Historic Religious Processions

Depicts historical religious gatherings including pilgrimages and meetings between ambassadors and emperors, reflecting solemnity and cultural significance.

Meeting between Lord Macartney, British Ambassador, and the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung. Date: 14 September 1793
Meeting between Lord Macartney, British Ambassador, and the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung. Date: 14 September 1793
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America. Watercolor. Religious painting depicting a procession of Saint Javier, 1752. Museum of America, Madrid, Spain.
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Lithograph by an anonymous artist depicting the ceremonial opening of the Neue Straße through the Velebit Mountains and Mali Alan Pass connecting Dalmatia and Croatia, followed by a festival on October 4, 1833, in honor of the emperor's name day.
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RoyalProcession. Artist, possibly by: Pancho (Francisco) Fierro, Peruvian, 1810-1879
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Grave monument for c.s. Duytsch Death November 7, 1795. A stone sarcophagus with an urn is highlighted by the all-seeing eye. In addition to the grave a weeping willow and other symbols for death such as a skull, a zeis and an oil lamp
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Religious ceremony in the Colosseum during Holy Week, Rome, Italy, illustration by Mariani from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1155, Volume XLV, April 15, 1865.
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The Blessing of the Suez Canal, November 16, 1869, William Simpson, 1823-1899, British, after 1869, Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream Asian paper, Sheet: 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches (27.6 x 43.8 cm), altar, architectural subject, bishop (prelate), blessing, celebration, ceremony, crosses, crowd, figures, flags, historical subject, men, priests, pulpit, women, Africa, Egypt, Port Said, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Urban
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Funeral of China's Emperor and Empress Widow, Johan Braakensiek, 1908 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. historical persons. emperor. personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc. (+ nation; national). cortege, funeral procession China
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Local dignitaries standing before the Monument to Hristo Botef (1848-1876) at Vratza, Bulgaria. A Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero. Date: circa 1910s
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A View of a Pholey Town and Plantations about it / The Ceremony of a Negro Funeral, unknown artist, 18th Century, Engraving
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Assembly of German naturalists and doctors in Vienna in September , Banquet in Laxenburg, Unknown
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Emperor Kien-Long receiving the homage of the Euletes in Ge-ho, China, engraving from Chine, ou, Description historique, geographique et litteraire de ce vaste empire, d'apres des documents chinois, Premiere Partie, by Guillaume Pauthier (1801-1873), L'Univers pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1837.
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The feast of lanterns at the Olympic festival at Llandudno, North Wales. Date: 1866
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A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite, 1784 Engraving by W. Woollett, from the Original Drawing by John Webber while Accompanying Captain James Cook on his Third Pacific Expedition
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Kerk aan het water; Landschappen; Regiunculae Amoenissimae.View of a wide river with a church in the foreground. The church is close to the water and there are three boats next to the church. In the foreground two pilgrims of which there is a rosary.
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Photo Assembly of the execution of 62 hostages in the rue Haxo in Paris; Assassination of 62 hostages Rue Haxo 85 in Belleville. May 26, 1871 at 5 o'clock in the evening. Part of Memorial Album of Roman Catholic Clergymen Cases During The Commune of Paris.
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Infant Funeral Procession. Artist: William P. Chappel (American, 1801-1878). Dimensions: 6 1/16 x 9 3/16 in. (15.4 x 23.3 cm). Date: 1870s.In the early nineteenth century, children--especially those living in crowded port cities--died from a host of diseases, including tuberculosis, dysentery, typhoid fever, diphtheria, pneumonia, and yellow fever. The funeral pictured here is being held at the New Methodist Church, with the white picket fence, on Second (now Forsyth) and Bayard Streets. A chain has been stretched across the street to block traffic as eight young women--clad in all white--escort the child's coffin at the head of the procession. Just to the right of the church stands Fire House 2, which is next to a corner grocery. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Encampment Of Pilgrims At Jericho From: "Roberts Views Of The Holy Land" 1839 David Roberts (1796-1864 Scottish) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Baptism at Rijnsburg collegies, ca. 1735; Le Baptême de Rhinsbourg. Baptismal ceremony at Rijnsburg Collegians, ca. 1735. Baptism by immersion of adults in a canal to the large house, attended by the members of the municipality.
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Court of the Tang emperor in Beijing; China 1660
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Ferdinand Olivier (German, 1785 - 1841), Sonntag - Kircheneingang in Berchtesgaden (Sunday - Going to Church near Berchtesgaden), 1823, lithograph
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Inauguration of a Protestant church in Conde-sur-Noireau, France. engraving 1855
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Monks Carousing outside a Monastery. Genre subject. Watercolor with pen and brown, black and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper. Height: 246 mm (9.68 in); Width: 311 mm (12.24 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.
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Moorish (Islamic) and European graves next to an avenue of trees. Below right a company of musicians, two dancers and a wrestler. One of the dancers points to the temple of Ciwa, Cemetery with funeral procession in India., draughtsman: Carel Frederik Reimer, 1773 - 1775, paper, brush, pen, h 202 mm × w 428 mm
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BOW-MEETING AT PRADOE, NEAR OSWESTRY.
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Damascus. Engraving by Ransonnette. "La Tierra Santa y los lugares recorridos por los profetas, por los apostoles y por los cruzados" (The Holy Land and the sites traversed by the prophets, by the apostles and by the crusaders). Published in Barcelona by the printing house of Joaquin Verdaguer, 1840.
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Thai river landscape with corpse, Adolf van der Laan, 1730 print View of a Thai river landscape with a funeral procession that ends in a temple. Boats are moored on the bank, figures look in the foreground. An elephant is ridden on the right. Print at the top right marked: II. Part. P. 572. paper etching landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions. cortege, funeral procession. Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). trunked animals: elephant
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Tabernacle surrounded by tent camps of the twelve tribes of Israel; Camp des Israelites Selon Le Sentiment des Juifs.
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The disasters of Paris in 1871/14 / St. St. Antoine, Church Ste. Marie / (during the May days) (IT)
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A gathering at the ceremonial drinking of kava in the Friendly Islands. Lithograph by A. Noël after L.A. de Sainson.
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Native American Algonquin Indian village of Pomeiock, Gibbs Creek, North Carolina, showing huts and longhouses inside a protective palisade. Sketch from observations made by English expedition under John White in 1585. British Museum
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Copper fire altar; Copper fire altar according to maimonides and others.
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Łysa Góra Łysa Góra is the Highest in Poland. A funded monastery from Bolesław The Brave Around 1044 unknown
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OPENING OF A NEW BRIDGE AT TRAVANCORE. THE RAJAH'S STATE PROCESSION, INDIA, 1854
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Copper Brand altar, Jan Luyken, 1683 print Amsterdam paper etching the altar of burnt offering, the brazen altar ~ Jewish religion
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Procession in front of Sainte-Genevieve Miller. "Procession in front of Sainte-Genevi�ve in 1788". Drawing.
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Léon Leymonnere (1803-1879). Altar raised in the field of March for the blessing of the eagles given to the army on May 10, 1852. Watercolor. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 99217-3 Altar, blessing of the eagles, field of March, watercolor
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Granary Burying-Ground. Granary Burial Ground, Boston.. Prints. 1873. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Cemeteries , Massachusetts , Boston
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Santa Prisca ist eine Kirche in Rom. Sie ist eine der ältesten Titelkirchen der Stadt sowie Oratorium der Augustiner-Eremiten und Stationskirche, hist...
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'A Hindu Custom Now Suppressed: Preparations for a Suttee', 1908. Artist: Unknown.
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Old Testament. Book of Genesis. Episode of destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Engraving.
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The execution of Savonarola in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola, Hieronymus Savonarola, 21 September 1452, 23 May 1498, Italian Dominican friar, penitential preacher and church reformer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown
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Kava ceremony on Tonga Island, 1826, engraving from Travels by Jules Dumont d'Urville, Polynesia 19th Century.
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The bell in the Murgthale.
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Mughal Muslims visiting a tomb in India. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Alessandro Sanquirico from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
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Coming out from a mass. Anonymous painting, 19th century. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Tiros House Museum.
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A monument to the martyrdom of (and burial place of) St. Polycarp (Bishop of Smyrna) situated on Mount Pagos (Kadifekale) close to Izmir (Smyrna) Turkey. Date: circa 1910
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View of a moorish camp: King Ali's tent at Benowm, Kingdom of Ludamar. Ali sat on a black leather cushion clipping the hairs on his upper lip while a female servant held a mirror. From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Più Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.
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1st quadrille on the Cross of Marie Opera-Comique de Maillart / by Musard. blanket
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Philemon and Baucis