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The danger of crim con! / Woodward del., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a couple engaged in a "crim[inal] con[versation]"; the woman, seated on a chair, inclined toward a man seated next to her, her hands around his right arm; she says to him, "The good Man is gone a lo... More

Anacreontick's in full song / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect., British Cart...

Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls... (George) This ... More

View near Fort Miller painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by J. Hill

Print shows a view of the Hudson River near Fort Miller, New York, with a large tree in the foreground, houses and people along the shore in the background, and people in a row boat on the river. No. 9 of the ... More

Fall of Lieut[enan]t Col[one]l Henry Clay, Jun[io]r / Designed by T.H....

Print shows soldiers carrying a dying Henry Clay, Junior, away from the Battle of Buena Vista, Coahuila, Mexico, February 23, 1847, during the Mexican-American War. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War e... More

Le fou André Devambez - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prints shows disturbed man running and waving his hands in a bombed city. Edition of 20. Library has "6/20." Straight no. 874-12. In portfolio: Devambez, André. Douze eaux-fortes. [Paris], [1915]. Forms part o... More

[The harbor of Aden], aquatint

Print shows sailboats in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen, with mountains in the distance. Library has three impressions: no. 23 Printed by Frederick Reynolds. Arms, 23. 6/40. Signed and dated in pencil. No. 23A Arm... More

Woman bathing. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a woman bathing at a basin set on a vanity.

Woman bathing - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman bathing at a basin set on a vanity.

Dark day on the embankment / J. Pennell.

Print shows a view of Thames from shore with barges and other boats passing, and a distant view of buildings across the river. Signed in pencil at bottom center, below plate. Inscribed lower right: The Embankm... More

A view of the Capitol after the conflagration of the 24th August 1814 ...

Print shows a view from southeast of fire-damaged U.S. Capitol building, a result of the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, British general Robert Ross led his troops into Washington with strict orders to burn on... More

Baltimore from Federal Hill / paind. & engd. by W.J. Bennett.

View of Baltimore from across the harbor showing ships, wharves with the city in the background.

George Town and Federal City, or City of Washington

Cart on road overlooking Potomac River. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of the Presidents house in the city of Washington after the con...

Print shows a view from northeast of the fire-damaged White House, a result of the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, British general Robert Ross led his troops into Washington with strict orders to burn only pub... More

Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...

Harbor with boats and cultural buildings, including the Hermitage and the Marble and Winter Palaces.

Boston, from City Point near Sea Street / painted by W.J. Bennett ; en...

Print showing a view of Boston harbor with boats in the foreground and the city and a windmill in the background. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1833 by H.I Megarey, in the Clerks Office of t... More

Cas du manifeste du Duc de Brunswick

Print shows four figures representing foreign nations responding unfavorably to the manifesto issued by the Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg on July 25 1792. A fifth figure representing Fame (an angel with trumpe... More

Chute prochaine de la fille a Target

Print shows a hay wagon driven by a monk behind three horses, "la Guerre, la Bangueroute et un Marie Jacobin," who are harassed by "Jokais" of the constitution, "la Famine, la Rage, le Sacrilége, le Désespoir, ... More

Caffres hunting a lion / Howitt del. ; Clark & Dubourg sculpt.

Print shows Africans with spears surrounding a lion; an injured man lies in the foreground. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1947 Feb. 12.

The fashions of the day, or time past and time present / Woodward delt...

Print shows a woman from "the year (1740) a Ladys full dress of Bombazeen", wearing a dark, padded, armor-like dress contrasted to a woman from "the year (1807) a Ladys undress of Bum-be-seen" wearing a light, ... More

Jean de la Fontaine / peint par Garnerey d'après Rigault ; gravé par P...

Print shows Jean de la Fontaine, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval.

A view of the Presidents house in the city of Washington after the con...

To Captain P.B.V. Broke commanding his majesty's ship Shannon, his off...

Print showing the USS Chesapeake alongside HMS Shannon, with British sailors taking down the American flag, during the capture of the Chesapeake. The Chesapeake is also flying a flag that states "Free Trade and... More

New York from Hobuck Ferry House New Jersey / Alexander Robertson deli...

Print showing landscape around the Hobuck Ferry House in New Jersey, with distant view of New York in the background. Stamped in lower right corner: Map Division Mar 2 1908 Library of Congress. Library has two... More

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

[Dancer on stage], British Cartoon Print

"A young dancer, Vestris fils (Vestr' Allard) in the centre of the stage..." (Source: George) [N. Dance?, del. ; Bartolozzi and Pastorini, sculp.]. This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of... More

Epouventail de la nation - A drawing of a man standing in a field

Print shows an effigy of the marquis de Lafayette as the scarecrow of the nation (upper torso on a post stuck in tall grass on a river bank at the border, wearing military uniform, brandishing a sword) attempti... More

The encampment in St. James's Park MDCCLXXX

Print shows soldiers relaxing in tents and talking on horseback, with women and children and dogs in the foreground, and a view of Westminster Abbey in the background.

View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Sm...

Old brick church, dedicated May 3, 1713; torn down 1808. Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More

William Guy Wall - Palisades / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. H...

Print shows a view of the Palisades rising up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, as seen from the river, with sailboats and a northbound side wheeler steamship, possibly carrying tourists, passing by t... More

Bellvue. Mr. Dougherty's agency on the Missouri / Ch. Bodmer pinx ad ...

Illustration shows buildings, paddocks, settlers, ox cart and Indians at Bellvue, Major John Dougherty's trading post on the Missouri River. Title also in French and German. Illus. in: Voyage dans l'intérieur ... More

Le colisée à Rome / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Himely sculps.

View of the Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 35. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

L'acropolis à Athènes / daguérreotype Lerebours ; Imp. de Bougeard ; A...

View of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 21. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

Eglise de Vassili Blagennoï à Moscou / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Imp....

View of St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 52. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

The charge of Captain May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma / Design...

Print shows Captain Charles May leading a charge at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma near Brownsville, Texas, in the Mexican-American War. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and... More

The actors monument / painted by Smith ; engraved by G. & C. Hunt.

Print shows the actor Edmund Kean standing with another man, elsewhere identified as "the physician who attended Mr. Cooke in his last illness", next to the monument Kean had erected in honor of George Frederic... More

Roseau, Dominica / drawn by Lieut. Caddy, Royl. Artilly. ; engraved by...

Body of water in foreground and mountains in background, British West Indies.

View of the New York quarantine, Staten Island / painted & engraved by...

Print showing ships and boats offshore of the New York quarantine station at Staten Island. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1833 by Parker & Clover in the office of the Clerk of the Southern D... More

A view of the Capitol after the conflagration of the 24th August 1814 ...

View of the city of Boston from Dorchester heights / painted & engrave...

Print shows a distant view of Boston with ships in the harbor, the "Worcester Rail Road" on the left, the "Lowell Rail Road" on the right, and the Bunker Hill monument in the middle background.

City of Washington from beyond the Navy Yard / painted by G. Cooke ; e...

View, probably 1833, from Anacostia, showing Navy Yard and Capitol in center, Arsenal and White House at left. Library has two impressions. Reference copy in LOT 4386-A. After painting by G. Cooke. Entered acc... More

Catskill Mountain-House--A celebrated summer hotel about 12 miles S.W....

Print shows sightseers along a the side of a dirt road in the Catskill Mountains admiring the view and a carriage traveling up the road toward the Catskill Mountain-House hotel near the top. Philadelphia Print... More

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

John Bull, baited by the dogs of excise

A British satire on efforts by William Pitt, George Rose, and some members of Parliament to impose new "Excise" duties on tobacco (cf. Tobacco Excise Bill). The additional tax burden on British citizens is impl... More

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

[Hog-hunters meeting by surprise a tigress and her cubs] / Williamson ...

Print shows four men on horseback, carrying spears, chasing a wild hog and suddenly coming upon a tigress and her cubs in tall grass; in the background, a caravan with camels and elephants passes to the right. ... More

[Couple at fair looking at a clown and a bell ringer]

Illus. from: The Costume of Great Britain / W.H. Pyne. London: William Miller, 1808, no. 10.

A representation of the great storm at Providence, Sept. 23d 1815 / pa...

Print shows flooding in Providence, Rhode Island from Narragansett Bay after a hurricane that struck on September 23, 1815. Sailing ships, fishing boats, and small buildings are awash in the tidal waves. People... More

Mr. Burchell's first visit, Thomas Rowlandson

Eight people seated around dining table in large kitchen. Reference copy also available in LOT 4638-C. Illus. in: Goldsmith, Oliver / The vicar of Wakefield, 1823, p. 33. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturi... More

Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen / drawn an...

Print is a certificate of membership in the Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen which depicts a scene of firemen putting out a fire in a burning building and rescuing citizens from anoth... More

Sandy Point, St. Kitts / drawn by Lieut. Caddy, Royl. Artilly. ; engra...

With Brimstone Hill in the distance. Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp of the Gros Ventres of the prairies on the upper Missouri Lager d...

Print shows a large Hidatsa Indians camp in the background; a group of Indians in the foreground are dancing on the shore while others are in the water boarding and attacking passengers on a ship. Tab. 38. Sam... More

West Point, from Phillipstown / painted and engraved by W.J. Bennett.

Print shows boats on the Hudson river, two goats on hill in foreground, and mountains in background. Printed by J. & G. Neale. Copyright by Parker & Clover.

Woman bathing - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman bathing at a basin set on a vanity.

Pehriska-Ruhpa Mönnitarri krieger im auzuge des hundetanzes = Guerrier...

Hidatsa warrior wearing ceremonial costume for the Dog Dance. Public domain photograph of costume design, costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W....

Print showing a view of Boston harbor with boats at dock on the left, boats and ships on the harbor, and the city in the background. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1833 by H.I Megarey in the ... More

A peep at Christies; - or - Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney taking th...

Miss Farren and Lord Derby walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass at a picture in the second row of Zenocrates & Phryne. He looks at the picture immediat... More

City of Washington from beyond the Navy Yard / painted by G. Cooke ; e...

The Unicorn Norwich coach / painted by Jas. Pollard ; engraved by Chas...

Men on coach "Norwich to Cromer", drawn by three horses. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Touchez la messieurs je sçavois bién que vous seriez des notres

Prints show, in a rural setting, a nobleman and a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, holding the hands of a man from the working class or third estate, signifying their unity. The Gallic co... More

The royal mails departure from the general post office, London / paint...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Andrew Jackson in his last days / engraved by T. Doney, N.Y.

Photograph showing Andrew Jackson, half length portrait, seated, facing left. On recto: Engraved by T. Doney, N.Y. Printed by J. Neale. Engraved for the Democratic Review. From a Daguerreotype by Anthony Edwards & Co.

Thomas Jefferson, a philosopher, a patriote [sic], and a friend / dess...

Thomas Jefferson, bust portrait, right profile, wearing laurel crown. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Jefferson Prints Bust. Aquatint portrait after painting ca. 1799 by Tadeusz Kościuszko.

Spring--Burning fallen trees in a girdled clearing--Western scene / en...

Men at work on the land, cutting and burning trees. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spring--Burning fallen trees in a girdled clearing--Western scene / en...

Men at work on the land, cutting and burning trees. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Catskill Mountain-House--A celebrated summer hotel about 12 miles S.W....

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

Print shows a man, possibly Armand-Gaston Camus, wearing a garment fashioned entirely from "assignats" (French paper money before the livre), several men (identified by number in the caption) are standing aroun... More

Gradation de la tête de grenouille jusqu'au profil d'Apollon, d'après ...

Print shows the head of a frog transformed (in 24 stages) into the profile of Apollo. Includes commentary on each facial transformation. Possibly purchased from Colnaghi & Co. in 1803. Source: Kate Heard, Roya... More

Le meâ culpâ du Pape / S. L'amerique inv. sculp.

Print shows Pope Pius VI on his knees being reprimanded by God, in the form of a bird, after giving up art treasures as a result of the Treaty of Tolentino. de Vinck, 6899 Forms part of: French Political Carto... More

Autumn. No. 4. Gigantic sycamores, [...]

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bennett, W.J.

Death of the Corsican fox--Scene the last of the Royal-Hunt / Js. Gill...

King George III as a huntsman, holds up to a pack of hounds a fox with the head of Napoleon. Hounds' collars inscribed with names of naval leaders "Nelson," "Sydney S. Gardner," "Cornwallis." Men on horseback l... More

View near Fishkill / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

Print shows a view of the Hudson River from a roadway, with two men are tending fishing nets and stone buildings on the hillside above the road. No. 17 of the Hudson River Port Folio. Stamped lower right: Map ... More

The Colonel electioneering. How to get a vote, or going fixed for the ...

Print shows a man at center, assumed to be Davy Crockett, standing on a busy commercial street, offering one man a drink and another man tobacco, while campaigning for political office. Two dogs have stopped to... More

Camp DuPont. Public domain reproduction.

Illustration shows soldiers in formation for a troop review, with tents in the background. File print from an original illustration possibly published in Philadelphia by G.E. Blake, ca. 1816.

Bath - the pump room, &c / J. Nattes del. ; I. Hill aquatinta.

Print shows street scene in Bath, England, with view of the Pump Room.

Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique

Satire showing men with limbs strapped in wooden cases performing exercise for gout in the establishment of Abraham Buzaglo.

Sybil Sanderson - Public domain portrait print

Sybil Sanderson, full-length portrait, standing, looking right, holding up mirror and looking into it. 22721 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Boussod, Valadon & Co.

Sybil Sanderson - Public domain portrait photograph

Sybil Sanderson, full-length portrait, standing, looking right, holding up mirror and looking into it. 22721 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Boussod, Valadon & Co.

View of the city of Boston from Dorchester heights / painted & engrave...

Print shows a distant view of Boston with ships in the harbor, the "Worcester Rail Road" on the left, the "Lowell Rail Road" on the right, and the Bunker Hill monument in the middle background.

New York with the city of Brooklyn in the distance. From the steeple o...

Print shows commercial buildings in New York City, including Brady's Daguerrian Miniature Gallery and Barnum's Museum. The harbor and Brooklyn appear in the distance. Exhibited: A Perfect Fit : The Garment Ind... More

A peep at Christies; - or - Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney taking th...

View of the suburbs of the city of Washington

Ship at wharf at Georgetown waterfront. Reference copy in LOT 4386-34. Exhibited: The view from here : images of early Georgetown, Dumbarton House, 2002. Exhibited in: Creating the United States, Library of Con... More

To Captain P.B.V. Broke commanding his majesty's ship Shannon, his off...

Boston, from City Point near Sea Street / painted by W.J. Bennett ; en...

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

Vue de la Lendt dans le Pays de Salzbourg Ansicht von der Lendt im Sal...

Print shows a pastoral scene with a boy with two cows on shore of a river in the foreground, and a view of Lendt with mountains in the background. Label mounted on verso.

View near Bordenton, from the gardens of the Count De Survilliers / en...

Print shows a distant view of the harbor at Bordentown, New Jersey from the gardens of Joseph "Count de Survilliers" Bonaparte, with deer, statues, and a large tree in the foreground, with ships and waterfront ... More

Vue du Kremlin à Moscou / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Bougeard imp. ; H...

View of the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 53. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

View of the New York quarantine, Staten Island / painted & engraved by...

Baltimore from Federal Hill / paind. & engd. by W.J. Bennett.

View of Baltimore from across the harbor showing ships, wharves with the city in the background.

Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W....

City of Washington from beyond the Navy Yard / painted by G. Cooke ; e...

American methodists proceeding to their camp meeting / J. Milbert del....

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, Landscape view print, engraving, Library of Congress

Cart on road overlooking Potomac River. Reference copy in LOT 4386-56. Exhibited: The view from here : images of early Georgetown, Dumbarton House, 2002.

L'amitié, aux mânes du Cher. Thomas Mauduit Colonel du Regiment du Por...

Thomas-Antoine Mauduit-Duplessis, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Purchase; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:106.) Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

[Self portrait] / Franco. Goya y Lucientes, pintor.

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

Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...

Print showing panoramic view of St. Petersburg, including Academy of Arts, colleges, Cronstad (i.e., Kronshtadt), warehouses, and the Gottorp Globe. Title also in French. Plate 3 of 4. Includes key to building... More

Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark / Stri...

Print shows Fort Niagara on a peninsula at the mouth of the Niagara River in Lake Ontario. Published in Port Folio Magazine October 1814, p. 297. Stamped on lower right on mount: Map Division Oct 4 '21 Library... More

Battle of Niagara - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows an American infantry charge against British guns during the battle of Lundy's Lane on Lake Niagara, Ontario, July 25th, 1814. This print is shortened on the right side, eliminating half of the fence... More

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