Elegant Historical Gatherings

Depictions of formal events in grand interiors, highlighting ornate chandeliers and group dances, reflecting 18th-century social gatherings.

Days of 18 and 19 Brumaire year VIII. (IT)

Antoine Jean Duclos after Augustin de Saint Aubin, Le bal paré, 1774 Le bal paré

Entrance to the lounge of the Empress at the Palace of Industry. Paris, France, Exposition Universelle. An international Exhibition held on the Champs-Elysees in 1855, consisting of an industrial and an beaux Arts exposition. Engraving

Antoine Jean Duclos after Augustin de Saint Aubin, Le bal pare, 1774 Le bal pare

The death of Philip II, Duke of Orléans, 2 December 1723. The death of Philip II, Duke of Orléans, 2 December 1723. Design for one of the nine performances in the print with the events in the year 1723.

Days of 18 and 19 Brumaire year VIII. (IT)

Assembly of Notable People, Held at Versailles 1798-1804 France. Etching with engraving on ivory wove paper . Claude Niquet (Engraver)

. Reception of Stadholder Willem V and Princess Wilhelmina van Prussen by the Council in the Vroedschapskamer in the town hall on Dam Square in Amsterdam, on 30 May 1768. Part of a print series with title print and 14 plates of the prince and princess in Amsterdam, 30 May - June 4, 1768.

Ball of European princes, 1742. Draughtsman: Simon Fokke. Dating: 1740 - 1742. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 240 mm × w 375 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780-1812, British, Surrey Institution, 1809. Aquatint, hand-colored.

Medea: or Jason and Creusa's marriage.

Le festin (The Banquet), from the series La vie de lenfant prodigue (The Life of the Prodigal Son). Artist: Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635

Frederick in Wrocław. Orgelbrand, Samuel (Warszawa ; wydawnictwo, drukarnia ; fl. 1836-1919), merchant employer, Koenig (König) Fr., graphic artist

Theater Decor: De Klooster-Kapel, Reinier Vinkeles (I), after Pieter Barbiers (I), 1776 print The CoulissenDecor de Klooster-Kapel, with a scene from: the Gijsbrecht van Aemstel. Part of a series of six theater decors of plays performed in the new Amsterdamse Schouwburg from the years 1775-1777. print maker: Northern Netherlandsprint maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving stage design Schouwburg Leidseplein (1774-1890)

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Oath of the Palm game at Versailles Jean-Louis Prieur (the young) (1759-1895). "Oath of the Palm game in Versailles, June 20, 1789".

The Pleasures of the Ball 1730 France. Etching in black on ivory laid paper . Gérard Scotin, II

St. Barthelomeus as patron guild of tanners (), print, prent, prints, height 65 mm, width 472 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1650 - 1750, third quarter 17th century, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Analysis of Beauty, Plate II: A Country Dance, William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, 1753, Engraving, Sheet: 14 1/4 x 19 3/8in. (36.2 x 49.2cm)

Rembrandt van Rijn, Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa, 1648 Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa

Image reproduction: W Adys Aw Baka Z: "K Osy" 1875, No. 530 (August 26), p. 133; Szermentowski, Józef (1833-1876), Gorazdowski, Edward (1843-1901), K Osy (Warsaw; magazine; 1865-1890); 1875 (1875-00-00-1856-00-00);

J. R. Cade, A Presidential Reception at the White House, Washington, 1858, wood engraving on paper.

Hearing hall in Felix Meritis, 1789, Reinier Vinkeles (i), after Jacques Kuyper, after Pieter Barbiers (i), 1794 print Visitors in the hearing hall in the building of the Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1789. Amsterdam paper etching learned society, academy of sciences Happy merits

Five Silly Virgers have fun with worldly pleasures, Abraham Bosse, 1638 - 1640 print Paris paper etching / engraving the wise and the foolish virgins ~ parable of Christ (Matthew 25:1-13). the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). playing-cards. looking in the mirror; contemplation of own beauty

Vide Boardroom in the town hall in Amsterdam; The council chamber at the town hall in Amsterdam (...). The interior of the sideboards during a meeting of the middle head. Above the fireplace it depends by Govert Flinck painting Solomon's prayer for wisdom. On the left the painting manufactured by Jacob de Wit the election of the seventy elders through Moses. In the middle in the margin two lions at the Amsterdam coat of arms.

Exhibition of Nijverheid in Delft 1849, Anonymous, Royal Dutch Stone Pressure of C.W. Mieling, 1849 print Face in the great hall of the Exhibition of Nijverheid held in the main building of the 'Royal Academy for the Training of Civil Engineers for the country's service as for the industry and of breeders for trade' in Delft, July 1849. In the hall Ship supplies, fire spraying, carriages a (steam) machine. There are seven faces in the other halls of the exhibition and a map of the exhibition around the central performance. The Hague paper trade exhibition, industries fair Delft. Royal Academy (Delft)

Drawing, View of Masquerade Ball; Jean-Charles Delafosse (French, 1734-1791); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper; 30.9 x 40 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Banquet at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, France, United Kingdom celebrations for the Universal Exhibition of London, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 441, Volume XVIII, August 7-14, 1851.

The Marriage of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Charles E. Wagstaff, 1808-, after Sir George Hayter, 1792-1871, British, 1844, stipple, engraving, line engraving, and etching on thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 27 9/16 × 36 1/2 inches (70 × 92.7 cm) and Image: 21 7/8 × 33 15/16 inches (55.6 × 86.2 cm)

Competension of the Vienna Jewish team to support the , general bump of the Biedern Austria, on April , Isaak Ignaz Wertheim

The Atlantic Garden. Prints. 1872. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Manners & customs , New York (State) , New York , 1800-1899, Beer halls , New York (State) , New York , 1800-1899

The death of William Pitt, Lord Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778. Engraving by F.F. Walker after J. Copley, 1779.

View of Masquerade Ball, Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734-1791, Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper, Crowd in formal dress in highly ornate hall. Musicians on a loft over the door in the center rear., France, 1770-80, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party. Artist: attributed to Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724-1780 Paris). Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in. (20.2 x 26 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Print made by James Caldwall, 1739-1819, British, Inside view of the Supper-room & part of the Ball-room in a Pavilion erected for a Fete Champetre in the Garden of the Earl of Derby, 1780. Etching and line engraving.

Honselaarsdijk Palace changes owner / Sale of the Prussian delights to Anna van Hannover, 1754. Draughtsman: Simon Fokke. Dating: 1754. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 163 mm × w 105 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

. The Trêveszaal, the new audience hall where the States General foreign ambassadors receives, taken into use in October 1697. The room is full of members of the States General and various foreign sides. On the walls paintings with portraits of city farmers and allegorical performances. With caption and legend A-S in Dutch and French. At the top of the seven weapons of the provinces, at the bottom in the middle the arms of the States General.

The opening of the new audience room of the States General (Trêveszaal), 1697, in Works Council after 1697 print The Trêveszaal, the new audience room where the States General receives foreign ambassadors, put into use in October 1697. The room is full of members of the States General and various foreign envoys. On the walls paintings with portraits of stadholders and allegorical representations. With caption and legend A-S in Dutch and French. At the top of the seven weapons of the provinces, at the bottom in the middle the weapon of the States General. The Hague paper etching / engraving ceremony ~ putting a building into use. assembly-room. reception ~ ambassador. coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ nation; national). coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ city; municipal) Trêves room

Academy of Painting, Pietro Testa, 1621 - 1650 print View of a courtyard with three groups of artists who represent imitation, observation and perfection. The artists appear for scientists. On the far left is the personification of the theory. On the far right is the personification of the practice with a monkey, symbol for the IM Itation. She blindly grabs away from the performance. There are different sculptures between the figures. Left and bottom right papers with text. In the middle of two putti that wear a medallion with text: 'Intelligenza et uzo'. Italy paper etching academy, association of artists. portrait, self-portrait of artist. science and technology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto (Italian, 1712 - 1796), Reception by the Doge of Foreign Ambassadors in the Sala del Collegio, 1763-1766, etching and engraving on laid paper

Day of 18 and 19 Brumaire year VIII (9 and 10 November 1799) in St Cloud Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupreel and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux (1750-1719). Day of 18 and 19 Brumaire year VIII (November 9, 1799) in St Cloud (Upper-Seine). Etching. 1802.

Josef II., Roman-German Kaiser.

Bez, Performance of the Creation in the ballroom of the Vienna University on March , in the presence Joseph Haydns, Performance of creation in the ballroom of the Vienna University on March , in the presence Joseph Haydns, Gerlach , Wiedling Buch- und Kunstverlag, Publishing House, after, Balthasar Wigand -, pain

Palace in Puławy from: Souvenirs de la Poland: Historical, Statistics and Literians, Paris 1833, p. 117 LOON, Thomas, Lithhographie Villan

Unknown, New-Year's Day among the Modern Knickerbockers, 1868, wood engraving on paper.

Reception by the Doge of Foreign Ambassadors in the Sala del Collegio. Dated: 1763/1766. Dimensions: plate: 44.8 x 57.4 cm (17 5/8 x 22 5/8 in.) sheet: 50.3 x 67.4 cm (19 13/16 x 26 9/16 in.). Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto.

Copper engraving and etching by Francois Dequevauviller from 1783 showing an assembly of people at a public show, detailing attendees, clothing, and spatial arrangement.

Mascarade. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

The CANOVER TAVERNE IN BERCY Henry Augustin Valentin (1822-1886). The canoe tavern in Bercy. Engraved wood.

Francois Nicolas Barthelemy Dequevauviller after Nicolas Lavreince, L'assemblee au salon, 1783 L'assemblee au salon

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen 19th century After William Hogarth British. King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen 401174

Antoine Jean Duclos after Augustin de Saint Aubin, Le concert, 1774 Le concert

Print. Le Souper Quotation Per Le Roi Aux Invités du 3 Octobre Nordic

Hall of the Marshals, Tuileries palace, opening of the Senate session, Paris, France, from illustration by Ghenri Valentin from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 475, Volume XIX, April 3, 1852.

Reception of Queen Victoria in Versailles, 1855, P. Blanchard, 1855 print Royal visit of the British Queen Victoria to Napoleon III (17-28 August 1855). Festive reception of the British queen Victoria in the Spiegelzaal in the Palace of Versailles on August 25, 1855. paper public festivities at other royal events, not meant or mentioned above Mirror

Artist: Nicolas-Eustache Maurin, French, 1799-1850, Les Restes de lEmpereur Napoleon aux invalides, Lithograph, French, 19th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Reception of Kings Leopold I of Belgium and his son by Emperor Franz Joseph I on May , at the Nordbahnhof, Anton Einsle -, drawer

The witness interrogation in the Ofenheim processes, Franz Kollarz Kolá -, artist

The Pleasures of the Ball. Gérard Scotin (French, 1698-after 1755); after Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721). Date: 1730. Dimensions: 494 × 641 mm (image); 538 × 670 mm (sheet); plate mark not visible. Etching in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Gérard Scotin, II.

Surrey Institution (Microcosm of London, pl. 81). Artist: Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London); Designed and etched by Auguste Charles Pugin (British (born France), Paris 1768/69-1832 London); Aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active London, 1780-1822). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.2 × 32.6 cm)Plate: 9 1/8 × 10 13/16 in. (23.2 × 27.5 cm). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Series/Portfolio: Microcosm of London. Date: September 1, 1809. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Tom, Jerry and Logic making the most of an evening..., George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, July 2, 1821

politics France conferences Peace Congress in Paris opening salon Saal Sainte Cecile 22.8.1849 engraving 1849,

Company views watercolors in a richly decorated interior, Jean Baptiste Madou, 1836 - 1837 print publisher: Brusselspublisher: Parispublisher: Rotterdam paper. interior of the house. art and the public; styles and ornaments

Viewing the large chandelier, gift to the Russian tsar, 1659.Botation donated in the civic hall of the town hall of the Great Chandelier by the Republic to the Russian Tsar, November 1659.

Ottario Pinelli or Schimpf and Revenge by Paul Samengo Gallerie Drollerie Scenen for the theater newspaper, nd year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

. The festive meal held on January 27, 1786 in the shrimp goals (Handboogoolse) in Amsterdam to celebrate the Alliance with France (closed on November 10, 1785). Large company seated at a table decorated with table pieces.

Decoration du bal paré donné par le roy. Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790. Prints. 1745. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Ballroom dancing , France , 18th century, Versailles (France) , Buildings, structures, etc, Versailles (France) , Court and courtiers

James Fittler, 1758-1835, British, The King on his Throne in the House of Lords, 1804. Hand colored engraving.

Recamier, Julie .

The Mayor of Paris Bailly, receives the royal family at the Town Hall, October 6, 1789. Current 4th arrondissement. Event of the French Revolution. (Factitious title)

The Queen of England at a ball given by the City of Paris, August 23, 1855. Queen Victoria. France. Engraving

A popular and fashionable centre devoted to the arts and sciences. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

A Woman Swearing her Child to a Grave Citizen, Print made by John Young, 1755-1825, British, after William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, Published by John Young, 1755-1825, British, 1816, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 18 3/4 × 23 1/4 inches (47.6 × 59.1 cm), Plate: 18 × 22 inches (45.7 × 55.9 cm), and Image: 15 7/8 × 21 inches (40.3 × 53.3 cm)

Representation of "Athalie" by Racine in the Opéra Royal de Versailles on the evening of 23 May 1770, Moreau the Younger, Jean Michel, the Younger (1741-1814)

Amsterdam, Picart, Bernard, Image of the famous Synod of Dordrecht in the year 1618. and 1619., Opening of the Synod of Dordrecht, 1618, recto top right - handwritten in brown ink, The opening of the national synod in Dordrecht on November 13, 1618. The great hall of the Kloveniersdoelen with all attendees and spectators. The participants in the synod are indicated by numbers that refer to the corresponding legend in the columns on either side of the representation., print, prints, verso bottom right - stamped, N. 43, height 276 mm, width 400 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1729 - 1729, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), supervision

Reception of Princess Louise at Inverary Castle,

Das neunte Stiftungsfest der hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart am 14. Dezember 1779, erste Begegnung von Schiller und Goethe, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, historisch

Prinesenie prisiagi naslednikom Tsesarevichem I Velikim Kniazem Nikolaem Aleksandrovichem.. Timm, Vasili Fëdorovich, 1820-1895. Prints. 1851 - 1862. Rare Book Division. Russia , Social life and customs, Russia , History, Arts, Russian

Photo production of a painting with festivities on a square, 1875 photograph This photo is part of an album. paper. photographic support albumen print village square, place (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

THE QUEEN'S DRAWINGROOM

A Table D'Hote or French Ordinary in Paris May 30, 1810 Thomas Rowlandson Guests of a dinner sit at a long narrow table in a magnificent room with an ornate ceiling. Two men and a young woman serve wine, one drawing a cork, the others spilling wine over the guests. Another waiter spills soup in an elderly guest's face. A woman and a little girl with a begging dog play tambourine and triangle at left.. A Table D'Hote or French Ordinary in Paris. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). May 30, 1810. Hand-colored etching. Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846). Prints

King Charles II of England addresses the sitting members of the States General, 1660, 1660 print King Charles II of England addresses the States General, 1 June 1660. Episode during his tour through and departure from the Netherlands. On the right the king on the right with supervisors sitting under a canopy behind a table. In the air putti with the weapons of Holland and the king of England. The walls covered with landscape scenes. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving festivities (+ speech, address ~ festive activities)

MR. AND MRS. DISRAELI'S ASSEMBLY AT THE NEW FOREIGN OFFICE, 1868

A soirée in Frascati in Amsterdam Souvenir aux soirés musicales champés pendant la foire the 1841 au salon Frascati d'Amsterdam, The room is decorated with garlands and pine trees. A fountain in the middle. To the left and right of the middle are tables and chairs with ladies and gentlemen, in the foreground an officer. People talk, smoke and drink together., Gerhardus Fredericus Eilbracht (mentioned on object), 1841, paper, h 310 mm × w 435 mm

This 1791 colored etching by Quirin Mark depicts the high meeting at the Wiener Kaiserhof, illustrating political gathering, court officials, and late 18th-century Austrian ceremonial events.

THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Leaf with five representations of the visit of Stadholder Willem V and Princess Wilhelmina van Prussen to Amsterdam, 31 May - June 4, 1768. With one representation of the ball given by the king of Denmark in London. Every performance with a caption in French and Dutch.

Desperate traders in the Amsterdam stock exchange, 1720, 1720 Desperate traders, victims of the wind trade, in the courtyard of the Amsterdam stock exchange, 1720. In the middle there is a list of the products of the Windnegotion. In the caption a verse in three columns by Bombario. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or action trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper etching Fair of Hendrik de Keyser Desperate traders, victims of the wind trade, in the courtyard of the Amsterdam stock exchange, 1720. In the middle there is a list of the products of the Windnegotion. In the caption a verse in three columns by Bombario. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or action trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper etching Fair of Hendrik de Keyser

THE PRINCE OF WALES VISIT TO THE CITY, ON FRIDAY MAY 19TH, 1876, SCENES AND INCIDENTS AT THE GUILDHALL, LONDON, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Broedergemeente Zeist The Netherlands, Abraham Pietersz. Hulk, 1781

The Industrious Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). The Industrious Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London, 1747. Engraving, etching on laid paper, 10 7/16 x 13 11/16 in. (26.5 x 34.7 cm). European Art 1747

Ball at the Place du Marche des Innocents, August 17, 1852, France, drawing by Renard and Prevost, engraving by Best, Hotelin and Cie, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 495, Volume XX, August 21, 1852.

Das Blumenfest Floralia La fête de flore Il festo di flora. Burnacini, Lodovico Ottavio, 1636-1707. Prints. 1600 - 1699. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Theaters , Sets (Architectural elements) , 17th century

Receiving Thiers´ by the German Emperor in Versailles on February , Fritz Schulz, artist

Public reading of psalms in the meeting room of the Attorneys in the Mauritshuis, 1 October 1777. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys (mentioned on object). Dating: 1-Oct-1777 - 1801. Measurements: h 82 mm × w 56 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Pidhirtsi. Knights (Dininig) hall at the castle. View to the north-east, according to photograph by Edward Trzemeski ; from: "Kłosy" 1883, no. 950, vol. XXXVII, p. 161. Trzemeski, Edward (1843-1905), photographer, Antoszewicz, Stanisław (fl. 1873-1887), engraver

Comforts of Bath, Plate 10. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 11 1/4 in. (22.1 × 28.6 cm)Plate: 7 11/16 × 10 1/4 in. (19.6 × 26 cm). Series/Portfolio: Comforts of Bath. Date: January 6, 1798. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Great Hall of Festivals (TF)

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806-1878). Queen consort of Spain (1829-1833) and queen regent (1833-1840) during the minority of Isabella II. Fourth wife of King Ferdinand VII. El Escorial. Response for Queen Maria Christina as her body is laid to rest in the Royal Pantheon crypt. Drawing from life by Gerardo Meléndez. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1878. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver. Gerardo Meléndez. Spanish artist of the second half of the 19th century.

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