Dramatic Etchings and Illustrations

Moody etchings and illustrations depicting dramatic scenes such as fires and mythical visions, capturing romanticism and literary themes in art.

L'incendie (1st plate) , Fires, Victims, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

L'incendie (1st plate) , Fires, Victims, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Etcher: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804, After: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, Venice, 1696-1770, Mercury Appearing in a Dream toAeneas, after1775, Etching, platemark: 23.8 × 18.4 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/4 in.), Italian, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Etching by Jean Jacques Le Veau in 1774 depicts the rescue of shipwrecked figures, representing maritime themes in European 18th-century engraving.

Vision on the Krucze hill; Ruscheweyh, Ferdinand (1785-1846), Cornelius, Peter von (1783-1867), Wenner, Johann Friedrich (1772-1835); 1816 (edition); 1814 (matrix) (1814-00-00-1816-00-00);Faust, literary figure, Goethe, Faust, Karnicki Justinian, collection, Germany, country, romanticism, fantastic images, illustration, literature, vision

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Jacob's Vision, Genesis 28, v. II, 1797. Engraving.

Etching by Pieter Nolpe depicting the biblical story of Juda and Tamar set in a landscape, produced between 1630 and 1653, illustrating a religious narrative.

Print made by William Sharp, 1749-1824, British, Illustrations for 'Gil Blas', plate V, 1781. Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Minerva points a boy at a father who flies by, Jeremias Wachsmuth, 1721 - 1771 print Next to Minerva is a boy with laurel wreath and book looking up at father time. Minerva points out that time is flying by. A man is sleeping under a tree: he wastes his time. With four -line fresh in German and two lines in Latin. Numbered at the top right: U.U.U.3. Augsburg paper etching (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena). Father Time, man with wings and scythe. sleeping on the ground. book

Print (France)

Herder blows on a Schalmei, Jurriaan Cootwijck, after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, 1795 - 1828 print A shepherdin and shepherdin with their herd. The shepherd blows on a schalmei. paper etching herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Etching by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn from 1655 illustrating the vision of Daniels, showing figures, symbolic elements, and architectural details.

. In the clouds, Phaëthon asks his father to drive with the solar car. The print is to a lost ceiling painting by Gerard de Lairesse and is part of a series with biblical, mythological and allegorical performances.

Young women and men in a landscape, Victor Jean Baptiste Loutrel, After Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan, 1839 - 1871 print Paris paper. lying figure. adolescent, young woman, maiden. river bank - HH - ideal landscapes

Etching by Max Klinger from 1884 depicting the Menzelfestblatt, showing figures, symbols, and decorative elements in a detailed composition.

Poetry receives Minerva, Jan Caspar Philips, 1763

Caspar Franz Sambach's depiction of the Baptism of Christ showing Christ and John, created with lead handle and watercolor.

La Mort dans le poirier , Death, Skeletons, Pear trees, Pears, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Banditti... Representing Banditti Variously Employed: Returning Wounded from Battle, Robert Blyth, 1750-1784, after John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740-1779, British, 1779, Etching

Noble Jele about 58 pounds will appear si in a forest called ober hart near Basel; Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767); 1741 (1700-00-00-1800-00-00);

Pelgrim runs over a bridge, Anonymous, Hans Weiditz (II), 1514 - 1531 print Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing pilgrimage, pilgrim(s) under way. bridge

. Statue of a naked man, sunk in thought, on a base. The image is hanged on a tree with a pulley.

Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784, Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood, 1784. Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Landscape with cornfield, mowers, sater and women's figures; Landscape with cornfield, mowing figures and in the foreground a few women's figures, one of which is lying. Landscape with cornfield, with a satater and two women's figures, one of which is standing and one in the front. Right two figures with a bundle of mowed choirs run on their backs. Crows fly in the air.

Resurrection Bertin, François Edoudard (1797 187 187 187), andra

Retiring Wounded from Battle July 19, 1779 Etched and published by Robert Blyth British. Retiring Wounded from Battle 407854

Hail heaven! Hail heaven!” - Act III, Scene III, Cymbeline. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1736-1776), The Triumph of Mars, c. 1765-1770, etching

Etching showing a pastoral landscape with a young woman hosting a shepherd, by Danker Danckerts, 1648-1666.

Fabel van Phoebus en Boreas, Johann Heinrich Meil (the older), after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1758 print paper etching fables of Lafontaine : Use 85(...). (story of) Apollo (Phoebus). (story of) Boreas (Aquilo), the north wind; 'Borea overo Aquilone' (Ripa). riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman

Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Bottom left Macbeth and his friend Banquo, at the top right of the three witches who have predictions in store for each of them. paper Macbeth. groups of witches

Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)

La Tête et la queue du serpent. Artist: Gustave Moreau (French, Paris 1826-1898 Paris). Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, Chteau-Thierry 1621-1695 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 17 11/16 × 12 1/16 in. (45 × 30.7 cm)Plate: 14 3/4 × 10 5/16 in. (37.4 × 26.2 cm). Etcher: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833-1914 Sèvres). Published in: Paris; London. Publisher: Boussod, Valadon and Co. (Paris); Boussod, Valadon & Co. (London). Date: 1886. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: GUSTAVE MOREAU.

Bliżej Kultury Verlag of Ferdinand Schenk in Vienna

Etching by Joris Hoefnagel depicting the city of Granada, created between 1560 and 1600.

An etching by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich from the second half of the 18th century showing a shepherd and a shepherd lying on a tree with an ancient stone frieze in the background, depicting figures, trees, and allegorical elements.

S. Adrien et Ses Compagnons (St. Adrian and His Companions), March 8th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year) 1636 Jacques Callot French This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.. S. Adrien et Ses Compagnons (St. Adrian and His Companions), March 8th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1636. Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Prints

The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind, 1825, Book of Job: pl.13, engraving on thick paper, Bindman 1978, no. 638, State b (second state), William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

Phyrrhus killing Priamus, who falls on the body of his youngest son, Polites. In the right middle plane is a group of women, in front of an altar with statues. At left, a battle scene, in front of a colonnade. Date: ca. 1800. Pen and gray ink, gray wash over traces of black chalk on paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Landscape with two Greek fishermen, one of them with his fishing nets on a stick over his shoulder. In the middle an overgrown column, Landscape with two Greek fishermen., print maker: François Joseph Pfeiffer (II), unknown, 1793 - 1835, paper, etching, h 52 mm × w 143 mm

Three deer: 1) Jele Homm by Karol Alexander, the prince of Wirtembergia in Jagodin in the Kingdom of Serbia, 2) Jele hunted by Mari August book Wirtembergia in Schaafweyd Tybing, 3) Jele hunted in the forests of the Tiefenbach in 1738; Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767); 18th century (1700-00-00-1800-00-00);

Year 1731. Scene drawn by nature in the Nymphenburg Park near Stahrenberg; Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767); 18th century (1700-00-00-1800-00-00);

John Neagle, 1796-1865, American, Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3, 1803. Engraving.

Panurge Leaving Rominagrobis's House. Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833-1914 Sèvres). Author: Written by François Rabelais (French, 1494-1553). Dimensions: sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 5/8 in. (40.2 x 29.5 cm)plate: 14 3/16 x 10 7/16 in. (36 x 26.5 cm). Date: 1833-1914. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Without you I Perissois (IT)

William Pether, ca. 1738-1821, British, A Hermit, 1770. Mezzotint, proof before title.

Karl Martell, Majordom of Franconia.

Print, LASTRONOMIE; Designed by François Boucher (French, 1703-1770); Print Maker: Louis-Félix Delarue (French, 1730 - 1777); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); France; etching on laid paper

Saint Jerome Beside a Pollard Willow Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). , 1648. Etching and drypoint on laid paper, Plate: 7 3/16 x 5 1/4 in. (18.3 x 13.3 cm). European Art 1648

Apollo doodt Python, Michel Dorigny, after Simon Vouet, 1651 print France paper engraving / etching Apollo shoots Python, the dragon

Etching and copper engraving by Bénédict Alphonse Nicolet, 1760-1806, depicting a shipwreck scene with detailed ships, waves, and figures.

Death of Pliny de Ouder. Gaius Pliny Secundus Maior dies through suffocation during the outburst of Vesuvius, on August 24, 79. He became the victim of his own scientific interest.

Le Docteur Véron refusant...consolation , Politicians, Health care personnel, Authors, Véron, Louis Désiré, 1798-1867. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Mélinte and Palamède escape in a boat, Abraham Bosse, After Claude Vignon, 1639 print paper etching / engraving harbour. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.

L'Avalanche: Frontispiece du 'Triomphe de la Mort' , Trees, Rocks, Scythes, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Donkey Upset by Storm (L'ane renverse par la foudre). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.

Figures around a campfire, 1787 - 1833 print There are a few figures around a campfire on the banks of a lake, at night. Three fishermen are at work in the water. The print is part of an album. paper etching night ~ landscape (sometimes titled 'Nox'). lake. camp-fire; watch-fire. fisherman

Kämpffende Brunfft Hirsche Nach der Natur in der Grün Au bey Neuburg Anno 1722 gezeichnet.. Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767). Prints, Illustrations, Scientific illustrations. 1740. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Animals, Hunting, Game & game birds

Design for Book Illustration. Artist: Franz Sigrist (Austrian, Altbreisach 1727-1803 Vienna). Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm). Date: late 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Integer vitae scelerisque purus (Horace, Odes. Book I,22), Giovanni David, Italian, 1743 - 1790, etching on wove paper, Italy, 1775, Print, Print

L'Enfer des Beautés Cruelles, plate 5 from "The Decameron" Engraver Léopold Flameng French Author Giovanni Boccaccio Italian 1873 View more. L'Enfer des Beautés Cruelles, plate 5 from "The Decameron". The Decameron. 1873. Etching. Léopold Flameng (French (born Belgium), Brussels 1831-1911 Paris). Prints

Golden Age; Aetas Aurea. Imagination of the Golden Age, the first era of the world, in which people lived in innocence and with the animals under the government of Saturn. On the left a river god on the back. In the background, two people make music, are two lions and the three gratients. On the right in the foreground a minne couple and a naked woman with an apple in her hand. Extremely left two boys, one of which is peeing, and a man who picks apples.

Aquatint by Johann Alexander Thiele from the 18th-19th century depicting a coal burner hut within the root of a fallen fir tree, showing forest landscape and architecture.

. Statue of a naked woman, with an arrow in hand, on a base. The image hangs on a tree with a rope that has been knoted around the woman's means.

Etching by Pierre Laurent from 1760-1809 showing shepherds traveling through a rural landscape in an oval format, highlighting figures, posture, attire, and terrain.

Engraving and etching by Jean Mariette from 1692 showing the biblical scene of Pharaohs daughter finding the infant Moses.

H.C. Henneberg (1826-1893); Lorenz Froelich (1820-1908), Shields fight with the Bjerne, 1852

Les chemineaux: Après le crime , Tramps, Victims of crimes, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Allegory of the death of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, 1784, Dirk Langendijk, 1784, Allegory of the death of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, June 6, 1784. A group of Batavians point to a verse on the deceased on the capstone of a dolmen. Beneath the rock sits the mourning Dutch Virgin. From the clouds lightning flashes. Design for a print., draughtsman: Dirk Langendijk, (signed by artist), Northern Netherlands, 1784, paper, pen, brush, h 204 mm × w 141 mm

Chalk and feather drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicting the adoration of the Trinity. Emphasizes figures, gesture, and composition, with laved effect and partial corner cut.

Etching by Charles Dupuis from 1734 titled 'Leçon d'amour' depicts a romantic lesson scene, representing 18th-century French printmaking and engraving practices.

Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von Beust, Cattaro, Cairo caricature from The Flea, Karl Klic -, Caricaturist

Fern Burners in the Forest. Louis Auguste Lepère (French, 1849-1918); published by A. Desmoulins (French, active c. 1908-1910). Date: 1887. Dimensions: 224 × 162 mm (image); 316 × 267 mm (sheet). Wood engraving in black on cream laid Japanese paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Pirate cave; Nich, Edward (1851-1916), Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902); 1884 (1884-00-00-1884-00-00);

Print (France)

La Rancune en brancard, abattu dans le bourbier. Dated: 1726. Dimensions: overall: 32.6 x 27.8 cm (12 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.). Medium: black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jean-Baptiste Oudry.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and the Laly brothers (19th century), engraver. "Love events." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101783-21 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

S. Amé, abbé (St. Amatus, Abbot), September 13th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year) 1636 Jacques Callot French This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.. S. Amé, abbé (St. Amatus, Abbot), September 13th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1636. Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Prints

Design for a ceiling painting with Aurora that chases the Night. Draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen (possibly). Dating: 1677 - 1755. Measurements: h 420 mm × w 534 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Weenix, Jan, Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Hunting still life with a hare and poultry in a landscape, verso middle - stamped, print, prints, height 122 mm, width 134 mm, 1822-03-18 - 1880-02-15, print maker, printmaker, 1832 - 1880, paper, wood engraving, tone lithography, Work conception, 1642 - 1719-09-19

Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, British, One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis, undated. Graphite, red chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper.

Wszyscy Święci w MNK Rentz, Michael Heinrich (1698 1758), Montalegre, Joseph de (fl. 1696 1729)

Mazeppa 1823 Théodore Gericault French. Mazeppa. Etudes de sic. Chevaux. Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791-1824 Paris). 1823. Lithograph. Prints

Félix Hilaire Buhot, Ryno et Hermangarde, 1879 1880 Ryno et Hermangarde

Shakspeare. As you like it, act II, scene VII : The seven ages. Fourth age , Soldiers, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it. Thomas Pennant Barton Collection

Tell, Wilhelm .

Groupe de quatre pauvres jeunes garçons se reposant dans un ravin ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Le voleur de poires (2nd plate) , Robberies, Pear trees, Pears, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Paris Modes (Registered Title) | News. (Title of the set)

Allegory of Death 1855-1865 France. Pen and brown ink with black fabricated chalk, opaque and transparent watercolors, touches of lead white and white chalk, and traces of red fabricated chalk on cream wove paper . Clement Auguste Andrieux

God the Father and Angels Adoring the Madonna and Child recto, c. 1753, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on buff oatmeal paper, overall: 25 × 31.6 cm (9 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Soutman, Pieter Claesz., Rubens, Peter Paul, Wild Boar Hunt (left plate), verso lower left - stamped, From his rearing horse a rider stabs a wild boar with his sword. A second hunter on horseback approaches behind him. A large pack of dogs rushes at the boar. Left part of a large representation consisting of two parts. At the bottom in the margin half of a verse in Latin about hunting., print, prints, height 458 mm, width 403 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1601 - 1657-08-16, print maker, printmaker, 1642 - 1642, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Southern Netherlands, 1577-06-28 - 1640-05-30, after, after a painting by, Work conception

Title Page for Les Artistes Anciens & Modernes, Vol. IX ca. 1848-62 Célestin Nanteuil. Title Page for Les Artistes Anciens & Modernes, Vol. IX. Célestin Nanteuil (French (born Italy), Rome 1813-1873 Bourron-Marlotte). ca. 1848-62. Lithograph. Prints

The weather strike

Torture of Petrus, John Baptist Jackson, After Titian, 1745 print Venice paper martyrdom and death of Peter

Saint Christopher Carrying the Infant Christ. Artist: Albrecht Altdorfer (German, Regensburg ca. 1480-1538 Regensburg). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 13/16 in. (16.8 × 12.2 cm). Date: 1513. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Le retour du bois , Trees, Hills, Houses, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

A scene from the Old Testament Angel wakes up the sleeping prophet Elijah, escaping from Queen Jezabel Tempesta, Antonio (1555 1630)

Edmond Morin (1824-1882). "The resistance of Paris". Bois, 1870. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Allegory, weapon, brandir, motto, flag, woman, float without sink, fluctuat nec mergitur, war 1870, resistance, soldier, symbol, city of Paris, engraving engraving

Bacchus with thyrsus, tripod horn and crown of leaves standing in a forest. He stands on a drunken satyr in front of a statue of Priapus. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

Offer by Abraham, Jan Luyken, 1712 print Amsterdam paper etching Abraham picks up the knife to kill Isaac

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