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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Fête champêtre]

Elvine Claris, 1800

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

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

Hand-colored engraved 1711 view of Cracau in Pohlen with a city skyline, river, and foreground horsemen and figures.

Krakow in Poland

Johann Christoph Dehne, 1711

Engraving of prehistoric-looking figures carrying a body across a barren plain, with a grieving woman and a spear-bearing man

Cain

Léopold Massard, 1880

Engraved landscape of a tree-lined road, two figures, an arched aqueduct and mountains in the distance.

View taken at Cava

Benedikt Piringer, 1801

Engraved view of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine with ruined walls, a figure on a rise, a sailboat, and a riverside town.

Kaiserswerth am Rhein

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