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Allegorical Scenes in Art

Engravings showcasing allegorical figures and narratives from the 16th to 18th centuries, illustrating themes of labor, honor, and mythology.

Pierre Firens, an engraver active between 1600 and 1636, produced copper engravings depicting various European countries. His works reflect the artistic styles and historical contexts of early 17th-century Europe.
Pierre Firens, an engraver active between 1600 and 1636, produced copper engravings depicting various European countries. His works reflect the artistic styles and historical contexts of early 17th-century Europe.
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Bliżej Kultury Verlag of Ferdinand Schenk in Vienna
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Etching by Cornelis Visscher, 1645-1658, depicting various scenes with farmers and shepherds, showing figures, livestock, and 17th-century European rural life.
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An etching by Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert depicting Judith and her servant leaving Bethulia, part of the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, created between 1547 and 1559.
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Copper engraving and etching by Hans Lachner from the 16th-17th century depicting the Trinity alongside the creation of water and earth, with symbolic human and natural figures.
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Mayor Westerwijk in Ter Goes removed from prison 1692. Pr.dr. V.A.L., Reinier Vinkeles (I), After Jacobus Buys, 1751 - 1816 print paper etching / engraving prison, jail
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Harlekijn promotionist, 1720; Arlequyn actionist; The great scene of foolishness. Cartoon on the promotionists. The Harlequin Bombario and a crazy lifting a curtain that makes the action trade at the coffee house Quincampoix visible, where a large crowd of action traders are pushing off the actions that are disabled from a stage. In the foreground Mercury caught in a cage. At the top of the Garland a pork head, cow cup etc. used as a title plate in the absorption of joy of Pieter Langendijk from 1720. Prent (cut out and stuck) in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of the great scene of foolishness with cartrents at the wind trade or action trading of 1720.
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Etching by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Older depicting a landscape scene illustrating actions of Hercules, created between 1777 and 1835.
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Colored woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1502, depicting the martyrdom of the Evangelist John, showing figure, posture, instruments of torture, and detailed background in the Apocalypse series.
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Les ateliers de constructions aéronautiques Lachambre à Vaugirard, en 1883. Dessin d'Albert Tissandier. Atelier de Mr. Lachambre fabricant de ballons de baudruche, Aerostats, etc.. La Vaulx, Henry de, 1870-1930. Manuscripts, Portraits, Drawings, Prints. 1922. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Balloons (Aircraft), Seamstresses, Women , Employment, Factories , France , 1800-1899, Lachambre, Henri, 1846-1904
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Kartinki kostiumov Moskvitian, portret Mazepy Muscovite costume ; portrait of Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1884 - 1890. Rare Book Division. Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovych, 1639-1709