Historical Meetings and Events

Engravings depicting significant historical meetings and ceremonies with elaborate backgrounds and dramatic scenes.

A return from an invasion, or, Napoleon at a nonplus JN.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Napoleon,I,Emperor of the French,1769-1821. , Despair,1800-1810. , City & town life,France,Calais,1800-1810.

England, Hampshire, Portsmouth, The Camber in Old Portsmouth showing the Bridge Tavern with a mural by Thomas Rowlanson of his cartoon entitled Portsmouth Point.

Title page of The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror by G. M. Woodward, Esq., Vol I , Crowds. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

France, 19th century. Caricature of judges and justice. La cour de Cassation cassant du bois (dont on fait les flutes) et autres buches analogues.

Old color lithography portrait of Joan of Arc. Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431) nicknamed The Maid of Orleans. La Pucelle d'Orléans. Heroine of France for her role during the Lancaster phase of the Hundred Years War, and was canonized as a Catholic saint. Burned at the stake on May 30, 143. Symbol of the Catholic League. National symbol of France by decision of Napoleon Bonaparte.Beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. France. Les Français Illustres by Gustave Demoulin 1897

Tendanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo-Virgil, Geor: August 8, 1810 James Gillray British. Tendanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo-Virgil, Geor:. James Gillray (British, London 1756-1815 London). August 8, 1810. Etching. Hannah Humphrey (London). Prints

Protestant Reformation (1566). Destruction of art works after a John Clavin's preaching. Engraving. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.

Presages of the Millenium ; with the Destruction of the Faithful.. Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1779 - 1805. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Swine, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Costumes of China, 1858. Musician playing a pipa or Chinese lute, Chief Archer in helmet and robes, Mandarin bureaucrat with rank badge and a servant holding a parasol, Tatar Lady seated on a chair holding a fan, slave with long pigtail holding a tray of tea. Pagoda and palace in the background. Musicien, chef des archers, Mandarin, Dame Tartare, esclave. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Felix Fossey from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.

A Crowded Race Meeting. Date/Period: Between 1805 and 1810. Painting. Watercolor. Height: 149 mm (5.86 in); Width: 241 mm (9.48 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

The Champs Elysees / N ° 1 // S.M. Napoleon III, returning from the wood ...

Grand Council / Emigrants (IT)

Charles Williams, active 1796-1830, British, The Balance of Justice, 1802. Etching, hand-colored.

The Butchers of Freedom, () James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1788, Etching and aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 3/8in. (23.2 x 34cm)

Illustration of the city of Goa from the Itinerario of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, the 16th century Dutch traveller credited with stealing the Portugue...

The Derby Pets: The Winner, James Pollard, 1792-1867, British, between 1840 and 1842, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches (32.4 x 45.1 cm), costume, equestrian, jockey, race (event), reins, riding, shawls, spectators, sporting art, winner

Festivity popular with Paul Deschanel, President of France, 1900. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani

Fanatatism / Trahison / Leader / Hypocrisie / Le Surmllete Faching Preton Lefuser The Sermeas, Arghevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevêques, Archevé Salmis

GRABADO SATÍRICO. REVISTA LA FLACA, 1873. MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE LA CIUDAD DE BARCELONA.

GRABADO-LLEGADA DE AMADEO DE SABOYA A LA CORTE-MADRID HACIA 1870-INV 19081. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS COLOREADOS. MADRID. SPAIN. Amadeo I of Spain. DUQUE DE AOSTA.

The death of the property tax! Or 37 mortal wounds for ministers & the inquisitoral commissioners!, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, engraving 1816, Henry Brougham, John Bull, and the British lion (Leo Britannicus) attacking a hydra representing the property tax. At tail of the monster Mr. Tierney tells Britannia to rise. In the background, Liverpool, the Regent, Castlereagh, and Vansittart hasten up a slope with a sign-post pointing to Economy.

'The Good-byes of Fontainebleau', 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Bravo Adolphe! Guillaume is only a drink !!!

Meyer, Henri (n.1844 - D.1899), Madame Le Diable (Username), 1882. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Advertising, theater, Paris, 10th arrondissement, Féerie, Operette, Henri Meilhac (1830-1897), Arnold Mortier (1843-1885), Gaston Serpette (1846-1904), Henri Robecchi (1827-1889), Jeanne Granier (1852- 1939), Marie Desclauzas (Malvina Ernestine Armand, dit) (1841-1912), Alfred Jolly (1839-1891), Lefèvre, Malard (or Maldlard), Bonnet, Jannin, Charvet, various scenes, in the high group of characters dressed in Empire style, at the bottom on each side of a dial, a man and a woman wearing devil's horns on the head, giant horns, pink, central sticker of a typographic poster (cf. Caraff00123)

George III's Visit to Portsmouth, unknown artist, after Edward Dayes, 1763-1804, British, c. 1794, Hand colored (outline) etching, Sheet: 15 1/16 x 23 1/4in. (38.3 x 59.1cm)

The Rival Whiskers. Artist: Designed and etched by Theodore Lane (British, Isleworth ca. 1800-1828 London); George Hunt (British, active 1820-45). Dimensions: sheet: 10 5/16 x 12 7/16 in. (26.2 x 31.6 cm). Date: ca. 1824. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Paris Diligence 1810 Thomas Rowlandson A diligence coach full of people, led by four horses away from an inn. An old couple at left beg from the passengers, and sow with small pigs run alongside the coach. A crucifix is in the background center, where a group of nuns kneel in prayer.. Paris Diligence. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1810. Hand-colored etching. Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846). Prints

A Punch and Judy Show. Painting. Watercolor. Height: 146 mm (5.74 in); Width: 238 mm (9.37 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

LAlambic miraculeux.

Collection of Mathilde, Anonymous, 1840 - 1868 print Numbered in the middle: 26/2. paper tales and fairy tales. militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc.

The pretenders.

End of the Irish Farce of Catholic Emancipation.. Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1779 - 1805. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Catholic emancipation

Es lebe Sarastro. The premiere of 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart by Anonymous / Mozarteum (ISM), Salzburg/ 1790s/ Copper engraving, watercolour/ Classicism/ Opera, Ballet, Theatre

Amsterdam, Moolenyzer, Hendrik, Nieuw Nederlandsch Schutters spel, verso - stamped, Pot game that has to be played with chips, tokens or other coins. In the oval center field, decorated with crown and flags, the Great Major on horseback, parading in front of his shooters. Above that the office of the Schutterij in Amsterdam, below that the main guard. On the left a raging fire, on the right the provost. Furthermore 16 boxes with shooters., print, picture, folk print, gameboard, playing board, prints, folk prints, height 395 mm, width 494 mm, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, publisher, 1831 - 1842, paper, etching, etchings, colours

Members of the stadholder household followed by two teams of horses with the hearse and the bearers. In the margin the caption in Dutch, French and English. Part of a series of 41 plates of the funeral procession of Stadholder William IV in Delft on 4 February 1752. Numbered top right: 27., Burial of Willem IV, 1752, plate 27 De Heeren van der Meer en Casembroot Majoors / De Heeren Eckhart en van Byland, Luytenants Collonels (...) (title on object) Lyk-staetsie van zyne doorluchtigste Hoogheid den Heere Willem IV Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince van Orange en Nassau... held the IV February 1752 (series title on object), print maker: Jan Punt, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Pieter Jan van Cuyck, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, 1754, paper, etching, engraving, h 270 mm × w 560 mm

John Bull overbeladen, Henry Heath, 1827 Cartoon in which the bull John Bull (Great Britain) must bear the heavy burden of maintaining the many groups of people in British society sitting on his back. print maker: Englandpublisher: London paper etching personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.. bull. political caricatures and satires

Hawker of books. Germany. 16th century. Engraving by H. Kaeseberg. "Germania", 1882.

The great devil mammon of money / boss of finance. ()

ENTREVISTA DE FERNANDO VII Y EL DUQUE DE ANGULEMA 3/AGO/1823. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. DUQUE DE ANGULEMA. BORBON LUIS ANTONIO DUQUE DE ANGULEMA. LOUIS ANTOINE DE ANGOULEME. FERNANDO VII (1784-1833).

Gambols on the River Thames Feby. 1814 , Rivers, Ice, Bridges, Entertainment. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings

The Pillory. Four men being punished in the pillory jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property, perjury and swindling. Aquatint from WH Pyne 'Costume of England' London 1805.

Comforts of Bath, Plate 7 January 6, 1798 Thomas Rowlandson. Comforts of Bath, Plate 7. Comforts of Bath. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). January 6, 1798. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. S. W. Fores (London). Prints

German 16th Century, Masquerade, c 1515 Masquerade

On June , Karl V was presented to the Augsburg commitment at the Reichstag in Augsburg, Unknown

Traditions in Germany around 1820, province of Harz, digitally retouched reproduction of a template from about 1850, by Albert Kretschmer February 27, 1825 - 11th July 1891, German painter and costumeist 1f-4913788

Le Meravigliose Foreze dei Castellani.... 1701 - 1800. Anonymous. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 9; Begreffseis from Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick. Luxury colored edition of the prints of the funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik in 1647. The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 9 with trumpeters. Colored print in a picture frame decorated with gold and briefed in the luxury edition from approx. 1755 of the book 'Begraijdisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick' by Pieter Post, published in Amsterdam in 1651.

Antiquaries meeting: a man standing at the head of a table holds up a hat in one hand and a sheaf of papers in the other for the rest of the company to see; the table has busts and pots on it and the men are inspecting various items. Coloured etching.

The youthful Napoleon sees for himself the excesses of the Revolution, and realises the necessity for re-imposing order in France. Date: circa 1789

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gerard Grandville, 'Les Metamorphoses du jour' 1829.illustration from a famous series of political caricatures

New Years card , Opening of the Franz,-Josef-Kais on May , Josef Haßlwander Hasslwander -, Artist, Hermann Engel, Lithograph

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Burial of the Sardine (El Entierro de la Sardina), 1812-1819. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid, Spain.

Exhibition Napoleon to Elba

The Duel 1890 A. Blunck (19th C.) Colored Wood Engraving

-Tentada via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo - Virgil, Geor: - He steers his flight aloft ..... Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1810. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Balloons (Aircraft), Catholic emancipation

Execution of Louis XVI, January 21, 1793 ". Copper oil. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 37386-1 Convention, execution, crowd, guillotine, guillotiner, copper oil, work of art, revolutionary period, people, place de la Concorde, French revolution, King France, Table, VIIIEM VIII 8th 8 arrondissement

Gulliver is granted his freedom, lantern slide, late 19th century. 'The emperor himself, in person, did me the honour to be by at the whole ceremony. I made my acknowledgements by prostrating myself at his majesty's feet...'. A scene from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. One of a series of 12 'Superior Lithographic Coloured Lantern Slides...with Lecture complete', made in England c1870-1900.

GRABADO-INCENDIO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Chromolithograph - Different Social Standings of Men

Spain. View of a Bullfight in Madrid, 1791. Etching on paper. By Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814). History Museum. Madrid. Spain.

The fall of Washington--or Maddy in full flight. Cartoon showing President James Madison and probably John Armstrong, his secretary of war, both with bundles of papers, fleeing from Washington, with burning buildings behind them. print : engraving, color. 1814.

A life drawing class: members of an academy are shown drawing from a model in a darkened room. Crayon manner print by J. Gamelin after himself, 1778/1779.

Nicholas I of Russia in a sleigh by Anonymous / Private Collection / 1850 / France / Lithograph, watercolour / Genre,History / 21,3x26,8

Bandophagic butcher. (IT)

Who Knows Whether It's True A woodcut satirising lovers' pledges. Date: circa 1550

The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 19, Pieter Nolpe, after Pieter Jansz. Post, 1651 book. print The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 19. Clarified print in a frame decorated with gold and pasted in the luxury edition from around 1755 of the book 'Begraeffenisse by Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick' by Pieter Post, published in Amsterdam in 1651. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: The Hagueprinter: Amsterdam paper. etching

Ravudeuse (registered title)

AGITACION RUSA EN PARIS-EXPLOSION DE UNA BOMBA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

AGITACION RUSA EN PARIS-EXPLOSION DE UNA BOMBA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION.

The triumph of Marat, April 24, 1793 Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). The triumph of Marat, April 24, 1793. Gouache on cut carton glued on a sheet of washed blue paper.

Atlas on Frontispiece.

State Grange, Farm Machinery

The Bedesten bazaar in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. Men in turbans talk, haggle and smoke pipes at the market in front of a mosque. Bazar de Larrise (Grece). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervaiss Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811.

Napoleon in the Jacobijnenmuts, 1815, 1815 drawing After his return to Paris in June 1815, Napoleon tries to hide in vain in a large Jacobijnen hat, drawn 'Paris'. However, he is shaken out of the hat by Carnot, Fouché and Cambacérès. On the left the king of Prussia who catches the whole couple with a large Valnet. The people numbered 1-5. Netherlands paper pen / brush catching animals. head-gear: cap

The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 11, Pieter Nolpe, after Pieter Jansz. Post, 1651 book. print The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik, plate no. 11. Clarified print in a frame decorated with gold and pasted in the luxury edition from around 1755 of the book 'Begraeffenisse by Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick' by Pieter Post, published in Amsterdam in 1651. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: The Hagueprinter: Amsterdam paper. etching

Gift for the grangers c1873. chromolithograph. Promotional print for Grange members showing scenes of farming and farm life.

Dibujo satírico publicado en el periódico La Broma, febrero de 1887.

Tauromaquia. El toro bravo saltando al callejón. Grabado de 1920. Author: Daniel Perea y Rojas.

Two fishermen with a sail, 1670 - 1726 Two fishermen hold a sail on an island in the water with the title of the series: Icones Vararum Navium Hollandicarum. Behind them and on the ground are straps, rowing pans and a compass. The print is part of an album. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Two fishermen hold a sail on an island in the water with the title of the series: Icones Vararum Navium Hollandicarum. Behind them and on the ground are straps, rowing pans and a compass. The print is part of an album. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving

Districts of Siena: allegorical floats,

Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully, 1898. Artist: Gilbert

France, 19th century. Satire on the proclamation of the French Republic (Proclamation de la Republique francaise, Paris le 24 Fevrier 1848). Watercolor by Johann Christian Schoeller (1782-1851), 1848.

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