Mythological and Allegorical Scenes

Engravings depicting scenes from mythology, featuring dynamic figures and emotional themes, highlighting classical narratives and artistic creativity.

The Genius of Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609-1664, Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691, Etching on paper, Vertical etching of the genius of the printer is represented by the figure of a young man, almost nude, seated at right, facing left in profile. Before him is an altar dedicated to the Goddess of Painting. He holds a trumpet in his left hand; a book in the other on which appears the inscription: 'Genium Jo. Bendicti Castilionis Ianuen-Inv. Fe.' At the left are two children, one beating a drum; the other holding a basket filled with doves. Above, a genius blows the trumpet, while pointing to the crown of immortality. At lower right, an inscription dedicated to M. de Mernhe, seigneur de Clootvyck. Center below: address of G.J. de Rossi and date., Italy, 1648, figures, Print, Print

The Abduction of Dejanira, at center in the arms of the centaur Nessus, Hercules at right shooting the centaur with an arrow, Achelous reclining with his cornucopia at lower right ca. 1530-61 Battista Franco Italian. The Abduction of Dejanira, at center in the arms of the centaur Nessus, Hercules at right shooting the centaur with an arrow, Achelous reclining with his cornucopia at lower right 370190

The Genius of Castiglione ca. 1645-47 (published 1648) Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) Italian In Castigliones most famous etching, a reclining figure holds a book inscribed: “The genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione of Genoa [who invented and made [this.” The print was published in Rome in 1648 by Gian Giacomo de Rossi, who dedicated it to Matthijs van de Merwede, a Dutch nobleman who spent time in Italy between 1647 and 1650. The figure is not a self-portrait of the artist; the composition refers to artistic fame in a general sense. The many details are rich with meaning. For example, fecundity is represented by the basket of poultry and the rabbit, and creativity by the artists palette and the sheet of music.. The Genius of Castiglione 393719

Rest on the Return fromEgypt. Engraver: Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish, 1570-1629 After: Cornelis Cort, Dutch, 1533?-1578 After: Federico Barocci, Italian, 1528-1612

Battle of Cascina. Scene from the Battle of Cascina between Florence and Pisa. Florentine soldiers have naked bathed in a river and hurried back on behalf of the sudden impending army of Pisa. Under in the middle, the arms are visible from a soldier who takes care of the shore. On the right in the background a tamboer and two soldiers.

Samson and Delilah. Artist: Georg Pencz (German, Wroclaw ca. 1500-1550 Leipzig). Dimensions: Sheet: 1 7/8 × 3 1/16 in. (4.8 × 7.8 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Apocalyptic Woman, from The Apocalypse 1511 Albrecht Dürer German. The Apocalyptic Woman, from The Apocalypse 336575

Venus gives Amor Orders to pierce Pluto's Hart with an arrow, Cornelis Cort, After Frans Floris (I), 1565 print In the foreground on the left is Venus who points Amor to Pluto who drives in the air in his victory car. Cupido focuses an arrow on his heart. paper engraving Pluto in love with Proserpina. Cupid shooting a dart at Venus' order

Paris's dream; Paris's opinion. Paris dressed as a knight in a harness, sleeping on the ground at a fountain. Mercurius is with him who appeals to him in his dream. The goddesses Juno, Minerva and Venus are standing around them. A woman at the fountain holds the golden ball.

Kurd Christoph von Schwerin is dying dying by the goddess of victory, Christian Bernhard Rode, c. 1765 print paper etching historical persons. armour. crowning the victor with laurel. Victory (+ personification)

Italy, Rosa, Salvator, Scylla flees from Glaucus, verso - stamped, The sea nymph Scylla flees from Glaucus who on the left with a beard and a writhing fish tail stretches out his arms to her. Glaucus was a fisherman who, after eating magic herbs, turned into a sea centaur and fell in love with Scylla., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 350 mm, width 233 mm, Italian, 1615-06-20 - 1673-03-15, print maker, printmaker, 1661 - 1661, paper, papier, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, plaattoon

Vulcan's Smidse. Landscape with vulcanus and his employees at work around an anvil.

Etching by Willem van der Leeuw from 1625-1665 depicting Daniel in the lions' den, showing Daniel, lions, and symbolic biblical elements in a European 17th-century artistic style.

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli 1628 before Polifilo Giancarli Italian Vertical panel design with an acanthus rinceau with various figures. The lower half shows a satyr, a putto and a male hybrid creature with musical instruments. On the top right a putto is depicted standing on the acanthus scroll, looking down, while holding a bird-like monster with a long neck, around which a snake has wound its body.. Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli 410957

Bacchus, Ceres a Venus, J. Kuype (Prentmaker), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1862 print The Bacchus, adorned with vineyards, has hit its left arm around Venus's shoulder and holds her a bunch of grapes that Amor reaches. For Venus, Ceres is in the hair with corners, a sickle in the hand and the horn of abundance under the arm. The image is a imagination of the saying 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus' (without Ceres and Bacchus Venus would freeze). paper engraving / etching 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty. Ceres, patroness of agriculture. 'sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus'. Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Jason and the Dragon 1663-64 Salvator Rosa Italian. Jason and the Dragon 397937

Two scenes from the story of Amor and Psyche; Paradigmata Graphics variorum artificum. Above: Psyche spends amor in his sleep. Below: Amor woke up Psyche through his arrow and red hair from her fatal sleep.

Hercules in cacus. .

Cadmus sows the teeth of the dragon, 1728 Minerva dedicates Cadmus to sow the teeth that he has just killed. On the left, Cadmus pulls the teeth of the dragon out of his mouth. After he has sown it, armed men appear from the ground. They will fight each other until five men remain who will help Cadmus found thebes. Two times two verses in Latin under the performance. The print is part of an album. print maker: Haarlemafter design by: Haarlempublisher: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving Minerva dedicates Cadmus to sow the teeth that he has just killed. On the left, Cadmus pulls the teeth of the dragon out of his mouth. After he has sown it, armed men appear from the ground. They will fight each other until five men remain who will help Cadmus found thebes. Two times two verses in Latin under the performance. The print is part of an album. print maker: Haarlemafter design by: Haarlempublisher: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving

Orpheus en Eurydice, Agostino Carracci, c. 1590 - c. 1595 print Orpheus tries to save his beloved Bosnimf Eurydice from the underworld. Right flames that take off from the underworld. In the foreground on the left is the violin of Orpheus. print maker: Italypublisher: Venice paper engraving Orpheus and Eurydice. when leaving the underworld, Orpheus looks back and loses Eurydice for ever

Allegory of transcience (Vanitas), Jan de Groot, Johannes de Boekhorst, 1745

On the designation of the angel, Tobias cuts the fish into pieces; Story of Tobias. Tobias is kneeling on the shore of a river. The angel instructs him how to cut the fish into pieces. The dog is behind him.

Allegory with general and gods, Bernardino May, 1625 - 1676 print A general with command staf in the right hand drives over the corpses from casualties to the foreground. In the background, in a mountainous landscape, a equestrian fight. In the air various gods and goddesses, such as Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, Diana. Italy paper etching battle. fighting. male Roman deities. female Roman deities

Juno changes Callisto into a bear; Ovidius' metamorphoses; Reflections by P. Ovidius Naso. After Callisto Jupiters Son Arcas has birth, Juno turns her into a bear, out of anger about the release of her husband's adultery. Left behind Juno peacock trolley. Under the show twice two fresh rules in Latin. The print is part of an album.

The fall, Anonymous, c. 1550 - c. 1600 print Adam and Eva are under the tree of knowledge. Eva takes the apple from the snake and gives an apple to Adam. Several animals are around them. Italy paper engraving Eve takes the fruit from the serpent (or the tree) in the presence of Adam (who may be trying to stop her)

Nereïde on car drawn by hippocampuses, surrounded by Putti, François Bignon (attributed to), after Zacharie Heince, 1630 - 1720 print France paper etching / engraving bony fishes: hippocampus - FF - fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa). Nereids, daughters of Nereus; sea-nymphs. fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Italy, Rosa, Salvator, Jason and the dragon, verso - stamped, Jason pours Medea's magic potion over the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece., print, prints, height 342 mm, width 215 mm, Italian, 1615-06-20 - 1673-03-15, print maker, printmaker, 1663 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, plate tone, Work conception, after own design by

. Minerva and Mercury arms suspension before he will fight Medusa. Minerva gives him her shield and Mercury binds his winged sandals at the feet of Perseus. At the bottom of the margin two two-year verses in Latin.

Depicts bathing nymphs in a Clair-obscur woodcut by Ugo da Carpi using three plates in 1526/1527, showing female figures and water landscape.

Van den Wijngaerde, Frans. Samson killing the lion, according to Rubens (Dutuit 17, p. 31). Crois, 17th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. XVIIEM XVIIth XVII 17th 17th 17th century, engraving

Scipio grants Clementia to prisoners, Battista Franco, 1520 - 1561 print The Roman General Scipio Africanus is on his throne on the left for a drapery. While he is honored by an angel, he grants clementia to two prisoners who are brought before him by his soldiers. Venice paper etching (story of) P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major

. The lost son as a pork powder sitting under a tree.

The Labors of Hercules: Capture of the Oxen of the Geryones in Erythia. Gabriel Salmon; French, active 1504-1542. Date: 1523-1533. Dimensions: 197 × 148 mm (image/plate); 253 × 175 mm (sheet). Woodcut on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Melager gives the head of the Caledonian Zwijn to Atalanta, Philippe Lambert Joseph Spruyt, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1747 - 1801 print Melager offers Atalanta the head of the wild boar. A hunting dog jumps up against Melager, in the background a boy blows the hunting horn. In the background is one of the phuriën, as a harbinger of the tragic end of Melager. Ghent paper etching Meleager Gives the Head of the Boar to Attalanta. Furies, Dirae (Erinyes), eemendides; 'Furie' (ripe)

Michaël and the fall of the rebellious angels, Jacob de Wit, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1705 - 1754 print The archangel Michael, in one hand a shield with the symbol of God the Father and in his other hand a lightning bolt, throws the rebellious angels from heaven together with other angels. Amsterdam paper etching the Archangel Michael (and other angels) casting the rebel angels out of heaven Carolus Borromeuskerk

Creation of EVA; Design drawings for the series of engravings "the power of death". Design for a print.

Sater and man who is bitten by lion; Disegni Varii. The lower body of the man who is bitten is running out in a leaf drink with flowers.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Ecstasy of Saint Mary Magdalene, 1506 The Ecstasy of Saint Mary Magdalene

Fantasy bird and ointments; Q Neu Inventierte Vorstellunge von Stein und Muschel Werck Mit Chinesischen figures, quartersirty theil / quatriema livre de Formes Rocailles et Cartels Ornés the Figures Chinois. In the middle is a fantasy bird, surrounded by seed beads. On the right kneels an Eastern man. On the left is an Eastern man with a parasol and a third figure is bent over a rocaille. On the top left is a dragon.

Diana en Actaeon, anonymous (possibly), after Giulio Bonasone, 1556 print During the hunt Prince Actaeon caught the goddess Diana and her nymphs during bathing. They bathe for a ruin with antique sculptures. As a punishment, Diana gives him a deer meadow. In the background on the right actaeon, turned into a deer, which is torn out by his own hunting dogs. Under the performance four banderollen with Italian text. Italy paper engraving Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193). Actaeon as a stag is devoured by his own dogs. Diana bathing with her nymphs

Jason a Draak, Carl Friedrich Holtzmann, After Salvator Rosa, 1765 print Print is part of an album. Dresden paper etching fight with the dragon; Jason sprinkles a drug in its eyes, possibly assisted by Medea

Venus et Adonis. Artist: Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence); Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (French, 1595-1676). Dedicatee: Louis XIV, King of France (French, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1638-1715 Versailles). Patron: Commissioned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin (Italian, Piscina 1602-1661 Vincennes). Publisher: Published by Henri Le Gras (French). Date: 1644. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Boreas and Oreithyia, Cornelis Schut (I), 1618 - 1655 print Boreas flies away with the desperate Oreithyia in his arms. Putti flinging around them. paper counterproof Boreas abducting Orithyia

God blames Adam and Eva their disobedience, Antonio Tempesta, After Rafaël, After Nicolaes de Bruyn, After Maerten de Vos, 1565 - 1630 print The angry God the Father floats on clouds on the left. On the right are Adam and Eva. In the foreground on the left a unicorn. Print Maker: RomeAir Design by: Vatican City paper etching Temptation and Fall (scenes with both Adam and Eve)

The Sudarium Held by OneAngel. Artist: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

The Holy Family Adored by Angels (The Large Nativity). Dimensions: plate: 39.5 x 28 cm (15 9/16 x 11 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bartolomeo Biscaino.

Narcissus en Echo, Gérard Audran, Benoît Audran (I), Jean Audran, After Nicolas Poussin, 1650 - 1756 print print maker: Franceprint maker: Franceprint maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper engraving / etching Narcissus changed into a narcissus: when Narcissus is pining away for the love of his image reflected from the water, he is changed into a narcissus (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 510). (story of) Narcissus

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones ca. 1515-25 Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) Italian. Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones 336574

unknown, Schut, Cornelis (I), Boreas and Oreithyia, verso lower left - stamped, Boreas flies away with the desperate Oreithyia in his arms. Around them fly blowing putti., print, prints, height 243 mm, width 328 mm, South Netherlands, 1597-05-13 - 1655-04-29, print maker, printmaker, 1618 - 1655, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after a design by, granter of privilege

Pan and Syrinx Artist's working dates 1550-1599 Germany. Known for his lustful appetite, Pan preyed upon hapless nymphs. When Pan pursued her to a riverís edge, the skilled huntress Syrinx appealed to Artemis, goddess of chastity, who transformed her into the surrounding river reeds to save her. Panís frustrated sigh sounded across the hollow reeds, which he then fashioned into the set of pipes that became his attribute. This 16th-century German drawing references details from book one of Ovidís Metamorphoses such as the quiver Syrinx grasps as she escapes ìWhen Pan thought he now had Syrinx, found that instead of the nymphís body he only held reeds from the marsh; and, while he sighed there, the wind in the reeds, moving, gave out a clear, plaintive sound. Charmed by this new art and its sweet tones the god said ëThis way of communing with you is still left to me.íî. Pen and black ink on tan laid paper, tipped onto tinted laid paper . Georg Wechter

Cartoon on the French, 1674, 1877 - 1879 print Reproduction of a cartoon on the French after closing the peace between the Republic and England, 1674. A fleeing rooster (France) is picked in the comb by an eagle (Germany). On the right, a Spaniard strings a rooster on his sword to roast, also a Dutchman who puts a rooster in the cooking pot. Bottom left a cartouche with a verse of 6 lines in Dutch. print maker: Netherlandsafter print by: Northern Netherlands paper political caricatures and satires

Judgment of Paris, Zacharias Dolendo (attributed to), 1580 - 1596 print In a forest landscape, Pallas, Juno and Venus are opposed to Paris with shepherd's staff and a ram next to him. Above them, Amor floats with a bow and arch on Paris. Mercury is hidden in a tree on the right. In the lower margin a four -line Latin text. Amsterdam paper engraving the Judgement of Paris (Mercury present)

Vaandeldrager, Virgil, 1524 - 1562 print Nuremberg paper engraving / etching (military) standard-bearer. ranks in the army. the soldier; the soldier's life

Samson and Delilah ca. 1507 Lucas van Leyden Netherlandish. Samson and Delilah 364686

Putto sitting on a goat, anonymous, after Heinrich Aldegrever, 1512 - 1610 print Putto with a vase in his arms, sitting on a goat. Germany paper engraving ornaments ~ art. Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Goat

Archangel Michaël points Hagar a source, Johann Philipp Lemke (Possibly), 1641 - 1711 print paper etching an angel meets Hagar at the fountain on the way to Shur and persuades her to return

Battle of Aeneas and Turnus, Gerard de Lairesse, 1668 print Between Aeneas and Turnus. Turnus is already on the floor and looks anxiously at the sword that Aeneas picks him up. The print is part of a six -part series of prints with scenes from the mythological story of Dido and Aeneas. paper etching single combat of Turnus and Aeneas

Camillo Procaccini (Italian, c. 1555-1629), The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1590, etching on laid paper

Letter Q from Quaerite et inventive with justice; Ornamental alphabet; Nova alphati effictio. Ornamental letter Q from Quaerite et seizure (looking for and you will find) with the right-hand personification of justice. She holds scales, sword and a burning torch in her hands. On the left a naked woman with transit. In the middle of a Sater with fishing rod. The letter is further decorated with birds, Fruits Fruits, Weapent Profession and Fish. On verso verses in Latin and German. Print is part of an album.

La tentation de saint Antoine , Saints, Temptation, Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Psyche receives the jug with Proserpin's beauty, Anonymous, After Giulio Romano, 1509 - 1596 print Proserpina, the queen of the underworld, sitting on the three -headed dog Cerberus. She gives the jug filled with her beauty to Psyche that squeezes her. Two bearded men and two revenge goddesses (Emenids) watch. paper etching Psyche before Proserpina. Furies, dire (erinyes), Eumenides; "Furie '(Ripa)

Copper engraving and etching by Jacob Matthias Schmutzer around 1793 depicting Bacchus with his entourage, illustrating figures, gestures, and ritual setting.

Allegory of Arts and Sciences with four putti, Abraham Delfos, 1741 - 1820 print paper etching cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. (story of) Mercury (Hermes)

Hercules en Omphale, Léon Davement Stor Francesco Dimaticcio, 1540 - 1556 print paper engraving Hercules in love with Omphale; the hero is set to spin wool or to do other women's work among the servants, while Omphale wears his lion's skin and wields his club and bow

Copper engraving by Aegidius Sadeler the Younger, created in 1595, depicting the Father of Abraham with symbolic gestures and attributes in biblical narrative composition.

Mars and Venus / Vulcanus in the Smidse. Sheet with two prints. Left: Mars and Venus intimately kissed for a cave. Next to Mars is the little Amor. Right: Vulcanus at work in his Smidse, surrounded by anvil, oven and bellows. Amor stands his own arc to repairing left.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Pyrama and Thisbée. Thirty-second number of a suite of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 514; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Copper engraving by Antonie Wierix II from 1575-1591 illustrating the seven liberal arts. The artwork shows symbolic figures representing grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.

Rome, Sadeler, Johannes (II), Muziano, Girolamo, Cort, Cornelis, Landscape with John the Baptist, verso - stamped, Rolling river landscape with praying John the Baptist. Next to the kneeling figure lies a lamb., print, prent, prints, height 266 mm, width 1993 mm, Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1533 - 1578, after a print by, 1575 - 1665, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1528 - 1592-04-27, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, - 1665, publisher

The sons of Lara are slaughtered by the Moors, Antonio Tempesta, After Otto van Veen, 1612 print Explanatory numbers in the show. Caption in Spanish and Latin. print maker: Italypublisher: Antwerp paper etching tales and fairy tales. battle. the soldier; the soldier's life. warfare; military affairs (+ cavalry, horsemen)

Bacchus Operated by a Sater, Anonymous, 1600 - 1699 print Bacchus leaning against a wine barrel, while a saat plays its drinking bowl with wine. Italy paper etching satyr(s) (in general). bunch of grapes. wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket

Les grimpeurs (TheClimbers). Engraver: Agostino Musi, called Veneziano, Italian, ca. 1490-after 1536 After: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, Florence, 1475-1564

Postanovka Foksova biusta v Kantemirovskoi galeree The Patriot exalted. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1884 - 1890. Rare Book Division

Artist: Gabriel Salmon, French, 1504-1542, Hercules Slaying the ErymanthianBoar, ca.1528, Woodcut, sheet: 19.05 × 13.97 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/2in.), Made in France, French, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Oedipus and the Sphinx, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Oedipus at the entrance of the cave where the sphinx stops, a monster with the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle. She is on a spiral staircase that circles around the dead, naked bodies of two men and a woman. paper etching the corpse. staircase. Oedipus and the sphinx; he solves the riddle. hanging figure (by the arms, legs, etc.)

De Wijnpers, Joseph-Marie Vien (I), c. 1750 print Bacchantic scene in Frisian shape with baccians and saters. On the left is a wine press that is moved by various bacchanants. On the right, other figures pour wine in a bowl. Rome paper etching maenad(s), female bacchant(es). male bacchant(es). satyr(s) (in general). wine-press

Medoro and Angelica in a landscape. Medoro is sitting on the ground and the head of Angelica is in his lap. A wooded landscape with deer and a city in the background. Scene from Ludovico Ariosto's epic 'Orlando Furioso' (1532).

Fontainebleau, Primaticcio, Francesco, Bettou, Alexandre, Gallery of paintings in the ballroom at Fontainebleau, Paintings from the ballroom at the Château de Fontainebleau, Apollo and the Muses, Decoration of a pendentive. The print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 214 mm, width 361 mm, French, 1607 - 1693, print maker, printmaker, 1622 - 1693, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Italian, 1504-04-30 - 1570-09-14, after a painting by

The Nativity prints, etchings, works on paper

Delaune, The four elements, Personifications of the four elements, Water, verso - stamped, Neptune, drawn on his cart., print, prints, height 55 mm, width 67 mm, French, 1519 - 1583, print maker, printmaker, 1573 - 1580, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

The Betrayal (PassionSeries). Artist: Nicolaes de Bruyn, Flemish, 1571-1656 After: Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617

A woman seated among ruins. Additional, Vbi Inletabilitas ibi Virtus., 1601 - 1700. Etchings., Plate mark dimensions are 8 9/16 x 4 1/2 in. (21.7 x 11.5 cm); paper/sheet dimensions are also 8 9/16 x 4 1/2 in. (21.7 x 11.5 cm). The paper is cream laid

Design for a Frieze with a Grotesque Vase and Festoon with a Ram and Putto. 1550-1610 Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century Italian. Design for a Frieze with a Grotesque Vase and Festoon with a Ram and Putto. 341985

The angry woman; Scenes from daily life. A young woman with long, waving hair strikes a man, falling in front of her, with a spider skirts. Above them a devil sample. In the foreground a dog. Man and woman are dressed according to the fashion of approx. 1475-1485. This print is part of a series of twelve prints of a man and a woman with scenes from daily life, 6 indoors and 6 outdoors.

Reconciliation of Jakob and Esau, Zacharias Dolendo (Attributed to), after Karel van Mander (I), 1580 - 1596 print The Esau and Jakob brothers hug each other. Right behind Esau is his army. On the left the cattle and the kneeling women and children of Jakob. Under the show the title and four four -line verses in Latin. Reconstructed from two fragments. Northern Netherlands paper engraving the meeting between Esau and Jacob

Diana on her chariot, Christian Heckel, After Samuel Bottschild, 1651 - 1705 print paper etching offspring, companion(s), train etc. of Diana. (story of) Diana (Artemis). chariot, triumphal car. hoofed animals: deer. hunting dogs

Drunk saters / loved ones on the waterfront / orpheus enchants the animals with his music, monogrammist MP, 1680 - 1800 print Three performances on a leaf. Above: two drunk saters. Middle: two lovers on the waterfront. Below: Orpheus enchants the animals with his game on the Lier. Baccians attack him with arrows. paper engraving thiasos, i.e. Bacchus' revel-rout, bacchanal without Bacchus. Orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted

Hercules andCacus. Artist, attributed to: Gabriel Salmon, French, 1504-1542

Company in a forest with CHRIPTED TRAMEN, Daniël MEEWAARD (I), After Jacob Smies, 1802 - 1809 print A company of men and women in a forest. In the background figures with cut -off trees and left in the foreground a man with a saw and an ax at a lying tree trunk. Top right: pl. V. bottom right: p. 179. Haarlem paper etching political caricatures and satires. trees

Chalk drawing by Antonio Marinetti showing the death of a bishop, using white highlights on gray paper to depict figure, posture, and composition.

The saint Hieronymus, the Pope and two putti, Jacopo Palma (Il Giovane), 1554 - 1611 print The saint Hieronymus with a book sitting in the light, in addition a pope sitting in the shade, and two putti in the foreground. paper etching the monk and hermit Jerome (Hieronymus); possible attributes: book, cardinal's hat, crucifix, hour-glass, lion, skull, stone. pope. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Saint Jerome in Penitence, c. 1496-1497, Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528, 12 3/16 x 8 13/16 in. (30.96 x 22.38 cm) (sheet, cut close), Engraving, Germany, 15th-16th century

John the Baptist in the wilderness. John the Baptist sitting on a stone in the wilderness. He picks fruit with his right hand, with the other he catches water. A lamb at his feet.

Leda and De Zwaan, Cornelis Bos (Possibly), After Enema Vico, After Michelangelo, in or after 1546 print The naked Leda is on a cloth on the floor. Between her legs Jupiter in the form of a swan. On the right a river. paper engraving Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and Leda

Archangel Michaël in fight with the dragon, Anonymous, After Guido Reni, 1595 - 1692 print The Archangel Michaël tramples the dragon (the devil). Italy paper etching the Archangel Michael fighting the dragon (devil, Satan)

Offer Van Abraham, Jean Mignon, After Luca Penni, 1543 - c. 1545 print paper etching when Abraham has his hand raised to kill Isaac, God or the hand of God restrains Abraham's hand

The circumcision: small plate, anonymous, after Rembrandt van Rijn, after 1630 print paper etching story of Noah

Faun Fighting a Snake. Although the inscription indicates Hercules’, the pointed ears of the figure reveal him to be a faun (forest god). The engraving is based on a drawing by Andrea Mantegna in the British Museum collection, in London. Besides following the master’s design, the anonymous engraver also emulated his robust style of drawing with thick, closely placed parallel lines.

Landscape with two naked sleeping women and fantasy animals on shore at water with burning building; Dream of Raphael.

Mother with child and a guardian angel, Jean Jacques II Lagrenée, c. 1770 - c. 1810 print paper etching Madonna: i.e. Mary with the Christ-child. mother and baby or young child. guardian angel

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