Historic Book Illustrations

Engravings and prints illustrating scenes from history, including domestic life and social gatherings, showcasing intricate details and character costumes.

A mint is shown to the young Emperor Maximilian I Date: circa 1480

Scene from the Dacic Wars, Antonio Fantuzzi (Circle of), 1537 - 1550 print Scene from the Dacian wars to the bass relief on the column of Trajanus in Rome. paper etching triumphal column with helical friezes. (story of) the emperor Trajan. war. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture Column of Trajanus

Child blows calls on a pedestal, Jan Luyken, 1699 print A child is sitting on a skull on a pedestal and blows soap bubbles with a pipe. The Pedestad is written "Sic se Habet Mundus". Children try to catch the soap bubbles around the column. Amsterdam paper etching (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'. skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'

A man stands in a boat surrounded by horses, people and small devils. Engraving.

Lie and deception disrupt a business transaction; Abuse of the process. Two merchants negotiate with each other at a city wall; Lie and deception interfere with it. A blindfolded notary has to write behind them. A port in the background. Extensive caption in Dutch, German and Latin. This print is part of a series of eight prints about greed, deception and litigation.

Woodcut (facsimile): An embroiderer at work, Black ink printed on white paper, Embroiderer shown at work in his shop, assisted by a woman. Facsimile of a page from early 16th century book., France, 1550-1600, architecture, interiors, Print, Print

Postiljon Der Postilion und Bott , print maker: Caspar Luyken, (mentioned on object), anonymous, Amsterdam, 1698, paper, etching, h 130 mm × w 86 mm

A mock picture on the tobacco, historical image or illustration, published 1890, digitally improved, A mock picture on the tobacco, historical image or illustration, published 1890, digitally improved

Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Vos, Maerten de, Wierix, Antonie (II), Thesaurus novi Testamenti elegantissimis iconibus expressus continuous history atque miracula doni nostri Iesu Christi, The Four Church Fathers, Church Father Hieronymus, St. Hieronymus is working in his study. He is looking at an open Bible and writing in a book. On the table are a crucifix and a skull. On the floor lies the lion. Below the image is an explanatory text in Latin. This print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, engravings, height 217 mm, width 250 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1559 - 1604-03, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1585, fourth quarter 16th century, vier kwart 16e eeuw, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1532 - 1603-12-04, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, Noord-Nederlands, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publisher

Surgical instruments in a cabinet. Woodcut, 15--.

Two men look at the print with triumphal of Roman emperor; Title page for: Joachim Oudaan, Roman Movement, in Sag and State-Covering of the Oude Keizeren & c., Amsterdam 1664; Joachim Newly Roman Movement, in Sag and State-Covering of the Oude Imperial & C .. Two men look at print with triumphal of Roman emperor. On the table are coins and a opened book shows images of coins. In the background, men are digging in the neighborhood of ruins.

Pictorial print 1815-25 French, Nantes or Rouen. Pictorial print. French, Nantes or Rouen. 1815-25. Cotton. Textiles-Printed

Gin Lane William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). Gin Lane, 1751. Engraving on laid paper, 15 3/8 x 12 3/4 in. (39 x 32.4 cm). William Hogarth was an artist who greatly expanded the market for his work by translating many of his paintings into engravings, a technique he learned as a teenager while apprenticed to a silversmith. He specialized in comic or satiric subjects treated in series of images, in which the narrative unfolded like scenes in a novel, then an emerging art form. Hogarth believed popular art could effect social change, and his images frequently offer prescriptive commentary on the manners and mores of Londons inhabitants. In these two companion images, he reacted to a dangerous surge in gin consumption among the lower classes, illustrating how unregulated sales of the “cursed fiend” gin exacerbated poverty, criminality, and amoral behavior (with a “bad mother” as the central figure), while drinking beer “can sinewy strength impart,” as the moralizing captions proclaim.

Feast of the rich man, Heinrich Aldeglever, 1554 print The rich man sat at a set table in a garden. Two bowls with food are proposed. Around the table there are a flute player, a woman, a nar, a piss viewer, a woman in a tub, a naked man with heads on his knees and a woman with a loss. Text cut off. First print from a series of five. paper engraving the rich man (Dives) is feasting, while poor Lazarus is starving at the gate (dogs licking Lazarus' sores) (Luke 16:19-31)

people women spinstress woman at spinning whell is harassed by lustful monk woodcut coloured Germany circa 1510,

Rasp or Discipline, Caspar Luyken, 1711 print Print to the left of the fresh numbered: 52. paper etching prison, jail

Bibliotheca Telleriana, sive Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi ac reverendissimi D.D. Caroli Marutii le Tellier, archiepiscopi ducis Remensis. Library of Charles Maurice Le Tellier (1642-1710), Archbishop of Reims. Engraving by Huyot after Sebastien Leclerc (1637-1714). Paris, 1693. XVIIme siecle: lettres, sciences et arts, France 1590-1700 (17th century: letters, sciences and arts), by Paul Lacroix. Published in Paris by Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1882.

Sowing on the land, Antonie Wierix (II) (Possible), After Marten van Cleve (I), After Willem van Haecht (I), 1565 - Before 1604 A man sprinkles his field with seed. A woman is ramping the seeds in the ground. Another man warms up on a fire under a tree. On the print an explanation of the show in German, Dutch and French. Antwerp paper engraving A man sprinkles his field with seed. A woman is ramping the seeds in the ground. Another man warms up on a fire under a tree. On the print an explanation of the show in German, Dutch and French. Antwerp paper engraving

Medieval children playing the game of Knock off the Hat. Others play pince merille, a pinching game. A abatre le chappeau, et autres jeux. Lithograph after a woodcut from 1587 from Henry Rene dAllemagnes Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

Driving clerics with a singing on the feasting / Fahrende Kleriker mit einem Gesang auf die Schlemmerei, 1510, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

The cook. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Engraving depicting a Philosopher contemplating time. From Pliny's Naturalem Historium. Published Frankfurt; 1582

Buffoon and Two Women Sebald Beham German 1541 View more. Buffoon and Two Women. Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500-1550 Frankfurt). 1541. Engraving. Prints

LOUIS XIV, 1638-1715 King of France, at table, Htel de Ville, Paris, France, 1687 engraving

Benefactor giving charity, 16th cent. engraving, HOLLAND.

German 16th Century, Ich schlag das Positif mit Schall die Zytternavchmacht frolich all, c 1580 Ich schlag das Positif mit Schall die Zytternavchmacht frolich all

Archers (Les archers). Dated: 1862. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.

Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Ass at School, 1557 The Ass at School

July and August. Hans Sebald Beham (Germany, Nuremberg, 1500-1550). Germany, 1546. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Martyrdom of two male saints, bound to the rack with flames beneath. Woodcut.

justice civil law notaries civil law notary writing down the last will of a dying man woodcut des Petrarcameister from: Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374) ""Trostspiegel in Gl»ck und Ungl»ck"" (De remediis utriusque fortunae) print: Heinrich Steyner Augsburg 1539,

Election Scene. Genre subject. Pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper. Height: 73 mm (2.87 in); Width: 117 mm (4.60 in). Author: Paul Sandby.

Imagination of the saying 'Thinking before you begin', Anonymous, 1618 Moralistic representation that is sometimes interpreted as a cartoon on the Arminians in 1618. The inscription in the middle 'Versint honor Ghy Beghint' indicates the subject of the performance better. Despite the warnings of an old man, a young man delves into the wide opening of a big horn. Then, however, he gets stuck in the narrow end. On the right, a smiling nar looks out of the window and expresses the moral of the print, the saying "Thinks before you start" or "he works in the corner." See also the interpretation of the 'Hoornkruiper'. With seven verses in the show. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving proverbs, sayings, etc.. drinking-horn. horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba. court jester, court fool

Illustration from 'A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds' by Thomas Harman. Dated 16th Century

To slave man, Caspar Luyken, 1711 print Print to the left of the fresh numbered: 60. paper etching slavery; serfs and the enslaved

An Italian banking house, depicted in a book on commercial practices of the period Date: 15th century

17th century engraved illustration from a collection of proverbs. Paris 1657-1663. By Jacques Lagniet (1620 - 1675); French engraver. From him many socially critical engravings and mockery pictures such as his sometimes grotesque and fantastic illustrations for a collection of well-known proverbs from the year 1657 come.

VICTORIAS DE CARLOS V - CLEMENTE VII CERCADO EN EL CASTILLO DE SANT ANGELO - 1527 - SAQUEO DE ROMA. Author: MAERTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (1498-1574). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. GIULIO DE MEDICI 1478/1534 PAPA CLEMENTE VII.

Hans Burgkmair (1473-1531). "The triumph of Maximilien, Char representing the fire of a village surmounted by the branch ceremony". Wood, 1512-1519. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 38103-14 Austrician archduke, blessing, ceremony of branches, chariot, fire, nun, Roman, holy Germanic emperor, triumph, wood, village, village

The moon and the zodiac signs under their influence. Engraving in "Chronografia y repertorio de los Tiempos", 1585 by Francisco Vicente de Tornamira (1534-1597).

Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae: nvper admodvm ab Anglis, Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621, 1590

Two Native American men smoke their catch of indigenous animals and reptiles. After a late 16th century work by Theodor de Bry.

Ritual defloration, as pictured in the travels of Sir John Mandeville (1484 edition): 'Another isle is there, full fair and good and great, and full of people, where the custom is such, that the first night that they be married, they make another man to lie by their wives for to have their maidenhead: and therefore they take great hire and great thank'.

Begging students with their baskets in Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany / Bettelnde Schüler mit ihren Körben in Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Bayern, Deutschland, 1669, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Cartoon on Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and his supporters, 1618, Crispijn van de Passe (i) (attributed to), 1618 print Cartoon on Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and his supporters, in conversation with each other, 1618. The people portrayed are by name. The print is printed from an older album from 1613 with those involved in the gunpowder, in which the English names and the Latin, French and German texts have been removed. The faces are adapted to the Dutch portrayed people. Northern Netherlands paper engraving

Cœnotaphiorum (16) 1563 Hans Vredeman de Vries Netherlandish Freestanding funerary monument for a man and a woman in an interior. The effigies of a sleeping man and woman have been placed on top of the rectangular tomb. The tomb is crowned by a baldachin with hourglasses on the four corners. The lower end of the tomb is characterized by a harnassed figure carrying two blank coats of arms. On the left side of the print an archway is visible which provides a view of the outside. Below the image a Latin inscription is added consisting of four lines, divided over two columns.. Cœnotaphiorum (16) 402144

Cœnotaphiorum (4) 1563 Hans Vredeman de Vries Netherlandish Freestanding tomb for a woman. The tomb is characterized by the effigy of a sleeping woman (gisant) placed on top of the tomb, with a crown and two dogs place by her feet. Above the woman's head sits a cherub holding a strapwork panel. Below the image is a Latin inscription made up out of four lines, divided over two columns.. Cœnotaphiorum (4) 402132

'This House is to Let', c1650s, (c1902-1905). Artist: Unknown

Here you have young Lien, birds, uyl, cat, and nest in Sien, Christoffel van Sichem (IV), After Cornelis Bloemaert (II), After Hendrick Bloemaert, 1673 - 1704 print Leaf with four performances of four boys with animals: a boy with a bird in a cage, a boy with an owl, a boy with a bird in a nest and a boy with a cat. Under each image a two -way verse. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing child playing with animals

Engraving depicting Archimedes, an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer, sitting in his bath. Dated 16th Century

Woodcut print depicting punishment by the stocks. Dated 16th Century

Beware of bees when they are intoxicated - they become dangerous ! Date: 1555

Cooper; Claes de Touenaer; Genre scenes. A kuiper is busy making a tub. The print is part of a series of 32 prints with genre scenes.

Atlas, map from 1623, Book, title, digitally restored reproduction from an engraving by Gerhard Mercator, born as Gheert Cremer, March 5, 1512 - December 2, 1594, geographer and cartographer.

Games in the amphitheatre of Vespasian, known as the Colosseum, historic Rome, Italy, digital reproduction of an original 17th century artwork, original date unknown, Europe

Amsterdam, Wendel en Zoon, J., Asch-Karmans Kermis-Wensch 1833, Fair print of the Amsterdam ash cart men for the year 1833, verso - stamped, Fair print on behalf of the ash cart men (cart man or garbage man) in Amsterdam for the year 1833. View of a street in Amsterdam with a man taking an ash bucket to the cart while another man collects money from the house. At the bottom a poem in two columns. On behalf of JD Farjon, the ash cart man of district no. 19., print, kermisprent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 340 mm, width 210 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1833 - 1833, paper, papier, letterpress printing, letterpress, woodcut, Dutch, printer, drukker

Print at the top right numbered: p. 34.

Measuring salt. 19th century reproduction of woodcut in Ordonnances de la Prevoste des Marchands de Paris dated 1500

The lean kitchen; Eheu Quam Vacua Focus Est Malicent. In Aede; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. A poor family of lean farmers is eating in a kitchen. The food consists of turnips and empty shells. In the foreground a woman with child in a birthplace. A fat farmer is worked out the door. To 'The lean kitchen' van Bruegel.

Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Dircksz, Barend, Northern Netherlands, Schut, Pieter Hendricksz., Revolt of the Anabaptists in Amsterdam in 1534-1535, Nude Runners in Amsterdam, 1535, February 1535. Anabaptists walk naked and shouting through the streets of Amsterdam. The burning house in the background. With two-line caption., print, engraving, historical print, prints, engravings, Frederik Muller Historical Plates, height 67 mm, width 98 mm, Dutch, 1619 - 1660, print maker, printmaker, 1629 - 1652, second quarter 17th century, third quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after print by, 1500 - 1566, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1586 - 1652-06-19, publisher

Twee vechtende mannen in wapenrusting; Titelpagina voor: Calprenède, La. Cleopatre 3de deel (...), 1667.In front two men, soldiers or gladiators are fighting. The left man puts the right man in his side. A few people watch. In the distance a city, Rome () Including a church and a partly expired amphitheater.

Medieval men playing the game of franc-carreau, by throwing a coin onto a square, others playing a similar game with a round tile. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history. Its structure follows the story of human history as related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books. It is classified as an incunabulum - that is, a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed (not handwritten) before the year 1501 in Europe. It is also one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. Latin scholars refer to it as Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) as this phrase appears in the index introduction of the Latin edition. English speakers have long referred to it as the Nuremberg Chronicle after the city in which it was published. German speakers refer to it as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel's World History) in honour of its author. The illustrations in many copies were hand-coloured aft

Robin Hood, Will Scarlet and Little John, engraving, England

Body of Gillis van Memedberg hung, Esaias van de Velde (Possible), 1619 - 1621 print The body of Gilles of Memedberg hung in a coffin, May 15, 1619. Numbered at the top: 2. paper engraving death penalty, execution (+ variant). body of the executed displayed in public (+ variant)

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Woman at a well; Enige Joyeuse, Pour Les Bons Esprits. In a courtyard a woman gets a bucket out of a well. A young man watches, leaning out of a window. Right right is to see a staircase through an open door. Under the show a Sonnet with erotic connotation in French.

Allegory on Oliver Cromwell, 1652 print Cartoon on Cromwell and the English in the first English War, 1652. Oliver Cromwell is crowned a coin of shit or bird of prey with a crown with peacock springs. He controls the Frenchman under his arm, and with the other hand removes the guts from the belly of a murdered Dutchman, between his legs the shot and the Irish beg for grace. In the background Small representations from reasons for the war: selling stolen goods, the decapitation of King Charles I and two predictions: the destruction of the English fleet by burners and the attack on the Englishman by the Dutch lion with the help of the shot , the Frenchman and the Irishman. On the leaf under the plate a verse in 4 columns and the legend A-L. Northern Netherlands paper engraving / letterpress printing political caricatures and satires

superstition symbolism of numbers ""4"" androgynous with four elements and temperaments colour woodcut from ""Quinta essencia"" by Leonhard Thurneysser zu Thurn (1531 - 1596) circa 16th century private collection historic historical Europe esotericism occultism magic number,

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The Bellman of London: Title page of ballad in the Bagford Collection (British Museum) showing London night-watchman going on his rounds with bell, lantern and pike, with his dog at his heels. Such a figure would have been a familiar one in late 16th and early 17th century cities. Woodcut 1616 .

The decapitation of Egmont and Horne in 1568; Gr. from Egmont and Hoorn Naked; The Spaensche Tiranye Gheschiet in Nederlant. On a scaffold, the graves of Egmond and Horne are beheaded, 5 June 1568, Grote Markt in Brussels. Under the show a verse of 16 lines in 2 columns, a description in 6 lines, in Dutch. Numbered: 7.

Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). "The wedding of villages. Two other couples or November and December. (Hollstein (volume 3, page 98); Bartsch 159)". Chisel. 1550. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 123050-12 Chisel, 16th 16th XVI 16th 16th 16 Center

This colored woodcut by Johann Zainer depicts Epitharis representing freedom, showing the figure, attire, and gestures in 1473.

Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza. Dated: 1545. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sebald Beham.

Imperial Court, Augsburg, Wolf, heirs Jeremias, Schübler, Johann Jakob, Lichtensteger, Georg, Johann Jacob Schüblers Fünffzehende Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks, In which are proposed six newly designed water pumps, Water pump with sundial, verso - stamped, In an enclosed garden stands a cylindrical double water pump with sundial. On the left and right two oriental-looking men are pumping water. In the bottom margin a three-line German text., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 282 mm, width 176 mm, 1700 - 1781-03-18, print maker, 1724 - 1724, paper, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, German, 1689 - 1741, designed by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, grantor of privilege

Interior of a bar or cabaret, Belgium, 15th century. Barmaid behind the counter, drinkers on benches, a waiter pouring beer from a barrel. Two alcohol-tax officers in surplices with purse and rules, Copied from a stained-glass window in Tournay Cathedral. Interieur de Cabaret, Belgique XVe siecle. Chromolithograph by P. Thurwanger after an illustration by Ferdinand Sere from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

Brouwer De Brouwer (title on object) The Menselyk Bedryf (series title), handicrafts, craftsman at work, brewer, Caspar Luyken, Amsterdam, 1694, paper, etching, h 140 mm × w 80 mm

Archimedes (c287-212 BC) Greek mathematician and inventor, in his bath. Discovered formulae for calculating areas and volumes of plane and solid figures. Hydrostatics. Supposed to have shouted 'Eureka' on discovering principle of upthrust on a floating body. Hand-coloured woodcut, 1547.

A herring fisherman lands a mighty haul in his net. Date: 1555

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