodcut illustrations.. The Battle Near Naples, from "Der Weisskunig" 431194
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unknown artist, Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four), ca. 1710. Pen, black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Northern Netherlands, Peace of Breda, 1667, The swearing-in of the Peace of Breda by the English and Dutch delegates on 31 July 1667, which ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Sheet with three scenes. On the right the swearing-in of the peace treaty. On the left bonfires on a canal in Amsterdam on 7 September 1667. Above these two scenes in the clouds the Dutch and the English virgins shake hands with Peace and other virgins and gods numbered 1-8. Top left three angels with a ribbon with inscription in Latin. Marked lower right: fol. 240., print, prent, historieprent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 289 mm, width 355 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1667 - 1699, third quarter 17th century, derde kwart 17e eeuw, fourth quarter 17th century, vier kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception
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Traject: To the Rhine
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Nimrod has the tower of Babel Bouwen, Jan van Londerseel, after Dirck Aertsz., 1601 - 1702 print The tower of Babel is built under the supervision of King Nimrod. Construction work is taking place around the tower. On the right in the foreground, two sculptors are working, left two figures for Nimrod and his entourage. In the margin a caption in Latin. Amsterdam paper engraving the building of the Tower of Babel; Nimrod may be present, supervising or assisting the construction. sculptor at work - CC - out of doors. building activities
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Maria Magdalena with in the background Overview of Sainte-Baume. With separate legend in letterpress.
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Prudence (Prudentia) from The Virtues ca. 1559-60 Philips Galle Netherlandish. Prudence (Prudentia) from The Virtues 410924
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Allegory on the Peace of Munster, 1648; Pax Una Triumphis Innumeris Potior. Allegory on the Peace of Munster. Triumphopt trip of the triumphar of peace that is initiated along the Vijverberg by an Eroboch The Hague. On the triumph port the coat of arms of Frederik Hendrik and eight province weapons, on top of the Fortuna gate that gives riches. In the air the fame and above a angel choir. The original plate contained a representation in honor of Frederik Hendrik after the intake of Den Bosch in 1629. In this print, peace takes over the place of Frederik Hendrik. This print includes a fresh in three columns of Reyer Anslo with the title 'Nederlands Vredevreught'.
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Stranded whale at Beverwijk, The Netherlands, 1601, Jan Saenredam, 1602
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STORM Claude Gell�e (said Lorraine, around 1600-1682). "The storm", 1630. Floor. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.
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Aeneas saves his father from the burning Troy, 1570 - 1574 print Aeneas escapes from the burning Troy with his old father Anchises on his back. Next to him, his son Ascanius, who carries the helmet and the sword of his father. Under the performance an explanatory text in Latin. This print is part of an album. paper etching 'Pius Aeneas': Aeneas, leading Ascanius, escapes from burning Troy, carrying his father Anchises with the Penates; his wife Creusa, who sets out with them, is lost on the way
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Two representations of one plate. At the top of a six-line fresh in two columns.
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The Triumph of Mars. Dated: c. 1765/1770. Dimensions: plate: 55.3 x 39 cm (21 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.) sheet: 56.5 x 41.5 cm (22 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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Port of Livorne ca. 1770 After Joseph Vernet. Port of Livorne. After Joseph Vernet (French, Avignon 1714-1789 Paris). ca. 1770. Engraving; first state of two. Simon Fokke (Dutch, Amsterdam 1712-1784 Amsterdam). Prints
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Light expelling Darkness, - Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations, - or - The Sun of the Constitution, rising superior to the Clouds of Opposition.. Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1795-04-30. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Paul Riault (19th century), engraver. "Strategic movement." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101785-7 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving
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Babylonian confusion, Jan Luyken, 1690 print Several people try to build on the tower of Babel, but are hindered because they no longer understand each other's language. This causes confusion, resulting in quarrels, upsaws and departure, so that the tower is ultimately not phased out. Under the performance a reference to the Bible text in Gen. 11,5,7,8. Amsterdam paper etching the confusion of languages and the scattering of people over the earth ~ story of the Tower of Babel
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Ancient Rome, Cascata di Tivoli, Waterfall of Tivoli, 1760, Italy, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Europe
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Plague of locusts, Jan Luyken, Pieter Mortier, 1703 - 1762
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Colored copper engraving from 1464-1465 in Florentine fine manner depicting the sun with gold highlights, showing celestial features, shading, and composition.
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CONQUISTA DE PUERTO DESEADO CIUDAD ARGENTINA EN LA PROVINCIA DE SANTA CRUZ - SIGLO XVI. Author: SILVA NUÑO / PRETTY. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Hercules ex rogo in polum Hercules, led by Jupiter, goes to Mount Olympus to live with the gods after burning his mortal body on a funeral pyre Baur, Joh. Wilhelm (Johann Wilhelm), 1600-1642. still image. Illustrations. 1600 - 1700. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Heracles (Greek mythology), Apotheosis, Death, Mythology, Hercules (Roman mythology), Jupiter (Roman deity), Smoke, Cremation, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses
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Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722) and Jean Audran (French, 1667-1756). Birth (La Naissance), ca. 1718-1722. From Life of the Satyrs. Etching and engraving on laid paper. Plate: 256 mm x 342 mm (10.08 in. x 13.46 in.). Third of three states.
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The valley of the shadow of death , Politicians, Military officers, Rulers, Popes, Campaigns & battles, Animals, Skeletons, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718, Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1751-1825, John VI, King of Portugal, 1767-1826, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
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Netherlands, Causé, Lamberecht, Kennaua femme d'un courageous mâle, defends the city of Harlem, Kenau with the siege of Haarlem in the background, 1573, Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, standing full-length with pike, the siege of Haarlem in the background, 1573., print, image, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 124 mm, width 165 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1699, 17th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process)
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The land of Cockaigne: a castle, volcano and ships with people riding horses and boar and others playing musical instruments. Coloured engraving.
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Susanna and the elders; Easter prys. Susanna and the elders. Susanna, nude and bathed at a fountain in a garden. The two elders come to her. The garden is surrounded by a wall. Under the show a verse in three columns. Numbered upper left: No. 7.
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Floraes Gecks cap, 1637; Floraes Gecks hood or picture van't wonderful Jaer of 1637 doing d'a geck d'other uytbroeyde, the Luy Rijck Sonder Goet, and wise spray sprayed. Floraes Gecks hood. Cartoon on the tulip manie, wind trade in tulip bulbs in the year 1637. In an inn in the form of a large narroller hood, tulip traders are. Left at an increase is the devil with an hourglass, traders with a stick with registrations and a farmer who reverses a basket of bulbs on the manure heap. Various bulb farmers for this and before before before. Flora is seated on a donkey in the background. Under the show a long text in 8 columns in Dutch.
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The destruction of the city of Jerusalem, 1755 - 1779 print View of a street in a burning city, with Roman -looking soldiers who cause destruction, robbing valuables, killing or capturing people. Under the image the extensive title in German and French paper. watercolor (paint) etching / brush Jerusalem
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Beginning of the bottom of Napoleon
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The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea, 1514-15, printed 1549. Titian (Italian, c. 1488-1576). Woodcut; unframed: 40 x 55 cm (15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.). Because woodcuts emulate the artist's drawing style, prints after Titian's designs are very different from those of the German master Albrecht Dürer. Whereas Dürer's woodcuts exemplify controlcrosshatching and parallel lines of shading are precise and uniformTitian's lines in the Venetian manner are drawn with vigorous strokes that are bold, expressive, and irregular. An enormous, complex design, The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea reflects the strength of Titian's drawing, which propels the narrative across several woodblocks to achieve a remarkable unity. The rolling clouds and turbulent sea culminate in the solid gravity of the magnificent cliff that overhangs the shore. Only a fragment exists from the first edition published in 1515, so the print is known solely in examples from the second edition of 1549. Probab
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Entrance to the Reason of Texel; Entrée du Havre du Texel; Receüil de Plusiers Navires, et Païsages; Seascapes and landscapes.The Entrance to Reason, A Natural Anchorage for Ships, at Texel. A Ship is repaired in The Water, A Group or one is on shore.
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Tempesta commossa da Amore ne campi Toscani Flora. Parigi, Alfonso, -1656. Prints. 1628. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Ballet , 17th century, Ballet , Italy , 17th century, Pageants , Italy, Opera ballet. La flora
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Mossel harvest; Yacht and fishing; VENATIONES, PISCATIONES ET AUCUPII TYPI. At the Delta of a river harvest fishermen mussels. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of 54 prints.
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Bruin in his Boat. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1806. Dimensions: 287 × 375 mm (image); 300 × 385 mm (plate); 317 × 410 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Balthasar Moncornet after Remigio Cantagallina, French (c. 1600-1668), Calai e Zeti condotti da Borea et Oritia, etching on laid paper
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Aeneae classis in Nymphas ope Berecynthiae matris Aeneas' ships transformed into sea nymphs by Cybele Baur, Joh. Wilhelm (Johann Wilhelm), 1600-1642. 1700. still image. Illustrations. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Galleys (Ships), Seas, Mythology, Supernatural beings, Smoke, Cybele (Goddess), Goddesses, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses
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Emblem: dove, Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705
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Allegory at the birth of the Prince of Orange, 1748; Senture-eyed scene on the long desirable and blyde birth of the heritors of Oranje and Nassau, hope of the United Nederlanden. Den VIII. of spring month, mdccxlviii. Allegory at the birth of Willem V, Prince of Orange, 8 March 1748. Central the personification of eternal governance with the child in the poor, surrounded by Alllerleg Allegorian figures, gods and goddesses, left the Dutch Virgin. Right grinds entangled in a vase the orange tree and the English rose. In the air Mercury and Juno in her chariot drawn by peacocks at the signs of the zodiac. In the foreground on the left the Nymph of the Hofvijver, in the background the stadholder quarter in The Hague. On the leaf under the plate An explanation of the representation in two columns.
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Brand in Grootebroek, 1694, Jan Luyken, 1694 - 1696 print The big fire in the village of Grootebroek (near Enkhuizen) on August 20, 1694. Amsterdam paper etching fire-fighting Grootebroek
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Campo dei Romani incendiato nel ballo Arminio Litografia Ricordi. Sanquirico inv, 1828. Additional, Arminio., 1828., Milano, Firenze. Publisher, Presso Ricordi, Pozzi e C. Arminio (Choreographic work Henry). Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century. Set designs -- 19th century. Lithographs., 14.6 x 19.8 cm., A lithographic print depicting the scene 'Campo dei Romani incendiato' from the ballet 'Arminio,' created by Sanquirico in 1828. The artwork features intricate details characteristic of 19th-century ballet set designs