Biblical Themes in Art

Etchings and prints depicting biblical narratives, including scenes of the Flight into Egypt and allegories of life, featuring landscapes and figures in various settings.

Jakob in fight with the angel, Jan Luyken, 1703 print Print Maker: Haarlem Publisher: Amsterdam paper etching Jacob wrestles with the angel (or man) till daybreak; Jacob's thigh is put out of joint

Bacchanal. Dated: 1770. Dimensions: plate: 24.2 x 29.9 cm (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.4 x 33.1 cm (10 x 13 1/16 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jacob Wilhelm Mechau after Giulio Carpioni.

Various Figures and Landscapes, 1649. Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610-1664). Etching;

A Picnic Party 1716 Claude Simpol French. A Picnic Party 339771

Plate 3: two girls walking towards the left, seen from behind, a woman on a horse to left in background, from 'Diversi capricci'. Artist: Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 11/16 in. (8 × 9.3 cm). Publisher: Nicolas Langlois (French, Paris 1640-1703). Series/Portfolio: 'Diversi capricci'. Date: ca. 1644-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Reproduction of a painting: Aleksander Lesser (1818-1884), Kiejstut i Biruta Kęstutis and Birute. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist, unknown, engraver

Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark. Dated: 1774. Dimensions: overall: 41.9 x 55.6 cm (16 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.). Medium: gray-brown wash heightened with white gouache over black chalk on light brown laid paper (originally blue). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: François-André Vincent after Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.

Plague, Jan Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705

A resting Marskramer, Cornelis Bloemaert (II), After Abraham Bloemaert, 1700 - 1800 print A man is leaning against a tree. A horizontal dog next to him. Utrecht paper engraving pastorals, Arcadian scenes. wandering or travelling merchant

Man with sword and scales, possibly scipio Africanus Major. On the left, the personal moderation donates water from a jug into a bowl. The personal victory crowns the Roman soldier in the middle, possibly scipio Africanus Major. There is a river god in front. A hilly landscape in the background. This print is part of an album.

Bartsch, Adam von, work, Resting on the way to Egypt, (1000 - 2000), technique text: line etching, graphics, plate width 25.7 cm, plate height 25.3 cm, leaf width 36.8 cm, leaf height 32.5 cm, image width 24.9 cm, image height 23 cm

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Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight, 1631. Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573-1647). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge); sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.).

Picart, Bernard, Amsterdam, La Creation du Monde Selon le Systeme des Banjans, The Creation According to the Banjans, verso lower left - stamped, Exotic landscape with the first man created by an Indian god. The man sprouts from the earth., print, prints, height 81 mm, width 174 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1721 - 1721, first quarter 18th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching, intermediary draughtsman

Paris, Orléans, Philippe Duc d', France, Audran, Benoît (I), Chloé est prise par les Methimniens, Chloë captured, verso - stamped, Numbered top right p. 56., print, book illustration, prints, height 96 mm, width 74 mm, 1661 - 1721-10-02, print maker, printmaker, 1718 - 1718, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, French, 1674-08-02 - 1723-12-02, after a design by, after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, after F. Boucher, 1789/1800

Gideon a Jair, Hans Collaert (I), After Jan Snellinck (I), 1585 print In the foreground the fifth and sixth judge of Israel: Gideon and Jaïr. Two stories from their time in the background. On the left in the background, Gideon prays on a ram skin God for a sign. On the right in the background the thirty sons of Jair, who ride donkeys. The print has a Latin caption. Antwerp paper engraving twice Gideon asks the Lord to show him a sign with a sheep's fleece before his raid against the Midianites. Jair's thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts, and had thirty cities. Gideon (not in biblical context); possible attributes: bowl (full of dew), broken pitcher, helmet and armour, fleece.

Campania Caserta Caserta Palazzo Reale26. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture & architectural sculpture, sculpture, statues, paintings, frescoes, stuccoes, furnishings & decorative art General Notes: Discrepancy in number of prints & negatives. Hutzel notes 824 prints & negatives. Negatives for 1-62 of one batch seem to be missing (would make a total of 824) 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.

Golden Age; Aetas Aurea. Imagination of the Golden Age, the first era of the world, in which people lived in innocence and with the animals under the government of Saturn. On the left a river god on the back. In the background, two people make music, are two lions and the three gratients. On the right in the foreground a minne couple and a naked woman with an apple in her hand. Extremely left two boys, one of which is peeing, and a man who picks apples.

The Fountain Jean Pelletier French. The Fountain 394632

Facsimile of frontispiece of William Curtis (1746-1779) Flora Londinensis From a print dated 1802

Strasbourg, Heyden, Jacob van der, Pugillus facetiarum iconographicarum in studiosorum, Landscape with a man and a woman reciting a moralizing text, Numbered lower right: 11. With caption in German., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 100 mm, width 135 mm, South Netherlandish (before 1775), 1573 - 1645, print maker, printmaker, 1608 - 1608, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Plate 28: Narcissus at the Well (Amore fui inardescens Narcißus in florem transmutatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 1606 Antonio Tempesta Italian. Plate 28: Narcissus at the Well (Amore fui inardescens Narcißus in florem transmutatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555-1630 Rome). 1606. Etching. Prints

Two travelers admire a turtle, Jan Luyken, wed. Pieter Arentsz & Cornelis van der Sys (II), 1711

Amsterdam, Schagen, Gerrit Lucasz van, Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz., Visscher, Jan de, Shepherd with two donkeys and a dog, print, prints, height 158 mm, width 200 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1677 - 1690, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1633 - 1692, after print by, 1620 - 1683-02-18, after design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1642 - 1690, publisher

Horatius, 1804 print Horace, writing. Print no. 11 on page 7 in the album 'Raccolta di Soggetti pictures', a Prentalbum with 42 numbered etchings on 28 pages of Luigi Sabatelli (I) himself and from students to his design. paper etching author, poet writing

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, H. Hieronymus reading under a tree, verso lower left - stamped, A hermit (Saint Hieronymus) sits under a tree and reads a book at a table, on which there is also an hourglass. Behind the tree is a house and on the right are various objects such as a rolled up cloth, a book, a skull, a pot and a crucifix., print, prent, prints, engravings, height 347 mm, width 222 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1632 - 1634, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Imperial court, Augsburg, Nilson, Johann Esaias, Polemical scenes after a Muses Almanac, Die Grobheit, Wanderer attacked by dog, verso - stamped, A walker is attacked by a dog and in bitten his coat. Around the representation a thin frame with a cartouche. Publisher number XXXXIIIII., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 191 mm, width 253 mm, German, 1721-11-02 - 1788, print maker, printmaker, 1770 - 1788, paper, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, granter of privilege

The Feast of Bacchus. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Pierre Alexandre Aveline (French, Paris 1702-1760 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 9 3/16 × 10 7/16 in. (23.4 × 26.5 cm). Publisher: Chez Huquier (French, 18th century). Series/Portfolio: Children's Games(Jeux d'enfants). Date: ca. 1738. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Abraham entertaining Three Angels, Genesis 18, v. 1. Engraving.

Bacchus staat Midas een wens toe; Ob restitutum Silenum Midae a Baccho desertur optio; Metamorphoseon sive transformationum; Metamorfosen van Ovidius.Bacchus is sitting on a donkey and stands king Midas to do a wish. Title in Latin in undermarge.

Winter landscape with skater, Johannes Christiaan Janson, 1778 - 1823 print Winter landscape with a skater on the foreground with a fishing rod in his right hand and a barrel in his left hand. On the right a bare tree. Various figures on the ice in the background. paper etching winter sports

Haarlem, Bosch, Jan (uitgever), Enschedé, Johannes (I), Izaak, Blakey, Philips, Jan Caspar, Title page for: Jonas Hanway, Jonas Hanway's nieuwe en wetenswaerdige reizen, eerste deel, 1755, Travels of Jonas Hanway, Two women with a map of Russia and the Persian Empire, verso - stamped, Two women hold up a map of Russia and the Persian Empire. In the foreground shields of England and the Netherlands and coats of arms. In the background a walking man with a stick and a landscape with horses and chariots., print, engraving, title page, prints, engravings, height 208 mm, width 170 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1700 - 1775-04-24, print maker, printmaker, 1755 - 1755, paper, papier, etching, graveren (drukprocedé), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher, uitgever, 1708 - 1780, Dutch

Resting hunting company at an obelisk, Pierre Etienne Moitte, after Jean Baptiste Bénard, 1732 - 1780 print Paris paper etching / engraving hunter. obelisk, needle

Rubens, Peter Paul, Heuvel, Antoine van den, Southern Netherlands, Does, Antony van der, Tabula I. adversae partis. Cybele Gandae opposita, Qualis Berecynthia mater laeta deum partu centum complexa nepotes, Allegory with the city maiden of Ghent in her chariot; entry of Ferdinand into Ghent in 1635 (no. 13), reverse - stamped, Allegory with the city maiden of Ghent in her chariot drawn by lions. Allegory with Cybele as Ghent as the birthplace of Emperor Charles V. Depiction centrally on the reverse of the triumphal arch. Sheet no. 13 in a set of 42 plates illustrating the publication of the description of the entry of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Ghent on 28 January 1635 as the new governor of the Spanish Netherlands., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 370 mm, width 275 mm, 1609 - 1680, print maker, prentmaker, 1635 - 1636, second quarter 17th century, tweede kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1600 -

Farmer at a smoking monkey, Jan Matham (attributed to), after Adriaen Brouwer, 1628 - 1648 print A farmer looks at a smoking monkey. Next to him is a small creature in women's clothing. Under the show a caption in Dutch, in which De Boer wonders what people do not already make for money. Haarlem paper engraving / etching monkeys, apes. pipe ~ tobacco. little people - AA - female human figure. farmers

On the left the tribal father Aser, the eighth son of Jacob. He is standing next to a table. On the ground next to him is a bowl of fruit and a jug. On the right, the progenitor Naftali, the sixth son of Jacob. Next to him a deer, referring to Naftali's speed. Each image has a Latin caption, and the sheet contains the ninth and eighth prints from a series featuring the twelve founding fathers of Israel. Founders Aser and Naftali The Twelve Founders of Israel , print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), Crispijn van den Broeck, publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), print maker: Antwerp, publisher: Amsterdam, 1579 and/or 1639, paper, engraving, h 228 mm × w 298 mm

Statues of Mercury and Flora, Gardens of Dukedi Sora, Frascati. Dated: 1681. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur.

Glaucus as Meerman, c. 1630 - c. 1692 print Glaucus in the water near the bank. An Italian port city can be seen in the background. Glaucus was a fisherman who turned into a Meerman after eating Tokverruiden. Here he keeps the magic herbs in his left hand. paper engraving death of Glaucus, the fisherman: he eats the grass on which he has laid his fishes and leaps into the sea

The Wheat & The Chaff 1728 Johann Jakob Frey the Elder Swiss. The Wheat & The Chaff 400426

Augsburg, Nilson, Johann Esaias, Modern Cartouches with Different Figures, Cartouches with Man and Widow, verso - stamped, Between two rocaille cartouches in the form of grave monuments a man walks behind a black-clad widow. In the lower margin two columns with two-line German text. Publisher number VIII., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 185 mm, width 280 mm, German, 1721-11-02 - 1788, print maker, 1731 - 1788, paper, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design of, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. II, No. 1, Isaac Taylor, 1730-1807, British, undated, Gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 6 5/16 × 3 15/16 inches (16 × 10 cm), globe (cartographic sphere), laurel crown, putti, religious and mythological subject, scrolls (information artifacts), tree

Emblem shells, Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705

Fulgentius, pl. 5 of 30 from the series Sylvae Sacrae (Hermits inLandscapes). Publisher: Johann Sadeler I, Flemish, 1550-1600 After: Maarten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 Publisher: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560-1628

Ocyrhoe is turned into a horse, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638 print Ocyrhoe, Chiron's daughter, is turned into a horse, after predicting what the future of Asclepius and her father will be. Title in Latin in STUDMARGE. paper etching Ocyroe changed into a mare: when she is foretelling the fates of her father Chiron and the young Aesculapius, Ocyroe is changed into a mare (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 657)

Man sitting beside a fountain, watching the sun God's Love-Sun shines and goes, In all' that is open to it, print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: weduwe Pieter Arentsz (II), Amsterdam, 1689, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 89 mm × w 81 mm

Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine, Isaac Taylor, 1730-1807, British, undated, Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 6 11/16 × 3 9/16 inches (17 × 9 cm), books, globe (cartographic sphere), laurel crown, looking glass, lyre, putti, quiver, religious and mythological subject, tree

Jacob van der Does the Older illustrated a shepherd family with cattle near a fountain featuring an antique sarcophagus, painted in watercolor and cover colors over graphite pencil in 1667.

Two men in a garden at a priene; The Kamilleveld.

An anchor is on the flood line where two men have a conversation; The anchor.

Horrets and other people; Various figures and scribbles; Diverses figures et cliffs. Horrets and other figures in a landscape.

Walker with a piece and a carrying basket in a hilly landscape, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching

Emblem: flowers, Caspar Luyken, 1695 - 1705 print Two women have a conversation in a flower garden. They point to the flowers. Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. garden. flowers. address, talk, lecture (~ meeting) - AA - in the open air

The Painters on Their Travels, 1819, Johann Adam Klein, German, 1792 - 1875, 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (20.64 x 26.67 cm) (image)10 5/16 x 12 5/8 in. (26.19 x 32.07 cm) (sheet), Etching, Germany, 19th century

Mars, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie). Artist: Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence); Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (French, 1595-1676). Dedicatee: Louis XIV, King of France (French, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1638-1715 Versailles). Dimensions: Sheet: 1 7/8 × 2 3/8 in. (4.8 × 6 cm). Patron: Cardinal Jules Mazarin (Italian, Piscina 1602-1661 Vincennes). Publisher: Henri Le Gras (French). Series/Portfolio: 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie). Date: 1644. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Alejandro Blanco y Assensio (Lithographer) (The original work, according to inscriptions, attributed to Ribalta, Francisco); Juan Ribalta (After); José de Madrazo y Agudo (Director); Real Establecimiento Litográfico de Madrid (Printer) / 'Saint Matthew and Saint John the Evangelist'. 1826 - 1829. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Printing on japon, Scraper on wove paper; 1826 - 1829. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Printing on japon, Scraper on wove paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Water 18th century Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune French. Water 394311

Print made by John Simon, 1675-1755, French, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper.

Sacrifice of Noah () 18th century Anonymous, Italian, first half of the 18th century Italian. Sacrifice of Noah () 340316

A swamp with a man and a woman on the shore, Emblem: swamp Two people by a swamp, print maker: Jan Luyken, intermediary draughtsman: Jan Luyken, publisher: Christoph Weigel, print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: Neurenberg, 1695 - 1705, paper, etching, h 110 mm × w 124 mm

Conversation between Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Steen, Simon Fokke, 1747 print Painter Peter Paul Rubens stands next to the painter Jan Steen sitting on his knees who makes drawings in the sand. An obelisk in the background. On the bottom mentioned: February / 1747. paper etching conversation, dialogue; conversation piece. obelisks (garden ornaments)

waterfall, Jan Luyken, 1695 - 1705

hill, Jan Luyken, 1695 - 1705

A Family of Charaibes, drawn from the life, in the island of St. Vincent.. Brunias, Agostino. Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800. 1801. General Research Division. West Indies, British , History

Northern Netherlands, Keeshond and Orange supporters on the scales, 1787, verso - stamped, Allegory in which a small Keeshond (patriots) and Orange supporters are weighed on a scale on a tree. The Keeshond tips the scales despite all the desperate attempts of the Orange customers to get the weight on their side. On the side of the Keeshond are Freedom, Prudence, Love and Religion at a monument with a portrait of the Amsterdam mayor Hendrik Hooft Danielsz., 1787., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 192 mm, width 239 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1787, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), hand colouring

Fourth Incarnation, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, Engraving, 1723-1743. Plate, 38, follows p. 116 (suppl.) and precedes p. 117 (suppl.). Plate 38, consists of four engraved images; this is a detail view of the bottom right image only (it is not an overall view of Plate, 38).

Two cats next to a barn. In the background a woman is cleaning milk buckets with a cloth, Emblem: cat Two cats near a barn, print maker: Caspar Luyken, publisher: Christoph Weigel, Neurenberg, 1695 - 1705, paper, etching, h 110 mm × w 124 mm

Picart, Bernard, Amsterdam, L'Astronomie & la Geographie, Allegory of astronomy and geography, verso lower left - stamped, Putti in conversation by a globe. Another putto draws on a map with a compass. In the background two putti by a telescope., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 77 mm, width 133 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1729 - 1729, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman

Allegory of the French Revolution. French citizen blindfolded trying to take the liberty, equality and fraternity, which mocked by exposing him to trip over rocks, fall, or meet with death. Engraving.

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Reapers, 1790. Colored engraving.

Emblem: Land, Jan Luyken, 1695 - 1705 print A wide landscape with a river, mountains and a city. In the foreground two travelers. Print Maker: Amsterdampublisher: Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. landscapes in the temperate zone. 'en route', traveller under way

. The Zeenimf Galatea rests back on a car, continued by fish. She is surrounded by nymphs and putti. Polyphemus floats that plays a love song for Galatea on his pan flute.

Taste, Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert, 1632 - 1670 print A farmer's wife gives her baby the chest. Two other women give a child water from a jug. Presentation of the taste, from a series with five prints that depict the senses. paper engraving / etching taste, tasting (one of the five senses). nursing, suckling. distaff

Roos, Johann Heinrich, work, Paimenpoika ja koira (series title page), (1000 - 2003), line etching, graphics, leaf width 18.3 cm, leaf height 14.3 cm

The combat between Roland and the giant Ferracut, from the legend of Charlemagne. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after P.L. Sabatelli from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.

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