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Historic Dutch Etchings

A collection of etchings depicting scenes from daily life, including musicians, angelic appearances, family settings, and peasant interactions, showcasing Dutch artistry.

Design for a painting, The surgeon, draughtsman: Jan Josef Horemans (I), , 1692 - 1759, paper, brush, h 239 mm × w 191 mm
Design for a painting, The surgeon, draughtsman: Jan Josef Horemans (I), , 1692 - 1759, paper, brush, h 239 mm × w 191 mm
260 assets in this story
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Field tenderness (Bartsch 11) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Field tenderness (Bartsch 11). Floor and dry tip, circa 1652. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.
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Old woman and boy with candles, anonymous, after Paulus Pontius, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1616 - 1707 print With his candle, a boy takes over the flame from the candle of the old woman. In the margin a two -way caption in Latin. Antwerp paper etching / engraving scenes symbolizing 'Vanitas'. candle
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Jan Wtenbogaert; The gold conveyor.
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Three drunks. There are three drunk men on a table, one of which is surrendered. The dog under the table sniffs the vomit of the man. A fourth man is in the background.
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Evagrius Ponticus as a hermit; Male hermits; Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum. The H. Evagrius Ponticus as a hermit in a cabin. He is in front of his writing desk and reads a book. In the background other hermits. Numbered in the middle: 19; Numbered at the bottom right: 3.
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Wenzel Jamnitzer 16th century Jost Amman Swiss. Wenzel Jamnitzer 394053
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Leasters (Bartsch 50) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Taste (Bartsch 50). Floor and dry tip, 1647-1652.
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Jan Wtenbogaert; The gold conveyor.
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Rumpelstiltskin at the Spinning-Wheel and the Dwarf. Artist: Gustav Heinrich Naeke (German, Frauenstein 1786-1835 Dresden). Dimensions: sheet: 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (10.4 x 7.9 cm). Date: early 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Reading the Will. Discover More, Sir David Wilkie (Pitlessie, Fife, Scotland, 1785 - 1841) 1819
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HOW, Jacob Toorenvliet, 1651 - 1719 print A man with a hat looks up from his book. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses. paper hearing, listening (one of the five senses). book
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Newsmongers.
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Drawing by Louis Aubert showing a young artist observing a baby in a wooden box while a young woman from the common people looks on, executed in black, white, and blue chalk with reddish washes in 1747.
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Soul contemplating the rain, print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: Pieter Arentsz (II), Amsterdam, 1678 - 1687, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 94 mm × w 75 mm
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Dóll, widow Jan, Haastert, Isaac van, Beek, Jan Lucas van der, The modest child, L'Enfant retenu, Mother with children at a stall with toys, verso center bottom - stamped, print, prints, height 133 mm, width 103 mm, 1753-05-06 - 1818-10-12, print maker, printmaker, 1781 - 1799, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1753-11-18 - 1834-03-01, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Melancholy 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian. Melancholy 391598
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Reader in a window. There are several figures in a window, one of which is a candlelight. The others listen.
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Study magazine with three old men and a young woman; Study pictures / Etudes Gravées.
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Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The four banquets, Emmaus supper or Emmaus disciples: fourth issue of a sequence of 4 rooms" (Lieure 298, Meaume 51). Etching enhanced with chisel. 1st half of the 16th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99590-9 Etching, engraving
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St. Jerome in his study. 1514. Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420, Lions
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Textiles: a spinning wheel and a stocking machine. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
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The writing master Lieven Willemsz. Van Coppenol: small plate; The small coppenol.
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Peasants Playing Backgammon and Merry-Making in a Tavern; Cornelis Dusart (Dutch, 1660 - 1704); 1694; Graphite and pen and gray ink on vellum; 53 x 41.3 cm (20 7,8 x 16 1,4 in.)
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The Holy Family Arriving at a City Gate. Dated: published 1753. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
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Netherlands, Kaiser, Johann Wilhelm (I), Invention of the printing press, Invention of the printing press by Coster, ca. 1440, The invention of the printing press by Laurens Jansz. Coster in Haarlem, ca. 1440. Coster pondering under a tree in the Haarlemmerhout, with two playing children., print, picture, history print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 230 mm, width 184 mm, Dutch, 1813-01-05 - 1900-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1851 - 1853, third quarter 19th century, paper, steel engraving
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Kruseman, AC, Haarlem, Emrik & Binger, Visscher, Cornelis (II), Rattenjager, verso - stamped, A rat catcher with his dog and servant. The boy holds a staff with a rat cage. The rat catcher carries a bag and tools with him, a rat walks on his cloak., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 370 mm, width 295 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1859 - 1864, paper, papier, toonlithografie, Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1629 - 1658-01-16, after print by, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher
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The Hearing. A pipe-smoking man reads a letter to another man. The print is part of a series of five prints depicting the five senses, Reader t'Gehoor The five senses , print maker: Jacobus Harrewijn, print maker: François Harrewijn, (rejected attribution), Southern Netherlands, 1690, paper, engraving, h 58 mm × w 74 mm
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Invention of printing in Haarlem, ca. 1440. Interior of a book printing house, with laying out paper and collecting letters, Interior of a book printing house Boekdruckerye te Haerlem found about the year 1440 , print maker: Jan van de Velde, (mentioned on object), Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1628, paper, etching, h 160 mm × w 120 mm
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The chemist , Seduction, Pharmacists. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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Amsterdam, Arentsz, widow Pieter (II), Luyken, Jan, Who quist, who misses, Man sawing wood with a boy in a carpenter's workshop, verso - stamped, print, picture, book illustration, prints, pictures, height 90 mm, width 78 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1689 - 1689, paper, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Mocking of Ceres, Jacques Louis Copia, After Pierre Prud'hon, in or after 1795 print paper etching / engraving Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
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Bead Stringers. Otto Henry Bacher; American, 1856-1909. Date: 1882. Dimensions: 334 x 226 mm (image/plate); 391 x 275 mm (sheet). Etching in black on cream laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Three Easterners. Draughtsman: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. Draughtsman: Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. Intermediary draughtsman: Pieter Lastman (possibly). Dating: 1631 - 1674. Measurements: h 210 mm × w 196 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Phrenology Course, 2nd plate (Le cours de phrenologie). Dated: 1906. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.
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A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
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Study sheet with a woman at a spinning wheel and a man seated Study print, Etudes grav, print maker: Jacob Ernst Marcus, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, Aug-1815, paper, etching, h 155 mm × w 245 mm
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Waiting (En attendant), 1895 Waiting (En attendant)
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Reproduction of drawing: Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), Midday meal; from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1864, 1, 64. Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), draughtsman, cartoonist, Fryk, Ludwik (fl. 1863-1868), engraver, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher
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Fish saleswoman, Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), After Adriaen van Ostade, 1823 - 1900 print A fish saleswoman with a knife and a fish in her hands. In the background some figures and the contours of houses and a church tower. The print is part of a series of 25 prints to Dutch masters. Above the image: PL XXIV. paper. etching fishes. stall, booth (~ market)
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Youth Diverting Age, George Morland, 1763-1804, British, 1789, Hand colored mezzotint, Sheet: 19 13/16 x 13 7/8in. (50.3 x 35.2cm)
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Rent Day, 1887. Gustav Kruell (American, 1843-1907). Wood engraving;
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Amsterdam, Philips, Caspar Jacobsz., Landschapjes, Rúwientjes enz, Le Philosophe, Departure with a reading man, Departure with an old man, reading a book by candlelight., print, prent, prints, height 81 mm, width 75 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1732-04-16 - 1789-03-19, print maker, printmaker, 1766 - 1766, third quarter 18th century, derde kwart 18e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, kleurdruk
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The grape-picker, and elderly woman holding a basket of grapes, after Murillo ca. 1780-1805 Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona. The grape-picker, and elderly woman holding a basket of grapes, after Murillo. Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (Spanish, Nava del Rey 1740-1805 Madrid). ca. 1780-1805. Engraving. Prints
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La soupe à la chambrée 1898 Jacques Baseilhac. La soupe à la chambrée. L'Estampe Moderne. Jacques Baseilhac (French, Trebours 1874-1903 Savigny-sur-Orge). 1898. Chromolithograph. Prints
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Initial silk extraction carried out by hand (France). Date: 18th century
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Baker, Hendrick van Beaumont, after Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, 1696, Sheet 45 recto from a sketchbook with 91 sheets., draughtsman: Hendrick van Beaumont, Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, 1696, paper
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Batavian evening party. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 23-Jan-1779 - 26-Aug-1785. Place: Jakarta. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 155 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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An alchemist seated at a table in his study; young man lighting a stove in the background. Engraving by J.L Perée after Lefort after D. Teniers the younger, ca. 1810.
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Paul Sandby RA, 1731-1809, British, London Cries: "Any Kitchen Stuff", ca. 1759. Watercolor and black chalk and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured laid paper.
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Two representations on one plate. Top: a man's head, facing left. Bottom: landscape with a peasant party, drinking and playing cards, at a table in front of an inn., Man's head and peasant party, print maker: Anna Cécile Wilhelmina Jeanette Jacqueline Nahuys, (mentioned on object), Teniers, (possibly), Noord-Nederland, 1841 - 1905, paper, etching, h 152 mm × w 102 mm
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Juliusz Zuber (1861-1910), in the Hutsul Cottage; around 1913 (1908-00-00-1918-00-00);
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The Island Bee, from "Picture Poesies" first published 1867, reissued 1874 After George John Pinwell British Pinwell shows a woman standing in a garden, reassuring a small girl who reacts with fear to insects hovering around a flower. The wood engraving first appeared in "Wayside Posies:Original Poems of the Country Life," edited by Robert Williams Buchanan, illustrated by G. J. Pinwell, J. W. North, and Frederick Walker, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, and published by Routledge as a Fine Art gift book. In 1874, the publisher reissued the print in "Picture Poesies." The related poem, whose author is not identified, describes a bee that travels to the Scottish mainland from one of the Isles.The Island BeeA RhymeFar from his island bowersDaily he wanders,Kissing the virgin flowersOf the mainlanders.Far o'er the lonely wildWhite the stream foameth;There this undaunted GaelFearlessly roameth.Over the mighty benInto the corry,Piping he sweeps agenOn his sweet foray.Where the sweet homest
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Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, An Apothecary, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.
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Luiten playing Lord and Dame, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, After Karel van Mander (I), 1772 - 1774 print Interior with a man and a woman who both play the lute. Amsterdam paper etching interior of the house. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
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Mary Hoare, 1753-1820, British, The Three Witches from Macbeth: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, 1781. Watercolor with black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border.
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A fishmonger sits behind his stall in the market. He is displaying his fish. Next to him is a knife to clean the fish for the buyer., Fishmonger at the Market, print maker: Joachim Jan Oortman jr., (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Michał Płoński, (mentioned on object), after: Adriaen van Ostade, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1808, paper, etching, engraving, h 265 mm × w 173 mm
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Boy Playing Marbles, Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660-1737, Dutch, after Jan Steen, 1626-1679, Dutch, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 12 x 8 3/4 inches (30.5 x 22.3 cm) and Plate: 9 7/8 x 7 9/16 inches (25.1 x 19.2 cm), barrel, boy, child, genre subject, gesture, interior, marbles, tricorne
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Steenzager, Caspar Luyken, After Jan Luyken, 1694 print Amsterdam paper etching handicrafts, craftsman at work. stone-cutter, stone-sawyer
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De Wijn is a spotter, Hendrik Bary, after Frans van Mieris (I), 1728 - 1761 print A dar-like figure is about to put a piss pot on the head to put a sleeping woman. Under the show a verse of four lines in Dutch. paper engraving drunkenness. chamber-pot. candle