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Engravings of Classic Tales

Copper engravings illustrating narrative scenes from classical and biblical tales, rich in detail and historical context.

Copper engraving print by Albrecht Dürer titled The Small Woodcut Passion, produced after 1508, showing episodes from the Passion of Christ with detailed figures and composition.
Copper engraving print by Albrecht Dürer titled The Small Woodcut Passion, produced after 1508, showing episodes from the Passion of Christ with detailed figures and composition.
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Bas-relief with minerva and six muses; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Bas-relief with Minerva and six muses. For Minerva an eagle, perhaps the attribute of the God Jupiter. In the middle of Vincenzo Giustiniani coat of arms. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
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Copper engraving and etching by Raphael Sadeler the Elder from 1580-1632 depicting peasant scenes across different seasons, showing farmers, animals, fields, and daily rural activities.
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DIRCE is tied to a bull; Farnese bull; Sculptures from ancient times. Antique sculpture known as the farnese bull. The Broers Amphion and Zushus tie the braided hair from DIRCE to the horns of a bull. Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album.
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Image of two paintings with written comments.
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Amsterdam, Fokke, Simon, Illustrations of Dutch history, Four episodes from Dutch history, recto - manuscript in pencil, Uncut sheet with four scenes from Dutch history. From left to right: William III, Prince of Orange falls from his horse; Peace; Battle of Malplaquet; Failed attack on Nijmegen by the French under the command of Louis François, Duke of Boufflers., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso - stamped, 121, 132, 129, 124, height 112 mm, width 248 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1722 - 1784, paper, papier, etching, etsen
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The statue and the thought, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1924 - 1925 print A winged woman floats through the air and brings a burning torch to a sitting man. Left in the background a classic temple. On the right in the background an image. paper letterpress printing fabulous beings with wings - AA - female human figure. torch
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Sketch of mural with the presentation of Catherina and the 10,000 martyrs, Jonkheer Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers, 1869 - 1871 print The Hague paper picture, painting Bathmen
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Grafzerk in the church in Schettens by Sybrand van Osinga (1623) and of his wife Atke van Aggema (1619), 1871 Grafzerk in the church in Schettens by Sybrand van Osinga, Grietman van Woenseradeel, Dijkgraaf etc, died 1623, and from his wife, Atke van Aggema, died 1619. The Hague paper Schettens Grafzerk in the church in Schettens by Sybrand van Osinga, Grietman van Woenseradeel, Dijkgraaf etc, died 1623, and from his wife, Atke van Aggema, died 1619. The Hague paper Schettens
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Caricature of the treatment of a man in a spa, Baroness de Montfort, after Victor de Stuers, in or after 1900 - 1908 print paper drypoint political caricatures and satires. watering-place, spa. massage ~ medical treatment Aix les Bains
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Leeuwarden, Seydel, Johannes, Nederland, Sichem, Christoffel van (IV), Taferelen uit het Oude Testament, Netherlands, verso - stamped, Sheet with 8 representations of stories from the Old Testament. A caption below each image. Numbered center top: No. 7., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 330 mm, width 421 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1642-05-18 - 1698, print maker, printmaker, 1776 - 1813, paper, papier, houtcut, letterpress printing, boekdruk, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch - 1813, publisher
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Astolfo en Caligorante, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1771 print Canto fifteen from 'Ariosto Furioso'. Sitting on a horse, Astolfo takes the captured giant Caligorante with him. paper etching (scenes from) specific works of literature: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso. giants, colossi
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Etching by Hieronymus Hopfer depicting a large cannon, showing detailed artillery, soldiers, and landscape elements, created between 1525 and 1550.
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Copper engraving by Zacharias Dolendo depicting the construction of the Tower of Babel, illustrating the biblical narrative and architectural elements from the late 16th century.
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The dwarf Slenderhenkius van Poepenland, 1720, Pieter van Buysen jr., After Jacob Folkema, 1718 - 1720 The Dwarf Slenderhenkius of Poopland asks the monkey for advice. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Unnumbered (a 1 part). Part of the second Dutch bound edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as the dwarf tone. print maker: Northern Netherlandsafter drawing by: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving The Dwarf Slenderhenkius of Poopland asks the monkey for advice. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Unnumbered (a 1 part). Part of the second Dutch bound edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as the dwarf tone. print maker: Northern Netherlandsafter drawing by: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving
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Leaf from the Book of Genesis. Germany, circa 1600. Prints; woodcuts. Five woodcuts and letterpress
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St. David, King and Prophet; Sts. Sabinus and Venustianus; St. Sylvester; St. Colomba. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.
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Sts. Maxentius & Leander; Sts. Sergius & Paul; Sts. Eustratius & Orestes; St. Lucy. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.
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Two scenes from a comedy by Terentius, Bernard Picart (workshop of), 1716 - 1718 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving specific works of literature
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Theater of the war (blade XXIX), ca. 1700-1710; Schouwburg van den War, starting from King Charles Den II. To K karel Den III. Existing in IX. Historical figures on an elephant leaf, as battles, water and the main fortresses (...). Leaf with nine floor plans of reinforced cities. Leaf XXIX in: Theater of the war (edition of 1720), the picture with the bundled series of 31 plates on the Spanish succession war.
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Romulus builds a city and calls her Rome, 1572 - 1573 The followers of Romulus are building the city of Rome. Romulus is on the right to point out his head with a crown. The print is part of an album. Italy paper etching Rome The followers of Romulus are building the city of Rome. Romulus is on the right to point out his head with a crown. The print is part of an album. Italy paper etching Rome
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Nachtwaker, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1779 print paper etching night patrol. street lighting
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Drawing, Fragments of an incomplete cartoon for cotton printing: La Course au Sanglier; Claude-Louis Desrais (French, 1746-1816); pen and black ink with gray washes on paper; 65.7 × 90 cm (25 7/8 × 35 7/16 in.)
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Floss tickets. Sheet with 36 playing cards (floss tickets) with performances of different figures. The images form eighteen pairs, descending numbered from the top left number 36 to the bottom right number 1. On the two lowest songs after they show seventeen couples, man and woman, with the man just one number higher than the woman, where every pair appeals or a social position represents.
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Financial foolishness, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1782 print paper etching credit. fool, simpleton, numskull. banker
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Posol'stvo Kn. Ia. Dolgorukova v 1686 godu; Tsarevna Sofiia, izd. Bonnara Embassy of Prince Iakov Fedorovich Dolgorukii in 1686 ; Tsareva Sofiia Alekseevna , publ. by Bonnar La Grande Duchesse de Moscovie. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1884 - 1890. Rare Book Division. Sofia Alekseevna, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704
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The general Drukkery / Le Besoin General. Leaf 15 shows of men and women on the toilet. Under every performance a caption in Dutch and in French. Numbered at the top right: No. 23.
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Sibille of Ethiopia / Sibille of Egypt, 1653 - 1654 print Two performances on an album magazine. On the left the Sibille of Ethiopia. She has a book under her shawl and looks up. On the right the Sibille of Egypt with a wide -rigid hat. She reads a book and holds one of her fingers between the pages. In the lower margin of both performances, a text line in Latin and Dutch. The magazine is part of an album. paper etching / engraving sibyls (with NAME)
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Monkeys and dog comedy; Munchener plates. Leaf with 4 horizontal rows with monkeys and dogs dressed as musicians and theater figures. Under the animals the name of the character. Numbered in the middle of: Nro. 72. Numbered at the top right: 72.
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Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)
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Album magazine with various performances, 1814 - 1869 Album magazine with 20 cut out performances from mainly folk prints, from soldiers on horseback. Nijmegen paper snipping Album magazine with 20 cut out performances from mainly folk prints, from soldiers on horseback. Nijmegen paper snipping
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16th-century woodcut by Tobias Stimmer showing the fable of the farmer and his donkey, emphasizing narrative figures and visual composition.
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Peter Berger's 1488 colored woodcut illustrates scenes from 'Life of the Old Fathers,' depicting biblical patriarchs with detailed gestures and attire.
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The Betrothal of Mary of Burgundy; Young Maximilian; The Struggle for the Burgundian Succession; The Battle Near Therouanne; The War in Guelderland; and The Utrecht Feud, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18 1515 Albrecht Dürer The Betrothal of Mary is by Albrecht Dürer; The Burgundian Succession by is Hans Springinklee; the remaining four historical scenes are by Wolf Traut; and the Emperor Frederick III and a Capital with a Crane Between Two Lions' Heads by are Springinklee or Traut after Dürer.. The Betrothal of Mary of Burgundy; Young Maximilian; The Struggle for the Burgundian Succession; The Battle Near Therouanne; The War in Guelderland; and The Utrecht Feud, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18. Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471-1528 Nuremberg). 1515. Woodcut and letterpress. Prints
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Putti in Four Octagons and Two Circles, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash over black chalk with traces of graphite on off white laid paper, Horizontal rectangle. Upper row: octagons showing first putto with bow and quiver at back; second putto running with wreath; third putto dancing with bowl and pitcher; fourth putto running and carrying dish. Bottom row: circles. At left, male putto with spear and dog. At right, putto walking and carrying quiver upon left shoulder. All representations include landscapes., Italy, 1810-20, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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Léopold Flameng, Proof from L'Oeuvre Complete de Rembrandt (7 Rembrandt copies, 2 Flameng originals), 1859, etching on laid paper.
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Four putti with symbols of Bacchus: dancer with thyrsus and cembalo, putto with two-handled vase, putto with vase and basin of water and wine, and putto with scepter and basin of Venus. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
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Amsterdam, Fokke, Simon, Illustrations of Dutch history, Twelve episodes from Dutch history, verso - stamped, Uncut sheet with twelve illustrations from Dutch history. The illustrations are numbered at the top center from LXXXV to XCVI and provided with explanatory captions., print, prints, height 334 mm, width 250 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1722 - 1784, paper, papier, etching, etsen
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Gregorius the large at his writing table and the destruction of gods images; Gregory Magnus Homilias Aliaq. Monumenta (...); History of Emperor Constantijn.two Performances. Left: Saint Gregory's Large at His Writing Table With A Pigeon On His Shoulder. Right: A converted Heaths That Destroy God's Images with a Hammer. Titles in undermarge.
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Temple of Diana in Ephesus; Dianae Ephesiae Templum; Of the seven wonders of the world; The eight world wonders; Den Grooten Figuer Bibel (...). The Temple of Diana in Ephesus, depicted as an Italian basilica of three floors. Architects and stonemasters work in the foreground to the addition of a column to the structure. King Croesus from Lydia is the client. He looks at how three men discuss the placement of the column. Under the show a verse in Latin. This print is part of an album.
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Etching by François Perrier from 1638 depicting Roman statues, illustrating classical sculpture forms, drapery, and proportions in a detailed composition.
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Suppose the setting sun, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1779 print A man watching a woman excited and violently gesturing at the setting sun. paper. pencil etching sunset. landscapes in the temperate zone
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The Actionist reports in the Roman Chair, 1720; The recorded promotionist in the chair with shelters, overwhelmed by the raised horse of Troy; The great scene of foolishness. In the clouds, the promotionist is centrally located in a jester suit in the Ropinkel chair (high chair on wheels), behind it a windmill with the year 1720. There are several other solicitous scenes. At the top left the malade horse of Troje, a reference to John Law. In the foreground a civet cat. In the caption, the declaration of the figures 1-12 in the performance. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) from the great scene of foolishness with cartriders on the wind trade or action trade of 1720.
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Print (France)
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Two vertical trophies with harnesses, spears and shields; Panoplia SEV Armamentarium .... Two vertical compartments in which trophies with harnesses, spears and lances and shields. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 sheets.
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Image of three paintings with written comments.
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Drawing, Thumbnail Sketches; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (iron gall ink) on light brown laid paper
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Group picture.
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Sculptured metopes (representing the conflict between the centaurs and Lapithæ), from the Parthenon at Athens. (Now in the British Museum.). Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Metopes, Relief (Sculpture), Greek, Parthenon (Athens, Greece), Elgin marbles
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Democratic glory ; Democratic consolations , Emperors, Military officers, Politicians, Thrones, Bowing, Sleeping, Demons, Fires, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, 1748-1836. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
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May tree planted by the Haagse Schutterij, 1764, 1764 print The eight allegorical representations or emblems of the May tree planted by the militia of The Hague in the year 1764. Northern Netherlands satin etching / engraving maypole The Hague
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Young man kisses the sleeping Laura, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1779 print paper etching Literature. embracing each other, kissing. sleeping on the ground - BB - out of doors. forest, wood
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Portraits of the Ancient Philosophers 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one
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Graf Arnim, Bismarck, It should be all of Germany, Caricature from The Flea, Carl von Stur -, caricaturist
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The sufferings and death of King Henry VI compared with the sufferings of Job: eight vignettes (nos. 9-16). Engraving, 1786.
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Panorama of Fraaije Neuzen, 1848 - 1881 print Leaf with 20 comic representations of figures with large and deformed noses. A caption under each image. Numbered at the top right: no. 29. Netherlands paper letterpress printing caricatures (human types). parts of the face: nose
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Coloured illustration of playing cards; Satirical German pack engraved in 1545 with seven hearts.
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The electoral picture gallery at Düsseldorf: paintings in the first gallery. Engraving, 1775.
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Twelve episodes from national history; Illustrations from national history. Needs of leaves with twelve performances from national history. The images are numbered in the middle of CLXXXI to CXCII and provided with explanatory captions.