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Allegorical Prints of France and Art

Engravings depicting allegorical representations of France, art, and mythology, with intricate detailing and a classical aesthetic.

Frontispiece, Il claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna: dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci, e da altri eccellenti maestri uscita dalla sua scola, Giovannini, Giacomo-Maria, 1667-1717, Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, 1616-1693, Etching, 1694
Frontispiece, Il claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna: dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci, e da altri eccellenti maestri uscita dalla sua scola, Giovannini, Giacomo-Maria, 1667-1717, Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, 1616-1693, Etching, 1694
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Feather drawing in brown and gray wash by an anonymous artist depicting the allegorical figure of Caritas, showing gestures and drapery details.Jupiter and Juno, Willem Panneels, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1631 print Jupiter and Juno as a love couple, as an allegory of love. Next to them the eagle with a lightning bolt in his claws. The show is caught in an oval frame with square peripheral. Frankfurt am Main paper etching / engraving Jupiter and Juno as loversJan Muller, after Bartholomaeus Spranger, Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, 1604 Minerva and Mercury Arming PerseusA music contest between Pan, in the center of the print, and Apollo, on the left under a tree. All the gods are gathered to watch the contest. The mountain god Tmolus, seated on a throne must pass judgment. He prefers Apollo's lyre to Pan's flute. King Midas, standing next to Pan, however, protests. He is cursed by Apollo and must wear donkey ears for the rest of his life., Midas Judgment, print maker: Nicolaes Jansz. Clock, Karel van Mander (I), (mentioned on object), Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1589, paper, engraving, h 250 mm × w 400 mmHercules on the Stake. Artist: Johann Heinrich Keller (Swiss, Zurich 1692-1765 The Hague). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23.7 × 18.6 cm). Date: early 18th-mid 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740-1779, British, Presentation of the Lusiad to Britannia.Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, Jupiter and the Gods Asking Helios to Resume Control of the Chariot, 1589 Jupiter and the Gods Asking Helios to Resume Control of the ChariotEarling and farewelling around deathbed.Allegorical composition with mythological figures. A man with beard is sitting on a wall and touches a bow with his hand. A passer is in the foreground. In the background three figures (possibly mythological figures).Fame blows the praises of History reading a book on a sarcophagus amidst ruins. Beneath the scene two stanzas of eight lines in Latin, Allegory with Fame and History Roman Heroes (series title), print maker: anonymous, Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1645 - 1706, paper, engraving, h 245 mm × w 156 mmHistory writes in her book about the true history of the French monarchy. She trambles the allegorical figures of the beautiful things and satire, which lie on her feet. In addition to her state truth. On the other side of the table, the female personnifications of medal art, chronology and genealogy. In the air crown Providence) The portrait of Louis XV that is worn by fame. Amor holds the portrait of the infant Marianne Victoria from Bourbon, the then fiancé of the king, in the hands. In the foreground a putto that signs the map of France. The company is located in the memory temple that is decorated with the statues of French princes. In the margin the title and a six-line caption in French, in mirror image.Battle of the Granicus (left and right side), Gérard Audran, After Charles Le Brun, 1672 print Paris paper etching / engraving battles of AlexanderTwo knights on the seafront Parrocel, Charles (1688 1752)Étienne Parrocel drawing in red chalk showing Tobias and Sara returning to Nineveh with camels given by Raguel.Title print for part 1 of 'History of Reformation, and Andre Kerkelyke Gerartiëles, in and the Netherlands' Van Geeraert Brandt, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1671 print On an elevation is a half -naked woman with a cross and an anchor. A number of putti are busy around her with a hate of freedom, firewood and buoys. A number of allegorical figures for the increase. Amsterdam paper etching cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. the Three Theological VirtuesThe Flagellation, from The Passion of Christ, plate 13. Artist: Grégoire Huret (French, Lyon 1606-1670 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 1/16 in. (49.5 × 35.7 cm). Series/Portfolio: The Passion of Christ. Date: 1664. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, 1604, engraving on laid paper, plate: 56.2 × 39.7 cm (22 1/8 × 15 5/8 in.), sheet: 60.6 × 43.6 cm (23 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.), New Hollstein, no. 69, State iii/iii, Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628, Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611Drawing by Michel Dorigny showing France petitioning Jupiter and the gathered gods for a minister, executed in stone chalk and coal.An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732-1806 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (26 × 24.1 cm)Plate: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.2 × 15.8 cm)Image: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (21.6 × 14.9 cm). Date: ca. 1750-56.In this, his first print, Fragonard demonstrates a ready facility with the etching needle, producing a composition based on a chalk drawing by his master, François Boucher. Using a variety of short and staccato lines, Fragonard evokes the rough textures of the desert, where a saint seated on the rocky ground accepts a gift from an angel. The drawing by Boucher that was his model survives today in the National Gallery of Canada (inv.6888). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Amsterdam, Luyken, Caspar, Expulsion from Paradise, verso - manuscript in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 6, height 112 mm, width 148 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1672-12-18 - 1708-10-04, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, papier, etchingSaint Florian. Dated: c. 1765. Dimensions: plate: 41.9 x 30.2 cm (16 1/2 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 42 x 30.4 cm (16 9/16 x 11 15/16 in.). Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper, mounted on album sheet. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Johann Beheim after Franz Anton Maulbertsch.Frontispiece. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Pierre Alexandre Aveline (French, Paris 1702-1760 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 10 7/8 × 8 5/16 in. (27.6 × 21.1 cm). Publisher: Chez Huquier (French, 18th century). Series/Portfolio: First Book of Groups of Children(Premier Livre de Groupes d'Enfans). Date: 1727-60. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Vidi, quod aperuisset agnus... (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). Dated: 1809/1810. Dimensions: sheet: 58.2 x 43.7 cm (22 15/16 x 17 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink over chalk on wove paper back with Asian paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Luigi Sabatelli I.Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck, John the Baptist, Preaching, 1593 John the Baptist, PreachingA gray feather drawing by Franz Karl Palko depicting Saint Rochus.Jason carrying off the golden fleece 1690-1725 Jean-Baptiste Nolin. Jason carrying off the golden fleece. Jean-Baptiste Nolin (French, Paris 1657-1725 Paris). 1690-1725. Etching and engraving; second state. PrintsDrawing, Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite on off-white laid paper; 30.6 x 21.7 cm (12 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)Astronomy; Astronomia; The seven liberal arts. The female personification of astronomy, crowned with the crowbar and stars, measures a globe with her passer. In her other hand she holds an armillarium. It is surrounded by figures with various astronomical attributes. In the context in the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.Weigel, Christoph, Neurenberg, Luyken, Caspar, Elisa sees the ascension of Elijah, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 251 mm, width 201 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1672-12-18 - 1708-10-04, print maker, printmaker, 1708 - 1708, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Duits, 1654-11-09 - 1725-02-05, publisherClair-obscur woodcut by Giovanni Gallo depicting the Holy Family with John the Baptist as a boy, created between 1570 and 1580 using four plates in beige and green tones, showing figures and religious narrative.Flora. Flora, the goddess of the flowers, floating between the clouds. She is surrounded by floating putti with flowers.Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, Phaeton's Sisters Changed into Poplars, Cygnus into a Swan Phaeton's Sisters Changed into Poplars, Cygnus into a SwanAllegory on painting; Pittura. Allegory on painting: Apelles paints the portrait of Alexander the Great.Lazio Viterbo Bagnaia Villa Lante12. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument."Copper engraving by Jacques Grandhomme created between 1588 and 1613 titled 'Unconsciously Do Not Honor', depicting a figure with gestures and symbolic elements illustrating moral or allegorical content."Marriage from sensuality concluded by Amor, Jan Saenredam, After Hendrick Goltzius, 1668 - 1693 print Amor connects a man and woman who symbolizes worldly love as a couple, in real life. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). (civil) marriage ceremonies. (personifications and symbolic representations of) Qualities of LoveJacopo Palma drawing depicting the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, created with chalk, feather, and laved technique on paper with left lower corner missing, 1611.An Allegorical Figure: None sine labore. Dated: 1628. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Cherubino Alberti.The Landing of St. Margaret in Scotland, Alexander Runciman, 1736-1785, British, undated, Etching, Sheet: 14 3/4 x 9 1/8in. (37.5 x 23.2cm)Various goddesses and a centaur celebrate the birth of Louis XV in a florish of splendid abundance. Etching by J. Daullé after F. Boucher, 17--.Attributed to Antonio da Trento after Parmigianino, Saint Cecilia, first half 16th century Saint CeciliaThe creation of the copper hose (left half).Amsterdam, Picart, Bernard, The fight between Menelaus and Paris, verso lower left - stamped, King Menelaus and Paris fight over Helen. Venus wraps Paris in a cloud to save him so that he does not lose. In the margin a caption in French., print, book illustration, prints, height 187 mm, width 125 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1710 - 1710, first quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsmanWoodcut by Albrecht Dürer from the Small Passion series, depicting the Last Supper (latest court), with figures and architectural elements, printed around 1510.Fame and History. Date/Period: 1586/1699. Engraving on laid paper. Width: 15.9 cm. Height: 24 cm (sheet). Author: Unknown Dutch.Thetis bearing the arms of Achilles Gérard, François-Pascal-Simon, baron, 1770-1837. still image. Reproductive prints. unknown. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Cupids, Nike (Greek deity), Sea gods, Mythology, Greek, Helmets , To 499, Shields , To 499, Goddesses , Greek, Nereids (Greek mythology), Thetis (Greek mythology)Dyck, Anthony van, France, Beauvais, Nicolas de, Charles de, Hieronymus with sleeping lion and crucifix, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 371 mm, width 371 mm, 1730 - 1783, print maker, 1697 - 1763, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1687 - 1763, Flemish, Dutch, 1599-03-22 - 1641-12-09Bourlon, Charles de .Partial ceiling design titled 'Fortitudo' by an anonymous artist, executed in ink and feather in 1703, showing figure composition and decorative elements.Drawing by Jean Michel Moreau depicting Apollo with four poets, executed with black feder and brush with lavation.The middle of Jacques 1st Apotheosis, according to Rubens (Dutuit 13 page 158) The middle of the apotheosis of Jacques 1st, according to Rubens (Dutuit 13 page 158). Forte and chisel, 17th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.Gods request the sun god to drive back in his car, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop or), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print After the death of Phaëthon, the sun god hunes into mourning and remembers the earth the light. The gods, including Jupiter, request him to drive back in his cart. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series. Haarlem paper engraving the gods beg Apollo (Sol), mourning for the death of Phaethon, to drive his chariot againDepiction of Minerva with the nine muses, executed with feather and brush in brown, gray, and reddish tones over graphite pencil.Mercurius beveelt Aeneas te vertrekken. Ontwerpen voor schilderijen met episodes uit De Aeneas (series title). Draughtsman: Mattheus Terwesten. Dating: 1700 - 1704. Measurements: h 185 mm × w 150 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Brown ink drawing with lead handle and gray wash by Daniel Gran depicting an angelic figure, emphasizing form and gesture.Female personification of geography on triumphal wagon and continents of America, Africa, Asia and Europe, Cornelis van Dalen (II), After Govert Flinck, 1665 print Female personification of geography on a triumph wagon pulled by Leeuwen. Personifications of the continents of America, Africa, Asia and Europe with their attributes, such as dromedaris and elephant, walk along. Remarkable is the attribute of America, at her feet a belt animal runs instead of the more usual crocodile or caiman. Small angels in the air hold a cloth on which the title of the edition appears on a later state. Amsterdam paper engraving 'Geografia'. Europe represented allegorically; 'Europa' (Ripa). Asia represented allegorically; 'Asia' (Ripa). Africa represented allegorically; 'Africa' (Ripa). America represented allegorically; 'America' (Ripa)Arias Montanus, Benedictus, Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Blocklandt, Anthonie, Galle, Philips, Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum in lucem editus, History of Lot, Lot and his daughters, Lot sits on the ground in front of a cave. He is embraced by one of his daughters. The other daughter pours him wine. On the left a small table with a bowl of fruit. On the right in the background the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. On the left in the background Lot sleeps with one of his daughters. Below the image an explanatory text in Latin. Print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 220 mm, width 286 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1571 - 1572, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1532 - 1583, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publishWinged putto holding a cardinal's hat over a dragon head. Artist: After Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) (Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro 1553-1615 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23 × 16 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Amsterdam, Luyken, Jan, Ascension of Christ, recto - manuscript in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 128, height 118 mm, width 154 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, papier, etching, etchingsJacob's Dream. Giuseppa Nicola Rossigliani (Italian, born c. 1510); after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1550. Dimensions: 220 x 274 mm. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in tan, gray and black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Niccolò Vicentino.Allegory at the birth of Willem III, Prince of Oranje-Nassau in 1650, Cornelis van Dalen (I), After Govert Flinck, 1650 print Allegory at the birth of Prince William III, Prince of Oranje-Nassau in 1650. In a cradle, the prince is surrounded by Minerva and Venus and Amor, among others. In the air, fame blows on a praise and small angels wear symbols of the future power of the newborn. In the landscape in the background a face on the Vijverberg with the Binnenhof in The Hague. In the Dutch fresh fresh in four lines. Amsterdam paper engraving (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena). (story of) Venus (Aphrodite) Courtyard.Helios (Dies); Gods and Goddesses. God Helios or Dies (Day), standing between clouds on a rainbow surrounded by flames. This print is part of a series of seven oval prints of classical gods and goddesses.Title page for the Europische Mercurius of 1731, 1731 print Title page for the Europische Mercurius, for the year 1731. Mercury on a pedestal with a portrait of Don Carlos, with Europe and the peace on either side. On the right the grave of King Frederik IV of Denmark. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving symbols, allegories of peace, 'Pax'; 'Pace' (Ripa)Female personification of America as woman with headdress of feathers and arrow and bow sitting on caiman; America Afflicta gemens; Four continents. Female personification of America as woman with headdress of feathers and arrow and bow sitting on cayman or crocodile. She dries her tears and thus mourns the title.Apotheosis of the arts. The apotheosis of architecture, sculpture and painting. They are fitted by fame up to the gods of the Olympus, who sits together on the clouds. Left-minded kings, emperors and the pope assignments give artists. At the bottom right a group of Turkish fighters.Fall of Simon the Magician. Dated: 1608/1611. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.Lepicie, Bernard, work, Venus asking for Cupid's help, (1000 - 2000), copper engraving, graphics, plate width 25 cm, plate height 33 cm, leaf width 29.7 cm, leaf height 38 cm, image width 24.3 cm, image height 29.2 cmComing to vulcanus, Louis Simon Lempereur, after Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1761 print print maker: Francepublisher: ParisFranceFranceFrance paper etching / engraving Vulcan and Venus. Vulcan in his smithyPlate 9 for Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'. Daniel Berger (Germany, Berlin, 1744-1824). Germany, 1772. Prints; etchings. Etching. laid downApollo bin marsyas aan een Boom, Lorenzo Zucchi, After Anton Kern, After Giovani Battita Langetti, 1714 - print After his loss in a music competition, the Sater Marsyas is bound by Apollo to a tree. Four other saters watch. Left in the foreground is the pan flute of Marsyas. Italian and French text in the lower margin. Numbered below: 47. Italy paper engraving punishment of Marsyas: he is flayed by Apollo. satyr(s) (in general)Allegory on the peace of Nijmegen (1678): Hercules beats the harpies for the Temple of Janus. Allegory on the peace of Nijmegen closed on August 10, 1678 between the Republic and France. Two allegorical women's figures (peace and prosperity) Close the door of the Temple of Janus, Hercules beats the harpies with a club.King Lear and Cordelia, Print made by James Barry, 1741-1806, Irish, 1776, Etching and aquatint with India ink, published state, Plate: 21 7/8 x 21 5/8 inches (55.6 x 54.9 cm), King Lear, play by William Shakespeare, literary themeetching, etchings" 1712, paper, papierDiane et Endimion (Diana andEndymion). Woodcutter: Nicolas Le Sueur, French, 1691-1764 After: Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680-1764Red chalk drawing depicting Hercules battling the multi-headed Hydra.This etching by Nicolò Cavalli depicts the mythological figure Galatea. The image showcases Cavalli's skill in rendering intricate details and dynamic compositions, characteristic of his style.Sadeler, Johann (I), Vos, Maerten de, unknown, The four winds, Oriens, East wind, verso lower left - stamped, In the sky Aurora, goddess of the dawn. She runs after her beloved Apeliotes (the east wind). In the left corner blows Caecias, the northeast wind. In the right corner blows the southeast wind Eurus. Eureus' wind is accompanied by flowers, which are spread over the earth by Apeliotes. At the bottom an Arabian landscape with the sons of Ishmael on an island between the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf: Nebaioth and his brothers. In the margin a Latin caption with an explanation of the east wind. The print is part of a four-part series on the subject of the four cardinal points., print, prints, height 246 mm, width 197 mm, South Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1560 - 1600, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1532 - 1603-12-04, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisherLegal women.Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1585 Hendrick Goltzius Netherlandish. Judith with the Head of Holofernes 347411Personifications of the Austrian Netherlands and France, Jan Wandelaar, 1757 print In the middle is the personification of the Austrian Netherlands with a wall crown and a freedom staff with a hat. She holds an open book with the shortened title. At her feet is a lion with a bundle of arrows. Left behind her, a woman plays a harp and writes another woman in a book. On the other side of the open book, the personification of France is with a crown, a scepter and a rooster at her feet. Behind them, Mercury flies with his Caduceus, an envelope and a key. North Netherlands paper engraving personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.. title-pageDavid with the head of Goliath, Robert van Audenaerd, after Carlo Maratta, 1685 - 1723 print David with sword and Goliath's head in his hand. Behind him, the beheaded Goliath is surrounded by soldiers. In the lower margin a Bible in Latin. paper engraving / etching David with Goliath's headSadeler, Aegidius, unknown, Hercules and Cerberus, verso bottom - stamped, Hercules in the underworld. He leads Cerberus on a chain., print, prints, height 215 mm, width 156 mm, South Netherlands, 1570 - 1629, print maker, printmaker, 1580 - 1629, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conceptionUmbria Terni Amelia Palazzo Petrignani1. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: 16th century frescoes, restored ; views of exterior. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.Reproduction of an engraving 'God also builds Noah the Ark' by Marcantonio Raimondi (Bartsch 3) to Raphaël; Notice sur la vie de Marc Antoine Raimondi, engraver Bolonais ..., Paris / London 1853-1855.Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, circa 1498, depicting Archangel Michael struggling with the dragon, Apocalypse series figure X, showing detailed figures, wings, and dragon in a dramatic composition.Allegory on the death of Thomas Howard, 2nd count of Arundel, Wencslaus Hollar, After Cornelis Schut (I), 1646 print Allegory on the death of Thomas Howard, 2nd count of Arundel. De Graaf is on a pedestal and is surrounded by personifications of death, time, painting, Minerva, and many other allegorical figures. paper etching grave-building, monumental tomb. personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa). Father Time, man with wings and scythe. 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa). (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena)Audran, Benoit I, work, Polyphemos, Acis and Galatea, (1000 - 2000), copper engraving, graphics, plate width 29.1 cm, plate height 39 cmGregorio Guglielmi circa 1765 drawing of Job mocked by his wife; Job seated naked on the right, wife standing on the left, executed in chalk and gray pen.Allegory of the Peace of Aachen, 1748, Simon Fokke, 1749, Allegory of the Peace of Aachen concluded on October 18, 1748 between the Allies (Republic, England and Austria) on the one hand and France, Prussia and Spain on the other. Europe kneels with the bull before the Peace with a horn of plenty, behind her the Dutch Virgin, in the clouds the Fame, centrally an obelisk with arms of the warring parties. On the right, Father Time pulls aside the curtain to reveal the spectacle, in the foreground on the left, the Singing or Poetry. Design for a print., draughtsman: Simon Fokke, Northern Netherlands, 1749, paper, h 223 mm × w 158 mmDe Smidse Van Volcano, Johann Friedrich Greuter, After Giovanni Lanfranco, 1599 - 1662 print A group of men at work in the blacksmith of Vulcanus. A group of women in the background. In the middle of a banderole with the text: Arma Acri Facienda Viro. Italy paper engraving Vulcan in his smithyTicket to the Masqued Ball, New Club, Soho, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA, 1727-1785, Italian, active in Britain (1755-85), 1775, Line engravingJan Harmensz. Muller (1571-1628); Bartholomeus Spring (1546-1611), Perseus equipped by Minerva and Merkur, 1604Allegory on the Vrede, Claude Mellan, 1636 - 1642 print Personification of France as a woman sitting on a cannon and books, Hoorn of Abundance and the hand on the coat of arms of Richelieu. France paper engraving peace. armorial bearing, heraldryThe Last Judgement, Pen and ink, brush and gray wash on laid paper, Germany, 1580-1595, religion, Drawing, DrawingSky; Aer; The four elements. Two men, one of which is on his stomach, look in the air to the fall of Icarus.Allegory on the Vrede, Cornelis Schut (I), 1618 - 1655 print Peace is on a pedestal with an olive branch in hand. To her to her, the war is depicted by fighting soldiers and Perseus who Spiets Medusa. On the right the peace with the following prosperity. paper etching / engraving Symbols, allegories of peace, 'pax'; 'Pace' (RIPA). PEACE AND PROSPERITY, 'PAX ET ABUNDANTIA' Horrors of warEvangelist Lucas, 1588 print Lucas de Evangelist, Ten Halven Lijve, reading in a book. On his left is a winged beef. To the show a Latin text. This print is part of a series of four round performances of the evangelists, each surrounded by a white band in which a Latin rule. This third print is mistakenly '4' numbered at the bottom. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Haarlem paper engraving Luke the evangelist; possible attributes: book, (winged) ox, portrait of the Virgin, surgical instruments, painter's utensils, scrollOedipus solves the puzzle; Title page for A. Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Rome: 1652-1654. Oedipus, king of Thebes, opposite the Sphinx, a monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, the tail of a snake and the wings of an eagle. Every passed traveler is questioned by the sample. Who does not know the answer is torn. Oedipus destroys the Sphinx by giving the correct answer.Italy, Borgianni, Orazio, Lamentation, verso - stamped, The body of Christ is mourned by two Marys and John the Evangelist. Text in bottom margin., print, prints, height 231 mm, width 222 mm, 1578 - 1616-01-11, print maker, printmaker, 1615 - 1615, paper, papier, etching, etsen