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Intricate wood engravings and prints depicting surreal and fantastical scenes, featuring witches, underwater worlds, and shadowy figures in a dramatic, dark style.

Illustration from John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Doré
Illustration from John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Doré
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ARTE SIGLO XIX. ESPAÑA. EGUSQUIZA, Rogelio de (Santander, 1845-1915). Pintor español influído por Bonnat en París y por Fortuny y los hermanos Madrazo en España. Orientó su obra hacia temas wagnerianos. "EL SANTO GRIAL", aguafuerte para la ópera "PARSIFAL", de Richard Wagner.
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Study for La Grande Jatte, woman fishing, 1884, by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), pencil, 30.8 x 23.8 cm.
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The Fairy Circle,  by Gustave Dore,  from Idylls of the King,  (1832-1883),  USA,  Illinois,  Chicago,  Newberry Library
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The Blue Grotto in Linderhof Castle, Bavaria, Germany, historical engraving, 1888, Europe
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A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell, plate three from To Edgar Poe Made 1882 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper . Odilon Redon
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Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna (1881-1962) State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 1914 Lithograph Expressionism Russia Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History
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Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Heaven, Song XVI) by Franz von Bayros, detail
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Smuggler's train at night in the Alps, historical engraving, 1869, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, exact date unknown
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The figure pictured here, according to Greek mythology, is Zephyrus was the god of the west wind. Zephyrus was the gentlest of the winds and considered a harbinger of springtime. He was pictured with flowers that indicated a mild light breeze. The Greeks honored eight wind gods. The others are: Lips, or Livos, the god of the southwest wind. Usually he was shown holding a ship's sternpost because when the wind blew form the southwest into Athens' port harbor of Piraeus, ships could not sail. Eurus, or Euros, was the god of the east wind. The folds of his clothes suggested heavy clouds. Apeliote
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Illustration depicting a fisherman spinning for trout at a weir. Dated 19th century
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Untitled (Family Group in Landscape with Lambs)(recto) and Untitled (Figures) (verso) Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978).. Pastel on canvas, 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20.0 cm).   American Art
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A woman seated on a flat boat on a marsh in the moonlight. Etching.
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Couple quarreling in the rain. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper
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The fiddler. Hans Thoma (Germany, Bernau, 1839-1924). Germany, circa 1895. Prints; woodcuts. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black and blue on wove paper
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The Gallery in the Great Pyramid. A section from the 'Description de l'Egypte' , this image gives the best pictorial impression possible of the interior of the gallery.
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Illustration depicting American miners working. Created by Kurz and Alison Art Studio. Dated 1899
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Dutch school. Detail of The Temptation of St Anthony. c.1500. Madrid, Prado museum. Author: JHERONIMUS VAN AKEN-EL BOSCO-J. BOSCH. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Witches Sabbath or The Witches, 1797-1798. Detail. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain.
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The Comet of Donati, 1858, 10 October 1858. In the foreground a man with a dog by a river. In the background on the left a church tower., Comet, river (landscape with figures, staffage), Cornelis van der Grient, 1858 - 1860, paper, drypoint, h 240 mm × w 147 mm
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Death, 1624. Artist: Unknown
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Lion Reclining (Lion au repos) Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875). Lion Reclining (Lion au repos), n.d. Watercolor on cream-colored wove paper, 9 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (25.1 x 33.3 cm).   European Art n.d.
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Sunset, vintage engraving. Sunset, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679261
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Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe, illustration from Poe s Tales of Mystery Imagination by Arthur Rackham, digitally edited Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe, illustration from Poe s Tales of Mystery Imagination by Arthur Rackham, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636420
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Saint Jerome-Detail #4 Bartolomeo di Giovanni (active1488-ca.1500 Italian)
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves  Morgiana pours oil into the  jars, killing the thieves  within.      Date: 1899
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''"Tess of the D'Urbervilles", By Thomas Hardy; "They reached the cloister-garth, where were the graves of the monks. Upon one of these graves he carefully laid her down" ', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.
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Games in the Sun (Jeux au soleil). Dimensions: 11 cm x 17 cm, 4.4 cm x 5.8 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: FELIX VALLOTTON.
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Folly of Little Bulls, Little Bulls Folly, Francisco Goya, Los Disparates, Los Proverbios, The Follies, 1815-1824, Museum Berggruen, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe, illustration from Poe s Tales of Mystery Imagination by Arthur Rackham, digitally edited The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe, illustration from Poe s Tales of Mystery Imagination by Arthur Rackham, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636474
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Woman by fence at night
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DIBUJO. Author: Federico García Lorca. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Francesco Petrarch, 20 July 1304, 19 July 1374, Italian poet and historian meets a young woman he called Laura, who may have been identical with Laura de Noves, then about 16 years old and young married, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original
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God, political caricature, 1882, by Alphonse Hector Colomb pseudonym B. Moloch, a French caricaturist
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The Toilers of the Sea. Artist: Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847-1917 Elmhurst, New York). Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 12 in. (29.2 x 30.5 cm). Date: ca. 1880-85.Ryder probably either selected or approved the title of this painting, which relates it to Victor Hugo's famous 1866 novel of the same name (Les travailleurs de la mer, in the original French). The painting could illustrate any one of several scenes in that novel, which features a fisherman character whose personality and attitudes resemble Ryder's own. The surface has changed and suffered over the years; still, as with most of Ryder's works, the composition conveys the artist's vision of the mystical relationship between people and nature. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Fisherman on the Lake, Historic Landscape in Southeast Asia, 19th century Lacquer Painting from Laos, Historic, Digitally Restored Reproduction of a 1...
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Merlin the Enchanter, one of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Morte d'Arthur.
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Rue Caulaincourt. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Switzerland, Lausanne, active France, 1859-1923). France, 1896. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph
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L'Intrigant', c1859-1889, (1924). Artist: Ludovic Lepic
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Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for Paradise Lost, The Paradise Lost, published in 1667, is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton, Inferno, Hell, Paradise, Angel, Damnation, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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