Historical Scenes and Engravings

Engravings capturing significant historical events and figures, depicting dramatic moments in society, politics, and culture from various eras.

Gustave Doré; Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty, the Prince in the banqueting hall; Black and White Engraving

"A Tavern Brawl", by John Gilbert, in the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'Such brawls were common in that ruder and more licentious, though vigorous and glorious, age...the duello was considered a most honourable, equitable, and gentleman-like mode of liquidating debts, proving wrong to be right, and wiping ail stain, however black, from the criminal. Naturally, when hot-blooded young gallants, professional gamesters and bravoes, swaggering swashbucklers, and lawless roisterers of all kinds...met at the taverns...when the sack a

Invasion of the Assembly, 20 June 1792 .Engraved by Blanpain after De La Charlerie. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.

Louvre museum, Bonaparte’s expedition to Egypt, ceiling painting, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.

Philibert II (1480-1504). Duke of Savoy, called the Handsome or the Good. The vassals of the Duke of Savoy delivering his treasures to get rid of French domination. Engraving in The Artistic Illustration, 1887.

Execution of Louis XVI, 21 January 1793.Louis XVI, 1754-1793. King of France 1774-1792. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.

Henry II is enfeoffed as the first Duke of Austria, Henry, 1112, 1177, called Jasomirgott, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1140 to 1141, Margrave of Austria from 1141 to 1156, as Henry XI from 1141 to 1156. Duke of Bavaria and from 1156 to 1177 Duke of Austria. He was a member of the House of Babenberg, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Picking up the monastery in the 16th century according to the image of Gustav Gappa. Cleastle from Tygodnik Ilustrowany 1879 (1) 232 233 Brend'amour, Franz Robert Richard (1831 1915), Gaupp, Gaustav adolf (1844 1918)

Gustave Doré; Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty, the Prince in the banqueting hall; Black and White Engraving

Jean Joseph Vade ( 1719-1757). Escritor francés. Creador de una literatura en lengua vulgar propia del Mercado de las Halles, de París. Grabado de 1866.

Illustrated handbooks to the picture exhibitions: "Victorious" by J. D. Linton, 1880. 'From "Grosvernor Notes, 1880, an illustrated catalogue of the Summer Exhibition", edited by Henry Blackburn...M. F. G. Dumas, founder and director of the British and Foreign Artists' Association has again brought out, as he did last year, a French catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture opened this season at the Palais of the Champs Elysées, accompanied by 320 pages entirely filled with very superior representations, facsimile copies, by a zincographic process, of the

Madrid, from 'The Victories of the Duke of Wellington', engraved by T. Fielding - 1819 - coloured engraving. Author: RICHARD WESTALL (1766-1836). Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE MADRID-GRABADOS ByN. MADRID. SPAIN.

Judaism persecution of the Jews expulsion of the Jew from Jerusalem by Emperor Hadrian 135 AD after miniature from ""Histoire des empereurs"" 15th century wood engraving 19th century,

Painting titled 'Nero's Torches' by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902) a Polish painter. Dated 19th Century

Ancient Greece. Athens. Market flowers. 700-150 BC. Engraving by Knesing. Enlighened Worl, published in Spain, 1880. Author: L. DUMONT.

King George I, attacked by a fit of apoplexy. Artist: Crane

A Serenade in Castile, vintage engraving. A Serenade in Castile, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673984

1836 Exhibition of Painting, The Triumph of Petrarch, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.

Enrique IV de Francia y III de Navarra (1553-1610), primer rey de la dinastía de los Borbones. Hizo su entrada triunfal en París en 1594, pocos meses después de convertirse al catolicismo y tras haber pronunciado la famosa frase "París bien vale una misa". Grabado de 1866.

An engraving depicting Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) an English courtier and navigator, puffing at his tobacco pipe while watching the potato, being planted in Ireland, after his discovery of it in the New World. Dated 19th century

Engraving by British artist & engraver, William Hogarth 1697ñ1764: The Gate of Calais or O, the Roast Beef of Old England is a 1749 engraving. The scene depicts a side of beef being transported from the harbour to an English tavern in the port, while a group of undernourished, ragged French soldiers and a fat friar look on hungrily

Charles the Bold (1433-1477). Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy on the bridge of Montereau. Engraving by Auguste Belin.

The caption for this 1912 image reads" "Cleopatra in all her splendor - prisoners of war being brought before Cleopatra, who is seated in her chariot." Cleopatra VII (69-30 B.C.), the daughter of Ptolemy XI, of Egypt. She married her brother Ptolemy XII and began to rule Egypt with him when she was 17. She later aligned her self with Julius Caesar against her brother. Following Caesar's death, she aligned herself with Mark Antony. Following Antony's death, she is said to have killed herself, as legend has it, by the bite of an asp.

Historia de España. Entrada del rey Jaime I el Conquistador en Játiva en 1247. Grabado de 1872. el Conquistador Jaime I de Aragón (1208-1276).

Historia de España. Entrevista de los embajadores de don Carlos de Anjou, rey de Sicilia, con el rey don Pedro III de Aragón, quien reclamaba sus derechos por su matrimonio con Constanza, hija y heredera del rey Manfredo I de Sicilia en 1282. Grabado de 1872. el Grande Pedro III de Aragón (1240-1285).

THE COUNTESS DE MONTFORT INCITING THE PEOPLE OF RENNES TO RESIST THE FRENCH KING

Husband-stage: Blue Monday - Left Behind!, The, Artist Unknown

Bar un Madrid. Illustration from Charles Davillier's Voyage en Espagne', published in 'El Museo Universal', 1861. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Giuseppe Garibaldi 1949.

Commissioned by her Philistino suporiors for a large sum of money to learn the secret of Samson's strength, Delilah (Hody Lamarr) busios herself towards that objective with music and considerable feminine allure. DeMille derived some of the mood for the scene from J. Echena's representation below.Delilah, who bewitched and betrayes Samson, strongest of men, was a redhead.Superstitions about hair, red and otherwise, are as old as mankind.Beliefs about hair formed part of many primitive religious.The latest Sydney craze is merely a modern version of ancient witchery. January 28, 1950. (Photo by Samson and Delilah).

The Murder of the Princes in the Tower, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858

Queen Elizabeth I of England appointing Francis Drake as knight. Illustration by W. Thomas published in 'L'Univers Illustr_'. Etching.

Engraving depicting an allegorical picture of Nature imparting learning (Natural Philosophy).

Engraved scene of a 18th Century opera box. Dated 18th Century

Lazio Viterbo Viterbo Museo Civico53. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of paintings (Middle Ages through 18th c.), frescoes, a tabernacle, coffin, sculpture reliefs, portal fragments, busts, sculpture, tapestry found in the Pinacoteca, Second floor gallery and Second floor cloister sequences. Antiquities: Many views of Etruscan and Roman fragments, sculpture, sarcophagi, pottery, masks, jewelry and other objects found in the Storeroom sequence (inventory numbers on back of prints), and the Cloister, Second floor Cloister, Valle Giulia, Sala Romana and Sala Etrusca sequences. General Notes: There are eight separate numerical sequences for this location. The cloister as an architectural structure, rather than museum site, is documented in the record and file for S. Maria della Verita, Cloister, all views of which are stored in Medieval core collection. Five views from the Museo Civico Second floor cloister sequence are stored in Medieval. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-

Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance an officer? at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, illustration, 19th century

In 1565 led by Louis of Nassau and Henry of Brederode, the League of Nobles advanced. Hendrik van Brederode became a convert to the Reformed faith and placed himself at the side of the prince of Orange and Count of Egmont in resisting the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition and Spanish despotism into the Netherlands. In 1566 he was one of the founders of the League of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights and liberties of the country by signing a document known as the Compromise of Nobles. On April 5 of that year Brederode accompanied to the palace a body of 300 Knights, for whom he acted as the spokesman, to present to the regent, Margaret of Parma, a petition setting forth their grievances. It was at a banquet at the Hotel Culemburg on April 8, presided over by Bréderode, that the sobriquet of les Gueux, or the Beggars, was first given to the opponents of Spanish rule. Bréderode, the Grote Geus or big beggar, was banished from the Netherlands by Alva, and died in

IN THE KENNEL, 1870

Moctezuma II (1466-1520). Ninth tlatoani of Tenochtitlan. Death of Moctezuma on the balcony of his palace, 1520. Engraving, 19th century. Later colouration.

A woman accused of adultery, 1813. Artist: Unknown

Amsterdam, Smit, Jan Willem, J., Vermandel, Willem, Buys, Jacobus, Northern Netherlands, King, Theodoor, Scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584, You have enough yeast, oh hero! what Nassau could hope for, Had King Philip a heart like Mondragon's, Meeting between Orange and Mondragon, 1573, Meeting between William of Orange and Mondragon in front of an army tent at Middelburg, 1573. Eleventh song., print, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 180 mm, width 135 mm, 1748-02-03 - 1829-01-31, print maker, printmaker, 1781 - 1781, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, after a design by, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Painting titled 'Louis VI's First Charter to the Parisians' by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921) a French painter and sculptor. Dated 19th Century

Murder of Prince Edward at Tewkesbury 1471 19th Century Illustration

Egyptian Princess on boat on Nile

Beheading of Mr. C. van der Burgh, Mayor of Bolsward, May 16, 1789. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys (mentioned on object). Dating: 16-May-1789 - 1801. Measurements: h 82 mm × w 56 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

György Dózsa (1470-1514). Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania (Kingdom of Hungary), who led a peasant revolt against the landed gentry. Dorza captured and tortured before being executed. Engraving by J. Facnion. "Los Heroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VI. 1856. Author: J. Facnion. 19th century artist.

Le Bal des Ardents. The Fearless Ardents or Bal des Sauvages, was a masquerade ballvheld on 28 January 1393 in Paris at which Charles VI of France performed in a dance with five members of the French nobility . Four of the dancers were killed in a fire caused by a torch brought in by Charles' brother Louis, Duke of Orléans. France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Histoires de l'Ancien Temps 1889

Madness of Charles VI King of France. How do you feel constable said King Charles VI of France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Histoires de l'Ancien Temps 1889

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, illustration, 19th century

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (Ottery St. Mary, 1772-Londres, 1834). Poeta y crítico británico. Ilustración del poema "THE ANCIENT MARINER" ("El viejo marino"), correspondiente a la celebración de la BODA DEL PROTAGONISTA. Grabado por Gustave DORÉ.

Wood engraving depicting King Henry II of France being fatally wounded during a tournament. Henry II (1519-1559) a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France. Dated 16th century

According to a manuscript executed by order of Charles V and preserved in the Royal Library, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846.

The martyrdom of Saint Thomas. Engraving from a Rubens painting. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.

people professions shoemaker trying shoes on and measuring copper engraving by Le Blond after Abraham Bosse France circa 1650,

THE TENTH COMPARTMENT OF THE WELLINGTON SHIELD.

Cultural state in the late 15th and early 16th century, children at play, after a woodcut by Hans Burgmeier in the Weiß-Kunig, Historic, digitally res...

Carousing mercenaries and prostitutes, copper engraving by Franz von den Weyngaerdt after Peter Paul Rubens, 17th century

Lord Byron (1788-1824). English Romantic poet. Childe Harold's pilgrimade. Narrative poem published between 1812-1818. Engraving of an edition of 1850.

Die Wahrheit, nach einem Gemälde von Alexander Frenz / The truth, after a painting by Alexander Frenz, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt,.

King Charles I (1600-1649), 1793.Artist: William Satchwell Leney

Museum of Nantes, Italian School, Convoy funeral of a bishop, vintage engraving. Museum of Nantes, Italian School, Convoy funeral of a bishop, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660301

Buys, Jacobus, Netherlands, Vinkeles, Reinier (I), Revolt of the Cheese and Bread People in Alkmaar, 1492, 1492. Plundering of the house of the steward Klaas Korf and the killing of his servant., print, picture, history print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 234 mm, width 150 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1741-06-19 - 1816-01-30, print maker, printmaker, 1785 - 1785, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, 1724-11-19 - 1801-04-07, intermediary draughtsman

Meo Patacca harangue his brave companions in Campo Vaccino, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

Roma antigua. Muerte de Cayo Fulvio Plauciano (-205), prefecto de la guardia pretoriana y suegro del emperador Caracalla, por conspirar contra la familia imperial.

Law Solon gives rights according to the image of Gustav Graef. A clip from a Russian magazine. Brend'amour, Franz Robert Richard (1831 1915), Gustav (1821 1895)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

Paris, France - Boulevard des Italiens. Date: 1809

Rudolf II grants the Letter of Majesty, Anonymous

Jack Cade (d1450) English rebel of Irish extraction, leader of Kentish Rebellion during reign of Henry VI, declaring himself Lord of London. Held London for about 2 days. Killed in Sussex attempting to escape to the coast. Copperplate engraving early 19th century.

Morus, Thomas Saint.

Edward, Prince of Wales (1330-1376), 19th century.Artist: J Rogers

Historia de España. Motín de Segovia ante Doña Isabel I de Castilla (1451-1504), Isabel la Católica. Los amotinados se reunen con la reina en el Alcázar solicitando la destitución del alcaide judío Andrés Cabrera. Grabado de 1872.

Marriage in France at the time of the First Republic 1792, woodcut, France, Europe

The reception of five Spanish ambassadors in The Hague for the negotiations on the file, February 1609, Jacobus Buys, 1734 - 1801 drawing paper. ink pen / brush historical events and situations. reception ~ ambassador The Hague

Let Him Be Crucified (Qu'il soit crucifié) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Let Him Be Crucified (Qu'il soit crucifié), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 15/16 x 5 7/16 in. (22.7 x 13.8 cm). European Art 1886-1894

France French Revolution 1789 - 1799 caricature ""The Freedom of the Press"" copper engraving 1793,

Wedding at Cana. Draughtsman: Simon Fokke. Dating: 1722 - 1784. Measurements: h 66 mm × w 111 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Audience with Agrippa (63 BC-12 BC). Roman general and politician. Engraving after a painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

Civil suits of henry viii time, vintage engraving. Civil suits of henry viii time, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656061

Defoe in the Pillory Artist Unknown

Gustavo Bianchi (1845-1884), Italian explorer

History of France. 18th century. Tributes to the King. The people of France paying their taxes. Engraving of the time.

Virgil's Revenge, copperplate engraving after Eneas Vico, 18th century, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Tribute to the Minotaur Artist Unknown

Historia. Elección de Wamba (-688), rey de los visigodos. Grabado de 1871.

Dulzaina. Biale típico regional de Castilla. Catedral de Burgos. Grabado de 1929. Author: CARLOS LLOBET BUSQUETS.

Meo Patacca winner in a tournament, the prize is a tribute Nuccia, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

William, Prince of Orange (later King William III) lands in Brixham in Torbay, Devon, England, November 5, 1688. After a print by George Noble from the work by Thomas Stothard originally featured in

Death of Socrates, 469 - 399 B.C. Engraved by F. Finden after H. Corbould, from the book A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall Bishop of St. Davids.

'Beware the Ides of March', 1858. Artist: Sir John Gilbert

Don Quijote: "...tanto le dijo, tanto le persuadió y prometió...". Museum: COLECCION PARTICULAR MADRID ESPAÑA. Author: GUSTAVE DORE.

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Götz von Berlichingen on the town hall in Heilbronn, Gottfried Götz von Berlichingen zu Hornberg, (c. 1480 to July 23, 1562), was a German imperial knight, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Illustration for William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 5, Scene I. From an 1887 edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine after a painting by Horace Fisher.

Juan González; Miguel González / 'Series of the Conquest of Mexico'. 1698. Shell work, Oil on canvas mounted on panel, panel. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Historical print, allegory of the French academic society Academie francaise also known as French Academy

The Queen visiting a Cornish Iron Mine, c1840s, (1900). Artist: Unknown

Philippine Welser, 1527 - 1580, an Augsburg patrician's daughter and wife of Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg, ruler of Tyrol, kneeling in front of the Emperor Ferdinand I, historical engraving from the Buch denkwuerdiger Frauen or book of memorable woman, published by Otto Spamer, 1877

Charles the Bald, according to a dedication picture in the Bible of Charles the Bald, Charles II (13 June 823) (6 October 877 in Avrieux near Modane),...

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