Theatrical and Dramatic Illustrations

Engravings portraying dramatic scenes from literature and mythology, featuring ghostly apparitions, epic stories, and action-packed moments.

Prince Henry offers his life when his father doubts his loyalty upon returning the crown, Anonymous

Prince Henry offers his life when his father doubts his loyalty upon returning the crown, Anonymous

Abducting horse', 1819-1823 Artist: Francisco Goya. Tale of a man who turned into a horse, abducts the woman he loves after killing her husband, plate 10 of 'Proverbs', published in 1864. 'Proverbs' is an album of twenty-two prints which is the last major series of prints by Francisco Goya.

Shakespeare Hamlet Act l Sc 5. Hamlet seeing his father's ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. 19th century engraving.

Shakespeare 'Hamlet' Act l Sc 5. Hamlet seeing his father's ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. 19th century engraving.

'Abducting horse', 1819-1823. Artist: Francisco Goya

Vintage antique illustration and line drawing or engraving of biblical Archangel Michael fighting and defeating Satan as dragon. Revelation 12:7-9.From Biblische Geschichte, Germany 1859.. Vintage Drawing of Biblical Archangel Michael Fighting With Satan as Dragon

A Career in plaster near Lagny, Seine-et-Marne, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867.

Well in Upper Egypt, the water is drawn with the help of an ox, woodcut, 1885, Egypt, Africa

King Sigurd of Norway, Bride Ride, the King has a jug of water handed to him by Alfsonne, in the year 1100, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, original date unknown

Layard supervises the excavation of the impressive stone reliefs at Tell Nimrud. Date: 1852

Landscape with a Waterfall, c. 1597-1600, Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617, 4 7/16 x 5 3/4 in. (11.27 x 14.61 cm) (image)4 9/16 x 5 3/4 in. (11.59 x 14.61 cm) (sheet), Chiaroscuro woodcut, Netherlands, 16th-17th century

handcraft journeymans years journeymen on the prowl engraving after drawing by Ludwig Richter (1803 - 1884),

A Scene at Rochecorbon, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1858.

Painting Salon 1861, Sea Raiders, Guisseny Finistere, by Yan Dargent, vintage engraving. Painting Salon 1861, Sea Raiders, Guisseny Finistere, by Yan Dargent, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674124

Rolands Rod im Thale zu Ronceval, historical illustration from Otto von Leixner: Illustrated History of German Literature. Leipzig and Berlin 1880, First volume

Fearless and faithful, knight, armour, banner, inscription, sword, shield, forest, die, nobleman, historical illustration 1895

1869 Exhibition of Painting, Featured A Gallic, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.

Illustration showing Bernard Palissy (c. 1510 - c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.

Alexander the Great before Tyre, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume I, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1894

Woodcut print depicting vagabonds, a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. Dated 16th Century

Painting Exhibition of 1857, Werewolf, vintage engraving. Painting Exhibition of 1857, Werewolf, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674007

'The Order of the Day; or, Unions and Fenians', 1867. Artist: John Tenniel

Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, A bird, and man story, Platt, Low German, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem, literary figure, graphic, humour, satire, landscape, mountains, tree, sitting men, blacksmith journeyman, backpacks, walking stick, tell, young, old, top hat, cap, Hanne Nuete 15, North Germany, 19th century, historical illustration 1868

Women on the beach at the bathroom

The Night. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882) English artist known as Phiz

'Actors and Ballet-Girls of the Mikado's court; A European Sojourn in Japan', 1875. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London

It’s not on the camel need to type, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.

Neptune (Greek:Poseidon), holding his triple-headed spear (trident), in chariot pulled by sea horses. 18th century engraving.

Archers shooting at a herm, illustration from 1875 after a work by Michelangelo Buonarroti from 1530, digitally enhanced reproduction from a 19th-century original, historical, exact date unknown.

Illustration showing Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825. John Leech cartoon from Punch, 1854, showing him hurtling to the edge of a precipice on a sledge labelled DESPOTISM

Gustave Doré; The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy; Black and White Engraving

John Nichols Tom or Thom, 1799 - 1838. Cornish merchant and maltster who re-invented himself as Sir William Courtenay. He stood for parliament in Canterbury, was convicted of perjury in a smuggling

Threshing wheat. Engraving from a miniature in a calendar published in a book of hours, from the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Croce in Gerusalemme59. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Cosmati pavement, architecture (facade). Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, frescoes: "Leggenda della Santa Croce," Antoniazzo Romano (attr) & "S. Elena sale al cielo," Corrado Giaquinto; mosaic ceiling in Cappella di S. Elena; coats-of-arms 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.

An engraving depicting the Fleet Ditch: 1841. At this time such old watercourses acted as sewers and flowed into the Thames which was heavily polluted. Dated 19th century

Painting: 'Esculapius discovered by shepherds on the mountain, nursed by a goat and guarded by a dog'.

transport transportation sledges transport by sledge in the snow storm wood engraving after Edouard Riou late 19th century,

Berenguer Ramon mata a traición a su hermano Ramón Berenguer "Cap d'Estopa", conde de Barcelona. Historia popular de Catalunya, de Alfons Roure. Editada en Barcelona, 1919. Dibujo de Joan Vila i Pujol (Joan d'Ivori) (Barcelona, 1890-1947).

The Divine Comedy (1307-1321). Italian narrative poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Inferno (Hell). "In the same way, that cruel beast fell to the ground...." Illustration by Yann Dargent (1824-1899). Engraving. Published in Paris, 1888. Author: Jean-Edouard Dargent. known as Yann Dargent (1824-1899). French artist.

Engraving form The Oreseeker: A Tale of the Hartz. By A. S. Moffat. Illustrated by Louise Charlotte Hobart. Dated 1860

Historia sagrada. Ejecución de un condenado mediante el aplastamiento por una roca de su cuerpo envuelto en espinas. Grabado de 1862.

Lyre-player Apollo is challenged to a musical duel by flute-player Marsyas ; when he wins (by a nasty trick) he flays his presumptuous rival alive

1872 Exhibition of Painting Might is right, for A E Mery, vintage engraving. 1872 Exhibition of Painting, Might is right, for A E, Mery, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679369

The removed Bucket, vintage engraving. The removed Bucket, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679258

Tree felling by the cedars in Lebanon, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Dante and Virgil at the edge of the abyss from which a foetid smell steamed up: Canto XI. Illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante' Inferno', 1863. Wood engraving

A woman supports her head, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.

Dalmatian Andean gravestone of the Claudian Ala in the Museum of Mainz, Germany, depicting a lightly armed pedestrian accompanying a rider in full armor on horseback, who stands over an enemy Germanic man lying on the ground, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.

The Divine Comedy (1307-1321). Italian narrative poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Inferno (Hell). "Centaurs in file were running..." Illustration by Yann Dargent (1824-1899). Engraving. Published in Paris, 1888. Author: Jean-Edouard Dargent. known as Yann Dargent (1824-1899). French artist.

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.

Platform of the Great Pyramid, the Cheops, vintage engraving. Platform of the Great Pyramid, the Cheops, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660339

The Air Dramas. Zambelli is surrounded by flames, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' by Ernst Keil. Ernst Keil (1816-1878) a German bookseller and founder of 'Die Gartenlaube' (The Gazebo) the first major German tabloid. Dated 19th Century

Death of Codrus, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume I, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1894

Attaeon, an illustration from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, an encyclopedia from 1897

The Man with the magic lantern, 1774, vintage engraving. The Man with the magic lantern, 1774, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679343

Ceramics, Vases at the World's Fair 1855, Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

This 1891 illustration is a fanciful depiction of three storm demons about to nab a ship sailing out in the open waters.

Clovis I (c. 466-511 or 513). First king of the Franks. Engraving, 1882. Germania.

Inundation of the Nile: colossal statues in the Plain of Thebes, 1861. 'The stupendous remains of this famous city of antiquity, long the capital of Egypt, extend for seven miles along both banks of the Nile, in Upper Egypt, and present an imposing collection of ancient monuments...shown here are two enormous sitting colossi, one of which was the celebrated Memnon...Egypt owes, as is well known, its existence as a productive and habitable region to the Nile, the periodic overflowings of which more than answer the purpose of rain in other countries; and, accordingly, in olden times the benefi

Tombstone of the Dalmatian Andes of the Claudian Ala in the Museum of Mainz, Germany, depicting a lightly armed pedestrian accompanying a horseman in full armour on horseback standing over a hostile Teuton lying on the ground, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century, Europe

Warrior in Rottang armor from Attak Bay, New Guinea, in 1880 / Krieger im Rottang-Panzer von der Attak-Bai, Neiguinea, im Jahre 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Hercules (Roman mythology) or Heracles (Greek mythology). Hero of classical mythology. Engraving. Historia General de España by Father Mariana. Madrid, 1852.

Of what ill he die', 1799 Artist: Francisco Goya. Plate 40 of 'Los Caprichos'. Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799.

Samson slaying the lion. Old Testament. Antique digitally colored Biblical illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Stone cist tomb from the Bronze Age, Spain, skull with bronze diadem, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknow...

Tityus, Tityo, in Greek mythology an earth-born giant from the island of Euboea, a son of Gaia, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

SADE , MARQUES DE. DONATIEN APHONSE FRANCOIS. ESCRITOR FRANCES . 1740 - 1814. GRABADO.

Historic drawing, caricature of a vain Spaniard in the Spanish Netherlands, 16th century

King Charles I (1600-1649). Artist: Unknown

GRABADO - OSO HAMBRIENTO ATACA UNA CASA DE COLONOS.

Nothung, Nothung, Conquering Sword from Siegfried, The Ring of the Nibelungen - Arthur Rackham, circa 1911

América. Cosecha del algodón. Grabado de 1890.

England, an Engraving by William Hogarth on the Tailpiece to the artist's catalogue of 1761, depicting a monkey watering sticks as a satirical contrast to the frontispiece which depicts Britannia and George III watering the arts.

Notre Dame. Fantastic animals of the area of lead, vintage engraving. Notre Dame. Fantastic animals of the area of lead, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648258

Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus From "Liber Chronicarum Mundi" (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel 1493, Woodcut

The International Exhibition: carving in wood, "The Hare and Pheasant", by T. H. Kendall, 1862. 'The hare and pheasant which we here figure constitute a still-life group...It is by Mr. T. H. Kendall, of Warwick. As a work of imitative carving it is very fine, the plumage of the bird being given with great tenderness and truth, and that rounded character which occurs in groups of feathers, and, indeed, in solitary feathers, is well felt and rendered. The action, or rather want of action, in the game, resulting from passiveness or death, is well contrasted with the rigidity and life of

Scene from The Tempest by William Shakespeare, 1856-1858. Artist: Unknown

The prophet Jonah is thrown into the sea, Jonah, chapter 1, verses 1-16, Old Testament, Bible, boat, storm, tempest, rain, dark clouds, sky, high waves, despair, fear, sails, men, God, sleep, fish, three days, spit out, swallow, historical illustration 1890

Woodcut engraving depicting a bton à feu a type of hand cannon developed in the 14th century in Western Europe. Dated 15th century

Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy "Inferno" or "Visions of Hell"; Charon loads souls into his boat

'Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna', 1852. Artist: John Leech.

CARCELERO.

Hungry Kytsci child. East Africa. Drawing by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) Journey to Lake Albert, 1861-1864 by Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) Le Tour du Monde 1867

A massive monument (on the site of the present Arc de Triomphe) is erected to enable the Parisians to celebrate Bastille Day.

Britannia having chained the demon of war, 1816.Artist: T Wallis

1877 Exhibition of Painting, The Source of Neslette by Van Marcke, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.

Shooting while riding in gallop, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, yearbook from 1900

Departure and defense. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1912. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph on Van Gelder paper

Man is issuing fishing nets, Statue of a single piece of marble, vintage engraving. Man is issuing fishing nets, Statue of a single piece of marble, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673445

Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis. or - The vessel of the Constitution steered clear of the Rock of Democracy, and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary-Power Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Pitt, William,1759-1806. , Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,1751-1816. , Fox, Charles James,1749-1806. , Priestley, Joseph,1733-1804. , Britannia (Symbolic character),1790-1800. , Politics & government,Great Britain,1790-1800.

Construction of the Tower of Babel, historical wood engraving, circa 1888

Roman Empire. Gladiators. From left to right: 13- gladiator armed with trident, 14- gladiator carrying shield and net, 15- gladiator carrying scythe, helmet and shield, 16- gladiator with helmet and shield, 17- gladiator carrying helmet, shield and dagger, 18- gladiator. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume II, 1881.

Bust of Abraham Lincoln Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848-1907). Bust of Abraham Lincoln, 1922. Bronze, 28 x 17 x 14 in. (71.1 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm). This portrait bust of President Abraham Lincoln was derived from the full-length standing portrait completed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 for Chicagos Lincoln Park. Saint-Gaudens based Lincolns likeness on plaster life casts of the presidents head. The sculptor was inspired by Lincolns landmark 1860 speech at Cooper Union in New York, in which the future president declared that the founders would have opposed the expansion of slavery into new American territories. In this speech Lincoln also made famous the phrase “Let us have faith that right makes might.” American Art 1922

Hereward The Wake, c1893. Artist: HC Balding.

One of the Sciapodes, who were believe to use their single enormous foot as an umbrella. From the Nuremberg Chronicle. Dated 1493.

OLIVE OIL After storing and maturing, olives in southern Italy are placed in the 'pontana' then all join in the pressing while the Madonna watches 1895

Schieferpfeife von den Queen Charlotte Islands. Artefakte aus Amerika. Veröffentlichung der Meyers Enzyklopädie Slate pipe from the Queen Charlotte Islands. Artifacts of America. Publication of the Meyers encyclopedia, Vol. 7, Leipzig, Germany, 1910. LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxKohlx 23196738

Of What Ill WIll He Die Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, 1797-1798, Museum Berggruen, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Robinsons of Guyana. The Parisian was seasick, vintage engraving. Robinsons of Guyana. The Parisian was seasick, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657212

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