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Mythical and Elemental Themes

Artworks representing fantasy themes, mythological figures, and elemental concepts, showcasing dynamic compositions with expressive characters.

Léopold Armand Hugo (1828-1895), French painter and sculptor. Untitled. Copper engraving. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. gravure
Léopold Armand Hugo (1828-1895), French painter and sculptor. Untitled. Copper engraving. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. gravure
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Violin player and flautist, Jan van Somer, after Adriaen Brouwer, 1655 - 1700 print A violin player and a flautist make music together. paper one person playing string instrument (bowed). transverse flute
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Actinologia britannica London Van Voorst 1860 Great Britain corals sea anemones Earth Day marine animals Lophelia prolifera Peachia triphylla Sphenotrochus wrightii Zoanthus couchii Paracyathus taxilianus Phyllangia americana Balanophyllia regia Cyathina smithii Philip Henry Gosse, A vibrant underwater scene features a variety of marine life, showcasing intricate coral formations and a diverse array of sea creatures. Prominent elements include stylized shells, delicate sea fans, and clusters of anemones, all rendered with elaborate detail. The composition captures the beauty of oceanic biodiversity, inviting viewers to explore the textures and colors of life beneath the waves. Elements such as starfish and crustaceans add to the rich tapestry, creating a dynamic and engaging tableau of the underwater world.
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Dankbetuiging is wedge. Bauer, Kornél Révész, 1935 Ex Libris is part of cover with 64 ex Libris on 34 separate set -up sheets, a catalog and a text sheet. Budapest paper etching / drypoint satyrs, fauns, Sileni. toddler (male). flowers: rose
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Lithograph by Kenyon Cox for Scribner's illustrating 'The Last Quarter-Century in America,' showing figures, scenes, and visual narrative, created in 1895.
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Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, Amsterdam, Tresling & Comp., Opperdoes Alewijn, Pieter, Netherlands, Vorderman, Hendrik, Design for a monument to the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Scheveningen, 1813-1863, verso - stamped, Design for a monument for the fiftieth anniversary in 1863 of the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Scheveningen on 30 November 1813. Detail of the prince standing in a sloop with the Dutch flag in his hand, side view. Plate with the edition: Jhr. P. Opperdoes Alewijn, Remarks concerning the erection of a national memorial for November 1813, Utrecht 1863., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 483 mm, width 318 mm, Dutch, 1824-03-29 - 1897-05-05, print maker, printmaker, 1863 - 1863, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), Work conception, 1800-04-21 - 1875-03-09, after a design by, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher
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Stubbornness; Pertinacia; Emblematic figures. A man who threatens a lying woman with a dagger, possibly Tarquinius and Lucretia. The woman is defining her hands. Rule Latin text in undermarge.
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Etching by Christian Gottfried Schultze showing Ganymede being carried by Zeus in a mythological scene, created around 1770.
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Woman in bust with a hat hat on the head (TF)
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Hucu from Jaworów; Bart Omiejczyk, Edmund Ludwik (1885-1950); 1935 (1935-00-00-1935-00-00);
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Bella, Stefano della, Rebus on love, verso - stamped, Oval cartouche with a sphinx in the middle below. In the cartouche an Italian rebus on love. Some of the symbols used are putti, suns, a ring and a glove. The text to be solved is: Ove è amore è fede, Amore è solecito è secreto, Dove è amore è gelosia, Amore è cieco e vede di lontano, L'Amore passa il guanto e l'acqua li stivali, Amore, amore, tu sei la mia rovina., print, ornament print, prints, height 288 mm, width 204 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, etching
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Vanitasstilleven with a flower -brown skull, Pieter Schenk (I), 1670 - 1713 print Vanitasstilleven with a flower -brown skull, portrait album, precious candlestick with extinguished candle, a barrel and soap bubbles. In the margin a quote from Horace 'Mors Ultima Lenea Rerum Est' ('Death is the finish line'). Amsterdam paper engraving soap-bubble. 'Vanitas' still life. skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'
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Charles Meryon, Le stryge (The Vampire), 1853 Le stryge (The Vampire)
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M Rosenshield von Paulin, Wall Paper, c 1937 Wall Paper
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Le Nouveau Parnasse satyrique. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, no date. Prints; etchings. Etching
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Mask with shell -shaped eyes and a shell between fruit bunches on the forehead, Frans Huys, After Cornelis Floris (II), 1555 print One of 14 magazines from a series of 18 entitled 'Pourtraicture Ingenieuse de Plusieurs Façons de Masques ...'. The title page is missing. print maker: Netherlands (possibly)after design by: Netherlands (possibly)publisher: Antwerp (possibly) paper engraving
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Le Magot (Małpa Makak), W: Draw at the pen by Huet fils. Designer of the Cabinet of Natural History 1810 Has, nicolas (ca 1770 1830)
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Eve's dream - Satan aroused (from John Milton's Paradise Lost), 1823-1827, England, by John Martin.
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Gold earring. Nike driving a two horse chariot. Greek, 4th century, B.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Earrings, Chariots, Goddesses, Horses, Nike Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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A draft depicting a putto carrying an ink barrel, drawn in red ink, dating from 1700-1800 by an anonymous artist.
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Plat decoration: Cartouche in frame of rolling work with figures, 1557 print Cartouche in a frame of rolling work in which women, men and children sit. In the middle of a man sitting on a lying lion. At the top a woman with a urban crown on the head. In the middle in white frame the text: IOB 19. Novi ego quod vin / dex meus vivit ... quod / est unique desiderium meum. Belongs to series consisting of a title page, a text top and 14 magazines with grotesken with rolling work, saters, garlands, trophies, animals and fantasy scenes. Netherlands (possibly) paper etching ornaments ~ art. scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament
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Mask with sagged cheeks and a mustache, sitting in the hair grasses, Frans Huys, after Cornelis Floris (II), 1555 print One of 14 magazines from a series of 18 entitled 'Pourtraicture Ingenieuse de Plusieurs Façons de Masques ...'. The title page is missing. print maker: Netherlands (possibly)after design by: Netherlands (possibly)publisher: Antwerp (possibly) paper engraving
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Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550), Ornament with a Mask, 1543, engraving
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Sidewall - Fragment (France); block-printed on handmade paper; 17.5 x 16 cm (6 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
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V. Špála: Eva. Literární poznámky o lidskosti (cont'd). Špála, Václav. apek, Josef, 1887-1945. Periodicals. 1911 - 1913. General Research Division. Modernism (Art), Czech literature , 20th century, Art, Arts , Czechoslovakia
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Allegory on the peace of Amiens, 1802. Allegory on the Peace of Amiens, on March 27, 1802, which put an end to the war between Great Britain and the French Republic, Spain and the Batavian Republic. Centrally, peace floats over the world where there is still war. She has an olive branch in hand and looks at heaven with a momentary look. At the bottom of war and murder, right lies a family for violence.
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Allegorical wall painting of summer from the east of the atrium of Regio IX.V.11. She carries a sickle and wheat. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei (The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii), Leipzig, 1881.
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Ex libris van Gianni Mantero, Michel Fingesten, 1907 - 1943 paper drypoint woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. archer's weapons: arrow. penis, phallus
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Figures, 1908, by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916).
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Print on the occasion of the ten -year anniversary of the General Dutch Diamond Workers' Association in 1904, Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1904 print A man in work clothing watches over a city at night. Under the scene a poem by Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk: 'Men and women, now sleeps without fear: a loyal guard is watching, also in the night (...) in beauty and strength they are reborn themselves, their unity those it all. paper night. guard duty, keeping sentry
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Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi. Artist: Henry Weston Keen (British, 1899-1935 Walberswick, Suffolk). Author: John Webster (British, ca. 1580-ca. 1634). Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15.6 x 24.1 cm)sheet: 22 x 14 5/8 in. (55.9 x 37.1 cm). Date: ca. 1930.Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head-a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s-Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930). After Keen's early death from tuberculosis, The Twenty-One Gallery in London held a memorial exhibition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Sculpture, probably part of a Hindu temple in the area of Jambi, Rawas district, Sumatra Island. Indonesia. Drawing by Emile Therond (1821- 1883) Across the island of Sumatra 1877 by Daniel David Veth (1850 - 1885) Le Tour du Monde 1880
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Image of the painting of animals and plants made by Melchior d'hondecoeter between 1660 and 1695, as a loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in the Centraal Museum (Agnietenstraat 1) in Utrecht.
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Eagle-headed figure, (N.W. palace, Nimroud) still image. Illustrations. 1849. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Assyrians, Architectural decorations & ornaments, Wings (Anatomy), Gods , Assyrian, Rites & ceremonies , Assyria, Ceremonial objects , Assyria
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Design for Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper, Vertical format. Variation of design 1901-39-3181. Putto raises tablet with inscription 'METAS' tasio near monument at left. No hermae shown, but upon entablature lie wreaths and frieze inscribed with names 'ORFEO, CIMAROSA, ARISTOFANE, GOLDONI, SOFFOCLE, ALFIERI.' Inscription below: 'Teatro delle muse.' Figures fill the scene, an angel in flight blows a horn at upper right. From the occulus at the top of the dome shines a beam of light onto a bust of a male figure being crowned by a winged figure., Italy, ca. 1815, theater, Drawing, Drawing
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Ex libris dr. W. Erhardt: Non Frangor; Greiner, Otto (1869-1916); 1900 (1900-00-00-1900-00-00);Erhardt, Wolfgang (1819-1906), Erhardt, Wolfgang (1819-1906) - Ekslibris, JugendStil, Partage Plus, Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, acts, male, male, German graphics Tools), blacksmiths, forms, modernism (style), men, blacksmith hammers, German (culture), work, secession (style)
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Etching by Christian Gottfried Schultze depicting the mythological scene of Ganymede's abduction, created around 1770.
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Sai has white Brazil throat (Małpka Kapucynka), W: Draw at the pen by Huet fils. Designer of the Cabinet of Natural History 1810 Has, nicolas (ca 1770 1830)
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Copper engraving by Cornelis Galle the Younger illustrating the saying 'Death is at the end of all things' by Horace, created between 1627 and 1678.
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Charles Meryon, French (1821-1868), Le stryge (The Vampire), 1853, etching
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Tahitian Woman, headpiece for Le sourire. Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1899-1900. Dimensions: 104 × 187 mm (image); 120 × 201 mm (sheet). Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Skeletons and skinned, Domenico del Barbiere, c. 1540 - C. 1550 print paper engraving (human) skeleton. anatomical model of the muscles, muscle-man, 'écorché'. anatomical model of the skeletal system
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Pieta /Ma A /; Skoczylas, W Adys Aw (1883-1934); 1916 (1916-00-00-1916-00-00);Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, Witke-Jeżewski
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Mask Attributed to Stefano della Bella Italian. Mask 376684
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Metal Toy Bank: Boy on Bar. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 40.7 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.) Original IAD Object: 9 1/2" high; base: 5" square. Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lew Tower.
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Hülsen Julius, Bogensglagstein, Saalgasse 36, Frankfurt/Main. (From: Stone masks at Bämälern Alt-Frankfurt, ed. By Julius Hülsen, Frankfurt/Main 1905.) (1905-1905): View. Light printing on paper, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (including scan edges)
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In a room, a hairless animal, a bunch of asparagus, a round bread, two cuttlefish, two mullets in a basket and two shells, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Cepparoli from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 62, 1757-1787, Naples.
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'Hovering Angel', 18th century, (1928). Artist: Follower of Tiepolo.
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Metal barrel worn and crowned by figures, anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1885 photograph photographic support albumen print sculpture
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Triumphwagen from Emperor Maximilian I, Hans Guldenmund, After Albrecht Dürer, 1609 The large triumphal car in honor of Emperor Maximilian I upon his death on January 12, 1519. Second magazine with the right part of the triumphal wagon with the virtues ratio and Fidentia. print maker: Germanypublisher: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper letterpress printing chariot, triumphal car
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Allegory of Transience, Harmen de Mayer, after Wallerant Vaillant, 1651 - 1701 print An allegory of transience with a extinguished candle and a skull on a book. Amsterdam paper etching 'Vanitas' still life
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Carved Lion's Head. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29.9 x 22.2 cm (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 7 3/4" high; 5 5/8" wide; 5 3/4" deep. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Vera Van Voris.
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Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 10 (recto). Dedicatee: Catherine de Bourbon (French, 1558-1604). Designer: Federico de Vinciolo (Italian, active Paris, ca. 1587-99). Dimensions: Overall: 9 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (24 x 16.5 cm). Publisher: Jean Le Clerc , Paris. Date: 1603.Designed by Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, published by Jean Le Clerc, Paris, dedicated to Catherine de Bourbon, French, 1558-1604.From top to bottom, and left to right:Design is printed upon a grid and illustrates 2 winged cherubim standing on clouds that hold a chalice that has a floating cross above it. Below the cherubim is a landscape of houses and trees. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Italy, Raimondi, Marcantonio, Personification of Death, verso - stamped, Death as a winged skeleton with a scythe in its hand., print, prints, width 80 mm, height, 49 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1500 - 1549, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Italian, 1482 - 1534
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A Way of Flying, from Disparates, published as plate 13 in Los Proverbios (Proverbs). Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828); published by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Spanish, founded 1744). Date: 1815-1817. Dimensions: 218 x 325 mm (image); 245 x 354 mm (plate); 331 x 497 mm (sheet). Etching and aquatint in brown-black on ivory wove paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Satyr Mask with an Indented Snout and a Wreath of Oak Leaves, from Divers Masques ca. 1635-45 François Chauveau French From a series of nineteen plates with grotesque masks dedicated to Jean de Leins, goldsmith to the Queen of England and published by Jacques van Merlen in Paris. The plates are not numbered and appear in various orders.. Satyr Mask with an Indented Snout and a Wreath of Oak Leaves, from Divers Masques. Divers Masques. François Chauveau (French, Paris 1613-1676 Paris). ca. 1635-45. Etching. Published by Jacques Van Merlen (Flemish, Antwerp 1616-1682 Paris)
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Robert Pohle, Carousel Calliope Figure, c 1939 Carousel Calliope Figure
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To Nature and yourself appeal, Engraving by William Hogarth;18th century
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Copy of the Title Page for "Inclytae Regiae Societati Londinensi". William Henry Fox Talbot; English, 1800-1877. Date: 1835-1845. Dimensions: 19.5 × 14.1 cm (image); 22.2 × 18.4 cm (paper). Salted paper print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Six Etchings: Frontispiece, 1895. Paul Gachet (French, 1828-1909). Etching; sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.); platemark: 21 x 17.1 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.).