Historical Illustrations and Engravings

A collection of detailed copper engravings featuring masked figures, mythological scenes, and allegorical representations of seasons and life stages, showcasing intricate costumes and expressive theme

Emblema XXXIX: Oedypus Sphynge superata and trucidato Lajo patre matrem ducit in uxorem. Michaelis Majeri, Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum: per oculis et intellectui accuratè accommodata, figuris cupro appositissimè incisa, ingeniosissima emblemata, hisque confines, and ad rem egregiè facientes sententias, doctissimaque item epigrammata, illustratum, Maier, Michael, 1568-1622, Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, Etching, 1687, Etching, Emblem 39, located on page 115.

This copper engraving by Jacob de Gheyn II serves as a title page, depicting masked figures with detailed costumes and expressive gestures.

Print, Neüe inventiones von unterschiedlich nützlicher Silber-arbeit...gezeichnet von Abraham Drentwet in Augspurg. Inss. Kupffer gebracht durch Ioh : August Corvinim, und dasselbst verlegt von Jeremias Wolff... ; title page; Abraham Drentwet (1647 - 1727); Germany; black ink on paper, bound in half-leather and boards

France, French crown, Paris, Gras, Henry le, Bella, Stefano della, Jeu des fables, Card game with mythological scenes, Meleagre et Atalante, Seven of diamonds, Meleager and Atalanta, Playing card with a scene of Meleager giving Atalanta the head of a boar. Text and diamond in the lower margin., print, playing card, prints, height 88 mm, width 55 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, granter of privilege

Woman with flower at a man in a spring landscape. A young woman makes a man smelling a flower she loves in her hand. In the background pleasure boats on a slot moat at a castle. Two dogs at the feet of the pair of two dogs. The young woman, as a bride as the first stage of a woman life, is compared here with the Spring season.

Two figures in a coffin on a portable, Arnold Houbraken, 1682 print Two conversing figures in a coffin on a portable. The right figure is dressed in a long robe. On the left on the Achetrgond a house. Print from a book in which 36 prints with sentences. Print used in: F. van Hoogstraten, The School of the World, 1682. Northern Netherlands paper etching / letterpress printing coffin

Title print of the series about the seven planets and the seven ages; September Planetae, Septem hominis; The seven planets and the seven ages. In an oval the Latin title, description and the publisher's address. On either side of the oval the four personnifications of the four temperaments and the symbols for the four elements. At the top right venus as sanguis, upper left Diana as phlegma, bottom left an older nun like melancolia and bottom right minerva as cholera. Between these allegorical figures four cartouches with the symbolic animals of the four elements: the chameleon stands for air, the dolphin for water, the mole for earth and the salamander for fire. The print is the title print of a series about the power of the seven planets about the seven ages of man.

Portrait of Ludovico Ariosto with Caryatids and Putti; Title page for: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1565..

Pugillus facetiarum iconographicarum ....; Pugillus Facetiarum iconographic ... 1608 All-Hands Kurtzoly Stücklein .... Strasburg. Title page of "Pugillus facetiarum iconographicarum .... 1608": in the middle, in a coat of arms, the title and date 1608. The weapon is flanked by (left) a young man on horseback and (right) a weeping young woman. Both are under a canopy. The whole in architectural frame, over which an animal skin is draped. At the bottom of text in German: All-Hand Kurtzoly Kunststück ... Strasburg. R.O. Numbered 1.

Emblema XXXIX: Oedypus Sphynge superata and trucidato Lajo patre matrem ducit in uxorem. Michaelis Majeri, Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum: per oculis et intellectui accuratè accommodata, figuris cupro appositissimè incisa, ingeniosissima emblemata, hisque confines, and ad rem egregiè facientes sententias, doctissimaque item epigrammata, illustratum, Maier, Michael, 1568-1622, Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, Etching, 1687, Etching, Emblem 39, located on page 115.

Allegorical show with Mars and Mercury, 1622 print In the middle a cartouche with title, flanked by Mars (Arma) and Mercury (Industria). Behind the female personifications of the virtues faith, love and hope. At the bottom of the weapon of Prince Maurits and eight provinces. Printed on the back with text in Latin. paper etching / letterpress printing the Three Theological Virtues. (story of) Mars (Ares). (story of) Mercury (Hermes)

Angel ketent satan; Revelation of John on Patmos; Icone Revelationum S Johs Evangeliste in Pathmo. An angel with the key to the underground depth kett the dragon (for a thousand years) and put it in a subterranean well with fire. A four-line caption in Latin in the margin. Twenty-two prints from a series of twenty-four with the Revelation of John on Patmos.

Descripcion du lieu du songe, La Metamorphose d'Ovide figvree, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D., Salomon, Bernard, ca. 1506-ca. 1561, Woodcut, black-and-white, 1557, Woodcut illustration attributed to Bernard Salomon and 8 lines of verse in italic within a grotesque border.

Herr Blasius Rauchmantl, der frucht-loßen Alchimie Kunst Archi-Sectator, Quintae Essentiae Stultorum Possessor, Pl. 36. Baeck, Elias, 1679-1747. Prints. 1710 - 1719. Spencer Collection. Caricature and comic art, German, Dwarfs (Persons) in art, Engraving, German

Gutenberg, Johann Gainsmeat Stecher: Löffler, Johann Eckhard Printer: Kinckius, Johanenstiehung: Cologne

Two figures look at a celestial body, Arnold Houbraken, 1682 print Two oriental dressed men look at the constellation Sagittarius. Print from a book in which 36 prints with sentences. Print used in: F. van Hoogstraten, The School of the World, 1682. Northern Netherlands paper etching / letterpress printing astrology. astrological signs and symbols. the heavens (celestial bodies)

Bolikana and Marcolfus. Weiditz, Hans, II (German woodcutter, born before 1500, died ca. 1536). 1501 - 1600. Hopfer, Daniel, 1470-1536. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Figure (recto and verso), from Premier livre de figures d'Academies gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l' Académie Royale. Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); after Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698-1762); Charles-Nicholas Cochin, the younger (French, 1715-1790); after Carle van Loo (French, 1705-1765); printed by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); published by Jombert Père (French, 18th century). Date: 1737. Dimensions: 285 × 196 mm (recto plate); 223 × 194 mm (verso plate); 290 × 232 mm (sheet). Etching (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Tekst: down ... Virgil, 1524 - 1562 print paper engraving

Ascon, first duke of Frisians; Asconius. Dux Frisiae Primus; Kings and potestocks from Friesland; Frisia, SEV, the viris. Ascon, first duke of Friesland. Full of feet, a branch in hand. In the background fire at the red cliff. In an ornamental frame. Illustration, with text on the back, coming from the book: Frisia Seu de Viris Rebusque Frisiae Illustrus Libri Duo.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Judgment of Pâris. Thirty-fifth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 526; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

David and Abigail, Daniël van den Bremden, c. 1635 - 1537.

Beggar and king, Albert Flamen, 1672 print A beggar and a king embrace each other. On a banderole a motto in Latin and a caption in French, both about love. print maker: Parispublisher: ParisFrance paper etching Qualities of Love: first series (+ emblematical representation of concept)

A winged man (Time) and a winged skeleton (Death) record the passing of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII; a lion skin in the background. Etching by F.X. Jungwierth after N. Stuber, 1746.

Frontispiece for "Gloriosissimae". Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Dedale et Icare, 1601 - 1700, Etchings, 3 7/16 x 2 1/4 in. (8.7 x 5.7 cm), Paper / Sheet 3 7/16 x 2 1/4 in. (8.7 x 5.7 cm), Cream laid

Woman from Syria, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance of a standing woman in fantasized gestation from Syria. Text in STUDMARGE. Numbered in the top left: 3. Paris paper etching Asiatic races and peoples (+ costume) Syria

Nordicity; Deligents. Imagination of the nordity, in the form of a woman reading by hand on the chest in a book. Under the show a line Latin text. This print is printed on a leaf on which also text in letterpress (right next to the image): "Uytekenh van Deligentia and Vanitas. Deligentia, NeregiTheyt. Gelijck De Wijstheyt and the Dwaesheyt ... In the field of the Wijtheydt. "

Title print for the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Ghent, 1599, 1600 - 1602 Title print for Descriptio Pompae et Gratulationis Publicae from M.A. Vrientius, in which the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Ghent, December 1599. Title print with the Latin title in a frame with a minerva and female personification on both sides. At the top three weapons, a landscape with two river gods at the bottom. Part of: Historica Narratio Profectionis et Inaugurationis Serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae Austriae Archiducum, the description of the entry of the couple in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Valenciennes, 1599. print maker: Southern Netherlandspublisher: Antwerp paper engraving Ghent Title print for Descriptio Pompae et Gratulationis Publicae from M.A. Vrientius, in which the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Ghent, December 1599. Title print with the Latin title in a frame with a minerva and female personification o

Shell -shaped cartouche with marine animals, Albert Flamen, 1664 print Shell -shaped cartouche with an edge of fish and sea snakes. In the Cartouche French text with serial title and manufacturer names. At the bottom of the weapon of G. Tronson. Title print for the first of five series with different fish species and other marine animals. Paris paper etching fishes

Mercury and Argus; Ruiten nine; Mercure et argus; Card game with mythological performances; Jeu des fables.playing Card with a Representation of Mercury and the Sleeping Argus. Text And Diamond In The Undermarge.

Woman from France on horseback, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance of a French woman on horseback. At the top left an angel with a praise. Text in STUDMARGE. Paris paper etching Europeans France

Title print for the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Antwerp, 1599, 1600 - 1602 Title print for the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Antwerp, December 1599. Title print with the Latin title in an architectural frame with Minerva and Mercury on either side. At the top three groups playing putti, a face on Antwerp at the bottom. Part of: Historica Narratio Profectionis et Inaugurationis Serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae Austriae Archiducum, the description of the entry of the couple in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Valenciennes, 1599. print maker: Southern Netherlandspublisher: Antwerp paper engraving Antwerp Title print for the description of the entry of Albrecht and Isabella in Antwerp, December 1599. Title print with the Latin title in an architectural frame with Minerva and Mercury on either side. At the top three groups playing putti, a face on Antwerp at the bottom. Part of: Historica Narratio Profectionis et Inaugurationi

Vatican City, Urban VIII, Italy, Villamena, heirs of Francesco, Francesco, La Sacra Genesi, Paintings in the Loggia of Raphael, Title print with putti, verso - stamped, Title print with title in a cartouche, flanked by four putti. Above a coat of arms and below a mascaron., print, title print, prints, height 166 mm, width 185 mm, Italian, 1566 - 1624-07-07, print maker, printmaker, 1626 - 1626, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, 1568 - 1644-07-29, granter of privilege

Minerva Lauwert Schrijver, François Van Bleyswijck, 1722 print Frame with an oval medallion on the bottom. Minerva sitting on a throne lauwert seen a standing man on the back, possibly the writer. There are four female allegorical figures around, including Justitia. paper engraving / etching / letterpress printing (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena). writer, poet, author. Justitia (justice) as Roman personification

Fat, Marcus.

Four of spades: Quadrant.. 1702. Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932. Prints, Playing cards. Rare Book Division

Karel VI, Stefano Della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance by the French king Charles VI. Text under the show. Paris paper etching Ruler, Sovereign

. Cartouche within which the title, with edge of fruits and two horns from which smoke plumes, awarded the motto on Banderol: Laudate Soli Deo Honor Dominum and Pyramide on which Monograms IHS. Title print of a series of portraits of famous reformers.

VIDA Y MUERTE DE MARGARITA DE AUSTRIA. Author: Guzman. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

A groom is holding a horse by its reins while a man man with a stick is pointing out parts of the horse's anatomy to onlooking students in a park. Etching by C. Parrocel.

Title sheet of the pamphlet: explain this vijsioen, and wants to be bothered it is dreaming seer coen, sestien hundred fifteen, 1615, 1615 Title sheet of the pamphlet with the verse: explain this Vijsioen, and wants to be able to berry it is dreaming seer Coen, sestien hundred fifteen, 1615. Allegory on the deceptive peace proposals of Spain. A monk (Spain and Rome) holds up the free horse (United Nederlanden), but at the same time has had a whip. On the right the driver of the country (Johan van Oldenbarnevelt) is sleeping. In the foreground a suit marked tenth medal. In the background, another horse (Southern Netherlands) is heavily loaded by Spinola with packages marked Spanish Inquisition and Spanish tyranny. Northern Netherlands paper engraving Title sheet of the pamphlet with the verse: explain this Vijsioen, and wants to be able to berry it is dreaming seer Coen, sestien hundred fifteen, 1615. Allegory on the deceptive peace proposals of Spain. A monk (Spain and Rome) holds up t

Title page of the pamphlet: Rendevous Knapsack, 1620, 1620 Title sheet of the pamphlet: Rendevous Knapsack, 1620. Allegory at the approaching end of the twelve -year file. The Archduke Albrecht and Isabella, together with the devil, try to prevent the fall of the Obelisk van Treves (the file). On the left the Dutch Lion, a wild soldier and other figures and animals. It rains flames and weapons from heaven. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Leiden paper etching / letterpress printing Title sheet of the pamphlet: Rendevous Knapsack, 1620. Allegory at the approaching end of the twelve -year file. The Archduke Albrecht and Isabella, together with the devil, try to prevent the fall of the Obelisk van Treves (the file). On the left the Dutch Lion, a wild soldier and other figures and animals. It rains flames and weapons from heaven. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Leiden paper etching / letterpress printing

Medea; Medee; Card game with renowned rulers; Jeu des Reynes Renommées.Playing Card with a Representation of Medea Who Kills Her Two Children. Text in undermarge.

Bleyswijck, François van, Leiden, Miscellaneous poems and translations, Title page for miscellaneous poems and translations, verso - stamped, Oval cartouche with title flanked by a centaur, with beehive, shepherd's crook and sword as symbols of the theatre, and by the personification of the Inspiration, a woman with a bird on her head and a tablet and stylus in her hand. At the top an offering bowl and caduceus., print, engraving, ornamental print, title page, prints, engravings, ornamental prints, height 145 mm, width 110 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1671-05-24 - 1746-10-15, print maker, printmaker, 1706 - 1746, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

Frontispiece with vignettes of astronomer, geographer, scholars and courtiers within decorative border. Copperplate engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissards Bibliotheca Chalcographica, Johann Ammonius, Frankfurt, 1650.

France, French crown, Paris, Grass, Henry le, Bella, Stefano della, Jeu des fables, Card game with mythological scenes, Hercule et Deianire, Five of diamonds, Hercules and Deïanira, Playing card with a scene of Deïanira being taken away by Nessus. Hercules stands in the background and aims his bow and arrow at the centaur. Text and diamond in the bottom margin., print, playing card, prints, height 88 mm, width 55 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, granter of privilege

Jacques Callot, Frontispiece for The Rules of the Order of Our Lady Frontispiece for The Rules of the Order of Our Lady

New Year's Substitute of the Schutterij van den Bosch, 1743, 1742 - 1743 print New Year's Sart from the Schutterij De Oude Schuts or Footboogs of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch for the year 1743. Emblem with Sint Joris who kills the dragon above a face on the Bosch, left and right weapons, banners and the Wapena van den Bosch and Sint -Joris. On the leaf under the plate a verse in two columns. print maker: Northern Netherlandsprinter: Den Bosch paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing warfare; military affairs (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia). the warrior martyr George (Georgius); possible attributes: banner (red cross on white field), (red) cross, dragon, (white) horse, broken lance, shield (with cross), sword the Bosch

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Deucalion and Pyrrha. Fifty-theth number of a suite of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 534; Dutuit 116) (Main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

The curious Hubert Gravelot (1699-1773). The curious. Engraving.

Pelbart of Temesvar Studying in a Garden, 1620. Johann Otmar(). Woodcut;

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), geography game. France. Fifth issue of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 544; Dutuit 117) (Main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), geography game. Greece. Forty-second number of a suite of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 553; Dutuit 117) (main title), 1644. Eau-tie. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Child with a ball and a child with a hoop, Michiel Mosijn, after Cornelis Holsteyn, 1640 - 1655 print A child holds a shell in his hand, there is a ball on it. Another child runs after a hoop. Putti in the background. Amsterdam paper engraving cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. (bowling a) hoop. children's games and plays

Woman from Turkey on horseback, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance of a woman in fantasized gestation from Turkey, on horseback. Text in STUDMARGE. Paris paper etching Asiatic races and peoples (+ costume). horse. riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman Turkey

Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaigne. Artist: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, Aelst 1502-1550 Brussels). Author: Written by Cornelius Grapheus (Netherlandish, Aalst ca. 1482-1558 Antwerp). Dimensions: 10 7/16 x 8 1/16 x 13/16 in. (26.5 x 20.5 x 2 cm). Printer: Printed by Gillis Coppens van Diest (Flemish). Published in: Antwerp. Publisher: Published by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, Aelst 1502-1550 Brussels). Date: 1550. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ornamental frame with two female personifications, Crispijn van de Passe (I), After Maerten de Vos, 1589 - 1611 print Ornamental frame with a Bible quote from Mat. 25 In Latin and a five -line text in Latin. The frame is flanked by two female personifications. At the top left a crane with a raised leg and a stone in its claw as a symbol of vigilance. At the top right a nest with hungry, young birds. In the context at the bottom of a vanitas symbol. Title print for a series of seven with the parable of the five wise and the five foolish virgins. Cologne paper engraving 'Vanitas' Symbols. Alertness, vigilance; 'Guardia', 'Vigilance', 'Supervision to defend yourself & oppose others' (Ripa)

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Standing figures, Elegant man and a chimney sweep near a coat of arms, verso lower left - stamped, An elegantly dressed young man and a chimney sweep on either side of a coat of arms., print, prent, titelprent, prints, engravings, height 96 mm, width 70 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Jupiter and Calisto. Fifteenth number of a suite of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 500; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Eau-tie. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Medaglia D'ella Maesta: Di Cristina Regina di Svesia, Le gemme antiche figurate, Agostini, Leonardo, 1593-ca. 1670, Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615-1696., Bussotti, Giovanni Battista, Galestruzzi, Giovanni Battista, 1615-1669, Etching, 1686, Etching. Plate 56 from vol. 2.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), geography game. Germany. Forty-nineteenth issue of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 547; Dutuit 117) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

A Friedrich August settles in death; The other Friedrich August replaces him again.

Allegorie op de rede; Titelpagina voor: Cornelis Schrevelius, Lexicon manuale Graeco-Latinum, 1709.A woman, in classic robe, sitting behind a writing table, in hand a track, as reference to reason. On the table an hourglass, as a symbol for transience. To her feet a rooster, as a symbol of vigilance. On the column behind her a sundial, who refers to the passage of time. Two angels hold a banner on which the title in Latin.

Child with a hoop and a child with a ball, Michiel Mosijn, after Cornelis Holsteyn, 1640 - 1655 print On the left a child runs after a hoop. Another child holds a shell in his hand, there is a ball on it. Putti in the background. Amsterdam paper engraving cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. (bowling a) hoop. children's games and plays

Virginia, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie) 1644 Etched by Stefano della Bella Italian. Virginia, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie) 376712

Frontispiece for The Rules of the Order of Our Lady. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Triumphal parade of a prince on horseback and a violin playing swan, Anonymous, Hans Baldung Grien, 1539 print paper Water-Birds: Swan. Violin, Fiddle. Triummphal Entry and Public Reception, pageant, 'solemn entrance', 'Joyeuse entrance'

Brazil, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie) 1644 Etched by Stefano della Bella Italian. Brazil, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie) 376695

Emblem with philosopher heraclitus; Heraklitus. Emblem with philosopher Heraclitus that is crying next to world globe on which female personifications of justice and truth. There is a poem under the show.

Amsterdam, Founder, heirs of widow Cornelis, Title page for: Sn, Allusions to all kinds of sciences, arts and crafts, twenty-second sequel, 1791, Two putti place crown on globe, verso - stamped, Two putti place a crown on a globe. Around the globe lie various attributes such as a sword, a money bag and a lute., print, title page, prints, engravings, height 95 mm, width 73 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1791 - 1791, third quarter 17th century, paper, woodcut, letterpress printing, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, publisher

Jason. 1601 - 1700. Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Couple and amor in a landscape, Jan van de Velde (II), 1621 print A few in a landscape that holds each other's hands. Left in the foreground Amor with a arrow sleeve, his bow on the ground for him. In the background a house under construction, with scaffolding. Numbered at the top right: 75. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). couple of lovers. scaffold (~ building activities). building-site

Titelpagina Voor Fasti magistrates and Triumphorvum Roman, 1566, Hubert Goltzius, 1566 print On a monumental wall in the middle the title of the book. On the wall on the left the personification of the Tiber, on the right the Wolvin with Romulus and Remus. Central to the Wall the three unknown Roman personifications in armor. In the foreground, people grieving people, sitting on Roman armor. Lands on the country of the wall a Roman soldier harness. Used engraving / letterpress printing Romulus and Remus are washed ashore and suckled by a she-wolf; 'Lupa Romana'. personification of river Tiber; 'Tevere' (Ripa). monument, statue. prisoner; in fetters Tiber

Louis XIII; Louis Le Juste; Card game with rulers of France; Cartes des Rois de france.playing Card with a Representation of the French King Louis XIII. Text under the show.

Portrait of Orphise vial, actress at the CLUNY Theater in 1873 and at the theater of the Porte Saint Martin. Portrait of Orphise vial, actress at the CLUNY Theater in 1873 and at the theater of the Porte Saint Martin. Photographer of Charles Reutlinger (1816-1880). Business card (verso). Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, title page (recto) 1567 Giovanni Ostaus Italian Published by Giovanni Ostaus, Venice, woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati), Italian, Castelnuova di Garfagnana ca. 1520-1575 Venice.From top to bottom, and left to right:Title printed in black. Below title is an illustrated medallion depicting the winged personification of Victory that holds a flaming heart.. La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, title page (recto) 662311

Entrance to Hendrik van Lorraine; Entreés De Monsignor Hennij De Lorraine Marquis De Moij Soubs Le Nom De Pyrandre. Right Hendrik van Lorraine, dressed up as Roman warrior, standing on a salamander pulled by a swan. Links a group of musicians on the back of a phoenix. Below that three triumphers, one with the perseverance drawn by time, one with the steadfastness drawn by a dragon and one with the faithfulness pulled by two dogs. Above the show a letter in French, there is a printed explanatory text in French. This print has ever been intended as part of a series of illustrations for a book about the festivities (O.A. a tournament) in the Ducal Palace in Nancy on February 14, 1627, but never actually arrived there.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), geography game. Turkey. Seventh issue of a sequence of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 570; Dutuit 117) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Miner De Bergwercker (title on object) The Menselyk Bedryf (series title), handicrafts, craftsman at work, miner, Caspar Luyken, Amsterdam, 1694, paper, etching, h 143 mm × w 84 mm

unknown, Paris, Grass, Henry le, Bella, Stefano della, Jeu des reynes renommées, Card game with renowned queens, Clotilde, Clothilde, Playing card with a representation of Clothilde in a carriage drawn by two unicorns. In her hands an ointment jar and a crucifix. Text in bottom margin., print, playing card, prints, height 90 mm, width 55 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, granter of privilege

Title page for men money lights and translations; Mixed sealing and translations. Oval cartouche with title flanked by a centaur, with beehive, shepherd's staff and sword as a theater symbols, and by the personification of inspiration, a woman with bird on the head and a tablet and granger in hand. At the top of a sacrifice scale and caduceus.

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The life of the Blessed Virgin, frontispiece: first issue of a series of 14 pieces" (Lieure 1357, Meaume 76). Etching. 1631. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99590-26 Etching, engraving

Netherlands, De Vermoeyde Dienst Meyt, Sleeping naked woman in box bed spied on by man, verso center - stamped, Woman sleeping in a box bed and her nightclothes falling open. A man holds his hat in front of her lower body with one hand and with the other hand he lights a candle. The arm with the hat is a movable part of the print, making her genitals visible. Below the scene is a verse with eight lines., print, prints, erotica, DE VERMOEYDE DIENST MEYT, Door gewoel des somers......myn hoet soo toegaan decke., recto bottom - engraved, height 95 mm, width 66 mm, print maker, 1700 - 1799, 18th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Nude love couple caught by Women, Bernard Fullenius, 1670 - 1674 print Above the title an image of people in contemporary clothing at the Supper. For the title, a naked man and woman are taken apart by women in antique clothing. Below a text and a cityscape. unknown paper etching evening meal, dinner, supper

Four of clubs: Sinical quadrant.. 1702. Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932. Prints, Playing cards. Rare Book Division

Title Page for "The Capricci". Dated: 1621. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edouard Eckman after Jacques Callot.

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780). Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, reasoned catalog of the Gaignat sale, lot 114, by, 1724. Drawing in pencil. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais.

Emblem with allegory on servitude, François van Vleyswijck, 1737 print Emblem with allegory on serviveness depicts as a woman with a burning candle. There is a poem under the performance and on the verso. Leiden paper etching Obligation; 'Obligation' (RIPA)

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. The three Graces. Twenty-fifth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 513; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610 - 1664). Title page for Divers exercises de cavalerie, 1642-1645. From Divers exercises des cavaliers. Etching on laid paper. Only state.

Woman from Italy, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance of a sitting woman with a coat of arms from Italy. Text in STUDMARGE. Numbered in the top left: 10. Paris paper etching Europeans Italy

Andrea Andreani after Andrea Mantegna, The Triumph of Julius Caesar Title Page, 1599 The Triumph of Julius Caesar: Title Page

Narcissus admires his mirror image in the water; Sese Dum Deperit, Perit / L'Excez de l'Amour Propre Est Cause de SA Perte; Monastery life in emblems. Presentation of a young man (Narcissus) looking at his own mirror image at a waterfront. Above and below this print Latin and French texts in letterpress. This magazine is part of the emblem series 'monastic life in emblems'. In addition to an illustrated title page and 26 emblems, the second state of this series contains a title page and a blade with assignment, both in letterpress without image.

unknown, Paris, Gras, Henry le, Bella, Stefano della, Jeu de la géographie, Card game geography, Mexique, Woman from Mexico, Playing card with a representation of a woman in exotic dress from Mexico, on horseback. Text in bottom margin., print, playing card, prints, height 89 mm, width 55 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, granter of privilege

Mercury on victory car with the constellations Virgin and Gemini, Anonymous, 1500 - 1599 print paper letterpress printing Mercury and his children ('Planetenkinder') ~ Gemini and Virgo

Gründtliche Beschreibung der freyen ritterlichen unnd adelichen Kunst des Fechtens in allerley gebreuchlichen Wehren mit vil schönen und nützlichen Figuren gezieret und fürgestellet (A Thorough Description of the Free Knightly and Noble Art of Fencing, in All the Typical Guards, Adorned and Arranged with Many Beautiful and Useful Figures) dated 1570 Joachim Meyer German Meyer was one of the most influential later proponents of the Geman long sword, following the techniques first codified two centuries earlier by Johannes Liechtenauer. Meyer's manual appeared in four editions between 1570 and 1660. It is divided into five sections, the first and longest dealing with the art of the long sword. The others include instruction in the Dussack (a saberlike wooden practice weapon indigenous to Germany), rapier techniques based on the Italian school, dagger fighting, and the use of various staff weapons.. Gründtliche Beschreibung der freyen ritterlichen unnd adelichen Kunst des Fechtens in alle

Minerva en Amor op wolken; Titelpagina voor: M. Marmontel, Contes Moraux, 1779.Minerva with spear and amor with arrow sleeve and bow sitting on clouds. Behind it an oval medallion with title and putto with garland.

Queen of Seba, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print. playing card Play card with a performance by the Queen of Seba. A dark boy wears the tow of her dress. Text in STUDMARGE. Paris paper etching ruler, sovereign - BB - female ruler

Titelpagina voor: J. de Deckers Rym-oeffeningen, 1659.Title page for J. Deckers Rym-Oiefingen. The title is flanked by Hercules and a woman with donkey ears and a laurel wreath. Above the title a woman with harp and scepter. The sun shines behind her.

Woodcut from 1563 by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting textual inscriptions on the portrait of Johann the Constant, Elector of Saxony, showing figure, clothing, and composition.

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