Revolutionary and Historic Illustrations

19th-century engravings capturing key moments from various revolutions and battles, depicted with dramatic scenes and historic context.

Disagreement on religious and social issues leads to an attack on Lucerne by the Free Corps, and civil war breaks out here and elsewhere. Date: 1845
Disagreement on religious and social issues leads to an attack on Lucerne by the Free Corps, and civil war breaks out here and elsewhere. Date: 1845
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Entrance to a pyramid; Entrance to the large pyramid; Egyptian losses third six; Egyptian losses. Four men walk through a dark corridor. Two of them wear burning torches.
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The great match at Baltimore, between the Illinois Bantam and the Old Cock of the White House by Currier & Ives. c1860. Dissension within the Democratic party in 1860 and Stephen A. Douglass capture of the partys presidential nomination at the partys May convention are satirized as a cockfight. Douglas stands, the victorious cock, atop his badly beaten rival, incumbent president James C. Buchanan. Feathers still fill the air from the fray. Douglas crows: Cock a doodle doo!! Ive got the best of you. I can beat the Lincoln Cock; And Old Kentucky too! Buchanan moans, Oh dear! Oh dear! this is my last kick, Im a used up old rooster. On the right an unidentified man sets a new cock into the ring, Kentucky senator John C. Breckinridge.
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Sergeant Jasper, American Revolutionary Patriot, Savannah, Georgia, 1779, Illustration from the Book, Historical Cabinet, L.H. Young Publisher, New Haven, 1834
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Filling a mass grave at night during the Plague of London, c1665. Artist: Anon.
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Execution of Murat, Illustration from the Book, Historical Cabinet, L.H. Young Publisher, New Haven, 1834