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Historical Engravings and Illustrations

Engravings highlighting historical scenes and narratives, featuring detailed craftsmanship and a sense of storytelling through artistic depictions.

Preparing a drug against syphilis from the bark of the plant to give to a man lying in the next room ill with the infection. After a 16th century print by Dutch engraver and publisher Philips Galle (
Preparing a drug against syphilis from the bark of the plant to give to a man lying in the next room ill with the infection. After a 16th century print by Dutch engraver and publisher Philips Galle (
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Savonarola's ideal of a good life. Girolamo Savonarola (21 September 1452 - 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence
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Otto von Guericke was trying to empty a barrel. Second container employed by Otto von Guericke to evacuate, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.
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'The Linendraper Bold', 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott.
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'Doctor Syntax Made Free of the Cellar', 1817. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson.
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The Head of an alderman finished by cupid. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection . Painting,1770-1780. , Love,1770-1780.
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Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland decrees the death of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Engraving by Thiele.
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In the evening, vintage engraving. In the evening, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679412
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Illustration of a wealthy woman reading a book in her library. The library is decadent and the bookshelves are decorated with carved wooden figures. Dated 1849
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Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot. Pencil drawing.
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THE KING OF SIAM AND TWO OF HIS BROTHERS, NEW SUNDIAL CONSTRUCTED FOR THE KING, THAILAND, 1881
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AZULEJO DE OFICIOS - TALLER DE RELOJERIA. Location: CASTILLO. Frederiksborg. DENMARK.
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"Baumfrevel, " woodcut from "Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten" 1903
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The Election Humours of an election entertainment Engraved by T. E. Nicholson after Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, The Election Humours of an election entertainment Engraved by T E Nicholson after Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Buonaparté pie Woodward delin.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Napoleon,I,Emperor of the French,1769-1821. , Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,Great Britain. , Pies,1800-1810. , Eating & drinking,1800-1810.
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Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński in his office. Sokołowski, Jakub (1784-1837), painter
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This illustration shows Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. Cecile, the wife of Mendelssohn, was the daughter of a French Protestant minister who settled in Frankfurt, Germany. She died in 1853.
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First arrangement of the Drovetti collection on the ground floor of the Museo Egizio. Pen and watercolour drawing by Marco Nicolosino, 1832.
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Radegundis, historic steel engraving from 1860
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Historical illustration, Heinzelmaennchen, little house gnomes from Cologne, Image 4 of 9, Der Kuefer, The Cellarman, 19th Century legend, poem by August Kopisch
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'A Game of Chess', 1948. Artist: George Cruikshank.
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Allegory tobacco: pipe smoker with a tobacco tin, illustration by Bertall from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 309, January 27, 1849.
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The Quakers of Pennsylvania. 17th century. North of America. Colonist. Engraving. Color. History of the United States, 1899.
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press/media display with mechanical mine from the Ore Mountains lithograph Germany circa 1830/1840 Stadtmuseum Munich,
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Alice with the Queen Alice Through the Looking Glass Illustration by Sir John Tenniel 1820 to 1914
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France, Paris, Le Journal de la Jeunesse, Engraving, 1886
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Relief artwork on the memorial to Johannes Gutenberg by Bertel Thorvaldsen, Gutenbergplatz square, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
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Interior with cat concert. Draughtsman: Cornelis Saftleven (possibly). Intermediary draughtsman: Cornelis Saftleven (possibly). Dating: 1620 - 1715. Measurements: h 261 mm × w 228 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Der Tod kommt zum Arzt, Totentanz, dance of death, Todten-Tantz after Beck, Nöller a. other painters by Georg Max. Theodor Goetz, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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France, Paris, engraved painting of a distillery
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Sir John Tenniel, woodcut, 1865, 1820-1914, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library
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Shoemaker shop, 1835, by J. B Debret, from A Picturesque and Historic Voyage to Brazil, Brazil 19th Century.
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Schneckenverkäuferin in Neapel, Italien, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
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Dibujo satírico político publicado en el periódico La Mosca. Otto von Bismark (1847-1894), estadista y político prusiano en su gabinete de estudio. Noviembre de 1883.
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Venetianische Stickerinnen, Venetian Embroiderers, woodcut from the yearbook Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, 1903
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The Fake Turk (Chess Automaton With Mechanical Doll In Turkish Garb, Driven By Player Inside Box) C.1780 Artist Unknown Colored Copperplate
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Print for the Vienna world's fair shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in uniform, surrounded by objects relating to creativity and the arts, technology, and industry including a train going over a bridge and a balloon in the background
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Aus der Jugendzeit, woodcut from the yearbook Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, 1900
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people professions scrivener copyist in an office after miniature France 15th century wood engraving 19th century,
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SOCIEDAD SIGLO XVIII. HILANDERA. Grabado.