Classic Portraits of Nobility

Elegant engravings of historical female figures in opulent attire, showcasing detailed craftsmanship and traditional portrait style from the past centuries.

Amsterdam, Houbraken, Jacob, Maria Christina Archidux Austriae, Portrait of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria, verso lower left - stamped, Bust to the right of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria in an oval medallion, which rests on a pedestal. On the right in the foreground a crown on a cushion and on the left a cloak. Below the portrait her name and title in a line in Latin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 312 mm, width 205 mm, North Netherlands, 1698-12-25 - 1780-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1752 - 1752, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching

Charlotte Christiane Sophie, Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.

Katharina II., Empress of Russia Stecher: Bernigeroth, Johann Martinfactic genesis: Leipzig

Fürstenberg, Anna Adelheid Landgräfin too.

Welsch, Magdalena Sibylla.

Statilia Messalinas.

Portrait of Anna Boleyn, Queen of England, Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen, After Adriaen van der Werff, 1697 print Antwerp paper engraving

Ann Bullen, Queen of K, Henry VIII , Anne Boleyn newspaper wood stitch from Illustrirte Frauen-Zeitung , Adolf Neumann -, Wood Engraver, After, Jakob Houbraken -, Artist, after, Hans Holbein the younger -, artist

Maria Theresia, Roman-German Empress Jugendbildnis. Copper engraving by Pieter Balthazar Bouttat

Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Duchess of .

Amsterdam, Houbraken, Jacob, Maria Christina Archidux Austriae, Portrait of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria, verso lower left - stamped, Bust to the right of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria in an oval medallion, which rests on a pedestal. On the right in the foreground a crown on a cushion and on the left a cloak. Below the portrait her name and title in a line in Latin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 312 mm, width 205 mm, North Netherlands, 1698-12-25 - 1780-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1752 - 1752, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching

Johanna Sibilla Von Ilow, Martin Bernigeroth, 1707 - 1733 print Leipzig paper engraving / etching historical persons - BB - woman. armorial bearing, heraldry

Portrait of Marguerite Louise van Orleans, Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen, After Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1691 print Portrait of Marguerite Louise van Orleans, oldest daughter of Gaston van Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, king of France. Antwerp paper engraving

Mathilde of Habsburg.

Portrait of emperor livia drusilla; Famous Roman women. Livia Drusilla, third wife of Emperor Augustus

MONTESPAN, Françoise Athenaeis Marquise de.

Luise, Princess of Naples Sicily.

Portrait of Willem III, Prince of Orange, Anonymous, 1670 - 1749 print Portrait of William III in a circle of Lauwerbladen. There are a number of allegorical objects around. In the foreground, a winged fame blows on a trumpet. Low Countries paper engraving / etching knighthood order (GARTER) - insignia of a knighthood order, e.g.: badge, chain. Fame; 'Fama', 'Fama buona', 'Fama chiara' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure)

Richard Tompson, died 1693, British, Madame Katherine Sidley. Mezzotint.

Portrait of Laura de 'Diani and a servant, Aegidius Sadeler (II), After Titian, 1580 - 1629 print Laura de 'Diani, the woman and former mistress of Duke Alfonso I d'Este. Next to her a slave -made African servant. unknown paper engraving Africans. manservant, footman. slavery; serfs and the enslaved. slaveholder ~ enslaved person

Elisabeth Christine, Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Stecher: Bernigeroth, MartiDatting: 1708 / 1733Factable place of origin: Leipzig

Cusance (Hollstein 124) Antoine Van Dyck (1599-1641). CUSANCE (Hollstein 124). Water-strong on paper, Burin, 1641.

Europe, Amigoni, Jacopo, Amsterdam, Endlich, Philippus, Anne Princesse Roiale de la Grande Bretagne, Princesse D'Orange, Portrait of Anna of Hannover, verso - stamped, Portrait of Anna of Hannover (1709-1759), wife of William IV of Orange-Nassau. Depicted in an oval frame above a console, with the royal arms of England on which a lion and a unicorn are depicted., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 323 mm, width 222 mm, 1700 - 1748, print maker, prentmaker, 1731 - 1748, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Italian, 1685 - 1752

Miss Jenny Cameron, noble adventurer and spy for the Young Pretender, with a miniature portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

Sophie Charlotte, Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Hannover Stecher: Wolfgang, Johann Georgdation: 1701 / 1744Factable place of origin: Berlin

On a platform, a young woman looks up at the night sky from a kneeling position under a full moon. In front of her, a feathered hat lies on the ground. Kneeling Young Woman at Full Moon Inez , print maker: Johannes Philippus Lange, (mentioned on object), 1820 - 1849, paper, steel engraving, h 167 mm - w 113 mm

Hughes, Margaret .

Kalliope; The nine muses. A series of nine muses. Four rules Latin from Franco Estius in margin under print.

The developer, Adrienne.

Besseling, Hermanus, Monogrammist JON, Amsterdam, Philips, Jan Caspar, Portrait of Maria Theresia, verso lower left - stamped, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. A putto laureates her coat of arms. In the margin a four-line ode in Latin and a six-line ode in Dutch., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 212 mm, width 155 mm, height 255 mm, width 179 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1700 - 1775-04-24, print maker, printmaker, 1743 - 1743, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Anna, Archdukezogin of Austria.

Portrait of Anna van Kleef, Queen of England.

Karoline, Archduchess of Austria.

Agnes, Countess of Looz and Rieneck.

Tauber, Anna Maria Stecher: Kilian, Wolfgang Philipp

Besseling, Hermanus, Monogrammist JON, Amsterdam, Philips, Jan Caspar, Portrait of Maria Theresia, verso lower left - stamped, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. A putto laurels her coat of arms., print, prints, height 210 mm, width 154 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1700 - 1775-04-24, print maker, printmaker, 1743 - 1743, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Portrait of Hanover Anna. Portrait of Anna. In the middle of her arms and the weapon of William IV with a crown and two lions. In the undermaster her name, titles, her date of birth and wedding date.

Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard Stuart, Gerard Edelinck, After Nicolas de Largillière, 1692 print Portrait of young Jacobus Frans Eduard Stuart (1688-1766), Prince of Wales, also known as The Old Pretender. Displayed in court clothing with headdress, in an oval frame with three weapons. paper engraving

Desine, Catherine Marie Jeanne Dupré.

Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus Caesar. Line engraving, 16--, after A. Sadeler.

Woman with fruit basket on the arm and straw hat on the head. A young woman with fruit basket on the arm and straw hat on the head. Under the show a four-line verse in Dutch.

Portrait of Wilhelmina van Pruisen, Jacob Houbraken, After Jacobus Buys, After Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1767 - 1769 print Portrait of Wilhelmina van Pruisen in an oval medallion that is held by a putto with a torch. Amsterdam paper engraving torch

Marie Josefa, Archduchess of Austria Schabürgerist: Vogel, Bernhardverleger: Bird, Bernhardfactic genesis: Nuremberg

Portrait of Anna van Brunswijk-Lunenburg, Princess of Orange.

Staten-Generaal, Amsterdam, Visscher, Nicolaes (I), Plas, David van der, Swidde, Willem, Vijf zinnen, Het gehoor, verso bottom center - stamped, A singing woman sits next to a table. She is holding a songbook the hand. On the table lie musical instruments (a flute and a violin). Behind her is a harpsichord. In an oval with border decoration. Below the image the title of the print in Latin, French, English and Dutch. Numbered '2' at the bottom right., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 210 mm, width 158 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1661 - 1697-06, print maker, printmaker, 1676 - 1688, paper, papier, etching, etsen, engraving, graveren (drukprocedé), 1647-12-11 - 1704-05-18, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1618-01-25 - 1679, publisher, uitgever, verlener, verlener van privilege

Portrait of Carolina, Princess of Orange-Nassau. Portrait of Carolina. She is in a leaving with a view to a garden. In the undermaster her name and titles.

Portrait of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria, Jacob Houbraken, 1750 - 1752 print Bust to the right of Maria Christine, Archduchess of Austria in an oval medallion, that rests on an elevation. On the right in the foreground a crown on a pillow and a cloak on the left. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching

Eleonora Magdalena Theresia, Princess of the Palatinate.

Sophia Carolina Regian Prussiae , Sophia Carolina, Queen in Prussia = Sophie Charlotte von Hanover, Johann Georg Wolffgang -, Copper Engraver

H. Catharina van Alexandria. Saint Catharina of Alexandria, a crown on the head, holds her left hand against her chest. In her other hand she holds the sword and she leans on the wheel.

Elisabeth Christine, Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Painter: Auerbach, Johann Gottfriedstecher: Dutzer, andressechers: Dutcher, Joseph (1683)

Portrait of Petronia; Famous Roman women. Petronia, first wife of Emperor Vitelius.

PortraT van Margaretha from Weiher-Starostin to Baldenburg, Johann Martin Bernigeroth, after Jakob Wessel, 1748 print Leipzig paper etching / engraving historical persons - BB - woman. armorial bearing, heraldry. trees. fashion, clothing

Wagner, Barbara Dorothea .

Alexander Browne after Sir Peter Lely, The Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Chesterfield, c 1680 The Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Chesterfield

Young woman spinning thread for an arrow 1686-1741 François II de Poilly. Young woman spinning thread for an arrow. François II de Poilly (French, 1666-1741 Paris). 1686-1741. Etching and engraving. Jean-Baptiste de Poilly (French, 1669-1728). Prints

Portrait of Maria Louisa van Hessen-Kassel. Portrait of Maria Louisa in an orange oval with orange branches. Top left and at the top right an allegorical performance in a circle with a peripheral. In the middle of her arm with a crown. On a pedestal her name, her titles and two lines of Latin text.

Portrait of the Magdalena Sibylla Schacher born Welschin

Bismarck, Friederike Elisabeth of.

Portrait of Carolina, princess of Oranje-Nassau, Pieter Tanjé, after Pieter Frederik de la Croix, 1755 print Portrait of Carolina, princess of Oranje-Nassau, dressed in an ermine cloak. In the background a gateway to a garden. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving princess

PortraT van Anna van Hannover, Philippus Finally, after Philip van Dijk, 1735 print Portrait of Anna in an oval with edge. In the middle of her weapon with a crown. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching

Freystein, Barbara Dorothea .

Portrait of a woman at a rose bush. .

Portrait van Franz Anton, Reichsgraf von Sporck, Anton Birckhart, after Johann Hiebel, 1713 print Prague paper etching / engraving historical persons. armorial bearing, heraldry. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Anonymous black chalk portrait with white heightening on laid paper, depicting a lady positioned near a balustrade, with evidence of enlargement grid lines.

Portrait of Anna van Brunswijk-Lunenburg, Princess of Orange, Reinier Vinkeles (I), After Hendrik Pothoven, 1788 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving

Ludwig XV., King of France.

Rochois, Mathilde.

Anna, Infantin of Spain.

Artist: Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617, The Nine Muses: Calliope, #1 in a series of9, Engraving, 9 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (24.7 × 16.5cm), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Maria, Queen of Hungary.

Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard Stuart, Gerard Edelinck, After Nicolas de Largillière, 1692 print Portrait of young Jacobus Frans Eduard Stuart (1688-1766), Prince of Wales, also known as The Old Pretender. Displayed in court clothing with headdress, in an oval frame with text and a weapon on either side. On the console, between two lines of text, a third weapon. paper engraving

Louis XIV as Dauphin. Artist: Grégoire Huret (French, Lyon 1606-1670 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18 × 25.6 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Louis XIV, king of France. Lodewijk XIV, king of France, in a harness a collar of lace and a long curricula. A battlefield in the background. The print has a Latin caption with the name and titles of the portrayed.

Smell: Woman with flowers in the hands, Pieter Schenk (I), 1670 - 1713 print Amsterdam paper engraving smell, smelling (one of the five senses). cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers

QUEEN ANNE Reigned from 1702 Date: 1665 - 1714

Portrait of Maria Rosina Trier, Martin Bernigeroth, After J. Mengs, 1722 - 1733 print Leipzig paper etching / engraving historical persons - BB - woman. urn

Sophie Katharina, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Special Castle.

. Portrait of Carolina, Princess of Orange-Nassau, dressed in a melting cloak. In the background a gate to a garden.

Portrait of Maria II Stuart. Portrait of Maria II in an oval with peripheral. There is a number of allegorical objects around.

Triseress Waldburg-Friedberg-Scheer, Maria Antonia Countess.

This portrait by Eusebius Johann Alphen depicts a woman, executed with brush on parchment, emphasizing facial features, clothing, and compositional arrangement.

A woman standing at her dressing table and arranging her bodice; upon the dressing table is a power box and puff, two perfume bottles and a mirror upon which perches a bird. Engraving by le Beau after Baudouin.

Mrs Jane Middleton, daughter of Sir Roger Needham, a woman of exquisite beauty says Granger, died c.1685.. Depicted with a cornucopia of fruit. Steel engraving by Thomas Wright after a portrait by Sir Peter Lely from Mrs Anna Jamesons Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second, Henry Coburn, London, 1838.

Portrait of Helena Fourment 1780 William Dickinson. Portrait of Helena Fourment. After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp). 1780. Mezzotint. Helena Fourment (Flemish, Antwerp 1614-1673 Brussels). Prints

Half-Length Portrait Study of a Woman Wearing a Cap and Pearl Earrings ca. 1740-60 Circle of Joseph van Aken Flemish After training in Antwerp, the young Van Aken went to London, where he specialized in painting draperies. The leading portraitists there, including Joseph Highmore, Thomas Hudson, and Allan Ramsay, often painted only a sitter's face, relying on Van Aken to finish the rest of the figure. His work became ubiquitous, to the point that the collector and writer Horace Walpole remarked wryly: "As in England almost everybody's picture is painted, so almost every painter's works were painted by Van Aken."An assistant probably made this portrait study, but it demonstrates Van Aken's typical attention to texture. The satin gown with its bow-bedecked stomacher, the lace collar, the sleeves, and the cap have all been differentiated by black and white chalk and further defined with touches of brown ink. The design was then overlaid with a graphite grid to allow it to be transferred a

Portrait of Lady Jane Grey, Nine Day Queen of England, Jeanne Gray. In French hood headdress. With two weeping putti holding a trumpet and swathe. Copperplate engraving by Cornelis Vermeulen after Adriaen van der Werff from Isaac de Larreys Histoire dAngleterre, dEcosse et dIrlande, Reinier Leers, Rotterdam, 1713.

Lombart, Pierre, inventor: Anton van Dyck, work, Elizabeth, Countess of Devon, (1000 - 2000), engraving, graphics, leaf width 23.6 cm, leaf height 34 cm

Portret van Maria Sibylla Merian, 1708 - 1780 print Behind Maria Sibylla Merian a personification of the battle with a freedom tree (Dutch Virgin). On the wall the weapon of The Hague. In the foreground shells and plants. Text in Latin in the lower margin. Print is part of an album. paper etching / engraving historical persons. scallop, shell ~ ornament. insects: butterfly. portrait, self-portrait of painter

PortraT van Charlotte Mecklenburg-Strelitz Met Hair Kind Charlotte, William Wynne Ryland, After Francis Cotes, 1770 print London paper etching historical persons - BB - woman. mother and baby or young child. queen

Mrs. Williams Hope of Amsterdam, Charles Howard Hodges, 1764-1837, British, after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723-1792, British, 1788, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid papaer, Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 15/16 inches (43.8 × 32.9 cm), Plate: 15 15/16 × 11 7/16 inches (40.5 × 29.1 cm), and Image: 14 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (36.5 × 28.9 cm)

Bildnis der Jane Constantin., 19. Countess of Flanders

Portrait of Mary Davis. Portrait of the actress Mary Davis. She was one of Charles II's maîtresses, king of England.

Percy, Lady Lucy Stecher: Lombard, Piers Redattation: 1660 / 1682Ptrocation: ParisFactable place of origin: London

Allegory of Transience, Arnoud van Halen, 1673 - 1732 print Allegory of transience with a bubble -blowing boy. Next to him a vase with flowers. In the background in a niche a sculpture of Saturn that devours his child. Amsterdam paper engraving (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'. Father Time, man with wings and scythe. Saturn devouring his children

Sibille, Magdalena van de Passe, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1615

LecoutEulx of Moley, Sophie.

Young woman between a young and an old man, Gillis van Breen, after Pieter de Jode, c. 1590 - Before c. 1596 print A richly dressed woman gives a heart to a young man, who looks inside the window on the left, while handing her old man with the left hand squeeze. This gesture refers to the saying "putting someone on the nose", misleading someone. Under the show a German verse. Third print from an unknown print series. Netherlands paper engraving pernicious influence of women, 'femmes fatales'. choice between wealth and youth. clothes, costume (+ women's clothes). clothes, costume (+ men's clothes). dress, gown (+ women's clothes). sleeves (+ women's clothes). head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). head-gear: hat (+ women's clothes). neck-gear: collar (+ women's clothes)

Portrait of a young woman in a chair, three quarters to the right, with a Chinese dog on her lap, Portrait of a young woman with a dog., draughtsman: Franciscus Xaverius Xavery, 1750 - c. 1777, paper, brush, h 165 mm × w 131 mm

unknown, Detail of painting Queen Mariana by Velázquez, photograph, photo, photos, height 246 mm, width 274 mm, height 314 mm, width 312 mm, photographer, 1890 - 1910, fourth quarter 19th century, first quarter 20st century, first quarter 20th century, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain, Georg Paul Busch, c. 1716 - 1756 print Berlin paper engraving historical persons. armour. baton of general

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