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Engravings illustrating important historical events and characters in dramatic poses, showcasing conflict and storytelling in a richly detailed style.

The Barons enforcing their rights from Henry III, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
The Barons enforcing their rights from Henry III, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
166 assets in this story
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Ancient Greek living room, important woman of the past, history, historical illustration 1894
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A Second String. King Coal comments to the figure of Britannia. 'Afraid I've cut one or two of our dances.' Britannia. 'Oh, don't apologise! It's given me the opportunity of making the better acquaintance of Prince Petroleo. You musn't think you'll always be indispensible.' Punch cartoon 1912. This satirical illustration highlights the rise of petrol as an energy source.
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Depiction of a German family on the clinopodium (Antonina) in Rome, Italy, digital improved reproduction of an original print from 1880, Europe
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Presentation of the Federal banner of the German Shooting Association by the Mainz Shooting club to the city of Nuremberg, Marktplatz square, 12th Bundesschiesen shooting competition, historic wood engraving, about 1897
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Ladies and Gentlemen of about 1584, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1855.
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Cécile Renault (Cécile-Aimée Renault) (1774-1794). Young French royalist, accused of attempting to assassinate Maximilien Robespierre during the Reign of Terror. She was condemned to death and guillotined in Paris, along with members of her family, on 17 June 1794 (29 prairial year II). Cécile Renault before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, part 2, 1879.
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'The Ladies Disaster', 1771. Artist: Caldwell
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1876 Exhibition of Painting, Sledge by Monginot, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1877.
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Clou-de-Girofle and Napoleona, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.
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Fashion, France, 17th century - Gentlewoman in deshabille for a bath (Femme de qualite' deshabillee pour le bain), engraving
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Statues in front of the Indian court at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park : Indian shawls and embroidered scarfs; statues including Satan Tempting Eve, the Jealousy of Medea, and Satan Vanquished by the Archangel Michael; marble statue of Victory, and Indian arms and armour. Date: 1851
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Japanese Crafts. Mirror cleaners, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
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Death of the Duke of Berry, vintage engraving. Death of the Duke of Berry, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656480
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Statue of Pasquino, in Rome, Italians playing in the morra, vintage engraving. Statue of Pasquino, in Rome, Italians playing in the morra, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660036
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Jean Bouzard the good man, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.
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Zoroastrians in garden by Grigori Grigorievich Gagarin, colour lithograph, 1847, 1810-1893, Private Collection
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Meeting of Henry and Louis on the Plain near Gisors, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
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Die Gefangennahme von Klaus Störtebeker in Helgoland, Deutschland, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
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A room in the fifteenth century, vintage engraving. A room in the fifteenth century, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673232
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Exhibition at the pillory on the Gerichtslaube in Berlin in the Middle Ages, the criminal stands at the pillory and is whipped, Germany, historical engraving from 1883, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century.
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Author: GUSTAVE DORÉ.
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Saharan inside a dwelling, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1882.
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The Steps Psalette in Nantes, vintage engraving. The Steps Psalette in Nantes, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679310
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The entry of James I into London, c1603, (19th century). Artist: Unknown
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Ugolino in the Hunger Tower of Pisa, 1880, Italy, Ugolino della Gherardesca (1220-1289), Count of Donoratico, fleet commander and head of the powerful, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an 18th century original, Europe
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An engraving depicting the weighing of charcoal in Madrid, Spain.
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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, illustration, 19th century
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A fountain on the quai du Midi, Nice, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.
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Netherlands, Marcoman, and gathering at night banquets, Marcoman. Illustration no. 91 in a work on the ancient inhabitants of the Netherlands and their customs., print, picture, historical print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historical plates, height 145 mm, width 85 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1714, paper, papier, etching
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Bergen, Fritz (1857-1941) Private Collection 1900s Lithograph German of 19th cen. Germany
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On the way, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1880.
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Maria de la Felicidad Malibran, born Garcia, or La Malibran, 1808 - 1836, a French opera singer, mezzo soprano, celebrating triumphs in Venice, historical engraving from the Buch denkwuerdiger Frauen or book of memorable woman, published by Otto Spamer, 1877
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Vice. Hugo Steiner-Prag (Bohemia, Prague, 1880-1945). Germany, 1915-1916. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph on handmade paper
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To Be Sold, 1871. Artist: Joseph Swain
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The ogre, upon discovering the children, wanted to kill them, but the woman convinced him to reserve them for a better occasion. The Tom Thumb Fairy Tale by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879
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The seven Swabians, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.
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Masons in the fifteenth century of 19 after the French manuscript of the National Library, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1882.
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Young Spartans Exercising at Sparta. Ancient Greece, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1880
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Cartoon - A Word of Wisdom Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)
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Return to the farm, remember Alsace, vintage engraving. Return to the farm, remember Alsace, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679693
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William Andrew talking to her over the fence, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.
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Cut and come again S. Collings, delin. ; JT, sc., 1790.. British Cartoon Prints Collection .
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Mrs Gargery on the Ram-page, ilustration by Felix O. C. Darley (1861) . Dickens's Great Expectations, Garnett edition, facing p. 8.
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Council of Salamanca, (15th century), 1920s. Artist: Unknown
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Oliver Cromwell with the Poet John Milton 19th Century Illustration
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The murder of Cicero, 43BC. Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 BC. Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and Academic Skeptic. From Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, published 1883.
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THIRLBY HALL, DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL, 1883; I found my luckless countryman in a sorry plight.
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Umbria Perugia Vallo di Nera S. Maria8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Exterior, architecture and architectural sculpture (12th-13th centuries). Post-medieval: Fresco painting, partially destroyed after 1973 earthquake (12th-17th centuries) General Notes: Hutzel sent sheet from earlier photo campaign of same site, comprising 92 prints. Sheet indicates mainly painting material. Able to locate only 3 prints. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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The blessed effects of venality. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 698. Politics & government,England,1770-1780. , Corruption,England,1770-1780. , Britannia (Symbolic character),1770-1780. , International relations,Spain,1770-1780. , International relations,France,1770-1780. , International relations,Netherlands,1770-1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.
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The progress of intemperance: the ruined family. Ad for temperance from 1841
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Etching titled 'The Baker's Shop' by Jan Joris van Vliet, also known as Jan Gillisz van Vliet. Jan Gillisz van Vliet (1605-1668) a Dutch Golden Age painter and pupil of Rembrandt. Dated 17th century
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In Front of the Inn, According to the Painting of Józef Chełmoński, He Drew Gorski. Cleastle from Tygodnik Powszechny 1880 (1) 41 Beudet (n.n.), Chełmoński, Józef (1849 1914), Gorski (n.n.)
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The work of bronze and the for, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Péricles - Perikle - Perikles , Forts & fortifications, Archaeological sites, Greek temples, Audiences, Statesmen, Parthenon Athens, Greece, Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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An engraving depicting Gladiators fighting in the Colosseum, in Ancient Rome. Dated 19th century
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Isthmian Games, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume I, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1894
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'"Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down my spirit in stillness"', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.
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What worse than the Devil A contentious woman, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.
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Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942), was a Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist. Although based mainly in Europe, his extensive travels took him to Morocco, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Japan, images of all of which appear in his artistic work. He died in Prague in 1942. Largely ignored during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia, his work has received greater attention in recent years.
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Full water Paintings of Paris, number 55: Full water , 1821. Engraving of Marlet.
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The last Judgment, Lintel of the portal of the church of Culture in Le Mans, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842.
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Harvest festival by A. Doerffel, lithograph, 1899, active End 19th century, Private Collection, 33x24
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Engraving symbolising the marriage of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) and Frederick V, Elector Palatine (1596-1632). Dated 17th Century
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Sir Anthonis van Dyck, Antoon van Dyck, Anton van Dyck, Anthony van Dyck, 22. März 1599, 9. Dezember 1641, war ein flämischer Maler und Grafiker des f...
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Cleopatra's Needle Comes To New York, Setting The Obelisk In Permanent Position, Central Park-January 22, 1881, Artist Unknown
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Senate Chamber, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890.