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Kurtze Breschreibung - dess auss Irrland - kœnigl. majestat in Schwede...

Broadside shows four "Irish" soldiers in kilts with battle scene in the background. 800 Scottish troops arrived to battle in Stettin on the side of Swedish troops in 1631. Lengthy descriptive text in German bel... More

Mr. Hobson, obyt ano 1630, vixit annos 86 / J. Payne fecit.

Print shows half-length portrait of Thomas Hobson, standing, facing front holding a money bag. Hobson was a weathly mail carrier from Cambridge, England, known for establishing the phrase "Hobson's choice." Poe... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Rembrandt with cap pulled forward]

Title from shelflist card. Impression from worn and retouched plate with margins 2.5 to 3.5 cm., all around. Hollstein, 319. Rovinski, 319 (7th state). Bjorklund, 31-10 (5th state). Hubbard Collection. Erroneou... More

Ein Kurtz--Jedoch nachdenktlich Bespräch--eines Fuches und Katzen

A fox tied to a tree, a cat, lying as if dead, with a rat in its mouth, an open rat cage and rats; across the river, Magdeburg burns; text below image.

Kurtze Breschreibung - dess auss Irrland - kœnigl. majestat in Schwede...

[Rembrandt in a heavy fur cap] / [monogram] 1631.

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated in pencil. Impression from worn plate, badly printed. Rovinski, 16. Bjorkland, 31-L. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection.

Abbildung der zwar hoch betrübten ...

Mock funeral procession for the heavy imperial taxes levied on the Protestants but lost after the Protestant victory at Breitenfeld. A similar copy, with different text, is filed under PC 6 - 1632 (B size).

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Herodiade / Corio. s. 17th century

Print shows Herodiade and Salome with the severed head of St. John the Baptist. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More

Warhafftiger und Natürlicher. Book illustration from Library of Congre...

People standing before the city walls of Nuremberg, viewing the image of a lion, which miraculously appeared on the wall; text below image. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 789.