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133,797 works

Ink drawing of several blackletter title designs reading Deutsche Bücherei with ornamental flourishes and variant sketches.

Type design for a book published by Dr. P. Kieft

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Ink and pencil book cover design with blackletter title Waal-Waal, ornamental borders and a flourished lower-right corner.

Book cover design for: Margarete Boie, Waal - Waal! Das leben eines Sylter Grönlandfährers, 1942

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1942

Pen and ink study sheet with looping calligraphic flourishes and spirals on ruled grid paper, with a wash smudge at left.

Study sheet

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Grey wash design drawing of a classical ewer and a two-handled footed bowl on a ruled sheet.

Design for a jug and bowl

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1790

Watercolor self-portrait of a dark-haired man in a blue garment against a red and ochre patterned background.

Self-portrait of Jan Toorop

Jan Toorop, 1881

Engraved print of a cavalry battle on dunes, with armoured knights, horses, fallen soldiers and a distant town and windmill.

Battle between the Lord of Breauté and Gerrit Abrahamsz. Lekkerbeetje on the Vughterheide, 1600

Joannes van Doetechum, 1600

Engraved allegorical scene with a central standing figure, seated personifications, soldiers, angels with trumpets, and coats

Maurits as protector of Religion and Freedom, 1624

Simon de Passe, 1624

Engraving of a seated allegorical woman with an anchor pointing upward beside a kneeling bearded man labeled Judas, among rui

Judas and hope (Spes)

Hans Collaert, 1576

Pencil drawing of three cows in a meadow, one grazing and two lying down, beside a wooden fence and a tree.

Three cows in a meadow near a gate

Pieter de Goeje, 1809

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted figure in a sand circle facing robed men, with soldiers, a city wall and trees behind.

Popilius Laenas draws a circle around Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the sand

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey wash sketch of a theatre curtain design with classical columns, a seated woman, a lute player and putti.

Sketch for a stage curtain in The Hague

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1803

Pen and brown wash drawing of allegorical figures by a column, with ships in a harbor and barrels in the foreground.

Allegory of Shipping, Trade and Abundance

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and brown ink sketch of a theatre interior with a draped curtain, a seated man, and a standing woman beside a pillar.

Sketch for a stage curtain in The Hague, seen from the side

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1803

Ink and wash drawing of an organ grinder and a child beside a house, with a sailboat and figures at windows.

Design for the face of a clock with an organ grinder in front of a house

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey ink drawing of a seated ruler under a canopy receiving a woman and attendants in a vaulted hall.

A monarch on his throne receives a woman and her entourage

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and grey wash design of a symmetrical facade with a radiant cloud above a central arch inscribed PAX.

Design for a decoration on the building of Felix Meritis

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1802

Pen and watercolour design of a domed circular temple with columns, a central statue, and the word Concordia on its frieze.

Design for a Temple of Harmony

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a classical building with a dome, pediment, and central columned portico.

Design for decorations on the Felix Meritis building

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and wash architectural design of an arched niche with drapery and figures, inscribed Huldiging van Amsterdam.

Design for decoration on the Felix Meritis building with Homage to Amsterdam

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown ink and wash drawing of four putti playing music under a tree within an arched overdoor design.

Design for an overdoor with making-music putti

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey ink drawing of a man and woman at a table beside two landscape sketches with trees and sky.

Sketch of man and woman at table and two sketches of landscapes

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Print of a stream flowing past grass toward a small wooden footbridge, with trees and a hillside beyond under a pale sky.

Landscape with brook and bridge near Moret

Paul Naudot, 1890

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar, with caption naming Reinier Pauw, Amsterdam burgomaster.

Portrait of Reinier Adriaensz. Pauw

Jacob Houbraken, 1749

Portrait of Pope Pius VIII

Friedrich Giessmann, 1829

Portrait of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck

Reinier Vinkeles, 1805

Lithographic portrait of Pope Pius IX in a dark cloak with fur trim and an embroidered stole, shown in three-quarter view.

Portrait of Pope Pius IX

Carel Christiaan Antony Last, 1846

Hand-colored broadside with twelve woodcut panels showing scenes of a man's life, with Dutch verses beneath each image.

Not always does wealth or money bring man happiness and prosperity, / As you can verify from the history of Hans van…

Johannes Egbertus van Lieshout, 1827

Hand-coloured print of a printing workshop with workers at presses and type cases, with Dutch verses above and below.

With reverence and admiration, / Must you view this plate, / The reason for it, dear youth, / I will unfold to you he…

M. Hemeleers-van Houter, 1827

Hand-coloured print of figures of all ages climbing a numbered staircase of life beneath a Memento Mori plaque.

The ladder of old age

Hermanus Numan, 1827

Hand-colored print of sixteen small figures in period dress in a grid, each with a Dutch rhyming caption below.

See how an encounter causes miss fair-face / To change well six times on this plate

M. Hemeleers-van Houter, 1827

Etching of a wooded riverbank with two fishermen beside a wooden gate and a gabled house.

Forest view with two fishermen by a house

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1860

Etching of a village with a tall church tower and windmill under cloudy skies, with a cow and two figures on a dirt road.

View of Rhenen(?)

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a tall pine tree on a hillside with a figure and dog in a distant field under cloudy sky.

Landscape with a fir tree

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a tall spruce and two smaller conifers in a landscape, with a small figure on a path and clouds above.

Landscape with three fir trees

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of two figures on a rural road beside a large tree, thatched cottage, shrubs and a conifer under a hatched sky.

Two persons on a country road

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a dense forest with tall trees beside a still water surface, two small figures walking on a path.

Forest view with a body of water

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Dark print of a moonlit landscape with trees, shrubs and water beneath a glowing moon behind clouds.

Landscape by moonlight

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a group of tall pine and deciduous trees in a woodland clearing, with a small seated figure and cloudy sky.

Fisherman in front of a group of trees

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a large leaning tree in a landscape with a distant church tower and cloudy sky.

Landscape with a large tree

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Satirical lithograph of drunk men, a skeleton, devils, a duel and card players arranged in rows on a sheet.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1847

Alexander Ver Huell, 1847

Satirical lithograph of 1845 with many small vignettes of students, a winged skeleton, an hourglass and grotesque heads.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1845

Alexander Ver Huell, 1845

Lithograph page with small vignettes of student life, including a seated young man resting his head on his hand at the center

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1848

Alexander Ver Huell, 1848

Sketched page of vignettes around a man in a top hat with women and a dog, with VARIA lettering below, from an 1842 student a

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1842

Alexander Ver Huell, 1842

Lithograph of militia men resting with women and a dog on a slope, with soldiers in formation on a hill behind.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1849

Carel Christiaan Antony Last, 1849

Lithograph of allegorical vignettes with a seated writer, cherubs, a donkey, a serpent and a skull, framed by foliage.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1850

Carel Christiaan Antony Last, 1850

Engraved portrait of a woman with pearl-studded hair, wearing a patterned silk gown and jeweled brooch beside a column.

Portrait of Terentia Albia

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Engraved portrait of a crowned woman in an embroidered gown with a jeweled necklace, Latin caption above and verse below.

Portrait of Empress Statilia Messalina

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Portrait of Aemilia Lepida

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Portrait of Petronia

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Portrait of Marcia Furnilla

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Engraved portrait of a woman in ornate dress and cloak, pointing down, before a classical arch with ruins.

Portrait of Flavia Domitilla maior

Aegidius Sadeler, 1597

Engraving of two laureate figures, Dante and Virgil, entering hell through a rocky gate with a tree and wooden doors.

Dante and Virgil enter hell through a gate

Aegidius Sadeler, 1580

Engraving of a bearded woodcutter carrying an axe over his shoulder, walking among felled and standing trees in a forest.

Fable of the woodcutter and the forest

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Engraving of a leaping chamois pierced by a hunter's spear on a cliff, with a town and trees in the distance.

Fable of the chamois and the hunter

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Engraving of robed men on a rocky hillside pointing at a mountain beside a tree, with a mouse in the foreground.

Fable of the mountain in labor

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Etching of a lion and donkey confronting a rooster in a hilly landscape, with a castle and river behind them.

Fable of the lion, donkey and rooster

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Etching of a shaggy bison surrounded by a goat, donkey, dog, weasel and camel in a hilly landscape.

Fable of the bison and the other animals

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Etching of a rhinoceros in the foreground under a tree, with three elephants standing behind it in a landscape.

Fable of the rhinoceros and the elephants

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Hand-colored print of a menagerie with rows of tigers, giraffes, monkeys, hyenas, bears and hares, with Dutch captions below.

Menagerie of various animals

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Hand-colored print of nine French cavalry soldiers on rearing horses in blue, yellow and red uniforms, arranged in three rows

French cavalry in the Crimea

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Hand-coloured print with eight small scenes of Dutch figures at work, including a milkmaid, a flower seller and an organ grin

Thus every man contributes his share, / For the salvation and benefit of society

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Printed sheet with domino tiles in a pyramid and a grid of hand-coloured playing cards by suit and court figures.

Domino and card game

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Hand-colored print of twelve framed bird vignettes with Dutch labels, including nightingale, lark, finch and parrot.

Museum of birds

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Engraving of the ruined Dunamare Castle on a hill, with a thatched cottage and figures in the foreground.

View of the ruins of Dunamare castle