Historical Figures Engravings

Engravings of historical figures engaged in thoughtful activities, highlighting their expressions and attire in a variety of artistic styles.

A man sits on a bench and holds a pipe in his hand. In his other hand he holds a jug. Behind him two figures are having a conversation, Man with a pipe and a jug, print maker: Nicolaes van Haeften, (mentioned on object), Antwerp, 1673 - 1715, paper, engraving, h 225 mm × w 168 mm

Goudweegster (variant with two devils), Jan van der Bruggen, after David Teniers (II), 1690 - 1694 print In a departure, a woman weighs gold while a man notes data on a piece of paper. Next to the woman is a devil with a bag of money. A second devil peeks through a window to the Gold Weeker. From a hatch, death, with an hourglass in the hand, watches the scene. Amsterdam paper weighing gold or money. handwriting, writing as activity. devil(s) and demons

Papal Saint. Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Burrini; Italian, 1656-1727. Date: 1675-1727. Dimensions: 233 x 168 mm. Pen and brown ink, with traces of brush and brown wash, with graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Young widow, sitting in front of a mirror at a dressing table, Bernard François Lépicié, after Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1724 print publisher: ParisFrance paper engraving / etching widow. mirror

Schmidt, Georg Friedrich Erchier: Schmidt, Georg Friedrichfactic genesis: Saint Petersburg

Maid. A serviceMeid is at the counter and sands a pan. In addition to the counter, a bucket with a cloth is.

N'bougez pas! ... Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Girl at a water pump, Kornelis Jzn de Wijs, 1842 - 1884 print A girl at a water pump. A haystack in the background. Netherlands paper. etching utilitarian, public pump or water fountain. girl (child between toddler and youth)

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Amsterdam, Fokke, Simon, Vignette with portrait of Rembrandt, verso - stamped, Vignette with portrait of Rembrandt in oval, surrounded by painting utensils and a number of his etchings. To the right of the portrait hangs a laurel wreath from a stick., print, prints, height 57 mm, width 73 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1755 - 1755, paper, papier, etching, etsen

Two men on a couch with different objects, Jean Simon, After Jacob Toorenvliet, 1685 - 1751 print London paper merchant, salesman

The Milkmaid, Jurriaan Cootwijck, Johannes Vermeer, 1724 - 1798

Cellist, Willem de Zwart, c. 1872 - c. 1931 drawing Cellist. paper. chalk other string instruments played with bow (CELLO). musician at work

Man Glas en Pijp, Jan van de Velde (II), 1633 print Man with a glass in one hand in the other. He seems to want to hand over the pipe to the viewer; He is talking about his final preference for beer above tobacco. Thirteenth print from a series of eighteen. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving beer, ale. tobacco

Inn interior with two farmers, Johannes Gronsveld, After Adriaen Brouwer, 1679 - 1728 print Herberg interior with sleeping farmer on a stool, leaning against a ton. A pipe in his left hand. On the right a farmer, seen on the back, peeing in a bucket. Amsterdam paper engraving sleeping in chair

The gay drinker (Dutuit 5) Dusart, Cornelis. The gay drinker (Dutuit 5). Etching. 1685-1685.

Study sheet with woman's head and a hand with a bow. Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Cornelis Troost (rejected attribution). Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 184 mm × w 119 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Young Bacchus, Hendrik Bary, 1657 - 1707 print A young bacchus with a half -filled glass in his hand. Under the performance one verse of two lines in Dutch. paper engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber

Sitting woman with striked arms, Cornelis Saftleven, 1645 print paper etching farmers. arms crossed

Child as a painter in studio; Le Peintre.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778). Writer and philosopher in French language. Detail with Rousseau reading. Drawing by Gryph (1783). Engraving. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus_e Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Amsterdam, Savery, Salomon, Scheyndel, Gillis van (I), Genre scenes, Labbe soets, Seated farmer's wife, verso - stamped, A farmer's wife sits by a barn, next to her a wicker basket. An inn in the background. The print is part of a series of 32 prints with genre scenes., print, prints, height 54 mm, width 44 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1595 - 1660-12-24, print maker, printmaker, 1638 - 1638, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, 1594 - 1683-10-16, publisher

Flemish cuisine, Guillaume Duvivier, after Antoine van den Heuvel, c. 1660 - c. 1670 print A cook is in the kitchen at a table and picks chickens. A second woman takes a pulse of beer from the kitchen and talks to the cook. paper etching kitchen-interior. plucked fowl

Woman with basket of fruit in the hand at the window, Johannes de Mare, Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, 1854.

Scholar in his studies. A niche with a scholar that is on his desk. The space is lit by a lantern. The man reads a book.

Reading mayor in his study, Jacques Beauvarlet, After Adriaen van Ostade, 1741 - 1797 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / engraving mayor, burgomaster. reading. letter, envelope. study; 'studiolo'; library

Landelin of lobbes, holy.

La Bouillée, 1861. Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875). Etching;

A gentleman kneels before a monk in a library, 18th century. Copperplate engraving heliogravure by Francois Rolland Elluinafter Antoine Borel from Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouches Memoiren des Saturnin, von ihm selbst Niedergeschreiben, Privatdruck, Liepzig, 1911. Also known as Le Portier des Chartreux, it was one of several erotic novels written by Latouche, 1715-1782, a lawyer at the Paris Parliament.

Drawing Woman, Wallerant Vaillant, After Gabriël Metsu, 1658 - 1677 print In a room a young woman is drawing at a table. There are a print and a bust in front of her. In the background a bookcase on which a globe. paper draughtsman at work. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph. globe. easel

Putto in the clothing of a spiritual grinds, anonymous, 1683 - 1783 print A putto, dressed as a spiritual, grinds flour on a stone. In addition, a half -eaten pie. Netherlands paper etching / engraving grinding, milling (industrial processes). bread, cake, pastry, etc.. organization, functionaries and dignitaries in churches and in related institutions

Young man at a table builds a house of cards, Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy, after Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1754 - c. 1778 print paper etching playing-cards

Lieven Willemsz. Van Coppenol, Writing Master: The Smaller Plate, Pierre François Basan, After Rembrandt van Rijn, 1733 - 1797 print paper etching historical persons

Sewing Peasant Woman, Bust of a Sewing Peasant Woman. A cloth is tied around the head, farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife, sewing, Frans Lebret (mentioned on object), 1897, paper, etching, h 118 mm × w 80 mm

Artixan III The Artisan. Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506. 1550. Ladenspelder, Johann, approximately 1511-approximately 1580. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Young woman with sheet music, print maker: Theodorus de Roode, 1746 - 1793, paper, h 80 mm × w 73 mm

Drawing boy. In a studio a boy signs to a sculpture of Hercules. Around him are an easel, a globe, books and models of plaster.

Laughing nar with sooth head in his sleeve, Werner van den Valckert, 1595 - 1645 print Smiling nar points his sleeve, from which a head of fool stands out. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving fool, simpleton, numskull

Draftsman with an inkwell and pen. A draftsman goes his pen in an inkwell. For him a table on which a sheet of paper.

The Gold-Weigher, Frédéric-Désiré Hillemacher, French, 1811 - 1886, Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French, 1797 - 1890, Etching on tan paper, An old man sits in semi-gloom at a table, weighing gold., France, 1847, Print, Print

Lebas, Jacques-Philippe, inventor: Rembrandt van Rijn, work, Dutch banker, 1639, line etching, graphics, image width 20.2 cm, image height 23 cm

Kneeling Mary in an Architecture, draughtsman: anonymous, Noord-Italië, c. 1500 - c. 1520, paper, pen, brush, h 200 mm × w 143 mm

Chalk drawing by Franz Karl Palko depicting Saint Hieronymus, framed with chalk, ink, and brush details, showing figure, posture, and compositional arrangement.

Allegorical drawing by Jacob de Wit showing a writing muse surrounded by scientific instruments, in gray wash with white highlights.

Saint Jerome. Artist: Georg Anton Urlaub (German, Thüngersheim 1713-1759 Würzburg). Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (16.5 x 17.4 cm). Date: 1713-59. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Reproduction of a engraving: Louis Sixteen reading his will at Mr de Lamoignon / Malesherbes his defender (TF)

Smoking farmer with the arm over a seating, Adriaen van Ostade, 1650 - 1654 print paper etching male sex; man. pipe ~ tobacco

Woman Weighing Gold by Jan Vermeer (1632-1675). Date: circa 1655

L'Antiquaire, Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704-1767, undated, Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 1/16 inches (42.9 x 33.1 cm), Plate: 16 5/16 x 12 5/8 inches (41.4 x 32 cm), and Image: 14 15/16 x 12 1/2 inches (38 x 31.8 cm), antiquarian, antiquary, bench, books, cabinet, eyes, fire, genre subject, humor, librarian, magnifying glass, monkey (animal), parody, satire, scholar, smoke, studying, table, tassels

Venice, Senate of Venice, Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, Pitteri, Giovanni Marco, Apostles, Sanctus Philippus, Apostle Philip, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 440 mm, width 341 mm, Italian, 1702-05-24 - 1786-08-04, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1786, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1682-02-13 - 1754-04-29, after, after a painting by, grantor of privilege

Self -portrait, Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1758 print Sint-Petersburg paper engraving portrait, self-portrait of artist

Chalon, Christina, Leiden, Mare, Pieter de, Standing woman with a fire test, verso center - stamped, An old woman with a test containing some coals., print, prints, height 126 mm, width 84 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1758-01-30 - 1796-06, print maker, printmaker, 1777 - 1779, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1748 - 1808-12-13, intermediary draughtsman

Touch (Tactus), from The Five Senses Georg Pencz German. Touch (Tactus), from The Five Senses. The Five Senses. Georg Pencz (German, Wroclaw ca. 1500-1550 Leipzig). Engraving. Prints

Sousa, Manuel I. DE.

Draftsman who sketches a gypsum, Carl Heinrich Mylius, after Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, 1756 drawing paper brush draughtsman at work. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765-1833); Jens Juel (1745-1802), an Amager girl, 1804

Man with Jug, Hermanus Fock, After Abraham Bloemaert, 1781 - 1822 print Figure, halfway, with a feathered hat on the head and a beer jug in both hands. print maker: Amsterdamafter drawing by: Netherlands paper etching jar, jug (used as drinking-vessel)

Two loved ones in an interior, Louis Michel Halbou, After Etienne Jeaurat, 1768 print Oriental interior with a woman with bare chest next to a man with a Fez. print maker: Parisafter painting by: Francepublisher: Parispublisher: ParisParisFrance paper etching / engraving Asiatic races and peoples: Turks. lovers' meeting. head-gear: turban. breasts

Reading man, draughtsman: Hendrik Jan van Amerom, 1786 - 1833, paper, brush, h 129 mm × w 130 mm

Lieven Willemsz Van Coppenol, Writing Master Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). , ca. 1658. Etching, drypoint, and burin on laid paper, Plate: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (26 x 19.1 cm). European Art ca. 1658

The man with the sausage, Jacob Gole, 1690 print A man is about to take a bite from a sausage. He wears a hat with a peacock ferry. Amsterdam paper sausage. eating

Directrice der Vervalle Actie-Regimenten; en byzonderlyk van Natuurlyke Lawe Actien Directress of the decayed stock-regiments, and particularly of natural Law's shares. Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756. 1720. Buysen, Pieter van. Prints, Caricatures. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Political satire

Portrait of Joan Michael Fleischman. Portrait of Joan Michaël Fleischman, Letter cutter at publisher Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem. For him, tools used in cutting letters.

Lady puts Luit, Justus Chevillet, after de la Hyre, 1765 - 1768 print print maker: Franceprint maker: Parispublisher: Paris paper engraving lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo. adult woman

Laughing boy with Kat, Lambert Visscher, after Jacob van Loo, 1643 - 1690 print A smiling boy with a cat on his arm. He stands for a wall and wears a hat. In the background a rolling landscape with a village. paper engraving / etching cat. head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). village

H. Hieronymus reading in a book. .

Sadeler, Johann (I), Spranger, Bartholomeus, Antwerp, Saint Dominic (version 2), verso lower left - stamped, Saint Dominic, a lily and a bible in the hands, print, prints, height 148 mm, width 108 mm, South Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1582 - 1582, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1546-03-21 - 1611-08, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Dodd, Francis, Portrait of Jacob Epstein, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 404 mm, width 304 mm, English, 1874-11-29 - 1949-03-07, print maker, printmaker, 1909 - 1909, paper, drypoint

Jongeman in studievertrek. La jeunnesse ou l'étude (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 167 mm × w 149 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Waiting for an answer according to the image of John R. Dicksee. English magazine unknown, Dicksee, John Robert (1817 1905)

Reading young woman at a table. Draughtsman: Taco Scheltema (I). Dating: 1770 - 1837. Measurements: h 220 mm × w 183 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Sewing girl, sitting next to her doll. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch. Dating: 1648 - 1677. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 138 mm × w 105 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Boy draws a plaster bust. A boy signs a carved bust (possibly from the Roman emperor Vitellius). Under the head is a music booklet. There are a roll of paper and writing suspensions on the floor.

The letter writer.

The Politician A Facsimile of the original engraving from the design by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,

Reading from a "Sense of Duty". Illustrations. 1855-12. General Research Division

Les Thénardier ". Illustration for" Les Misérables ". Photography from a drawing by Gustave Brion (1824-1877), 1862. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 38138-10 Auberge, drawing, illustration of literary work, novel character, couple

The Lute Player and the Drinker. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 27.5 x 31 cm (10 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.). Medium: mezzotint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Wallerant Vaillant after David Teniers the Younger.

A Painter Seated at his Easel. Schilder zittend voor zijn ezel. Draughtsman: Jan de Bisschop. Dating: 1648 - 1671. Measurements: h 149 mm × w 99 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Saint Luke. Colour etching.

Bause, Johann Friedrich, work name: Uskottu, 1768, copper engraving, graphics, leaf width 18.3 cm, leaf height 25.6 cm, image width 16.8 cm, image height 21 cm

Wallerant Vaillant after David Teniers the Younger, The Lute Player and the Drinker The Lute Player and the Drinker

Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a framed painting hanging on the wall beyond ca. 1700-1739 Louis Desplaces French. Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a framed painting hanging on the wall beyond 399566

Portrait of Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes. Portrait of Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat. Under the portrait a described sheet of paper with a stamp. Links are coat of arms.

Couple in a doorway, Nicolaes van Haeften, 1701 print A man and a woman above a lower door with a vineyard above them and a bird on the right on a string on a branch. The man holds a full glass in front of his chest, the woman in her left hand a bottle that she slanted. Paris paper etching lovers; courting, flirting. bird on a cord or string. divided door, upper part opened - AA - feigned door, sham-door

Drinking woman and smoking man, Abraham Delfos, After Gabriël Metsu, 1755 print paper engraving / etching foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs (+ taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.)

Portrait of Jozina choice, Cornelis of North, 1773 print Portrait of Jozina Keuse, at the age of 100, sitting by the window. Haarlem paper etching / engraving

Netherlands, Surlet the First, King of the Belgians, Cartoon on the Regency of Surlet de Chokier, 1831, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the Regency of Surlet de Chokier. Surlet de Chokier was appointed regent of Belgium on 24 February 1831. The regent is depicted as an ordinary citizen, smoking a pipe and sitting in a café behind a pot of beer. In the background a shepherd with a flock of sheep., print, engraving, cartoon, prints, engravings, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 308 mm, width 233 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1831 - 1831, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek)

Antoine Trouvain after Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, Jean Jouvenet, 1707 Jean Jouvenet

Averroes (1126-1198). Ibn Rushd. Medieval Andalusian Muslim polymath. Portrait. Averroes in his studio. Engraving at "Colliget Venetis" (1530).

Rycke, Bernaert de.

Little Swedish according to Hugo Salmson. Monogramista PF., Salmson, Hugo (1843 1894)

Self portrait of William Hogarth dated 1764. Engraving by him after his own painting. He depicts himself working on his canvas The Comic Muse.

Evangelist Lucas Met Os, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Workshop of), After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1775 print paper etching Luke the evangelist; possible attributes: book, (winged) ox, portrait of the Virgin, surgical instruments, painter's utensils, scroll

Seated man with glass and pipe. Draughtsman: Alexander Liernur. After Frans van Mieris (I). Dating: 1799. Measurements: h 221 mm × w 188 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A Woman seated Drawing, c.1655-60, Gabriel Metsu, (1629-1667/Dutch), Oil on oak, National Gallery, London, England

. Portrait in half by Jan Maurits Quinkhard, painter in Amsterdam, with painting bonnet and mantle. In his left hand a painting palette and brushes, his right hand points to a painted portrait to the right of him.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

A toad eater , Eating & drinking, Toads. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

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