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Historical Decorative Medallions

Ornate medallions featuring playful children and mythical scenes, combining intricate designs and mythology from previous centuries.

St George on horseback piercing a devil, print maker: Caspar Luyken, Jacob Lindenberg, 1705
St George on horseback piercing a devil, print maker: Caspar Luyken, Jacob Lindenberg, 1705
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High-relief depicting a man injuring another with a dagger, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, Maya civilization, engraving from Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, by Edward King Kingsborough, volume IV, plate 34, 1831-1848, London.
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Bound Print (France)
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Drawing, Frieze; Italy; pen and brown ink, brown, rose, green wash, black chalk support: white laid paper; 10.8 x 36.1 cm (4 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); Purchase in memory of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1946-15-2
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Cartouche Containing an Empty Shield Surmounted by a Lion and Framed by a Lion and a Child 1646 Stefano della Bella Italian. Cartouche Containing an Empty Shield Surmounted by a Lion and Framed by a Lion and a Child 377620
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There is an owl in the middle, and a hoopoe in the lower right. Number 4 from series of 12 numbered sheets, frieze with eleven birds, at the left end of the frieze is a tree Viel und mancherley Gefgel den Malern und Goltsmiden dienlich (series title), print maker: Pieter Serwouters, (mentioned on object), Hans Collaert (I), Marcus Geeraerts, Netherlands, (possibly), c. 1607, paper, engraving, h 40 mm - w 174 mm
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Crowned Jupiter in the midst of the elements and planets, Michiel Le Blon, 1597 - 1656 print The crowned Jupiter stands on a turtle within a circle and is surrounded by animals that symbolize the five senses: monkey (taste), dog (smell), deer (hearing), turtle (feeling) and eagle (face). Outside the circle are the four elements, the planets, the winds and the zodiac signs. paper engraving (story of) Jupiter (Zeus). the (five) senses. the four elements, and ether, the fifth element. planets; planetary system, solar system. winds. zodiac; the twelve zodiacal signs together
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Pencz, Georg, Germany, Aldegrever, Heinrich, Frisian with breastplate between leaf tendrils, verso bottom center - handwritten, Ornament with a breastplate between leaf tendrils that end on the left in a mask and on the right in the skull of an animal., print, ornament print, prints, 14, height 30 mm, width 83 mm, German, 1502 - 1561, print maker, printmaker, 1512 - 1560, first quarter 16th century, second quarter 16th century, third quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1500 - 1550-10-11
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Soldier with coat of arms.
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Study blade with eight masks, Pieter Feddes van Harlingen, 1612 print Friesland paper etching mask
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Copper engraving by Meister E.S. titled 'Wax-is', created in the second third of the 15th century, depicting wax figures or symbolic forms.
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Horizontal Panel with an Eagle Flanked by Two Genii 1544 Sebald Beham German Two genii or putti flank an eagle at center. The figures of both putti face outwards while their heads are turned inward.. Horizontal Panel with an Eagle Flanked by Two Genii 417021
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Print, Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion; Print Maker: Jakob Frey; After Giovanni Passari (Italian); Switzerland; engraving on paper; 7 × 14.7 cm (2 3/4 × 5 13/16 in.); 1907-7-6-a
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Copper engraving depicting a satirical scene titled 'The King of the Goats', showing human and goat figures with exaggerated horns, created around 1470-1490.
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Masks and hats. 1688. Mitelli, Agostino, 1671-1696. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), friezes, foliage and grotesque, title. First issue of a series of 8 pieces (A. de Vesme 979. Dutuit 73) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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fine arts, Nilson, Johannes Esaias (1721 - 1788), graphic, ""Pipe-smoking Turk with coffeepot and cup"", copper engraving, coloured, Augsburg, Germany, circa 1770, private collection,
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Putti by two circles, Anonymous, 1690 print Putti next to the imagination of sun (top) and air (bottom). Numbered at the top right: 883. Amsterdam paper etching sun as celestial body. air (one of the four elements)
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Coëffures de Paris, 1778-1780: Vier dameskapsels.Four different women's hairstyles from Paris in a framework, numbered to four: 1. Coeffiche the gala. 2. HERISSON GALANT. 3. Promenade. 4. Compagnie. The print is part of the Almanac coeffures de Paris, 1778-1780.
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Horizontal Panel with a Bearded Amascaron in a Medallion at Center Surrounded by Tendrils 1543 Sebald Beham German Panel with the mask of a large, open-mouthed, and bearded face at center, surrounded by a wreath and tendrils.. Horizontal Panel with a Bearded Amascaron in a Medallion at Center Surrounded by Tendrils 417025
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Medal of the University of Groningen, with the names of the professors and the Leiden city council.
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Hansken The Elephant. Hansken de elephant, in the middle with a flag in the trunk, next to her a trumpet blower. For this performance 16 small scenes numbered 1-16 in which the elephant performs in different art pieces, during the fair in Amsterdam in November 1641. Under every scene a rule in Dutch and a rule in French. Under the central representation a verse of 8 lines.
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Martin Schonguer (around 1450-1495). The Elephant (Bartsch 92). Engraving (chisel), 1480-1485. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 76855-24 Art medieval, Christianity, engraving in chisel, Christian iconography, religious iconography, Middle Ages, New Testament, biblical character, 15th XV 15th 15th 15th century, engraving
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Tobit or Tobias; Thobias; Liber chronicarum. A flower celk with a man with pointed hat, turned to the right. He has his left hand above his eyes. The performance is a fragment of the lead of Israel's prophets in the Liber Chronicarum. The text identifies him as the Prophet Tobit or Tobias. The print is part of an album.
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The Five Orders of Perriwigs as They Were Worn at the Late Coronation, Measured Architectonically. William Hogarth (England, London, 1697-1764). England, 1761. Prints; engravings. Etching
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Cabinet of modes or new modes, June 1, 1786, pl. 2, A.B. Duhamel, After Pugin, 1786 Four women's hairstyles with four different hats, in frameworks. The accompanying text reports: Fig. 1: Woman in a Robe à la Turque from Tafzijde, trimmed with a black side ribbon. She is in light mourning. On the head a black straw hat with a ball of black gaze (Ajustée à pointses de Diamans). A red ribbon and raised red rooster springs around the sphere. On the rear edge a voile of Gaze, who falls down on the back. Fichu van Linen, a pink bow in the middle. Hairstyle 'à la Conseillère'. Fig. 2: Robe à la turque of lemon -colored silk. The body is from a white heavy side (Gros-de-Tours). Fichu with strips, closed at the front with a bow. Cuffs of Gaze-Linon. On the head a 'pouf' from Gaze 'to the latest fashion'. Around the sphere of the hat a garland of art boxes. On the side on the right two large bows, two feathers on the left. A long voile from Lila Crêpe is attached to the back of the hat. Fig. 3: