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Illustrations capturing significant moments in royal history, depicting grandeur and pageantry during important ceremonies.

Aeneas tries to defend the walls of Troy against the Greeks - but it's a losing battle
Aeneas tries to defend the walls of Troy against the Greeks - but it's a losing battle
159 assets in this story
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Boys Peeping at Nature, an engraving by William Hogarth in 1732, depicting three Putti painting or drawing the likeness of an ancient statue depicting Mother Nature.
1848-50220411
Cleopatra VII Philopato, 69 BC 12 August 30 BC ruled as the last queen of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Empire and at the same time as the last female pharaoh of Egypt from 51 BC to 30 BC, digital reproduction of an 18th century original, original date not known
6145-29129087
Decorative Study. Hippolyte Petitjean (France, 1854-1929). Germany, circa 1898. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph printed in blue, yellow, green, light pink and red on chine volant paper
995-87124
Cain and Abel by Walter Crane, 1845-1915
6145-29280496
The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome. Reproduction of a wood engraving by P. Noël after J. Delaunay.
1746-19627785
Alexander the Great 356-323 BC (Alexander III of Macedon) 356-323 BC as a youth listening to his tutor Aristotle (384-322 BC). Artist's reconstruction c1875. Wood engraving
1848-61648024
The Good Samaritan, monument by Karl Carl Kundmann, 15 June 1838, 9 June 1919, an Austrian sculptor, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
4443-21784064
Allegorical composition on Felix Meritis with the winged Fame blowing the praise trumpet on the right. On the left Apollo, seated on the clouds, rests with his left arm on the blazon of Felix Meritis also held by a putto., Allegorical composition on Felix Meritis, print maker: Jacques Kuyper, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1784, paper, etching, h 96 mm × w 98 mm
6145-29091684
L'Estampe Moderne: Cité Lacustre: Cité Lacustre, 1897. Fernand Cormon (French, 1845-1924). Color lithograph; sheet: 31.7 x 24.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.); image: 31.7 x 24.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.); secondary support: 40.1 x 30.4 cm (15 13/16 x 11 15/16 in.).
4220-21850010
Dionysos is carried in procession with his wife Ariadne, whom he married after finding her on the island of Naxos, deserted by her lover Theseus
6145-45338142
AMFOR trader according to Angelo de Courten. A clip from a German magazine. Knesing, Theodor (1840 1927), Courten, Angelo (1848 1925)
1848-50195474
Archimedes of Syracuse, 287 BC 212 BC Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer, killed by a Roman soldier, The History of Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe
6145-29793334
Caius Marius on the Ruins of Carthage January 20, 1782 Etched and published by Robert Blyth British. Caius Marius on the Ruins of Carthage 408113
6176-67036628
'The crust came drawn from underneath in flakes', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.
1848-50226878
Zinc cast ornaments from the zinc foundry of L. Weber in Leipzig, in 1870, Germany, 1880, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe
6176-65988722
Gustave Doré; Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from John Milton's Paradise Lost; Black and White Engraving
4443-21211338
Moses, possibly Cornelis Bos, c. 1537 - c. 1555
4409-63012966
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64 BC-12 BC). Engraving by La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882.
6176-65990727
Gustave Doré; David escapes through a window of his house with the aid of his wife Michall to avoid the assassins
4443-17688
July, 1847, man, dog, month
6176-67065836
'Napoleon I', c1800-1820. Artist: Unknown
1848-19471279
Sleeping Witch on a Pillory, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
4409-20879088
Historia Antigua. Las siete maravillas del mundo antiguo. Estatua y templo de Zeus (Júpiter). Grabado alemán de 1886.
1525-27884652
1842 Sculpture Show, Young Neapolitan woman believing her child, plaster group, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842.
1525-27905954
Benevolence, low relief by Victor Vilain, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847.
6176-67074171
'Justice - For Ireland', 1866. Artist: John Tenniel
4409-17553715
Hercules and Hesione. Bartolomeo Salvestrini, attributed to; Italian, died 1630. Date: 1620-1640. Dimensions: 69 1/16 x 59 1/8 in. (175.4 x 150.2 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
1848-49357171
Azulejo, woman carrying basket with grapes, grape grape harvest, Porto Sao Bento train station, Porto, Portugal, Europe
1746-28994019
In Greek and Roman mythology, the palladium or palladion was a cult image, on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend, the wooden statue (xoanon) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from Troy , was later taken to the future site of Rome by Aeneas. Engraving from 'Tableaux du temple des muses' (1655) by Michel de Marolles (1600 - 1681), known as the abbé de Marolles; a French churchman and translator.
1746-21120450
Frontispiece to: Traittez de barometers, thermometers, et notiometres, ou hygrometres, by Joachim d'Alence, d. 1707. Published in 1688
4409-3248
Mosaïque : Iphigenia's Sacrifice. Ampurias, Archaeology museum. Province of Gironia, Spain. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Ampurias. GERONA. SPAIN. IPHIGENIE. Agamemnon. KALCHAS. ULISES. Menelao.
4443-73181844
Dyck, Anton van, work, Crowning with Thorns, (1000 - 2003), etching, graphics, sheet width 21 cm, sheet height 26.1 cm
6145-51831935
Mary Magdalene and the Holy Women at the Tomb (Madeleine et les saintes femmes au tombeau) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Mary Magdalene and the Holy Women at the Tomb (Madeleine et les saintes femmes au tombeau), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 15/16 x 8 3/8 in. (25.2 x 21.3 cm). European Art 1886-1894
6145-59025041
Merson, Luc-Olivier (n.1846-05-21-D.1920-11-14), a tear for a drop of water (book VI, chapter IV) (dummy title), 1888. House of Victor Hugo- Hauteville House.
1848-54794251
Historical stock certificate, detail of the vignette, allegorical representation of a man sitting in front of a large open pit area with a processing facility, Phelps Dodge Copper Mining Company, copper and molybdenum mining, copper wire manufacturers, timber products, now Freeport-McMoRan, 1967, New York, USA, North America
1848-55063810
Lovers embracing, wearing period costume, steel engraving, book illustration, scene from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, edition from 1890
1525-27922096
Egg dance, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.
1848-50215738
The Farnese Bull Toro Farnese, formerly in the Farnese Collection in Rome, is a massive Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original
6145-51843550
Circle of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1742-1850, oil on canvas.
4220-21849536
Greek goddess of health, feeding a serpent from a bowl
6145-30189335
Nymphs Bathing 1630-1669 Netherlands. Oil on copper . Dirck van der Lisse
1848-55289766
Piazza della Borsa, Trieste, harbour town on the Adriatic, Friuli, Italy, Trieste, Friuli, Italy, Europe
1848-19256092
Gedenkblatt für Gustav Freytag, Gustav Freytag, 13. Juli 1816, 30. April 1895, deutscher Schriftsteller, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Origi...
4409-17368282
Murcia. Trono El Prendimiento, Malco derribado. Author: Francisco Salzillo.
1848-54794238
Historical stock certificate, detail of the vignette, allegorical representation of a woman with resting against a globe between a nuclear power plant and a city, utility provider, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., 1974, USA, North America
1848-51014447
Five women hovering over the stormy sea, sirens, mermaids by Pierre-Gustave Staal, 1880, historical woodcut, France, Europe
1848-55254273
Take and Read, historic steel engraving from 1860
1899-39040
Illustration for Inferno by Dante Alighieri Canto XVIII lines 116 and 117 by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator
1848-54734359
Historic print, copper engraving, 1800, Karl Wilhelm Ramler and the muse, 1725 - 1798, a German poet and philosopher, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, an illustrated atlas by Gustav Koennecke, 1887
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'Cinderella', c1850. Creator: Albert Henry Payne.
1848-54940623
Heros of the Trojan War: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon, woodcut from 1880
1848-49330277
Lucas Cranach paints Martin Luther, Renaissance, court painter, Saxony, easel, brush, rabbet palette, sitting, chair, studio, work, religion, Christianity, 16th century, historical illustration around 1860
6176-65990783
Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy; In the Garden of Earthly Paradise
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Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy "Purgatory and Paradise"; Dante speaks with Pia de' Tolomei
1848-50215696
Sir Anthonis van Dyck, Antoon van Dyck, Anton van Dyck, Anthony van Dyck, 22 March 1599, 9 December 1641, was a Flemish painter and printmaker of the Flemish Baroque, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original
6145-51831076
Feed My Lambs (Pais mes brebis) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Feed My Lambs (Pais mes brebis), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (24.4 x 16.2 cm). European Art 1886-1894
1899-61458214
Ernst Heinrich Possart, from 1897 Bavarian personal nobility Ernst Ritter von Possart, 1841 - 1921, a German actor and stage manager, here as Richard the Third, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, colored.
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Samson pulling down the Temple of Dagon, god of the Philistines. Bible: Judges XVI. Mid-19th century chromolithograph