18th Century Performance Art

Copperplate engravings and sketches depicting performers in elaborate costumes, showcasing traditional roles across theatrical and acrobatic disciplines.

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Standing man with a long coat, a cap and an object under his arm, print, prent, prints, prenten, height 102 mm, width 61 mm, Dutch, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

Mahomet Caratha, the Turkish Equilibriest, celebrated 18th century rope and wire dancer. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

Portrait of the bocage actor

A segmenter, From the series Remembrance = Images , Aus , Vienna October days , by , Zampis, Anton Zampis -, Lithographer, Johann Höfelich -, Printer, Witzendorf, publisher

A pencil study by Ludwig Koch focusing on Spork, capturing form, posture, and details of the subject for artistic analysis.

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Standing man with a long coat, a cap and an object under his arm, print, prent, prints, prenten, height 102 mm, width 61 mm, Dutch, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

Portrait of Johan Pieters Rael. Portrait of Johan Pieters Rael (1625-1659).

Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). "The Sultan's caravan in Mecca. Siam ambassador". engraving (etching). 1748. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 74201-15 Ambassador, arc, armament, Asian, weapon, headdress, comedy, costume, etching, fancy, character, saber, 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th century, engraving

Bliżej Kultury Unknown, Alvise Vivarini (1445 1505)

This copper engraving and etching by Cornelis Visscher, created in 1650, depicts Gepida, presenting a historical or mythological figure with detailed illustration and composition.

La Mère Gérard. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (United States, 1834-1903). United States, 1858. Prints; etchings. Etching

A 1737 copper engraving and etching by Comte Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus depicting crying old hats, showing figures, objects, and composition.

Jeaurat, Edme, Duchange, Gaspard, Watteau, Jean Antoine, France, Thomassin, Simon Henri, Figures de Modes, Man dressed in the fashion of ca. 1710, Standing man, seen from the front, head turned to the left, dressed in the French fashion ca. 1710. From a series of eight prints with figures in various costumes., costume print, prints, height 138 mm, width 78 mm, French, 1684-10-10 - 1721-07-18, print maker, printmaker, 1710 - 1738, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1687-02-25 - 1741-01-01, Work conception, after own design of, Publication (Event), Publication, 1662-04 - 1757-01-06, publisher, uitgever, 1688 - 1738

Jerrold, Douglas William .

Melanchthon, Philipp.

Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus, Plate 19. Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemia, Prague, 1607-1677). England, London, 1640. Prints; etchings. Etching on paper

François Joullain after Claude Gillot, Arlequin pleurant, c 1730 Arlequin pleurant

A female soldier standing ca. 1880-1910 José Guadalupe Posada. A female soldier standing. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). ca. 1880-1910. Etching on zinc. Prints

Bossuet, Jacques Benigne.

Costume of an Ethiopian soldier under Christian patriarch Prester John. Large turban, silk chemise, cassock of lion skin buttoned at the front, long culottes. Armed with scimitar, dagger and bow. Within a decorative frame engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann. Woodblock engraving by Gerard Seguin and E.F. Huyot after a woodcut by Christoph Krieger from Cesare Vecellios 16th century Costumes anciens et modernes, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo, Firman Didot Ferris Fils, Paris, 1859-1860.

Heinrich Friedrich Füger drawing of a French ruler executed with lead handle, feather, and ink.

Liereman; Beggars; By t Geeve Bestaet our Leeve. A man plays on a drailer.

Officier des Janissaires Polonais. Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste (1734-1781), graphic artist

Le page; Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste (1734-1781); 1769 (1769-00-00-1769-00-00);Branicki, Aleksander (1821-1877), Branicki, Aleksander (1821-1877)-collections, Branicki, Władysław (1848-1914), Branicki, Władysław (1848-1914)-collections, collection from Sucha-collection, Russia, Tarnowska, Anna (1876-1953), Tarnowska, Anna (1876-1953)-collections, Tarnowski, Juliusz (1864-1917), Tarnowski, Juliusz (1864-1917)-collections, Tarnowski, Juliusz Gabriel (1901-1989), Tarnowski, Juliusz Gabriel (1901-1989) - collections, French (culture), genre scenes

Régis, Jean François.

Bernstein, Tobias.

Cranach, Lukas Eraser: Bolt, Johann Friedrichfactic Location: Berlin

Lasalle.

The 16th Century. High Nobility. (Drawing Taken from the Pontificate of Erazm Ciołek) (), From: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 9.08.1862, No. 150 Unknown, Kossak, Juliusz (1824 1899)

Man leaning standing for the figures of Watteau modes Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Man leaning standing for the figures of Watteau modes. Forte, 1710. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Zhong Kui ", Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Ink and colors on paper. Paris, Cernuschi museum. Bat, color, ink, man, ink, paper, character, zhong kui, bat, tramp, color, color, man, paper

Buste of Jacques Necker on a pile of books, Anonymous, c. 1781 print France paper etching / engraving historical persons. chest, bust. book

Statue of the late Marquis Wellesley, by Weekes, 1845. Sculpture of Richard Colley Wellesley by Henry Weekes. 'This cleverly-executed marble Statue, from the chisel of Mr. Weekes...was included in the last Exhibition of the Royal Academy. It was a commission from the Honourable East India Company...as a memorial of their high sense of the Marquis's brilliant Administration in India, and which, too, has been productive of lasting good. Of his Lordship's six or seven years' service in India, it has been well observed, that, "without adopting all the exaggerated eulogies of the panegyrists o

Tamboerijn playing man, Salomon Savery (attributed to), 1610 - 1665 print A man hits a tambourine that he holds up with both hands. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving tambourine. making music; musician with instrument

Dancing farmer with a sausage, Nicolaes van Lijnhoven, Balthazar Moncornet, 1622 - 1668

GRABADO-TIPO MURCIANO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Man of the Khoikhoi with an ox-horn pipe in his hand, 1777 - 1786 drawing paper. deck paint. ink. pencil. chalk brush / pen Khoikhoi

Bohemian Woman of Good Quality. Wenceslaus Hollar; Czech, 1607-1677. Date: 1642. Dimensions: 94 × 62 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark at left and just outside plate mark on top, bottom, and right). Etching on gray Asian paper. Origin: Bohemia. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

An Officer Holding a Ceremonial Sword 1640s School of Rembrandt van Rijn. An Officer Holding a Ceremonial Sword. School of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Dutch. 1640s. Pen and brush and brown inks.. Drawings

The leprals; The Lazarus valve.

Publius Horatius, anonymous, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1586 - 1596 print The Hero Publius Horace, a sword was lifted in the right hand. In the background you can see how he takes on three opponents within a fence on his own. Twice two verses in Latin under the performance. Copy to engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from 1586. Northern Netherlands paper engraving two Horatii being killed, the surviving brother defeats the three Curiatii one by one

French actor Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest as Kerouan in La Closerie des Genets by Frederic Soulie, Theatre de l'Ambigu Comique, 1846. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1846.

It's amazing, twenty three thousand prisoners It's amazing, twenty three thousand prisoners ... "(February 1797). Anonymous print.

The famous Dutch woman, also titled The Dutch woman. Issued in London between 1800 and 1899, this engraving features a vignette related to dance, specifically rope dancing, in 17th century England. The dimensions of the image are 17 x 13 cm

Alexandre Bida, A Turk, late 19th century A Turk

Study of a woman from behind, early 19th century, (1943). Creator: Caspar David Friedrich.

Montenegrin according to the image of W. D. Polinowa . A clip from a Russian magazine unknown, Polinow, W. D. (n.n.)

Chinese Musician 1738-45 François Boucher French. Chinese Musician 394208

Portrait of Aesop, painting by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660) known as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish Baroque painter considered one of the greatest exponents of Spanish painting and a master of universal painting. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882

Dumouriez.

Joinville, Jean de.

The 16th Century. Chorąży, from the work of Abraham de Brown in Antwerp from 1581, from: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 21.01.1865, No. 278 Unknown, Kossak, Juliusz (1824 1899)

Edouard Manet, The Tragic Actor (L'acteur tragique), 1866 The Tragic Actor (L'acteur tragique)

This copper engraving and etching by Cornelis Visscher, created in 1650, depicts Quadus, showing detailed figure work and classical composition.

Ivanhoe, created in 1844 by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

An Artist at the French Academy in Rome (), pl. V from "Recueil de caricatures". Artist: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-1779); After Jacques François Joseph Saly (French, Valenciennes 1717-1776 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (28.3 × 20 cm)Plate: 10 3/4 × 7 5/8 in. (27.3 × 19.3 cm). Date: ca. 1754.This print is bound in an album made up of sixteen early impressions and one later impression of La Live de Jully's "Recueil de caricatures", etched ca. 1754 after drawings by Jacques François Joseph Saly, eight caricatures etched after Thiemet, and two anonymous prints of a standing man and standing woman. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Prince Józef Poniatowski. Langlois, Eustache-Hyacinthe (1777-1837), graphic artist, Maurin, Antoine (1793-1860), draughtsman, cartoonist, Houdaille, Etienne (1808-18..), publisher

Knicanin, Stefan Petrovic .

Tribute to the winners (IT)

Bust with armor and helmet, facing forward, Johannes Heinrich Schönfeld (attributed to), 1619 - 1683 print There is a dragon on the helmet of the harnessed man. paper etching armour

Soult, Duc de Dalmatia, Nicolas Jean de Dieu.

The esrly 1900s caption reads: Gilli the Russian

Johann Kleyser, a man born without arms. Aquatint.

Freedom (IT)

Clown (board 24 in the publishing house: many ancient clothing); Raczyński, Karol (1799 cars 1801-Post 1860), Wyziębłowski, Józef (Vilnius; Litographic Plant; 1833-1863); 1838 (1838-00-00-1838-00-00);

Leventi, ou soldat de marine, by Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, created in 1714 in Paris, published by L. Cars. The work features engravings depicting clothing and dress from Turkey

Bliej Kultury unknown

Arab merchant from Beirut, Lebanon. Travel to Syria 1875-1878 by Charles Louis Lortet (1836 - 1909) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1880

Tycho Brahe holding a sextant, From his Historia Coelestis

Louis Riel, Anfuehrer der Aufstaendischen in Kanada, Reproduktion eines Holzschnitts von 1882, digital verbessert, leader of the insurgents in Canada, reproduction of a woodcut from 1882, digital improved

Dancing farmer with a sausage, Nicolaes van Lijnhoven, Andries Both, 1622 - before 1702

A Turkish executioner. Coloured aquatint by I.H. Clark, 1818.

Joseph ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

The Phoenician Hercules,from the temple of Venus at Golgos still image. Periodical illustrations. 1872-07. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Mythology, Art, Phoenician , Cyprus, Sculpture, Phoenician, Antiquities , Phoenicians, Heracles (Greek mythological character)

Khoikhoi (Hottentot) woman in full dress of fur cape, beaded skirt, anklets, necklaces. From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.

Femme de Palestrina (Woman from Palestrina). Dated: 1775. Dimensions: plate: 23.9 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 39.3 × 27.6 cm (15 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.) (irregular). Medium: etching with aquatint, printed in dark brown on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni David.

The old doctor (IT)

Paris, Lemercier & Cie., 17th century uniform with sword from the army of Louis XIII of France, from the collection of the Musée d'Artillerie in Paris, recto - embossed, This print is part of a cover with 36 prints, a title page and a list of images., photomechanical print, photographs, photographically illustrated books, PHOTOGLYPTIE, LEMERCIER ET Cie, PARIS, height 271 mm, width 123 mm, photographer, 1877 - 1882, paper, papier, Woodburytypie, French, clichémaker

Rennende zoeaaf Sujets de genre Drawing school L', print maker: Hippolyte Bellangé, (mentioned on object), printer: Auguste Bry, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1855, paper, h 318 mm - w 244 mm

Horace Vernet, Portait of Carle Vernet, 1818, lithograph on laid paper.

Arnaout (Albanais), An Arnout (Albanese). Bida, Alexandre, 1813-1895. 1851. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Egypt, Daggers & swords, Rifles, Clothing & dress , Egypt, Turbans , Egypt

Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti, Print made by unknown artist, Annotated by James Chelsum, 1738-1801, British, c. 1780, Etching

Kenau Simonsdr Hasselaar with the Decapitated Head of a Spanish Army Commander, Remigius Hogenberg, c. 1573 - c. 1580 print Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaar with a lance in one hand and in her other the head of a beheaded Spanish army commander, according to the inscription and the Vers the Spanish Superior Don Pero. In the background a face in a nutshell on the city of Haarlem. In the submission a verse in German in three columns. Southern Netherlands paper etching head of a beheaded person. casting weapons: spear Haarlem

Portrait of a Mogul courtier, draughtsman: anonymous, , India, c. 1640 - c. 1660, paper, brush, pen, h 206 mm × w 113 mm

Jongen in herberg op Malta. Garçon d'auberge à Malte (title on object). Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778 (series title). Draughtsman: Louis Ducros. Dating: 1778. Measurements: h 206 mm × w 123 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Old Working Woman ca. 1757-1804 Pietro Jacopo Palmieri. The Old Working Woman. Pietro Jacopo Palmieri (Italian, Bologna 1737-1804 Turin). ca. 1757-1804. Etching and aquatint printed in brown. Prints

An old beggar in Tebessa. Oran Province, Algeria. Africa. Drawing by Georges Ivan Pranishnikoff (1841 - 1909) Tébessa and its monuments by Antoine Héron de Villefosse (1845 - 1919) Le Tour du Monde 1880

Netherlands, Chimaer van Oudendorp, Wilhelmus Cornelis, Mother and child in rags, verso - stamped, The mother has pressed the child to her breast. She is sitting outside on the ground against a wall. She is wearing a cap and a torn dress. She is looking up with a pained look in her eyes., print, prints, height 315 mm, width 240 mm, 1822-06-12 - 1873-02-01, print maker, printmaker, 1832 - 1873, paper, papier, lithografie (technique)

The statue of the French physicist Jean-Charles de Borda (1733-1799), inaugurated in Dax, France, by the President of the Republic on May 24, 1891, illustration from the magazine L'Illustration, year 49, no 2518, May 30, 1891.

Benjamin Roubaud (1811-1847). "It is Louis Desnoyers who loudly walks around. That beotians the heart is satisfied, seeing the talion falling thus on the author who made them such a villain!". Lithography. Paris, Balzac house. 57817-10 French writer, Haut-de-Form, Humor, Journal, Lithography, Pantheon Charivarique, pave, Portrait Personnalite, Portrait-charge, hold, 19th century, caricature

Wilfrid Poidevin. According to a bust of Mr. Seraphin Denecheau. engraving 1855

Squeers.. Cigarette cards, Trade cards. George Arents Collection. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Hans Makart at the Makart Festival , group artist, Victor also, Viktor Angerer -, photographer

G. Michiels van Kessenich. .

Wishier.

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Caricature of a man with a hat, a cape and a dagger, verso center - stamped, print, prints, height 62 mm, width 46 mm, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

King Philip

LE MAJO.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

The Ainus. Ainos are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido and northern Honshu, in the northern part of Japan, as well as the Kuril Islands and the southern half of the island of Sakhalin in Russia. They are also known as ezo or yezo, Japan, Asia. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1897

Portrait of Omai a native of Ulaieta. Plate 4. From the book: Folio of Plates to Captain Cook's Voyages, 1784, London, by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Francesco Bartolozzi. Gift of Charles Rooking Carter.

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