Historical Religious Scenes

A collection of engravings depicting various religious events, including holy wars and baptisms, showcasing a mix of spiritual fervor and cultural narratives.

A couple from Mozambique, south-east Africa: he holds a club, she carries two babies Date: circa 1700
A couple from Mozambique, south-east Africa: he holds a club, she carries two babies Date: circa 1700
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American Indian warriors. 16th century. Ceremony before going to war. Engraving, 1841.
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El Mejdel, known as the Ancient Migdol, is depicted as an important village with a population of fifteen hundred. The scene includes a mosque with a tall minaret, both constructed from ancient materials, set against a backdrop featuring palms and camels. The village is lively, as a weekly fair is held here, showcasing men and various activities. The dimensions of the image are 23 x 16.5 cm
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The Adoration of the god Svetovid by Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942)/ Private Collection/ 1934/ Russia/ Lithograph/ Book design/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature
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Engraving depicting natives of Assam. Assam is a state in North-eastern Indian. Dated 19th Century
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Inside a Swiss alpine chalet.
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'A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North America'. John Malcolm, a Tory excise man, collected the British tea tax in Boston in 1774. He was tarred and feathered and forced to drink to the health of the royal family with hot tea. 'Maracrony' was a word used to describe men who sported extravagant clothes, including feather hats (BSLOC_2019_3_58)
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Obverse: Bride Kyrgyz. Reverse: vignette and decorative initial D. A clip from a German magazine unknown, Ströbl, Hugo (n.n.)
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Scene from the biblical story, The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most famous stories of Jesus in the New Testament, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900
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Abruzzo, L'Aquila, L'Aquila, S. Maria di Collemaggio, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe
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'School-boys flogging the Schoolmaster', 1852. Artist: John Leech.
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Seventeen prints dedicated to Cardinal Pozzobonelli. Plate 9: Child shepherdess with flock., 1758, Italy, by Francesco Londonio. Gift of Bishop Monrad, 1869.
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The Jew and Death, scene from the Danse Macabre painted in the Dominican cemetery of Basel, 1441, Switzerland. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874
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Krishna steering a peacock-headed boat carrying seven maidens and an old lady. Transfer lithograph.
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A man kneeling before a mandarin, Kingdom of Annam, Vietnam, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1103, Volume XLIII, April 16, 1864.
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Copper engraving and etching by Luca Ciamberlano from 1616 depicting Christ with apostles, showing religious figures and narrative composition.
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Ural Cossack bride and groom leaving church after their wedding. The bride rides in an open carriage, her face covered with veils. The groom and his parents walk in front while a rider hoists a red flag behind. Noce Cosaque, revenant de l'eglise. 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.
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Nana Sahib leaving Lucknow for Cawnpore in 1857 Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox
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Jesus heals a deaf man from Decapolis. Colored Illustration for The life of Our Lord Jesus Christ written by the four evangelists, 1853
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Begging Dervishes in Turkestan, Gobi Desert, c. 1870, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, exact original date not known
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Islamic Galace slaves get food, Cornelis de Wael (workshop of), Cornelis de Wael, 1647 print A cook stirs in a kettle and hand out food to a group of Islamic Galace slaves, the cook itself also belongs to this group. A number of them are eating on the ground. These men made as a slave can be recognized as Muslims by the typical haircut (head except for a bare shaved) that they were obliged to have. On the right two sailors in conversation with a papero (Moellah and representative of the Islamic to slave). Knee paper etching / engraving harbour. seaman. slavery; serfs and the enslaved. kitchen-utensils: cauldron
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Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) French explorer on his first voyage making contact with St Lawrence Iroquoians on 24 July 1534, at Gaspe Bay, Canada, and planting a 10 metre cross claiming the territory in the name of France. Colonialism
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Weigel, Christoph, Amsterdam, Luyken, Jan, Christ as a good shepherd, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 251 mm, width 199 mm, North Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1708 - 1708, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, German, 1654-11-09 - 1725-02-05, publisher
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A knife grinder is using his wheel and many people are bringing him items to sharpen. Etching.
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India. Maratha Empire. Founded by King Shivaji on 17th century. Engraving, 19th century.
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TRAJES CIVILES, MILITARES Y RELIGIOSOS DE MEXICO - 1828 - DISPUTA DE DOS INDIAS MEXICANAS - LITOGRAFIA SIGLO XIX. Author: LINATI CLAUDIO. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Gilgamesh, the Sumerian King of Uruk Date: Circa 3000 BC
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Two Sinhalese Soldiers and in Labor's, Esaias Boursss, 1662 Three men are posing on an uneven terrain outside. The left man wears a knee -rug (veshti, lungi), messy tied in the waist with a waistband; An open short jacket with buttons and long sleeves (Hettaya) and below that a Portuguese shirt (kamisaya) with a wide neck opening. On his left side, a short bump in a sheath hangs recognizable as a Javanese or Malay dagger (Kris); The Dutch have apparently also provided this kind of weapons to members of their rental troops on Ceylon. On the head he wears a high hat with a brutal edge. The man in the middle only wears a Singalese way of a hip rug (Veshti, Lungi). The upper body is uncovered. On his left side he also wears a kris. Both of these men are Singalese rental soldiers (Lascarines), now employed by the Dutch. They belong to the caste of the Goviya. The man on the right wears a hip rug (veshti, lungi) far beyond the knees, and a second canvas (Chadar) is cumbersome wrapped around
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Engraving of a Toda family. The Toda people belong to a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Dated 1837
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Bettelnde Derwische in Turkestan, zentralasiatischen Region, die sich vom Kaspischen Meer im Westen bis zur Wüste Gobi im Osten erstreckte, um 1870 / Begging dervishes in Turkestan, Central Asian region that stretched from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Gobi Desert in the east, circa 1870, 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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Abraham leading his son Isaac to sacrifice, illustration from the Old Testament, the end of the 19th century, engraving by Bequet, Delagrave edition, Paris.
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King Mbunza or Mounza, King of Mangbetu People in ceremonial costume, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Africa. Heart of Africa Three years travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central Africa by Georg August Schweinfurth, 1868-1871
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ARAUCANOS EN ATLAS DE LA HISTORIA FISICA Y POLITICA DE CHILE, 1854. Author: GAY CLAUDIO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Distress caused by the famine - a cabin in Connemara Date: 1846
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An engraving depicting Caribbean Indians preparing Cassava Root for use as food. Dated 19th century
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The Parable of the Lost Son. The prodigal son reduced to herding pigs. Colored Illustration for The life of Our Lord Jesus Christ written by the four evangelists, 1853
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Patagonian Indian Native Family and Dwelling, Illustration by Thure de Thulstrup, Harper's Monthly Magazine
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Engraving depicting the entrance of a catacomb filled with skulls. In the foreground are Incan's wearing headdresses. Dated 16th Century
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Costumes of Russian Vareghes the ninth and tenth centuries, vintage engraving. Costumes of Russian Vareghes the ninth and tenth centuries, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660335
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Easter ceremony on board a Portugese ship in the London docks showing the sailors flogging a dummy Judas Iscariot. Date: 1876
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Engraving depicting a Maori Chieftain. Dated 19th century
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A BREHON, a judge of ancient Ireland, with his FILIDH, whose job it was to know all the laws and be able to quote them. With them is an Irish wolfhound. Date: early centuries AD
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Woman, bayadere, exotic dancer, from Hyderabad, India, Women in the 19th century, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century origina...
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A man has received a nail from his wife which, according to local custom, he holds above his head. He is giving his wife a necklace. In the foreground a flute. They are wearing traditional clothing. Residents of the Friends Islands (Tonga Archipelago) Friends Islanders , print maker: Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1803, paper, etching, h 244 mm × w 157 mm
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The crusades were a series of religious wars in western Asia and Europe initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Catholic Church, the arrival at Damiette of Louis IX, born 1214, commonly known as Saint Louis, was King of France, the ninth from the House of Capet, and is a canonized Catholic and Anglican saint, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Three Chinese merchants in Bantam, 1596. Three Chinese merchants in Bantam, (Banten), 1596. Printing the worked plates for the original illustrations in the travelogue of the first Schipvaert of Cornelis de Houtman to the East Indies in 1595-1597. No 28.
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Men building a road through the Malakand Pass, India (subsequently Pakistan). Wood engraving after C. de W. Crookshank and J. Nash, 1895.
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God and a demon create new worlds for the fun of it... Date: 1841
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The King's libation Rivière, Briton, 1840-1920. still image. Reproductive prints. 1897. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Incense, Libations, Sacrifices, Assyrians, Altars, Rites & ceremonies , Assyria, Lion hunting , Assyria, Kings , Assyria, Nimrod (Biblical figure)
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Engraving depicting the sifting of rice in China. Dated 19th Century
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Types of Asian peoples, a Sarte and two Kyrgyz. Uzbekistan, Central Asia. From Orenburg to Samarkand 1876-1878 by Madame Marie Ujfalvy-Bourdon, Le Tour du Monde 1879
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The early 1900s caption reads: Harald Hairfair begged his father that he would let the man go." King Halfdan is the father, and Harald is 10 years old. Halfdan the Black (father) was a king of Vestfold. He belonged to the House of Yngling and was the father of Harald Fairhair, the first king of a unified Norway. Of Scandinavian origin, the term Halfdan means half Dane. The time period is given as 12th century/13th century, There is some doubt as to whether Fairfair is a mythical or historical character
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Alfred R. Waud, Japanese Standard Bearers; verso: Sketch of Japanese Samurai, Women in Western Attire, 1860, pen and ink and brown wash on wove paper.
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Water seller with water hoses on his way to market, India, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical, a man wraps cows in front of a temple in a rural setting
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THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish writer's grave at Ecclefechan, Dumfries Date: 1795 - 1881
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Book of the Moghul. Ms. 8300. 17th c. Hindu sacred ceremony practised during an eclipse of the Sun and the Moon. Hindu art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Mark's Library).
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Thor son of Woden or Odin, the second god in the ancient Scandinavian pantheon, riding in chariot drawn by goats and wielding his hammer, symbolising thunder and lightning. Woodcut.
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Torture scene from Album of Punishments, Chinese painting, 19th century
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Great Sphinx of Giza in Giza, Egypt, during the 1890s, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of Great Sphinx of Giza.
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Temple of Amarah. Illustrations. 1835. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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China, 20th century. Procession of imperial ancestral tablets in Peking (Beijing). From the Journal des Voyages, 1909.
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Poland, chapel in the Wieliczka Salt Mine close Cracow
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Picture series of carnival pictures of different times, carnival in the Middle Ages in France, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown