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Engravings and drawings capturing dramatic narratives and mythological themes, exploring human emotions and interactions in detailed historical contexts.

Portrait of James Sayer at the age of thirteen, Richard Houston, after Johann Zoffany, 1772 print London paper historical persons. fishing (sports). child
Portrait of James Sayer at the age of thirteen, Richard Houston, after Johann Zoffany, 1772 print London paper historical persons. fishing (sports). child
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Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1), 1794. Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Say that this little old one! would like it ... (IT)
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Shepherd's Meal, John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, after George Morland, 1763-1804, British, 1803, hand colored mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, Sheet: 21 11/16 × 17 3/16 inches (55.1 × 43.7 cm) and Image: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 inches (50.3 × 40.3 cm), dinner, food, meal
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Study sheet with figures and heads Study printwork / Etudes grav, print maker: Jacob Ernst Marcus, Amsterdam, Jul-1808, paper, etching, h 125 mm × w 220 mm
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Josef II., Roman-German Kaiser.
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Illustrations for 'Becker's Almanac for 1798'. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (Germany, Danzig, 1726-1801). Germany, circa 1798. Prints; etchings. Etching
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L'enterrement' by Félix Hilaire Buhot (1847-1898), created between 1874 and 1879. The piece illustrates funeral rites and ceremonies, executed in etching and drypoint. The state is noted with a standard reference number
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Allegorical performance with drawing, writing art and painting; Title page for: M. Stuart, the man, as he appears on the acquaintances Globe, 1802. Drawn, writing art and painting look at truth that appears to heaven.
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Ornament with a Monkey. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jean-Jacques Avril I after Jean-Baptiste Pillement.
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Two Sitting Women, Esaias Boursss, 1662 There are two women outside on the street or near home. Linkst squats a lean woman on a stone curb. A wrap skirt (Redda) is hanging around her knees. She wears a wide loose -hanging shoulder cloth around her upper body. Below we see her bare shoulder, neck and bent left arm. The woman wears a cloth on her head, from behind a bun sticking hair (Condé). On the right a woman sits on an elongated block of stone, with bent knees. Her only garment is a foot -long wrapping skirt (Redda). Her upper body with full breasts is uncovered. Perhaps it is a nurse (min). The origin of both women is unclear: possibly Eurasian, Singalese of Lage Kaste, or Tamil from Jaffna. Page 113 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets. Sri Lanka paper. ink brush Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). Eurasion, half-caste. Asian races and peoples (with NAME). skirt (with NAME). styles of hairdress (with NAME) - ~women. working class, labourers - AA - women. wet-nurse Colombo. Sri La
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The Fountain 1826 Louis Léopold Boilly French. The Fountain. Collection of Sketches Drawn in Rome by Jules Boilly and Lithographs by His Father(Recueil de Croquis dessinés à Rome par Jules Boilly et lithographiés par son père). Louis Léopold Boilly (French, La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris). 1826. Lithograph. Prints
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Meeting with Mahmed-Emir, illustration for the short story In Kurdistan" by Karol Brzozowski. Piotrowski, Antoni (1853-1924), draughtsman, cartoonist
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Wszyscy Święci w MNK Jasper, Victor (1848 1931), Moretto da Brescia (1490/1498 1554), Society for Duplicating Art
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An uninvited guest according to the image of Felix Schlesinger. A clip from a German magazine. Closs, Adolf (1840 1894), Schlesinger, Felix (1833 1910)
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Bertoldino Whipping Himself to Kill Flies. 1701 - 1800. Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, 1665-1747. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Gesprek TUSSEN Francis Bacon in François Eudes de Mézeray, Anonymous, 1746 print Scientist Francis Bacon with stick is under a round arch next to composer François Eudes de Mézeray. At the top stated: April / AO 1746. paper etching conversation, dialogue; conversation piece
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Caricature of Mars and Venus in the Net van Vulcanus, Honoré Daumier, 1842 Paris paper Mars and Venus, caught in a net by Vulcan, are exposed to the ridicule of the assembled gods. caricatures (human types)
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The invention of book printing by Laurens Jansz. Coster in Haarlem, Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), 1840 - 1884 print The invention of book printing by Laurens Jansz. Coster in Haarlem, ca. 1440. Under a tree, Coster is peculating over a piece of paper, while in front of him a girl and a boy are sitting with a paper in his hand. paper steel engraving Haarlemhout
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Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, Italy, Mattioli, Lodovico, History of Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno, Bertoldino cuts off the ears of a donkey, verso lower right - stamped, Bertoldino has cut off the donkey's ears. In his right hand the scissors, in his left an ear. Behind him the donkey is braying and Malcolma comes running in dismay. Below the image a three-line rhyme in Italian. Print from a series of eight with the pranks of Bertoldino, part of a series of twenty prints., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 227 mm, width 148 mm, 1665 - 1747-07-16, print maker, prentmaker, 1710 - 1715, first quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Italian, 1662-01-02 - 1747-10-20, Work conception
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The Towing Path. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (England, London, 1818-1910). England, 1864. Prints; etchings. Etching and drypoint on vellum
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Rural sports, or a pleasant way of making hay , Raking Sweeping, Hay, Hugging. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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Rochussen, Charles, Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Allegory with three busts in a round temple, Above a round temple containing three busts, Fame blows a trumpet. On the left are three women in long robes. On the right are three men with weapons., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 125 mm, width 105 mm, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure, Work conception, 1814-08-01 - 1894-09-22
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Oil painting by Martin von Molitor showing a sleeping young man, using white highlights to emphasize form, posture, and figure details.
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Allegorical memorial to Abraham Rutgers, pastor at Haarlem An allegorical female figure with a flame on her head and a crucifix at the base of the monument, on which is a silhouette of Rutgers Surrounding three putti with anchor, hourglass and laurel wreath, Allegorical memorial to Abraham Rutgers, print maker: Philippus Velijn, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacobus van Meurs, (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1809, paper, etching, engraving, h 300 mm × w 230 mm
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Allegorical composition. Loutherbourg, Phillipe-Jacques de (1740-1812). Prints. 1800 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Wayfarers, Sir John Gilbert, 1817-1897, British, undated, Brown wash, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 6 × 5 5/8 inches (15.2 × 14.3 cm), figure study, genre subject, portrait, travelers
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We can say ... There is nothing like the campaign to be entertained. / 10. (Registered Title) | These Parisians good. (title of all)
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Economy. Unknown
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The Death of Lara. Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 - 1863)
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France, Drouais, François Hubert, Italy, Melini, Carlo Domenico, Two boys with marmot, verso - stamped, Two boys with a marmot in a landscape., print, prent, prints, height 370 mm, width 493 mm, Italian, 1735 - 1795, print maker, printmaker, 1750 - 1795, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1727-12-14 - 1775-10-21
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Conversing noblemen, Dirk Jurriaan Sluyter, 1826 - 1866 print A nobleman sits on a chair at a table with his feet on a pillow. There are books, certificates and writing utensils on the table. There is a globe on the ground. Another nobleman talks to him. By seeing a door his tents and flags. Amsterdam etching / engraving conversation, dialogue; conversation piece. book. globe
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HEREMIET, Hendrick Heerschop, 1652 print A hermit, sitting under a tree, with a book on your lap. Haarlem paper etching anchorite, hermit
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Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s, British, A Rural Entertainment, 1830. Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Villégiature, from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 22, 1856 August 22, 1856 Honoré Daumier French. Villégiature, from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 22, 1856. Croquis d'Été. Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). August 22, 1856. Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil). Aaron Martinet (French, 1762-1841). Prints
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Jean-François Millet (French, 1814 - 1875). Peasant with a Wheelbarrow (Le Paysan Rentrant du Fermier), ca. 1857-1858. Etching printed in brown ink on chine collé. Plate: 166 mm x 134 mm (6.54 in. x 5.28 in.). First of four states.
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Title page of the patriotic magazine De Post van den Neder-Rhijn, DL. I, 1781. Allegorical performance in which status of the art, writing by a stone, is referred to the personnifications of truth and caution.
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A human body is consumed by a furnace; a woman holds a small red limbless effigy bearing a crown; a man holds a sheaf, and another a stick; below, by another furnace, a green and red dragon face each other, poised for combat; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
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Photo production of the painting 'Femme de Pêcheur' by Jules Breton, Goupil & Cie., After Jules Breton, c. 1877 - in or before 1882 photomechanical print paper mending of fishing nets
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Beatrix reproaches the Dante for not having followed his advice. (Beatrycze krytykuje Dantego za to, że nie postąpił za jej radią, z: the divine comedy of the dante ), w: oeurvre de flaxmann collection of his serious compositions by back, with analysis of the divine comedy of the Dante and notice on Flaxman. Various subjects. Paris 1847 . FERRERI, Vincenzo (Fl. 1845), Flaxman, John (1755 1826), Audot, bookseller editor, Paris rue du Paon 8, school of medicine
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Woman by a river, Gillis van Scheyndel (I), 1618 - 1638 print At a river there is a woman with a hat on the head and a basket around her arm. The print is part of a series of 32 prints with genreta scenes. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Haarlem paper etching carrying something in basket, bag, rucksack, etc.
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Deez's Lord says goodbye to his wife; His son did follow him, 1761 - 1804 print Leaf with great presentation of a man who says goodbye to his wife and son. Under the show a eight -line verse in two columns. Numbered in the top left: No. 108. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing family group, especially parents with their child(ren)
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After a painting by Thomas Gainsborough, Anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1870.
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CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II E 35 - INDIA HIVITA - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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The Turnpike Road, 1806. Engraver: William Ward (d.1826).. After George Morland (d.1804). Mezzontint engraving printed in colours.
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1861 Exhibition of Painting, The Source by Mr. Schlesinger, vintage engraving. 1861 Exhibition of Painting, The Source by Mr. Schlesinger, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678070
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Three males - two youngsters in shorter garments suitable for spring ; their older companion is no doubt warning them not to cast a clout before May is out Date: 14th century
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The Good Samaritan, engraving from a painting by Pellegrino Clave, from L'album, giornale letterario e di belle arti, September 7, 1839, Year 6. Digitally colorized image.
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Anonymous watercolor illustrating the collection of mulberry leaves used in silk production.
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fine arts, family register illustration, girl with a lamb, ""verdient die holde Unschuld nicht, das man ihr Blumenkraenze flicht"" (deserves no innocence, that one her braids a wreath), oval picture, coloured engraving, circa 1825/1830, 7x9 centimeter, private collection,
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Sample (France)
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Wallflower flower fairy, Erysimum cheiri, in dress of leaves and petals, being uprooted and kidnapped from a ruined castle by a botanist with shovel and specimen case. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.
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Sacred ceremony in honor of Bacchus: in the middle, a thyrsus and a cymbal hanging from a tree, twined round a column; in the sides, two crowned figures; in the foreground, the altar with a herma, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Giuseppe Aloja from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume IV, plate 17, 1757-1787, Naples.
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In front of the Karlskirche, Hofkunsthandlung J, Velten, Karlsruhe, Producer, Nister, Lithographer, Wiener watercolorist Club, Editor, After, Hermann Giesel -, drawer
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Koriacy settled; Unknown, Niemirów, Leopold (1810-1883), Draeger, F. (Moscow; Litographic insole; Ca 1850-1860); 1856 (1856-00-00-1856-00-00);