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Historical Disasters and Battles

Engravings depicting catastrophic events, including the Flood, a major fire, sieges, and battles, all characterized by dramatic scenes and historical significance.

Armed Telemachus on a boat Télémaque from aux Enfers (title on object) Adventures of Telemachus (series title), Telemachus stands on a boat with shield and sword. A naked bearded man is rowing the boat. Devilish beasts are flying in the background, while a figure is throning on the left. Print on top left marked: Page 311, (story of) Telemachus, rowing-boat, canoe, etc., Simon Fokke (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1775, paper, etching, h 146 mm × w 97 mm
Armed Telemachus on a boat Télémaque from aux Enfers (title on object) Adventures of Telemachus (series title), Telemachus stands on a boat with shield and sword. A naked bearded man is rowing the boat. Devilish beasts are flying in the background, while a figure is throning on the left. Print on top left marked: Page 311, (story of) Telemachus, rowing-boat, canoe, etc., Simon Fokke (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1775, paper, etching, h 146 mm × w 97 mm
158 assets in this story
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William Tombleson, ca.1795-1835, British, Holy Island, 1830. Line engraving and etching, 3rd state on moderatey thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.
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Bracquemond, Félix (n.1833-05-22-D.1914-10-29), Boissy d'Anglas presiding over the National Convention, the 1st Prairial An III according to Delacroix (Main title), 1880. Eau-Forte on vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN, VIEWS AT THE SCENES OF THE DISASTER
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Den Haag, Nijhoff, Martinus, Arnhem, Thieme, Dirk Anthonie, Netherlands, Spanier & Zn, widow Elias, Limburg Brouwer, Petrus Abraham Samuel van, Schmidt Crans, Johan Michaël, De Europeesche Gregarinen, Cartoon on the rise of the Ultramontane parties in Europe, 1872, The Hague, Cartoon on the rise of the Ultramontane parties in Europe. Microscopic preparation in which the black-clad clergy are visible as lice or mites among hairs. Plate published in the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 12, 1872., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 275 mm, width 215 mm, Dutch, 1830-04-30 - 1907-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1872 - 1872, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), Work conception, 1829-11-15 - 1873-02-13, after a design by, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1830 - 1879, publisher, uitgever, 1826-12-26 - 1894-09-24
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National Scenes, Wilhelmus van Kessel, 1726 print Leaf with 12 performances of rural scenes with a barn, a house or a ruin in a landscape. Under each image a two -way verse. publisher: Haarlemprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing landscapes. landscape with ruins - II - ideal landscapes. farm or solitary house in landscape - II - ideal landscapes
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Boats on water with approaching thunderstorms. Draughtsman: Johann Goll van Frankenstein (I). Dating: 1732 - 1785. Measurements: h 160 mm × w 219 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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The legislative arena or the ruins of the Chamber of Deputies in the year 2870, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, June 27, 1870 June 27, 1870 Honoré Daumier. The legislative arena or the ruins of the Chamber of Deputies in the year 2870, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, June 27, 1870. 'News of the day' (Actualités). Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). June 27, 1870. Lithograph on wove paper. Arnaud de Vresse. Prints
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Two walkers watch the smoking Etna, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing Etna
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Stefano Della Bella after Alfonso Parigi II (Italian, 1610 - 1664), Sesta Scena di Tutto Cielo, 1637, etching on laid paper
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Four seasons, 1822 - 1848 print Leaf with 4 performances of the four seasons and associated activities. A four -line verse under each image. Numbered at the top right: N. 47. print maker: NetherlandsAmsterdampublisher: Deventer paper letterpress printing the four seasons of the year ~ human activities
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Apprecution of Friedrich August as a dodgy for reforms
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Grave monument for Joachim Maurits Baron van Kropff; Early column or grave needle. Reeled in memory of (...) J.M. Baron von Kropff (...). Allegoric monument for Joachim Maurits Baron van Kropff, Dissels in the defense of Klundert against the French army, February 25, 1793. For a tomb, two prospective loving figures, constitution and national love. In the air the fame with two wreaths. On a medallion with a monument with a portrait. In the background the defense of the fortress and get it out of the water from his body. In the caption an eighty verse. An explanation is one of the print.
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Jan van Schaffelaar jumps off the tower, 1482, 1776 - 1849 print Jan van Schaffelaar jumps (upright) of the tower of Barneveld, July 16, 1482. Netherlands paper etching self-sacrifice, death in the service of a higher purpose Barneveld
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View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757 1762 Charles François Grenier de Lacroix. View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757. Charles François Grenier de Lacroix (French, Marseille 1700-1782 Berlin). 1762. Engraving. Noël Le Mire (French, Rouen 1724-1801 Paris). Prints
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Haarlem, Emrik & Binger, Kruseman van Elten, Hendrik Dirk, Dolmen at Valthe, Landscape with dolmen at Valthe., print, picture, historical object representation, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 292 mm, width 375 mm, 1829 - 1904-07-12, print maker, printmaker, 1857 - 1864, third quarter 19th century, paper, tone lithography, printer
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Mr ANE as there are no / little I do not care the masterpieces of all the arts, provided that I cruste, that I am, and that the thistle does not miss / O people Taste recognize the beast!
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Taking the fortress Ismael on December , Carl Schütz -, Copper Engraver
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'2nd August', c1840-1900 (1924). Artist: Theophile Steinlen
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Krieg, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil. Artist: Max Klinger (German, Leipzig 1857-1920 Großjena). Dimensions: Plate: 20 5/16 × 13 1/4 in. (51.6 × 33.7 cm)Sheet: 21 15/16 × 15 13/16 in. (55.8 × 40.1 cm). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Vision - Ode Tenth Paul-Henri Regeau, French painter. Vision - Ode Tenth. Pencil, feather and ink lavis on paper. 1885. Paris, Victor Hugo House.
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GOYA , FRANCISCO DE. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. FUENTETODOS 1746-1828. " FABRICACION DE BALAS " , OLEO SOBRE TABLA HACIA1810-1814. PATRIMONIO NACIONAL.
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death. Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1808-09-24. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Bears, Death, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Lions, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 , Campaigns
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James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1808. Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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A Cottage on Fire. Medium: color aquatint with hand-color. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Mrs. Yates.
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Boot is pulled from one water to the other by a overhaul, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. dog
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Hendrik Pruyt in Workum burned in a barge, 1574, Jan Luyken, 1685 print Amsterdam paper etching execution of heretic, e.g. by burning at the stake, 'auto-da-fé' Workum
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The coffin of Medenberg on the Galg, 1619, 1619 - 1699 print The coffin with the remains of Gilles of Memdergen hanging on the gallows in the dunes outside The Hague, 15 May 1619. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving violent death by hanging. seeking death, suicide The Hague
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Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), Varii Capricci Militari. Two soldiers sitting on the lookout for a cannon speaking with a standing sentry. Second number of a suite of 6 rooms. (A. de Vesme 259; Dutuit 126) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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Government of All Talents by James Gillray, Etching, watercolor, 1807, 1757-1815, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
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Plymouth Citadel, Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778-1855, British, after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1823, Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper with chine-collé, Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/2 inches (28.3 × 41.9 cm), Plate: 10 1/8 × 13 3/4 inches (25.7 × 34.9 cm), Chine collé: 9 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (25.1 × 34 cm), and Image: 7 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (19.7 × 29.2 cm)
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Breakawica; Bart Omiejczyk, Edmund Ludwik (1885-1950); 1938 (1938-00-00-1938-00-00);
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Fuoco artificiale detto la Girandola che sincendia sul Castel S. Angelo gia Mausoleo dElio Adriano (Fireworks Known as the Pinwheel That Explode above the Castel SantAngelo formerly Known as the Mausoleum of Elio Hadrian). Artist: Francesco Piranesi, Italian, 1756-1810 After: Louis-Jean Desprez, French, 1743-1804
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Two men point to a burning lime oven, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing
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Amor as a arson. Amor with a burning torch walks away from a house that goes on in flames. In the background a figure with a torch on a tower and a swimmer in the sea (Hero and Leander). At the top left numbered: 88.
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GRABADO PARA ABANICO - SIGLO XIX. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-ABANICOS. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Vonnis van Apol over de bubbels Apollo's judgment of the bubbles. 1720. Prints, Caricatures. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Political satire
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GRABADO-LAVADO DEL MINERAL DE ORO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Overthrow of the Republican-Babel. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1809. Dimensions: 378 × 309 mm (image); 397 × 320 mm (plate); 450 × 368 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Partitions of Poland. The First Partition of Poland. It was decided on August 5, 1772. The agreement was signed in Vienna in February 1772. The partition was conducted by the Habsburg Monarchy, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire. Allegory of the First Partition of Poland: on the left Catherine II of Russia; at the right are Joseph II of Austria and Frederick II of Prussia, quarrelling over their territorial seizures. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Chaillot after the allegorical drawing titled "The Troelfth Cake" by Jean-Michael Moreau. History of Poland, by Charles Foster. Panorama Universal, 1840.
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Allegory showing victims of the French Coup d'Etat by Napoleon III 1851. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of France from 1848 to 1852 and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. Barred by the Constitution and Parliament from running for a second term, he organized a coup d'état in 1851 and then took the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852
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Peace driven by war, Simon Fokke, 1774 - 1784 print The personification of peace flees with her palm branch when the war pursues her, with the help of diabolical figures, with shield and sword. Mercury flies away in the air. Amsterdam paper etching symbols, allegories of peace, 'Pax'; 'Pace' (Ripa). symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa). devil(s) and demons. attributes of Mercury
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Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Vos, Maerten de, Wierix, Antonie (II), Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum in lucem editus, History of Samson, Samson destroys the pillars of the temple, Samson destroys the pillars of the temple with his last strength and thus kills himself and the Philistines present. Below the image a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Judg. 16. This print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, prenten, height 213 mm, width 286 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1559 - 1604-03, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1585, 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
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Alkmaar, Schabaelje, Jan Philipsz, Amsterdam, Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Vos, Maerten de, Wierix, Antonie (II), Den Grooten Figuer-Bibel, Geschiedenis van Samson, De Historie van Samson, Samson destroys the pillars of the temple, lower right - handwritten in brown ink, Samson destroys the pillars of the temple with his last strength and thus kills himself and the Philistines present. Below the image a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Judg. 16:25. This print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, 128, height 214 mm, width 286 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1559 - 1604-03, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1585, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1532 - 1603-12-04, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1586 - 1652-06-19, publisher, 1592 - 1656-04
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Phoenician fleet on a voyage of discovery Philippoteaux, Paul, b. 1846. still image. Conjectural works. 1885. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Ship figureheads, Sailing ships, Discovery & exploration, Rowing, Phoenicians
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The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again December 10, 1813 Thomas Rowlandson Napoleon emerges from the flames of a huge fire burning atop a rock alongside serpents. A Cossack pokes the fire and the serpents at right, and a Dutchman uses a large pair of bellows.. The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). December 10, 1813. Hand-colored etching. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints
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The opened grave of Hercules, ca. 1707-1708; HERCULES 'S MADELS STATES STATES; The steadfast monarchye of death / 't Lusthof from MoMus. Allegory in which bystanders view the framework in the opened grave of God Hercules, ca. 1707-1708. Numbered: 6 and marked: p. 15. Part of: The steadfast monarchye of death, a series of 8 old plates with verses adapted for use as cartoon on the French in the context of the Spanish Succession War. Part of the printing work under the collective title 't Lust Court of Momus with the bundled series of cartooning during the 1901-1713 of the Spanish Succession War.
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Décoration du ballet historique donné au Théâtre de la Cour à Rio de Janeiro, le 13 mai 1818, à l'occasion de l'acclamation du Roi D. Jean VI et du mariage du Prince Royal D. Pedro. Créé entre 1834 et 1839 par Jean Baptiste Debret. Édité à Paris par Firmin Didot Frères. Thèmes abordés la vie sociale et les coutumes au Brésil, les productions théâtrales, et l'histoire du Brésil de 1763 à 1822
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Sea battle. Hondt, Lambert de (Flemish, d. bef.1665) (author of design) painter c. 1700-1730 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. Survivors of shipwreck gathering on small craft (center, foreground), ship banner (R, middle ground), seascape with ships (L, background) Lambert de Hondt II designed the series "Art of War" (1696). For alternate titles of the composition, see Wace, p. 92. This panel is a fragment of tapestry & the borders are missing (Cavallo). For other panels in set & other similar sets, see Wace's book. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Wace, Malborough Tapestries (1968) Related Works: Stylistically similar tapestry, GCPA 0237385
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Bossi, Giovanni Domenico, work, Mayor Nelander, 1800, technique text: watercolor and gouache on ivory, painting, 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm
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Thomas Jeavons, ca. 1800-1867, British, Pembroke Castle, Wales, 1827-1838. Open etching.
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Emblem: Zee, Jan Luyken, 1695 - 1705 print A ship at sea during a heavy storm. Print Maker: Amsterdampublisher: Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. storm at sea. sea. sailing-ship, sailing-boat
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fine arts, Nelli, Nicolo (circa 1530 - circa 1576), etching, ""Cockaigne"", circa 1564, detail, private collection,
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Two figures look at the ruin of a castle, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc.
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Set of four Sporting in the Scottish Isles: No. II. Otter Hunting, William Heath, 1795-1840, British, after William Heath, 1795-1840, British, 1835, Hand colored lithograph, Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 5/8in. (22.5 x 32.1cm)
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Fishing garfish the Foene, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.
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William Heath, 1795-1840, British, Set of four Sporting in the Scottish Isles: No. II. Otter Hunting, 1835. Hand colored lithograph.
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ERUPCION DEL VESUBIO EN 1760. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Rome. ITALIA.
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Fiery burst in the sea; Moralizing love emblems; Devises et emblesmes d'Amobr moralisez. High flames and smoke clouds above the water. On a banderole a motto in Latin and a caption in French, both about love.