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Public Proclamations and Social Events

Prints illustrating public gatherings, announcements, and festive activities, capturing the vibrancy and social dynamics of historical communities.

The Counts Egmond and Horne, along with other nobles, are beheaded with the sword on the Grand Place in Brussels on the orders of the Duke of Alva. A crowd has gathered around the scaffold, Beheading of the Counts Egmond and Horne, 1567, print maker: Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1699, paper, etching, h 134 mm × w 85 mm
The Counts Egmond and Horne, along with other nobles, are beheaded with the sword on the Grand Place in Brussels on the orders of the Duke of Alva. A crowd has gathered around the scaffold, Beheading of the Counts Egmond and Horne, 1567, print maker: Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1699, paper, etching, h 134 mm × w 85 mm
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Great Britain politics ""South Sea Bubble"" collapse of the British South Sea Company 1720 satiric etching by William Hogarth,
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Buys, Jacobus, Northern Netherlands, Vinkeles, Reinier (I), Fire at den Uithoorn, Fire at Uithoorn, 1781, verso - stamped, View of the great fire in the village of Uithoorn on 23 July 1781. In the foreground, dismayed residents look on from the other side of the water. Marked top right: XXX.Dl.pl.II., print, historical print, prints, Frederik Muller Historical plates, height 170 mm, width 93 mm, 1741-06-19 - 1816-01-30, print maker, printmaker, 1793 - 1793, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, intermediary draughtsman
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The Boston Massacre. Paul Revere, II; American, 1735-1818. Date: 1770. Dimensions: 202 x 219 mm (image); 262 x 230 mm (block); 276 x 240 mm (sheet). Wood engraving, with hand coloring, on tan laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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The town of the town; Kostrzewski, Franciszek (1826-1911); 1868 (1868-00-00-1868-00-00);Leszczyński, Stanisław (Fl. Ca 1900) - collection, gift (provenance)
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Paying Toll on Passing a Bridge from 15th century painted window in Tournay Cathedral
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Death of Emperor Vitellio in Early history of Rome by Ludovico Pogliaghi, 1890, illustration
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Engraving depicting a scene from the opera L'età dell'oro by Giuseppe Felice Tosi
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Vue de la Foire de Bezons 1750 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin French. Vue de la Foire de Bezons 369100
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Burning the Roman statues after the departure of the French army from Utrecht, 1673, 1719 - 1728 print Burning on the town hall bridge of the Roman Catholic statues and other ecclesiastical objects from the churches removed after the departure of the French army from Utrecht on November 23, 1673. Northern Netherlands paper etching iconoclasm Utrecht
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The Boston Massacre (The Bloody Massacre). Dated: 1770. Dimensions: image: 20 × 21.91 cm (7 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.) sheet: 27.31 × 23.81 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Paul Revere, after Henry Pelham.
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Rome is ravaged by fire for 9 days. Though Nero is not in Rome at the time, rumours accuse him of starting the fire and playing the cithara while it rages. Date: June 64
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Atrocities in Rotterdam, 1572, 1618 - 1624 print Atrocities committed by Spaniards in Rotterdam, 1572. Under the show a verse of 16 lines in 2 columns (without the glued description) in Dutch. Numbered: 8. Northern Netherlands paper etching violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death Rotterdam
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Two street artists such as Signora Lavinia and Capitano Cerimonia, Anonymous, After Jacques Callot, 1622 - 1670 print Two artists - a woman and a man - face each other. Their names are listed among the figures. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title print) with two street artists in the foreground dressed as figures from the Italian Commedia dell'arte, and in the background spectators who in the outdoors a (dance) performance of street artists Gadeslaan. Low Countries (possibly) paper etching Types in 'Commedia dell'Arte'
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Beer Street and Gin Lane Beer Street After an original design by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth, London 1833, Beer Street and Gin Lane Beer Street From the original design by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated