Rural Love Stories in Art

Depictions of pastoral scenes featuring romantic interactions between figures, set in lush landscapes with villages or nature in the background.

Mutius, an early Christian hermit, in a forest. In his hands a hermit's staff. In the background a village with a stream., Mutius the Hermit Male Hermits (series title) Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum (series title), print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), print maker: Raphaël Sadeler (I), intermediary draughtsman: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp, 1583 - 1588, paper, engraving, h 168 mm × w 211 mm

Young grain thresher sits resting in the grass, pulling his lover to the ground beside him In the background water and a village, Young thresher The young thresher , print maker: Noach van der Meer (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacobus Buys, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johannes Allart, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1777, paper, etching, h 245 mm × w 151 mm

Flight into Egypt, c. 1662. Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610-1664). Etching;

Weeping angel at tomb for Fanchette, print maker: Célestin François Nanteuil, (mentioned on object), 1823 - 1873, paper, h 359 mm × w 272 mm

A shepherd and a shepherdess are sitting under a tree. The shepherd wants to leave and the shepherdess tries to stop her lover. Against her knee leans the weeping Amor as a sign of unhappy love., Fleeing shepherd Il pastor fido / Le berger fidele (series title), print maker: Abraham Bloteling, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Zacharias Webber (II), publisher: Pierre Marteau, (possibly), print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: Cologne, c. 1677, paper, etching, engraving, h 103 mm × w 65 mm

War Lord commits suicide, Arnold Houbraken, 1699 print In a wide hilly landscape there is a warrior next to a tree, who pierces his chest with a dagger. To the right of him are dogs. At the top right: Fol 153. Print used in a book by Lambert van den Bos with a total of twenty prints by Arnold Houbraken. publisher: Dordrechtpublisher: Rotterdam paper etching seeking death, suicide. violent death by dagger, knife

. Print at the top right labeled: first book fol: 53.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus gevraagd als dictator.The Roman company Lucius Quincine Cincinnatus is appointed to dictator. A soldier lets him choose between the sword and a team. Eventually he wins the war with the AEQUI after sixteen days, to immediately take his fields again.

Melager fights with his uncles around the Zwijnenkop, Jacob Folkema, 1702 - 1767 print Melager has killed the Caledonian Zwijn and wants to give the pig's head to his beloved Atalanta. The two uncles of Melager do not agree with this, which leads to a twist. An uncle is already on the ground, the other uncle fights with Meleager around the boar head. paper etching / engraving the wild boar is killed, usually by Meleager

Mutius, an early Christian hermit, in a forest. In his hands a hermit's staff. In the background a village with a stream., Mutius the Hermit Male Hermits (series title) Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum (series title), print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), print maker: Raphaël Sadeler (I), intermediary draughtsman: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp, 1583 - 1588, paper, engraving, h 168 mm × w 211 mm

Allegory with Minerva as patroness of the arts. Allegory with Minerva as patrones of the arts sitting in landscape for ruin of triumphal arch and Greek images. Artists are tools on the floor. Two small angels wear shield with monogram.

Marshal of Logis after Borel Etienne Claude. The marshal of the Logis after Borel. Forte and Burin, 1789. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Don Quixotte drinks wine in a forest, Caspar Luyken, 1696 print Print at the top right marked: Tom. 5. p. 212. Amsterdam paper etching anchorite, hermit. Don Quixote

Mercury and Battus, Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, 1590.

St. Apollonius, April 18th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year) 1636 Jacques Callot French This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.. St. Apollonius, April 18th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1636. Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Prints

Ferdinand receives the city's city's city meageant; entry from Ferdinand in Ghent in 1635 (no. 6); Ergo Venisti Mihique Expectata Tueri ORA DATUR VICIT ITER DURUM VIRTUS TUA / Gandavensium Virgine Excipititur; Tabula I. A Tuteli Gandavensium Virgine Excipitur. Ferdinand receives from the townmaggant of Gent seated at the opening in a fenced garden the keys of the city. Presentation Central on top of the front of the triumph port Arcus Fernandi on the Friday market. Leaf no. 6 In a whole of 42 plates that illustrate the publication of the arrival of the Cardinal Infant Ferdinand in Austria in Ghent on 28 January 1635 as the new governor for the Spanish Netherlands.

Tobiolus Catches the Fish, from The Story of Tobias 1543 Georg Pencz German. Tobiolus Catches the Fish, from The Story of Tobias 432087

Quiriacus, pl. 9 of 30 from Sylvae Sacrae (Hermits inLandscapes). Publisher: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560-1628 After: Maarten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 Publisher: Johann Sadeler I, Flemish, 1550-1600

The prodigal son's inheritance has run out and now he must work as a swineherd. He crouches beside the pigs' feeder, his gaze going to heaven. The pigs sleep beside him, The prodigal son as a swineherd Misery Parable of the prodigal son , print maker: Gerrit de Broen (I), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Gerrit de Broen (I), (mentioned on object), publisher: Gerrit de Broen (I), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, c. 1684 - c. 1740, paper, etching, engraving, h 312 mm × w 205 mm

Flora stabbed by one. View in a garden at a palace. A group of figures under a tree. In the foreground is Flora, which has just been inserted by one. A swarm of bees flies from flora to the tree.

Epileptics Walking to the Left. Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda () ca. 1525-1569 Brussels); Hendrick Hondius I (Netherlandish, Duffel 1573-1650 Amsterdam). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in. (23 x 17 cm). Date: 1642. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Teiresias stores in a forest two mating snakes. Then he turned into a woman. Seven years later he changed back into a man again after two mating snakes have beaten, part of a series of 52 prints that depict stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), Dating 1615.

Lust seduces a young man, Jan Punt, Afters Dionys van Nijmegen, 1737 print Lust leads a young man by the hand, and seduces him to deviate from the right path. She steps with her foot on the tables of the law. The revenge looks in the air, with a sword and torch in the hands. On the left in the foreground the snake and on a stone the title in Dutch. In the background the worship of Baal and lusty figures. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Lust, Luxury, 'Luxuria'; 'Lussuria' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Deadly Sins. the new tables of the law (Exodus 34). snakes. the Moabite women lead the Israelites into the worship of Baal-Peor

Hans van Overdam imprisoned in a forest near Ghent, 1550, Jan Luyken, 1685 print Amsterdam paper etching arrest (of criminal). forest, wood. persecution of heretics Ghent

Gideon and the wet sheepskin ..

France, Lesueur, Eustache, Picart, Bernard, Rebekah and Eliezer at the well, verso lower left - stamped, Rebekah meets Eliezer, Abraham's servant, at the well. On the right in the background his camels. In the foreground a man pours water from a jug into a drinking trough for the sheep., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 248 mm, width 155 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, engraving maker, 1683 - 1733, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Frans, 1617-11-19 - 1655-04-30, intermediary draughtsman

Death tries to get a man in his boat.

Village Girl Dancing 1626-28 Abraham Bosse French. Village Girl Dancing 387885

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. 1606 - 1680. Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco, 1606-1680. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Old woman on a donkey, led by a young woman, Roeland van Laer, 1605 - 1673 print paper etching ass, donkey. old woman. adult woman

Lambert Melisz. Flight with his mother in a sled over the ice, 1574, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print Lambert Melisz. From Westzaan flee with his mother in a sled over the ice to Hoorn, February 1574. In the background, soldiers near a mill and houses. Amsterdam paper etching sledge, sleigh (winter sports). winter landscape; landscape symbolizing winter (the four seasons of the year)

Achilles taught by Chiron, J. Alexander Janssens, after Victor Honoré Janssens, c. 1700 print Landscape with Thetis and the young Achilles with a bow and arch, which is taught by Chiron. On the left a wild boar, hare and bird, referring to the lessons in the hunt. In the background, a man with an arrow and bow on a deer. In the middle: 7. Seventh print from a series of fourteen with scenes from the life of Achilles. South of the Netherlands paper engraving / etching Thetis hands Achilles over to Chiron, the centaur. non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships of Chiron

The Agony in The Garden, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1652 print paper counterproof / counterproof / etching / drypoint Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, 'Oelberg' (Matthew 26:36-56; Mark 14:32-52; Luke 22:39-53; John 18:1-12)

Frontispiece for the Sacred Cosmologia (Title with Astrologers). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Stone hurling boy The Pendulum, print maker: Jan Luyken, print maker: Zacharias Chatelain (II), publisher: weduwe Pieter Arentsz (II), Amsterdam, 1712, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 96 mm × w 83 mm

Acclaimed men and women together in a forest, Anonymous, 1600 - 1699 print France paper etching honouring the artist with laurel wreath

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Honoré Daumier, Allons pour année papa mars , 19th century Allons pour année papa mars ...

Frontispiece of 'Essai sur l'architecture' by Charles Eisen, published in Paris in 1755 by N.-B. Duchesne. The image features themes of architecture and allegory as artistic devices

France, French Crown, Paris, Mariette, Pierre (I), Bella, Stefano della, Twelve landscapes, Peasant woman with basket, verso - stamped, A landscape with a peasant woman with a basket under her arm. On the left a peasant. The figures seen from behind., print, prints, height 87 mm, width 135 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1596 - 1657, publisher, uitgever van privilege

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Arcas focuses his arrow on Callisto; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow on a bear, not knowing that his mother is. She has changed by Juno in a bear fifteen years earlier. In the background right, Jupiter places mother and son to heaven like constellations. In the undermarge a four-line explanation, in two columns, in Latin.

Abraham and Isaac. Lucas van Leyden; Netherlandish, 1494-1533. Date: 1512-1522. Dimensions: 288 x 215 mm. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Amsterdam, Luyken, Jan, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 127 mm, width 74 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, papier, etching

Woman overlooks the branding over the sea, Jan Luyken, 1687 print Amsterdam paper etching surf, breakers

Myśliwi z psem. Reinhart, Johann Christian (1761-1847), graphic artist

Tobias catches the big fish. .

Augsburg, Nilson, Johann Esaias, Le Chant, Das Singen, Het zingen, verso - stamped, In a landscape sits a woman on a chair with a open music book on her lap. To her left a man is playing a flute, he is standing next to a bass violin. To the right of the woman stands a boy. Around the representation a rocaille frame with a water-pouring putto. In the bottom margin two four-line French and German texts., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 285 mm, width 187 mm, German, 1721-11-02 - 1788, print maker, printmaker, 1731 - 1788, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Clothing and armor of the Batavians. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys. Dating: 1784 - 1786. Measurements: h 148 mm × w 90 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, The Daughters of Cecrops Open the Casket Entrusted to Them by Minerva, 1589 The Daughters of Cecrops Open the Casket Entrusted to Them by Minerva

Two pilgrims near a pond, Anonymous, After Jan van de Velde (II), 1603 - 1652 print Two pilgrims on the edge of one lake, one of which has been seen on the back. In the background two figures with baskets on their backs. Fourth print from a series of six. Amsterdam paper etching pilgrim(s). lake

A copper engraving by Hendrick Goltzius depicting Christ speaking with the Samaritan woman, created in 1589. The work captures facial expressions, gestures, and narrative detail.

Fokke, Simon, Amsterdam, Two gentlemen in nature, verso - stamped, Two gentlemen in conversation in nature. In the distance a view of a farm with loose animals. Print marked top left: XXII, print, book illustration, prints, height 142 mm, width 120 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1722 - 1784, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

Job on the manure heap, surrounded by his wife and friends, Jan Luyken, 1712 print Amsterdam paper etching Job on the dunghill visited by his friends (and wife)

Hondius, Hendrick (I), The Hague, Wtenbrouck, Moyses van, The story of Hagar, The rejection of Hagar, verso lower left - stamped, Sara and Abraham look down on the kneeling Hagar. Next to her stands Ishmael. In the background a pond and some ruins. On a recumbent column lower right numbered as 2., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 131 mm, width 185 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1600 - 1647, print maker, printmaker, 1646 - 1646, paper, papier, etching, etsen, engraving, graveren (drukprocedé), Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, publisher, uitgever, 1646 - 1696

Similar to the infertile fig tree. .

Personified soul in conversation with the meat and a blind; The soul between the meat and a blind.

Man sees how a tree loses its leaves and at the trunk the world is amidst bones, Jan Luyken, 1710 print Amsterdam paper etching earth, world as celestial body. forest, wood. 'Vanitas' symbols

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Harvest, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Geschiedenis en de vier werelddelen.History, with wings and laurel wreath on the head, writes in her book. The persons settlements of the four continents are at her. From left to right: Europe with a cornucopia and crown on the head, Africa with turban on the head, Asia with an incense and america with transit and bow. In the background the world stage with links a battlefield and on the right the peace, which is closed between two rulers. At the bottom of the margin a four-line text in French.

Salvator Rosa, Alexander in the Studio of Apelles, c 1662 Alexander in the Studio of Apelles

A young couple watches three boys argue in the background, Fighting boys Four genre scenes , Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert, print maker: anonymous, Utrecht, after c. 1632 - 1700, paper, etching, h 135 mm × w 180 mm

Sleeping shepherdesses, Adriaen van der Kabel, 1648 - 1705

Saint Anthony of Padua. Dated: 1640s. Dimensions: plate: 21.5 x 14.1 cm (8 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) sheet: 21.6 x 15.4 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: GIULIO CARPIONI.

Landscape with two river gods, Jan Caspar Philips, 1749 print Landscape with two river gods, one of them points to two coats of arms. In the margin a four -line caption in Dutch. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ province; provincial). river personified, 'Fiumi' (Ripa)

Tobias catches the big fish, Jan Luyken, 1708 print paper etching the angel Raphael tells Tobias to cut the fish to pieces

Harlekijn as a distiller, Pieter Tanjé, after Gerard Melder, 1726 print As a distillerer, Harlequin gives a glass of wine to a king with donkey ears. In the background there are a drink, which is called 'in the four winds'. Drink a swan and a donkey from the same scale. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin. distilled spirits

Artist: Claas Pauwelszoon, Dutch, active 1600-1650, Flight intoEgypt, Etching and engraving, 15.5 × 20.4 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/16in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Allegorical representation with Ruleness and Arab, Jan Caspar Philips, 1761 print The personification of lusts is with dagger and yoke. Next to her is a figure in animal skin with torch. On the left, an Arab points to a long role with names of caliphs. Between the three in torn two putti papers and a putti with a zodiac around its waist and a half moon on the head. A battle takes place in the background. paper etching / engraving imperialism. Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Amor at a tree catching wind; Emblemes d'Amour. Amor has a tree that is plagued by the wind. Just like a tree, caught by wind growing stronger, so love grows stronger when it is counteracted. Twenty-first emblem from Emblemata Amatoria.

Pedicer with a child at a ditch, Louis Bernard Coclers, 1756 - 1817 print A beggar walks with a little girl past a frozen ditch. She keeps her hand open to ask for an alms. On the ditch, two men are binding their skates. unknown paper etching / drypoint Begin

The Chapel of the Enfants-Trouvés in Paris: Groupe des bergers devant une chaumière. Artist: Etienne Fessard (French, Paris 1714-1777 Paris); After Charles Joseph Natoire (French, Nîmes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 20 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (52.1 × 28.3 cm). Date: 1757.From a series of fifteen plates engraved by Fessard after the paintings by Natoire in the Chapel of the Enfants-Trouvés, Paris. The chapel was built in 1746-50 based on designs by Germain Boffrand, but destroyed in the 19th century. The main altar depicted The Adoration of the Magi and subsidiary scenes included the children and nuns of the orphanage as onlookers. Natoire's scenes were set into trompe l'oeil surrounds painted by Paolo Antonio and Gaetano Brunetti, giving the illusion that the viewer was standing in a ruined building. Fessard's suite of prints includes a perspective view of the interior based on a drawing by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Minerva and Telemachus in front of a temple Adventures of Telemachus (series title), Minerva points out the kneeling Telemachus to an angel standing in front of a temple. A second angel blows the trumpet in the air, and demonic figures fly lower. In a stone next to the warrior is carved: Telemaque., (Story of) Telemachus, (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena), Simon Fokke (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1753, paper, etching, h 149 mm × w 96 mm

Man and Woman View a Compass on the Coast, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing compass. coast

Allegorical performance with freedom and good governance; Counter State of Switserland and Northern Italy in which the statements of the Could. v. Sardinia, Milan, Parma, Venice etc.; Title page for: Thomas Salmon, contemporary history or present state of Switzerland and Italy. First part, 1760.Mountainous Landscape with the Personnifications of Freedom and Good Governance. On a Ruin Behind Them The Title in Dutch. On The Left The Winged Lion of Evangelist Marcus, The Symbol of Venice, An Image of the San Marcoplein. In The Foreground Two Putti With The Riches Of The Area.

The month of August: children swim in a river. Hay bales are on the shore. In the margin a two-time poem in Dutch and in French.

Print at the top right labeled: fol: 413.

Three women and a dragon, In a forest two women look frightened at a third woman sitting next to a dragon., dragon, Jacob Folkema, 1703 - 1767, paper, brush, h 115 mm × w 71 mm

Sadeler, Raphael (I), Johann (I), Vos, Maerten de, Antwerp, Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum, Male Hermits, Copres of Egypt as a Hermit, verso lower left - stamped, Saint Copres of Egypt as a Hermit in a Garden. He is sitting reading a Bible while resting from his work in the garden. Next to him on the ground lie all kinds of vegetables. In the background is a hermit's hut., print, prints, height 165 mm, width 204 mm, South Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1600, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1532 - 1603-12-04, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, 1560, Southern Netherlands

Mercury and Argus, Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612 - 1648, Etching on paper, Italy, ca. 1640, Print, Print

Bird catcher at a bird and bait in a tree, Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne (II), 1714 print A man gets a bird that flewed on a hung bird like bait in a tree, from a bow. Symbol on people who are caught by temptations, can only be freed again by God's help. Haarlem paper etching catching animals. fowling, fowler. finch trap, finchery (+ variant)

Amsterdam, Luyken, Caspar, Farewell to David and Jonathan, verso - manuscript in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 105, height 113 mm, width 147 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1672-12-18 - 1708-10-04, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, papier, etching

Exodus of the Israelites. Draughtsman: Peter Paul Rubens. Draughtsman: Pirro Ligorio. Dating: 1535 - 1545. Measurements: h 357 mm × w 252 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Artist: C.A.W., Italian, After: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, Italian, 1610-1662, MythologicalScene, Engraving, image: 37.2 × 33.5 cm (14 5/8 × 13 3/16in.), Italian, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Print at the top right labeled: FIG. 17.

Bileam and his donkey, print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1712, paper, etching, h 139 mm × w 79 mm

The Fiddler and the Hurdy-Gurdy Boy. Adriaen van Ostade (Holland, Haarlem, 1610-1685). Holland, 1660 (). Prints; etchings. Etching

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Albrecht Altdorfer, Saint Christopher Seated by a River Bank, c 1515 1517 Saint Christopher Seated by a River Bank

Lambert Melisz. from Westzaan flees with his mother over the ice to Hoorn, 1573, 1700 - 1702 Lambert Melisz. from Westzaan flee with his mother from his house burned by the Spaniards over the ice to Hoorn, 1573 Northern Netherlands paper etching Zaanstreek. Westzaan. Hoorn (North Holland). Warmer Lambert Melisz. from Westzaan flee with his mother from his house burned by the Spaniards over the ice to Hoorn, 1573 Northern Netherlands paper etching Zaanstreek. Westzaan. Hoorn (North Holland). Warmer

Reign, he says, triumphs, and times in all my son. Gravelot, Hubert François (1699 1773), Le Vasseur, Charles Jean (1734 1816)

On December 11, 1568, Anthony van Lalaing, Count of Hoogstraten, dies amidst soldiers, while his hand is held by Prince William I. This print is part of a series of 24 prints depicting scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584 and is an illustration of the third hymn, Death of the Count of Hoogstraten, 1568 I did Hoogstraten's count carry away the flood Scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584 (series title), print maker: Theodoor Koning, (mentioned on object), Jacobus Buys, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johannes Smit & Zoon, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1779, paper, engraving, h 275 mm × w 220 mm

Mercury Lulling Argos to Sleep. Dated: 1665. Dimensions: plate: 15 x 14.7 cm (5 7/8 x 5 13/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 x 14.9 cm (6 x 5 7/8 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: the Elder Georg Andreas Wolfgang.

Jan Pietersz Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius, Summer, 1601 Summer

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The gin seller and the three beggars, Jan van Ossbeeck, 1647 - 1674 print Along a road are three beggars with their donkey near a stone block. One of them is on the stone. A merchant who wears a basket with bottles in front of his stomach comes by to sell his gin. Netherlands paper etching wandering or travelling merchant. genever, gin

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Monogrammist PQ, after Guido Reni, c. 1600 - c. 1699 print The Holy family resting in a landscape. Maria is sitting on her lap with the Christ child. Joseph is on the left. Italy paper etching rest on the flight into Egypt

Landscape with the H. Hieronymus. Hieronymus, praying for a crucifix in a landscape, booking next to him and a skull. In the background two lions.

Personified Soul contradicts the flesh, Jan Luyken, 1714 print The personalized soul contradicts the personification of the flesh (worldly temptations). Under her feet are game cards, a stick fair, coins and other objects that symbolize a sinful life. Amsterdam paper etching spirit (or soul) versus body

Haarlem, Ostade, Adriaen van, Two musicians at a drinking party, A man with a violin and a boy with a lyre play for a drinking party at a table. In the background a church tower with a flag hanging out. This print is part of an album., print, album leaf, prints, height 157 mm, width 133 mm, height 355 mm, width 262 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1610-12-19 - 1685-04-28, print maker, printmaker, 1654 - 1656, paper, papier, etching, etsen, Work conception, after own design by, 1846 - 1900

Jacques Callot, The Visitation, c 1631 The Visitation

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