4,875 16th century Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly ... More

Church of St. Andrew (1702), east view, with stone dwelling (mid 16th ...

Public domain photograph related to Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Giulio Romano - Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More

[St. Christopher with infant Christ], engraving, Library of Congress

Title from shelflist card. Stains. Altdorfer, 85. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albrecht Durer - [St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... More

Heinrich Aldegrever - [Jan van Leyden], 16th century

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 182. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The entombment, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italia...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Michelangelo Morigi / Marcellino Minasi incise diretto d'Antonino Mina...

Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.

Mural at Amargos Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

La nobiltà di Roma versi in lode di cento gentildonne romane et le v...

For canto, tenor, and basso. Title from canto part. In mensural notation with lute tablature. Contains works by G.L. dell'Arpa, Agnolo C.M. Da Cesi, G. Fiorino, S. Santuccio, and others. Italian words, also pri... More

Giovanni Francesco Penni - Martha and Mary Magdalene before Christ / M...

Print shows Martha presenting her sister Mary Magdalene to Jesus, who reaches his arm out to greet them. Several others are seated on the steps around Jesus. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate tit... More

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

[Scenes related to the Soga family - two warriors praying in front of ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Eiri soga monogatari : Illustrated tale of the Soga Clan. Format: one sheet of an Sum... More

As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independe...

Cartoon showing the Spanish throne tumbling, under the weight of "Depleted treasury," "Mortgage," etc., from atop a pile of blocks--"Corrupt aristocracy," "Antagonism to civilization," "16th century methods"--a... More

Madrigali di Verdelot a sei insieme altri madrigali de diversi eccelle...

Title from canto part. The collation of canto, alto, tenore, basso, quinto and sesto is the same: T.p. 30 p. and 1 unumbered p. of index, which, however, has been omitted in the basso. The signatures run consec... More

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i pro...

A score of the composer's Libro primo de Canzoni da sonare, of which the following editions (in separate part-books) have been preserved: Brescia, V. Sabbio, 1584. The present ms. is either a transcript from th... More

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Fountain of the Giants]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Also, Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere. Associated Name:... More

[Landscape with church] / HSL. - Engraving, Public domain image

Title from shelflist card. Signed on plate with initials and dated. Coll. mark: Christian Crucius (Lugt, 548) Second mark illegible. Hubbard Collection.

Veüe et perspective de la Ville de Paris du côté de la porte de la Con...

Item in scrapbook: Histoire de l'art Française au XVII. S. par Henri Lemonnier. The architecture of Paris XVII. C. in contemporary prints by Aveline, Perelle, Mariette, Israel, et al., p. 2. J.D. Batchelder Collection.

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 8...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The play describes the late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, in North ... More

The creator of this image, photographer Carol M. Highsmith, enjoys a m...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

Il secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Title from canto part. The three parts, canto, tenore and basse, bound in one volume.

Giovanni Francesco Penni - Martha and Mary Magdalene before Christ / M...

Print shows Martha presenting her sister Mary Magdalene to Jesus, who reaches his arm out to greet them. Several others are seated on the steps around Jesus. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate tit... More

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

James C. Hooe House, 2230 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: This row house, in the 16th-century Belgian manner,is noteworthy for its limestone and terra-cotta exterior ornament. Survey number: HABS DC-263 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

Hymni totivs anni iuxta ritum Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ cvm qvattvor voci...

For cantus, altus, tenor, and bassus. Title from cantvs part. White mensural notation. LC copy bouond in 1 v. Latin words. (language)

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

St. Christopher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

St. Christopher walking through water with cherub on shoulder. Public domain scan of 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Fountain of the Moors]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Associated Names: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere, and Carlo Maderno. Al... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Caring for sick camel

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Caring for a sick camel (crossed out). On negative: 1526 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in Wa... More

[The visitation], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... More

The philosopher, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Itali...

Allegorical print showing a man sitting in a chair, thinking. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After P... More

Portraict de l'amas des os humains, mis en comparaison de l'anatomie d...

Human skeleton with bones lettered for comparison with a bird skeleton. Illus. in: L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux / Pierre Belon. Paris: G. Cauellat, 1555, p. 40. Published in: The tradition of science / L... More

[Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472, head and shoulders portrait, facing...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parmigianino - Surprise / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Allegorical print showing, in an oval, a man as Surprise, one of the states of emotion, with his arms spread as though startled by what he sees. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... More

Sculptura in æs / Ioan Stradanus invent. ; Phls Galle excud.

Print shows an interior view of a workshop with several men and boys engaged in the various activities involved in the etching, engraving, and printing of illustrations. Caption continues: Sculptor noua arte, ... More

Mural at Amargos Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

[Scenes related to the Soga family - two warriors with swords walking ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Eiri soga monogatari : Illustrated tale of the Soga Clan. Format: one sheet of an Sum... More

[Scenes related to the Soga family - two warriors with swords walking ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Eiri soga monogatari : Illustrated tale of the Soga Clan. Format: one sheet of an Sum... More

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Das Armbrustschiessen zu München 1599 (The Crossbow Archers in Munich...

German (artist nationality) painter and engraver on copper and wood (artist role) Recto: top center: (title, in old German) Abriss dess Schüessplats auf dem Plachfelt neben dem fl. Lusthauss. ; l. r.: (oval sta... More

Jacques Cartier, his first interview with the Indians at Hochelaga now...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

James C. Hooe House, 2230 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: This row house, in the 16th-century Belgian manner,is noteworthy for its limestone and terra-cotta exterior ornament. Survey number: HABS DC-263 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

Il primo libro delle fiamme vaghi et dilettevoli madrigali dell'eccel...

Title from canto part. Twenty-five madrigals for canto, alto, tenore, basso, and quinto. Index by the first line of last page of canto and quinto part. The parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto in one volume.

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Looking N.E. from the rigid slopes of Mt. Subal [i.e., Serbal]. The Wi...

Photograph shows men, one armed with weapon, on rocky outcroppings looking out at the valley below. J177966 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken from the western half (?) of the crown-shape summit of Gebel S... More

Valencia. La Audiencia, antiguo palacio de las Cortes

Facade of 16th century palace. In album: Spain, opposite p. 54. No. 906.

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Typical scene around t...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran or Wadi EL Sheikh(?), where there is an abundant palm and Tarfaa grove... More

Francis Frith - Mount Serbál, from the Wádee Feyrán Frith

Photograph shows rocky landscape with a tree in the foreground and mountains in the background. Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) downstream area to the west of the dense palm grove of Feira... More

[Portrait of a youth, half length, facing slightly right]

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Drawing formerly attributed to Jan van Mechelen; Netherlands; 16th century. From Fritz Koreny, Albertina, Nov. 1996: Not by Mechelen. Approximately ... More

[Allegorical representation of Time rewarding Industry and punishing I...

Bradley Collection. Inscription: Praemia virtutum .. Pigritiae. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[St. Jerome in his study] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Library has two impressions. No. 59a: Coll. mark: Possibly Baron H.A. von Derschau (Lugt, 2510). Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. No. 59b: Co... More

[Self-, aged 28] - Public domain engraving

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Bartsch, 188, 245. Hollstein, 188. Inscription, above: Aldegrevers hec est ... anno sue aetatis XXVIII; inscription, below: Anno domini MDXXX. Coll. mar... More

Sinai. Ain Gedeirat, near source of the spring. Num. 20:11

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from the central section of Wadi El Qusaima (El Qadeirat) in the vicinity of Ain El Qadeirat water ... More

Albrecht Durer - [St. George on horseback] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Cut at or within plate mark. Meder, 56. Hollstein, 56. Bartsch, 54. Panofsky, 161. Coll. mark on verso (Lugt 677). Library has two impressions... More

St. Luke writing the Gospel - Public domain dedication image

Miniature painting from Book of Hours, ca. 1510. Illus. in: Rare Book Division - Rosenwald Collection. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4397 T. See LCQJ July 1968. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Atlas, dressed like an ancient king, holding earth centered universe ...

Illus. in: The cosmographical glasse / William Cuningham. Excusum Londini : I Day, 1559. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 16.

[Illustration of activities of Lapps and Finns: Men and women hunting ...

Woodcuts from Historia Delle Genti, by Olaus Magnus, the 1565 ed. of Historia de Gentibus Septrionalibus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

Virtue / Iacobus Ligozzus Verones inuenit ac pinxit, Andreas Andreanas

Allegorical print shows a semi-nude female figure resisting two males, one with wings on his head and one with a blindfold over his eyes, a second female, and a blindfolded cupid. After Jacopo Ligozzi. Title fr... More

Christ carrying the cross / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]; Andr...

Print shows Jesus Christ struggling under the weight of the cross. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Fabio Buonsignori Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints... More

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn at Cardinal Wolsey's - from the original pa...

Print shows King Henry VIII seated with Anne Boleyn in the left foreground and Cardinal Wolsey with other members of the court at a gathering in the background. Printed at bottom center: Copyright.

La nobiltà di Roma versi in lode di cento gentildonne romane et le v...

For canto, tenor, and basso. Title from canto part. In mensural notation with lute tablature. Contains works by G.L. dell'Arpa, Agnolo C.M. Da Cesi, G. Fiorino, S. Santuccio, and others. Italian words, also pri... More

[The Great Passion: Last Supper] / AD [monogram].

Jesus Christ seated at table with the Apostles. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This detached limestone residence, in the early 16th century French manner, is important for three reasons: its prime location, its commanding scale in relation to the adjacent avenue and its exub... More

[Virgil suspended in a bucket] / L.

Public domain reproduction of art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Il primo libro delle fiamme vaghi et dilettevoli madrigali dell'eccel...

Title from canto part. Twenty-five madrigals for canto, alto, tenore, basso, and quinto. Index by the first line of last page of canto and quinto part. The parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto in one volume.

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci

Title from canto part. First published in 1581. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto, bound in 1 v.

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci

Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts bound in one volume.

[Bacchus figure seated on a wine barrel with people in the background ...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Bench at Fountain of the Dolphins...

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Associated Names: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere and G... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of fa...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: In the Fo[otsteps] of his father, Bedouin boy with camel. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from a low elevated... More

In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. The landscape and the sequence of the photographs suggest somewhere on Darb El Hagg t... More

Sinai. Oasis in Wady Feiran (Rephidim), and distant view of Jebel Serb...

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

16th century mechanized warfare - Public domain scan / engraving

Photograph shows reproduction of engraving of mechanized catapult. Received from the U.S. Office of Emergency Management.

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish; bordered with hunting scene...

Illus. in: Pedro Ximenez de Prexano, Dat licht der Kerste, Brussels, 1518. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fish (Symbolism)... More

Pallas, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Pallas, one of the Greek titans, holding a shield. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attr... More

A bearded man, wearing a crown, seated at table facing several others ...

Woodcut by Gomar. Illus. in: H. Staden, Warhaftig Historia und beschreibung einer Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Neuen Welt, part I, Chapter XLVI (Marburg, 1557). This r... More

Philip II letter, 1578 Dec. 2.

ALS, written in Madrid, to Pedro Moya de Contreras, Archbishop of Mexico. Philip II complains to the Archbishop of Mexico City about his practice of appointing monolingual priests to Indian benefices. Philip ha... More

Navigational charts & designs: Phases of the moon

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 50. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

[Two views of a 16th century astrolabe]

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

Plate 8 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Parmigianino - Temperance / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Ren... More

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Entran...

Site History. House Architecture: First half 16th century, purchased by Arthur Acton 1907. Landcape: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton. Other: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton owned the villa in 1925. Also k... More

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Villa ...

Site History. House Architecture: First half 16th century, purchased by Arthur Acton 1907. Landcape: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton. Other: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton owned the villa in 1925. Also k... More

The gentlemen from New York / Keppler.

Illustration shows Thomas C. Platt and Chauncey M. Depew wearing 16th century theatrical costumes in a scene from Shakespeare's play Henry IV. Caption: Falstaff Depew (to Prince Hal Platt) I would to God thou... More

Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe / A. Karpellus.

Poster shows a 16th century soldier holding up a flag with the Austro-Hungarian double-headed Imperial eagle on it. Text: Subscribe to the 4th Austrian War Loan. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte u... More

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Originally a private residence, and the Australian Embassy from 1947-73, this semidetached building, subtly designed in the 16th century manner of Italian classicism, is related to the intersectio... More

Il trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei ...

Secular part songs, unaccompanied. Title from canto. Parts for canto, alto, tenore, quinto, sesto, and basso. Each part contains the dedication (verso of title page), signed by the publisher and inscribed to Le... More

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

Public domain image of an artwork, medieval, renaissance, 14th, 15th, 16th-century art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Modo di fare il pane - Public domain dedication image

Illustration showing women preparing grain, shaping bread, and cooking in pot under covered shelter. Illus. in: La historia del mondo nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese / Girolamo Benzoni. [Venetia : F. Ramp... More

As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independe...

Cartoon showing the Spanish throne tumbling, under the weight of "Depleted treasury," "Mortgage," etc., from atop a pile of blocks--"Corrupt aristocracy," "Antagonism to civilization," "16th century methods"--a... More

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