Theatrical Scenes and Historical Figures

Illustrations of dramatic moments and interactions from historical events, showcasing costumed characters in intimate or expressive poses.

Man offers a woman a coin Dats de Bruydt daermen om danst , print maker: Salomon Savery, (mentioned on object), after: Pieter Jansz. Quast, publisher: Cornelis Danckerts, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1630 - 1665 and/or 1630 - 1718, paper, etching, engraving, w 197 mm × h 293 mm

French Directory (1795-1799). Government of France during the penultimate stage of the French Revolution. Costumes. Engraving. 19th century.

De vlucht van Hugo de Groot, 1621.Hugo de Groot says goodbye to his wife Maria van Reigersberg and steps into the book box, March 22, 1621. Below is a second album with an allegorical emblem in which religion and state of the sky rice. Design for a print.

Louis XIII, king of France, and his mistress Marie de Hautefort. They stand at a fireplace in the bedroom. With an empty margin.

Man offers a woman a coin Dats de Bruydt daermen om danst , print maker: Salomon Savery, (mentioned on object), after: Pieter Jansz. Quast, publisher: Cornelis Danckerts, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1630 - 1665 and/or 1630 - 1718, paper, etching, engraving, w 197 mm × h 293 mm

Kitchen maid and her lover at a cooking fire, J. Johnson, after François Boucher, 1743 - 1756 print Text in English in the lower margin. London paper kitchen-maid, kitchen servant. lovers; courting, flirting

Nicolas François Regnault, Le Baiser à la Dérobée, 1788, engraving on paper.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Ladies at Tea, between 1790 and 1795. Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, laid paper with gray wash line border mounted on medium, moderately textured, beige, laid paper.

The caption for this illustration that dates to around 1865 reads: The king and princes, astonished at his learning, loaded him with praise, and declared that they would take under their protection the young Jacques. Francis I ruled from 1515 til his death in 1547.

Hogarth Declaring His Love to Miss Thornhill, John Thomas Smith, 1766-1833, British, 1817, Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 3/4 inches (32.9 × 24.8 cm) and Image: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (19.1 × 13.3 cm), costume, dog (animal), gate, woman

George Keating, 1762-1842, Irish, Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire and the Rt. Hnble. Lady Georgina Cavendish, 1787. Mezzotint.

An unfortunate accident according to Evert J. Boksa. French Destrukt magazine Hoos, Jan van (N.N.), Boks, Evert Jan (1838 1914)

El rey Alfonso V de Aragón (1396-1458), llamado el Magnánimo junto a su amante Lucrecia de Alanyo. Ilustración por Urrabieta. Grabado por A. Roca. Historia de Cataluña y de la Corona de Aragón, por Victor Balaguer. Barcelona,1862.

Hero, Ursula and Beatrice (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1) first published 1790; reissued 1852 Peter Simon Peter's work encapsulates a Catherine of Aragon's angry meeting with Cardinal Wolsey in King Henry VIII. It was conceived for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, launched in 1786 as a publishing-cum-exhibition scheme that included a new illustrated edition of the plays, sets of large and small engravings, and a gallery on London's Pall Mall. The latter opened in 1789 with thirty-four paintings and contained about one hundred and seventy works the time Boydell went bankrupt and auctioned the contents in 1805-his print sales plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression belongs to an American reissue of 1852 spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily worn plates and had them reworked. Printed on thick cream colored paper, the New York edition added small numbers in the l

Marion Delorme, Act 1st. (registered title)

Design for a book illustration., Courtesy between elegant couple, draughtsman: Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832 - 1891, paper, brush, h 76 mm × w 57 mm

Lies, Joseph, Photo reproduction of La Guerre by Joseph Lies, photograph, photo, reproduction, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 96 mm, width 140 mm, photographer, 1858 - 1863, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print, Belgian, 1821-07-08 - 1865-01-03

Duchess of York, Print made by William Dickinson, 1746-1823, British, after John Hoppner, 1758-1810, British, 1795, Mezzotint (only state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 27 × 19 3/4 inches (68.6 × 50.2 cm), Plate: 26 × 19 inches (66 × 48.3 cm), and Image: 24 1/4 × 18 3/4 inches (61.6 × 47.6 cm)

Jean Louis Delignon and Antoine Jean Duclos after Jean Honoré Fragonard, Le cocu battu et content Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) Alternative names J. de La Fontaine; Jean de la Fontaine Description French writer Date of birth/death 8 July 1621 13 April 1695 Location of birth/death Chteau-Thierry Paris

Don Juan (dummy title)

Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, The Duchess foiled by Harley in her Attempt to Interrupt the Marriage between Masham and Abigail, undated. Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

The Benevolent Cottager, William Nutter, 1754-1802, British, after Francis Wheatley, 1747-1801, British, 1788, Stipple, Sheet: 21 1/2 x 15 7/8in. (54.6 x 40.3cm)

Jean Baptiste Greuze, The Angry Mother The Angry Mother

Young woman reading a letter, Louis Bernard Coclers, 1780

Young woman reads a letter. A young woman is sitting at a table and reads a letter. In addition to her, a maid holds a jewelery box open. On the table is a mandolin and a book with sheet music. Two portraits hang in oval lists on the wall. Right, behind a curtain, a walk to the front door suffers. Two women are going to talk in the hallway.

DOROTHY FORSTER

Prodigal Son with Harlots, Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695-1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, after Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691-1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716), undated, Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 10 7/16 x 14 1/2 inches (26.5 x 36.9 cm), Plate: 9 15/16 x 13 15/16 inches (25.3 x 35.4 cm), and Image: 9 7/16 x 13 7/8 inches (24 x 35.2 cm), alcohol, bottles, candlestick, card table, cleaning, dining room, drinking, drunk, embrace, entertainment, food, fruit, furniture, genre subject, gesture, jugs, kissing, knives, leisure, maid, man, meal, nobility, pears, plates, playing cards, prostitutes, servant, table, wine bottles, women

Honoré Daumier, J'ai eu beau le bercer , 19th century J'ai eu beau le bercer ...

Tom Jones & Sophia interrupted in a tete a tete by Lady Bellaston, from "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" 1792 Thomas Rowlandson. Tom Jones & Sophia interrupted in a tete a tete by Lady Bellaston, from "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling". The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1792. Etching. Prints

Actress Catherine Clive in the role of Phillida, Scene from the play 'Damon and Phillida' with actress Catherine Clive in the role of Phillida. In a mountain landscape, Phillida is approached by a shepherd. He has put his hand around her waist, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc, group of actors, troupe, actors on the stage, Catherine Clive, Pieter van Bleeck (mentioned on object), England, 1735 - 1764, paper, engraving, h 354 mm × w 253 mm

Lindholm, Berndt, work, Sketch book, 1869-1871, drawing, 12.5 cm x 20 cm, Lindholm, Berndt, part: landscape, in the middle a man walking on the road, marked lower right: Fästend den 19/6 69., 1869-1871

Don Quixote and Sampson Carrasco. From an original drawing by J.M. Wright.

On a throne sits a woman wearing an ermine-lined gown, her hand extended in front of her In front of her, a woman kneels pointing to a man standing next to her Bottom right: bl 163, Couple near a woman on a throne No, Princess, not his sister, his beloved I am , print maker: Philippus Velijn, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Cornelis Kruseman, (mentioned on object), publisher: G.J.A. Beyerinck, Netherlands, 1822, paper, etching, h 109 mm × w 87 mm

ISABEL DE FARNESIO MANDA ARRESTAR A LA PRINCESA DE URSINOS. Author: JOAN SERRA I MELGOSA (1899-1970) GRABADOR. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. ELISABETH FARNESE. URSINOS PRINCESA DE. TREMOILLE MARIE-ANNE.

The Harlots Progress Quarrels with her Jew protector From the original picture by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833

Etching by Jacques Bonnefoy titled 'That it is kind,' created around 1789 to 1815 in a punctuation manner style, depicting kindness and interaction.

Le cocarde nationale. Medium: color aquatint and etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Auguste-Claude-Simon Legrand after Louis-Léopold Boilly.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough, 1790. Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, wove paper.

Josephs friends Grand prince Paul of Russia and his wife Maria Feodorowna, Johann Hieronymus Rohlenkohl -, publishing house

Diligence and Dissipation: Good Advice from an Old Servant to the Young Ones (Plate 2), Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748-1812, French, and Thomas Hellyer, active 1800, British, after James Northcote, 1746-1831, British, 1797, Stipple engraving, open letter proofs, Sheet: 18 1/8 x 20 13/16in. (46 x 52.9cm), bonnets, literary theme, servants, vase, women, yawning

The Test of the Corset Artist's working dates 1761-1806 France. Engraving on paper . Antoine Francois Dennel

The modes merchant Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755-1832). "The modes merchant". Gouache on paper. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799). French writer and historian. Moral Tales. The Scruple. Edition printed in Liege, 1777. Colored engraving. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain.

Une Partageuse àLondres. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

England. The queen Victoria and the prince Consort Albert. Engraving based on a work by Sir Edwin Landseer. Engraving.

Jean Louis Forain, Dancer and Headwaiter, 1908 Dancer and Headwaiter

'The Samnite Marriage', c1799. Artist: William Ward.

A drawing of a young woman styled, executed with brown pen and brown and gray brush on paper, with gray ink added later, dated around 1637.

Thomas Bardwell, 1704-1767, British, Album Drawing, ca. 1730. Gray wash with pen and gray ink over graphite on laid paper.

Amsterdam, Duim, Izaak, Punt, Jan, Title page for: Nicolaas Willem op den Hooff, De Nieuwe Waereld, 1759, Allegorical figures in a landscape, verso - stamped, A crowned woman with scepter and all-seeing eye above her head is accompanied by a young lady, a woman with a flame on her head and Mercury with a caduceus. On the right a group of figures looks on. In the foreground a putto on a dolphin., print, engraving, title page, prints, engravings, height 142 mm, width 89 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1711-04-02 - 1779-12-18, print maker, printmaker, 1759 - 1759, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

'Dido'. The Netherlands. The Netherlands, 1530-1540s. Dimensions: diameter 23,9 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Cornelis Anthonisz. ( ).

The Death of Mark Antony with Cleopatra at left Artist and publisher Johann Georg Wille German After Pompeo Batoni Italian 1778 View more. The Death of Mark Antony with Cleopatra at left. After Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708-1787 Rome). 1778. Engraving. Prints

Ready tact - drawing for Punch drawings, works on paper

Black ink and brush watercolor drawing by Jean Michel Moreau depicting a toilette scene, showing figures, gestures, and interactions in an interior space.

Couple in a garden Kenilworth , print maker: Charles Emile Jacque, (mentioned on object), France, 1844, paper, etching, h 99 mm - w 140 mm

Schadow, Gottfried, Johann Gottfried Schadow with his family, verso - stamped, The artist, wearing a top hat, leans forward and looks over the shoulders of two seated ladies reading, respectively his sister Lotte and Miss Villaume, who lives with the family. Behind them stand the artist, his mother, his wife Marianne and the two sons Rudolf and Wilhelm., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 175 mm, width 114 mm, German, 1764-05-20 - 1850-01-27, print maker, printmaker, 1792 - 1795, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

La Mere laborieuse. Dated: 1740. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bernard Lepicie after Jean Siméon Chardin.

Illustration for 'Becker's Almanac for 1798'. Clemens Kohl (Bohemia, Prague, 1754-1807)Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (Germany, Danzig, 1726-1801). Germany, 1798. Prints; etchings. Etching

King Henry VIII of England meeting with Anne Boleyn. After a 19th century work by Jules David.

Auguste Claude Simon Legrand after Louis Léopold Boilly, Le cocarde nationale Le cocarde nationale

Engraving titled 'Marriage a-la-mode' depicting a breakfast scene. Dated 18th Century

Marie Antoinette, born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, 1755, 16 October 1793, was the last Queen of France and Navarre in front of the French Revolution with her son, reproduction of a woodcut from the year 1880, digitally improved, born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, 1755 -16 October 1793, was the last Queen of France and Navarre in front of the French Revolution with her son, reproduction of a woodcut from the year 1880, digitally improved

L'aventuriere, (The Adventurer), Jean-Antoine Watteau, (1684-1721/French), Oil on iron, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Troyes, France

Marriage portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa (1586-1643) and Beatrix van der Laen (1592-1639), married in Haarlem on April 25, 1622, Johannes Arnoldus Boland, after Frans Hals, 1875-1876 print paper. etching marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium'

Unwanted hug, Jacob Gole, 1670 - 1724 print A man embraces a woman. She tries to stop him. Amsterdam paper comedy. group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. being refused, the proposal rejected

Picture photography: Jan Matejko (1838-1893), artist's children, in the collection of the Lviv Picture Gallery; Krieger, Ignacy (Kraków; Photographic Zak 1860-1926); around 1880 (1876-00-00-1885-00-00);Amalia (1846-1928) - collection, Krieger

Engraving depicts the arrival of Juan Escoiquiz Morata (1762-1820) Spanish ecclesiastic, politician and writer. Dated 1807

Lady Time Present and Lady Time Past, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760-1775, British, 1773, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (42.2 x 28.6 cm), Plate: 14 x 9 15/16 inches (35.6 x 25.3 cm), and Image: 13 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (33.5 x 25.3 cm), bag, carpet, corsage, costume, dog (animal), embroidery, fan, fashion, flowers (plants), genre subject, gesture, gowns, headpieces, humor, interior, lace, pattern (design element), purse, ribbons, ruffle, ruffs, satire, scissors, shoes, train, trim, veils, wallpaper, wig, women

An engraving depicting a man who has suffered from syncope, a temporary loss of consciousness usually relating to insufficient blood flow to the brain. Illustrated by Francis Wilfred Lawson (1842-1935) a British painter. Dated 19th century

THE PATH OF DUTY, PICTURE BY MERLE, ENGRAVING 1876

Bliżej Kultury Hanfstaengl, Franz (1804 1877), Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 1669)

LUIS XIV, el REY SOL (Saint Germain-en-Laye,1638Versalles,1715). Rey de Francia (1643-1715), primogénito de Luis XIII. "El joven rey paseando junto a las hermanas Mancini, sobrinas del cardenal Mazarino". Se enamoraría de una de ellas, María.

The Delight Of Motherhood, (1885).Artist: Moreau

'Puss in Boots', 1903. Artist: Unknown.

Isaac blesses Jacob. Draughtsman: Cornelia Muys. After Govert Flinck. Dating: 1754 - 1821. Measurements: h 188 mm × w 244 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Bloomsbury christening. Old color illustration for Sketches by Boz. Charles Dickens

France. Licentiousness, ca.1810. Drawing of Auguste Claude Simon Legrand (1765-1815). Series The Prodigal Son. Plate number 2. Engraving by Castel Dibard (active 19th century). Hand-coloured etching. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain.

Benjamin Duterreau, 1817-1827, The Squire's Door.

'The Picnic', 1785-1790, (1938). Artist: Francisco Goya.

Zoffany, John, McArdell, James, David Garrick and Mrs. Cibber in 'Venice Preserved', print, prints, height mm, width mm, British, Irish, 1728 - 1765-06-01, print maker, printmaker, 1738 - 1765, paper, papier, mezzotint, English, 1733 - 1810-11-18

Interior with standing woman at a column.

An artwork titled 'La sylphide' based on the original painting owned by Mademoiselle Taglioni. It is dedicated to Monsieur Veron, the director of the Académie Royale de Musique, by G. Lepaulle, dated between 1834 and 1835. The piece is a mezzotint measuring 48.2 x 37 cm, published in Paris by Jeannin, associated with the choreographic work of Marie Taglioni

Prostitution, Young woman taking money from a man, c. 1700, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from 19th century original.

Netherlands, Gray, Romantic Scene, cartoon

Print made by Pieter Schenck, 1660-1719, Dutch, The Brother, undated. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper.

Family portrait of Catherine Petrovna Baryatinskaya (1750-1811), née Princess of Holstein-Beck, Morghen, Raphael (1758-1833)

Charles I bids a final farewell to his children Date: 30 January 1649

Print made by John Goldar, 1729-1795, British, Captain Conquest and His Baggage Wagon, 1772. Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Woman with a child on their lap, Johann Georg Wille, After Pierre Alexandre Wille, 1758 - 1808 print Paris paper engraving / etching mother and baby or young child

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, The Card Game (Der kleine l'Hombre Tisch), 1758 The Card Game (Der kleine l'Hombre Tisch)

Campania Caserta Caserta Palazzo Reale79. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture & architectural sculpture, sculpture, statues, paintings, frescoes, stuccoes, furnishings & decorative art General Notes: Discrepancy in number of prints & negatives. Hutzel notes 824 prints & negatives. Negatives for 1-62 of one batch seem to be missing (would make a total of 824) German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

The bribery scene from the second company of the Blijspel 'Hopman Ulrich or the deceived violence' by Johan van Paffenrode (1661). The bribery scene from the second company of the Blijspel 'Hopman Ulrich or the deceased violence' by Johan van Paffenrode (1661) . Standing for a house a man with chest harness threatens another man. In the doorway a young woman with a candlestick stands in hand. Part of the pastels collection.

Nicolas Lancret, Two Friends, 1738, Oil on copper.

Ohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. Friederike Elisabetha Brion was the daughter of a pastor who had a brief but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Family Portrait, 1807, by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), oil on canvas, 134x94 cm.

In a tea house a man is smoking a water pipe. A woman caresses him but he remains unmoved. They wear traditional clothing, Moroccan couple in tea house Maroccans , print maker: Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1807, paper, etching, brush, h 239 mm × w 153 mm

Print made by John Simon, 1675-1755, French, The Masqueraders, undated. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream, laid paper.

An oath to love, 1786, by Louis Rolland Trinquesse (1746-1800), oil on canvas, 131x98 cm.

PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT Wife of Edward III, King of England, daughter of William, Count of Holland Date: 1314 - 1369

Scene from the court of Christian VII by Zahrtmann, Kristian (1843-1917) / Hirschsprung Collection / 1873 / Denmark / Oil on canvas / Genre,Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History / 83x92 / History painting

Sunny Liasons. Robert Dowling (1827-1886). Oil on canvas. 111.2 x 81.9cm

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