Artistic Interpretations of Tales

Illustrations conveying narratives from literature and history, featuring dramatic compositions and interactions among characters.

Noble Ladies and Citizens, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857

Princess and ladies of the court of Charles the Bald, vintage engraving. Princess and ladies of the court of Charles the Bald, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660382

The first tooth, paint Pinchart, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1880.

They say yes and give their hand to the first comer', 1799 Artist: Francisco Goya. Plate 2 of 'Los Caprichos'. Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799.

Michelangelo (1475-1564), by Vittoria Colonna, historical illustration, circa 1886

Noble Ladies and Citizens, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857

Paar mit einem Neugeborenen auf dem Weg zur Taufe, Tirol, Österreich, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage mit einer Szene aus dem 19. Jahrhundert 1f-4999506

'Jorinde and Joringel', 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert.

'The Old Woman in the Wood', 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert.

Louvre Museum. Women dropsy, by Gerard Dow, Godard Burning Alencon, vintage engraving. Louvre Museum, Women dropsy, by Gerard Dow, Godard Burning Alencon, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660300

Marie de' Medici (1573-1642). Queen of France. Second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon. Regent for her son. The regent showing her son, Louis XIII of France. Engraving by Dupre. Biblioteca Universal, 1851.

Nineteenth century, Bourgeoisie, Musician and Chanoine, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843.

Sleeping princess according to the drawing of Ferdinand Leeke. A clip from a German magazine unknown, Leeke, Ferdinand (1859 1923)

Marie de' Medici (1573-1642). Queen of France. Second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon. Regent for her son. Maria and Henry IV. Engraving by Dupre. Biblioteca Universal, 1851.

Act IV: Goetz writing his memoirs, his wife Elisabeth, vintage engraving. Act IV: Goetz writing his memoirs, his wife Elisabeth, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660548

ALEXANDER VI (1431-1503). Pope from 1492 to 1503, nephew of Pope Callixtus III.; BORGIA, Cesare (1475-1507). Italian military man and politician, son of Pope Alexander VI. Cesare Borgia relinquishing the purple before Pope Alexander IV. Engraving.

Blind men playing guitar and begging at the door of Valencia Cathedral, Comunidad Valenciana. Journey to Spain, 1862 by Jean Charles Davillier (1823-1883) Drawing by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) Le Tour du Monde 1862

J. L. M. Alibert, Le devoument maternel

The skeleton of Death and a minstrel. The troubadour plays a lute and serenades a woman at an upper window, while Death armed with daggers hides in a doorway. Illustration drawn and engraved on steel by Richard Dagley from his own Deaths Doings, Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions in Verse and Prose, J. Andrews, London, 1827. Dagley (1761-1841) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.

In a picture gallery, the Cabinet de M. de Scuderi, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century master, Europe

Composition and drawing of Staal, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1855.

Egyption boys sugar-stick. Egypt, engraving 1879

Junges Liebespaar, Faust und Gretchen nach dem Roman von Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage mit einer Szene aus dem 19. Jahrhundert 1f-4999492

'The Countryman and the Serpent', 1870. Artist: Gauchard Brunier.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Gérard (19th century), engraver. "Ung Resguard on the life of Icy-Bas." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101788-2 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

"Home Thoughts:" the Child among the Rocks, 1864. Illustration to a book of poetry: "Home Thoughts and Home Scenes", in original poems...blazing outside with scarlet and gold and sparkling inside with poetical gems and brilliant specimens of Illustrative talent, will make a right royal present. The Illustrations, by A. B. Houghton, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, are excellent in quality and profuse in number. Mr. Houghton's children seem positively to live. The poetical accompaniment to our Engraving of "The Child Among the Rocks" is the composition of Dora Gre

'Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond', c1860, (c1860). Artist: John Leech.

Painting Exhibition of 1857, The foragers, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

"Mr Tilney!" she (Catherine Morland) exclaimed. Date: First published: 1818

What Shall We Do Next Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). , 1869. Wood engraving, Image: 9 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (23.2 x 34.9 cm). Regarded as one of the great American Realists of the nineteenth century, Winslow Homer is known primarily for his large body of works in oil and watercolor. However, he also had an early career as a freelance illustrator, making drawings for wood engravings that were reproduced in mass-circulation periodicals such as Harper’s Weekly. In 1998, the Brooklyn Museum received a generous gift of more than 250 wood-engraved illustrations by Homer from Harvey Isbitts. In this croquet subject, Homer explored the issue of modernity by contrasting country and city “types.” The more sedate, conservative country girls remain on the porch, dutifully attending to sewing or simply watching their fashionably dressed, more adventurous counterparts. The restlessness of the city girls is emphasized by the caption—”What Shall We Do Next”—while the restraint and discipline of co

Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, Eine Vogel, und Menschengeschichte, Platt, Low German, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem, literary figure, graphic, humour, satire, summer, landscape, geese, shepherds, mother, children, knitting, nature, gathering, peace, joy, tranquillity, happiness, North Germany, Hanne Nuete 1, 19th century, historical illustration 1868

Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, A Rembrandt painting, vintage engraving. Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, A Rembrandt painting, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660244

Cartoon titled 'A Logical Refutation of Mr Darwin's Theory' - a father tries to explain Darwin's Theory to his Wife and daughter. Illustrated by George du Maurier (1834-1896) a Franco-British cartoonist and author. Dated 19th century

The small owner, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846.

Louis XIV dismisses Nicolas Fouquet, 1898. Artist: Laplante

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Illustration depicting a wall-mounted bookshelf. Dated 19th Century

'Ph-pps The Fortunate', 1858. Artist: Unknown

King Francois I, said Mezeray if was wonderfully pleased the magnificence, vintage engraved illustration.

Jane Austen 'Persuasion'. Austen's last novel published 1818. Louisa Musgrove falls from Cobb at Lyme Regis and Captain Wentworth shows his concern. Illustration by Hugh Thomson, 1897. Engraving.

Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, A Rembrandt painting, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843.

'Have you a precedent of this Commission I believe not any', c1820. Creator: Unknown.

Doctors of the king, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1882.

Lovers rock, Japan. An adventure in Japan by Eugene Collache, 1868-1869

Master block in his household, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1853.

Blair castle, Blair Atholl, Perthshire: Tullibardine, a Jacobite, carves the date 1745 in the trunk of a tree while Ellen picks a white rose planted in honour of Bonny Prince Charlie. Etching by S. Lover.

"Fleuriste Florentine au Moyen Age," by M. Vander Ouderaa, 1872. 'The traveller, on his first arrival in Florence, may be flattered, and can hardly fail to be pleased, by a custom of the flower-girls which is peculiar to the place. If...he takes his breakfast in a cafe, it will not be long before a girl, always natty, often nice-looking, and carrying a basket of flowers, will come round, and, without waiting for permission, will stick a pretty little nosegay in his coat button-hole. The custom appears to be of ancient date, and to have been practised in the Middle Ages by young ladie

Bavarian State Exhibition in Nuremberg 1896, the veranda of the Pfälzer wine tavern, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Europe

Die Nornen, Historical illustration from Otto von Leixner, Illustrated history of German literature, Leipzig and Berlin 1880, First volume, Germany, Europe

Watteau and Giulia, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867.

Winter pleasures, historical illustration, about 1886

Lawyer Pathelin and Shepherd Agnelet, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.

'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio', c1850. Artist: Unknown

''That Unfortunate Marriage, by Francis Eleanor Trollope; "Hush! Hold your tongue!" cried Mrs. Dobbs, fairly clapping one hand over his mouth, and pointing with the other to the window', 1888. ', 1888. From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.

Wonderful advice', 1799 Artist: Francisco Goya. Plate 15 of 'Los Caprichos'. Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799.

Museum of the Hague, The girl mischievous by Cornelis Troost, vintage engraving. Museum of the Hague, The girl mischievous by Cornelis Troost, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674057

A cartoon depicting a young girl suffering from a toothache. Illustrated by George du Maurier (1834-1896) a Franco-British cartoonist and author. Dated 19th century

Schäfer im Tal der Pegnitz im Jahre 1897, Mittelfranken, Bayern, Deutschland, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, historisch

'The Mayor of Casterbridge. Don’t cry--Don’t cry. By Thomas Hardy', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886".

'Convention-al Politeness', 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain

Impressed by what he hears about the Infanta of Spain (Anne of Austria) Louis commands her portrait : they will marry in 1615 and have one child, future Louis XIV. Date: 1612

literature fairy tales ""Little Red Riding Hood"" scene Little Red Cape and the wolf disguised as grandmother wood engraving 19th century,

Renissance. 16th century. Girls. Engraving by Jost Amman (1539-1591).

Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Tomb of Winckelmann in Trieste, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (also Winkelmann, * 9 December 1717 in Stendal, 8 June 1768 in Trieste) was a German archaeologist, librarian, antiquarian and art writer of the Enlightenment, Italy, Europe

A l'instar d'Henri IV. Dated: 1852. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Queen Jane imprisoned in the Brick Tower, Tower of London, 1553-1554 (1840).Artist: George Cruikshank

An engraving depicting gardeners staking flowers into the border. Dated 19th century

"Who Can This Be" by C. R. Leslie, R.A., in the Sheepshanks Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1861. Engraving of a painting. 'Leslie's quiet humour and dramatic tendency are fairly illustrated in this little work, which was painted by him in his best and ripest period, having been exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. A portly and purse-proud burgomaster walking in the public garden of the town over which he presides (the prim-cut hedges and borders of which are of the true school of Dutch gardening), with his young and handsome wife leaning on his arm, is surprised to receive

Y n'y a rien comm' ça pour le rhume... Dated: 1838. Medium: lithograph on newsprint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

The caption for this late 1800s illustration from the novel Felix Holt by George Eliot reads: "A bullet whizzed and passed through Felix Holt's Shoulder...Felix fell." Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt". Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

The early 1900s captions reads; The Giant Maiden laughed at Skirnir's threats." In Norse mythology, Skírnir is the god Freyr's messenger and vassal. Then Skirnir told Gerda (wife of Freyr, the god of fertility and agriculture) of his master, the bright god, Frey, and of his love for her (Gerga and Frey do marry). Gerda answered no. Skirnirs anger rose against her.But the giant-maiden laughed at his threats till Skirnir swore to bring upon her, by magic art, the anger of the gods.

The sorcerer Ismen and Suleyman: an episode in Gerusalemme liberata by Tasso. Wood engraving by J.A. Faxardo after J.J. Lecurieux, 1838.

Kind beim Abendgebet, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

The Young Man bids farewell to his father's house, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

David Copperfield, 'You have heard Miss Murdstone,' said Mr. Spenlow, turning to me. 'I beg to ask, Mr. Copperfield, if you have anything to say in reply'

Pizarro contemplating over the product of his new Peruvian mine Js Gillray, inv. & ft.. British Cartoon Prints Collection .

Der Stock und seine Anwendung, als Bettelstock, Bettelstab, 1888, Illustration, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt 1f-4999805

Return of Tobias by Karel van der Pluym, (1625-1672)

Currier & Ives Illustration 19th Century. My First Love

Girding and knighthood from a manuscript about Lancelot of the Lake, 13th century, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century origi...

LA LECTURA DE LA MANO - 1868. Author: Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883).

'Death & the Maiden', 1895. Artist: Byam Shaw.

Etching depicting a young girl sitting in a large arm chair reading her book. Dated 19th century

ancient world Roman Empire Pompeii street scene circa 50 AD reconstruction after excavation wood engraving late 19th century,

Die ersten Schritte des Kindes mit seinen Eltern, 1881, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Contraption for making silhouettes, rococo, historical illustration

She was accosted by a young boy, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.

Les Laveuses (Jeunesse Passe Vite Vertu) Auguste-Louis Lepère (French, 1849-1918). Les Laveuses (Jeunesse Passe Vite Vertu), 1893. Etching and aquatint on wove paper, 15 7/16 x 9 1/16 in. (39.2 x 23 cm). European Art 1893

THE FIRST SNOWBALL, DRAWN BY R. PETHERICK, 1871

Queen Mary in her private Oratory, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858

Hoftrachten zur Zeit von Ludwig XIV, Versailles, um 1700, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Eine Fischerfamilie aus Nizza beim Netzflicken, Frankreich, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage mit einer Szene aus dem 19. Jahrhundert 1f-4999557

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). English poet and playwright. Scene from Shakespeare's work 'Othello' (1602) depicting Cassio and Bianca. Engraving.

Mime and the Wanderer in Siegfried - Arthur Rackham, circa 1911

At the ancestral portrait gallery, historical engraving, about 1888

All on a Summer's Day - from the Queen of Hearts

Engraving depicting the royal visit of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-1861) to Ireland. Dated 19th Century

Mariana Pineda (1804-1831). Spanish heroine of the liberal cause in the 19th century. Mariana Pineda on the garrote. Lithography of Contreras.

An engraving depicting a woman selling strawberries with Covent Garden market in the background. Dated 19th century

The Little Savoyards, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1858.

Spain, Burgos province, Castrillo del Val. Monastery of San Pedro de Cardena. Cloister. Drawing from life by Isidro Gil. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

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