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Historical Scenes and Acts of Mercy

Illustrations showcasing significant historical events and acts of mercy, including the feeding of the hungry. Rich in detail and narrative.

Kneeld man with a woman in the midst of soldiers, Reinier Vinkeles (I), 1800 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving the soldier; the soldier's life. kneeling figure
Kneeld man with a woman in the midst of soldiers, Reinier Vinkeles (I), 1800 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving the soldier; the soldier's life. kneeling figure
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Title page for the yearbook Tesselschade, 1840 The image shows a landscape in which a man kneels before a lady on a horse In addition to the woman and man, other figures are also depicted in the landscape, Title page for the Tesselschade yearbook, print maker: Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), publisher: Hendrik Frijlink, print maker: Netherlands, publisher: Amsterdam, 1840, paper, etching, h 139 mm × w 101 mmFour episodes from national history, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print Uncuted magazine with four performances from national history. From left to right: Willem II, Duke van Gelre kneels for Charles V of Habsburg; Philip II, King of Spain on a boat; Margaretha van Parma as governors of the Netherlands; Philip II, King of Spain succeeds Charles V of Habsburg. Amsterdam paper etching historical events and situations. historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)Lesueur, Jacques-Philippe (n.1757-D.1830-12-04), low relief representing the death of General Desaix. (Dummy title). Feather, brown ink and gray wash on paper. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.Relief with a Roman emperor that leaves for hunting; Roman sculpted reliefs; Icone et segment (...). Relief with a Roman emperor that leaves for hunting. The emperor stands next to his horse and wears a rocket. On the right a young hunter and a dog. Links two men with spears. Text in Latin in undermarge. Print is part of an album.Mayor Aerschot protected by Ryhove, 1577 Gy, so the hero speaks, can find a schlord in me: (title on object) Scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584 (series title ), Aerschot, mayor of Ghent, is protected by François van Ryhove against the rebellious inhabitants who want to fight him with clubs and swords, 1577. This print is part of a series of 24 prints with scenes from the life of Prince Willem I, 1568-1584 and is an illustration for nineteenth singing, Ghent, François van Ryhove, Theodoor Koning (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1785, paper, engraving, h 273 mm × w 217 mmArchaeological monuments in the Krakow treasury, from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1859-1915; Epkowski, Ludwik (1829-1905), Weekly Ilustrowany (Warsaw; magazine; 1859-1939); 1859-1915 (1893-00-00-1900-00-00);Chiron learns Hercules archery, Jean Pesne, After Nicolas Poussin, 1678 print France paper etching / engraving Chiron instructing HerculesScene from the story of Don Quixot, Johann Christoph Weigel (attributed to), in or after 1725 print Bottom left: No 112. Numbered below: 1. Nuremberg paper etching Don Quixote. birds. dogEed van Publius Cornelius Scipio.Publius Cornelius Scipio disrupts a consultation of young men. With the sword above his head, he explains an oath in front of the company. All men close to him.The coat of arms of the city of Paris / the municipal body, the officers and the militia of Paris. (IT)Victory of scipio on king syphax. A battle with soldiers on foot and on horseback. On the right in the background The walls of a city from which people are watching. A line of Italian text in undermarge.Apotheosis of Jean Racine, Normand Fils, After Pierre Prud'Hon, 1819 print Paris paper etching Historical Persons. 'Genio' (ripe). Melpomene (One of the Muses); 'Melpomene' (ripe). Immortality, Imperishableness; 'immortalità' (ripe)Sezeter with a guitar surrounded by Five figures; Under a coat of Meetin; The work of Antoine Watteau, painter of the king and his academy roil painting and sculpture (...). .Hanenfight, Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert, After 1632 - 1670 print A woman and four men watch how two roosters fight each other. With four -line Latin caption. paper engraving cock-fightingFontein van de Muzen, Louis de Châtillon, After Charles Le Brun, 1672 - 1686 print A fountain in the form of a cave with Apollo and the Muzen. There is a river god in the cave. Paris paper etching ornamental fountain. Apollo and the Muses, Apollo Musagetes VersaillesChairman Midderigh on its way to the national meeting, 1798; Midderigh C.S. Enter Zig to the National Hôtel, in the morning. 22 Jan. 1798. Chairman Johannes Henricus Midderigh runs through the gate on his way to the national meeting, January 22, 1798.Dirk Willemsz rescues his pursuer from the water, Philippus Velijn, after Joseph-Denis Odevaere, 1819 print The Baptist Martelaar Dirk Willemsz rescues, after he has escaped from prison, his pursuer from the water. Netherlands paper etching / engraving saving a person from drowningDepicts 'The Displacement of the Changers from the Temple' by Albrecht Altdorfer, created as a copper engraving print around 1519, showing figures and architectural composition.Entrance in Paris, of S. Mr. Charles X, the property loves, / on September 27, 1824. (IT). Cartoon on the English in 1780. An Englishman, possibly king George III, is sick in bed. A pharmacist is ready to serve the king with a shredder a lovement, but is stopped by an American. The Dutch holder holds a pot in which the Englishman is appropriate. On the leaf under the plate the declaration of the figures 1-18 in Dutch and French.Spartan Virtue, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, Young man in armor shown receiving shield from woman seated in armory. Staircase connects room with big hall. Framed by pencil square, whose lines divided into six parts., Italy, 1811, figures, Drawing, DrawingSatire X. (title registered) | Works by Boileau (IFF 95). (YOUR)Honora Dominium de tua substantia, and vino torcularia tua redundabunt (title on object), Women and a naked boy carry grapes to a large barrel, where the grapes are pressed. In the background on the left a man picking grapes., Harvest, vintage, grape harvest, Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (mentioned on object), 1704, paper, etching, h 247 mm × w 410 mmOrgy of bodyguards in the Opera Room of Versailles, October 1, 1789 Jules-Adolphe Chauvet (born in 1828) (according to Prior). Orgy of bodyguards in the Opera Room of Versailles, October 1, 1789. Ink scuis.Six performances from Lesage's Gil Blas de Santillane, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1783 print The performances are numbered at the top right and contain a caption with location. paper etching Literature. interior of the house. landscapes. disguise. robbery. night. drunkardThe Slide. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860); marketed by Chez M. Chabert (French, 19th century). Date: 1827-1828. Dimensions: 173 × 221 mm (image); 273 × 359 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Joke and serious from ParisAllegory on the recovery of Willem V as Stadholder, 1787. Orangistic allegory on the recovery of Stadholder Willem V in 1787. The Stadholder standing on a pedestal embraces the freedom and receives religion the oracle leaf (the Bible). Right the virtues accept caution, justice and strength approving. In the foreground, the envy is defeated by a national hero and the Dutch lion, on the left in the background the temple of honor and virtue. With caption of two columns.We are oathing to avenge his death (IT)Seller of blowball, Jacques-Philippe le Bas, After François Boucher, c. 1736 print print maker: Parisafter design by: Francepublisher: ParisFrance paper etching / engraving 'cris de Paris', cries of London, etc.. street-trader. bellows. umbrella. container made of plant material other than wood: basketJosef Mathias von Trenkwald depicted Emperor Maximilian meeting Maria von Burgund in Ghent in 1447 using pencil in 1854, showing figures, gestures, and setting.The murder of Mayor Beernt Proys in his bed, in Utrecht, 1425. Mayor Beernt Proys in Utrecht, lying in his bed killed, 1425. Design for a print.JOHN Jan Sadeler (1500-1600). Iohannes. Burin, 17th century.Market scene with arguing women, draughtsman: Samuel van Hoogstraten, (mentioned on object), 1650, paper, pen, brush, h 200 mm × w 147 mmOld man for a tent surrounded by putti, two women and three men. .Bazuinen and National servants, Plate 31, 1615 - 1620 print Bazuinen and National servants, plate 31. Procession of Charles V with the Pope Clemens VII in Bologna after his coronation to Keizer, 24 February 1530. print maker: Mechelenpublisher: The Hague paper etching / engraving festivities (+ parade, pageant, cavalcade ~ festive activities) BolognaModern prints / A. lesrel / Venetian dancerGeneral Reinforcement, Decoration on Kadijksplein, 1795, Johannes van Dregt (Rejected Attribution), 1795 drawing Shield elevation of the freedom of freedom by French and Batavian soldiers and sailors. On the left the ready war fleet. Not used design for the decoration "general reinforcement" on the Kadijksplein in Amsterdam at the Alliance party on June 19, 1795. Netherlands paper. ink. chalk pen / brush land forces. navy. Freedom, Liberty; 'Libertà' (Ripa). other decorative structures (~ triumphal entry, etc.). decoration and illumination of streets, squares, etc. (~ triumphal entry, etc.). alliance, league, union, foedus. new ruler raised on the shield - BB - female ruler KadijkspleinDressing strings / six and twentieth plate. / Romans; Munchener plates. Leaf with 4 performances from different costumes at the Romans. Numbered in the middle of: Nro. 133. Numbered at the top right: 133.Two gift jug; VASES OU BURETTES A LA ROMAINE. Left side with the baptism of Christ in a medallion. Links from the gift jug is a basin or bowl.Hopman Ulrich or the print A guard asks a young man (Godefroy), who comes to visit his beloved (Sybille) secretly in the night for money. The young man puts his hand in his pocket. The bribery scene from the second company of the comedian 'Hopman Ulrich or the deceived guy' by Johan van Paffenrode (1661). In the comedy, the stingy character Ulrich is cheated by his wife Sybille, even though he lets her guard. Her lover Godefroy buys the guard. Amsterdam paper engraving comedy. bribery. night. guard duty, keeping sentry. candlestickThe Consultation 1820 France. Lithograph in black on white laid paper . Eugène DelacroixThe Laughing Audience / L'Audience Risant, c. 1761 Theater public, with the heads of three musicians from the orchestra in the foreground. Behind them a fence with the smiling audience spread over three rows behind it. Above them a balcony or lodge with two men and two women, the left of which is an orange saleswoman. A standing woman in the audience pulls the lord's coat in the lodge to offer a basket with oranges. The first edition was designed and engraved by William Hogarth and appeared in 1733. This colored print with caption is a later edition from around 1761. paper etching fashion plates. laughing. the audience ~ art performance. wig. head-gear (+ women's clothes). neck-gear ~ clothing (+ women's clothes). clothing for the upper part of the body (+ women's clothes). head-gear (+ women's clothes)Arab Chefs at the Nancy Theater (evening of December 10, 1844) (IT)Card 25 Weronika scarf, with: album with drawings depicting reliefs from the chapel of Kalwaria Ujazdowska unknownPhoto production of painting by Paul Delaroche: Cartons de l'Hemicycle du Palais des Beaux-Arts ..Prologue par F. Desnoyers , Puppet shows, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)Design for a Candelabra, Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702-1786, Pen and ink on paper, At top, a triangular plan. Below, sketch for figural detail holding one branch., Italy, ca. 1800, lighting, Drawing, DrawingThe Judgment of Midas, John Ogborn, 1725 - after 1801, William Hamilton, British, 1751 - 1801, Stipple engraving on paper, Midas sits in the center upon a throne and judges the musical abilities of Apollo and Marsyas. Nymphs witness the scene., England, 1801, Print, PrintMurder of the Chinese in Batavia, 1740, 1740 - 1784 drawing Murder of the Chinese in Batavia after the discovered betrayal, October 9, 1740. The burning house of the Chinese captain on the Gracht Roea Malaca, in front of the house is a pole with a snake. Design for a print. Northern Netherlands paper massacre ~ war Batavia