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German

10,178 works

Engraving of Vulcan hammering metal at an anvil with cupids assisting and a nude Venus standing nearby.

Vulcan at the Forge

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child with an angel, a young boy holding a fish, and an old man reading beside a lion.

The Virgin with a Fish

Engraving of two men in a bout with leather-wrapped fists, before a brick wall and a ruined amphitheater.

Entellus and Dares

Marco Dente, 1520

Engraving of a bearded saint with a halo, holding a cross and a book, standing against a hatched background.

Saint Philip

Engraving of a violent shoreline battle with men in a boat, armed warriors, horsemen, ships and a classical temple.

The abduction of Helen

Engraved battle scene with armored soldiers and rearing horses among fallen warriors in a rocky wooded landscape.

Battle scene

Marco Dente, 1520

Hand-coloured print of a crowd watching a pink hot air balloon rise over the courtyard of Versailles palace in 1783.

Aerostatic experiment made at Versailles on 19 Sept. 1783 [...] = Attempt made at Versailles on 19 Sept. 1783 [...]

Balthasar Friedrich Leizel, 1783

Grey wash drawing of Christ with an open book at a lectern, surrounded by scholars in a columned hall.

Christ Disputing with the Doctors

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Lithograph portrait of a seated man with curly hair in a dark jacket and cravat, signed Agostino Rovere below.

Agostino Rovere

Josef Kriehuber, 1839

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club as a centaur grips him from behind beside a bare tree.

Hercules and Nessus

Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1504/1509

Engraved portrait of a woman artist with a white flower in her hair, holding a stylus beside a drawn head study.

Portrait of artist Rosalba Carriera

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1752

Engraved print of a classical arch framing a temple scene with worshippers, Moses with tablets, a menorah, and a priest.

Monument of the Mosaic religion

Friedrich Christoph Dietrich, 1833

Lithograph portrait of a seated woman with curled hair, lace-trimmed off-shoulder dress, and a carved chair, signed Kriehuber

Albina Maray

Josef Kriehuber, 1853

Hand-coloured print of a brown and white cow with a bell on a grassy slope beside a wooden fence.

Cow = The Cow

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1767

Hand-colored engraving of a sheep beside a wooden fence with trees, labeled Ovis, Das Schaf, La Brebis.

Sheep = The Sheep

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1767

Lithograph portrait of a mustached officer in a dark embroidered uniform holding a sabre, with a signed caption below.

Alex: von Nádosy Major and Commander of the k. k. Artillery Equitation Institute

Josef Kriehuber, 1853

Engraving of a kneeling man kissing a veiled woman's hand as women in period dress watch in an interior room.

Hand-kissing man with a weeping woman

Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1804

Lithograph portrait of a standing officer in a double-breasted uniform holding a cap and sabre, by Josef Kriehuber, 1854.

ALEXANDER GRAF MENSDORF-POUILLY Imperial Royal Major General

Josef Kriehuber, 1854

Two-panel woodcut: musicians at a banquet on the left, soldiers with cannons and fighting animals on the right, under a Germa

Allegory of War and Peace

Unknown artist, 1499

Engraving of the Virgin and Child seated under a tree, with a bridge and tower in the background, dated 1511.

The Virgin and Child with the Pear

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Engraved allegory with a standing woman among flowers, a central sun band, and an enthroned figure with children and a skull.

Allegory of Spring (Allegorie des Frühlings)

Christian Friedrich Sprinck after Philipp Otto Runge, 1810/1831

Engraving of a white stag with unusual antlers standing in a forest clearing with trees and foliage.

This white fir stag with shown rare growth of antlers [...]

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1763

Engraving of a bird catcher leading a horse loaded with cages and an owl, with dogs on a forest path.

Bird catcher on the bird-trap pulling with his equipment = Birdcatcher on the bird-catching ground pulling the nets

Martin Elias Ridinger, 1780

Engraving of Christ bound to a column, crowned with thorns, with two onlookers and distant crosses, by Dürer, 1509.

Man of Sorrows by the Column

Albrecht Dürer, 1509

Engraved print of a robed man in a cap meditating on a tree-lined garden path, with German caption below.

[Illustration to "Berliner Genealogischer Kalender auf das Jahr 1789"]

Johann Friedrich August Clar, 1788

Engraved print of the ruined Godesberg castle on a hilltop, with a tall tower, hills, a valley and figures on a path.

Godesberg

Friedrich Zahn, 1850

Woodcut of a Holy Family group gathered beneath a large tree, with an infant held by an older woman, dated 1511.

Holy Family with Joachim and Anne Under a Tree

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Woodcut of Hercules fighting Cacus among trees and a distant town, with a sword-wielding figure and birds overhead.

Hercules Conquering Cacus ("Ercules")

Albrecht Dürer, 1496

Hand-colored engraving of a brown hare sitting among flowers, grass and leafy shrubs, with Latin and German titles above and

Lepus campestris = Common field hare

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1767

Engraving of Christ on the cross with mourners and a soldier, skull at the base, by Albrecht Dürer, 1511.

Christ on the Cross, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Engraving of Mars and Venus embracing, the nude god holding a spear and plumed helmet, with Venus draped beside him.

Mars and Venus

Domenico Marchetti, 1790

Engraving of a draped female allegorical figure with a radiant halo beside a tall cross and a carved column with portrait bus

The Catholic Faith

Domenico Marchetti, 1790