Dramatic Landscapes and Structures

Engravings featuring dramatic landscapes, structures, and atmospheric conditions. Themes include natural beauty and historical architecture, rendered in monochrome tones.

Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791-1873, British, Folkstone, ca. 1830. Mezzotint; 1879 impression.
Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791-1873, British, Folkstone, ca. 1830. Mezzotint; 1879 impression.
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Brzozowski, Feliks (1836-1892), Winter night; from: "Kłosy" 1885, I, 181. Kłosy (Warszawa ; drzeworytnia ; 1865-1890), printing house, Lefman, reproduction atelier, Brzozowski, Feliks (1836-1892), draughtsman, cartoonist
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Loss of the Schooner "Archus", loaded with Silver-Lead Ore, on the Coast of Greenland, 1856. '...she put into the harbour of Kajarlik, a small opening in an island of Arksuk Arsuk Fiord. A gale of wind came on, blowing into the harbour; and this increased with such force that the ship's cables and hawsers were unable to hold her, and she was dashed with great violence against the rocks, knocking off her rudder, her false keel, and making her so leaky that she was obliged to be abandoned. The crew and miners worked all day, saving all the provisions and rigging, &c., they were a
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Miasteczko /Dymy /; Skoczylas, W Adys Aw (1883-1934); 1926 (1926-00-00-1926-00-00);
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The gunpowder disaster in Leiden, 12 January 1807, Pieter Gerardus van Os, 1807, View of the Rapenburg, seen from the Nieuwsteegburg on 12 January 1807. On the left in the background the Lodewijk church in Leiden. In the middle the ship carrying gunpowder explodes. A woman with her child flees and two men are thrown to the ground., draughtsman: Pieter Gerardus van Os, (signed by artist), Netherlands, 1807, paper, pen, brush, h 421 mm × w 592 mm
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John Martin, 1789-1854, British, The Daughters of Jerusalem Weeping by the Waters of Babylon, 1834. Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card.
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Carried away in the cluster of these black whirlwinds, / it does not see the chariot the vagabond gaps Auguste Desperet (1804-1865). Press cartoon. "Carried away in the cluster of these black whirlwinds, / he does not see the tank any vagabond gaps". Board published in "caricature" of May 10, 1832. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.
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Parma's bridge near Antwerp blown up by a burner, Gustave Buschmann, 1842 print paper etching projectiles, explosives, etc.. pontoon bridge Antwerp
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L'Orage.. Buhot, Félix Hilaire (1847-1898). 1874 - 1888. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Storms
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Plots. Bonus of the Society of Estate Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for 1914; unknown, Kossak, Juliusz (1824-1899); 1914 (1914-00-00-1914-00-00);
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Photo production of drawing by Paul Delaroche: episode d'un naufrage.
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Jacques-Philippe Le Bas created an etching between 1727 and 1783 depicting the loading of food in a harbor with figures and carts.
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H. Christoffel, Anonymous, After Wallerant Vaillant, After Cornelis van Poelenburch, After Adam Elsheimer, 1658 - 1727 print The Holy Christoffel waded on the light of the moon through a river with the Christ child on his shoulders. paper the giant and martyr Christophorus; possible attributes: palm-tree (with bunches of dates, or withered), infant Christ. moonlight
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Photo production of (presumably) a drawing entitled 'Witch entrance (Walpurgis night)'; Hexenfahrt (Walpurgis night) .. Part of album with 30 photo productions of drawings of the faust story of J.W. Von Goethe.
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Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791-1873, British, Plymouth, 1826-1828. Mezzotint.
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La Tempête (TheTempest). After: Théodore Géricault, French, 1791-1824
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Serenade. Night cityscape with a singer and spectators.
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This illustration dates to about 1901 black and white wood engraving of a painting by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) entitled"Wind against Tide, the Thames at Tilbury Fort". Clarkson Frederick Stanfield(1793- 1867) was a prominent English marinepainter, often inaccurately credited asWilliam Clarkson Stanfield.
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Zuiderzeewerk (with the letter) (signed). .
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James T. Willmore, 1800-1863, British, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1827-1838. Open etching.
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Hannibal crossing the Alps during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) on engraving from 1862. Engraved by J.Cousen after a picture by J.M.W.Turner.
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Hugo, Victor (n.1802-02-26-D.1885-05-22), Spain. One of my castles (title given by the author), 1847. Plume, brush of brown ink and wash, fatty pencil, scratch, striped areas on beige paper. House of Victor Hugo - Hauteville House.
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PARIS The Louvre the Barque by Eugene Delacroix unknown
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Royalist Allegory - Do not cry Bon Francais, the storm finishes, the sky makes you the lies Allegory Royalist, 1815 - Do not cry more good French, the storm finishes ... The sky makes you the Lys . Drawing.
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Photo production of a drawing of the blue cave on the coast of Capri; Capri, Grotta Azu (...); Napoli ..
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Nipped in the Ice. Dimensions: Image: 8 11/16 × 13 7/16 in. (22 × 34.1 cm)Sheet: 13 9/16 × 17 11/16 in. (34.4 × 45 cm). Lithographer: Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Date: 1876-94.A whaling scene. A three-masted ship is caught on ice in the ocean. Two groups of crew members climb across the ice in the foreground. A large iceberg stands in the background. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Extinguishing the heavy fire to the Elandsgracht, 1679; Sabars, until Amsterdam, between D'Elands Graft and Street, on the 27 July 1679 (...) / Grand Incendie, Arrivé A Amsterdam Entre La Rue et Le Canal, Qu'on Appelle Ordinairement de l'Elan, LE 27 Juillet 1679 (...). Extinguishing the heavy fire between the Elandsgracht and the Elandsstraat in Amsterdam, created by lightning strike in the night of July 27, 1679. From different houses, fire spraying is attempted to extinguish the fire. To illustrate skills with snake surf sprayers. With five-line caption in Dutch and French. Plate 8 in the fire spa book by Jan van der Heyden.
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The lake city, Chicago , Cities & towns, Lakes & ponds. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings
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Print made by David Lucas, 1802-1881, British, The Glebe Farm, 1832. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
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Coot Hunter. Andrew Wyeth; American, born 1917. Date: 1937-1943. Dimensions: 490 x 755 mm. Watercolor on off-white wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Eruption of Vesuvius, 1872, by Giuseppe de Nittis (1846-1884), oil on canvas, 42x28.5 cm.
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Amsterdam, Gogh, Cornelis Marinus van, The Hague, Lankhout & Co, Samuel, Netherlands, Bauer, Marius, St. Nikolaas in Amsterdam, Cartoon in which Sinterklaas puts a package containing Beurs in Zwarte Piet's bag of presents. Refers to the construction plans for a new stock exchange and other buildings in Amsterdam in 1895. Published in the supplement to 'De Kroniek' of 8 December 1895., print, prent, cartoon, prints, prenten, height 300 mm, width 450 mm, Dutch, 1867-01-25 - 1932-07-18, print maker, printmaker, 1895-12-08 - 1895-12-08, fourth quarter 19th century, vier kwart 19e eeuw, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1824-03-15 - 1908-09-03, publisher
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Robert Brandard, 1805-1862, British, Quilleboeuf, 1834. Line engraving.
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Title page for The Sirens Three.
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Tomb the March victim at the Schmelzer Friedhof, Unknown
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"Castle and Church of St. Valerie, Sion, Canton Valais" - painted by G. C. Stanfield - from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1856. Engraving of a painting by '...Mr. G. C. Stanfield, the son of everbody's Clarkson Stanfield. It is easy to see in what good school the young painter studied, and pleasant to observe the rapid progress he is making in his art. The picture we engrave is the work of no common hand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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Photo production of a print to a painting by Paul Delaroche; Une Martyre Chrétienne P. Delaroche. Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks.
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Bust of Abraham Lincoln Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848-1907). Bust of Abraham Lincoln, 1922. Bronze, 28 x 17 x 14 in. (71.1 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm). This portrait bust of President Abraham Lincoln was derived from the full-length standing portrait completed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 for Chicagos Lincoln Park. Saint-Gaudens based Lincolns likeness on plaster life casts of the presidents head. The sculptor was inspired by Lincolns landmark 1860 speech at Cooper Union in New York, in which the future president declared that the founders would have opposed the expansion of slavery into new American territories. In this speech Lincoln also made famous the phrase “Let us have faith that right makes might.” American Art 1922
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The sea-storm (A flooded village in the Netherlands), painting by Hans von Bartels (1856-1913), woodcut by Richard Bong (1853-1935) from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1892-1893, Year VII, No 3, Berlin.
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Artwork: "Quito, Ecuador" Artist: Walter Richards. Country: Unknown