Daily Life in Historical Settings

Detailed scenes depicting social gatherings and daily activities in taverns and workshops, showcasing life in past centuries with a touch of humor.

Recreation of urban life on the street in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Campania. Italy, Europe. Old XIX century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880

Gouache and black pen drawing by Erzherzogin Marie Christine Habsburg-Lothringen showing a tavern interior scene before 1766.

The cobbler., 1671, Netherlands, by Adriaen van Ostade. Gift of Bishop Monrad, 1869.

Scottish woman pouring a bottle of ale into a bucket on a table for a man in a tam oshanter cap, 18th century. She wears a hood and cimple, apron and tartan skirt, and holds a large key. The room has a wooden table, chair, barrel, cupboard and shovel. Copperplate engraving by David Deuchar from A Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, Edinburgh, 1803.

Five farmers around one ton, David Teniers II, print maker: Anonymous, Anonymous, 1626 - 1740.

Drawing, A gold beater's workshop for Diderot's Encyclopedie; Designed by Goussier; France; pen and chinese ink, brush and watercolor on paper; 11.9 × 21.9 cm (4 11/16 × 8 5/8 in.)

Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis, Steen, Jan Havicksz., Schreuder, Bernhard, Amsterdam, Recipient, Writer of a letter, verso - handwritten, A man, sitting at a table, writes a letter. Next to him stands a man with a letter in his hand., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso - stamped, J. Steen 1672 del. C. Pl. v. Amstel direx, height 156 mm, width 132 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1726-01-04 - 1798-12-20, supervision, 1777 - 1786, paper, papier, printtekening, etching, etchings, roulette, handkleuring, - 1780-10-16, print maker, printmaker, 1626 - 1679-02, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Chinese laundry in California, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 629, Volume XXV, March 17, 1855.

Scotland, Gretna Green, a private wedding at the blacksmith / Schottland, Gretna Green, eine private Hochzeit beim Schmied, Historisch, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Recreation of urban life on the street in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Campania. Italy, Europe. Old XIX century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Album Drawing, undated. Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Fight with Orangists at Voorburg, 1787, Jacobus Buys, 1787 - 1795, Fight with some Orangists at an inn at Voorburg, October 8, 1787. Design for a print., draughtsman: Jacobus Buys, (signed by artist), Northern Netherlands, 1787 - 1795, paper, pen, brush, h 82 mm × w 56 mm

Print made by George Baxter, 1804-1867, British, News from Australia, 1854. Baxter print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

A Militia Meeting. Dated: probably 1799. Medium: hand-colored etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

. Interior with a woman who opens the fireplace.

Medieval dentist, 16th cent. By Amman. Woodcut, GERMANY.

Sadeler, Raphael (I), Johann (I), Vos, Maerten de, Antwerp, Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum, Male Hermits, Evagrius Ponticus as a Hermit, verso lower left - stamped, St. Evagrius Ponticus as a Hermit in a Hut. He sits at his writing desk and reads a book. In the background other hermits., print, prints, height 172 mm, width 197 mm, South Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1583 - 1588, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1560, 1532 - 1603-12-04, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, Publicatie

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, A Merchant's Office, 1789. Watercolor with pen and black, brown, and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper.

Amsterdam, Savery, Salomon, Scheyndel, Gillis van (I), Genre scenes, Kurck inde maet, Two women in conversation, verso - stamped, Two women carry a basket and talk to each other. In the background a river and a bridge. The print is part of a series of 32 prints with genre scenes., print, prints, height 54 mm, width 44 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1595 - 1660-12-24, print maker, printmaker, 1638 - 1638, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, 1594 - 1683-10-16, publisher

The old is asphyxiated Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint (1792 1845), Lithography Villain, Gihaut Frères

50. de grutter; Luken, Caspar (1672-1709), Luken, Jan (1649-1712); 1694 (1694-00-00-1694-00-00);

Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759-1817, British, Washing with Ashes, undated. Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Photo production of an engraving of the escape by Hugo de Groot from Slot Loevestein in a book box on March 22, 1621, Anonymous, 1850 - 1900 visit card. photograph Netherlands photographic support. cardboard albumen print escape, escape attempts Slot Loevestein

Backgammon players, print maker: Jan van der Bruggen.

Portrait of the artist Jacob Smies in a studio with art objects, Jacob Willemz. De Vos, 1795 drawing Portrait of the artist Jacob Smies (1764-1833) in a studio with art objects. paper. ink. watercolor (paint) brush / pen historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of artist. portrait, self-portrait of painter. tools, implements of painter. draughtsman at work

. Print at the top right labeled: FOLI 10.

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Occupations, Coppersmith, verso lower left - stamped, Two coppersmiths in a workshop; one of them hammers on a tub, the other cuts a copper plate., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 210 mm, width 162 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Interior with a spinning woman with a child. Draughtsman: W. Barthautz. Dating: 1796. Measurements: h 276 mm × w 242 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Occupations, Cooper, verso lower left - stamped, In a workshop two men are busy making barrels., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 210 mm, width 162 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Depiction of a 17th-century scene by Philipp von Stubenrauch showing a soldier entering a room with two figures having prominent cheeks, executed in watercolor and black-gray spring over pencil with black edging, highlighting figures, gestures, and interior.

Coffee House in London, England , in the mid-seventeenth century. Engraving, London, 1869.

Boeren Interieur, Anthonie van den Bos, After Adriaen van Ostade, 1778 - 1838 print A group of farmers are sitting around a table in a farmer's room. The farmers drink and are exhausted. A boy plays with a little girl on the floor. paper etching farm (building) - AA - civic architecture: inside

Series Viennese scenes, The washing women, Washing women, clothes, Joseph d, Lanzedelly Lanzedelli -, Drawer, Heinrich Papin -, Lithograph

After Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514, engraving on paper.

The innkeeper's account, 1828, by Meli, print.

Woman Filling Water-Cans. Pierre Millet (French, 1833-1914); after Jean François Millet (French, 1814-1875). Date: 1854. Dimensions: 145 × 96 mm (image); 152 × 103 mm (sheet). Woodcut in dark brown on ivory laid China paper, with an etching of a landscape, verso. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

gastronomy inns ""The Newspaper in the Rural Inn"" coloured wood engraving after painting by Hermann Plathner ""Die Gartenlaube"" Leipzig 1856,

TAPIZ DE LA REAL FABRICA SEGUN CARTON DE TENIERS-S XVII-ESCUELA FLAMENCA-COMIDA EN UNA TABERNA. Author: Teniers. Location: MUSEO CATEDRAL. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. Coruña. SPAIN.

Alphonse Legros (French, 1837 - 1911). The Refectory (La Refectoire). Etching.

Rural scene, 18th century teniers tapestry based on a cartoon by Werniers, manufacture of Lille, ca 1759.

Watercolor by Erzherzogin Marie Christine Habsburg-Lothringen depicting a Dutch stable scene with animals, figures, and farm tools, 2nd half of the 18th century.

A Burgess at Meals. 19th century reproduction from 16th century manuscript

The Harlots Progress Ensnared by a procuress Nach einem Originalbild von Hogarth aus The Works of Hogarth, London 1833 / The Harlots Progress Ensnared by a procuress From the original picture by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833 , Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,

Jorg Breu I, The Wine Harvest (September), in or before 1521 The Wine Harvest (September)

fine arts, Kunst, Richter, Adrian Ludwig (1803 - 1884), Illustration, ""Family Scenery at the Fountain"" (""Familienszene am Brunnen""), private collection, Schweinfurt,

Last Supper 1652-1705 Italy. In 1692, Charles II summoned Luca Giordano to Spain to paint the ceilings in the Escorial. In 1702 he returned to Naples. This is a copy he made after Agostino Carracciís painting of the Last Supper, now in the Prado, Madrid.. Pen and iron gall ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card . Luca Giordano

Saint Monday / Saint Monday Satirical Composition No 67 UNKNOWN, Images factory by Gangel and P. Didion fl. 1852 1861

Rome, Pinelli, Bartolomeo, New collection of costume prints from Rome and its environs, Costume prints with figures from Rome and its environs, Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia, Return from the harvest, Five Roman women returning from the harvest. Two of the women are carrying a large basket on their heads. The print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, prenten, height 207 mm, width 280 mm, Italian, 1781-11-20 - 1835-04-01, print maker, printmaker, 1819 - 1819, paper, papier, etching, etsen, intermediary draughtsman

Figure studies (first sheet), 1833; Fragments of Dutch clothing contract, use, etc. Togged to nature and gelithographed by C. Andriessen. Leaf with figures: On the left a man sleeping on a wooden bench and a man with a street organ. Part of a series of six sheets with figure studies of Dutch market forces, street figures and weak, 1833.

Peasant Family in a Barn 1640s Copy after Isaac van Ostade Dutch. Peasant Family in a Barn. Copy after Isaac van Ostade (Dutch, Haarlem 1621-1649 Haarlem). 1640s. Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, and watercolor (mainly brown, gray, red, green, yellow) over traces of black chalk.. Drawings

Seven Deadly Sins, Greed by Hieronymus Bosch, Oil on wood, 1475-1480, 1450-1516, Spain, Madrid, Museo del Prado

Interior with family, Abraham van Strij (I), After Aert de Gelder, 1763 - 1826 drawing paper. ink. chalk. watercolor (paint) pen / brush

The invention of printing by Laurens Jansz. Coster in Haarlem, ca. 1440. Interior of a book printing house, with a printing press and the setting of letters, Figures at a printing press Typographia Harlemi primum inventa cira annum 1440, print maker: Jan van de Velde, (mentioned on object), Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, (mentioned on object), Petrus Scriverius, (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1628, paper, etching, h 160 mm × w 122 mm

A male nude model being drawn by a life drawing class by lamplight. Etching by A. Ballin, 1875.

La Fontaine. Dated: 1739. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles-Nicolas Cochin I after Jean Siméon Chardin.

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Occupations, Masons, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 210 mm, width 162 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Emilia-Romagna Forli Cesena Biblioteca Comunale44. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 .. Medieval: Manuscripts: 1) Laurentius Rusius: "De cura equorum" (15th century) BCM S.XXVI.2 2) Paolo Veneto: "History of the Origins of the World through Henry VII" (14th century) BCM S.XI.5 3) S. Isidorus: "Etymologies" (late 8th-early 9th centuries) BCM S.XXI.5 4) Gospel Book (Evangeliario), Greek (10th century) BCM D.XXVII.4 5) Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographies, Hebrew (1348) BCM S.XXIX.1 6) "Somnium Scipionis", misc. (14th-15th centuries) BCM S.XII.6 7) Boethius: "De Consolatione Philosophie" (14th century) BCM D.XIV.1 8) Justinian: "Institutiones" (14th century) BCM S.IV.I 9) Bible (Old and New Testaments) (13th-14th centuries) BCM D.V.2 10) Giabir Ibn Afla "Almagestus" (De Astronomia) (13th and 15th centuries) BCM S.XXVII.2. Post-medieval: Manuscripts: 1) St. Augustine: "Enarrationes in Psalmos" (1452) BCM D.III.2 2) Herodotus: Histories (15th century) BCM S.X1V.1 3) St. Augustine: "De Civitate Dei"

M for the Monkey, a comical thing, The Alphabet

The dangers of love. Date: 16th century

Game of Cards, Honthorst, Gerard van

Illustration von Gustave Dore (1832-1883) für Don Quijote inmitten seiner Bücher in seiner Bibliothek aus Don Quijote von Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated.

George Cargill Leighton, 1826-1895, British, The Unexpected Guest, 1857.

Winslow Homer, American (1836-1910), Mending the Nets, 1882, watercolor and gouache over graphite

Opening the Gates on a Lock on the Old Delaware and Raritan Canal, circa 1895

An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.

United Kingdom, 17th century. The interior of one of the first caf_s in London.

Viennese scenes and popular activities , sheet , L´AVengle Ramasseur de Torchon, Avec Sa Femme, The blind rag collector with his wife, Georg Emanuel Opiz also Opiz -, Artist, Joseph Eder -, publishing house

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Tartelettes (Little Tarts) for the Service des Objets de Desserts (Dessert Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown, black ink, bursh and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper, Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene outside a pastry shop. A figure of a man wearing apron, right middleground, offers a selection of tarts from a tray to a young boy and girl, center middleground. An elegantly dressed woman, left foreground, possibly their mother, appears to be telling the children to take only one tart. A woman holding a baby, center middleground, holds a tart which the baby is trying to reach. Two platters and a compote stand filled with tarts in right foreground, are displayed on a shelf next to the shop entrance from which a striped awning hangs. A carriage and driver, left rearground, await the family., France, 1819-20, ceramics, Drawing, Drawing

Illustration depicting John Bunyan (1628-1688) an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. Illustrated by William Strang (1859-1921) a Scottish painter and engraver, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan and others. Dated 19th century

Water. Dated: 1863. Dimensions: plate: 14.5 x 16.5 cm (5 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 26.7 x 36.2 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.). Medium: etching and drypoint on cream laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart.

Currier shaving animal hides with a knife to make leather for shoes, boots, saddles, bookbindings, etc. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810.

Bliżej Kultury H. Kleinmann & Co Haarlem, Ostade, Adriaen van (1610 1685)

William Hincks, 1752-1797, Plate IV: representing the common Method of Beetling, Scutching and Hackling the Flax, 1791. Stipple engraving.

Illustration of russian song, ""Terenka planned to marry"", 1897 - fragment

William Hincks, 1752-1797, Plate VI: Taken on the Spot in the County of Downe, Representing Spinning, Reeling with the Clock Reel, and Boiling the Yarn, 1791. Stipple engraving.

Confidential maintenance, Abraham Delfos, After Quiringh Gerritsz. Van Brekelenkam, 1776 drawing paper. chalk. watercolor (paint) brush

Druggist, 1568. Engraving by Jost Amman.

Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Detail - Moorish Woman and Rider. Madrid, National Library. Author: GEORG BRAUN 1541-1622 / FRANS HOGENBERG. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Mr Havisham, Earl Dorincourts lawyer, first set eyes on Little Lord Fauntleroy. Illustration by Reginald Birch for Little Lord Fauntleroy, London, 1886.

France, Paris, Woodcutters, Watercolor painting, 1820

ELECTRO AND SILVER PLATING, SKETCHED AT THE WORKS OF MESSRS. ELKINGTON AND CO., VISITED BY H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES

This illustration, dating to 1897, reproduces a painting uncovered on a wall in Pompeii, a town in Italy destroyed in the eruption of the volcano Mt Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It shows a baker in his shop selling loaves of bread.

France, Caricature of The Royal Lottery

'Illustration for Le Retour Du Marin, 1926. Artist: Rene Georges Hermann-Paul.

Giovanni Vendramini, 1769-1839, Italian, 'Cries of London' Plate 10: "Old Chairs to mend", 1795. Colored engraving with stipple.

Reproduction of a painting Axentowicz, Teodor (1859-1938), Oberek; from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1897, 1, 111. Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher, Bong, Richard (1853-1935), woodcut atelier

Winter Scene: Woman and Boy on a Small Bridge, by Hendrick Avercamp, 1595-1634, Dutch painting. Watercolor on paper. Their everyday clothing is rendered in detail. In the background are skaters on a river and a gallows with two hanged men (BSLOC_2016_3_144)

The brewer. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

'The Woolcomber whose task was to wash and prepare fleeces ready for spinning. Anthrax could be contracted from dirty fleeces. Hand-coloured woodcut from ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

Bell and cannon caster. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. Later colouration. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation, 1523.

Maid washes the Babies in the laundry room, Randolph Caldecott

Mime at the anvil in Siegried, The Ring of Nibelungen

fine arts, de Passe, Crispin the Elder (1564 - 1637), graphic, couple playing music, copper engraving, based on a painting by Marten de Vos, from the series ""Terra"" (The earth), Holland, circa 1600, private collection,

Russian interior scene, 1856. Artist: Unknown

Coppersmisth. Engraving by Jost Amman. 16th century. Later colouration.

At fortune teller's house. Engraving by Walla. L'Illustration, 1885. Colored.

Personen Aan Bord Van Het Schip the Happy Marianne; Characters aboard the happy Marianne; Travel to Italy, Sicily and Malta - 1778. TEKENING UIT HET ALBUM 'TRAVEL IN Italy, Sicily and Malta', 1778.

Painting.

Hans Sachs, (1936). Creator: Unknown.

Northern Spain. Asturias. Oviedo. Drawing by J. Cuevas. Engraving by The Spanish and American Illustration, 1882.

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