Romantic Figures and Literary Scenes

Dramatic illustrations featuring romantic encounters and poignant moments from classic literature, emphasizing emotional expressions and period attire.

Lotte hands over to Werther's servant the guns with which his master will end his life. In the background Lotte's husband Albert. Scene from Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Lotte hands guns to Werther's servant., draughtsman: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1777, paper, pen, brush, h 295 mm × w 217 mm

1785.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

Lotte hands over to Werther's servant the guns with which his master will end his life. In the background Lotte's husband Albert. Scene from Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Lotte hands guns to Werther's servant., draughtsman: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1777, paper, pen, brush, h 295 mm × w 217 mm

Samuel Alken after H Wigstead, The Married Man The Married Man

Juliet and her Nurse. Illustration to the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

Study for The Honeymoon 1776-1827 England. Brush with brown ink and watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper . Thomas Rowlandson

Achille Devéria (1800-1857), French engraver, and Rose Joseph Lemercier (1803-1887), French printer-lithograph. Seven capital sins: pride; Pride. Lithography on paper, 1833. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 77637-12 Drawing, woman, pride, man, letter, lithography, hand, pride, capital peches, take, reconcile, seven, attempt, to try, couple

Thomas Rowlandson, The Courtesan, c. 1785-1800, pen and gray ink and watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper.

Jean Louis Delignon and Antoine Jean Duclos after Jean Honoré Fragonard, Le cocu battu et content Le cocu battu et content

At twenty she mocks you the duty you taught her , Anger, Dogs, Fireplaces. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Domestic Shaving August 21, 1786 Thomas Rowlandson. Domestic Shaving. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). August 21, 1786. Stippled etching. John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751-1812 Doncaster). Prints

LeChampagne. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

The suicide , Suicides, Loss of consciousness, Surprise. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Album Drawing, Thomas Bardwell, 1704-1767, British, Previously attributed: James Wills, Active 1740-died 1777, British, ca. 1730, Gray and brown wash and watercolor with pen and brown ink, over graphite on laid paper, Sheet: 5 1/8 x 3 1/2in. (13 x 8.9cm)

Chteau des fleurs. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, 1856. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

The morning dram , Grooming, Alcoholic beverages, Servants. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire and the Rt. Hnble. Lady Georgina Cavendish, George Keating, 1762-1842, Irish, after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723-1792, British, 1787, Mezzotint

Lady Smith and Her Children, 1789. Francesco Bartolozzi (British, 1727-1815), after Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792). Stipple engraving and etching; sheet: 34.1 x 25 cm (13 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.).

Ah! vous trouvez que mon dernier roman n'est pas tout à fait.... Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1844. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Jean-Louis Delignon and Antoine-Jean Duclos after Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (1755-c. 1804), Le cocu battu et content, etching

Pierre Antoine Baudouin, The Coquette, 1760s The Coquette

A 1784 drawing by Charles Hoin depicting rural leisure activities, executed in graphite, brush, and watercolor with white highlights.

Jacques Louis François Touzé, Loaned Kiss, in or before 1795 Loaned Kiss

Loaned Kiss. Dated: in or before 1795. Dimensions: overall: 19.7 x 14 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.). Medium: pen and black ink and watercolor. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jacques Louis François Touzé.

Admiration 18th C. Artist Unknown (French) Watercolor David David Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Nicolas de Larmessin IV after Nicolas Lancret, Mlle Salle, 1732 Mlle. Salle

The Lady and the Queen Wasp 1780-1790 England. Pen and gray ink with brush and watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on board . Francis Wheatley

Thomas Rowlandson, The Foot Bath (Drying Out) The Foot Bath (Drying Out)

Trissotin Reading to Philaminte, Bélise, and Armande (from act 3, scene 2 of Molière's "Les Femmes Savantes", probably c. 1725-1726. Charles Coypel (French, 1694-1752). Graphite, graphite wash, and red chalk ; sheet: 21.7 x 30.6 cm (8 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.).

The reconciliation between Robert Devereux. 2nd Earl of Essex (1565 to 1601). an English nobleman and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I in 1601. England. digital reproduction of a historical original

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI and Queen of France (1774-92), with her children in Trianon. Engraving in "Galeria Universal", 1868. Colored.

The Duchess with her Family Illustration by John Tenniel from the book Alices's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published 1891

A French bourgeois interior during the Revolutionary period Date: 1794

Portrait of Lady Smith and her three children, Francesco Bartolozzi, after Joshua Reynolds, 1789 print Portrait of Lady Smith and her three children. In the lower margin text in English and Italian. London paper etching mother and child(ren), woman and child(ren) (family group)

Johann David Schubert's 1794 artwork 'Freveley' is executed in black-gray ink and watercolor over pencil, depicting a detailed compositional study.

Tying the tie. Grévin, Alfred (1827-1892), draughtsman, cartoonist

John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, The Fruit Barrow, 1780. Mezzotint.

A courtesan caught in flagrante by her old patron as her lover, a young hussar, flees through the window. Scandalous scene in a Bath hotel room titled a Bath Beau and Frail Belle, Mr. Bowen and Miss Lacey. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

The wolf in sheep's clothing , Clergy. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Italian Affectation, Real Characters 1786-91 Thomas Rowlandson British. Italian Affectation, Real Characters. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1786-91. Hand-colored etching. Henry Brookes (British, active 1786-95). Prints

Print made by George Keating, 1762-1842, Irish, Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, and the Rt Honble Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Pykars or Peddlers; from Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal 1832 Alexandre-Marie Colin. Pykars or Peddlers; from Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal. Alexandre-Marie Colin (French, Paris 1798-1875 Paris). 1832. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints

Miss the stone, young manager; 17 year old, 6 feet 2 inches high / we see it at the Royal Palace, Arcade n ° 33.

'Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More, c1875. Artist: Sir John Gilbert.

Miss, I Have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with You!, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1794, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10in. (20 x 25.4cm)

Return from Sport 1786 () Thomas Rowlandson. Return from Sport. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1786 (). Etching. Prints

Lady Smith and Her Children. Artist: Simon Jacques Rochard (French, Paris 1788-1872 Brussels). Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (21.9 x 18 cm). Date: 1800-1872. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A peep at Christies or Tally ho, and his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1796, Miss Farren and Lord Derby walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass at a picture in the second row of Zenocrates andPhryne. He looks at the picture immediately below, The Death, a huntsman holding up a fox to the hounds. Lord Derby, much caricatured, very short and obese, wears riding-dress with spurred boots and h

Henry Kingsbury, active 1750-1780, British, A Convenience, 1788. Etching, hand-colored.

Rowlandson and his Fair Sisters, Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756-1827

Fighting women. Three women are in combat and one of them is on the floor. Left a fourth woman watches. On the right a barking dog on a staircase. Two lines from Ludovico Ariostos' Epos' Orlando Furioso '(1532).

Peter Simon, 1750-1810, Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation, 1789. Engraving.

Louis Marin Bonnet, L'Eventail cassé L'Eventail cassé

A 1784 drawing by Charles Hoin depicting a gallant society scene, executed in graphite, brush, and watercolor with white highlights.

M. de de Corsets, CA. 1832: CEST OF TRUE (...).

Retour du bal ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Duel tussen de Horatii en Curiatii.Duel between the Horatii and Curiatii, two three trembles of Roman and Albian and Allaan, respectively, the war is decided. Here Publius Horatius kills the injured curiatii one by one. Romans encourage him.

A tall thin man accompanied by a short fat lady carrying a fan. Engraving by J. Goldar, 1772, after S.H. Grimm.

Harmony - Two Nymphs Singing, Another Playing a Lyre. Artist: After Antonio Zucchi (Italian, Venice 1726-1796 Rome) (). Dimensions: Plate: 7 x 9 13/16 in. (17.8 x 25 cm)Sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/8 in. (47 x 31.5 cm). Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Published in: London. Series/Portfolio: Imitations of Modern Drawings. Date: 1784-88. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study magazine with three sitting figures, Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1809 print Study magazine with a sitting reading man, a sitting woman and a sitting man with a stick. Amsterdam paper etching sitting figure. sitting figure - AA - female human figure (+ right side visible; right - (r. hand, r. foot, etc.)). reading

I have good tobacco in my snuff box, Pellerin & Cie., C. 1791 - c. 1900 print A beautiful lady and an ugly older man in a garden with flowers. Under the show a French poem in four columns. Numbered at the top right: No. 57. Publisher: ÉpinalPrint Maker: Europe paper letterpress printing garden. lovers; courting, flirting

Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, The Cuckold Departs for the Hunt, ca. 1800. Pen, in black ink, with watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

George Washington's last birthday: Washington is shown preparing to escort Nelly Custis at her wedding on February 22 1799, as she descends a staircase at Mount Vernon, in her wedding gown. Photogravure after a painting by H. A. Ogden, 1899.

The Maniac, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1787, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Mount: 7 13/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.8 x 22.4 cm) and Sheet: 6 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (17.3 x 19.8 cm), asylum, children, genre subject, man, medicine, mental illness, nude in art, science, woman

Dotage. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 3/8 in. (27.4 × 21.3 cm)Plate: 9 3/16 × 8 5/16 in. (23.3 × 21.1 cm). Publisher: T. Smith (British, active London 1785-1800). Date: April 20, 1790. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Edouard de Beaumont, A Middle Eastern Woman Reclining in an Exotic Setting, 1844 A Middle Eastern Woman Reclining in an Exotic Setting

'Juggler'. France, First quarter of the 19th century. Dimensions: 51x65 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Unknown engraver.

Paul Gavarni, L'Artiste: Une Mansarde était son Palais, 1835, hand-colored lithograph on paper.

The ruined gamester , Gamblers, Sadness. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette kneel in prayer as Louis becomes king of France on the death of Louis XV. Line engraving with etching by F.A.B. Audibran after J. David, 1883.

Jules Tavernier, Town and Country, 1873, wood engraving on paper.

Le Déjeuné. Medium: color stipple etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Louis-Marin Bonnet after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, I.

Louis XIV (1638-1715). King of France. The young king strolling with the Mancini sisters, nieces of Cardinal Mazarin. Engraving. Colored.

unknown artist, The Sailors' Present or, The Jealous Clown. Mezzotint.

Emperor Napoleon I / Grant to Madame de Polignac the grace of his husband ... (IT)

Girl and Boy Anglers, Matthew Haughton, 1768-1821, British, 1791, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 1/4 inches (20 × 15.9 cm), boy, fish, fishing, genre subject, girl

La Présidente criante à tue-tête Mesdames!.... Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1844. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Sleep I watch / Sleep I Watch Illustration for the Song Vanson, Jean Baptiste (1820 1870), Pellerin

Alexander in the cunning strokes of Nicolaus Gallerie Drolliger Scenen for the theater newspaper, th year, No, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The walk in winter, 1757, by Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), fresco. Detail. The Gothic or Vacations' Room, in the Foresteria (Guesthouse) at Villa Valmarana 'Ai Nani', Vicenza.

Józef Antoni Poniatowski (1763 1813), Chief of the Poiish Army, Marshal of the Empire. Princess Poniatowski learns the death of her husband. Series from the Iife of Prince Józef Poniatowski unknown

The early 1900s caption reads: "Duchess of Devonshire and Child by Reynolds. (1723-1792) at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The composition stands today among the most admired of the master's works." Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century. Through study of ancient and Italian Renaissance art, and of the work of Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, he brought great variety and dignity to British portraiture.

Mary, Queen of Scots, Edward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, formerly attributed to Richard Westall, 1765-1836, British, undated, Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/8 x 18 3/8 inches (25.7 x 46.7 cm) and Image: 8 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches (22.2 x 44.1 cm), armor, army, battle, beard, cape, caps, castle, chain, cross (motif), crown, doublet, dresses, flags, fort, historical subject, horses (animals), lion, men, mountains, pilaster, plume, portrait, queen (person), sash, shield, swords, tartan, thistle, women

Paris, Martinet, Aaron, France, Le Suprême Bon Ton, 1800-1815, No. 23: Rencontre d'anglais à Paris, bottom right in margin - engraved, Two soldiers dressed in English uniforms. Both wear a uniform jacket over long trousers. The fat man has a shako on his head; the slender man a hat with an ostrich feather and at the ends teas. Between them stands a woman holding a girl's hand. She wears a transparent cape over a cardigan. According to the caption, the English meet in Paris. Print from a series of 30 fashion prints, 1800-1815., fashion print, cartoon, prints, RENCONTRE D'ANGLAIS A PARIS, bottom center in margin - engraved, No. 23., A Paris chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue du Coq, No. 15., lower left in margin - engraved, Déposé à la Direction & c., height 210 mm, width 274 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1800 - 1815, first quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, hand coloring, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1762 - 1841, publisher

Repentance Nicolas Lavreince Nicolas (Lafrensen Niklas, says). "Late repentance" (version with standing night table). Gouache, around 1790. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Gley, Julie .

The beginning of a tender relationship, ca 1715, engraving. France, 18th Century

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) © Museum of Modern Art, New York Graphic arts 40,6x29,8 Opera, Ballet, Theatre A Poet and His Muse. Costume design for the ballet Aleko by P. Tchaikovsky

Richard Earlom, 1743-1822, British, Thomas King and Mrs. Baddeley, 1772. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1825.

Anprobieren und ändern des Hochzeitskleid, Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, digital verbessert

Charlotte Wolter, 1834 - 1897, a celebrated actress, as Messalina, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, colored.

In the Zoological Garden ca. 1873 Félix Bracquemond French As the first ambitious attempt in the nineteenth century to create a multicolor print through combining several plates (in this case four), Bracquemonds "In the Zoological Garden" is a pioneering work in the history of French printmaking. Two impressions in the collection, both of the final state, indicate the variations that could be achieved through the inking process. The artist exhibited the print at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in 1879, where his subject of fashionably dressed women enjoying the new bourgeois pleasure grounds of Paris would have resonated with the works of his fellow exhibitors.. In the Zoological Garden 395762

An Interior at Hatton, Warwickshire. Artist: Attributed to Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr (British, active 1800-30). Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (14.9 x 20.5 cm). Subject: Associated with Dr. Samuel Parr (British, 1747-1825). Date: 1820-30.This amateur watercolor records an interior in Dr. Samuel Parr's substantial parsonage at Hatton, where he lived for three decades and ran a small private school for boys. Here figures read and chat, and apparently listen to a young women seated at left who plays an unseen instrument, presumably a spinet. Watercolors adorn the walls, and the style of dress and furnishings suggest a date in the 1820s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Young lady at a stone balustrade, Jean Frédéric Schall, After Claude Jean Baptiste Hoin, 1762 - 1825 drawing A young lady is sitting by a stone balustrade and points to an initial in a tree. paper. deck paint brush couple of lovers. carving heart and initials in an object, e.g. a tree trunk. adolescent, young woman, maiden

Comte, Pierre-Charles, Amsterdam, Allebé, August, Nobleman with high clergy and courtiers, A nobleman in sixteenth-century French court costume takes off his hat in greeting., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 237 mm, width 230 mm, Dutch, 1838-04-19 - 1927-01-10, print maker, printmaker, 1855 - 1927, paper, papier, lithografie (technique)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). German writer. The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774. Engraving depicting Werther surprises Charlotte surrounded by children. Edition of 1837.

Scene From A Comedy. Artist: Jacob Buys (Dutch, baptized Amsterdam 1724-1801 Amsterdam); After Cornelis Troost (Dutch, Amsterdam 1696-1750 Amsterdam). Dimensions: sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27.6 x 21.3 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Cornelis Troost (Dutch, Amsterdam 1696-1750 Amsterdam). Date: 1740-1801. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Scene from Faust by Wolfgang Goethe, Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig c. 1740, Germany, after a painting by Theodore Matthias von Holst, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original.

Retour du bal ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince, 1856. Constantin Guys (French, 1805-1892). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash; sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.).

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