Elegant Historical Portraits

A collection of detailed portraits of gentlemen from the 18th century showcasing attire, posture, and artistic techniques, with varying moods and styles.

Standing man with glasses and walking stick, Anthonie van den Bos, 1778 - 1838 print Top right: p. 8. paper etching standing figure (canon, proportions)

Fortuny, 1838-1874, Spanish, Gentleman of Gouda.

Ryland, William Wynne .

Portrait of a Man, called Edward Gibbon, Thomas Patch, 1725-1782, British, 1760s, Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bound in carta fiorentina, Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.2 x 16.5 cm) and Spine: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm), Grand Tour, portrait

Montering van de schutterij van Amersfoort, ca. 1785. Amesvoort Schuttery (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1789. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 220 mm × w 137 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Mary Darly, active 1762 -1772, British, The Bath Macaroni. Etching.

Mary Darly, active 1762 -1772, British, The Parade Macaroni. Etching.

Montering van de schutterij van Nieuwersluis, ca. 1787. Nieuwersluis (title on object). Monteringen van 32 patriotse schutterijen en vrijkorpsen, ca. 1787 (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Jan Anthonie Langendijk Dzn (rejected attribution). Dating: 1787 - 1790. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 205 mm × w 135 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Polichinelle. Artist: Édouard Manet, French, 1832-1883

Standing man with glasses and walking stick, Anthonie van den Bos, 1778 - 1838 print Top right: p. 8. paper etching standing figure (canon, proportions)

Louis Charles Ruotte (1754-1806). "Theatrical gallery, 4th. Lon. N ° 16. Hôtel de Bourgogne, Le Capitan Matamore. Year 1637". Etching. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123846-9

Signor Gaetan Vestris senior in the character of the Prince in the grand pantomime ballet called Ninette a la Cour. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts in John Bell's British Theatre, London, April 9, 1781.

Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730-1806, British, Monsieur Le Fouet, La Francia, 1772. Etching on medium, slightly textured, blued white laid paper.

Monting the Archerij of Amersfoort, ca. 1785; Amesvoort Schuttery. Monting or uniform from Amersfoort Schutterij, approx. 1785. Part of a sketchbook with 41 colored drawings of the monovation of the armed shooters and citizenship corpses in the Netherlands in the period ca. 1783-1789.

Signor Pants, Anonymous, After Jean Antoine Watteau, 1694 - 1725 print print maker: Germanypublisher: Neurenberg paper etching group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. types in 'commedia dell'arte'

Shylock turn'd MacBeth..., unknown artist, ('Old envy'), after unknown artist, ('Young Vanity'), 1773, Hand-colored etching, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7in. (24.8 x 17.8cm)

Self-portrait of Taco Scheltema. Draughtsman: Taco Scheltema (I). Dating: 1770 - 1837. Measurements: h 332 mm × w 281 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Pier Leone Ghezzi drawing of Andrea Maioli, hunter for Prince Matalona, executed with chalk and pen in 1748.

Mężczyzna w fioletowym fraku "a la polonoise". Dupin, Nicolas (1753-), graphic artist, Esnauts et Rapilly (Paryż ; firma księgarsko-wydawnicza ; 17..-18..), publishing house, Le Clerc, Pierre Thomas (ca 1740-ca 1796), draughtsman, cartoonist

Bastide leading the body of Mr. Fuals / A Aveyron. (IT)

Images of the common Volks zu Vienna, sheet , Carpet grower, Marchand de Petits Tapis, Carpet dealer

untitled , James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1800, Etching, Image: 9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (24.5 x 18 cm)

A Citizen of the World. Richard Dighton (British, 1795-1880). Etching, hand colored;

Foster Powell, the astonishing pedestrian, 1734-1793. Famous for his marathon walks across England, from London to York and back, for a wager. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

Artist: Louis de Carmontelle, French, 1717-1806, Baron deBezenval, Etching, platemark: 28.26 × 19.05 cm (11 1/8 × 7 1/2in.), Made in France, French, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Extraordinary courier to the news of its delay has its right to regence. (IT)

Duncan, Andrew .

Captain Epilogue. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (26.3 × 18.8 cm)Plate: 9 13/16 × 6 9/16 in. (25 × 16.7 cm). Publisher: E. Jackson (London). Subject: Edward Topham (British, York 1751-1820 Doncaster). Date: March 7, 1786. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of General Pascal Paoli, Hendrik Kobell, Samuel Cruys, 1768

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Raikes, Thomas .

Costume de Riclof, joué par Numa. - Chut! vaudeville. - Gymnase ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Madame Josephine Gautier as Ariel, a page to the king, in La Corde de Pendu by Ferdinand Laloue and Anicet Bourgeois, Theatre du Cirque Olympique, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845.

Montering van de schutterij van 's-Gravenhage, ca. 1787. Schuttereyen / s'Gravenhage (title on object). Monteringen van 32 patriotse schutterijen en vrijkorpsen, ca. 1787 (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Jan Anthonie Langendijk Dzn (rejected attribution). Dating: 1787 - 1790. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 205 mm × w 135 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Tamboer majoor van het Genootschap tot Nut der Schutterij te Amsterdam, 1787. Tamboer Majoor met deszelfs Cieraaden (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1787. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 206 mm × w 138 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Spitzeder, Josef.

Montering van de Haarlemse schutterij, ca. 1787. Haarlem / Schuttery (title on object). Monteringen van 32 patriotse schutterijen en vrijkorpsen, ca. 1787 (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Jan Anthonie Langendijk Dzn (rejected attribution). Dating: 1787 - 1790. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 205 mm × w 135 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Calonne in paramium. (IT)

SD 9063/40; Le Clerc, Pierre Thomas (ca. 1740-ca. 1796) (grafik), Dupin, Nicolas (1753-) (grafik); Pary¿ (Francja); Mê¿czyzna w br¹zowym redingocie i czerwonej kamizelce; 1778-1787; akwaforta kolorowana, miedzioryt kolorowany; papier ¿eberkowy; 28,3 x 19,5 [p³yta

Montering van de Utrechtse scherpschutters, ca. 1785. Uytregt Scharp schieters (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1789. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 220 mm × w 137 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Elizabeth Fairchild, Figurehead Andrew Jackson, c 1938 Figurehead: Andrew Jackson

Pier Leone Ghezzi depicted Conte Carpegna facing left, wearing a coat and holding swords using chalk and feather.

Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.. . The Teutonic Knights were a medieval military order modelled on the Hospitallers of St. John. They had a nomadic history: from Acre, their cradle in Palestine (1190~1309); Marienburg, Prussia, the center of their temporal domination as a military principality (1309~1525); their decline in Mergentheim in Franconia (1524~1805); and finally, Vienna, Austria, where they survive as a purely hospital order. . . Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'Crieur d'Oranges'. Jean Baptiste Bonnart (France, 1654-1726)Nicolas Bonnart (France, 1637-1717). France, Paris, after 1674. Prints. Hand-colored engraving on paper

Kléber, Jean Baptiste.

Edward Williams, , c.1750-1800, Mr. Frodsham in the Character of Hamlet. Etching.

Heinrich IV., King of France.

French opera tenor Jean-Blaise Martin 1768-1837 as Senechal in the comic opera Jean de Paris by Francois-Adrien Boieldieu at the Opera Comique, Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles par K. et Z, Chez Janet, Paris, 1818.

STATUE OF ROBERT LORD CLIVE AND BARON PLASSEY, INAUGURATED AT SHREWSBURY ON WEDNESDAY, UK, 1860

Pylades and Orestes. Artist: James Gillray (British, Chelsea 1756-1815 London). Dimensions: sheet (clipped impression): 13 13/16 x 10 1/8 in. (35.1 x 25.6 cm). Publisher: Hannah Humphrey (London). Date: April 1, 1797. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Costume de Mme. La Marquise de L... ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Like the Prince Schnatteratowski his political toilet , makes caricature on Felix Fürst von Lichnowsky, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in , Eduard Gustav May -, publisher

Bliżej Kultury Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (1726 1801)

Portrait of Fernand. Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833-1914 Sèvres). Dimensions: sheet: 18 7/8 x 13 9/16 in. (48 x 34.5 cm)plate: 14 x 10 9/16 in. (35.5 x 26.8 cm). Sitter: Portrait of Fernand (French, active 19th century). Date: 1833-1914. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bellecour, Jean-Claude-Gilles.

Ciel!...je trouve ma femme déménagée!. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Letter to Samuel P. Avery with a drawing of a military figure 1880 Ernest Meissonier French Written in black ink by the artist below the drawing: "Cher Monsieur Avery voici un méchant croquis d'un des figures de mon bon tableau, Le Renseignement que vous avez tiré d'Allemagne pour mon ami Mr. Vanderbilt. J'aurais voulu le faire meillieur, mais tel qu'il est je le laisse dans votre livre un souvenir du plaisir que j'ai eu d'avoir le tableau ... le savoir entre les mains d'un amateur aussi distingué. / à vous bien cordialement / 1880 21 Juillet Meissonier"Translation: "Dear Mr. Avery here is a rough sketch of one of the figures in my beloved picture 'Le Renseignement', which you took from Germany for my friend Mr. Vanderbilt. I would have liked to have done it better, but such as it is, I leave it in your book as a souvenir of my pleasure in having seen the picture again, and of knowing it is in the hands of so distinguished an amateur, very cordially yours, 1880 21 July Messonier"This

Aerostation out at Elbows, or The Itinerant Aeronaut September 5, 1785 Thomas Rowlandson. Aerostation out at Elbows, or The Itinerant Aeronaut. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). September 5, 1785. Hand-colored etching. Thomas Cornell (British, active 1780-92). Prints

Agréable ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Mr Barry in the character of Timon in William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Drury Lane Theatre, 4 December 1771. In fur-trimmed coat, doublet and breeches, holding a spade. Spranger Barry, Irish actor who performed in Dublin and London, married actress Ann Dancer, 1719-1777. Copperplate engraving by William Walker after a portrait by James Roberts from John Bell's Edition of Shakespeare, London, Feb. 1, 1776.

Ponchard, Louis Antoine Eleonore.

My comrades, my dear comrades! ..... I am as republican as you ... I like freedom ... .Equality ... .. I want your good ... your good to all .... The good of everyone Auguste Desperet (1804-1865). Press cartoon. "My comrades, my dear comrades! ... I'm as republican as you .... I like freedom .... The equality ... .. I want your property ... Your property to all .... . Board published in "caricature" of 21 February1833. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

Gentilhomme de la Cour du 16th Siècle (Sous Charles IX). Man in historic costume of a nobleman at the court of Karel IX, 16th century. Presentation added to the sheet metal over the costumed ball held at the Palace of the Prince of Orange (the later king Willem III) in The Hague on 26 February 1845.

A Sketch of a Beggar from the Life, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Annotated by James Chelsum, 1738-1801, British, 1770, Etching

Caricature of a Man Holding a Tricorne, Walking to the Left. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 4 3/8 in. (17.3 x 11.1 cm). Date: ca. 1740-45. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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. Quartermaster general and mayor. Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

Montering van de schutterij van Amsterdam, 1789. Amsterdamse schuttery (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1789. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 220 mm × w 137 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait of Izaak Riewert Schmidt, Philippus Velijn, After J. Schouman, 1826 print Delft paper engraving historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of painter. mathematics

The Notary A Study for The Marriage Contract 1761 France. Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card . Jean Baptiste Greuze

Bellune (Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de) / July 13, 1807, Marshal de France

Cavalleria rusticana

A Dash Up St. James's Street, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1797, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 9 x 5 5/8in. (22.9 x 14.3cm)

Self -portrait of art dealer Johann Andreas Boerner as New Year's wish for 1807, Johann Andreas Boerner, 1806 - Before 1807 print paper etching historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of graphic artist. art dealer

James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, Patern-Staff - Weymouth, 1797. Etching, hand-colored.

Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre, French Revolutionary politician 1758-1794. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.

Iffland, August Wilhelm .

Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850, British, Here's Dada Coming. My Pretty Dada. Shoulder Arms. What Pretty Things, after 1850. Aquatint, stipple engraving, etching and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Iffland, August Wilhelm .

Knaging, Pieter van den Berge, 1675 - 1737, A man slightly turned to the right, goes to that side. He bites the index finger of his hand., draughtsman: Pieter van den Berge, 1675 - 1737, paper, brush, h 139 mm × w 91 mm

François de Créquy, 1629 - 1687. Full name François de Blanchefort de Créquy, and later Marquis de Marines. French nobleman and soldier who served in the wars of King Louis XIV as a Marshal of France

The celebrated Irish Giant Patrick Cotter O'Brien. Aged 38 years, 8 feet 7 inches high. Date: 1760 - 1806

Patrick O'Brien, a giant. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Herborizer in Ermenonville Mayer (after). "Jean-Jacques Rousseau Herborizer in Ermenonville". Engraving.

Lauwers, Jacobus Johannes, Frey, Johannes Pieter de, Peasant figures, Peasant with jug, recto - manuscript in pencil, A peasant, full-length, with a stone jug in his hand. Over his shoulder he carries a stick from which hangs a basket filled with tools. This print is part of a series of etchings by printmaker JP de Frey after drawings by J. Lauwers., print, prints, verso - stamped, 1, height 228 mm, width 137 mm, 1770 - 1834, print maker, printmaker, paper, papier, etching, hand-colouring, 1753-02-26 - 1800-12-21, intermediary draughtsman

Inside Attire of the French Citizen. Artist: baron Dominique Vivant Denon (French, Givry 1747-1825 Paris); After Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748-1825 Brussels). Dimensions: image: 12 1/8 x 7 in. (30.8 x 17.8 cm)plate: 13 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (34.3 x 20 cm)sheet: 15 11/16 x 10 3/16 in. (39.8 x 25.8 cm). Series/Portfolio: Projets de Costumes. Date: 1794. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Reddish, Samuel .

Mr, Fichtner as Louis in The Paris Task Protection costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Gusman d'Alfarache on stage for landscape; Title print for: Gusman d'Alfarache's life; Gusman d'Alfarache.

Halbardnik (board 20 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);

Napoleon in Egypt Made 1835 France. Lithograph in black on yellow wove paper hinged on four sides to a cream board . Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Pages scene at the first act of the day of Louis XII. The Fayette says a Rochefort (...) (IT)

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'Homme de qualité en Surtout'. Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean (France, flourished 1675-1695). France, Paris, 1684. Prints. Hand-colored engraving on paper

Male costume of the time of Richard II (1367-1400), Royal manuscript 20 B.VI. He wears a cap, a green decorated tunic, and odd stockings. Handcolored engraving from "Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period" drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin, London, Henry Bohn, 1842. The costumes were drawn from tapestries, monumental effigies, illuminated manuscripts and portraits. Charles and Leopold Martin were the sons of the romantic artist and mezzotint engraver

Portrait of Hendrik Delbroek, 1787, Hendrik van der Burgh, 1787 print Portrait of the Patriot Hendrik Delbroek, nicknamed Steenen Lamp, a street type, 1787 in The Hague. Stand opposite to the right. Northern Netherlands paper The Hague

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Homme de la Baÿe de Norton'. 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

Count on my oaths. .

Mr, Nestroy as a poet easily in neither laurel tree nor begging and as a Sansquartier in twelve girls in uniform, Costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Netherlands, Craeyvanger, Reinier, Brown, Henry, The crier, 1840-1841, verso - stamped, Standing crier with cymbal and stick to beat with. Single copy of an illustration from: a book with character sketches, professions and costumes of Dutch folk types from 1841. Unnumbered., print, picture, costume print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 275 mm, width 182 mm, English, 1816-04-03 - 1870-02-02, print maker, printmaker, 1840 - 1841, paper, wood engraving, Dutch, 1812-02-29 - 1880-01-10, intermediary draughtsman

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