Engravings of Classical Themes

Intricate engravings illustrating mythological subjects, featuring divine figures and allegorical scenes from art history.

Satyr looking in wonder the nakedness of a Maenad, who is lying back turned on a rock; beside her, a cymbal, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 34, 1757-1787, Naples.

Andromeda 1814-1824 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Marie Philippe Coupin de La Couperie

Judgment of Paris, Anonymous, After Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, after Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1609 - 1659 print Paris is sitting under a tree. In his left hand he has a shepherd's staff and an apple in his right hand. Mercury is on his feet. He wears a winged hat and holds a caduceus. print maker: Low Countriesafter print by: Leidenafter design by: Northern Netherlands paper engraving the Judgement of Paris (Mercury present)

Zondeval, Laurent Cars, After François Le Moine, c. 1755 print France paper etching / engraving Adam and Eve holding (and possibly eating) the fruit

Coming to Amor, Pierre Alexandre Aveline, After François Boucher, 1712 - 1760 print print maker: Francepublisher: Parispublisher: Paris paper etching / engraving Venus taking care of Cupid. garden vase

Juno at Venus in her chariot with Cupid; Designs for paintings with episodes from the Aeneas.

LEDA EN DE ZWAAN, Louis de Châtillon, After Nicolas Poussin, 1649 - 1734 print print maker: Franceafter painting by: Rome paper etching Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and Leda. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. water-birds: swan

Male Nude, Seated and Standing, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1646 print paper counterproof / counterproof / etching

Young Satyr About to Bathe in a River, from 'Landscapes and seaports' (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds) 1656 Stefano della Bella Italian. Young Satyr About to Bathe in a River, from 'Landscapes and seaports' (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds) 377303

Satyr looking in wonder the nakedness of a Maenad, who is lying back turned on a rock; beside her, a cymbal, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 34, 1757-1787, Naples.

Etching and copper engraving by Jean Charles Le Vasseur depicting the mythological figures Diana and Endymion, created in 1771.

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Psyche going to Dress, 1786. Engraving.

Achilles hits Astyanax against the rocks, Heinrich Vianden, 1836 print Germany (possibly) paper etching Astyanax is snatched away from Andromache. Astyanax is hurled down from the battlements of Troy

A copper engraving by an unidentified engraver circa 1597 depicting the deities Bacchus, Ceres, and Venus, showing classical allegorical figures and symbolic elements.

Three putti with attributes of the Muzen, Bernard Picart (workshop or), After Bernard Picart, 1715 print Three putti on a cloud with attributes of the muses, such as a double whistle, mask, laurel wreath, book and trumpet. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. the Muses acting together (as group) - attributes. mask

'Danae'. Germany, 1615. Dimensions: 18,7x14,7 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Johann Georg Hering.

Diana Ontwake Amor, Gaspard Duchange, After Jean-Baptiste Desormeaux, 1715 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper engraving (story of) Diana (Artemis). (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). attributes of Cupid: bow

Apollo en Daphne (linker deel).A river god and two nymphs look at the fleeing Daphne. Amor can be seen between the tree branches, the cause of evil. He holds a bundle of arrows in his hand.

Drunk Silenus; The Tazza farnese. The Drunk Silenus is on the ground. Two saters drank him. The performance is caught in a round list of grape vines with two putti with grape fees in between.

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Venus Childing Cupid, 1784. Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper.

A Naiad (Woman Stepping into a Bath), Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727-1815, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian, 1727-1785, active England, 1755-1785, Stipple engraving on paper, A woman balanced at the edge of a bath, about to enter, Her right foot is on the urn, which is pouring in the water. Below, the artists' and publisher's names, date of sculpture, date and place of publication, title and inscription., Italy, 1802, Print, Print

Perseus cautiously relating to Andromeda the Transforming power of Medusa's Head, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA, 1727-1785, Italian, active in Britain (1755-85), 1789, Engraving

A naked woman's figure as a perfection personification, with a globe in her hands that she meets with a passer. On the piece of drapery around her some signs of the zodiac. Print from a series of 41 symbols.

Copper engraving and etching by Pieter van Gunst depicting Pluto and Proserpina, created between 1674 and 1732, representing the classical mythological underworld figures.

Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749-1815, British, Cephalus and Procris, 1783. Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Diana Sourtant du Bain (Diana Leaving the Bath). Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Pierre-Edmund-Alexandre Hedouin (French, Boulogne-sur-Mer 1820-1889). Dimensions: Sheet: 15 11/16 x 15 13/16 in. (39.8 x 40.2 cm)Plate: 12 15/16 x 21 5/8 in. (32.8 x 55 cm). Publisher: Chalcographie du Louvre. Date: 1864. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Apollo and Daphne (left part), Robert van Audenaerd, after Carlo Maratta, after Giovanni Paolo Melchiori, 1685 - 1728 print A river god and two nymphs watch the fleeing Daphne. Amor can be seen between the tree branches, the cause of evil. He holds a bundle of arrows in his hand. Rome paper etching / engraving Apollo pursuing the nymph Daphne (as yet not metamorphosed). Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548)

Copper engraving by Pieter van Gunst depicting the mythological figures Jupiter, Juno, and Io, created between 1674 and 1732.

Venus Anadyomena 1898 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Henri Fantin-Latour

Etching by Pietro Peiroleri from 1758 depicting Bacchus, showing the god of wine with vine leaves, grapes, and classical iconography.

Bathseba brings Abisagh to David.

Naked woman, seated on a bed with a curtain cord in her hand; The woman with the arrow.

Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro, 1799. Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper.

Hercules in fight with the Nemean Lion, Jean Pesne, After Nicolas Poussin, 1678 print France paper etching / engraving Nemean lion. (1) Hercules chokes the Nemean lion with his arms

Copper engraving and etching by Jean Baptiste Michel depicting the bath of Venus, created between 1750 and 1804, showing allegorical figure and water scene.

Nymph Van Diana takes an arrow out of the neck of a deer, Jean Louis Potrelle, after Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdainine, 1798 - 1824 print Paris paper engraving / etching Hok ruced animals: The very well. Selnanonons, 'Hinfin the nanana' (paria)

Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)

Painting awarded, Theodor Matham, After Guido Reni, 1615 - 1676 print A putto crowns the personification of painting with a laurel wreath. paper engraving 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa). crowning with laurel. palette. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

'Bacchanalia'. France, 1766. Dimensions: 41,5x28 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Jean Jacques François l'aine Le Barbier.

Frontispiece from Cipriani's Rudiments of Drawing Made 1792 Italy. Color engraving and stipple engraving, on paper . Francesco Bartolozzi

Engraving by Gerard Valck from 1670-1680 depicting Bathsheba bathing. The print shows the figure, posture, attire, gestures, and compositional details in 17th-century Dutch style.

Copper engraving and etching by Pietro Bonato (1810) depicting Susanna with the two elders, showing figures, gestures, and expressions in early 19th-century European religious art.

Copper engraving and etching by Jérôme Danzel depicting Came and Enée, created in 1756, illustrating mythological figures and narrative composition.

Artist: Joachim von Sandrart, German, 1606-1688, The BorgheseCentaur, Etching and engraving, image: 32.2 × 21.2 cm (12 11/16 × 8 3/8in.), Made in Germany, German, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Death's Door, from The Grave, a Poem by Robert Blair. Artist: After William Blake (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: plate: 9 9/16 x 5 7/16 in. (24.3 x 13.8 cm)sheet: 11 11/16 x 6 9/16 in. (29.7 x 16.7 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Proserpina, Nicolaas Braeu, after Karel van Mander (I), 1598 print An image of Proserpina, the wife of the God Pluto, placed in a niche. Proserpina was kidnapped by Pluto to the Hades during the flowers. At the request of her mother the goddess Ceres, she was allowed to return to the world for three months every spring. In this series she acts as a counterpart to Pluto. With a Latin caption. paper engraving (story of) Proserpina (Persephone, Core), Libera

Pan en Syrinx, Isaac Beckett, c. 1681 - c. 1688 print London paper Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705)

Two Female Figures on a Cloud. Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806); after Pietro Liberi (Italian, 1614-1687). Date: 1763-1764. Dimensions: 151 × 106 mm (image); 172 × 114 mm (plate); 213 × 147 mm (sheet). Etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD.

Woman with the Arrow Made 1661 Holland. Etching, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper . Rembrandt van Rijn

Extse Van Teresa, Benoît Thiboust, After Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1681 print print maker: Romeafter sculpture by: RomeVaticaanstad paper engraving personal devotion of St. Theresa - female saint meditating, in ecstasy

The lavery artist; Qui Trop Embrasse, Mal Étrient. Naked artist consists of a hill with a minerva dedicated altar. In his arms he teast large amount of attributes of arts and sciences, some of which falls out of his hands, including a winch, brushes, a hammer and a passer. A putto is sitting on his shoulder and attracts his ears smiling. Part of a group with imaginations of the lazy and the diligent artist.

Venus in Cupid, Anonymous, 1650 - 1750 print France paper etching Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Baigneuses (4e grande planche) , Bathing, Nudes. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Maria Magdalena in de Wildernis, Jacques Nicolas Tardieu, After Charles François Hutin, After Paolo Pagani, 1726 - 1791 print paper etching / engraving the penitent harlot Mary Magdalene; possible attributes: book (or scroll), crown, crown of thorns, crucifix, jar of ointment, mirror, musical instrument, palm-branch, rosary, scourge

Bacchus statue and two studies of Armen, Johannes de Vreede, 1847 - 1900 print Study magazine with a bacchus image and two arms on the left. At the top right: 3. Amsterdam paper engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber. arms. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Maria Magdalena in de Wildernis, Jacques Nicolas Tardieu, After Charles François Hutin, After Paolo Pagani, 1726 - 1791 print paper etching / engraving the penitent harlot Mary Magdalene; possible attributes: book (or scroll), crown, crown of thorns, crucifix, jar of ointment, mirror, musical instrument, palm-branch, rosary, scourge

Three putti at a tree. Putti at a tree; Godliness. Design for a decoration.

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Genius describing Beauty, and Cupid dictating Him, 1782. Engraving.

Florentino Decraene (Lithographer) (After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)); José de Madrazo y Agudo (Director); Real Establecimiento Litográfico de Madrid (Printer) / 'Venus and Adonis'. 1829 - 1832. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Scraper on wove paper; 1829 - 1832. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Scraper on wove paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Taddeo in the Sistine Chapel Drawing Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement'. Date/Period: Ca. 1595. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk and touches of red chalk. Height: 419 mm (16.49 in); Width: 177 mm (6.96 in). Author: Federico Zuccaro.

Venus and Mars caught by Vulcanus, Jakob Wilhelm Heckenauer, After Frans Floris (I), After Maerten de Vos, 1710 - 1714 Text in German and Latin in the lower margin. Print is part of an album. Wolfenbüttel paper engraving Text in German and Latin in the lower margin. Print is part of an album. Wolfenbüttel paper engraving

Narcissus seated on a rock near a fountain holding two hunting staffs, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Campana from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 29, 1757-1787, Naples.

Copper engraving by Crispin van de Passe depicting the story of Tarquin and Lucretia, created between 1584 and 1637, illustrating the legendary Roman narrative of virtue and betrayal.

Meno Haas (1752-1833); Johann Heinrich St�rmer (1775-1855), Beaking woman, 1824

Photo production of Hagar und Ismael, Anonymous, 1870 - 1890 Photograph. visit card cardboard. photographic support albumen print painting, drawing and the graphic arts. Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness

The Death of General Wolfe. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Wolfe, James, 1727-1759 , Death and burial

John Hamilton Mortimer, Successful Monster, 1778 Successful Monster

Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807). Jupiter and Leda after Véronèse. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th century, engraving

Poetry. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Louis Félix de La Rue (French, Paris 1731-1765 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 15/16 in. (20 x 27.8 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Phoebus, Michel Dorigny, after Simon Vouet, 1644 print Numbered in the bottom right: 6. France paper engraving / etching (story of) Apollo (Phoebus)

Flora, Harmen Jansz Muller, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1598 - 1602 print Flora, sitting with bare breasts, with a basket with flowers under her arm. Next to her is a vase with flowers. Amsterdam paper. deck paint engraving / brush (story of) Flora

Son of Lamekis provided by a farmer's wife, Charles Emmanuel Patas, after Clément Pierre Marillier, 1786 print Paris paper etching / engraving tales and fairy tales (with TITLE)

Dome, a beautiful, stefano (Frenchs étienne de la belienne of the belle) (9664-08-22), caval carrelines and novelted varie. Other Cartouche. Idme number of a suite de 18 feet. (A. DEVESME 1037; DUTUIT 124) (Title Principality). Heu-strong. Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-texts de la Ville.

Venus Anadyomene, 1898. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904). Lithograph;

Frontispice. Vérité , Composers, Fictitious characters, Supernatural beings, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Bacchanal with Silenus Silenus. (title on object), The drunken Silenus is supported by satyrs and bacchants in a festive procession with musicians, (story of) Silenus, thiasos, i.e. Bacchus' revel-rout, bacchanal without Bacchus, Charles Howard Hodges (mentioned on object), London, 1789, paper, etching, h 435 mm × w 577 mm

The genius finds the crazy Julie under a tree along the road, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1780 print paper etching landscapes. 'en route', traveller under way. walking-stick, staff, cane (+ variant). emotional illness, derangement, madness

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), Nude Man Seated and Nude Man Standing, with a Woman and Baby in the Background, c. 1646, etching

Relief with allegory in the silence above the right door to the secretary in the town hall on Dam Square, Hubert Quellinus, after Rombout Verhulst, 1663 print Relief with allegory in the silence above the right door to the secretary in the southern gallery of the town hall on Dam Square in Amsterdam. In the foreground a woman with a finger on her lips and a fish. Left in the background a goose with a stone in the mouth. At the bottom marked: K. paper etching / engraving Taciturnity; 'Secretezza', 'Secretezza overo silent' (Ripa). putting a finger to the lips, 'silence'; "Silence" (Ripa). Fishes. Water-Birds: Goose City Hall of Amsterdam (1655-1808)

Bacchus naked and crowned with ivy lying with Ariadne; beside them, Apollo playing cithara, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Filippo Morghen from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume IV, plate 8, 1757-1787, Naples.

Copper engraving and etching by Benoit Audran depicting the biblical story of David and Goliath, created around 1717, illustrating the combat between the figures.

Alcander and Nerina, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA, 1727-1785, Italian, active in Britain (1755-85), 1784, Line engraving

Dancing nymphs by Saters Spied, Jan van Vianen, 1701 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving satyr(s) (in general). satyr(s) spying upon. nymphs (in general); 'Ninfe in commune' (Ripa)

Persephone(Proserpine). Artist: Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617

This 1615 copper engraving and etching by Hans Rottenhammer depicts a scene titled 'Happiness', showing figures, gesture, and allegorical context in European art.

Art. Volume 18, Office board between pages 178 and 179. John Watkins according to George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Art. Volume 18, Off-Text Board between pages 178 and 179. Orpheus and Eurydice. Engraving. 1879.

Duo des Troyens , Queens, Heroes, Romances, Dido Legendary character, Aeneas Legendary character, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Troyens à Carthage. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

A copper engraving and etching by Pieter de Jode II from 1630-1645 depicting the mythological figures of the three graces in a classical composition.

Aegidius Sadeler the Younger copper engraving from 1590-1629 depicts Minerva descending to the ground, illustrating 16th-17th century Flemish mythological scenes and classical printmaking.

Ceres and Stellio. Night scene with Ceres and Stellio for a house. Ceres drinks from a small bowl. Behind the two is an old woman with a torch. Under the show a verse of two lines in Dutch.

British 18th Century, Judgment of Paris, 1770s 1780s Judgment of Paris

Narcissus admiring his beauty reflected in the water; beside him, Cupid holding an overturned torch, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Giomignani from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 31, 1757-1787, Naples.

Copper engraving by Charles Clément Bervic from 1798 depicting the education of Achilles with figures, gestures, and instructional elements in a classical setting.

Poetry Louis Félix de La Rue French. Poetry 394742

Bacchante or The Player on The Lyre, 1829. Edward Calvert (British, 1799-1883). Wood engraving;

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta. The dead bare bodies of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta are rising. On the right are Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Malatesta. In the background Dead souls that also take off.

Statue of Amor hangs on a pulley in a tree, Bernard Picart, 1726 print Statue of Amor, with his bow in hand. The image is hung on a tree with a pulley. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)

Two putti that holds palm leaves, after 1616 - Before 1689 print Vignette. The palm leaves are held together by a laurel wreath at the top. Paris (possibly) paper engraving

. A putto crowns the personification of painting with a laurel wreath.

Child with painters palette and portrait of deceased artist and mourning veil, Antonis Aloisius Emanuel van Bedaff, 1797-1829

A Stendhal , Authors, Supernatural beings, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Stendhal, 1783-1842. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

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