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Allegorical Scenes and Figures

Prints illustrating allegorical narratives, featuring various figures, landscapes, and moral themes depicted in a classical artistic style.

A number of river gods and nymphs are gathered near the river god Peneus, who is seated on a rock in a leafy landscape. Beneath the depiction two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the first series., Peneus by other river gods visited Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1589, paper, engraving, h 176 mm × w 253 mm
A number of river gods and nymphs are gathered near the river god Peneus, who is seated on a rock in a leafy landscape. Beneath the depiction two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the first series., Peneus by other river gods visited Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1589, paper, engraving, h 176 mm × w 253 mm
246 assets in this story
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Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671). The Flight into Egypt, 17th century. Etching.
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Greed tries to catch up with Fortuna, 1720, 1720 print The greed tries to catch up with Fortuna. Presentation of all kinds of greed among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind traders plays on foot and in carriages, in the pursuit of the fortune of a rock in the abyss. At the top a portrait of John Law with a banderole with six -line verse. With caption in six columns. Print 56 in the series The Great Scene of Foolishness with cartoons on the Windhandel or Action Trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Aurea fortune', 'Good luck', 'peaceful luck overo Clemente', 'fate' (Ripa)
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Nicolas de Larmessin IV after Nicolas Lancret, La jeunesse, 1735 La jeunesse
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Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki's 1782 drawing shows Avitus attempting to persuade Bojokal to betray, executed with red and brown pen, lead handle, coal, and fat chalk.
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Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (Engraver) (After Giordano, Luca); Calcografía Nacional (Printer) / 'Asia'. Ca. 1786. Taille douce: etching and engraving on continuous paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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A taranteller of the islands of Procida and Ischia. / N � 12. (Registered title) | Album composed and drawn on stone by A. Colin (title of all)
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Second View of the Levant 1760 After Joseph Vernet. Second View of the Levant. After Joseph Vernet (French, Avignon 1714-1789 Paris). 1760. Engraving; first state of two. Jacques Aliamet (French, Abbeville 1726-1788 Paris). Prints
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Five putti shoot with arrow and arch on parrot, Cornelis Danckerts (I), After Jacques Stella, 1613 - 1656 print Five putti or children shoot with arrow and bow at parrot. Netherlands paper etching / engraving ornamental birds: parrot. shooting-the-bird (on a high pole)
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Bassano, Leandro, Hoy, Nikolaas van, Brussels, Ossenbeeck, Jan van, Orpheus tames the animals, verso - manuscript, Orpheus plays a fiddle and tames the animals with his music. Various animals sit in a circle around him and listen. A monkey next to him holds a book with sheet music., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso - stamped, height 213 mm, width 304 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1624 - 1674-03-30, print maker, printmaker, 1660 - 1660, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Southern Netherlands, Austrian, 1631 - 1679-06-25, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Italian, 1557-06-10 - 1622-04-15
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Summer. Dated: mid 18th century. Dimensions: sheet: 48.5 x 67.6 cm (19 1/8 x 26 5/8 in.) plate: 47.5 x 65.9 cm (18 11/16 x 25 15/16 in.). Medium: etching and engraving with hand-coloring on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Sebastian Klauber, Johann Baptist Klauber, after Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner.
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Hagar in Engel.
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The Franks invade the land of the Batavians, 253, and submission of the Salians to Juliaan, 358, Simon Fokke, 1784 print Performances from national history. Above: Franks fall into the land of the Batavians armed with spears and swords. Below: The Salisch Franks submit to the Roman supreme commander Flavius Claudius Julianus, who was sitting on a horse. Two performances of one plate. Amsterdam paper etching extinct, 'historical' peoples (with NAME). extinct, 'historical' peoples (with NAME). extinct, 'historical' peoples (with NAME). battle, fighting in general. surrender ~ war
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Macbeth, Photographic reproduction of a painting, depicting Macbeth and Banquo meeting the three witches, photomechanical print, reproduction, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 85 mm, width 116 mm, maker, producer, 1876 - 1881, paper, papier, Woodburytypie
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The Return from the Hunt ca. 1738 Pierre Alexandre Aveline French. The Return from the Hunt 394079
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Shakspeare. Love's labour's lost, act IV, scene I , Pavilions Facilities, Parks, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Characters, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Love's labour's lost. Thomas Pennant Barton Collection
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Resting travelers with a house in the background, Jean Charles Le Vasseur, After Le Nain, 1744 - 1816 print paper etching / engraving (traveller) resting in the open air. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo - CC - out of doors. ass, donkey
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The Wedding of the Gods: Second Scene, Diana 1637 Etched by Stefano della Bella Italian. The Wedding of the Gods: Second Scene, Diana 377753
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The Drunkards, after Velázquez. Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux); After Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599-1660 Madrid). Dimensions: Plate: 12 1/2 × 16 15/16 in. (31.7 × 43.1 cm)Sheet: 14 1/8 × 16 1/4 in. (35.8 × 41.3 cm). Date: 1778. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Gray-brown brush drawing by an anonymous artist depicting a shepherd with a herd, executed with laved technique and leading handle strokes.
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Diana changes actaeon in a deer; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Prince Actaeon discovers the cave of Diana and her nymphs during the hunt, who baths at that moment. Diana then changes him for punishment in a deer, after which he is attacked by his own dogs.
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In a clearing in a forest a group of love couples. They walk around, dance, play music or sit and make love., Garden of Love, print maker: Nicolaes de Bruyn, (mentioned on object), Nicolaes de Bruyn, (mentioned on object), publisher: Gerard Valck, (mentioned on object), print maker: Antwerp, publisher: Amsterdam, 1661, paper, engraving, w 724 mm × h 446 mm
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Sleep: sketch for the painting, now in the museum at Lille 1840-98 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French. Sleep: sketch for the painting, now in the museum at Lille. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824-1898 Paris). 1840-98. Pen and brown ink on tracing paper. Drawings
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Copper engraving by Giacomo Bossi illustrating Joseph's dream, created around 1790, showing Joseph and symbolic elements from the biblical narrative.
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The Shepherd. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Jean Pelletier (French, born Paris ca. 1736). Dimensions: sheet: 13 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (34.6 x 44.2 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Seesaw ca. 1738 Pierre Alexandre Aveline French. The Seesaw 394082
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Second scene: the forest of Diana; Seconda Scena Selva di Diana; Liberetto in honor of the wedding of Ferdinando II de'Medici and Vottoria della Rovere; Le Nozze Degli Dei Favola (...). A ballet scene with dancers, who represent Diana and her nymphs, in a glade in a forest. In the air, a group of figures floats on a cloud. In the background hills.
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Paris, Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Charles, Pillement, Jean Baptiste, Avril, Jean Jacques (I), Nouveau Cahier de Six Feuilles De Différents Sujets Chinois Historiés, Representant of the Five Senses of Nature, Taste, verso - stamped, Personification of the sense of taste. In a landscape a man and a child are sitting on a chair. Behind them is a third figure. A servant on the right brings them a large fruit on a platter., print, engraving, ornamental print, prints, engravings, ornamental prints, height 199 mm, width 289 mm, French, 1744 - 1831-11-26, print maker, printmaker, 1773 - 1773, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1728-05-24 - 1808-04-26, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Allegory on the elaboration of superstition and hypocrisy, Reinier Vinkeles (I), after Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1770 print The personifications of nature and reason are run by a blindfolded man with dagger and torch. The man is pushed by a woman who hides behind a mask. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving 'Superstitione' (Ripa). Rage, Anger. mask. lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt
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Man is not like the animals / sheep / rowing boat / hospitality, Cornelis van Noorde, in or before 1767 print Four performances. At the top left: two women in a meadow with cows. One of them points to the animals. In this way she points out that man is not made the same as the animals by God, but that man has an eternal soul. At the top right: A sheep in the foreground. In the background a landscape with sheep and a shepherd and shepherdin. Bottom left: A rowing man in a rowing boat with a load, a man with a dog walks on the waterfront. Image with a text in which man has to row the barge of his mind through the world, so that he does not drift away from the flood of the lust. At the bottom right: an interior with a man and a woman sitting by a fireplace and on the right a man who opens the door for another man. Haarlem paper etching meadow, pasture. cow. sheep. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. open hearth, fire-place
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Stable interior with eight people. Draughtsman: Cornelis Saftleven. Dating: 1651. Measurements: h 254 mm × w 333 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Seconda Scena Selva di Diana. Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664). Prints. 1750 - 1759. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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An earthquake engulfs the carriage of Queen Drahomira of Bohemia. The queen and her retinue disappear into the earth. In the background the city of Prague, Queen Drahomira of Bohemia is swallowed up by the earth Drahomir, Princess of Bohemia, is swallowed up alive with her carriage and horse , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), bookseller: Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1699, paper, etching, h 155 mm × w 194 mm
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The scene in front of the ancient temple Daniotto
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Fiddler and Young Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Adriaen van Ostade (Holland, Haarlem, 1610-1685). Holland, before 1668. Prints; etchings. Etching
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Entrance of Texel, Reinier Nooms, 1650 print The entrance to reason, a natural anchorage for ships, at Texel. A ship is repaired in the water, there is a group of men on shore. paper etching repairing, caulking, careening (~ ship). harbour Texel
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Etienne Baudet, after Annibale Carracci, Martyre de Saint Estienne (The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian), 1677 Martyre de Saint Estienne (The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian)
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Painting chased by wrapping; L'Attaque de l'Isle d'Arts per Les Ignorant / The Konst painter Har continued from the Onoselkite. Allegory, signed with "Renomée Sculp." And "Verité Inv." Faunen, devils and other figures, dobbed in washbasins and armed with sticks, try to come to land on an island. On an island a rock gate behind which a painter is working for an easel.
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Amsterdam, Fokke Simonsz., Arend, Fokke, Simon, Netherlands, Claudius Civilis, 69-70, Confrontation between Claudius Civilis and a Roman soldier., print, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 107 mm, width 120 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, engraver, 1770 - 1784, third quarter 18th century, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1755-07-03 - 1812-11-15, publisher
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God creates man in the Garden of Eden. Coloured etching, 17--.
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Queen Drahomira van Bohemia is swallowed up by the earth, Jan Luyken, 1699 print An earthquake hits the carriage of Queen Drahomira van Bohemia. The queen and her entourage disappear in the earth. In the background the city of Prague. Amsterdam paper etching buried alive (violent death). earthquake. four-wheeled vehicle drawn by three animals Prague
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Tatar deputies spherding in soiusii in: Historical songs with music and engravings , in Warsaw, in the printing house at Nowolipie, 1816 Frenzel, Johann Gottfried (1782 1855), Sułkowska, Ewa (1786 1824)
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Battus perfidus in saxum mutatus Battus metamorphosed into stone by a disguised Mercury Baur, Joh. Wilhelm (Johann Wilhelm), 1600-1642. still image. Illustrations. 1700. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Rocks, Hills, Gods, Mythology, Mercury (Roman deity), Hermes (Greek deity), Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses
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VISTA DE LA ISLA DE SANTA CATALINA - GRABADO POR PAGELET- SIGLO XVIII. Author: GASPARD DUCHE DE VANCY (1756-1788).
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Marriage. Claude Gillot; French, 1673-1722. Date: 1693-1722. Dimensions: 254 × 339 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Etching on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Three staat from the third English war, 1673; Pertinent AF-image and Nautic description of the three Victorieuse Sea Strokes of the year 1673. After the Nederlandsche, Engelsche, and French fleets. Three staat from the third English war, 1673. At the bottom left in a cartouche in small the First two strokes for the Zeeland coast on the plain of Schoonevelt on June 7 and June 14. The main performance shows the Battle of Kijkduin on August 21 between the fleet of the Republic of the Ruyter and the combined English-French fleet under Prince Rupert and Count Jean d'Estrées. Upper medallions with portraits of Willem III, Michiel de Ruyter and Cornelis Tromp. At the top left Portraits of the two English commander and their most important ships, on the right the French with their ships. A text sheet is stuck under the print with the title.