Historical Engravings of Daily Life

A variety of historical scenes depicting dancing peasants, entombment, caricatures, and satirical art with intricate details and rich narratives.

Pilgrim knocking at a gate Title page for: J. Bunyan, Once christens reyse na de eternheyt, 1682, print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: Boekholt. Johannes, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1682, paper, etching, h 116 mm × w 64 mm

Keisnijder. Cutting the boulder. A quack, with turban on the head, scratched with a scalpel the forehead of a woman. The man behind the woman holds her head and tastes in his pouch. On the table are instruments and boulders. On the plate in the background hangs a stamp with two keys, perhaps the coat of arms of the city. At the bottom of a text line in Dutch.

The child and death, Wenceslaus Hollar, After Hans Holbein (II), c. 1680 print A child who sits around a fire in their house with his parents is taken by death. The parents look desperately while death with an hourglass in his hand takes the child out. paper etching dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings. death of a child. hourglass

unknown artist, eighteenth century, Trade card for ......vell's Best Virginia Tobacco, of Worcester, ca. 1770.

Mei, Dirck de Bray, 1635 - 1694 print Two children on a hill admire their blown soap bubbles. In the background a vast landscape with a river. Netherlands paper May and its 'labours' (+ with Gemini (May))

The dance of death at Basel: death and the usurer. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.

Let's just hope that this devil Mars doesn't pull out of his muzzle, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 18, 1868 July 18, 1868 Honoré Daumier. Let's just hope that this devil Mars doesn't pull out of his muzzle, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 18, 1868. 'News of the day' (Actualités). Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). July 18, 1868. Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil). Arnaud de Vresse. Prints

Italy, Cambiaso, Luca, Monogrammist GGN, Mary with the Christ Child and playing children, Landscape with Mary embracing the Christ Child. Behind them two children playing by a tree., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 292 mm, width 206 mm, Italian, print maker, prentmaker, 1537 - 1585, second quarter 16th century, third quarter 16th century, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, papier, woodcut, 1527-10 - 1585, intermediary draughtsman

Guarding the Powder Kegs. 1501 - 1600. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Gusman d'Alfarache on stage for landscape, Jan de Bray, 1655 - 1697 print Netherlands paper etching / engraving

Paul Sandby RA, 1731-1809, British, Election Scene, undated. Pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper.

The Bewitched Groom, 1544. Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85-1545). Woodcut;

Man and a boy walking to the right. Draughtsman: Herman Saftleven. Dating: 1619 - 1685. Measurements: h 90 mm × w 70 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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.

Suite d'estampes gravées par Madame la Marquise de Pompadour d'après les Pierres gravées de Guay Graveur du Roy. 1755. Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Warrior of the Iroquois Confederacy, wearing loincloth, mitasses, mocassins, and rawhide-lattice snow shoes, armed with tomahawk, casse-tete or mace, musket adorned with a human scalp. Iroquois allant a la Decouverte. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

Torture: exposure to insects and suspension, Antonio Tempesta, 1565 - 1630 print paper etching torture. violent death ~ maltreatment, torture

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

A copper engraving from 1515-1530 depicting a woman sitting beside an amphora, illustrating early 16th-century European figure study and domestic objects.

Artillery Cannon by Cranach, Ulrich von (active 17th century) / Private Collection / 1636 / Germany / Etching / History / 40x49

St. William, Duke of Aquitaine, Converted by St. Bernard. Artist: Claude Mellan (French, Abbeville 1598-1688 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (24.7 x 34.3 cm). Series/Portfolio: Vie de saint Bernard, no. 3. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Plate 30: The Death of Pentheus (Pentheus a matre, sororibusq discerpitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 1606 Antonio Tempesta Italian. Plate 30: The Death of Pentheus (Pentheus a matre, sororibusq discerpitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555-1630 Rome). 1606. Etching. Prints

Convicted person in sackcloth, with miter, Jan Luyken, Henricus Wetstein, 1692.

Die Herpavck vnd andere Drvmmen zvernst vnd Schimpf wir lassen ervmmen. Dated: c. 1580. Medium: engraving touched with yellow watercolor. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 16th Century.

Speak Not Against the Sun' and 'Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun' fol. 39 recto, c. 1512/1515, Speculum principis (Mirror for Princes), pen and brown ink with watercolor and stylus on laid paper, overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.), French early 16th Century (artist)

Sel against a man, 1787 - 1790 print Cartoon in which a man in a scandal block with a whip is flooded at the rear. On the left is a figure consisting of wooden tons, on the right a barrel with coins, bursting from the joints. Part of a large group of prints relating to the events of the Brabant Revolution and the period 1787-1790. Southern Netherlands paper etching / engraving spanking, drubbing (of naughty children). torture Brabant

Illustration depicting punishment by the stocks at Lollards Tower, Lambeth. Dated 18th Century

Ipoly, Kaspar.

Bliżej Kultury Unknown, print: Haller J.

An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692. ca. 1692 Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692.. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Italian, Bologna () 1634-1718 Bologna). ca. 1692. Etching. Prints

Two men threshing a crop with long-handled flails. Woodcut.

Cools, J., Deyer, Isbr. Reyers, Amsterdam, Nolpe, Pieter, Jacobus Tyras, laid out on a bed of straw, verso - stamped, The deceased Franciscan monk Jacobus Tyras lies laid out on a mat and a bundle of straw with a cross in his hands. On the table lie a prayer string and a book. A dying lamp, skull and hourglass indicate the passing of time and death. At the bottom are two columns with a four-line text in Latin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 507 mm, width 401 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1614 - 1653, print maker, prentmaker, 1638 - 1638, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), after, after painting by, writer

Tomb monument from Eduard van Woodstock, Prince of Wales.Print Listed at the Top Left: 188.

Er tanzt und pfeift nach ihrer Melodie, symbolischer Stich zur Beherrschung der Frau durch den Mann, 15. century, digital verbesserte Reproduktion aus einer Publikation aus dem Jahr 1880, He dances and whistles to their tune, symbolic engraving on the domination of the woman by the man, 15th century, digital improved reproduction from a publication of the year 1880

Heinrich of Zwiefalten.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: A Satyr and a Ram Clashing. Artist: Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515-died 1527 Rome). Dimensions: mount: 16 3/4 x 11 11/16 in. (42.5 x 29.7 cm)sheet: 4 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (10.8 x 17.5 cm). Publisher: Antonio Salamanca (Salamanca 1478-1562 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Date: 16th century.This print comes from the museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title p

Colored print depicting Saint Sebastian, showing the saint tied and pierced with arrows, created by an anonymous artist.

Copy of Bear Hunt mid 16th century Anonymous, 16th century. Copy of Bear Hunt 701976

Wood Engraving. Vignette.; engraving and etching; 41 x 33 in (104.1 x 83.8 cm); 1945-200-260

ARTE S. XVIII. ESPAÑA. GOYA, Francisco (Fuendetodos, 1746-Burdeos, 1828). Pintor y grabador español. "DESPACHA QUE DESPIERTAN". Aguafuerte que perteneece a la colección de 84 grabados titulada "CAPRICHOS" de temática satírico-fantasmagórica, editados en el año 1799. Reproducción de M. Seguí i Riera.

Isaac and his son Esau in 15th century French costume. Esau dressed as a hunter, in doublet, hose and boots with bow, quiver and sword. Isaac et Esau. XVe siecle. Taken from a Book of Hours, livre d'heures, MS Tl 255, Tom. 2, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

Trial proof of The Supreme Vice (Le vice suprême). Dimensions: 47.5 cm x 30.5 cm, 28.3 cm x 19.7 cm, 23.3 cm x 15.4 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: FELICIEN ROPS.

Wood Engraving. Vignette., Engraving and etching, Cinerary urn, half covered by a cloth, Europe and USA, 1800-1830, Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Sadeler, Aegidius, Gheeraerts, Marcus (I), Praag, Fable of the birdcatcher and the partridge, In the foreground a birdcatcher in front of a bird net. He holds a partridge in his hand. The fable describes how the partridge promises in exchange for his life to lure other partridges to the bird trap. The birdcatcher refuses the offer. The moral of the story teaches that traitors always get what they deserve., print, book illustration, prints, height 96 mm, width 112 mm, South Netherlands, 1570 - 1629, print maker, printmaker, 1608 - 1608, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, Work conception, English, 1520 - 1590, after print by, after design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Tarock game, tw, With Wiener Type , Volksleben representations - XV, Bandelkramer , Rastelbinder

The Hague, Hondius, Hendrick (I), Brouwer, Adriaen, Amsterdam, Bremden, D. van den, Smoking man, with a woman behind him, verso lower left - stamped, A smoking man on a bench, by an open fire. In the background another seated figure. Below the image two lines in Dutch., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 194 mm, width 139 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1645 - 1645, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Zuid-Nederlands, 1606 - 1638-02-01, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Noord-Nederlands, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, publisher

Feilitzsch, Johannes Heinrich.

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 - an incunabulum (printed, not hand-written) - and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), a poor old man seated on the ground, his body turned to the right. Eleventh number of a series of 13 pieces (A. de Vesme 114. Dutuit 85) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Two Male Figures Seated. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 40.3 x 33.7 cm (15 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Al Curry.

A fantastic monster: a cyclops with multiple heads and arms and the legs of a goat, said to be found in Spain in 1655. Reproduction of a woodcut.

Illustration depicting American Indians making a canoe. Dated 1810

Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver passing different threads through the weave. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

The dance of death at Basel: death and the duke. Lithograph by Danzer after H. Hess.

Haarlem, Enschede, Izaak, Ostade, Isaac van, Vinne, Isaac Vincentsz. van der, Elf-rib, Funny figure of the dancing Death, in the caption in the overview print this figure bears the name: Elf-rib. Part of the booklet: XXXVI. nice figures, invented by Izaak van Ostade tot Haarlem 1731-1732., print, engraving, popular print, books, height 49 mm, width 42 mm, height 195 mm, width 155 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1665-10-24 - 1740-04-15, print maker, printmaker, 1731 - 1732, paper, papier, houtcut, Work conception, 1621-06-02 - 1649-10-16, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Grabado tintoreros. Museum: BIBLIOTECA DE CATALUNYA.

Different birds, the rooster (Robert-Dumesnil 393, Bartsch 79) Albert Flamen (1620-1674). Different birds. The rooster (Robert-Dumesnil 393, Bartsch 79). Floor, 17th century.

A man in armour has a drink with Death and cupid. Etching.

. Two men with swords try to kill a man. The H. Hyacinthus of Poland appears in the air and prevents the murder. The print is part of an eight-member series that forms a framework around an image of the H. Hyacinthus of Poland.

Man powder barrow with a basket in it. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1700 - c. 1799. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 164 mm × w 171 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Templar knight's effigy, Temple Church, London, 12th century. Carved stone monument of a bare-headed knight in chain-mail tunic hauberk and hose, long-sleeved surcoat wIth sword and shield. Possibly Anglo-Norman baron Sir Robert de Ros, c. 1182-1227. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802.

Frontispice (From: Varie figure gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les bossus, Les pygmées, Les nains grotesques) Frontispiece (From: Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs). 1616 - 1622. Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Franco-American Relations. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Bildnis des Mauritius Hassia Landgravius older

Two Pantalons. Jacques Callot (France, Nancy, 1592-1635). France, circa 1622. Prints; etchings. Etching

Beer with bagpipe, 1540 - 1570 print Young woman with a lined bear who plays bagpipes. In the foreground a dancing dwarf with a high hat and sword. Low Countries paper engraving earning money with bear. bagpipe, musette

Auca de Artes y Oficios, detalle abaixador, siglo XIX. IMHCB.

Jean Poyet, The Coronation of Solomon by the Spring of Gihon, c 1500 The Coronation of Solomon by the Spring of Gihon

Greek-style ship from the Porta del Popolo 1, Roman Imperial boot worn by Trajan on the Arch of Constantine 2, Etruscan boot from a bas-relief in the Medici gardens in Florence 3, Greek boot in the Vatican Museum 4. Copperplate engraving by Domenico Pronti from his own New Collection Representing Religious, Civil and Military Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Nuova Raccolta Rappresentante I Costumi Religiosi Civili e Militari, Rome, 1805.

Copper engraving by an anonymous artist, circa 1440-1450, depicting Tier-Zwei A, showing human and animal figures, composition, and engraving details.

Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver working by the light of a candle in a reflective sconce. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Artwork depicting masons and carpenters building a house, from a copy of the Code of Florence General History of the Things of New Spain by Bernardino de Sahagun, Manuscript in Spanish and Nahuati, mid-16th Century.

May and June from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months. Artist: Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500-1550 Frankfurt). Dimensions: sheet: 1 15/16 x 2 7/8 in. (5 x 7.3 cm). Series/Portfolio: The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months. Date: 1546-47.Two couples dancing left. The female of the couple at right is seen from behind. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Paper Maker. 16th century engraving by Jost Amman.

This illustration from Sir John Mandeville shows geographical monsters. Sir John Mandeville is the supposed author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a travel memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371. The earliest surviving text is in French. By aid of translations into many other languages, the work acquired extraordinary popularity.

Taller de un iluminador de estampas. Grabado del siglo XVII.

Title print with two children with Palmblad next to Coat of arms, Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594 print Netherlands paper engraving

Death as king holding a scythe. Etching.

Wartenberg, Albert Graf von.

Vignette of the skeleton of Death with rope and whip looking at a man hanging from a gibbet, the Last of the Graceless. Drawn and engraved on steel by Richard Dagley from his own Deaths Doings, Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions in Verse and Prose, J. Andrews, London, 1827. Dagley (1761-1841) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.

Jacques Callot, Frontispiece for Varie Figure Gobbi (Various Hunchback Figures), c 1622 Frontispiece for Varie Figure Gobbi (Various Hunchback Figures)

Witches' brew. Engraving from A Shot,True Warning by Abraham Saur. 1582. Germany. Author: Hans Weiditz.

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-2-5

Frontispiece. Jacques Callot (France, Nancy, 1592-1635). France, 1616. Prints; engravings. Etching with engraving

Monument to Joseph II, Perforarious representation after his death on February , Johann Hieronymus Deleteenkohl -, publishing house

Grotesque Male Head. Drawing. Black and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige laid paper. Height: 44 mm (1.73 in); Width: 44 mm (1.73 in). Author: William Hogarth.

Paul Gauguin, Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses), in or after 1895 Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules, Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500-1550, Engraving on off-white laid paper, 1542-48, figures, Print, Print

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 75. 'Tizne y se-al de Yeguas' (Branding horses). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

Man pulls a cart to transport wood. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch (mentioned on object). Dating: 8-Jan-1652. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 67 mm × w 130 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A woodcut engraving depicting Siamese twins, one boy and one girl. Dated 16th century

Austria - 19th century - Austrian Emperor Francis II shows Prince von Metternich a wooden model of Spielberg, 1823. Print.

Loan of Poland restored Mehoffer, Józef (1869 1946)

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol II. Spanish man wearing a short cloak. Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

A colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist showing the construction of an altar, including figures, structure, and composition, dated 1420-1430.

Seneca the Younger, (4-65). Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist. Seneca slitting his wrists. Colored engraving of the "Nuremberg Chronicle", 1493.

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