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Engravings depicting intense moments from history, featuring figures in emotional states and dynamic actions, set within detailed interior backgrounds.

Illustration for the play 'The Miser' by Moliere, The Miser L'Auare , print maker: Gilbert Schoute, (mentioned on object), Utrecht, 1713, paper, etching, h 130 mm × w 70 mm
Illustration for the play 'The Miser' by Moliere, The Miser L'Auare , print maker: Gilbert Schoute, (mentioned on object), Utrecht, 1713, paper, etching, h 130 mm × w 70 mm
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The Four Stages of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection (The Murderer), William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, 1751, Engraving
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The escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle ca. 1831 Charles Cooke British. The escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle. Charles Cooke (British, 1759/60-1816). ca. 1831. Etching and engraving. Mary, Queen of Scots (British, Linlithgow 1542-1587 Fotheringhay). Prints
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Karel IX in Defek Met Gaspard de Coligny, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1790 print Numbered at the top right: 4. With caption and page reference in German. Berlin paper etching conversation, dialogue; conversation piece Paris
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Bertoldino Enraged by the Croaking Frogs, Throws His Strongbox into the Fish Pond. 1701 - 1800. Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, 1665-1747. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Cartoon on the departure of Jacobus II to Ireland, 1689, 1689 print Cartoon on the departure of Jacobus II to Ireland, March 1689. Jacobus says goodbye to his wife Maria van Modena who in the meantime Louis XIV Latchoost. The French king gives Jacobus a bag of money, left Father Peters (Edward Petre) with the poor child on the arm. On the right, the Cardinal and Bishop of Strasbourg complains to the Dauphin sitting on a donkey. Left front a boat is prepared for departure. Under the show a verse in 3 columns with a statement of the figures 1-8 in Dutch. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing
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Théodore Chassériau, Othello Suite: No. 10 (Act 5, Scene 1: The Street Fight: Rodrigo and Cassio), 1844, etching and aquatint on paper.
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). German humanist and writer. 'Faust'. Faust tempts Margaret. Behind them, Mephistopheles. Litography.
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What will we enjoy if the tax is finished; RATAPLAN. Caricatures / Counselies / Proverbs / Fables / For old and young / seriousness and fancy. A group of people overlooks a slaughtering slab to a slaughtering family. Associated with a series of six humorous pictures, cartrots in the politics, taxes and other social states, ca. 1845.
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Print left of the number numbered: 30.
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. The orange-minded kat mussel is celebrating in its prison cell in Rotterdam with the girl and the seamstress of the Cipier on November 28, 1784 the birthday of Princess Frederica with illumination. The seamstress dances and the girl falls into her seat into drunkenness.
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A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North America. Dimensions: plate: 6 x 4 1/2 in. (15.2 x 11.4 cm)sheet: 9 3/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23.4 x 15 cm). Published in: London. Publisher: Carington Bowles I (British, 1724-1793). Date: ca. 1774. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Sacheverell cards, London, UK, 19th century engraving
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A woman is having her tongue cut out by a large pair of scissors which are being operated by people turning handles, those on the left are waiting their turn with their tongues hanging out. Coloured etching by G.A. Sasso after himself.
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Two men in conversation, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt, After Clément Pierre Marillier, 1786 print Two men have a discussion in a study room. One of the men is behind two empty chairs. A large bookcase in the background. The print has a French caption. Paris paper etching / engraving debate, discussion (~ meeting). study; 'studiolo'; library
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Alexander and Tinchen next to a pond in a courtyard, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1781 print Lorchen, who now calls himself Tinchen, has put her head on Alexander's shoulder. paper etching Literature. lovers' meeting. garden pond. human figure at (open) window, seen from outside
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justice penitentary system flogging beating patrimonial justice etching by Daniel Chodowiecki Germany late 18th century private collection,
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Reading man outside for a house, 1736 print Behind the man is a woman in the doorway. In the background river face with a tower. paper etching sight, looking (one of the five senses). newspaper, news-sheet. book
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Epiphany, ca. 1725-1745. Draughtsman: Jacob Appel (I) (signed by artist). Draughtsman: Jacob Appel (II) (signed by artist). Dating: 1725 - 1745. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 185 mm × w 149 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Una visita inesperada. Un soldado llega de noche a una posada. Años 1900. Author: JOHN TENNIEL.
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The Man with the Torch and a Woman Followed by a Fool, c. 1508. Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1494-1533). Engraving;
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Costume of a cosack girl, cosacks from the Ural mountains and from the Black Sea. Portraits of the physiognomy of cosacks from the Don and the Ural. Cosacks carousing in a tavern below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.
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Cat, Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695-1705
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LOUIS DOMINIQUE CARTOUCHE Celebrated French bandit, eventually cornered on a Paris rooftop, tortured and executed. Date: 1693 - 1721
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The bull roasted: or the political cooks serving their customers , Politics & government, International relations, Bulls, Outdoor cookery, Banquets, Eating & drinking, Indians of North America, United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
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Old counter of a bakery in Ulm, Germany. Drawing by Dieudonne Lancelot (1823 - 1895) Journey from Paris to Bucharest 1860, by Victor Duruy (1811 - 1894) Le Tour du Monde 1862
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Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Paysans Polonois'. 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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William Dent, active 1784-1793, Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task, 1784. Etching with hand color on laid paper.
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Maximilian I (22 March 1459 - 12 January 1519), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.
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Historic drawing, facsimile of a German pamphlet on the English Gunpowder Plot, an attempt by British Catholics to kill the Protestant King of England, James I, his family, the government and all parliamentarians on 5th November 1605, portrait of Thomas Percy, 1560 - 1605
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Lo! here 'twixt heaven and earth I swing... Apprentices at their looms... Book : Divine miscellanies. 1756. Maxwell, James, 1720-1800. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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What does you say, ô Wakkre youth! Can you get Deez 'Print / Rejoice then your mind, and think of hearing the drum. / Read what 'There is Obder, encouraged to teacher, or so Dikwils Gy hears the voice of underwyzing. Leaf with a large representation of three Tamboers on the street. Under the image a fresh in two columns. Numbered at the top right: No. 129.
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The morgue. (registered title) | Paintings of Paris. (IFF 15, IFF P.270) (set of all)
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Franz Herrmann Czech. Engraving, 1836.
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FERNANDO VII. EL ESCORIAL 1784- MADRID 1833 "FERNANDO VII CON SU TIO Y HERMANO EN LA PRISION DE FRANCIA" GRABADO MUSEO HISTORICO MUNICIPAL. CADIZ.
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Costumbrist scene in a bookstore. Engraving of the work Moral dreams, Visions and visits of Torres with Francisco de Quevedo by Madrid, by Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770).
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Allegory on Oliver Cromwell, victor in the English Civil War. Engraved by Crispijn de Passe II (1594-1670) Engraver. Dated 17th Century
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A New Method of Macaroney, satirical cartoon about Boston Tea Party, printed by Carington Bowles, published October 1774.
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Svetovid, Slavic deity of war and sun, depicted as a four-faced god with a horn of abundance and bow in a temple. A priest predicts the future by observing the behavior of a white horse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Scrantoni from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
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De Leegschaal, 1618, Salomon Savery (Attributed to), 1618 print Political allegory over the victory of the counter -monstrators thanks to the intervention of Prince Maurits, 1618. The performance shows an interior with a large scale. In the presence of Gomarus, Arminius, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and others, the arguments of the contraders and the Remonstrants are weighed against each other. Maurits makes the balance in favor of the counter -monstrators by placing his sword on the scales. In the background through a window the dranking of the Waardgelders through Maurits on the Neude in Utrecht. Under the show a verse from Vondel. With this later printing of the print, a strip of paper with two extra lines with the name E. Israel was stuck at the end of the caption. Northern Netherlands paper engraving / letterpress printing scales Utrecht. Neud
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Major Stepe Bonnet From 'History and Lives of all the Most Notorious Pirates and their Crews' 1725 American School Engraving Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
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Rome, Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de', Vatican City, Raphael, Italy, Bartoli, Pietro Sante, Reliefs in the Loggia by Raphael, Frontispiece with Raphael's assistants decorating the Loggia in the Vatican, Raphael's assistants making the reliefs for the Loggia in the Vatican. In the lower margin text in Latin., print, title print, prints, height 147 mm, width 216 mm, Italian, 1615 - 1700-11-07, print maker, printmaker, 1645 - 1700, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Work conception, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1627 - 1691, publisher
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Frontispiece, from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot
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Two street artists such as Pulliciniello and Signora Lucretia; Balli di sfessania; Dancing of Sfessania. Two artists - a woman and a man - stand next to each other. The man offers the woman his hat on his left hand. The figures are noted their names. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title Print) with two street artists in the foreground every time figures from the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, and in the background spectators who are in the open air a (dance) representation of street artists Gadeslaan.