Early Modern Life and Labor

Engravings illustrating daily life, including births and handicrafts, reflecting social dynamics and domestic scenes of historical significance.

Interior of a pharmacy where different figures prepare medicines Title page for: J. Le Mort, Pharmacia. Improved by reasons and experiences, 1696, pharmacy, pharmaceutics, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, paper, etching, h 145 mm × w 88 mm

A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583?.

The Distressed Poet. Artist: After William Hogarth (British, London 1697-1764 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 2 11/16 x 3 1/4 in. (6.8 x 8.2 cm). Engraver: Dent (British, active ca. 1800). Date: ca. 1800. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Winter; Hiems. Central to a cartouche an image of homely activities. In the foreground wood is brought in for the fire. An old man warms up at a fire pot, while a young man fights the fire with a bellows. A woman is concerned with sewing. Some men play a card game in the background. In the corners outside the cartouche Four personnifications of the winter season. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of four seasons.

A man is using a tool to hammer a metal object in his hand. Woodcut.

Figures in a laboratory, Jan Luyken, 1693 print A laboratory where a number of figures of stoves with distiller devices do. Under the main performance the display of a landscape with workmen at a quarry. Amsterdam paper etching laboratory. quarry

The Distressed Poet ca. 1800 Dent British. The Distressed Poet 417895

Das buch granatapfel im latin genant Malogranatus.. Dated: 1510. Dimensions: page size: 27 x 19.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.) overall size (volume closed): 28 x 20.4 cm (11 x 8 1/16 in.). Medium: bound volume with 6 woodcut illustrations and blindstamped vellum backed wooden boards. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hans Burgkmair I and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (author).

Doctor a dood, Conrad Meyer, After Rudolph Meyer, 1650 print A doctor in his study. Next to him death as a skeleton that holds him a plant and a skull. paper etching physician, doctor. dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings. personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa)

Interior of a pharmacy where different figures prepare medicines Title page for: J. Le Mort, Pharmacia. Improved by reasons and experiences, 1696, pharmacy, pharmaceutics, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, paper, etching, h 145 mm × w 88 mm

Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder from 1519 depicting the biblical scene of David and Bathsheba, showing the figures in a domestic and narrative composition.

The dance of death: the king. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

He causes a widow's oil to multiply until every container in the house is full, enabling her to sell it and pay off her debts, so her sons are not taken away as bondsmen

Afternoon / l apresdinee; The four times of the day; Those Ways and Das Leben Derer Holländers, in the morning, afternoon, Nach afternoon and abends. In a Dutch room there is a company of three ladies and a Lord around a table at the tea. On the right in the doorway a children's girl with a small child on the arm. A parrot hangs on a stick on the ceiling. Against the rear wall a showcase with show service. With a caption of four rules in Dutch. Third print from the series: the four times of the day.

unknown, Antwerp, Cock, Hieronymus, Bruegel, Pieter (I), Galle, Philips, Alchemist, verso - stamped, Family of alchemists at work in a workshop. On the left, a man is busy melting metals on a stove and in the middle a fire is stoked with bellows. On the right, a scholar behind books. Three children escape the chaos by crawling through a hatch. In the background, the family is seen being taken in by a guest house or hospital. Below the representation two three-line verses in Latin., print, prints, height 341 mm, width 454 mm, South Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1556 - 1560, third quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1525 - 1569-09-05, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1518 - 1570-03-10, publisher, granter of privilege

Basin maker. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-ge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

food production ""Oleum Olivarum"" (Olive Oil) copper engraving by Theodor Galle or Jan Collaert based on Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605) from ""Nova Reperta"" (New inventions) circa 1580 private collection,

Cutler, Caspar Luyken, Anonymous, 1711

Batseba receives the letter from David, 1579 print Batseba, accompanied by a servant, sits on the edge of a water basin near a fountain. A servant reaches her a letter from King David. David is on the balcony of the palace in the background. Under the show a reference in Latin to the Bible text in 2 SAM. 11. Print is part of an album. paper engraving Bathsheba receives a letter from David. jug and basin; wash-basin

Hieronymus Hopfer, Saint Jerome in His Study, 1520-1550, etching on laid paper.

Fable of the Satyr and the Peasant Fables , print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar, Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus Gheeraerts, print maker: Antwerp, Praag, Bruges, 1644 - 1652, paper, etching, h 100 mm × w 113 mm

Coining in Germany Date: circa 1500

Artist: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560-1628, The HolyFamily, Engraving, image: 7.2 × 4.5 cm (2 13/16 × 1 3/4 in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

S. Crespin et S. Crespinien (St. Crispin and St. Crispinian), October 25th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year) 1636 Jacques Callot French This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.. S. Crespin et S. Crespinien (St. Crispin and St. Crispinian), October 25th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1636. Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Prints

A man is sitting on a stool at a bench working. Woodcut.

A European printshop circa 1590. After a work by Philips Galle.

Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder from 1514-1516 showing the young Maximilian I's knowledge of artillery and the new guns he invented, part of the "Weißkunig" series.

Dancing peasant couple, Nicolaes Cornelisz. Witsen, Pieter Nolpe, 1656 - 1717.

Allegory on Delft, Anonymous, 1729 print History writes the history of Delft. With her there are the naked truth with sun on the head and an allegorical female figure with books. For them a bust of Duke Godfried III (Duke Govert), he built the castle that was the origin of the city of Delft. Next to the three, father has time with Zeis. In the background the weapon of and a face on the city of Delft. At the top fama with trumpet and book title. paper etching / engraving 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa). Truth; 'Verití' (Ripa). Father Time, man with wings and scythe Delft

Plate 7 from The Deserter by Sedaine

Print shows Louis XIV sitting at a table, resting on his left elbow. 1705

Tobias tells his father of the murdered man, Cornelis Massijs, 1544 - 1556 print Tobias tells his father Tobit and mother Anna, who just want to go to the table, that there is a murdered man on the street. Tobit gets up to bury the corpse. Antwerp paper engraving Tobias tells Tobit of a dead man in the street

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1489-1494 - 1533), Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyard to King Ahab, 1516-1519, woodcut

Sebald Beham (German, 1500 - 1550), The Prodigal Son Wasting His Fortune, engraving

Misleading man in an inn, Pierre François Basan, after David Teniers, 1733 - 1797 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / engraving hotel, hostelry, inn. Lie; 'Bugia' (Ripa). cat

Caius Mucius Scaevola puts his hand in the fire, Jakob de Zetter, after monogrammist CK, 1583 - 1650 print After accidentally killing the secretary of the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna, Caius Mucius Scaevola puts his hand in an altar fire to show how little he attaches to his own life. Germany paper engraving Gaius Mucius Scaevola before Porsena: he thrusts his right hand into the flames (the body of the king's secretary who erroneously had been killed instead of Porsena may be seen lying on the ground)

Pieter Balten, The Dissolute Household The Dissolute Household

Copper engraving by Ludwig Krug showing John on Patmos, sheet cut to the plate edge, created in the first third of the 16th century, including landscape and symbolic details.

Goldsmith. 19th century reproduction of 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman

Man at a writing table, Hans Schäufelein (Possible), Hans Schäufelein (Possible), 1490 - 1538 print Weapons hang on the walls and a burning and besieged city is visible through the window. Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing weapons. warfare; military affairs. (military) equipment and supply

Illustration for 'Tripvs avrevs, hoc est, Tres tractatvs chymici selectissimi..' by Bry, Theodor de (1528-1598) Private Collection 1618 Flanders Etching Graphic arts Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History

Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Thesaurus novi Testamenti elegantissimis iconibus expressus continens historias atque miracula doni nostri Iesu Christi, Parable of the Merciless Servant, King forgives the Merciless Servant his debts, A servant kneels before his king and begs him to have patience with him, so that he still has some time to pay his debt of ten thousand talents. Two creditors point to the man. The king, sitting behind a table, takes pity and forgives him his debt. Below the image is a reference in Latin to the Bible text. This print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 196 mm, width 248 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1585, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publisher

Peasant cottage interior, 17th century. Husband, wearing wooden clogs, snoozes in chimney corner by fire on which cooking would be done. Young mother sits on wooden bench spinning with a distaff while she rocks the cradle. Behind her is a cupboard bed. Engraving.

Shoemaker in shop for his house and a customer, Adriaen van Ostade, 1941 A shoemaker is in a small store in front of his house, a customer awaits a stool on the repair of a shoe. There is a sleeping dog on the low roof of the store. The print is part of a portfolio. Haarlem paper etching A shoemaker is in a small store in front of his house, a customer awaits a stool on the repair of a shoe. There is a sleeping dog on the low roof of the store. The print is part of a portfolio. Haarlem paper etching

Men are working cutting cloth and hammering. Woodcut.

Artisans binding books. Wood engraving.

Germany, Passion scenes in frames with animals, Passion scene in frame with birds and shells, At the bottom a bird pecks at a crab., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 62 mm, width 83 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1699, 17th century, 17e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

A scene of a woman in a bedroom holding a tray with a glass. Created between 1875 and 1890 by Abraham Bosse (1602-1676), the work was published by Rapilly in Paris. The piece features decoration and ornamentation, along with architectural elements and engravings

Confectionery, Abraham Bosse, 1635 print Paris paper etching confectioner. oven ~ kitchen

The Farmer's Return (frontispiece). 1762. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Two Goldenmids Jornaments, Anonymous, After Jean Toutin, 1619 - 1694 print At the bottom are a blacksmith and his student at an oven. paper engraving

Personification of sculpture with a bust of Louis XV from France, 1760 print Numbered in the bottom left: 4. paper engraving / etching 'Sculptura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ sculpture; 'Scoltura' (Ripa). children behaving like adults. armorial bearing, heraldry

Man fires the fire with a bladder ball, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching bellows. washing up

Thimble maker. 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.

Augustijn de Bakker in Beverwijk in his labor captured, 1556; Augustin, Boulanger à Beverwyk, Jetté Dans Le Feu Attaché à Une Échelle et Brulé, Ao. 1556 / Augustyn, Ein Bäcker in Beverwyk Auff Eine Leiter bundled und Ins Feuer Storffen und Verbrent, Ao. 1556. The Augustijn Bakker in Beverwijk is captured during his work, 1556.

Education of children, Hendrick Goltzius, 1578

Man counts coins and a boy brings him money bags; Reispose Ihms der Teuffel.

Frontispiece "Des getreuen Eckharts entlauffener Chymicus..."

Barber shampooing a client, rinsing hair with water from reservoir fitted with a tap. Woodcut from Architecture ... Mathematischen ... Kunst, ,buremberg, 1547, by Gaulterus Rivius.

Hieronymus, holy.

Simeon von Polirone, saint.

The Holy Hieronymus in his study, Albrecht Dürer, 1514 print The Holy Hieronymus is reading in a study at a table near a window. There are a lion and a dog in the foreground. Nuremberg paper engraving St. Jerome as Doctor of the Latin Church in his study with book, pen and ink; lion and cardinal's hat beside him

Suzanna being harassed by the elders On the right a rooster and a dog In the background a garden Below the scene four four-line verses in Latin, Suzanna and the elders Royal Bible , print maker: anonymous, Lucas Vorsterman (I), Peter Paul Rubens, Amsterdam, 1630 - 1652 and/or 1630 - 1702, paper, engraving, h 402 mm × w 502 mm

Digitally restored, The matchmaking man, French woodcut from the 16th century, the man pairs his woman with the suitor, publication from the year 1882, Digitally improved:, The matchmaking man, French woodcut from the 16th century, the man pairs his woman with the suitor, publication from the year 1882

Exempel und Lehr Jetziger Welt Lauf. Dated: published 1622. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Andreas Bretschneider III.

Hephaistos(Vulcan) God of Fire and Smithies.

Interior of a printing house. Draughtsman: anonymous. Intermediary draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1720 - c. 1730. Place: Haarlem. Measurements: h 170 mm × w 105 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Spouses in accounting; Medallions with ambiguous peripherals. A man is working at a table with the books and expenses. His wife stands with him. He says to her that nothing falls to be desired. The bag hangs: the money is up. At the same time, this means that he is impotent. Cash books lie on the shelves. In the peripheral a ambiguous text in Dutch and French: Het Hanckt in Sack, and you don't Let you long Care, Och ick wanted uyt Quaem, that Ick Aent Onfiod Ware.

Italy, Bandinelli, Baccio, Veneziano, Agostino, Academy of sculptor Baccio Bandinelli, verso - stamped, Students are drawing in the workshop of Baccio Bandinelli. The Florentine sculptor held one of the earliest drawing academies in the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican. Students are sitting around a table, copying a modello by candlelight. On the right, Bandinelli is sitting with another modello in his hands. In the room are several models and vases, which, like the figures, cast strong shadows on the walls., print, prent, prints, height 275 mm, width 299 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1531 - 1531, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Italian, 1490 - 1536, after print by, 1493 - 1560-02-07

Woman washes linen in a Wastobbe, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching linen (material ~ textile industry). laundering

Man at the age of seventy, Gerard van Groeningen, 1569 - 1575 print In an oval framework decorated with ornaments a performance of an old man together with his wife at the table by the fire. Servants give them food and drink. The print has a Latin and French caption. Antwerp paper etching / engraving old woman. old man. celebration meal, feast, banquet. hearth and stove. house personnel, servants

Belgium, Quatuor Royal, attending the Triumphal Part! Air du Secret, Royal quartet game, 1830, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the loss of Belgium, 1830. Three monarchs deposed in 1830, the French Charles X, Hussein Dey of Algiers and Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, are playing a card game and waiting for the absent fourth player. The absent player is King William I, next to his chair are paving stones and a stovepipe, a dog is urinating against a chair leg. Through a window, the English King William IV looks in., print, engraving, cartoon, prints, engravings, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 140 mm, width 200 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1830 - 1831, paper, papier, etching, etchings, roulette

Two figures burning pigs with two figures preparing pies to the right. The scene is framed by an ornamental frame with pigs in barrels, tables with pies, sausages, torches and at the top the constellation Capricorn., December Suite des Mois de l'Annee (series title) Twelve months (series title), print maker: Etienne Delaune, Franse kroon, (mentioned on object), France, before 1566, paper, engraving, h 176 mm × w 237 mm

Venus at left holding a golden apple in her right hand and an arrow in her left, Vulcan at his forge beating a piece of iron on an anvil. Artist: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini () ca. 1480-before 1534 Bologna ()); After Francesco Francia (Italian, Bologna ca. 1447-1517 Bologna); or Timoteo Viti (Italian, Urbino 1469-1523 Urbino). Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm). Date: ca. 1505. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

William Hogarth, The Distressed Poet, 1736 1737 The Distressed Poet

Northern Netherlands, Baudous, Robert de, The prayer before the meal, verso - stamped, In a living room a family sits at a set table, praying before the meal. The parents and the eldest daughter are sitting, the four younger children are standing. The smallest child is standing at the mother's lap. On the left a servant walks with a dish. On the right a doorway to the garden. A grapevine grows by the door, this symbol refers to the mother of the family as a fruitful vine (psalm 128). The children are compared to olive shoots (the plants are shown behind the children)., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 417 mm, width 625 mm, 1574 - 1659, print maker, printmaker, 1591 - 1659, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, schrijver

Depicts a balcony scene by Nikolaus Alexander Mair von Landshut, created as a copper engraving in 1499, showing figures, architectural elements, and spatial arrangement.

St Jerome in His Study Made 1514 Germany. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Albrecht Dürer

people women 16th - 18th century caricature on the shortage of men copper engraving by Peter Querradt Germany 1595 private collection,

Mercator, Gerhard.

The Annunciation. Artist: After Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558-1617 Haarlem). Publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (Dutch, Amsterdam 1586-1652 Amsterdam). Date: before 1652. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Apollo with cupid at Vulcanus. Vulcanus is behind his anvil and listens to the story of Apollo about the adultery of his wife Venus. Cupid is added.

God and the Mammon should not go; Dominica XIIII. Post Penteencos. The believer looks at the birds in the air. He makes no worries about because he knows that God takes care of him. The hypocrite is surrounded by earthly resources in a departure to count his money. At different elements from the show are letters that correspond to the legend in the margin.

Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Junius, Hadrianus, Haarlem, Galle, Philips, Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum in lucem editus, Story of the sloth, The slothful person is not allowed to eat after the harvest, Men and women are sitting outside their house eating after the harvest. The slothful person, who has not helped with the harvest, is turned away from the table. He makes a prayerful gesture with his hands, but is sent away. Based on the Bible text in Prov. 20. Below the representation is an explanatory text in Latin. Print is part of an album., print, album page, prints, height 207 mm, width 247 mm, South Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, 1563 - 1567, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), North Netherlands, 1511-07-01 - 1576-06-16, writer, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Dutch, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publisher

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and entrusted by his Master. Dated: 1747. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Hogarth.

David saves Batseba; Paintings in the Loggia of Rafaël. The naked Batseba is bathed. King David spends her from his palace. A crowd of soldiers walks across the street.

France: Frontispiece of Voltaire's (1694-1778) interpretation of Isaac Newton's work, Elemens de la philosophie de Newton, with Voltaire depicted translating the work of Newton, who illuminates him from above. C. 1738

Interior music scene, miniature from a German translation of Les fables de Bidpai, 1480.

Etienne Delaune (1518-1583). "Orfèvres workshop (number 1)". Chisel. 1576. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 123047-12 Chisel, 16th 16th XVI 16th 16th 16 Center

trade activities of merchants woodcut by Jost Amman (1539 - 1591) Nuremberg Germany second half of the 16th century,

Illustration to "Tristram Shandy," Volume 4 19th century After William Hogarth British. Illustration to "Tristram Shandy," Volume 4 399171

Interior scene, 16th century hospital

THE MARKET (BARTSCH 36) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The grumbling (Bartsch 36). Forte, circa 1671. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Depicts Petrus de Montagnana as a colored woodcut, showing the figure, clothing, and composition by an anonymous artist in 1483.

Actually, Francis said.

Hatter. 19th century reproduction of 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman

Himmelsturm and Bertram; Designs for illustrations for le deserteur of jean-michel sedaine.design for a print.

Fabel of the two Mice, Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1567 print In a basement there are a house mouse and a field mouse together on a table and eat food residues. A man comes in with a candle in his hand. The house mouse has an abundance of food, but his life is much more dangerous than that of the field mouse Used paper etching fables of Aesop (with TITLE) : Use 85(...). rodents: mouse. cellar

Do Not Make Water on Clippings from Nails or Hair' fol. 30 recto, c. 1512/1515, Speculum principis (Mirror for Princes), pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.), French early 16th Century (artist)

Man looks at signs in a plate rack, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching dish, plate, saucer

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