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Historical Events in Engravings

Engravings illustrating significant historical events and figures, featuring dramatic scenes and intricate details, capturing moments of honor and ceremony.

Francis Drake Knighted by Elizabeth, Anonymous
Francis Drake Knighted by Elizabeth, Anonymous
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Engraving depicting the gnomes of German legend excavating a Ichthyosaurus skeleton. Dated 19th century
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David with the Head of Goliath Gustave Dore (1832-1883 French)
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Illustration allegory month of August. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1881
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Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) between 1308 and his death in 1321. Purgatorio. Dante's encounter with Mathida gathering flowers in the Earthly Paradise on the shores of Lethe. Engraving after a canvas of the French painter Albert Maignan (1845-1908), 1881. "La Velada", 1893.
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Engraving by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator for Inferno by Dante Alighieri Canto III lines 76 to 78
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She was not distracted by the noise of the blades, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.
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Pierre Maupertuis.Drawing by Miss Destriche. From Magasin Pittoresque, vintage engraving, 1867.
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Young woman sitting beside a fountain daydreaming, historical engraving, 1883
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Engraving depicting Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument. Dated 19th Century
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Bas-relief Egyptian tomb scene animals, Ancient Egypt. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880
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The Primacy of Saint Peter (La primauté de Saint-Pierre) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Primacy of Saint Peter (La primauté de Saint-Pierre), 1886-1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 3/4 x 10 3/16 in. (17.1 x 25.9 cm). European Art 1886-1896
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AQUI EXISTIO CASTELL FULLIT - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Swiss scenes ca. 1820 French, Alsace. Swiss scenes 222194
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'The Plague of Rain and Hail', one of the Seven Plagues of Egypt, c1759-c1789. Artist: James Caldwall
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Flotsam and jetsam on the North Sea coast, North Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein, dunes, crates, packages, men, shipwreck, barrels, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe
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Gustave Doré; The Perilous Pass on the eighth cornice of Purgatory from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
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On drawing money after J Seve painting of the eighteenth century, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.
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'The Happy Man Found', 1918, (1918). Artist: Edmund Joseph Sullivan.
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Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy; Dante, Virgil and Statius climb Mount Purgatory
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An engraving depicting treading the grapes; Istria, Croatia, (Yugoslavia). 1836
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'La Bergerie', (The Shepherd), 1825-1890 (1924).Artist: Charles Emile Jacque
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The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-2) Old Testament. Antique digitally colored Biblical illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
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Wonderful fishing (right plate), Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1618 - 1659 print A fisherman rows the fishing boat. In the foreground the beach. Right plate of a large performance consisting of three parts. paper engraving the miraculous draught of fishes (before the Resurrection) on the Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee); James and John helping to bring in the nets (Luke 5:1-11)
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19th century girl sleeping waiting for gifts on the night of the three wise men, drawing by Manuel Alcázar Ruiz (1858 - 1914) Spanish painter, illustrator, draftsman and printmaker, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890
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'LA MAISON A VAPEUR' A menacing group of native fanatics are terrified by the mighty machine. Date: first published 1880
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Gilt bronze statue discovered in Rome, Italy, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1129, Volume XLIV, October 15, 1864.
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With the exception of the giant who watched, vintage engraving. With the exception of the giant who watched, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659859
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Title page illustration from a British newspaper of Christmas 1860
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Paris of Lake Tanganyika, Courage make a gap I exclaimed, vintage engraving. Paris of Lake Tanganyika, Courage make a gap I exclaimed, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659757
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The Way to Horror (Der Weg ins Grauen). Hugo Steiner-Prag (Bohemia, Prague, 1880-1945). Germany, 1915-1916. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph on handmade paper
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ILLUSTRATION OF BIBLICAL SAMSON THE NAZIRITE DESTROYING THE PHILISTINES TEMPLE OF DAGON
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Engraving after Gustave Doré; The Sleeping Beauty; The prince approaches the castle where the population sleeps from Perrault's Fairy Tales
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The Legend of Santa Sophronia Cuzco School. The Legend of Santa Sophronia, late 17th century. Oil on canvas, 21 x 87in. (53.3 x 221cm). PAINTINGS IN SPANISH COLONIAL HOMES The enormous number of paintings acquired by private collectors in colonial Spanish America is borne out by evidence in testamentary, dowry, and other documents of the period. From urban centers to frontier areas, paintings by European and New World artists depicting religious and secular subjects decorated the homes of Creole, peninsular Spanish, mestizo (people of mixed race), and indigenous men and women. The five Andean paintings on this wall were produced for a growing art market by anonymous artists in the workshops of Cuzco. Paintings of religious subjects were prevalent in Spanish America but uncommon in colonial British America; one exception was the New York scripture paintings made for Upper Hudson and Mohawk Valley Dutch families (see illustration). Elite Spanish American homes also displayed Spanish and
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) was a Spanish conquistador and epxlorer. He led an expedition north from Mexico in 1540. As he crossed Arizona and New Mexico, he saw the homes of the "cliff-dwellers" that were hollowed out of rock or built on ledges. Seen here are the inhabitants fleeing from him. They then took refuge in their inaccessible dwellings, and Coronado left.
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First dream. Crime and Atonement, vintage engraving. First dream. Crime and Atonement, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673402
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Way to land at the Ciara, The Paviola, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1855.
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Termitenbau, im Vordergrund Termiten / Termite burrow, termites in foreground, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.
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George Washington prays at the American Revolutionary War encampment of Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. After a painting by Henry Brueckner.
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Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Sulmona, Badia Morronese, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe
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John Bull triumphant. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 763. United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783. , John Bull (Symbolic character),1780. , Bulls,England,1780. , International relations,England,1780.
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Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. Victoria, Australia. Six Months in Australia 1878 by Desire Charnay (1828 - 1915) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1880
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Suiza. Siglo XIV. Guillermo Tell y Konrad Baumgarten, personajes legendario de la independencia suiza, cruzan las aguas del lago Uri en medio de una gran tempestad escapando de los soldados del alguacil que les perseguía. Grabado de 1864.
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On Guard. Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert; French, 1817-1908. Date: 1860-1870. Dimensions: 47.6 × 36.5 cm (18 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.). Oil on canvas. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Woodcut of a group of Jewish captives by Erich Kahn (1904-1979) German Expressionist, and a survivor of the Nazi persecution of Jews and Gypsies During The events That led to World War II. Dated 1935
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The Fishing Party Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). , 1869. Wood engraving, Sheet: 9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 32.4 cm). Regarded as one of the great American Realists of the nineteenth century, Winslow Homer is known primarily for his large body of works in oil and watercolor. However, he also had an early career as a freelance illustrator, making drawings for wood engravings that were reproduced in mass-circulation periodicals such as Harpers Weekly. In 1998, the Brooklyn Museum received a generous gift of more than 250 wood-engraved illustrations by Homer from Harvey Isbitts. Fishing was one of the sports newly available to women as a “refined diversion” after the Civil War. The convenience of lightweight equipment and a higher degree of social freedom encouraged “the piscatorial efforts of the ladies.” Nevertheless, the tone of humorous condescension expressed in the text accompanying Homers illustration suggests certain limits to female participation in what was still a tradition
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View of El Kantara, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.
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Arab musicians in Cairo, painting by Antonio María Fabres y Costa (1854-1936) Spanish painter, sculptor and teacher. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882
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Greek mythology, Daedalus equipping his son Icarus with wings, historical illlustration, about 1886
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The Man at the Plough (L'homme à la charrue) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Man at the Plough (L'homme à la charrue), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 5 3/8 x 5 5/16 in. (13.7 x 13.5 cm). European Art 1886-1894
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Jonah ejected onto dry land by the whale, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Doré (18321883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful.
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The Second Miraculous Draught of Fishes (La seconde pêche miraculeuse) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Second Miraculous Draught of Fishes (La seconde pêche miraculeuse), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 1/8 x 10 in. (15.6 x 25.4 cm). European Art 1886-1894
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They hurried away as quickly as they could, vintage engraved illustration.
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Painting depicting a family group in the Stone Age.
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Siyah Kalem or 'Black Pen' is the name given to the 15th century school of painting attributed to Mehmed Siyah Kalem. Nothing is known of his life, but his work indicates that he was of Central Asian Turkic origin, and thoroughly familiar with camp and military life. The paintings appear in the 'Conquerors Albums', so named because two portraits of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror are present in one of them. The albums are made up of miniatures taken from manuscripts of the 14th, 15th, and early 16th centuries, and one series of paintings is inscribed 'work of Master Muḥammad Siyah Kalem'. Something of the style and techniques of Chinese paintings is apparent in these, and an acquaintance with Buddhist art, particularly in the depictions of grotesque demonic figures. It seems likely that certain paintings contained in the 'Conqueror's Albums' are of Chinese origin and may have been used as stylistic guides for painters in the Siyah Kalem tradition.
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Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep. Artist: Ilia Efimovich Repin (Russian, Chuguev 1844-1930 Kuokkala). Dimensions: 4 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (12.4 x 22.5 cm). Date: 1870. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The goddess Athena stands in the background as Odysseus makes himself known to his son Telemachus after he returns home.
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Excavations at Pompeii, 17th century, historic wood engraving, about 1897
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To support the weight of a man, 45 square metres of wing surface would be required Date: 1906
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MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 114. 'Caza de conejos (hunting rabbits). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.
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Sir Horace Mann, 18th century.Artist: Thomas Patch
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Water Craft on the Tigris River, Turkey, 1890's, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895
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Francesco Petrarch, 20 July 1304, 19 July 1374, Italian poet and historian meets a young woman he called Laura, who may have been identical with Laura...
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Petit Andre, breathless, panting, stands, knife in hand, on the other side, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).
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During the war, Henry Moore achieved world renown for vivid sketches of Londoners in the Underground. August 12, 1953.