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Public Executions in History

Historical prints depicting scenes of public executions and confrontations, illustrating societal violence and justice in early modern Europe.

Willem and Maria voted King and Queen of England, 1689, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Leaf with two performances. Above the English crown is offered to William III and Maria, 23 February 1689. Under the announcement on the street to the people by a city announcer that Prince William III and Princess Maria Stuart have proclaimed King and Queen of England, February 23, 1689. : fol. 828. Print Maker: Amsterdamprinter: Utrecht paper etching crier (~ proclamation of laws). oral spreading of news, town crier London
Willem and Maria voted King and Queen of England, 1689, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Leaf with two performances. Above the English crown is offered to William III and Maria, 23 February 1689. Under the announcement on the street to the people by a city announcer that Prince William III and Princess Maria Stuart have proclaimed King and Queen of England, February 23, 1689. : fol. 828. Print Maker: Amsterdamprinter: Utrecht paper etching crier (~ proclamation of laws). oral spreading of news, town crier London
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Interior of graftombe of family of emperor Augustus; Veduta interna di una delle tre sale sepolcrali della famiglia do Augusto; Archaeological finds in and around Rome; Le Antichità Romane. View in the graftombe of Emperor's family. Title and text in undermarge. Numbered above: XLII. / Tom. II.
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Amsterdam, Goethals, Rembertus, Boom, Hendrick, widow Dirk I, Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes (II), Wolfgang, Abraham, Luyken, Jan, Eight Baptists burned at the stake on the Dam in front of the town hall, 1549, print, book illustration, prints, height 120 mm, width 154 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1693 - 1693, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, Publicatie
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Esther before Ahasveros, Werneclaus Hollar, After Paolo Veronese, 1644 - 1652 print Esther, accompanied by her maid, kneels for King Ahasveros. The king steps off his throne and reaches her a scepter, as a sign that he is delighted to receive her. paper etching Esther before Ahasuerus (Esther 5:1-4)
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Amsterdam, Oossaan, Aart Dircksz., Wybrants, Sander, Swart, widow Steven, Blom, Joannes, Bergh, Herman van den, Deyster, Jacobus van der, Luyken, Jan, recto - manuscript in brown ink, print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, Anneken Hendriks, bound on a ladder, burned in Amsterdam, 1571, verso - stamped, 87, Anna Hendriks Ao 1571, height 115 mm, width 140 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1685 - 1685, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, Noord-Nederlands, - 1693-06-26
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Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734-1760, The Covent Garden Morning Frolick. Engraving.
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Lares house gods depicted in a Lararium shrine found in Herculaneum. Crowned genii pour libations and bring a boar to sacrfice, while a woman with cornucopia makes an offering on an altar and a man plays a tibia or aulos. Two serpents crawl toward a cista mystica (sacred chest) below. Lari da una pittura dErcolano. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1843.
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Witte van Haamstede exhibits himself in Haarlem in armor, 1304. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys. Dating: 1788. Measurements: h 149 mm × w 90 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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PRISION DEL VIRREY BLASCO NUÑEZ VELA (1490-1546) - HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS INDIAS OCCIDENTALES - SIGLO XVI. Author: HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS ANTONIO. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The prodigal child, the prodigal child is ruined: fourth issue of a series of 10 pieces" (Lieure 1408, Meaume 57). Etching. 1635. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99590-14 Etching, engraving
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First Design for the Enraged Musician, Print made by Thomas Ryder, 1746-1810, Irish, after William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, Published by Samuel Ireland, active 1760-died 1800, British, 1799, Etching and roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
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Coventry Mystery Play Date: circa 1469
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Destruction of the Palace in Nijmegen by the Danes, 881, 1780 - 1795 print Destruction of the Palace in Nijmegen by the Danes in the year 881. Soldiers shoot the palace and set it on fire. Netherlands paper etching plundering ~ soldiers. extinct, 'historical' peoples (with NAME). extinct, 'historical' peoples (with NAME) Nijmegen
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Buys, Jacobus, Northern Netherlands, Bogerts, Cornelis, Vinkeles, Reinier (I), The detention of the Princes. 28 Juny, 1787, Arrest of the princess at Goejanverwellesluis, verso - stamped, Arrest of the carriage with Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia by an exercise company at Goejanverwellesluis, 28 June 1787., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 68 mm, width 90 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1799, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1741-06-19 - 1816-01-30, after print by, 1745 - 1817-02-03, 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, intermediary draughtsman
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Martyre de Saint Estienne (The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian). Dated: 1677. Dimensions: plate: 45.2 × 55.4 cm (17 13/16 × 21 13/16 in.) sheet: 52.8 × 70.2 cm (20 13/16 × 27 5/8 in.). Medium: engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Etienne Baudet, after Annibale Carracci.
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Funebre pump in honor of General Hoche at the Champ-de-Mars The Bush. "Funeral pump in honor of General Hoche at Champ-de-March, 1797".
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Don Quixote. Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. 1605-1615. Engraving. Sancho Panza tossed in a blanket by a band of rogues. 19th century.
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Post, Pieter Jansz., Wouwerman, Philips, Northern Netherlands, Visscher, Jan de, Rescue of Count Johan Maurits after the accident on the bridge of Franeker, 1665, verso - stamped, January 6, 1665. The drawbridge over which the count and his entourage rode has collapsed. The count is pulled from the water, bystanders rush in with ladders., print, prints, height 486 mm, width 382 mm, 1633 - 1692, print maker, printmaker, 1665 - 1665, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1619-05-24 - 1668-05-19, after a design by, 1608 - 1669-05-02
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Interior of Graftombe of Keizer Augustus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757 print Face in the tomb of the Keizer Augustus family. Title and text in STUDMARGE. Numbered above: XLII. / Tom. Ii. Rome paper etching grave, tomb Italy
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Winter, ca. 1625, 1620 - 1629 print The winter season. An elegant pair entertains himself between others with ice fun on the frozen moat at Slot Zuylen. With caption of 4 lines in Latin. Northern Netherlands paper etching winter ~ human activities (the four seasons of the year) Slot Zuylen
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Le Meraviglose Forze Che Sogliano Fare Li Castellani il Giovedi Crasso Nella Piazza di Venezia. Acrobatic show called Forze D 'Ercole one of the popular performances accompanying Venetian carnival, in the San Marco district, with the participation of two groups of players: Castellani and Nicolotti; A test of forces consisting in setting the highest and longest maintenance of the pyramid balance by the inhabitants of various districts of the city. unknown
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Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The prodigal child," the prodigal child dissipates his property: third issue of a sequence of 10 pieces "(Lieure 1407, Meaume 56). Etch. 1635. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Small palace. 99590-13 Etching, engraving
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Etching by Jan de Visscher depicting a rescue scene, produced between 1665 and 1712.
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London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I, Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, Published by Longman & Co., active 1804-1914, British, after 1857, Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches (14.9 x 20.6 cm) and Image: 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches (11.1 x 16.9 cm), architectural subject, arrested, city, guards, Henry IV Part II, Act II, Scene I, Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare, literary theme, men, obese, plays by William Shakespeare, street, surprise, swords, woman, City of London, England, Europe, Greater London, United Kingdom
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Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The great passion, the death sentence: third issue of a series of 7 pieces" (Lieure 283, Meaume 14). Etching and chisel. 1619-1624. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99589-9 Chisel, etching, engraving
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Northern Netherlands, The Great Tableau of Folly, Verdict of Apol on the Bubbles, Apollo judges the Actionists, 1720, Apollo judges a group of desperate Actionists, in the middle Hercules with club, on the right sits the harlequin Bombario with banner. On the left city maidens as the muses. With caption in four columns. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of The Great Tableau of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720., print, cartoon, books, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 281 mm, width 351 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, papier, etching, etsen
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Men fencing. Engraving by P. Serwouters.
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Chairing the Members, Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744-1818, British, after William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, Published by Longman, active 1804-1914, British, 1807, Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
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Leth, Hendrik de, Andries de, Post, Pieter Jansz., Wouwerman, Philips, Northern Netherlands, Visscher, Jan de, Redding of Count Johan Maurits after the accident on the bridge of Franeker, 1665, Rescue of Count Johan Maurits after the accident on the bridge of Franeker, January 6, 1665. The drawbridge over which the count and his entourage rode has collapsed. The count is pulled from the water, bystanders rush with ladders. The figures in the representation numbered 1-3., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 485 mm, width 382 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1633 - 1692, print maker, printmaker, 1665 - 1665, third quarter 17th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1619-05-24 - 1668-05-19, after a design by, 1608 - 1669-05-02, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1663 - 1731-05-24, publisher, uitgever, 1703-05-31 - 1766-06-17
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Fountain with Triton in the gardens of the Villa Celimontana in Rome; Fontana del Tritone a Capo Il Viale della Fontanelle Nel Giardino (...); Le Fontane Ne Palazze E Ne Giardini di Roma; Fountains in the palaces and gardens of Rome. Numbered at the bottom right: 19. The print is part of an album.
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Attack on the carriage of the deputies of Dordrecht, 1786, Anonymous, 1786 print Dordrecht's dismayers such as the deputies of Dordrecht, Messrs Gevaerts and De Gijzelaar, with their carriage through the Stadhouderspoort wanting to ride the Binnenhof and their horses at the Toom are grabbed by the wiggermaker F. Mourand, March 17, 1786. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving revolutionary action (violent) Courtyard
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Royal Assembly, on 16 March 1815 Louis XVIII went to the Chamber of Deputies at the Palais Bourbon, where he delivered an emotional speech, Paris, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe
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. Print at the top right labeled: fol. 101.
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Kruyff, Cornelis de, Netherlands, Hilverdink, Johannes, The Apparitions of Ghosts on the Oude-Schans, verso - stamped, Apparition of ghosts on the Oudeschans in Amsterdam, in the evening of 8 and 9 October 1833. Along the quay move the ghostly white shadows of women in long robes. In the foreground the assembled spectators. The 'ghosts' were produced by some students with the aid of magic lantern slides., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 70 mm, width 113 mm, Dutch, 1813-01-18 - 1902-10-01, print maker, printmaker, 1834 - 1834, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), 1774-06-12 - 1828-01-19, intermediary draughtsman
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Buys, Jacobus, Netherlands, Bogerts, Cornelis, Vinkeles, Reinier (I), Destruction of the palace at Nymegen, by the Danes, Destruction of the palace at Nijmegen by the Danes, 881, Destruction of the palace at Nijmegen by the Danes in the year 881. Soldiers shell the palace and set it on fire., print, picture, history print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 82 mm, width 55 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1741-06-19 - 1816-01-30, print maker, printmaker, 1780 - 1795, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, 1745 - 1817-02-03, 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, intermediary draughtsman
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Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722) and Jean Audran (French, 1667-1756). Birth (La Naissance), ca. 1718-1722. From Life of the Satyrs. Etching and engraving on laid paper. Plate: 254 mm x 339 mm (10 in. x 13.35 in.). Third of three states.
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Italian water carriers; Les Poreurs d'eau d'Italie / The Italian water carriers. Water carriers at a fountain on a square.
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. Cartoon on Prince Willem V, 1782. The prince sits in a room at the table, with the Freule Van Lynden who tossed him onto the Duke of Brunswijk. On the ground kneeling wires from the prince, the gentlemen of Singendonck, from stlases, from goens, pesticles, Luzac, Hofstede and Bareuth. At the top of the Dutch fleet in the naval battle at Doggersbank. The print is a separate printed statement from the album.
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Pierre Robert Francois Damiens, a manservant, attacks Louis XV at Versailles. The king is only slightly injured, but Damiens is executed with hideous severity. Date: 5 January 1757
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De Leegschaal, 1618, 1618 print Political allegory over the victory of the counter -monstrators thanks to the intervention of Prince Maurits, 1618. The performance shows an interior with a large scale. In the presence of Gomarus, Arminius, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and others, the arguments of the contraders and the Remonstrants are weighed against each other. Maurits makes the balance in favor of the counter -monstrators by placing his sword on the scales. In the background through a window the dranking of the Waardgelders through Maurits on the Neude in Utrecht. Under the show in three columns a verse from Vondel. Northern Netherlands paper engraving / letterpress printing scales Neud
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Turk and clergyman with Christian slaves Title page for: P. Dan, Historie van Barbaryen, en des even zee-roovers, 1684, print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), publisher: Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1684, paper, etching, h 187 mm × w 145 mm
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After Jacques Callot, Cap Cerimonia and Siga Lavinia Cap. Cerimonia and Siga. Lavinia
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Israels, E., Vondel, Joost van den, Northern Netherlands, Savery, Salomon, On the Weighing Scale, The Weighing Scale, 1618, back - stamped, Political allegory on the victory of the Counter-Remonstrants thanks to the intervention of Prince Maurits, 1618. The scene shows an interior with a large set of scales. On these, in the presence of Gomarus, Arminius, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and others, the arguments of the Counter-Remonstrants and the Remonstrants are weighed against each other. Maurits tips the balance in favor of the Counter-Remonstrants by laying his sword on the scales. In the background, through a window, the dismissal of the innkeepers by Maurits on the Neude in Utrecht. Below the scene, a verse by Vondel. In this later printing of the print, a strip of paper with two extra lines signed with the name E. Israels was pasted on at the end of the caption., print, prent, propaganda print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 443 mm, width 326 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1594
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Taking Tuileries by the Parisian people. / (24 February 1848.) (IT)