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Caricature of a uniformed ruler stranded in a marsh as a club labeled Constitutie rises above a crowd, 1905 lithograph.

[Caricature of Tsar Nicholas II]

Johan Braakensiek, 1905

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski : Premium for subscribers of "Dziennik dla wszystkich" [...]

Kornel Piller, 1879

Hand-colored print of a gendarme officer with raised sabre and a lancer with pennant riding two horses.

[Rider from the field gendarmerie corps and lancer from the second Kalisz cavalry regiment]

Kajetan Saryusz-Wolski, 1880

Caricature of two men in wicker beach chairs by a seaside building, labelled Bülow and Clemenceau, by Johan Braakensiek, 1909

[Georges Clemenceau and Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, caricature]

Johan Braakensiek, 1909

Lithograph of a bearded armored man standing with a staff beside a slumped figure and fallen helmet in an interior.

[Venice in the 16th century]

Adolphe Mouilleron, 1881

Lithograph of a glass-roofed winter garden with a fountain, palms, statues, and strolling figures in period dress.

Winter Garden

Charles Rivière, 1900

Lithograph of the Strasbourg Cathedral interior looking west, showing a large rose window, vaulted ceiling and carved pulpit

Interior of the Strasbourg Cathedral : towards the west

Charles-Claude Bachelier, 1841

Hand-colored 1883 fashion plate showing two women in floral and red patterned period gowns in an interior.

Journal des demoiselles et petit courrier des dames réunis : outfits of Mme Turle [...]

Paul Lacouriere, 1883

Lithograph caricature of uniformed men and a woman seated on a sofa in an ornate interior, by Johan Braakensiek, 1892.

[Emperor Franz Joseph and Wilhelm II, caricature]

Johan Braakensiek, 1892

Loose charcoal sketch of a young man with tousled hair and spectacles, seated with hands clasped, on toned paper.

[Portrait of a young man

Adolf Edward Herstein, 1914

Hand-colored 1891 fashion plate of two women in striped and polka-dot dresses and large hats in a garden.

Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis : Outfits of Melle Thirion [...]

Paul Lacouriere, 1891

Hand-colored print of a market street scene with a stout man in a blue coat, fruit vendors, boys, and scattered apples.

The Spiritual Breakfast

Josef Lanzedelly, 1800

Lithograph of a rural Polish farmstead with thatched cottages, a large tree, a wayside shrine and a wooden fence.

[Peasant farmstead]

Józef Rapacki, 1921

Political caricature of three men in period dress confronting a crouching demon at a stone archway, with bare winter trees be

[Emperor Wilhelm II and Prussian politicians, caricature]

Johan Braakensiek, 1892

Hand-colored 1895 fashion plate of women and a child in elaborate period dresses and hats in a garden.

Journal des Demoiselles : Outfits and fashions of Melle Thirion [...]

Paul Deferneville, 1895

Hand-colored 1889 fashion plate of two women and a girl in period dresses and hats in a draped interior.

Journal des Demoiselles : Outfits of Mme Bruin-Cailleux [...]

Paul Lacouriere, 1889

Satirical lithograph of a man in military uniform beside a woman in armour and crown, with slippers on the floor.

[Emperor Wilhelm II, caricature]

Johan Braakensiek, 1892

Hand-colored 1891 fashion plate of three women in summer dresses and flowered hats on a columned terrace.

Journal des Demoiselles : Outfits of Mme Pelletier Vidal [...]

A Chaillot, 1891

Hand-colored 1896 fashion plate showing women and a child in elaborate Parisian gowns and feathered hats in a garden.

Journal des Demoiselles, Modes de Paris : Outfits and Fashions of Melle Thirion [...]

Paul Deferneville, 1896

Hand-colored 1897 fashion plate showing four women in Parisian gowns and flowered hats with blossoming branches.

Journal des Demoiselles, Modes de Paris : Costumes & Hats of Melle Thirion [...]

Paul Lacouriere, 1897

Hand-colored 1885 fashion plate of three women in Parisian dresses and hats in a garden setting.

Journal des Demoiselles : Outfits of Melles Vidal [...]

A Chaillot, 1885

Hand-colored 1899 fashion plate of six women in elaborate dresses and hats in a garden, with a parasol and lake.

Journal des Demoiselles, Modes de Paris : Fashions of Melle Thirion [...]

Paul Deferneville, 1899

Colored caricature of a top-hatted man leaping and holding a newspaper marked ÉLU while two onlookers react beside a wall.

[Now that I am elected, I tell you all...]

Edmond Lavrate, 1888

Daumier lithograph of a robed lawyer in a top hat reading a paper in an arched corridor, with other men behind him.

[The people of justice]

Honoré Daumier, 1879

Hand-colored print of two soldiers in blue uniforms and black shako hats aiming rifles while advancing.

[Two riflemen]

Kajetan Saryusz-Wolski, 1880

Cartoon print of a sad winged figure seated by a hearth while a woman reads a Nobel Prize newspaper in a room.

[Nobel Prize, caricature]

Johan Braakensiek, 1912

Hand-colored print of a soldier leading a brown horse with a bandaged leg along a dirt road, with a shrub and stone marker.

[Soldier walking on a dirt road]

Eduard Weixlgärtner, 1873

Etching of a brick cathedral with a tall spire behind trees, with a sailboat on the river in the foreground.

[Dom zu Kolberg

Otto Ferdinand Probst, 1923

Engraving of a Roman triumphal procession with a chariot, soldiers, crowds, classical temples and winged figures in the sky.

Triumph of Constantine after his victory over Maxentius on October 29 of the year 312 AD

Nicolas Henri Tardieu, 1749

Hand-colored 1894 fashion plate of two women in puffed-sleeve dresses and feathered hats before a riverside landscape.

Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis : Outfits of Mle Thirion [...]

Paul Lacouriere, 1894

Engraved 1751 view of Chelsea Royal Hospital and Ranelagh Rotunda across the river, with rowing boats in the foreground.

A View of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea & the Rotunda in Ranelaigh Gardens = Vüe de l'Hopital royal des Invalides à C…

Thomas Bowles, 1751

Engraving of Windsor Castle across the Thames with boats, swans, and figures fishing on the bank in the foreground.

A View of the Royal Palace of Windsor = Vüe du Palais royal de Windsor : á vingt un miles de Londrés

Nathaniel Parr, 1751

Engraved interior with a seated woman, a servant girl holding a candle, and a mirror, with French verse below.

The Beauties of Every Floor

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1800

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

Circular etching of an angel leading Saint Peter from prison past sleeping guards, with light rays and stone arches.

[Deliverance of St. Peter]

Johann Michael Frey, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded monk holding a book beside a cross, with a Polish inscription below.

Venerable servant of God Father Rafał Chyliński, Franciscan fell asleep in the Lord [...]

Secondo Bianchi, 1778

Engraving of a mounted knight in a plumed hat speaking to a kneeling woman, with armored attendants and donkeys on a road.

[Meeting with Dulcinea, illustration to "Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes]

Daniel Berger, 1781

Etching of a dim interior in Biskra with a child in a bright archway, seated women and children on the floor, and a round bas

[Poor interior in Biskra]

Félix-Augustin Milius, 1894

Etching of a couple embracing near an arched building as a woman in a bonnet waves from a garden, with a tree and distant tow

The happy rescue

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1797

Engraved Annunciation: an angel descends toward a kneeling woman beside a table with flowers, with cherubs above and a cat at

[Annunciation]

Albert-Ludovic-Paul Duvivier, 1878

Hand-colored 1883 fashion plate of children and a young woman in period outfits on a lawn by a river and castle.

[Engraving from "Journal des Demoiselles" from April 1883]

A Chaillot, 1883

Engraving of villagers gathered on a road as two men in period coats shake hands, with thatched cottages and trees behind.

[Illustration for the work "The Fishermen" by Johannes Ewald]

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1784

Engraved print of a mounted gendarme in a tricorn hat on a rearing horse, with a tower and sky behind him.

Gendarmerie [...]

A.-J. de Fehrt, 1756

Engraved print of a formal garden with a central fountain, hedge maze walls, domed pavilions, obelisks and strolling figures.

Second Pleasure Basin of the Labyrinth

Karl Remshard, 1735

Silhouette portrait of a man in uniform with sash and star, inside a red engraved ornamental border with allegorical figure.

Friedrich Ludw. Karl Prince of Prussia; born the 5 November 1773

W.H. Mewes, 1790

Engraved portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a rococo frame, with German inscription below.

Johan Martin Chladenius, Doctor of Holy Scripture, and Professor at Erlangen

Johann Christoph Sysang, 1749

Faded 1733 print of a man in military dress within an oval frame, with lettering below and a library stamp.

Lebrecht Gottfried Janus, General by the Muscovite Cavalry

Martin Bernigeroth, 1733

Engraved allegory: Minerva beside a bust crowned with laurel by a winged figure, with a seated writer and classical ruins beh

Virtue fosters [she crowns] herself Minerva

Carlo Antonini, 1770

Engraved architectural elevation of two stacked portals with rusticated walls, arches, pediment and helmeted trophies.

[Two portals decorated with panoplies]

Aniello Cataneo, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair and lace bodice, with a printed caption naming Françoise Marie de Bourbon.

Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Orleans, wife of the Duke of Orleans, Regent of the Kingdom

Martin Bernigeroth, 1733

Engraved river landscape with seven mountain peaks on the horizon, sailing boats on the water and large clouds overhead.

The Seven Mountains Coming from Bonn = View of the Seven Mountains Coming from Bonn

Hendrik de Leth, 1767

Engraved village scene of a fortune teller reading a woman's palm beside a large tree, with a dog and cottage.

David Teniers has his wife's fortune told

Benedikt Winkler, 1797

Engraved print of a haloed figure reaching toward a girl on a canopied bed while mourners and a kneeling man look on.

[Resurrection of Jairus's daughter]

C. W Griessmann, 1785

Engraving of a draped woman and turbaned men on a hill, with a distant castle and river landscape under cloudy skies.

The Slave at Auction

Pierre François Basan, 1797

Engraved print of a standing man in classical robes on a pedestal, surrounded by lyre, eagle and winged figures, titled Mozar

Mozart

Albert Henry Payne, 1855

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

Engraving of two gentlemen in 18th-century dress before a tree and classical ruins, one holding a portfolio.

The two brothers

Samuel Gottlob Kuetner, 1789

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

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armour with curled hair and lace collar, with a battle scene behind him.

[Roger de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, portrait]

Pierre Aubry, 1650

Etching of a gnarled tree with exposed roots and leafy branches, with the inscription Daniel Düringer and No. 1 below.

[First plate of an unidentified landscape series]

Daniel Düringer, 1755

Etching of a seated boy wearing a feathered cap, drawn in loose hatched lines within a triangular plate.

[Boy in a cap with a feather]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1774

Engraved panoramic view of Warsaw on the Vistula river with boats, a bridge, coats of arms and noblemen in an inset.

Warsaw : Polish Soldier Polish Nobles

Abraham Hogenberg, 1618

Engraving of an ornate ceremonial barge with canopies, cherubs and attendants during a 1716 Venetian regatta procession.

On the occasion of the solemn and famous regatta celebrated in Venice on the 27th of May 1716 in honor of His Most Se…

Andrea Zucchi, 1716

[Bust of an old Jew]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1784

Engraved street scene of marching guards and a drummer amid a crowd, with townhouses and onlookers at the windows.

A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, in the Year 1745

Luke Sullivan, 1750

Hand-coloured engraved pilaster design with classical figures, medallions, grotesque panels and a fruit garland, numbered IV.

[Raphael's Loggie] : [pilaster]. Num. IV

Giovanni Ottaviani, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a tall decorative pilaster with classical figures, grisaille reliefs, putti and gilded ornament.

[Raphael's Loggie] : [pilaster]. [N. 11]

Giovanni Volpato, 1776

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded ruler with sceptre and orb, above a French caption tablet and crossed weapons.

[Alexis, Tsar of Russia]

Jean Louis Charles Pauquet, 1800

Hand-coloured print of a decorative arch with a chariot scene, columns, a fruit garland and a Latin inscription below.

[Raphael's Loggie, archivolt and lunette] : Having subdued Syria, David took golden weapons, and brought them down to…

Giovanni Ottaviani, 1776

Etching of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with a halo, surrounded by cherubs and angels above a stone pedestal.

[Assumption of the Virgin Mary]

Carlo Maratti, 1713

Engraved architectural plate showing an ornate iron gate with herm pillars, plus plans and an elevation of a menagerie buildi

Trumeaux with double herms, between which are iron grilles which are the enclosure of the menagerie on the palace sid…

Nikolaus Mettel, 1736

Etching of soldiers in helmets surrounding a fallen man in a smoky street with burning buildings behind them.

[Death of François Xavier Eugène Froidevaux]

Edmond Ramus, 1887

Engraved religious print of a crucified Christ with angels and a kneeling monk in an ornate arch, labeled Imitation.

Imitation

Charles Albert Waltner, 1900

Engraving of a skeletal mounted general with plumed helmet and sword, accompanied by a cloaked skeleton and skeletal horse.

The General

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1791

Etching of men in period dress gathered in an arched hall, one reading a document beside a reclining figure and a draped tabl

[Reading of the death sentences to the Girondins accused of conspiring with the royalists]

François Flameng, 1879

Engraved church interior with a robed conductor directing kneeling choir boys in white surplices beside a wrought iron gate.

[Children's church choir]

Louis Muller, 1900

Engraved bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Elbing with star-shaped bastions, a river and surrounding farmland.

True depiction of the city of Elbing as it is by Royal [...]

Matthäus Merian, 1626

Engraving of a harlequin figure in a patterned costume and mask, hand to face in a weeping pose, with trees behind.

[Weeping Harlequin, from the cycle "Les Comédiens Italiens"]

François Joullain, 1734

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

Engraved panorama of the city of Dantzig with harbor ships, church spires and costumed figures on a hill in the foreground.

Danzig

Frans Hogenberg, 1573

Engraving of a helmeted warrior and seated woman with satyrs hauling a beam under trees, with French verse below.

Manhood

François Joullain, 1725

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

Baroque allegorical engraving of mounted riders, cherubs with coats of arms, classical architecture and a dedicatory cartouch

[Thesis of Marcjan Dominik Wołłowicz. Inc.:] Defendetur Sub faustiss [...]

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1685

Engraved print of a haloed robed figure facing a kneeling bearded man with a staff, framed by classical columns and an arch.

[Saint Paul?]

Stefano Mulinari, 1800

Circular engraving of a classical landscape with Ionic column ruins, a large tree, a river and figures on steps.

[Ruins of an antique building]

Gabriel Pérelle, 1677

Engraving of two Corsican hunters in plumed caps, one holding a staff and one holding a musket, on rocky ground.

[Hunters of the Island of Corsica]

Sébastien Leroy, 1800

Engraved forest scene with a seated couple, a standing man, a deer and a pond beneath large trees.

[Fête champêtre]

Elvine Claris, 1800

Etching of a man in a cloak peering into a cage in a vaulted cell, with a kneeling figure and a seated woman on a stone floor

Jacques of Armagnac Duke of Nemours in prison = Jacques d'Armagnac de Nemours en prison. 10

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1793

Etching of a peasant woman with a child and a man beside a wheelbarrow and rake, under a crescent moon over flat land.

[The day's work done]

Frédéric-Emile Jeannin, 1900

Engraving of a Mass ceremony under an arch, with clergy at a raised altar and kneeling congregation on both sides.

[Mass of Bolsena]

Rafaello Morghen, 1778

Etching of Ariadne kneeling on a rocky shore, reaching toward a distant sailing ship on rough sea.

[Illustration to "Theseus" by Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker] : [Incipit:] Theseus leaves Ariadne on the island of Naxos. 4

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1794

Engraving of peasants harvesting grain in a field, gathering sheaves into tall stooks, with two children at lower right.

[The Peasant of Pavlov in the Palatinate of Vilna 1767]

Carlo Antonini, 1795

Etching of warriors and a woman with a child amid burning ruins, with a nude figure fallen in the foreground.

[Scene from the Trojan War]

Henri Toussaint, 1911

Etching of a standing man by a cave with a seated figure inside, a horse among trees at right, and a German caption below.

[Virgil's Aeneid travestied by Blumauer] : What both lovers did in the cave [...]. 9

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1789

Etching of a narrow cobbled street with tall townhouses and a church tower rising in the distance, dated 1929.

[Piwna Street]

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929