Historical Engravings and Etchings

Detailed prints illustrating historical scenes and themes, featuring coats of arms, biblical narratives, and allegorical representations, characterized by intricate line work.

Winged putti or amorini: a putto playing lyre on a gryphon-drawn chariot while another putto holds them by bridle (top); a snake, also known as Genius, twined around an altar eating some fruit; beside, a boy crowned with leaves (bottom), Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Vanni from drawings by la Vega, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume I, plate 38, 1757-1787, Naples.

A Herme, with a woman's figure at the top of the bust. On the ground right Attributes of the case law, such as scale and sword. On the left on the ground an ax and chains. In the background a city with figures on a staircase and figures that wear a box at a house. In the background a man with a child with a sacrifice column and a herme. Print from a series of 41 symbols.

Copper engraving by Sebald Beham from 1548 depicting the death of Hercules, showing figure composition and posture.

Hose game, Ca, 1625, 1620 - 1629 print. gameboard Board game in the form of a rolled crowned snake with compartments numbered 1-63. In the middle "Den Boertigen Hoff van Cupido" with farmers dancing to the music of Cupido. The rules on both sides. print maker: Northern Netherlandsprinter: Amsterdam paper engraving board-games of chance. farmers

Shepherd with staff, standing next to sheep and willows, 1653 drawing Zwolle paper. ink brush

For Children. The Gates of Paradise, Plate 1, Frontispiece, 'What is Man!', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1793, Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm), Sheet: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (13.7 x 11.4 cm), and Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches (9.2 x 6.4 cm), baby, botany, branch, caterpillar, children, historical subject, infant, leaf, science, text

Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921), farewell to the Railway Building Inspector Totz and the government assistant Schmeisser (March 21, 1889): Views and text. Pressure on cardboard, 34.3 x 26.1 cm (including scan edges) Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921): Verabschiedung des Eisenbahn-Bauinspektors Totz und des Regierungsassesors Schmeisser

Amor escapes over the sea; Sic Ruga Violenta Monet. Amor sitting in a small boat at sea. Arrows lie in the boat. A canvas is tied to an arrow that acts as a sail. Above a banderole with title.

Men fencing. Engraving by Salomon Savarij.

Aachen, famous spa town, known to the Romans as Aquisgranum. Full vapour bath (left) and Sitz-bath, left. From Amusements des eaux dAix-la-Chapelle, Amsterdam, 1736.

Smoke, Antique Skeletons of Amsterdam

Portrait of Maurits, Prince of Orange-Nassau, with a putto above. A portrait of Maurits, Prince of Orange-Nassau, upstairs a putto with a crown and left a boy, fleeing for a fire.

The new arlequin game / le nouveau jeu d'Arlequin. Board game with a harlequin in the middle of the playing field that holds a bag in its opened hands with the figure 7. Around him a garland to which medallions hang with the numbers 2 to 12. At the top in the middle a shield. Under the show the rules in Dutch and in French in two columns. Numbered in the middle above: (N. 52).

A scene from the childhood of the young Harlequin. Etching by G.J. Xavery.

Manessian Relief Handwrite, Faksimile Edition

Title Page, after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones) 1612 Netherlands. Etching in black on ivory laid paper . Claes Jansz. Visscher, II

Wish letter with cord dancers and fairground scene, 1783 print Wish letter with described cartouche within a decorative framework with representations of a fair, various figures and cord dancers. Handwritten message in calligraphy (Pentecost letter) by W.P. Great to father and mother. Netherlands paper. ink etching / pen equilibrist. pleasure fair and circus. human types. characters (human types)

Illustration by Jacques Lagniet (1620-1672), from an XVII th century edition of fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature.

Syrian, Egyptian and Phoenician alphabet, Egypt, Jan Luyken, Wilhelmus Goeree (I), 1690

Ex libris van Kálmán Arady, Kornél Révész, 1903 - 1936 Print is part of a catalog with 13 bound objects and two text magazines. Catalog is part of a cover with 64 objects on 34 set -up sheets and a text sheet. Hungary paper etching / drypoint woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. book. infant, baby. angels. umbrella

The New Arlequin Spel / Le Nouveau Jeu d'Arlequin, 1856 - 1900 print. gameboard Board game with a harlequin in the middle of the playing field that holds a bag in his open hands with the number 7. Around him a garland on which medallions hang with the numbers 2 to 12. A shield at the top in the middle. Under the show the rules in Dutch and in French in two columns. Numbered in the top left: No. 84. publisher: Turnhoutprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing board-games of chance. board-games. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin

Morriën, Johannes Henderikus, Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Letter I and a number of objects from the nineteenth century, including a cogwheel and a steam locomotive, print, prints, height 139 mm, width 111 mm, Dutch, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, wood engraving, Work conception, 1819-02-08 - 1878-04-29

Woman Suspending Man from Tower. Dated: c. 1420/1430. Dimensions: image: 10.8 x 8.4 cm (4 1/4 x 3 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink with watercolor; fragment from Bible MS (German text on image verso); image cut in silhouette and mounted on backing sheet. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Austrian 15th Century.

Oral, fixed and mobile segment; intended to strengthen the voice of the speaker, in a large assembly ... (IT)

Scythian breastplate, shield, helmet and maces from the Column of Theodosius in Constantinople (Istanbul). Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.

Tous les Spirites, Esprits frappeurs et autres médiums écrasés par la chute de l'armoire des frères Davenport. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1865. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Print at the top right numbered: 182.

Putti in conversation with a globe. Another putto signs with a passer on a map. In the background two putti at a star glass.

Tycho Brahe in his Observatory.

Adam holding a flower; a lion; a youth holding a sword; a rich man with money in his hands. Engraving, 1767.

Writing example with writing hand. Calligraphed text: Whoever wants to write, and Veeldigh wants to write, the penne says Houden and continue (...). Below an oval medallion in which the example of a hand holds the pen (correctly). At the bottom the alphabet.

Revolutionary allegory in honor of Rousseau, Painting by Bertry Jeaurat. (IT)

Angel with banderol above landscape. Design for a print.

Cartoon on Patriotse Vrijnorpsen, 1787, Anonymous, 1787 print Cartoon on Patriotse Relocissen, after the recovery of the Prince of Orange in 1787. Print with folding strips, which means that when folding the figure of the armed release corist in an armed keeshond. Northern Netherlands paper etching animals acting as human beings. warfare; military affairs (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia)

Design for an English Political Satire 18th century Hubert François Gravelot French. Design for an English Political Satire. Hubert François Gravelot (French, Paris 1699-1773 Paris). 18th century. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Drawings

View of Landgoed Östermalma, Adam Perelle, 1670 - 1674 The print is part of an album. paper etching Landgoed Östermalma The print is part of an album. paper etching Landgoed Östermalma

Punishments: African female slave chained to a 100lb weight, and more slaves gutting a huge snake on Surinam. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Engraving after C. Leigh.

Paris, Jombert, Charles-Antoine, Babel, Pierre Edme, Vignette with various measuring instruments, verso - stamped, print, engraving, ornamental print, book illustration, prints, engravings, ornamental prints, height 72 mm, width 144 mm, 1720 - 1775, print maker, printmaker, 1750 - 1750, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design of, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1712 - 1784, publisher

Man is on the edge of a deep pit, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing pit, hole

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history. Its structure follows the story of human history as related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books. It is classified as an incunabulum - that is, a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed (not handwritten) before the year 1501 in Europe. It is also one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. Latin scholars refer to it as Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) as this phrase appears in the index introduction of the Latin edition. English speakers have long referred to it as the Nuremberg Chronicle after the city in which it was published. German speakers refer to it as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel's World History) in honour of its author. The illustrations in many copies were hand-coloured aft

'Cat's and Dog's Meat!', Bethlem Hospital, London, 1805. Artist: Unknown

Balans van Europa (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Intermediary draughtsman: Derk Anthony van de Wart. Dating: 1814 - 1815. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 235 mm × w 172 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Playing Card

Northern Netherlands, The Great Tableau of Folly, The Knight of the Guild Calf or Captain of the Early and Late Slaughter Time in Procession to the Oracle of Delfos, Procession with the Guild Calf, 1720, Procession with the guild calf ridden by a jester and preceded by a drummer and a trumpeter. The calf pulls a sleigh on which an actionist with bellows stands. With caption in two columns. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 10) of The Great Tableau of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720., print, cartoon, books, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 346 mm, width 273 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, papier, etching, etsen

The dagger of the patriots is the ax of the law (IT)

Roman two-horse chariot (Biga) used in Giuochi Circus, and tunic and breastplate of corded leather worn by an Auriga (charioteer) from the Vatican Museum. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.

Pedal-Mill (Plate I), 1762, Denis Diderot, French, 1713-1784, 13 7/8 x 8 15/16 in. (35.24 x 22.7 cm) (plate)16 x 10 1/8 in. (40.64 x 25.72 cm) (sheet), Etching and engraving, France, 18th century

Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching, 1820, after C. Leigh.

The flood and hot air balloon. Anonymous. "The deluge and the hot air balloon". Brown ink, wash.

Cartoon on Daine and Kessels, 1830, Anonymous, 1830 print Cartoon on the Belgian generals Daine and Kessels, 1830. Galgen with the corpses of some criminals, on the left a wheel designated as 'place for false substitute maker' (Daine). On the right a whale asks the devil if his boss is already here, the devil answers that he is going to get his boss (Kessels). Two four -line verses in the caption. print maker: NetherlandsAmsterdam paper instruments of torture, execution or punishment: gallows. swimming mammals: whale

The Five Orders of Periwigs 1761 William Hogarth British. The Five Orders of Periwigs 392606

Skeleton with arrow and arch, Hendrick Hondius, after Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, 1626 print Death in the form of a skeleton with a arrow case on his back and bowed in his hand. For a landscape with a tree on the right. Print from a series with performances of Skeletten by the print makers Hendrick Hondius I (Newhollst.243-258), Andries Jacobsz. Stock (Hollst.4-10) and Simon Frisius. paper etching / engraving Death as skeleton (+ Death with bow and arrow)

circus acrobatics tightrope walking juggler on the rope woodcut Switzerland circa 1820 private collection,

Allegory of fame after death. Death as a skeleton with an hourglass and an arrow in his hands. In the background several monograms of famous, deceased artists. Behind Death six lines in Latin. Last print, from volume 3, of the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. Series of 72 artist portraits produced by Hendrick Hondius I, Simon Frisius, Andries Jacobsz. Stock and Robert de Baudous., Death with an Hourglass and an Arrow Allegory of Fame after Death Post funera, vita. Portraits of famous painters from the Low Countries (series title) Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris effigies (series title), print maker: Hendrick Hondius (I), (mentioned on object), publisher: Hendrick Hondius (I), The Hague, 1610, paper, engraving, h 213 mm × w 138 mm

pl. VI, Dying silk, pl. VI The art of dying wool, silk, and cotton, Hellot, Jean, 1685-1766, Engraving, 1789

Printer garment in letter (late 17th century). Printer habit in letters (late 17th century). Print.

Man separates the chaff from the wheat, Jan Luyken, 1710 print Amsterdam paper etching agricultural implements: winnow. threshing

Dutch lion stands by monument with lyre and burning censer, Title page for: Nederlandsche Muzen-Almanak 1832, print maker: Johannes Christiaan Bendorp, (mentioned on object), Johannes Christiaan Bendorp, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johannes Immerzeel, (mentioned on object), print maker: Netherlands, publisher: The Hague, 1832, paper, etching, h 112 mm × w 83 mm

Bookplate of Dr W. Erhardt: Non Frangor. Greiner, Otto (1869-1916), graphic artist

Engraving depicting an Assyrian bas relief which shows the transportation of stones across a river in a kuphar. Dated 19th Century

Playing Card

'The Silver Trumpets, 1874-1879.Artist: Hanhart

Tahitians, Flowers, and Leaves, headpiece for Le sourire. Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1899-1900. Dimensions: 104 × 183 mm (image), 123 × 215 mm (sheet). Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

De'Estaing at spa or the French Admiral in all his glory Colley, invt. et delt.. British Cartoon Prints Collection , This record contains unverified data from caption card with revisions.

The Siphon; Le Siphon. Fernand Leger (1881-1955). Pencil, pen and India ink and watercolour on paper. Drawn in 1924. 26.4 x 18cm.

Two clubs: Theodolet & semi circle.. 1702. Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932. Prints, Playing cards. Rare Book Division

Netherlands, Here the farmers herd and feed their cattle with diligence even in the summertime, verso - stamped, Sheet with 3 representations of farmers and their cattle. Numbered top right: No. 51., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 423 mm, width 339 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1700 - 1899, paper, papier, houtcut, kleuren, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Death stands armed with spear and hourglass. Etching by H.H. (Hendrik Hondius I).

Brown pen and black brush drawing by Gabriel Huquier of a lying boy holding an hourglass, with gray lavated shading, mounted on multiple papers.

Stervormig Bassin, Anonymous, after Georg Andreas Böckler, 1664 print The points of the basin are decorated with mermaids with double tails. In the basin there is a vase -shaped pedestal with a second basin with two entangled fish. Page 60 from part III of a series consisting of 226 magazines, spread over four books, each with its own title page. print maker: Germanyafter design by: Germany (possibly)printer: Neurenbergpublisher: Neurenberg paper etching

Ronsaeus, David, Amsterdam, Blaeu-Laken, Cornelis Willemsz, Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Den teghenwoordighen Arminiaen, Cartoon on the Arminians, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the Arminians (Remonstrants). A decapitated man walks with his head between his legs, with chained legs on crutches and led by a scorpion, a lobster, a bat and a mole. Above the neck symbols of worldly justice. Printed on the sheet below the plate a verse and the legend AN in 2 columns in Dutch., print, cartoon, prints, height 346 mm, width 283 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1586 - 1652-06-19, print maker, printmaker, 1623 - 1623, paper, papier, etching, etchings, letterpress printing, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, publisher, writer

Drawing, Design for an Inkstand; Manufactured by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai; Belgium; brush and watercolor, black wash, graphite, on cream laid paper; 25.6 × 39.9 cm (10 1/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

Wever, Caspar Luyken, After Jan Luyken, 1694 print Amsterdam paper etching tapestry weaver, gobelin maker. handicrafts, craftsman at work

Zitrusfrucht, Limon da calabria und Schloss Schiebelsberg, Gartengestaltung, Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nürnberger Hesperidengärten von Johann Christop...

Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints 1899 France. Second-state impression laid down on first-state impressionWood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso) . Paul Gauguin

Showers. (IT)

Heads: Philosophorum, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1800, Etching, colored, Sheet: 10 1/2 x 5 1/2in. (26.7 x 14cm)

Der Ballon von Bartolome Lorenzo de Guzman 1709, Bartolome Lorenzo de Guzman's Balloon 1709 From the book Wondeful Balloon Ascents or The Conquest of the Skies published c 1870, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Anonymous watercolor depicting a man weighing shaped tea bowls, showing details of the bowls and scale.

Pritcha o zavislivom.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Under these glorious auspices; / a Himen can only be happy. (IT)

ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK MADE FOR THE EMPEROR RUDOLF II, OF GERMANY

Perfume burner; Moralizing love emblems; Devises et emblesmes d'Amobr moralisez. A perfume burner on a table, with a landscape in the background. On a banderole a motto in Latin and a caption in French, both about love.

Vignette for the Geoctr. Surin. Mineral. Comp .. two workmen next to a monument with the coat of arms of the patented Surinamese Minerals Compagnie. The Motto Monument: Fish Unita Fortior. Behind the men can be seen how the workmen take the soil substances out of the ground and process in ovens.

Balthasar Moncornet after Remigio Cantagallina, Evrito Echione e Etalide Argonote Evrito Echione e Etalide Argonote

Hab.t de Juida from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

alchemy allegory vial with thre ravens miniature ""Splendor Solis"" Augsburg circa 1600 Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg,

Illustration for 'Tripvs avrevs, hoc est, Tres tractatvs chymici selectissimi..' by Bry, Theodor de (1528-1598) Private Collection 1618 Flanders Etching Graphic arts Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History

Zitrusfrucht, Bergamotto della grand sorte und Veillhof, Gartengestaltung, Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nürnberger Hesperidengärten von Johann Christoph ...

Drawing, Design for a Mantelpiece; Pietro Camporese the Younger (Italian, Roman, 1792-1873); Italy; pen and black ink, watercolor, black chalk indications on paper; Overall: 24.9 x 34.3cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/2in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Seated monkey. Numbered top right: 1. Part of the second album with drawings of quadrupeds. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by emperor Rudolf II. With notes in Dutch, Latin and French, Monkey (Primates) Monkey. / Simius. / Singe, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 154 mm × w 182 mm

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Print, Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom); Engraved by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707-83); France; engraving on laid paper; 14.9 x 19.2 cm (5 7/8 x 7 9/16 in.), irregular.

1940 cartoon shows the Balkans being eyed enviously by Adolf Hitler (German Chancellor) left and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, right.

ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472). Italian Quattrocento humanist.; SESONI, Francesco (1705-). Italian engraver. Perspective study, from the first book of the three series 'On Painting' by Leon Battista Alberti. Edition carried out in Naples by Francesco Ricciardo and Vincenzo and Nicola Rispoli (1733). Engraved by Francesco Sesoni. Renaissance art. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library.

heraldry, coat of arms, Egypt, state coat of arms of the Vice Kingdom of Egypt, wood engraving, 1872,

Requiescat in pace!. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

One-eyed Giant (Monoculi), detail, earliest printed map of the entire African continent, woodcut by Sebastian Muenster from Cosmographia Universalis, Basel 1550, Switzerland, Europe

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