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Costumed Figures from French History

Hand-colored lithographs of characters in historical costumes, emphasizing the style and fashion of different eras in France.

Monting Schutterij van Rotterdam, approx. 1785; Rotterdam Schuttery. Monting or uniform of the Schutterij in Rotterdam, approx. 1785. Part of a sketchbook with 41 colored drawings of the montage of the armed shooters and citizenship corpses in the Netherlands in the period ca. 1783-1789.
Monting Schutterij van Rotterdam, approx. 1785; Rotterdam Schuttery. Monting or uniform of the Schutterij in Rotterdam, approx. 1785. Part of a sketchbook with 41 colored drawings of the montage of the armed shooters and citizenship corpses in the Netherlands in the period ca. 1783-1789.
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Habit of a gentleman of Persia in 1568. Gentilhomme Persan.. Nicolay, Nicolas de, 1517-1583. Prints. 1757 - 1772. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Costume , History, Men , Clothing & dress , Iran , 1500-1599
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Francia. Mosquetero del siglo XVI, durante el reinado de Enrique III.
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The mad patient. / 22 (title registered (letter)) | Caricatures. (Title of all)
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Italian chamberlain, 17th century. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F. Laguillermie, from Georges Duplessis's "Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles" (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris 1867. The book was a continuation of the series on the costumes of the 12th to 15th centuries published by Camille Bonnard and Paul Mercuri from 1830. Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was curator of the Prints department at the Bibliotheque nationale. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer for many public buildings and churches. He was named professor at the National School of Decorative Arts in 1874.
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Sbirro or famiglio, Italian police agent with lantern, 14th century. He wears a scarlet cap, grey cape with black border, black tunic, red stockings and black boots. From a painting on the cover of a ledger in Siena Biccherna (treasury). Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1860.
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Costumes de Différent Pays, 'Egyptien'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper
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Caricature of the County Yorkshire, John Leech, 1817-1864, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.1 × 14 cm), boots, caricature, jockey, whip, England, United Kingdom, Yorkshire
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Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Homme de la Foret Noire'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper
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Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks. Attached to stocks is the pillory post with constraints for the arms. Lithograph London 1834
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Prince Józef Poniatowski standing against the background of a scene featuring his jump to the Elster. Prudhomme (Paryż ; drukarnia ; fl. ca 1804-1822), printing house, Charon, Louis François (1783-post 1831), graphic artist, Aubry, Louis-François (1767-1851), draughtsman, cartoonist
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A drawing by Francesco Ponte for Opera XII, Paggio di Osmino, from Vestiar del Solimano, executed with gray brush, feather, laved technique, and watercolor.
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London, McLean, Thomas, England, Heath, William, The new preventive man on the look out, King William IV as a sailor on the lookout, The new English king William IV as a sailor on the lookout, 1830. The king armed with two pistols tucked in his belt standing under the sign of an inn on the coast. On the water a sailing ship and Lady Conyngham in a rowing boat near 'Windsor Point'., cartoon, English cartoons, height 370 mm, width 260 mm, English, 1795 - 1840-04-07, print maker, printmaker, 1830-06-30 - 1830-06-30, paper, papier, etching, etchings, hand coloring, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Habit of a bashaw of Egypt in 1749. Bacha d'Egipte.. Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809. Prints. 1757 - 1772. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Costume , History, Pashas, Men , Clothing & dress , Egypt , 1700-1799
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Troubadour playing on six instruments in front of Prussian and Scots soldiers, 1815. By moving his head, elbows and knees, he plays pan pipes, mandolin, drum, triangle, cymbals and three rows of bells on his plumed hat. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
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Anschütz, Heinrich.
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A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, standing in a landscape, the domes of Greenwich Hospital behind. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
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Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'Arlequin'. Jacques Lepautre (France, Paris, 1653-1684)Jean Dolivar (Spain, Zaragoza, active France 1670-1690, 1641 - 1692). France, Paris, circa 1682, bound 1703-1704. Prints. Hand-colored engraving on paper
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Speelman / on foot
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Satirical performance Fruytiers, Lodevyk Joseph (1713 1782)
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Flower Gardener, c. 1730, Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684 - 1756, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (26.67 x 19.05 cm) (image)12 5/8 x 8 in. (32.07 x 20.32 cm) (plate)14 x 8 5/8 in. (35.56 x 21.91 cm) (sheet)19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. (50.17 x 40.01 x 2.86 cm) (outer frame), Hand-colored engraving, Germany, 18th century
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MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol. 1. Series depicting civilian and military costumes. Spanish soldier riding a horse. Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.
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Noblemen of the late 17th century. The man in the middle is King Louis XIV of France, the Sun King, from an oil painting on alabaster in Heidelberg. The other men are French cavaliers from the reign of Louis XVI. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithograph by A. Volkert and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.
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Piercy Roberts, active 1795-1828, British, Richard III in his Tent - "Richard III", Act V, Scene III. Colored aquatint.
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The Soliloquy, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1782, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 7/8in. (21 x 17.5cm)
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Ciudad del Vaticano. Battistrada. Guía, encargado de la conduccion de la silla gestatoria del papa. Grabado de 1910.
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Pillars of the Opera: Prince Esterhazy, Lord Fife, Ball Hughes, and Lord Wilton. Date: 1820s
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The representatives of the people on duty, by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), 1794, watercolor.
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Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg -, Field Zzeugmeister, Johann Hieronymus Delete Kohl -, publishing house
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Willem iv van den bergh Painting; oil on panel; overall: 97.5 x 69.9 cm (38 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.) framed: 121.6 x 94.6 x 7.3 cm (47 7/8 x 37 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.);
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The Unfortunate Macaroni; Macaronies. Top left of V.2; Top right number 9. English caricatures from the 'Macaronies' series issued by D. Marly in 1771 and 1772.
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This image, dating to around 1899, shows the English king Henry III as a child. Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War.
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Muller, Charles François (n.1789 - D.1855), alleged portrait of championnet in Rome. (Dummy title). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.
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Long live the King Long live the homeland / we are Aussy of the third-state we others (IT)
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Dobbins Electric Soap - "And then the winning school-boy with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school.". Dobbins Electric Soap - "And then the winning school-boy with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school."
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The entertaining Harlekein game, 1850 - 1870 print. gameboard Board game with a harlequin in the middle of the playing field that holds a bag in his open hands with the number 7. Around him a garland on which medallions hang with the numbers 2 to 12. A shield at the top in the middle. Under the show the rules in two columns. A children's drawing in pencil on Verso. Numbered at the top right: No. 104. publisher: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdamprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing board-games of chance. board-games. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin
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Napoleon first / emperor of the French.
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Ambulant Savetier. / 29 (title registered (letter)) | The cries of Paris. (Title of all)
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Helmet with visor from the 14th/ 15th centuries from the collection of the Brussels armoury. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist
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Grand prince Paul of Russia -, the later Tsar Paul I , Johann Hieronymus Delete Kohl -, publishing house
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Engraving of Georges Cuvier, a prominent naturalist, created in 1880 in New York, featuring the contributions of Mirbel, Lizinka Aimée Zoé de (1796-1849)
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Whos cranks , and Wssa hob i there danwaadena, Weer barking in Westernicander © Wordinia, Josefarian -, Publisher
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Black Man of the Vera Cruz Region Negre des Environs de Vera Crux 1830 C. Linati (British) Color Lithograph Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Halbardnik with pixture; Scholtz, Julius (1825-1893); 1844 (1844-00-00-1844-00-00);Schlesisches Museum der Bildenen Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, Scholtz, Hanna (Flow. Ca 1912) - Dar, Biedermeier (Style), Halbardnica, German drawings, historical costumes
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Pencz, Georg.
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GRABADO-ARCABUCERO DEL PRINCIP MAURICIO NASSAU S XVIII. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Contemporary French cartoon on Napoleon's extravagant spending.
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Trumpeters at a tournament, reign of Francis I of France. Long-sleeved pink tunics over green doublets, white stockings, horns bearing blue standards decorated with gold fleur-de-lys. One of the musicians an African.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F. Laguillermie, from Georges Duplessis's "Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles" (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris 1867. The book was a continuation of the series on the costumes of the 12th to 15th centuries published by Camille Bonnard and Paul Mercuri from 1830. Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was curator of the Prints department at the Bibliotheque nationale. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer for many public buildings and churches. He was named professor at the National School of Decorative Arts in 1874.
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Col. Wade Hampton S. Ca.. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835
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Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540). Valencian scholar and humanist. Portrait. He lived nearly his entire life in the Southern Netherlands. Engraving. Colored.
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Black Dog at the Spy-Glass. Date: First published: 1883
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Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) - member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Date: circa 1606
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Traveling practitioner, Philibert-Louis Deucourt, After Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdainine, 1817 print On a square in a village is a man with a stack of prints with religious performances in both hands. paper etching print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph. street-trader
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'To the Society of Coffers at Blackheath', c19th century. Artists: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Valentine Green.
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Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Montagnard du Mexique'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper
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Rose, Scottish Clans
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Cromolitografía troquelada de un cosaco ruso. Impreso en Alemania. Años 1890.
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Throne Garda Poland (board 7 in the publishing house: many ancient clothing); Raczyński, Karol (1799 cars 1801-Post 1860), Wyziębłowski, Józef (Vilnius; Litographic Plant; 1833-1863); 1838 (1838-00-00-1838-00-00);
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Bavarian man wearing traditional dress and holding a beer mug and a pipe, Bavaria, Germany, original print from the year 1899, Bayerischer Mann, der traditionelle Tracht trägt und ein Bierglas und eine Pfeife hält, Bayern, Deutschland, historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, koloriert, handcoloriert, Koloration, digital verbessert.
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Hab.t de l'Angleterre from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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'Napoleon 1st', 19th century. Artist: Unknown
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Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours (14891512), French military commander famous for his campaign during the War of the League of Cambrai. He wears a laurel wreath, a blue tunic over a suit of armour, and rests his hand on a sword. From a sculpture by Agostino Busti preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (now in Sforza Castle). Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.
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Siena, sketches for The Appearances/Entries of the Nicchio, Chiocciola, Lupa and Tortuca Quarters, 19th Century, 1851-1853,
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Illustration by Tenniel, from the 1890 edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll.
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Long live the nation, detail from a caricature depicting the new covenant of Louis XVI. French Revolution, France, 18th century.
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Edouard Manet 1832-1883. Le Fifre. 1866. oil painting on canvas cm 161 x 97.
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Peter the Great, Peter I. Peter Alexeyevich, 9 June 1672, 8 February 1725, ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May. 27 April 1682 until his death in 1725, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown