Visionary Art and Illustrations

Artworks illustrating visionary themes and narratives, often incorporating mythological or spiritual elements through detailed etching techniques.

Victor, Hugo, Landscape, French, 1802-1885, 1868, etching

A 1655 etching by Rembrandt van Rijn illustrating the Vision of Daniels from Ben Israel's 'Piedra Gloriosa', using flat tonal shading on Japanese paper with detailed figure work.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Charles Carbonneau (1815-1871), engraver. "Madame de Bastarnay Yssit in great mourning." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101790-13 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655 print paper etching / drypoint Daniel's visions (Daniel may be shown having his visions explained, e.g. by the archangel Gabriel)

Lazio Roma Subiaco Monastery of S. Scolastica Archaeological Museum. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: Views of antiquities in museum, including sarcophagi, plates, vases, coins. General Notes: Hutzel guide says we have negatives, but we cannot find them. 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.

François Nicolas figure (1825-1901). "And the heavy mass fell". Albumin paper. 1868. Paris, house of Victor Hugo.

The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space 1891 Odilon Redon French. The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space 369639

Victor, Hugo, Landscape, French, 1802-1885, 1868, etching

'...all-searching Justice, dooms to punishment the forgers', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.

I Have Sometimes Seen in the Sky What Seemed to Be Like Forms of Spirits, plate 21 of 24. Odilon Redon; French, 1840-1916. Date: 1896. Dimensions: 265 × 184 mm (image/chine); 453 × 349 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Umbria Terni Amelia Cathedral0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Tombstones, baptismal font. Post-medieval: Original romanesque church completely remodelled 1640. Architecture, architectural sculpture, views of interior including altar and organ, baptismal font, tombs, pavement by Sangallo, paintings, frescoes. Extensive coverage of exterior, interior naves and altars, tombs, burial chapel and paintings. 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.

François Nicolas figure (1825-1901). "Considering phosphorescence, meditating". Albumin paper. 1868. Paris, house of Victor Hugo.

St Paul Landing at Malta, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Doré (18321883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful.

THE NIOBE AT MOUNT SIPYLUS, NEAR MAGNESIA, 1880

Odysseus. Artist: Norman Alfred William Lindsay, Australian, 1879-1969

The journey of youth , Youth, Pilgrimages. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Elia in the cave, Jan Luyken, 1704 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing Elijah comes to Mount Horeb where he dwells in a cave

The Two Small Horsemen 1865 France. Etching on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

Lying Girl (Spring) )(Femme couchée (La primavera)) from the journal L'Ymagier (januari 1895). Date: 1895. Dimensions: 27.8 cm x 42.9 cm, 21.5 cm x 31.5 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: ARMAND SEGUIN.

The Return Home, 1829. Edward Calvert (British, 1799-1883). Wood engraving;

'By that hidden way my guide and I did enter, to return to the fair world', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.

Old man, Old Tree (Vieil homme, vieil arbre). Medium: etching and drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.

"LA DIVINA COMEDIA". Poema escrito en toscano donde se relata el viaje de su autor, DANTE ALIGHIERI, para llegar a la CONTEMPLACION DIVINA. "GUARDO AL PAPA ANASTASIO, A QUIEN APARTO FORTIN DEL CAMINO RECTO" (Infierno, c. XI). Grabado de Gustave DORE.

Alphonse Legros, Death and the Woodcutter, 2nd plate (Le mort et le bucheron) Death and the Woodcutter, 2nd plate (Le mort et le bucheron)

A NORWEGIAN GIANT Little Fred and the giant beggar

Bernard, Michel and Alvin-Beaumont, Rijn, Rembrandt van, The Song of Simeon, The Presentation in the Temple, verso bottom center - pencil, print, prints, Coppier, height 212 mm, width 285 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1637 - 1641, second quarter 17th century, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century, first quarter 20st century, first quarter 20th century, paper, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Endymion, plate 45 from HistoireAncienne. Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879

Hanno the Navigator (c.500 BC). Carthaginian navigator. Engraving by Bertrand. The Enlightenment, 1882.

Lago di Levico. Young people bathing in the waters of the Levico Lake in Valsugana, Levico Terme, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Bernard, Michel and Alvin-Beaumont, Rijn, Rembrandt van, The Adoration of the Shepherds: night piece, verso bottom center - pencil, print, prints, Coppier, height 145 mm, width 195 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1650 - 1654, third quarter 17th century, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century, first quarter 20st century, first quarter 20th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, burin, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

The return to life , Sleeping. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Woodcut print depicting vagabonds, a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. Dated 16th Century

Iraq, Mesopotamia, The excavations at Nineveh directed by the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) in 1867

Forge Charles Jacque French 1848 View more. Forge. Charles Jacque (French, Paris 1813-1894 Paris). 1848. Drypoint. Prints

Half-naked woman with a monk in a cave. Young Rustick with the beauty Alibech in a hermits cave. The devil in hell. Le diable en enfer. Lithograph handcoloured in pochoir (stencil) after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930.

News. / 309 // France - Prometheus and the eagle-vautour. / 10.

Design draft for Purgatorio, Canto XIII, 115 from Dantes Divine Comedy by Franz von Bayros, created around 1920 using gouache and pencil techniques.

Wherefore doth fasten yet thy sight below amongst the maim'd and miserable shades', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.

Tableau with illustrations of the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, various waterfalls and the tourist hotel, around 1890, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, historical, romantic scenes of waterfalls and rivers in a mountainous landscape

Croque-Mitaine; 1863 illustration, by Gustave Dore (1832 - 1883); French artist, printmaker, illustrator. Croque-Mitaine (The bogeyman) a maleficent character presented to children to scare them and thus make them wiser.

In fear, do not go honor. Crazy of fear (Por Nordan Honor. Disparat de Miedo), Figure no. 2 from the Los Dispartes / Los Proverbios series; Goya, Francisco DE (1746-1828); 1864 (edition); 1815-1824 (matrix) (1864-00-00-1864-00-00);

Victor Hugo, L'Eclair (Lightning), 1868 L'Eclair (Lightning)

IFIGIENS IN TAURY. Copy from the image of E. Konald. Closs, Adolf (1840 1894)

Gustave Doré; Mourning the death of Atala from Chactas and Atala, a novella by François-René de Chateaubriand

The Site of the Bed and Oratory of Saint Francis (Luogo del 'letto' e dell'oratorio di San Francesco). Dated: 1612. Dimensions: book: 43.3 × 30 × 1.8 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 × 11/16 in.). Medium: 1 engraved illustration with two engraved overslips. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lino Moroni.

Copper engraving and etching by Robert De Launay from 1770-1814 depicting a scene titled 'The Pleasure', showing individuals engaged in leisure activities in a domestic or social setting of the 18th-19th century.

Christ on the Mount of Olives. Dated: 1743. Medium: chiaroscuro woodcut in dark brown trial proof of key block. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Baptist Jackson after Jacopo Bassano.

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days (Genesis 7:24) Old Testament. Antique bible illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

Canto V, Verse 43. Dated: 1803. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman.

Cityscape with three children playing on the street, under the watchful eye of two women, Florimond Buyck, After Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, c. 1870 - in Or Before 1909 print paper etching / drypoint village street

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Alphonse Pollet (born in 1807), engraver. "Succube or demon fascinations." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101788-7 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

Une Variété dans l'Amour (A Change of Heart). Dated: 1879/1880. Dimensions: plate: 17.4 x 11.4 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 23.3 x 16.5 cm (9 3/16 x 6 1/2 in.). Medium: etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground), and roulette in black on Japanese paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Félix-Hilaire Buhot.

Painting titled 'Beware the Ides of March'. Notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC

William Holbrook Beard, Genius, 1865 1895 Genius

The Cavalier 1848 Charles Jacque. The Cavalier. Charles Jacque (French, Paris 1813-1894 Paris). 1848. Drypoint. Prints

J'écoute les jets d'eau. Dimensions: 46 cm x 31.1 cm, 33 cm x 20 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: EMILE BERNARD.

'The Old Regime' by a Bolshevist Cartoonist Date: I

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Adrien Lavieille (1818-1862), engraver. "The dissection amphitheaster." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101789-7 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

Don Quixote's madness. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

Dante protected by Virgil from harm by demons. Dante Alighieri Inferno, first part of his Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) Canto XXXIII. From 1863 edition illustrated by Gustave Dore. Wood engraving

Kolb, Alois, work, Fröhliche Wanderschaft, etching and aquatint, graphics

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days (Genesis 7:24) Old Testament. Antique digitally colored Biblical illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Emile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891), French engraver. The group of idylls. Gaphite, white gouache, ink wash on bluish paper. 1885. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. TECHNIQUE MIXTE

The Well 1845 Charles Jacque. The Well. Charles Jacque (French, Paris 1813-1894 Paris). 1845. Etching. Prints

GUITARRAS Y BANDURRIAS - 1929-1930 - GRISALLA Y ORO SOBRE LIENZO - 4,20 x 2,35 m - LAS BODAS DE CAMACHO - COMEDOR DEL HOTEL ASTORIA DE NUEVA YORK. Author: SERT JOSE MARIA. Location: HOTEL WALDORF ASTORIA. NEW YORK.

The Cascade. Artist: Bolton Brown (American, Dresden, New York 1864/65-1936 Woodstock, New York). Dimensions: Sheet: 14 5/16 × 12 1/2 in. (36.3 × 31.7 cm). Date: 1923. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A man becomes lonely in a nightly landscape, Odilon Redon, 1886 print A man in the night, seen from the front, standing next to a tree. Print from a series of six, made for an album. print maker: Franceprinter: Parispublisher: Paris paper night. adult man (+ standing)

England, Thornton, Robert John, Blake, William, Illustrations of imitation of Eclogue I, Sabrina's silvery flood, Sabrina's silvery river, recto bottom middle - printed, A river through a landscape, on the right a house and on the left grazing sheep., print, book illustration, prints, verso middle - stamped, verso middle right - stamped, Colinet, height 32 mm, width 73 mm, 1757 - 1827-08-12, print maker, printmaker, 1820 - 1821, first quarter 19th century, paper, wood engraving, Work conception, after own design of, English, 1768 - 1837-01-21, client

Sea face / two figures In an abyss / king receives his guest / find a treasure, Cornelis van Noorde, in or before 1767 print Four performances. At the top left: a sailing ship off the coast in difficulties. Two men watch on the beach. Another ship sails at sea. Image for a text, stating that a ship on the beach is a beacon at sea. This calls on to learn from everything one sees. At the top right: A boy helps another boy climb out of the abyss. There is a lantern on the edge. Bottom left: A king receives a visitor under a canopy, who has a staff in his hand and a hat on the back. Bottom right: the interior of a derelict house, in which a man with a kick finds a treasure. Behind him is a woman with a child on her arm. There are two other people in the opening. Haarlem paper etching shipwreck. lantern. ravine, chasm, abyss, canyon. canopy, baldachin. ruler, sovereign. digging for or finding of treasure

The Death of St Jerome 1764 France. Etching on off-white laid paper, tipped to album sheet . Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Paul Gauguin, Maruru (Thank You) Maruru (Thank You)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

Le rêve s'achève par la mort from the series Le juré. Dimensions: 43.8 cm x 30.9 cm, 23.8 cm x 18.9 cm, 23.8 cm x 18.9 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: ODILON REDON.

AN AUTUMN TOUR IN SWITZERLAND

Charles H. Jeens, 1827-1879, The Birdcage, 1859-1879. Steel engraving.

Noa Noa; The Devil Speaks (Mahna No Varua Ino), 1893-94. Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Woodcut;

Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Goya, Francisco de, Spain, Los Proverbios (The proverbs), Los Disparates (The Follies), El caballo raptor, The kidnapping horse, verso lower right - stamped, A woman is lifted by her clothes by a rearing horse. In the background on the left a woman is eaten by a monster. From a series of eighteen prints., print, prints, height 245 mm, width 352 mm, Spanish, 1746-03-30 - 1828-04-16, print maker, printmaker, 1815 - 1820, first quarter 19th century, third quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, aquatint, drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

L'Apoplexie allant remplacer a Londres la paralysie. Dated: 1835. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Rijn, Rembrandt van, Flameng, Léopold, Beggar with high headdress and long cloak, a peasant's hut and two figures in the background, A beggar in a tall hat and long cloak, with a cottage and two figures in the background, verso - stamped, print, prints, images, height 117 mm, width 87 mm, 1831 - 1911-09-04, print maker, printmaker, 1841 - 1911, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08

Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel 1800-1805 England. Oil and oil wash, with pen and black ink, charcoal, and touches of incising, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper . Henry Fuseli

The Hunters of Eagles' Nests. Gustave Doré; French, 1832-1883. Date: 1857. Dimensions: 268.5 × 359 mm (image); 459 × 312 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy "Inferno" or "Visions of Hell"; Dante and Virgil in Limbo

An old knight, seen from behind, his head turned to the left, Old Knight Vieux Chevalier, print maker: Odilon Redon, (mentioned on object), printer: Blanchard, France, 1896, paper, h 298 mm × w 236 mm

ESCENA DEL QUIJOTE - SIGLO XX - FOTOGRAFIA EN BLANCO Y NEGRO - AÑOS 60. Author: SEGRELLES JOSE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. DON QUIJOTE. Rocinante.

The Distribution of the Franciscan Cords 1667 Jan Erasmus Quellinus Flemish. The Distribution of the Franciscan Cords. Jan Erasmus Quellinus (Flemish, Antwerp 1634-1715 Mechelen). 1667. Brush and black ink, gray wash, white, blue, and pink gouache, touches of red ink, over traces of black chalk, on brown paper. Traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink on three sides.. Drawings

François-Nicolas CYNLART. "And launched the grapple on the platform". Albumin paper. 1868. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. Drawing, man, launch rope, mountain, albumin paper, rock

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

People dancing in front of sad woman by Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel, watercolour and white colour on paper, 1890-1891, 1856-1910, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery

DRUIDA Y REY-DIBUJO DE DRUIDA-ILUSTRACION PARA CUENTO DE PERRAULT"PIEL DE ASNO". Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII) Various artists/makers June 13, 1874 View more. Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII). After Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). June 13, 1874. Wood engraving. Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). W. H. Lagarde (American, active 1873-74). Prints

Corot's "Saulaie Near Arras". Adolphe Braun (French, 1812 - 1877)

Victor Hugo. "Untitled". Plume and brown ink wash on paper. S.D. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 74628-13 Drawing, landscape, 19th XIXth XIX 19th 19th 19th century

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens. Henri Fantin-Latour (France, Grenoble, 1836-1904). France, 1898. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Victor Masson (1849-1917). Illustration of "Notre Dame de Paris, Book XI, Chap.i." Le Petit Soulier ". Plume and black ink, blurs, brown and gray wash, gum Arabic. Around 1868. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 74625-10 Boat, boat, goat, drawing, frightening, frightening, fright, illustration, lantern, navigate, Our Lady of Paris, Literal work, character, novel, Laute, mixed technique, 19th XIX 19th 19th 19th 19th 19

Stalactite cave near Slains, Scotland, hand-coloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Justin Bertuch Picture book for children, 1798, Weimar, Germany, Europe

'La Chantier', (The Factory), 1924. Artist: Dominique Jouvet-Magron

Winslow Homer, Perils of the Sea, 1888, etching on vellum.

Image reproduction: Antoni Jan Austen (1865-1938), Mara; Z: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1897, No. 44 (30 PAMIKNIK), p. 857; Unger, Józef (Warsaw; Drukarnia, Publisher, Ksi Garnia; 1841-Ca 1877), Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warsaw; magazine; 1859-1939); 1897 (1897-00-00-1897-00-00);

The Letter. Theodule Ribot (1823-1891). Oil on canvas. 73.7 x 59.7cm.

St John the Baptist, by perhaps by Cesari Giuseppe known as Cavalier d'Arpino, 1607, 17th Century, oil on slate. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Borghese Gallery. Detail. Tree trunk branch leaves bird wood green red

Stairway Gemmi, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

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