Historical Event Illustrations

Artistic representations of historical events and societal customs, blending humor and irony with a focus on community interactions and spectacles.

Pantin Road. Worn men Charles Joseph Travies of Villers, says Traviès (1804-1859). Press cartoon. "Pantin Road. Worn men". Board published in "caricature" of December 11, 1834. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

Racing set of six: 5. Running out of the Course, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, after Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1799, Hand colored etching, Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 1/4in. (26 x 33.7cm)

Blind Man's Buff ca. 1834 J. J. Grandville. Blind Man's Buff. ca. 1834. Lithograph. Prints

De uitvaart van John Law, 1720. Uytvaart of Lykstaatie van Jan Lau Inventur van de Bubbelhandel van 't Jaar 1720 (title on object). Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid (extra stukken) (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1720. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 304 mm × w 374 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

John Bluck after Thomas Rowlandson, Running, published 1804 Running

Sketch made from nature in Paris / During the days of July 27th, 28th and 29th, 1830. / No. 4. (IT)

Cockney-Sportsmen Re-charging, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, after Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, 1800, Hand colored etching, with etched borders, Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8in. (25.7 x 35.9cm)

Doctor Syntax Sells Grizzle, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax. Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827); published by Rudolph Ackermann (English, 1764-1834). Date: 1808-1813. Dimensions: 110 × 188 mm (image); 150 × 250 mm (plate); 295 × 357 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching and acquaint on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Pantin Road. Worn men Charles Joseph Travies of Villers, says Traviès (1804-1859). Press cartoon. "Pantin Road. Worn men". Board published in "caricature" of December 11, 1834. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

Odeon, From the Croatian camp, From the series Sketches of Vienna in October , Carl Anton Goebel also Göbel -, Lithographic, Johann Rauh -, Printer, Anton Paternos widow, publishing house

The High-mettled Racer. Dated: 1789. Medium: hand-colored etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

Costumes of the people of Italy, 1858. Capuchin monks in brown robes, peasant from Abruzzo playing zampogna bagpipes, pilgrim in robes decorated with scallop shells, woman from Ischia with rosary, leper lying on the road, and peasants tending cattle in the countryside of Rome. Capucins, paysan des Abruzzes, pelerin, femme d'Ischia, lazaroni, paysans de la campagne de Rome. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Auguste Leloir from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

Woodwood reproduction according to the image: Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914), Bal Dziadowski; from: "Biesiada Literacka", 1901 (I) 27; Literary Biesiada (Warsaw; magazine; 1876-1917), 1901 (1901-00-00-1901-00-00);

Series Viennese scenes, The fruit women, Joseph d, Lanzedelly Lanzedelli -, Artist, Heinrich Papin -, Lithographer, Jeremias Bermann -, publishing house

Dying Greek man with wife, Karl Loeillot -Hartwig, 1829 - 1835 print Paris paper trees (+ stem, trunk). dying. horse. adult woman

Ice Entertainment, Anonymous, 1700 - 1800 drawing paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen winter sports

William de la Montagne Cary, The Return from the Fair, 1873, wood engraving on paper.

Utrecht, Dannenfelser, WF, Weijer, Pieter Wilhelmus van de, Hoevenaar, Willem Pieter, Netherlands, Our fatherland around the middle of the 17th century, presented by HH students, members of Mutua Fides, in celebration of the 220th anniversary of Utrecht University, on 25 June 1856, Hunting entertainment, Utrecht masquerade of 1856, plate 7, Noble men and ladies prepare for a hunting party. Part of the group of seven plates with an explanation of the historical procession in masquerade performed by the students of the Mutua Fides association of the Utrecht University on 25 June 1856 on the occasion of the celebration of its 220th anniversary., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 500 mm, width 660 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1856 - 1856, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), met de handkleuren, Nederlands, 1808-03-07 - 1863-10-31, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1816-04-05 - 1880-06-02, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

From the series Hero trains from , No, Ungerer imperial hunter did not lose his presence of mind, Battle of Solferino on June , After, Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch -, Peinstre, after, Heinrich Reinhart Reinhardt, Peintre, Hof- und Staatratdruckerei Vienna -, Lithography Institute

N ° 94. / Well done! well done! well done!! Courage! (IT)

Going to Ivy Bridge 1780-1827 Thomas Rowlandson British. Going to Ivy Bridge 347909

Sunner of the Palais -Royal, Adrien Victor Auger, 1821 - 1822 print Various Parisians immediately put their watch on the sundial of the Palais-Royal, which indicates when it is twelve in the afternoon. Paris paper sundial. public gardens, park. watch Palais-Royal

at the incomparable Don Quixote Prussian. (IT)

From the life of a vine, Caricature, A radical journalist was celebrated in , thrown out of the inn in , Karl Carl Lanzedelli Lancedelli Lanzedelly -, Lithograph

Departure from Elbe Island. / February 26, 1815, at 5 o'clock in the evening. (IT)

Arab receiving flogging; Edouard (fl. Ca 1829-1847), Rifaud, Jean-Jacques (1786-1852), Ory, François Antoine (1805-), Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint (Paris; Litographic Plant; Fl. 1830-1855); 1829-1830 (1829-00-00-1830-00-00);

Landing of S. A. R. The Duchess of Berri / In the Port of Marseille on May 21, 1816. (IT)

Nomadic tribe with their possessions loading on an ox, draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, Oct-1777 - Mar-1786, paper, brush, pen, h 710 mm × w 990 mm, h 254 mm × w 413 mm

The artwork depicts a meeting between travellers and Minatarre Indians near Fort Clark, capturing the intercultural exchange that took place during the period of 1840 to 1843. The scene is illustrated in aquatint by Karl Bodmer, showcasing the vibrant interactions and landscapes characteristic of this era. The piece was issued in Paris by publisher A. Bertrand

Kingdon, Low Tide, 6 Aug. 1870, wood engraving on newsprint.

Cut Two & Right Protect September 1, 1798 Thomas Rowlandson. Cut Two & Right Protect. Hungarian and Highland Broadsword. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). September 1, 1798. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Henry Angelo (British, London 1756-1835 London). Prints

A shower. / 9. (Registered Title) | Panorama of Bois de Boulogne (title of all)

Plate I: View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe, representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing, William Hincks, 1752-1797, after William Hincks, 1752-1797, Published by Robert Pollard, 1755-1838, British, 1791, Stipple engraving with etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 14 3/16 x 17 1/2 inches (36 x 44.4 cm), Plate: 13 11/16 x 16 9/16 inches (34.7 x 42 cm), and Image: 11 9/16 x 15 13/16 inches (29.3 x 40.2 cm), bonnets, carriages, children, country house, eating, farmers, farming, fields, food, gardening, genre subject, grass, hills, home, horses (animals), houses, hut, labor, landscape, men, oxen, peasants, ploughing, plow (agricultural equipment), plowing, seeds, sitting, smoke, women, working, County Down, Europe, Northern Ireland, Scarva, United Kingdom

Eugène Charles François Guérard, Physionomies de Paris #12: Hippodrome des Cours, Bois de Boulogne, c. 1857, chromolithograph, partly hand-colored, on wove paper.

Le Constitutionnel et le juif errant , Journalists, Authors, Étienne, Charles-Guillaume, 1777-1845. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Giarr, Luigi (1772-1844) Private Collection Book Art Genre Knucklebones. Illustration from ""Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governoÄ"" by Giulio Ferrario

The severe actions taken toremove the fabulous wingedbull reliefs during Layard's excavations at Kalhu (Tell Nimrud).Date: circa 1850

Virtual representation, 1775 , Politics & government, Punishment & torture, Firearms, Britannia Symbolic character, United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792

Coaching: The Last Change Down, John Harris, 1811-1865, British, after William J. Shayer, 1811-c.1885, British, 1863, Aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 14 3/8 x 18 13/16in. (36.5 x 47.8cm)

Ah! Tu rapportes tout au maître ... Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

The dissolved cloverleaf by Johann Nestroy theatrical picture gallery for the theater newspaper, st year, No, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The meeting on the farm Albert Adam (born in 1833). The meeting on the farm. Watercolor and Gouache.

Brodowski, Józef (1828-1900), Harvest; excerpt from a magazine. Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher, Brodowski, Józef (1828-1900), painter, Przykorski, Konstanty (fl. 1862-1882), woodcutter

Lovers' Seat, Hastings. George Baxter (England, Sussex, 1804-1867). England, 1850. Prints. Baxter-process

Obligation of the port of the tricolor cocade Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). Obligation of the port of the tricolor cockade. Gouache on cut carton glued on a sheet of washed blue paper.

John Chapman, active ca. 1792-1823, British, Jacques discovered by the Duke- "As You Like It," Act II, Scene I. Engraving and stipple engraving.

Viper, Illustration to the Poem of Juliusz Słowacki Accering to the Picture of Józef Brodowski. Cleastle from Tygodnik Ilustrowany 1877 (2) 312 Unknown, Brodowski, Józef (1828 1900)

Patience in a Punt, William Dickinson, 1746-1823, British, after Henry William Bunbury, 1750-1811, British, c.1811, Stipple engraving, Sheet: 11 5/8 x 16 3/8in. (29.5 x 41.6cm)

The Shah of Persias harem on the road. Eunochs on horseback clear away bystanders shouting Curuc! Forbidden! The favorite begum rides in a covered palnquin or sedan chair called a takti-revan between two camels. Other concubines follow on horseback. Il Curuc Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1847.

The Bathe at Newport (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II) September 4, 1858 After Winslow Homer American. The Bathe at Newport (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II). After Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). September 4, 1858. Wood engraving. Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Prints

Shooting a pair: 1. Morning of the first of September, James Pollard, 1792-1867, British, after unknown artist, 1822, Aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 14 1/16 x 18in. (35.7 x 45.7cm)

Leander Russ's watercolor depicts a falcon hunt, showing hunters, falcons in flight, horses, dogs, landscape features, and vegetation on a peep box leaf with deck white highlights and pencil traces in 1844.

Cockney sportsmen finding a hare , Rabbits, Rabbit hunting, Hunters, Firearms, John Bull Symbolic character. Holt Collection

Print, The Boston Common; Published by Harper's Weekly; After Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910); USA; wood engraving in black ink on paper; 27.8 × 40.6 cm (10 15/16 × 16 in.); 1937-39-4

LUCAS VELAZQUEZ, Eugenio (1817-1870). La suerte de varas. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Royal Moulin de Mont-Rouge. (IT)

Bitwa morska. Adam, Victor (1801-1866), draughtsman, cartoonist

John Harris, 1811-1865, British, One of a set of four: The Liverpool Great National Steeple-Chase, 1839. Color printed aquatint.

Doctor syntax at a horse race in York, Thomas Rowlandson, 1819 print Syntax is on the left. He stamps his feet and raises fists in the air. paper etching horse-racing. betting on sports. windmill in landscape York

Derby Day, Auguste Blanchard, 1819-1898, French, after William Powell Frith, 1819-1909, British, 1858, Engraving, Sheet: 19 7/8 x 43 7/8in. (50.5 x 111.5cm)

That the devil carries them! ... I have something else to do than taking care of their quarrel in this moment! ... (title registered) | News. (Title of the whole)

The Show, Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820-1822, after John Augustus Atkinson, 1775-1831, British, after 1821, Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (22.3 x 31.1 cm), advertisement, apron, audience, basket, bonnets, boy, breeches, building, carriage, children, circus, cityscape, cloak, cobblestones, costume, crowd, curtain, dresses, dwarf, exhibition, fair, fence, frock coat, genre subject, gesture, girl, hats, ladder, men, performance, poster, scarves, shawls, sign, staff, street, tailcoat, trees, trousers, wagon, women

Sheet of Sketches Made 1828 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Reproduction of a painting: Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), Wedding in Kraków; from: "Kłosy" 1882, no. 902, vol. XXXV. Kłosy (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1865-1890), publisher, unknown, woodcutter

Marriage Custom of the Indians, 1849-1855, Seth Eastman, American, 1808-1875, 5 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (13.97 × 20.96 cm) (image)9 5/8 × 12 13/16 in. (24.45 × 32.54 cm) (sheet), Watercolor, United States, 19th century, U.S. Army Captain Seth Eastman was a trained artist who served twice on the frontier at Minnesotas Fort Snelling, from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1841 to 1848. His extensive firsthand, peaceful encounters with Native Americans gave him extraordinary opportunities to observe their customs and practices, which he documented in his art.

The first May in Prater Gallerie Droller Scenen for the Theaterzeitung, st vol, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

A Trip to Scarbro', from "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough" 1813 Thomas Rowlandson Twenty-one plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson after James Green. The aquatint was added by John Bluck and Joseph Stadler. The sketches by Green were made as souvenirs and not intended for publication, but were ultimately published due to popular demand.. A Trip to Scarbro', from "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough". "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1813. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Boys' Play, or, the Russian Bear Bait, William Dent, active 1784-1793, 1791, Etching with watercolor on laid paper, Sheet: 10 7/8 x 14 5/8in. (27.6 x 37.1cm)

The man holds an open book in his right hand and leans his left arm upon an altar, upon which is written with pencil: "Pinelli / Fece 1807 / Roma." A pyramid and an aqueduct are in the left rear. Date: 1807. Pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Khoikhoi people (Hottentot) of Korah travelling with their cattle, shields, assagays (spears) and blankets. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

What we will see if it is named. (IT)

George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, Art of self defense, Jan. 1, 1821.

L'exécution de la punition du fouet; Nègres ào au tronco.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Slavery , Brazil, Physical restraints, Whipping

Netherlands, Gymnase, verso - stamped, Sheet with a representation of a large group of children doing gymnastics exercises in the open air. Above the representation an explanatory list with numbers in French. Below the representation an explanatory list with numbers in Dutch. Numbered lower right: No. 5., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 340 mm, width 425 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1800 - 1899, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Caricature (Journal) / No. 92 / PL 187 / Power uses men. (IT)

Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, Westminster Races, A Political Heat Run in Convent Garden, 1784. Etching on thin, slightly textured, white laid paper.

Angling set of six: 1. Jack Fishing-Lea Bridge, Henry Heath, active 1824-1835, British, no date, Hand colored lithograph, Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 3/8in. (22.5 x 28.9cm)

The fountain on Boston Common , Parks, Fountains

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, Set of seven: Military Discoveries, 1819. Aquatint, hand-colored.

1680s CURRIER AND IVES LITHOGRAPH WILLIAM PENN TREATY WITH INDIANS

Thomas Rowlandson, Rural Sports or a Cricket Match Extraordinary, 1811 Rural Sports or a Cricket Match Extraordinary

Stop thief! stop thief! a highwayman!". Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886). Illustrations. 1912. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Cowper, William, 1731-1800. John Gilpin, Dirt roads, Chasing, Traffic signs & signals, English , Clothing & dress , 1700-1799, horseback riding , England , 1700-1799

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

The Death Published 1825 England. Hand-colored etching on paper . John Dean Paul

Northern Netherlands, Cartoon on the attempts to pull the Orange tree over, 1787, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the futile attempts of the patriots to pull down the Orange Tree, 1787. Groups of patriots try to pull down the tree, dig up the roots and break off branches. On the right, the arm of God appears from the clouds with a sword in his hand, who will defend the tree and warns to stop the attempts. The pig behind the trunk refers to the stupidity of the underminers. The print comes with a sheet with an explanation. The print also includes a handwritten copy of the longer explanation in the collection of the Atlas van Stolk., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 237 mm, width 318 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1787, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process)

The morgue.

L'Estampe Moderne: Polichinelle: Polichinelle, 1899. Henri Patrice Dillon (American, 1851-1909). Color lithograph; sheet: 40.2 x 30.7 cm (15 13/16 x 12 1/16 in.); image: 34.9 x 25.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.).

The display Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803-1847). Press cartoon. "The display". Board published in "caricature" of March 14, 1833. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

Two of a set of four: The Royal Hunt. 1.The Meeting Place., Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785-1838, British, after Richard Barrett Davis, 1782-1854, British, 1826, Hand colored and color printed aquatint, Sheet: 10 7/8 x 17 3/4in. (27.6 x 45.1cm)

The police held the thread of the plot Auguste Desperet (1804-1865). Press cartoon. "The police held the thread of the plot". Board published in "caricature" of August 16, 1832. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

The triumphal entrance of King Cyrus of Persia into Babylon, 29 October 540BC. Solenne Pompa di Ciro in Babilonia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri after the painting by Angelo Monticelli from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1847.

Untitled, 1837. Auguste Raffet (French, 1804-1860). Lithograph;

Illustration for Story Taras Bulba by N. Gogol, Shevchenko, Taras Grigoryevich (1814-1861)

Cousin, supernumerary ... / 9. (registered title) | Shelf and coquette. (Title of all)

'Defence of the Liberty Pole in New York', (1877). Creator: Albert Bobbett.

Fox-hunting Full Cry, Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785-1838, British, after Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1820-1821, Aquatint, printed in color and by hand, Sheet: 13 3/4 x 22in. (34.9 x 55.9cm)

Ladies Hunting. 19th century reproduction of 15th century miniature in manuscript copy of Ovid´s Epistles

Driving Home the Corn, from Harpers Weekly, November 13, 1858. Artist: Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910

In Nobel Prater in Vienna, Emperor Elisabeth, Emperor Franz Joseph, the imperial family in the Nobel Prater in Vienna from illustrated Frauen-Zeitung , Vinzenz Katzler -, Artist, Xylographic Institution Kopp , Zeising, realization

The Death of Abercrombie, Print made by Edward Mitchell, active 1805-1816, after John Northcote, 1805, Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 22 5/8 × 24 1/4 inches (57.5 × 61.6 cm) and Image: 19 3/8 × 22 1/2 inches (49.2 × 57.2 cm)

Illustration depicting the Weser workmen destroying Denis Papin's steamboat. Denis Papin (1647-1713) a French psychist, mathematician and inventor. Dated 18th Century

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