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Ornamental and Grotesque Art

Etchings and sketches featuring grotesque figures, decorative motifs, and intricate artistic details from various historical eras.

Study for Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town. (Salvador Dali; Figueras 1904-1989 Figueras; 1935; India Ink und Pencil)
Study for Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town. (Salvador Dali; Figueras 1904-1989 Figueras; 1935; India Ink und Pencil)
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Plaster casts of fragments of the gramony of Engelbrecht II, count of Nassau, from the prince chapel of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Breda, Anonymous, c. 1875 - 1900 Breda paper. photographic support albumen print Breda paper. photographic support albumen print
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Copperplate Engraving, from Encyclopédie. A. J. Defehrt (French, active 18th century); after Benoît-Louis Prévost (French, c. 1735-1809); published by André le Breton (French, 1708-1779), Michel-Antoine David (French, c. 1707-1769), Laurent Durand (French, 1712-1763), and Antoine-Claude Briasson (French, 1700-1775). Date: 1762-1777. Dimensions: 320 × 208 mm (image); 355 × 225 mm (plate); 390 × 255 mm (sheet). Etching, with engraving and stipple, on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, FLORENCIA, USA. Author: A. J. Defehrt.
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Man in a church interior, a donkey and figure studies, 1822 - 1893 Page 59 Verso from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush Page 59 Verso from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush
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Six trophies with equestrian attributes such as whips, buckets, saddles, stirrups, boots and brooms, Trophies with equestrian attributes IIe Cahier de Troph, print maker: Pierre Gabriel Berthault, intermediary draughtsman: Pierre Ranson, publisher: Charles Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Paris, 1772 - 1779, paper, etching, h 238 mm × w 200 mm
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Mikoláš Aleš: Kresba.. Aleš, Mikoláš, 1852-1913. Periodicals. 1911 - 1913. General Research Division. Modernism (Art), Czech literature , 20th century, Art, Arts , Czechoslovakia
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Eleven mouths in different expressions, Roubillac, After Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1784 - 1796 print Paris paper etching drawing, sketch. mouth
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Etching and copper engraving by Giuseppe Patrini from 1769 depicting various coats of arms with heraldic shields, crests, and ornamental details.
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Print, Saucière. Moutardier.; Designed by Richard de Lalonde (French, active 1780-96); Print Maker: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien (French, active late 18th c.); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching on off-white laid paper
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Four helmets with animals and men, 1759 print Twice two helmets on a leaf. Upstairs: Left with a woman and shell, right with a bird or dragon. Below: two helmets with male figure. paper etching helmet. male sex; man
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Study with all kinds of positions of hands; Study leaves with fashion phenomena.
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LAZEN RESHES, JOHANT THANS HAVE, 1758 - 1820 print Designs for six vases with ornaments and garlands. The three left vases with two ears, the vase on the left with flame. Paris paper etching / engraving vase ~ ornament
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Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744-1818, British, 3 Characters, 4 Caricaturas, 1807. Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Sommaire de la Planche Soixante-Deuxième, Cuisine artistique: études de l'école moderne: ouvrage en deux parties, renfermant cent et une plances gravées, hors texte, Dubois, Urbain, 1818-1901, Engraving, 1872, Plate 62, comprised of 4 drawings, identified as follows: Dessin 294. Poisson Imité en Biscuit. Dessin 295. Livre Imité en Biscuit. Dessin 296. Jambon Imité en Biscuit. Dessin 297. Hure de Sanglier Imiteé en Biscuit.
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Musical instruments from reliefs in Rome. Lyre or cithara, triangle or sistrum, horn, tambourine, pipe, tibia, etc. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.
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Collage of cut out prints, anonymous, c. 1870 collage. print Collage of cut out prints. Part of an album with 18 blades, covered on both sides with cut prints, probably from 19th-century time shifts. paper
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Sketchbook 4: Ornament and architecture studies, whole margin, serrated, simply sawn (acanthus), double sawn (acanthus), ge … Eift, sawn with round … (Intarsia)
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Print from Drawing Book, c. 1610/1620, engraving, Bartsch 1802-1821, no. 159.3, Luca Ciamberlano (artist) Italian, 1580 - 1641
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Mammifères: 1. 2. Tète de l'Otarie Cendrèe, mâle; 3. 4. Tête de l'Otarie Australe, femelle. (Nouvelle-Hollande.).. Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842. Prints. 1830 - 1835. General Research Division
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Six grotesque faces in profile, anonymous, 1800 - 1900 print paper etching Africans. face
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Combat with Dagger; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340,1350 - before 1450); Venice, Italy; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1,8 in.)
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141, Tavola XXIII, 141, Delle antichità di Ercolano, Aloja, Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764, Vanni, Engraving, c. 1757-1792, Plate 23 from volume 2, page 141. This is not an overall view of page 141, but a detail.
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Print (France)
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Photo production of twenty -four portraits of Princes of Delhi, 1895 - 1915 photograph This photo is part of an album. Oval portraits of Princes of Delhi, with captions in the Urdu. The leaders of the Mogolrijk relied on a origin that went back to Timoer Lenk, the patriarch of the dynasty there Timurides. Technically, he did not ruled Delhi, but we still see his image because the Mogols considered him the founder of their empire. The twenty -threeth portrayed person was the last ruler before the empire fell, but this photo also shows his son, the heir to the throne. Their names are from left to right: 1. Amir Timur Sahaib Kiran-I-Sani 2. Sultan Jalal-Ud-din Miran Shaha 3. Sultan Muhammad Mirza Badshah 4. Sultan Abu Sayyed Mirza Badshah 5. Sultan Umarh Mirza Badshah 6. Zahir-Ud-Din Babur Babhah 7. Nasir-Ud-din Humayun Badshah 8. Jalal-Ud-din Akbar Badshah 9. Nur-Ud-din Jahangir Badshah 10. Shahab-Ud-din Jahan Badshah 11. Muhi-dur- Ud- Din Aurangzeb Badshah 12. Shahzadah Azam Badshah 13.
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Stiehl Otto (1860-1940): Sketch and photo album 6: St. Thomas, Strasbourg
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Men's and women's heads. Leaf 64 Verso from a sketchbook with 73 sheets.
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Rings a rungshorethiers, Paung collech (I), Fill good Gés Légaré, 491 - visre 1741 - Four rows, two with three rings depicted from the front and aside and two with nine designs for ring shoulders. Page 5 from second series with designs for jewelry consisting of 6 sheets. Second edition. Paris paper engraving
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LA BELLA DURMIENTE - HADA EN UNA CARROZA - DIBUJO DEL CUENTO DE PERRAULT. Author: PEDRO MUGURUZA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Wood Engraving. Vignette.; engraving and etching; 41 x 31 in (104.1 x 78.7 cm); 1945-200-268
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Loewenmasken und Stirnziegel aus Terracotta, Olympia; die ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten ausgrabung, im auftrage des Königlich preussischen ministers der geistlichen, unterrichts- und medicinalangelegenbeiten hrsg. von Ernst und Friedrich Adler, Adler, Friedrich, 1827-1908, Borrmann, Richard, 1852-1931, Dörpfeld, Wilhelm, 1853-1940, Graeber, Friedrich, Graef, Paul, 1853-, Photomechanical process, 1892-1896
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The nerve of the traveler in Bade
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Twenty -three dads in their skulls and one loose -ranking, 1500 - 1568 print Leaf from series of 56 () Blades. Germany (possibly) paper
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Design: Proportions of the Gladiator, from Encyclopédie. Benoît-Louis Prévost (French, c. 1735-1809); published by André le Breton (French, 1708-1779), Michel-Antoine David (French, c. 1707-1769), Laurent Durand (French, 1712-1763), and Antoine-Claude Briasson (French, 1700-1775). Date: 1762-1777. Dimensions: 325 × 210 mm (image); 355 × 225 mm (plate); 400 × 260 mm (sheet). Etching, with engraving, on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Munich, Schurich, Carl Robert, Braun and Fr. Schneider, K., Germany, Reinhardt, C., Munich plates, The puppet theatre, Fifth piece. The mysterious animal, verso - stamped, Sheet with 7 representations of puppet theatre puppets. Below the images text for a puppet theatre performance. Numbered middle bottom: No. 62. Numbered top right: 62., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 441 mm, width 350 mm, German, maker, manufacturer, 1843 - 1920, paper, papier, houtgravure, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Duits, publisher, uitgever, 1820, printer, drukker
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Boxing gloves or caestus, showing ways that Lottatori fighters bound their hands for combat. 1,2,3 from the Maffei Museum, and 4,5 from an ancient urn in St. Stefano church, Piscinola. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.
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Lavalley, skeletons (cemetery of the Saints-Innocents after Bernier). (Dummy title). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.
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The cherries. 26 / mm. Emmanuel & Etienne Arago.
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Letter weights and paper weights in the form of sailors, dogs, bicycles, soldiers, tennis players and anchors. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896.
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Badegerät ; Apoxyomenos ; Schabeisen, Strigilis still image. Illustrations. 1893. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Public baths, Grooming, nudes, Bathing , Greece, Decoration and ornament , Greece, Dressing & grooming equipment, Sculpture , Greece , To 499, Antiquities
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Technique Demo (Wood Grain). Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 34.5 x 26.5 cm (13 9/16 x 10 7/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Mann Waddell.
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Field of sixteen tiles with sea creatures, anonymous, c. 1680 - c. 1750 Field of sixteen tiles (4 x 4) each with a purple painted sea creature with a spider in the corners. Netherlands earthenware. tin glaze majolica Field of sixteen tiles (4 x 4) each with a purple painted sea creature with a spider in the corners. Netherlands earthenware. tin glaze majolica
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Ancient bow ; Greek archer still image. Periodical illustrations. 1855-03. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Archery , To 499, Bows (Archery) , To 499, Archers , Greece , To 499, Soldiers , Greek , To 499
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Kolossalstatuen a. b. von der Insel Argo, c. von Tombos Tumbos.. 1849 - 1856. Lepsius, Richard, 1810-1884. Prints. General Research Division. Egypt , Antiquities, Sculpture , Egypt, colossi , Egypt
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Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 21.5 cm x 17 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland
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Facial expression of horror and facial expression of sadness, Pieter Schenk (I), After Sébastien Leclerc, After Charles Le Brun, 1692 - 1711 print At the top a face from the front and from the side with a facial expression of horror. At the bottom a face from the front and from the side with a facial expression of sadness. Amsterdam paper etching morphology of facial expression