Historical Engravings of Allegorical Scenes

Dramatic engravings portraying mythological and domestic themes, featuring figures in detailed settings with rich textures and emotional expressions.

La Mort et le bûcheron (4th plate) , Death, Skeletons, Woodcutters, Fuelwood, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Ceres Seeking Her Daughter (The Mocking of Ceres) 1610 Hendrick Goudt Dutch Made during Goudts residence in Rome from about 1604 to 1610, this engraving depicts the goddess Ceres on her quest to find her daughter, Proserpina. Quenching her thirst at a strangers home, she is mocked by a little boy for drinking so greedily. Areas of untouched paper contrast powerfully with the dense, richly inked lines. Especially striking is the sliver of light that gleams through the opening of the cottage door. The print bears a dedication to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, an important collector and patron in Rome.. Ceres Seeking Her Daughter (The Mocking of Ceres). Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583-1648 Utrecht). 1610. Engraving. Prints

Nacht / Le Soir, Pieter van den Berge, 1702 - 1726 print A minute breast has a baked child on their lap. Next to her a wicker cradle. In the background a couple, sleeping in a four -poster bed. With a caption of four lines in Dutch. Fourth print from the series: the four times of the day. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving night. wet-nurse. cat. cradle, crib. bedroom

An old man is reading while his valets are attending to his toilet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.

Woodcut by Leonhard Beck depicting Saint Herminigildus from the Sipp series related to Emperor Maximilian I, created on wooden stick in 1517.

Natural history cabinet, Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1762 print A cabinet with stuffed animals in showcases and hanging on the ceiling. There are shells on a table in the middle and there is a statue of a veiled woman. On the right two angels. paper etching Cabinet of Curiosities, 'Kunst- und Wunderkammer'

Treasure room. Two men descend a staircase to a space containing different objects. Light falls inside the doorway.

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La Mort et le bûcheron (4th plate) , Death, Skeletons, Woodcutters, Fuelwood, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

The Parable of the Burning Pot 1865-81 After Sir Edward Burne-Jones British. The Parable of the Burning Pot 642924

Beul with cut head. The first state of these Ets shows praying men in the Hagia Sophia. In this second state of the etching, a drill holds a cut head up.

Etching 'The Calm on the Escape, Night Piece' by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, created around 1644, depicting a nocturnal scene with figures and landscape elements.

La Mort et le bûcheron (4th plate) , Death, Skeletons, Woodcutters, Fuelwood, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Reposo. Dated: 1778. Dimensions: plate: 30 × 20.2 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 42 × 29 cm (16 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Hamilton Mortimer.

Lazarus revival: large plate. Coppier pressure!

The sleeping philosopher Democritus, 1775 print In the midst of antique debris, animal skulls and semi -dead trees, the ancient philosopher Democritus of Abdera sleeps. Next to him are an oil lamp and a sky slobe. He is in the traditional attitude of the personification of sleep and the night: the arm bent over the head. With inscription derived from the preamble of an ode to Horatius: Integer Vitae Scelerisque Purus (HOR: Lib. I. Od: 22), who refers to a right -handed walk of life, free of sins. paper etching (story of) Democritus, the philosopher. sleeping on the ground. scholar, philosopher. ruin of a building ~ architecture

Rue de la Vieille lanterne The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval. Dated: 1855. Dimensions: image: 51 × 35 cm (20 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 59 × 43 cm (23 1/4 × 16 15/16 in.). Medium: lithograph on chine collé. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: GUSTAVE DORÉ.

The artwork depicts Frater Ossváld Pelbárt, a Franciscan monk, reading in a garden. It is a woodcut created between 1401 and 1500, comprising a white-line woodcut made from five blocks. The principal block measures 178 x 118 mm (7 x 4 5/8 inches), while the roundels average approximately 38 mm (1 1/2 inches) in diameter. The overall image size is 8 3/4 x 6 9/16 inches (22.3 x 16.6 cm), printed on cream laid paper. The verso is stamped in brown ink with the mark of Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (Lugt 2773)

What are they picked!; ¡Qual La Descañonan!; Los Caprichos. Three men with a cat face and a wig. Two took a young girl with the body of a bird. Twenty-oneest print from the Los Caprichos series.

Les acteurs de Grand Chemin , Actors, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Rudolf II, Roman-German Kaiser.

Peter liberated from prison by the angel, Jan Luyken, 1706 print Amsterdam paper etching prison, jail. the angel leads Peter past the sleeping guards

La France Libératrice. Dated: 1859. Dimensions: plate: 37.7 x 29.5 cm (14 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 63.1 x 47.2 cm (24 13/16 x 18 9/16 in.). Medium: etching and drypoint, with monotype wiping on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: François-Nicolas Chifflart.

Death and the Woodcutter, 2nd plate (La Mort de le bucheron). Medium: etching and drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.

Still Life of Fruit, Musical Instruments, and Venison, with a Young Man at the Left. Artist: Copy after Jan Fijt (Antwerp 1611-Antwerp 1661). Dimensions: 11 5/8 x 17 5/16 in. (29.5 x 44.0 cm). Date: 1672. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Intérieur d'un Malade (Interior of a Sick Person) 19th century Rodolphe Bresdin French. Intérieur d'un Malade (Interior of a Sick Person). Rodolphe Bresdin (French, Montrelais 1822-1885 Sèvres). 19th century. Etching. Prints

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata. Federico Barocci; Italian, 1526/28-1612. Date: 1576-1586. Dimensions: 230 x 147 mm (plate); 233 x 150 mm (sheet). Etching on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Vatican City, Raphael, Italy, Borgianni, Orazio, Paintings in the Loggia of Raphael, Adoration of the Shepherds, verso - stamped, In a brick stable the shepherds, Mary and Joseph adore the Christ Child. Angels hover above the Christ Child., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 142 mm, width 260 mm, 1578 - 1616-01-11, print maker, prentmaker, 1615 - 1615, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07, after a painting by

The Mystery (Le mystère). Dated: 1900. Dimensions: plate: 14 x 10.9 cm (5 1/2 x 4 5/16 in.) sheet: 45.1 x 31.8 cm (17 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.). Medium: etching and aquatint in black on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Albert Besnard.

Prospettiva della piscina delle mediseme conserve fatta a seconda de num. 3 e 4 della Tav. XV , Archaeological sites, Reservoirs, Pools. The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection

Death with two men and a woman. Death, dressed as a man, with a headscarf around his head. To the right of him a woman in dress. Among them a squirting and a horizontal man.

Two veiled women, Marius Bauer, 1877 - 1932 print Two sitting, veiled women in a scantily lit space. A group of men is visible through the window behind them. paper veil

Picnic in the park Stothard, Thomas (1755 1834), Englehart, F.

A man is leaning out of a window reading a letter by the light of the candle which his companion is holding. Engraving after Adriaen van Ostade.

Albert Besnard, The Doll (La Poupée), 1888 The Doll (La Poupée)

The Cigarette. Dated: 1918. Dimensions: image: 36.83 × 48.9 cm (14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in.). Medium: lithograph in black on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Bellows.

The Mocking of Ceres: a nocturnal scene with Ceres drinking from a jug of water given to her by Stellio at right 1633 Bernardino Capitelli. The Mocking of Ceres: a nocturnal scene with Ceres drinking from a jug of water given to her by Stellio at right. Bernardino Capitelli (Italian, Siena, 1590-1639). 1633. Etching. Prints

Tangiers, a group of men seated near an arch ca. 1861 Mariano Fortuny, 1838-1874 Spanish. Tangiers, a group of men seated near an arch. Mariano Fortuny, 1838-1874 (Spanish, 1838-1874). ca. 1861. Etching. Prints

A niche with a scholar sitting at his desk The room is lit by a lantern The man is reading a book, Scholar in his study, print maker: Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, designer: Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, Leiden, 1825 - 1882, paper, etching, w 102 mm × h 119 mm

Netherlands, Everdingen, Allaert van, Reinaert the fox, Reinaert the fox steals a capon, with the stolen rooster next to him, runs away from the pastor who gets up from the table with a knife and a candle in his hands. Isengrijn the wolf is hidden in the cupboard., print, prints, height 94 mm, width 116 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1621-06-18 - 1675-11-08, print maker, printmaker, 1631 - 1675, paper, papier, etching, etchings, mezzotint

Rest on the Flight into Egypt at Night.

LIncendie (The Fire). Artist: Alphonse Legros, French, 1837-1911

Illustration for 'Philosophie de la nature' 1776 Clément Pierre Marillier French. Illustration for 'Philosophie de la nature' 399306

Wine Tasting, Jan van Somer, After Jan Both, 1655 - 1700 print Four men taste wine. One of them takes a sip, the other fills his Roemer and last two lifts their glass. A wine barrel in the background. paper wine-testing, wine-grading

July, Cornelis Dusart, 1679 - 1704 print Harvest scene with fun farmers. One of the farmers is about to throw a bundle of hay on a woman situated against a hay papal. The print is part of a series of twelve prints with the twelve months of the year. Print Maker: Haarlem Publisher: Amsterdam paper engraving July and its 'labours'. hay-stack. hay-wagon

Rembrandt's 1632 etching of Lazarus' resurrection, revised with a cradle knife to create mezzotint effects, enhancing tonal depth.

Ceres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio 1646 Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian Mocking of Ceres, a nocturnal scene; Ceres drinks avidly from a jug of water given to her by an old woman holding a candle at a doorway; besides the elderly woman is Stellio, a naked youth, who points at Ceres; a burning torch rests on some wooden wheels; in the background a woman milks a cow.. Ceres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio 369722

XIII century. A man with a pounded head, in Orty () drawing taken from a patina located in the Płocki cathedral, with: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 8.02.1862, No. 124 Unknown, Kossak, Juliusz (1824 1899)

Catharina Beersmans as Medea, Petrus van Geldorp, 1899 print The actress stands on a staircase and holds a curtain aside. She has a dagger in her right hand. print maker: Rotterdamprinter: Amsterdam paper Medea. actor (on the stage). female impersonation by actor

The Vision of Saint Anne. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good Cause for Seperation scored through and replaced by Discontent, 1796. Engraving.

The Vision of Hell (Inferno). Author: Dante Alighieri (Italian, Florence ca. 1265-1321 Ravenna). Dimensions: 15 1/8 x 12 x 1 3/4 in. (38.4 x 30.5 x 4.5 cm)sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (37.5 x 27 cm). Engraver: Hélidore-Joseph Pisan (French, Marseille 1822-1890 Bailly). Illustrator: Gustave Doré (French, Strasbourg 1832-1883 Paris). Publisher: Cassell, Petter and Galpin London. Translator: Henry Francis Cary (British (parents Irish), Gibraltar 1772-1844 London). Date: 1866.Out of his facility for grotesque humor and gaslight melodrama, Doré; invented some 10,000 illustrations for books and magazines that were duplicated for simultaneous publications in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, London, and Haarlem. With illustrated editions of the Bible, Dante's Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Poe's The Raven, and a host of other classics popular at mid-century, he was the reigning master of the coffee-table book. To save the time it would have taken to draw in line, he often

Boy with a print on which an owl near candlelight, Aert Schouman, 1720 - 1792 print paper owls. candlestick. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Dante and Vergilius enter Hell through a gate, Aegidius Sadeler (II), After Jacopo Ligozzi, 1580 - 1629 print Dante and Vergilius in the cave that leads to hell. Both are dressed in Greek gowns with laurel wreaths on the head. paper engraving Dante. (scenes from) specific works of literature: Dante, Divina Commedia. the poet Virgilius

Cartoon depicting a train conductor being taken by death. The conductor's death will eventually result in the train crashing. Dated 19th century

A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the 'Images of Spain' album (F) ca. 1812-20 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish Demonstrating the thematic connections among Goyas projects during the 1810s, this drawing has much in common with plate 79 from The Disasters of War (see 22.60.25(79)). In the print the radiant woman is on the ground, whereas in this drawing she stands with her hands over her heart and is beset by a group of men in dark clothing, including a priest identifiable by his hat. Interpretations of the drawing include references to true religion or to Spains 1812 constitution as triumphant but threatened by the forces of evil.. A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the 'Images of Spain' album (F) 334030

Mephisto and Faust flee after the duel Meph: Il nous faut promptement gagner au large Faust (series title) Faust, tragédie de M. de Goethe (series title), print maker: Eugène Delacroix, (mentioned on object), printer: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, printer: Goyer & Hermet, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1828, paper, h 484 mm × w 320 mm

A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; folio 45 from the Images of Spain Album 'F'. Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 5 9/16 in. (20.4 × 14.2 cm). Date: ca. 1812-20. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sleeping soldier leans on a staircase against his Hellebaard, Edmund Herger, 1880 - 1888 print Weimar paper. etching sleeping; unconsciousness. knight. staircase. helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting): halberd

The flight to Egypt: Night.

Fallen angel sitting on a rock. A naked, winged man is sitting on a rock. His arms are rested on its erected right knee.

Makes music; Hearing; The five senses. In an interior a man is at a musician company. A man on the back seen playing a lute, a man plays a flute and a man sings around a table on which songbooks.

Death and mutilation of the De Witt brothers, Cornelis Huyberts, 1689 - 1712 print paper etching / engraving historical events and situations. historical persons. violent death by mutilation or maiming

Nymphs in a cave, Pieter Schenk (I), 1670 - 1713 print Two nymphs at the entrance of a cave. Next to the entrance is a fountain decorated with dragons. Amsterdam paper engraving cave, grotto. ornamental fountain

Vatican City, Clement VIII, Italy, Barocci, Federico, Villamena, Francesco, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, verso - stamped, Saint Jerome kneeling with a crucifix and a stone in his hand. Next to him are books, an hourglass and a skull. On the right his cardinal's hat hangs from a tree. Dedication, coat of arms and three lines of Latin text in the bottom margin., print, prints, height 371 mm, width 268 mm, Italian, 1566 - 1624-07-07, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1600, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1528 - 1612-09-30, after, after painting by, 1536 - 1605, granter of privilege

The Demon Printer. Dated: 1878. Dimensions: plate: 12 x 15.8 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 14.6 x 19 cm (5 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.). Medium: etching with drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Félix-Hilaire Buhot.

Illustration for ballad A.G. Bürger "Der Brüder Graurock und Die Pilgerin" (brother Graurock and Plotka); Reinhart, Johann Christian (1761-1847); 1784 (1784-00-00-1784-00-00);Citizen, Gottfried August (1747-1794), GRAUROCK (Lit.), Silesian Museum of Fine Arts (Wrocław-1880-1945)-Kolekcja, Association for History of Fine Arts in Breslau (1862-1912), Ballady, Ilustracje, Zakonnicy

The Return of the Prodigal Son (third plate). Dated: 1909. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.

An allegory of pride: a richly dressed couple with an elegant attitude ignore the poor by their side and walk straight over the edge of a cliff; behind them stands an enormous devil who watches them; demons appear in the background. Wood engraving by L. Rhead.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Charles Jattiot (19th century), engraver. "The fire area." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101785-31 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

The tombstone of Jan Baptist Gislenus in the church of Miss Maria Del Popolo in Rome; Angrer C. & Göschl (Vienna; Fotochemigraphy Plant; 1870-), Gierymski, Aleksander (1850-1901); 1887 (1887-00-00-1887-00-00);

Albrecht from Eyb.

Rauscher and Stremayr, Minister of Education Karl von Stremayr and Archbishop Josef Othmar von Rauscher in hug from Kikeriki , Friedrich Graetz Grätz -, Caricaturist, Göschl, Realization

French 18th Century, La gageure des trois commeres Le fil La gageure des trois commeres: Le fil

Engel above crowd people. A angel is in horizontal position above a crowd of people. Some figures raise their arms.

Spinster at work; To the labor.

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), a terrible DOED (13), 1810-1820

Study of an interior with stove, print maker: Gerard Jan Bos, (mentioned on object), Antwerp, c. 1878 - c. 1885, paper, etching, pen, brush, h 155 mm × w 122 mm

A black and white pen drawing on blue-gray paper from Albrecht Altdorfer's workshop depicting the adjoining of the kings, created around 1512.

The Beggars, 1880. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903). Etching and drypoint;

Thomas Jones overmeestert Nortberton.A poor woman was attacked by a man in the forest. Thomas Jones grabs and overesties the man, who eventually turns out to be Nortberton.

Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, The Tailors Baffling the Bailiff, undated. Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Farmer leaning on Onderneur, Adriaen van Ostade, 1651 - 1655 print Haarlem paper etching divided door, upper part opened. male sex; man

Exposition universelle: Un Vrai cicerone. Dated: 1867. Medium: wood engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Julien Antoine Peulot after Honoré Daumier.

Presentation of the head of John the Baptist to Salome. In an oval list: De Beul presents the head of John the Baptist to Salome, which holds a dish. To a painting by Adam Elsheimer.

Bead Stringers 1880 United States. Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper . James McNeill Whistler

Melancholia, Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, Germany, 1471 - 1528)

The Crucifixion. Dated: 1796/1797. Dimensions: sheet (approximate): 29.2 x 24.4 cm (11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown and black ink with blue, black, and red chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Benjamin West.

"How Arthur drew forth the Sword.". Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. Illustrations. 1912. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Arthurian romances, Daggers & swords, Arthur, King, Merlin (Legendary character), Anvils

Oedipus in Sfinx.Possible Design for Print.

Adoration of the Shepherds, Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, Netherlands, 1606 - 1669) 1653

Two figures at a wine barrel. A man tap wine from a barrel while a second figure with a jug and a coin is waiting in the hands.

Hercules and Antaeus. Renaissance artists often used the battle between the ancient hero Hercules and the giant Antheus to show athletic figures locked in complex wrestling holds. Three different engravers made prints based on Andrea Mantegnas Hercules and Antaeus. An impression in blue ink is especially rare.

Design illustration for King Lear van Shakespeare: The Hut van Edgard, Jacob Pieter van den Bosch, 1895 Design for a print. paper. ink. pencil pen / brush illustration ~ printed matter, book. (SHAKESPEARE, King Lear) specific works of literature (with AUTHOR, Title)

The rich man stands in his doorway and looks down on Lazarus, who sits on the ground and whose sores are licked by the dogs, The rich man and poor Lazarus, print maker: Bernhard Schreuder, intermediary draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Netherlands, 1767 - 1780, paper, etching, h 223 mm × w 177 mm

Saint Jerome in the Cave. Dated: 1644. Dimensions: plate: 28.3 x 24.5 cm (11 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.7 x 25.7 cm (11 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.). Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ferdinand Bol.

Keldervelf, Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, 1825 - 1882 print The basement vault of a castle that rests on heavy columns. In the background a man with a lantern. paper etching basement, cellar. vault ~ architecture

The Beggars 1879-1880 United States. Etching and drypoint with foul biting on cream Japanese paper . James McNeill Whistler

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Caprichos. ÁY aun no se van! (And yet they go). Number 59. Aquatint. 1799. Reproduction by M. Segui i Riera.

Hauteville House, detail of a tapestry of the oak gallery, 2nd floor ". Anonymous photography. Drawing with gelatino-silver bar, around 1900. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 123630-1

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Paul Riault (19th century), engraver. "Mariaige de Messire Bruyn." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101780-24 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

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