Dramatic Literary Illustrations

Illustrative works depicting dramatic scenes from literature, showcasing emotions through characters involved in narratives of struggle and spirituality.

Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, le 15 avril 1834, French, 1808-1879, 1834, lithograph

This etching by Moritz von Schwind depicts a prisoner's dream, showing a figure in confinement with imaginative or symbolic elements surrounding them.

When he looks up after having your feet, Don José agonized

No. 89: Vue d'un Caveau decouvert a Pompeia pres du Vesuve, Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch-Nicholas, 1740-1794, Fragonard, Jean-Honore, 1723-1806, Imprimerie de Clousier, Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727-1791, Engraving, 1781-1786, Engraving, after a drawing by Fragonard. Two engravings appear on the leaf following page 88. This image is a detail view of the second, only; it is not an overall view of the entire leaf.

David with the head of Goliath. Line engraving by F. Beisson after J.B. Debret after G. Reni.

A naked woman reclining on a bed. Engraving by C.E. Gaucher, 1790, after Beaudoin after C. Netscher.

Specklin, Veit Rudolf, Holbein, Hans (II), Death of Abijah, Abijah lies dead on a bed while his family mourns. His disguised mother steps through the doorway, his father Jeroboam stands on the left by the bed. In the margin above the image is the text III Regvm XIIII 2 Kings 14., print, book illustration, prints, height 60 mm, width 85 mm, height 85 mm, width 102 mm, German, 1498 - 1543-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1538 - 1538, second quarter 16th century, paper, woodcut, French - 1550, block cutter

Josiane in his alcove, the laughing man Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse. "Josiane in his alcove, the man who laughs." White chalk, stroke pencil, white gouache enhanced on paper, late nineteenth. Paris, Victor Hugo House.

Plate 5: Isaac telling Esau to hunt for meat at left and Jacob and Rebekah at right, from Genesis 27, after a lost fresco in the basamento of Bay 5 of the Vatican Loggia 1650-77 Pietro Santi Bartoli Italian This plate is bound with three series after Raphael's designs for the Vatican Stanze.. Plate 5: Isaac telling Esau to hunt for meat at left and Jacob and Rebekah at right, from Genesis 27, after a lost fresco in the basamento of Bay 5 of the Vatican Loggia. Series of 44 plates depicting the stucco medallions by Raphael's workshop designed for the Vatican Loggie. Pietro Santi Bartoli (Italian, Perugia 1615-1700 Rome). 1650-77. Etching. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627-1691 Rome). Prints

Edward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, John Gilpin in the Uxbridge Passage Boat, 1820s. Pen and brown ink, blue wash, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

An Egyptian father holding the body of his dead young son in his lap while the mother of the boy buries her head in his lap. Etching by A. Mongin after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Sterfbed van Jozef, Johann Christoph Teucher, after Jusepe de Ribera, after Stefano Torelli, 1725 - 1763 print With caption in French. paper engraving Joseph's death. armorial bearing, heraldry

Poor dying, what is your madness [... (IT)

Romeo and Juliet

The Caprices: They Spin Finely (Los Caprichos: Hilan Delgado), 1799. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving; sheet: 30.2 x 19.5 cm (11 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.); platemark: 21.8 x 15.3 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.).

A man leaning over the side of a bed vomiting, from a broadside entitled 'Death of Aurelio Caballero due to yellow fever in Veracruz' 1892 José Guadalupe Posada. A man leaning over the side of a bed vomiting, from a broadside entitled 'Death of Aurelio Caballero due to yellow fever in Veracruz'. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). 1892. Etching on zinc. Prints

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828). Que pico de Oro! (What a golden beak!), 1796-1797. From Los Caprichos, no. 53. Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin on cream laid paper. Plate: 215 mm x 150 mm (8.46 in. x 5.91 in.).

In an inn, a lecherous old man gropes the cleavage of the woman sitting next to him. She looks at him smiling. Behind them, a man in a hat stands watching. On the wainscot, behind the couple, are dashes and above the fireplace hang a rod and a print depicting an amorous scene., Inn scene with three figures by a fireplace, print maker: Pieter Schenk (I), Adriaen van Ostade, 1670 - 1713, paper, h 286 mm × w 209 mm

No se puede mirar (One Can't Look), published 1863, Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) plate 26, etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, and burin, Harris 1964, no. 146, State III (1st ed., b), Francisco Goya (artist) Spanish, 1746 - 1828

Bartolomeo Coriolano after Guido Reni, Cupid Asleep Cupid Asleep

Currier & Ives Illustration 19th Century. The Bad Man at the Hour of Death

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Drunken Nurse, undated. Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper.

Nicolas François Regnault, La Nuit (Night), 1780s La Nuit (Night)

The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb, Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765-1810, Italian, after William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Text by Robert Blair, 1699-1746, British, Published by Rudolf Ackermann, 1764-1834, British, 1808, published 1813, Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm), Plate: 8 3/8 × 10 1/2 inches (21.3 × 26.7 cm), and Image: 5 1/2 × 9 inches (14 × 22.9 cm), beards, candle, child, counselor, crown, death, elderly, king (person), lamp, low-relief sculpture, mats, mortality, mother, parchment, pillows, religious and mythological subject, seal, sheath, sleeping, sword, tomb, warrior, watching, youth

Engraving depicting the effigy of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 1542-1567. She was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in 1586 and was beheaded the following year. Dated 16th century

Te atua (The God), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints 1898-1899 France. Wood-block print in black ink, with yellow ocher ink offset, on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid face down on ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in brownish-black ink on ivory wove paper (verso) . Paul Gauguin

Charles Chodkiewicz (1560 1621) W: The old Poland, historical and poetic album, composed of songs and legends of M. J. U. Niemcewicz, translated and put into verse by the most colebles French poets. Orne of 36 drawings by Charles Forster, Paris 1833 Sorrieu, Frédéric (1807 1887), Sułkowska, Ewa (1786 1824), Lithographie Villain, Forster, Karol (1800 1879)

Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.

Glück, Bl. 5, Op. X. Klinger, Max (1857-1920), graphic artist

Lazio Latina Valvisciolo SS. Pietro e Paolo9. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Kneeled figure, Joannes Bemme, After David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, 1813 print Study of a kneeling lying figure, with wide robe, leaned on a stone block. The hands are not worked out. paper etching adult man (+ kneeling)

Pieneman, Nicolaas, Bing, Valentijn, Netherlands, Backer, Hilmar Johannes, William of Orange and his wife, after the attack by Jan Jauregui, Prince William I, after the failed assassination attempt by Jean Jauregui in 1582, nursed by Charlotte de Bourbon, Prince William I recovering from the attack by Jean de Jauregui, committed on March 18, 1582, in Antwerp. The prince lying in bed attended to by doctors and comforted by his wife Charlotte de Bourbon., print, picture, history print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 110 mm, width 177 mm, Dutch, 1804-09-17 - 1845-05-01, print maker, printmaker, 1840 - 1845, second quarter 19th century, paper, lithography (technique), 1812 - 1895-01-28, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1809-01-01 - 1860-12-30

The Wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast Up by the Sea (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII) August 26, 1873 After Winslow Homer American. The Wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast Up by the Sea (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII). After Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). August 26, 1873. Wood engraving. Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Prints

Student and MusicTeacher. Artist: Constantin Guys, French, 1802-1892

The death of André Mazet. Lithograph, 1821.

A Dream after seeing Pepper's Ghost.. Attributed to London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890)

M'sieu, c'est une lettre de trois sous.... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

A woman sitting on the ground with crossed legs, her head covered in her lap; representing Silence. Etching by F. Legat, 1801, after J.H. Füssli, 1800.

Eau dormante , Leisure, Nudes. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

The Sister of Duguesclin, 1829. Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863), H. Gaugain & Co. and Engelman Graff, Coindet & Co.. Lithograph with chine collé; sheet: 43 x 30.7 cm (16 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.); image: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.).

Lazio Roma Rome S. Eligio degli Orefici. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, sculpture, painting, religious reliquaries Object Notes: On Via Giulia along banks of the Tiber. Designed by Raphael. Construction began in 1516. Facade from 1602 by Ponzio. Interior in form of Greek cross. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Notre bon allie le Pacha dEgypte…et la Syrie, Monsieur, la Syrie! from Les Baigneurs. Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879

drawing by Paul Delaroche: le prisonnier, Robert Jefferson Bingham, Goupil & Cie, 1858.

PARIS AND HELEN

Kneeled figure; Étude Pour Les Tableaux du Drame de Jésus. Study of a kneeling figure, with a wide robe, leaned on a stone block. The hands are not worked out.

James Heath, 1757-1834, British, The Dead Soldier, 1797. Stipple engraving.

Photo production of (presumably) a drawing entitled 'Gretchen (Dolorosa)', 1878 photograph Part of album with 30 photo productions of drawings of the Faust story by J.W. von Goethe. München paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print Faust. Gretchen. weeping. flowers. pavement, floor ~ architecture

Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco) Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco), 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (30.3 x 20.2 cm). The Caprices (Los Caprichos) is a set of eighty etchings created between 1797 and 1798. On view are thirteen examples of the Brooklyn Museums rare “trial proof” set, which is composed of early impressions of a print made by the artist prior to the published edition. In the first part of the series, Goya critiques the characters, institutions, and values of early modern Spanish society; the second focuses on bizarre and macabre imagery. The most famous image, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos), conveys a purposeful ambiguity regarding the conflict between Spanish religiosity and Enlightenment thought: sueño may refer both to the sleep or absence of reason, and to the dream of reason (reason unchecked) that p

A monk punishing two naked woman, after a painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783) (22 July 1853), Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The Bishop and His Clarke, or, A Peep into Paradise February 26, 1809 Thomas Rowlandson British. The Bishop and His Clarke, or, A Peep into Paradise. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). February 26, 1809. Etching. Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846). Prints

One of the Disadvantages of Living in the Basement Look, here are some more that grew last night...,” plate 15 from Croquis Parisiens 1856 France. Lithograph in black on white wove paper . Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Death of Tristan. German composer Richard Wagner 1813-1883. "Tristan and Isolde". Engraving, c. 1890, after painting by Gustave Adolf Goldberg (1848-1911).

Leonardo on his death bed. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian polymath: painter, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, and writer.

Etude de révérence pour le quadrille des lanciers. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

She went quickly forward, and threw herself on her knees by the bedside, THE NEW PRINCE FORTUNATUS, BY WILLIAM BLACK, 1841 ñ 1898, a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland UK, drawn by William Small, 1843 - 1929, Scottish artist from Edinburgh, 1889.

MONUMENT TO THE SWISS GUARD, Switzerland

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Etching by T. Ribot.

Dreaming by Karl Pavlovich Briullov, watercolor on cardboard, 1830-1833, 1799-1852, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 19, 7x25, 2

Sculpture of two branch goddesses from the Parthenon, Caldsi & Co. Bernieri, 1857 - 1859 photograph Sculpture of two branch goddesses from the fronton of the East Faill of the Parthenon. Lying figure is possible Aphrodite. London cardboard. photographic support albumen print Fates, Parcae (Moirae). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture Parthenon

Zeus appears to Danae in shower of Gold, medieval engraving, Germany

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.

King Johann von Sachsen on the death bed, Schmetzer, King Johann von Sachsen on the dead bed from Llustrirte Zeitung , Unknown

Kirk's White Cloud floating soap. Advertisements. 1898-02. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. African Americans, Cosmetics & soap, Borders (Ornament areas), African Americans , Women, Servants

The Calling of Samuel. Gustave Doré; French, 1832-1883. Date: 1877. Dimensions: 367 × 292 mm. Brush and brown wash and white gouache, with pen and black ink, on tan wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Les Cadeaux de Noël de 1868. Dated: 1868. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). Spanish writer.; Juan de Austria, Don (1545-1578). Spanish prince, natural son of Charles V. Imaginary recreation of the episode after the Battle of Lepanto. Juan de Austria visiting Cervantes. 19th c. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Càdiz. Museo de Càdiz.

Photo production of (presumably) a print, representing the murder of a woman in which a man looks away, c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph Part of French artists' album. paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print murder - GG - female

Saint Ursula: she learns in a dream of her forthcoming martyrdom. Photogravure after D. Anderson after V. Carpaccio.

La Comtesse Reclining in Dark Dress with Chain Around Neck 1861-65 Pierre-Louis Pierson French As early as 1856-57 the countess experimented with reclining poses, sometimes even lying on the floor. Here, she is wearing the same dress she has on in The Countess de Castiglione as Anne Boleyn (Cat. no. 43) but without the crinoline.. La Comtesse Reclining in Dark Dress with Chain Around Neck 261454

The Warning (L'avertissement). Dated: 1900. Dimensions: plate: 14 x 10.8 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.) sheet: 45 x 31.7 cm (17 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.). Medium: etching in black on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Albert Besnard.

Honoré Daumier, J'veux pas entrer dans tant d'eau , 19th century J'veux pas entrer dans tant d'eau ...

Innocence Guarded By Faithfulness 1761-1831 Nicolas Ponce. Innocence Guarded By Faithfulness. Nicolas Ponce (French, Paris, 1746-1831). 1761-1831. Etching and engraving. Prints

Painting titled 'The Children of Edward' by Paul Delaroche. Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) a French painter

Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..... From Europe a Prophecy, first published in 1794. By English poet and artist William Blake, 1757 - 1827.

Rhine, Rembrandt van, Woman with naked upper body by a stove, verso lower left, print, prints, Rembrandt f. 1658, upper right, height 225 mm, width 186 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1658 - 1658, third quarter 17th century, Oriental paper, etching, etchings, plate tone, drypoint, dry needle, burin, Work conception, after own design by

Naples National Museum Pompeian painting Love scene Summer, Giorgio (Georg) (1834 1914)

Portrait of Ferdinand

Napoleon's deathbed, print maker: Abraham Vinkeles, (mentioned on object), publisher: Cornelis Ludovicus Schleijer, Amsterdam, 1840, paper, etching, engraving, h 226 mm × w 298 mm

Man and woman having sex, Oral sex, Erotic illustration by Edouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 - 1928), a French painter and graphic artist, under the name Paul Avril he became known as an illustrator of erotic to pornographic novels, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Nero flee from the Domus Aurea by Ludovico Pogliaghi, illustration for Early history of Rome by Francesco Bertolini

Graftombe called The Sleeping Children by Francis Chantrey in Lichfield Cathedral; Lichfield. Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks.

A soldier returns and is greeted with great affection by his wife and child. Stipple engraving by L. Darcis after J.B. Isabey.

Laus Veneris, 1900 After: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898) Publisher: Berlin Photographic Company, 19th Century, Furniture, Table, Women, Musical instrumentPre-Raphaelite, Tapestry, Photographic print, Photogravure, Knight, Men

view2. Ballad of Fair Annie - Study / (verso) Jephtha's Daughter.. Artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal. Brown Pen And Ink Wash On Paper; Pencil On Verso

The finger of God Z cyklu: The mystery of Paris . David, Jules (1808 1892), zakład litograficzny: Fromentin Jeannin, litografia: Fromentin Jeannin

Saint Valentine. Etching on cloth.

Love among the Ruins 1900. After: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898). Publisher: Berlin Photographic Company

Death of Washington, Dec. 14 A.D. 1799 Currier & Ives, Nath. and James (A.1857-1907 American) Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

"Samson Rompant Ses Liens" by Leon Glaize. Goupil & Cie. (French, active 1839 - 1860s)

La Correspondencia del Diablo. Dibujo satírico político. El grito de la conciencia. Diciembre de 1872.

The Letter Home, 1867, Eastman Johnson, American, 1824 - 1906, 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) (image)27 1/16 x 34 1/2 in. (68.74 x 87.63 cm) (sheet), Charcoal and graphite on paper, United States, 19th century

William Shakespeare (1564-1616). English writer. Hamlet. Death of Ophelia. Engraving, 19th century.

The Briar Rose Series, The Council Chamber (II),1900 After: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898) Publisher: Berlin Photographic Company, Sleeping, 19th Century, Print, Black and White, Photographic print, Photogravure, Knight, Men, Royal, King

Florence Nightingale as the lady with the lamp. Oil painting attributed to J. Butterworth.

The artist Michelangelo at the deathbed of Vittoria Colonna, (1492-25 February 1547), an Italian poetess, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Sketch of Napoleon, being exposed on his cord of Austerlitz camp ... (IT)

Vintage Book Plate Illustration from "the Secret Garden" by Maria Louise Kirk 1911 American Edition

Copper engraving by Dominicus Custos depicting the body of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria-Tyrol on a parade bed, created in 1595.

Employment of Emperor Maximian according to the image of Emanuel K. Liška. Shape out of ears 1889 (1) 136 137 Bong, Richard (1853 1935), Liška (Liska), Emanuel Krescenc (1852 1903)

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 35, 'Ode to Adversity.', William Blake, 1757-1827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page, Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), axe, cemetery, children, children, graveyard, headstone, infant, literary theme, man, men, mourning, religious and mythological subject, roots, text, tombstone, trees, women

A brown-red chalk drawing from around 1780 showing the head of a sleeping man in a returned position, emphasizing facial features and pose.

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