Topic: 19th century

Andrew Jackson, president of the United States / painted by W.J. Hubar...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap.

Shrine of the Annunciation Nazareth April 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R...

[Masonic chart]

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...

[King Kelly, Chicago White Stockings, baseball card portrait]

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Pavilion Perusson, exhibit of bricks, enamels, terre-cotta and cerami...

[Holstengate, Lubeck, Germany]

Historic Sites

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

[Da Mulla Palace, Venice, Italy]

Historic Sites

U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew

Kellar

[Harry Houdini, King of Cards]

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world.

Gillender Building, New York City

Historic Sites

Advertisement: Victor Records: the Benson Orch. of Chicago

[Warren G. Harding, half-length portrait, seated in vehicle, facing ri...

City Hall subway station, New York

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.

Newland / Zeuner collection

Arriere garde du Pape, ou la frayer du reverend pere caporal

Print shows the ragged rear-guard troops of the Pope's army cowering as they retreat from the advancing French army lead by the handsome and well-dressed Napoleon Bonaparte emerging on the left through billowing clouds.

[Eh bien, Messieurs! deux millions]

Print shows Napoleon Bonaparte motioning toward a statue, one of the many treasures he brought back from his first campaign in Italy in 1797, and addresses a group of men, possibly of the Directory.

Le traité de paix avec Rome - baisez ca papa, et faite pate de velour ...

Print shows on the left, a cat, representing Pope Pius VI, and on the right, a rooster, representing Napoleon I, holding a bundle of dried twigs and telling the cat to retract its claws, resulting in the Treaty... more

Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state / I.Ck.

Cartoon shows Napoleon, wearing tattered clothing, seated on a low throne; kneeling before him is a pope placing the keys of St. Peter at his feet as he kicks the crown off the popes head, saying "I say remembe... more

Bonaparte, premier consul de la Republique Française -- revue du quint...

Print shows Napoleon Bonaparte, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in medallion above scene depicting troop review.

La Machine infernale / gravé par Bonnefoy.

Man with knife lighting powder keg on wagon at Rue Nicaise, a reference to the attempt of Napoleon's life in late 1800.

Vie de Bonaparte, premier Consul de la République française / dessiné ...

Print shows twenty-four numbered scenes depicting events in the life of Napoleon I. Scene number two shows Napoleon with his sword endeavoring to cut a hole in a balloon in which he was not allowed to ascend. ... more

Nidanme

Print shows the young samurai Rikiya placing a gift in front of Konami with her mother standing behind her and Honzo observing from behind a screen, from act 2 of the chushingura.

Vue de la salle de Walse construite au carré de la laiterie (soixante ...

Print shows celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the French Republic, July 14, 1801 in two images, including a tent for dancing and a balloon ascension from which André Jacques Garnerin descends ... more

Nagasaki no chizu

Japanese print shows map of harbor area of Nagasaki.

[James Thompson, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]

Fuyu no yanebune

Print shows three women on a houseboat.

Yatsushi gyōja bushō amakawaya gihei

Print shows a woman sitting on a trunk, holding a fan.

Yodaime Iwai Hanshirō

Print shows actor Iwai Hanshirō IV, three-quarter length portrait, reclining, facing left.

Fukubiki

Print shows two women standing, holding small boxes for a lottery game, with a man kneeling between them.

Matsubaya uchi segawa

Print shows the courtesan, Segawa, with two young male and female servants.

Haru no noasobi

Print shows two women standing, one offering a pipe to a person squatting near a pillar.

Kinuta no tamagawa

Print shows a woman daydreaming while leaning on a device for beating cloth; a young boy holding a cage is standing nearby.

Gotenyama no umemi

Print shows two women and a child with a telescope viewing plum blossoms from the edge of a cliff on the coast.

Toenmei

Print shows a woman sitting with a young girl and a young boy, the boy is wearing a mask of the devil.

Onagadori o motsu onna to kamuro

Print shows a woman holding a rooster to which a young female attendant offers a cup of water.

Zōshigaya miyage

Print shows a man holding an infant and a woman holding a toy to distract or entertain the child.

Suehirogari

Print shows two dancers, one holding a fan and the other holding a parasol.

Daimyō no okuzashiki

Print shows three women sitting in a room with elaborate wall painting of peacocks.

Kudanme

Print shows a woman putting on a hat.

Matsubaya uchi yoyotose yoyoginu

Kanmuri ni hiōgi

Yamauba no kami o tsukamu kintaro

A pretty copy

"A H. L. caricature portrait of Dr. Isaac Gossett, leaning his elbows on a table at a book auction, holding an open book, Hudibras, and gazing to the right ..." (Source: George)

The Farmers toast

British cartoon showing six fat farmers eating and drinking at a table. The farmers are 'monopolists', accused of holding corn in hopes of a still higher price.

Partie de raisonnement / Cloquet, sculp.

Bandō minosuke no rikiya

Print shows the actor Bandō Minosuke as the young samurai Rikiya from the Chushingura.

Chemical philosophers of the present day Dr. Priestley : Lavoisier / /...

Print shows head-and-shoulders portraits of Joseph Priestley in oval, held by an eagle, and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in oval, topped with a ribbon and garland.

Fête du 14 juillet an IX vue du temple eleve dans le grand carré des C...

Print shows a celebration on the Champs Elyseés in Paris, France, on Bastille Day, July 14, 1801. Includes spectators watching a balloon ascension. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)

Yamauba no chichi o suh kintaro

Sake zuki

Print shows a woman pouring sake into a saucer for a man.

[A Spanish nobleman places the lance]

Print shows a picador about to thrust a lance into the shoulder of a bull charging a bullfighter holding a cape.

The Union Club / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.

"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see No. 9698..." (Source: George)

Kemari suru sankanjo

Print shows three women.

Shōgatsu kazari

Print shows a lobster, ribbon, and tree branches arranged on a box.

Gokuin sen'emon to okuri no onna

Print shows two actors in a kabuki play, one as a woman with a paper lantern standing next to Gokuin Sen'emon, one of the five chivalrous men.

Ōkarakuri

Print shows a woman working a peepshow box for two children.

Osono rokusaburō

Print shows a woman handing a pipe to her lover who is behind her.

Ellerson's Mill. Battle-field of Mechanicsville, Va.

Bijin to otafuku

Print shows two actors, one wearing an otafuku mask and drinking from a cup, head-and-shoulders portrait.

Nikenjaya fujiya onobu

Print shows Onobu carrying a sake pot, walking toward steps outside a building, looking to the left.

Hinamatsuri

Print shows a woman and children at a tea party.

Haha to musume to chinomigo

Kisen

Print shows Kisen (possibly the poet Kisen Hōshi), full-length portrait, facing left, with right arm raised and carrying a basket under his left arm.

Futamigaura

Print shows three women walking in the surf at the edge of a beach at Futamigaura, with view of one of the Meotoiwa (wedded rocks) and the knotted ropes in the background.

Ōshima shimajo

Hanafuji eijo

Print shows Hanafuji Eijo, facing left, sitting, reading.

Kesaubumi uri

Print shows a man carrying love charms hanging from a tree branch over his shoulder, a child appears to dance in front of him, and depicted in a heart-shaped "valentine" in the upper right corner are a woman an... more

Urashima tarō

Print shows a man (the fisherman) dancing wearing a kerchief and a skirt with a turtle motif, and a woman playing a shamisen; a fishing pole and the gift box containing time are in the background.

[Satsuki(?)]

Print shows a domestic scene with a woman carrying a young child on her back, whom she may have been breast feeding, another woman holding a long pipe in her right hand and her left hand covering her mouth, als... more

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi

Print shows Hanaōgi, a courtesan, half-length, holding a portrait of a man.

John Bull and his piece

Cartoon of a stout man, tongue hanging out, with one arm around a stout, buxom woman wearing a cap and tattered clothing. He uses his other hand to tickle her under the chin.

Le Triomphe de la religion

Cartoon shows Pope Pius VII, Cardinal Caprara, and other members of the clergy seeking to receive the spirit of light from the beneficial rays emanating from a dove at top center, parting the dark clouds of ign... more

John Bull in Paris; or, English guineas for French pleasure!

Print shows John Bull standing between two French women offering them a bag of guineas.

[Benjamin Rush, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]

[Portrait of William Cowper after George Romney.n.p., ca 1802?]

Miyakodori (masski inari)

Print shows a family arriving at a temple or shrine.

Theatrical doctors recovering Clara's notes! / [Williams]

"Mrs. Billington, enormously fat, sits in an arm-chair, her arms flung over its arms, opening her mouth for a spoonful of guineas, administed by W. T. Lewis (right), who bends over her ..." (Source: George)

Ryakuga ōji ebiya no zu

Print shows women exiting sedan chairs and entering a restaurant.

Kasanui

Print shows a woman sitting with a man who is sewing an umbrella.

Mr. Braham in the character of Orlando / Drawn, etchd. & pubd. by Digh...

"Braham, in fantastically elaborate dress as an Italian price, steps to the left, his head in profile, singing, right hand on breast ..." (Source: George)

Machiya no nyōbō

British vessels. Described for the use of country gentlemen

British cartoon showing seven women, with different shapes and different types of clothing described as ships.

[John R. Smith, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]

Tales of wonder! / Js. Gillray, inv. & ft.

Print shows three women sitting at a round table listening intently to a fourth who reads from The Monk by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. (Source: George)

Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! / Js. Gillray,inv: & ft.

A fat lady, sitting with a man and woman at a tea table, reacts in horror as a hot poker from the fire falls on her dress and sets it on fire. The man sits helplessly while the second woman upsets the table in ... more

[William Duane, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]

[Portrait of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, M.D. above scroll of his cla...

General Monkey and General Wolfe!!

Print shows Napoleon I, wearing a large hat, carrying a long sword, and having a body where his shoulders rest on his waist, cowering before the large ogre-like figure of John Bull.

Dōkanyama shinagawa oki ukie

Print shows view from shore of harbor with people sitting on a bluff in the foreground, others are seen walking along the beach, and ships moored in the distance.

[Surrey chapel (St. Georges Fields, England) and Independent Church (B...

St. James's volunteers firing at a target at Kilburn Wells

Print shows British soldiers shooting at a target with Napoleon's picture on it; he wears an oversized hat and carries a large sword.

The washing-tub expedition

Print shows Napoleon I wearing an oversized hat and holding a large sword leading a French fleet of washing tubs filled with French soldiers in an invasion of England.

Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons /...

Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... more