Blake's Poetic Illustrations

Color-printed relief etchings by William Blake, featuring angels, nature, and literary themes with intricate designs and vibrant colors.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Angel ca. 1825 William Blake British. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Angel 347977

Drinkend paar. Een Nijeuliet vant jaer 88 (title on object). Artist: Gesina ter Borch. Draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch. After Gerard ter Borch (II). Dating: c. 1652. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 313 mm × w 204 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Jerusalem, Plate 53, 'Jerusalem / Chap. 3', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.3 x 16.5 cm), dress, flower (plant), gown, light, literary theme, moon, nudes, religious and mythological subject, shell, sky, stars, sun, text, water, women

Illustration for 'An Island Garden' by Celia Thaxter , Poppies, Initials. Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Prints and Drawings

Lord and a lady standing in front of a poor mother and her children, 1654 - 1655 A gentleman and a lady standing in front of a poor mother and her children, next to a poem on the melody of sweet locksters of that min. Under the drawing, Gesina has written a text by Ovidius. Zwolle paper. ink. watercolor (paint) brush / calligraphy A gentleman and a lady standing in front of a poor mother and her children, next to a poem on the melody of sweet locksters of that min. Under the drawing, Gesina has written a text by Ovidius. Zwolle paper. ink. watercolor (paint) brush / calligraphy

A Dialogue Betwixt Himself, and Mistress Eliza Wheeler by Robert Herrick, Print made by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911, American, 1880, Line photoengraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Scholander, Fredrik Wilhelm, work, The Tale of King Svegder, 1880, drawing, 44.5 cm x 30.3 cm

William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 73, "The Fatal Sisters.", between 1797 and 1798. Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page.

Photo production of a painting of presumably a siren, anonymous, After Wilhelm Kray, c. 1880 - in or before 1890 photograph photographic support albumen print Sirens (classical mythology)

Vanitasymbols and all -seeing eye, Philippus Velijn (Possible), 1820 - 1822 print A skull, a scythe, an hourglass and a extinguished torch under a text on the death of Elias Anna Borger. Above it the all -seeing eye and two palm branches between the clouds. Netherlands paper etching the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye ~ symbol of God the Father. 'Vanitas' symbols

Wishes.. Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901). Illustrations. 1910. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Flowers in art, Hats, Gardens, Bonnets, Girls , Clothing & dress, Boys , Clothing & dress

The Shepherd and the Sea, 1890 print Leaf with a large performance from the fable of Jean de la Fontaine, from the shepherd and the sea. At the top right a text block with verse lines. Numbered in the top left: Série 8. - No. 1. Paris paper letterpress printing fables. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. herd, flock

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 31, 'Introduction' (Bentley 30), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1789 to 1794, Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and blue ink, black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 inches (18.1 x 12.7 cm), Plate: 4 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches (12.4 x 7.3 cm), and Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm), bed, blanket, clouds, literary theme, man, night, nude, pillow, sky, stars, text

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels should paint it, angels ever there", ca. 1797. Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 17, "Shot from the heights . " (Bentley 18). Date/Period: 1794. Print. Brown print, pen, black ink and oil on cream-colored paper (Color-printed relief etching in dark brown with pen and black ink, oil and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper). Height: 375 mm (14.76 in); Width: 267 mm (10.51 in). Author: William Blake.

The rights of man and from the citizen, 1795. The 19 articles of the new civil rights issued on two legal tables. Above the dining of father time, minerva and the personnifications of lighting and equality around the all-seeing eye in a radius of rays. Under the show a Dutch verse in which the rollers of the different figures are explained.

The Ploughman and His Horse. Charles Meryon (French, 1821-1868); printed by Auguste Péquégnot (French, 1819-1870). Date: 1854. Dimensions: 131 × 87 mm (image); 136 × 94 mm (plate); 226 × 143 mm (sheet). Reproduction of an etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Siege at Badajoz, Henry Aston Barker, 1774-1856, British, ca. 1813, Pen and black ink, pen and red ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, sligtly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 14 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (37.5 × 31.8 cm), military art

Scene 5, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater 1870-90 Benjamin Pollock. Scene 5, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater 683007

Lady and gentleman in conversation. Artist: Gesina ter Borch. Draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch. Dating: c. 1654. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 313 mm × w 204 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Pritcha o velikikh mukakh v chistilishche.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 17, "Shot from the heights.. " (Bentley 18), 1794. Color-printed relief etching in dark brown with pen and black ink, oil and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 9, "Therefore God becomes.. " (Bentley b12), ca. 1788. Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Plate One from Evenings in Rome. Hubert Robert; French, 1733-1808. Date: 1763-1764. Dimensions: 125 × 83 mm (image); 153 × 100 mm (plate); 157 × 103 mm (primary support); 218 × 141 mm (secondary support). Etching in black on off-white laid paper, tipped onto tan laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Photo production of a painting of a scene from Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, representing Maria with a trumpet in a garden with the trumpetter, anonymous, after Carl Schweninger (II), c. 1880 - in or before 1890 photograph photographic support albumen print picture, painting. horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba. garden

Jerusalem, Plate 4, 'Jerusalem / Chap. 1....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm), literary theme, men, moon, night, nudes, religious and mythological subject, sky, stars, text, wings, women

Edward Goodall, 1795-1870, British, Summer Eve - the Rainbow, 1837. Line engraving.

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Frontispiece, 1882 Frontispiece

The bubble boy on yacht, 1720; The bubble boy on the jagt; The great scene of foolishness. The bubble boy hunting. A naked boy died by windwalking hunts a torch on a lion and unicorn. In a decorative frame with lions and deer. In the caption a verse of four lines. Printed on the leaf around and below the plate are five verses. Print 44 in the series The large scene of foolishness with cartriders on the 1820 wind trade.

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 14, "The Shepherd" (Bentley 5), 1789 to 1794. Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

When I stood in Neerlands Bergen, Nelly Bodenheim, 1895 print A standing woman offers a wedding ring to a man in armor sitting on a couch by a tree. Two lambs in the background, the wall of a castle and a sailboat in the water. For the scene plant motifs and below the text: 'And spoke: my Lord Stout Ruitertjen. Here you have the wedding ring of mine. And I give you that wedding ring. Amsterdam paper wedding ring. proposal, declaration of love. lamb. landscape with tower or castle

Valentine - Parody - Gaily the Grenadier

January; Z: "K Osy" 1877, No. 601 (January 4), p. 5; Kossak, Juliusz (1824-1899), Gorazdowski, Edward (1843-1901), K Osy (Warsaw; magazine; 1865-1890); 1877 (1865-00-00-1890-00-00);

Queen Victoria in hell and Gezina Kruger in heaven, Anonymous, Jean Veber, 1901 photomechanical print Print is part of a magazine with cartoons on the Second Boer War. With two -way caption: glorious queen. Your government has ended in injustice and blood. Had you ever thought that in the other world only the good one. Mrs. Krüger you would open her arms. You would speak printer: Parispublisher: Amsterdam paper letterpress printing political caricatures and satires. hell and purgatory. heaven, celestial paradise, New Earth

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16, "Two Nostrils Bent Down to the Deep...." (Bentley 13), 1794. Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

THE MAN THAT PLEASED NONE

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 38, "His face and bosom....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Amsterdam, De Ruyter & Meijer, Meijer's prenten, Little Red Riding Hood, verso - stamped, Sheet with 7 scenes from the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Two blocks with text on the left and right. Numbered top right: No. 57., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 415 mm, width 342 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Nederlands, publisher, uitgever, 1878 - 1878, paper, papier, kleurlithografie (process), letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 14, 'Laughing Song' (Bentley 15), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1789, Relief etching printed in green with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 5/8 inches (11.1 x 6.7 cm), and Plate: 4 7/8 x 3 inches (12.4 x 7.6 cm), branches, chair, historical subject, leaf, men, sitting, table, text, trees, vegetation, vines, women

Farmers couple. Artist: Gesina ter Borch. Draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch. Dating: 18-Dec-1653. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 313 mm × w 204 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

There was a gallant vessel.. Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice (1851-1913). Illustrations. 1917. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Nursery rhymes, Beaches, Love, Crying, Arrivals & departures, Children , Clothing & dress , France , Brittany, Sailors

William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard.", between 1797 and 1798. Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page.

Illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873-1948); for 'La Légende de soeur Béatrix' by Charles Nodier (1780-1844), 1903. coloured plate illustration with borders and ornaments. This is Nodier's short story based on the legend of the medieval Sister Beatrice of the convent of Notre-Dame des Épines-Fleurie (Jura), a passionate young woman who left the community to marry a knight, only returning after bearing him several children.

Jerusalem, Plate 54, 'In Great Eternity....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (21.2 x 14.9 cm), bats (animals), birds, children, heads, literary theme, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject, sphere, stars, sun, text, women

The Berggeist by Horschelt Gallerie Droller scenes, rd year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

J'peux pas l'dire , Meadows, Couples. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923). Lithographs

William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy.", between 1797 and 1798. Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page.

The princesses under the apple tree, Lucien Pissarro, 1904 print Three princesses are under an apple tree. Illustration with a poem by Ben Jonson. Hammersmith paper princess. trees: apple-tree

Summer Eve - the Rainbow, Edward Goodall, 1795-1870, British, after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, c. 1837, Engraving

End of the XIX Century. José Guadalupe Posada; Mexican, 1852-1913. Date: 1890. Dimensions: . Double-sided relief etching on zinc on paper. Origin: Mexico. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Fraktur - Birth and Baptismal Certificate. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 37.6 x 50 cm (14 13/16 x 19 11/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Emma M. Krumrine.

Sampler. Date/Period: 1838. Sampler. Medium: silk embroidery with beads on wool foundation. Technique: embroidered in cross, stem, buttonhole, and satin stitches on plain weave foundation; beads sewn on with half cross stitches. Height: 420 mm (16.53 in); Width: 330 mm (12.99 in). Author: Elizabeth Scull.

Jerusalem, Plate 29, 'Then the Divine Vision....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.3 x 16.2 cm), fire, flames, literary theme, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject, text, vines, women

Sampler, 1779. England, late 18th century. Embroidery; silk on woolen canvas; overall: 32.2 x 30.5 cm (12 11/16 x 12 in.).

The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 1, 1894. Lucien Pissarro (British, 1863-1944). Color woodcut; book page: 19.2 x 13.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.). Pissarro, son of the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, moved to England in 1890. By 1894 he and his wife, Esther Bensusan Pissarro, had bought a printing press and established the Eragny Press. Influenced by William Morris, they were involved in every step of the production process: designing, cutting the woodblocks, setting type, and printing. The first book published by Ergany Press, The Queen of the Fishes, is based on an old fairy tale in which a peasant boy and girl escape the hardships of their lives by fantasizing that they have been turned into a giant oak and a splendid fish, respectively.

Untitled Made 1855-1868 England. Ink and watercolor on paper . Georgina Cowper

Departure of the Nieuwe Don Quixot, 1826, Anonymous, 1826 print A harnessed knight leaves with a banner on horseback and is done out by a crowd and whistled out by school boys. Possibly the departure of the unpopular local commander General Vauthier from Brussels or the elderly professor P. Lesbroussart from Leuven. With Frans Vers in four couplets. Southern Netherlands paper Don Quixote. waving farewell ~ departure on a journey Brussels. Louvain

Design for a certificate, awarded by the city of Vienna for the most beautiful floral balcony decorations (balcony above text). Artist: Erwin Puchinger (Austrian, Vienna 1875-1944 Vienna). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in. (29.5 × 21 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Jupiter en Ganymedes, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance of Ganymedes that is taken by Jupiter in the form of an eagle. Text and heart in the lower margin. print maker: Francepublisher: ParisFrance paper etching the rape of Ganymede: he is carried off through the air by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, or by the eagle of Jupiter

This wood engraving by Moritz von Schwind illustrates 'The Third Laughing' from Eduard Mörike's 'The History of the Beautiful Lau', showing figures, expressive gestures, and narrative scene after 1868.

Jack in the Giant's House, Walter Crane (1845-1915), 1898, Jack and the Beanstalk (Tale), Elements Chairs, Dogs, Giants, Bags, Thieves, Dog attacks, 1 print wood engraving, color; 22 x 17 cm

Skeletons hawking their wares and shouting about teetotalers, drunkards, old men and kids, tomcats and working girls. Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). Dimensions: Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 7/16 in. (39.5 × 29 cm). Publisher: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1850-1917, Mexican). Date: ca. 1900-1910. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

When I was a farmer, a farmer's boy, .... Illustrations. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection

A Dead Hunter. Florence Kingsford Cockerell (English, 1871 - 1949)

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 94, "Albion cold lays on his Rock....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Venlo, Bontamps, widow H., The resurrection of Christ, verso - stamped, Sheet with a large representation of the resurrection of Christ. Christ with palm branch and shawl, rising from his grave. In the foreground three soldiers, two of whom are turning away and one is raising his sword. On either side Bible text and prayer in letterpress., print, picture, popular print, popular prints, prints, pictures, height 380 mm, width 328 mm, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch - 1817-09-10, publisher, 1818 - 1818, paper, woodcut, colors, letterpress printing, letterpress, print maker, printmaker

Women in the Woods (Femme dans un bois). Dimensions: 18.5 cm x 13.5 cm, 17.3 cm x 11.4 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: PAUL SERUSIER.

The fortune-teller and the ant and the dove., 1480, Florence

L'après-midi d'un faune. Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883); poetry by Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842-1898); published by Alphonse Derenne (French, born 1836); bookbinding by Jacques Anthoine Legrain (French, born 1907). Date: 1876. Dimensions: 288 × 200 × 14 mm (book, closed); 288 × 403 × 15 mm (book, open); 292 × 202 × 14 mm (slipcase). Book with four wood engravings in black on various laid and wove papers, two handcolored with pink wash, rebound and housed in slipcase. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, 'The First Book of Urizen.' (Bentley 1), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm) and Plate: 6 x 4 1/8 inches (15.2 x 10.5 cm), beard, book, branches, grave, gravestone, literary theme, men, root, roots, text, tombstone, trees, writing (processes)

America. A Prophecy, Plate 5, 'A, Prophecy, The Guardian Prince of Albion....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1793, Relief etching printed in blue with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm) and Plate: 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (23.5 x 16.8 cm), chains, children, flames, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject, shackles, text, women

Triste y Divertido Despedimento del Reloj de Catedral de Mexico (Sad and amusing dismissal of the clock of the Cathedral ofMexico). Artist: José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, 1852-1913

Manneken-Pis / Hei-Joppa signorken. Leaf with 2 performances. Left Manneken Pis van Brussel with clothes on, signing on the right. Upperings in Dutch and captions in French. Completely surrounded by a decorative edge. Numbered at the bottom right: No. 52.

Flower; Z: "K Osy" 1877, No. 617 (April 26), p. 267; Kossak, Juliusz (1824-1899), Gorazdowski, Edward (1843-1901), K Osy (Warsaw; magazine; 1865-1890); 1877 (1865-00-00-1890-00-00);

Seagull, Kingfisher. Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856-1925 London). Dimensions: 8 x 5 3/8 in. (20.3 x 13.7 cm). Date: August 18, 1874. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

oys' play and girls' play.. Dalziel, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus (1826-1906). Illustrations. 1868. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Play (Recreation), Children , England

Postcard of the Wiener Werkstätte No, Houses in the snow, Carl Krenek -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

Typical Azulejo mural made of ceramic tiles, Sitges, Costa de Garraf, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

Illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873-1948); for 'La Légende de soeur Béatrix' by Charles Nodier (1780-1844), 1903. coloured plate illustration with borders and ornaments. This is Nodier's short story based on the legend of the medieval Sister Beatrice of the convent of Notre-Dame des Épines-Fleurie (Jura), a passionate young woman who left the community to marry a knight, only returning after bearing him several children.

Valentine 1874 Kate Greenaway. Valentine. Kate Greenaway (British, London 1846-1901 London). 1874. White card with embossed, scalloped border; chromolithography, gold lithography

Chansons de femmes. Dimensions: 49.2 cm x 56.8 cm, 31.7 cm x 42.1 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN.

Job and his Family Returned to Prosperity. William Blake (England, London, 1757-1827). England, published 1826. Prints; engravings. Engraving on laid India (or China) paper

The Graphic, 190 Strand London. The Graphic, 190 Strand London

Warm Hands, Walter Crane

Bound Print, Ode on the Spring; Written by Thomas Gray (British, 1716 - 1771); Richard Bentley (British, 1708 - 1782); Published by James Dodlsey (British, 1724 - 1797); Print Maker: Johann Sebastian Müller (German, ca. 1715 - 1792); England; letterpress and etching on laid paper

Cartoon on colonial opposition, 1861, 1861 print Cartoon on the new colonial opposition. Four standing figures: Tartuffe, Droogstoppel, Basile and Figaro. At the bottom of a verse through each of the proposed figures. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 51, December 21, 1861. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper literary characters and objects Dutch East Indies, The

'On the wane', 1897. Creator: John Leech.

Strijd te Frankfurt om de Duitse keizerskroon, 1742; Nieuws Tyding van Francfoord.Allegorical representation of the battle in Frankfurt between the Bavarian Karvorst Karel Albert and Frans Stefanus (the husband of Aartshertogin Maria Theresia) the to the German Keizerskroon, January 1742. In a bedroom a woman (Germany) is in bed, in the foreground De Vechtende Princes. Allegory on the Austrian Succession War. On the leaf under the plate a fresh in two columns.

Songs of Experience: Title page. Artist: William Blake (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm). Date: ca. 1825. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Falbalas and fanfreluches: Almanac of present modes, past & future for 1923, 2nd year: the lover poet. / Scotland 19th century, George Barbier, 1923 magazine Closer in Scottish clothing, sitting in front of a boulder with the text "et ego in Arcadia". Print from the Falbalas & Fanfreluches series (1922-1926). paper fashion plates. head-gear: hat (+ women's clothes). gloves, mittens (MITAINES) (+ women's clothes). dress, gown (+ women's clothes). clothing for the upper part of the body (SHAWL) (+ women's clothes). head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). writing tools. stockings, socks (+ men's clothes). writer, poet, author

Richard Doyle, 1824-1883, British, Title page for Punch, vol. VIII, ca. 1845. Green wash, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Contented Love (valentine) 1835-1845 England. Lithograph with hand-coloring on pinkish cream laid paper .

Turnhout, Brepols & Dierckx zoon, Cantique, De sainte Géneviève de Brabant, verso - stamped, Genevieve of Brabant sitting in the wilderness with her son. Her son is being suckled by a roe deer. In the foreground lies a young roe deer. Text in letterpress in Dutch and French all around. Numbered lower right: N. 63., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 395 mm, width 344 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher, uitgever, 1833 - 1911, paper, papier, houtcut, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

Illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873-1948); for 'La Légende de soeur Béatrix' by Charles Nodier (1780-1844), 1903. coloured plate illustration with borders and ornaments. This is Nodier's short story based on the legend of the medieval Sister Beatrice of the convent of Notre-Dame des Épines-Fleurie (Jura), a passionate young woman who left the community to marry a knight, only returning after bearing him several children.

'Once upon a time...' begins the tale of Beauty and the Beast.

Title page, Abraham Delfos, 1776 drawing Title page with title and allegorical vignette with two putti with burning torches. In the series of fifteen drawings for the plates of the Sleedevaart on January 24, 1776 organized by the Leiden Society Veniam Pro Laude on the occasion of the second century celebration of the Leiden Relief (3 October 1574) and the founding of the University of Leiden (8 February 8 1575). Northern Netherlands paper commemoration of the founding of a university. sledge, sleigh (winter sports) Leiden

Energy, from Stones. Larry Rivers (American, 1923-2002); poetry by Frank O'Hara (American, 1926-1966); printed by Robert Blackburn (American, 1920-2003); published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1959. Dimensions: 358 x 460 mm (image); 475 x 605 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black from one stone on white wove handmade paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Title Page: L'oiseau de Feu et d'autres contes populaires Russes. Artist: Boris Zvorykin (Russian, Moscow 1872-1942 Paris). Dimensions: 13 11/16 x 10 1/2 in. (34.8 x 26.7 cm). Date: ca. 1925. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

THE TREES AND THE WOODMAN

circle of John Linnell, 1792-1882, British, Title Page: Illustrations of the Book of Job, after 1825. Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Valentine cards with verses, depicting landscapes, portraits and flowers.. Proofs, Greeting cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

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