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Historical Celebrations

Engravings showcasing historical events, such as count honors and biblical gatherings, featuring landscapes with characters in traditional attire.

Pan and Syrinx with dancing putti, Dancker Danckerts, 1633 - 1675
Pan and Syrinx with dancing putti, Dancker Danckerts, 1633 - 1675
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Frontispiece with litte boy holding a basket, from Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher (First Book of Figures after porcelains from the Manufacture Royale de France, devised in 1757, by Mr. Boucher) 1757 Pierre Etienne Falconet French. Frontispiece with litte boy holding a basket, from Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher (First Book of Figures after porcelains from the Manufacture Royale de France, devised in 1757, by Mr. Boucher) 414034
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Picart, Bernard, Amsterdam, Endimion Pastorale, Diana and Endymion, verso - stamped, The goddess Diana (Luna) visits Endymion, who has fallen asleep forever by order of Jupiter. On the right in the background Cupid aims his arrow at the heart of the goddess., print, prints, height 77 mm, width 133 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1728 - 1728, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman
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Pirate. Engraving. Figure of a buccaneer or corsair from the Antilles. Engraving. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.
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Growing Family. Dated: 1793. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki.
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Title page to Eberhard's 'Amyntor, a Story in Correspondence'
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The molerbreath established; The new provisional board. The Dutch Virgin with symbols of freedom and justice welcomes seven children who present the seven provinces. Not used DESIGN FOR THE ACCOMMODATION established, allegorical decoration established at the Amstelveld in Amsterdam at the Alliance party on 19 June 1795.
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The GoodSamaritan. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), Dutch, 1606-1669
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Telemachus is Consoled by Termosiris, Priest of Apollo, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2. Bartolomeo Pinelli; Italian, 1781-1835. Date: 1808. Dimensions: 476 x 590 mm. Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Title page for the Europisch Mercury of 1743. Title page for the Dutch Memory Book of Europisch Mercury, over the year 1743. The Dutch lion with sword on a pedestal for Mars, a portrait of Maria Theresia on the ground, on the right the weeping Europe with bull, on The background the flames of the war.
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Exotic landscape with exotic animals and people in traditional dress representing the East Indian peoples. A putto holds a map of the area. On a pied piper the title in Dutch., Allegory of the East Indies Title page for: T. Salmon, Hedendaagsche historie, 1772, print maker: Jan Caspar Philips, (mentioned on object), Jan Caspar Philips, (mentioned on object), publisher: weduwe Gerrit de Groot en Zoon, (mentioned on object), print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: Amsterdam, publisher: Amsterdam, publisher: Leiden, publisher: Leiden, 1771, paper, etching, engraving, h 174 mm × w 124 mm
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Netherlands, Marot, Daniël (I), Nouveaux Lieure de Paysages, Landscape with two trees in front, On the right are two women next to a cascade. In the background is a palace to be seen with a view of the sea to the left. Reverse copy after sheet from series Nouveau liure de paysages. From series of 6 sheets., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 240 mm, width 163 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1703 - 1703, first quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1663 - 1752-06-04, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Emblem: Water, Caspar Luyken, 1695 - 1705 print A river landscape. In the foreground, a woman pours water with a bucket into a large basin. Another woman is sitting next to the basin and points to it. A ruin in the background. Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. river. landscape with ruins. water (one of the four elements). wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket
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Cephalus en Procris, Magdalen van de Passe, after Adam Elsheimer, 1617 - 1634 print Forest landscape with Cephalus who accidentally shot his wife Propris during hunting. Cephalus has just found her and is looking for herbs to cure her wound. In the background grieving figures and the faun that procris told that her husband would have a secret mistress. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Utrecht paper engraving Cephalus inadvertently kills Procris
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. Landscape representing the Earth element: part of a market where the revenues of the country are traded. Many figures with baskets walk between cattle and animal dealers. Right water and farmers who edit land. First print from a series of four with landscapes such as portions of the four elements.
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Entrance to the Reason of Texel; Entrée du Havre du Texel; Receüil de Plusiers Navires, et Païsages; Seascapes and landscapes. The entrance to reason, a natural anchorage for ships, at Texel. A ship is repaired in the water, a group of men is on shore.
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Marked at top right: NIII. Schooling of satyrs L'éducation , print maker: Balthasar Sigmund Setletzky, (mentioned on object), Claude Gillot, (mentioned on object), 1705 - 1771, paper, etching, h 288 mm - w 425 mm
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Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Ticket to Mr. Fierville's Ball. Line engraving.
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Print, Figural Letter V; etching on paper; Overall: 7.7 x 7.8 cm (3 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
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De Schaapherder, Simon Fokke, After Jusepe de Ribera, After Pierre Hutin, 1722 - 1784 print A kneeling shepherd, surrounded by his sheep. Under the show is a text in Spanish and French. Between the two texts in his two coats of arms depicted within a circle. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. sheep
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Emblem beef, Caspar Luyken, Jan Luyken, Christoph Weigel
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Allegory to the restoring of the Stadholder Willem V, 1787, 1788 print Allegorical representation on the recovery of the Stadholder Willem V and his catching up in The Hague on September 20, 1787. Justice opens the gate for a young prince (Prince Willem V), so that the road to The Hague is free for him. Wag art and armed anger try to stop the door in vain. The Province of Holland gives him the command staf. Before the Hollandse Leeuw with the year 1766 (when the prince became a stadholder). In the background, gratitude engraves the names Brunswijk and Rhoon on a column. From heaven, the all -seeing eye looks down on the events. A text sheet belongs to the print. Rotterdam paper etching 'Amor della patria' (Ripa). the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye ~ symbol of God the Father The Hague
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Le GeneralWashington. Artist: Noel Le Mire, French, 1724-1800
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Thalia. Engraving by C. de Passe.
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Steenbakker, Caspar Luyken, after Jan Luyken, 1694 print Amsterdam paper etching handicrafts, craftsman at work. brickmaker
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Summer 1735-86 Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune French. Summer 394335
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Leto and the farmers; Latona et les Paysans; Card game with mythological performances; Jeu des Fables (copy). Playing card with a presentation of Leto who changed farmers in frogs.
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Apollo wants Daphne but Daphne doesn't want Apollo ; so the virgin princess, who plans to stay that way, asks to be turned into a laurel (bay) tree. Which she is.
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The Hague, Beeck, Anna, Hoefnagel, Joris, Keulen, Hogenberg, Frans, Novelanus, Symon, La Sierra de Sant Adrian and Biscaia, Landscape in the Sierra de Sant Adrian in Biscay and various inhabitants of Biscay, Top center a representation of the landscape near San Adrian in Biscay. Top left and top right two women from Biscay. Bottom center various inhabitants in local clothing from Biscay in a landscape. Print is part of an album., print, picture, book illustration, album page, prints, pictures, height 346 mm, width 465 mm, height 530 mm, width 615 mm, South Netherlandish, German, print maker, printmaker, 1567 - 1567, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, hand colouring, Dutch, 1540 - 1590, 1542 - 1600-09-09, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1657 - 1717, colourist