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[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

Small etching of a bearded man in a turban with a feather plume, turned to the left, with a stern expression.

[Bust of a distinguished nobleman]

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1787

Etching of a stout man raising his hands while a uniformed officer in a tall hat grips his shoulder before a fence and bare t

[Anecdotes from the life of Frederick II]. Anecd. XI, Here I am

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1788

Etching of a narrow street between dark angular buildings, with a lit facade and shop signs at the far end.

[Wąski Dunaj]

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929

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

Stanislaus Augustus King of Poland

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1771

Engraving of women shelling peas at a city market stall under an awning, with a child and dog in the foreground.

May : the female pea-shellers

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1782

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

Engraved half-length portrait of a woman with curly hair and a white drape, leaning on a stone parapet.

[Portrait of a woman]

Jan van Troyen, 1660

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

Engraving of a woman in a headscarf giving alms to two ragged boys, one leaning on a staff, with a small child beside her.

[Caritas]

Giuseppe Sforza Perini, 1776

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

Engraved floor plan of a royal sepulchre with a central dome, circular chapels, colonnades and staircases, with script title

Iconography of the royal tomb

Giuseppe Vasi, 1739

Engraved architectural drawing of a domed chapel showing a cross section with an altar and a facade elevation.

Profile by C.D. = Profile through C.D. ; Facade towards the altar = Facade towards the choir altar

Alexander Glässer, 1756

Etching of a winter scene: a woman on a sled pulled by a fur-coated figure, turbaned onlookers, and a snowy village with chur

Complacency: in Russia it is among the people a general joy the return of the snow [...]

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1764

Etching of an old whitewashed townhouse with a decorative gable, a shop front and pedestrians on a cobbled street.

[Houses on Kanonia] : [Inc.:] News about old Warsaw

Tadeusz Cieślewski, 1929

Etching of a highland woman with a sack on her back walking past a cottage toward mountains.

[Highlander woman against the background of Giewont

Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski, 1903

Engraving of a crowd and carriages on a road below a wooded hill with buildings, titled Les dames de la Halle, 1791.

[The ladies of the Hall leaving to go fetch the king at Versailles on October 5, 1789

Pierre Gabriel Berthault, 1791

Hand-colored 1573 engraved view of Dantzigt with harbor ships, city skyline, and foreground figures in period dress.

Dantzigt

Frans Hogenberg, 1573

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 cavalry and infantry clashing with muskets and sabres in smoke before a columned neoclassical building.

[Action between Royal - Allemand and a detachment of the French Guards, opposite the depot. July 12, 1789

Pierre Gabriel Berthault, 1791

Etching of a stone fountain with an urn, poplar trees, shepherds with sheep, and a colonnaded building on a hill.

View of the Łazienki fountain

Anna Potocka, 1795

Engraved 18th-century interior scene with elegantly dressed figures conversing near tall windows and an ornate mirror.

[Illustration for "The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters Published from the Originals by the Ed…

Johann Michael Stock, 1770

Engraved print of a priest in lace-trimmed surplice and cassock holding a biretta, standing on a grassy hillside.

[Priest of the Island of Corsica]

Sébastien Leroy, 1800

Etching of a harbor with boats, a fortified tower on the shore, and turbaned figures standing at the right edge.

[Genre scene in a port]

François Collignon, 1639

Etching of shepherds with goats and sheep entering a dim rock cave, with figures resting near light at the back.

The arrival of the shepherds

Ricardo de los Ríos, 1900

Pen and ink sketch of turbaned figures around a nude central man beside classical columns, with a torch-bearer at lower left.

[Ecce Homo]

Richard Earlom, 1787

Engraving of women in white headwear in a dispensary, one writing at a desk, another reading, with a mother and children.

[At the Dispensary]

Georges-Henri Manesse, 1900

Etching of a seated woman and a gesturing standing man beside a desk, with a window and bookshelves in a room.

[Illustration for the comedy "Liebe nach der Mode" by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner] : [Incipit:] Really, Mama was rig…

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1784

Etching of a rural landscape with a stone bridge, farmhouses, rocky hills, travelers, and a large tree on the right.

[The return from the hunt]

Jacques Callot, 1630

Lithograph of a man, woman and child on a riverbank with a steamship and sailing boats below mountains.

[Love dominated by civilization, propagates it along its shores]

Maksymilian Fajans, 1890