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[Britannia attacked by her enemies]

[Britannia attacked by her enemies]

Print shows Britannia and the British lion being attacked from the left by a Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, and from the right by a Native woman representing America. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive ... More

Arbre du café dessiné en Arabie sur le naturel

Arbre du café dessiné en Arabie sur le naturel

Illustration showing coffee tree. Illus. in: Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse, par l'Ocean ... / Jean de La Roque, 1716, p. 234.N. Bitting Collection.

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perched on a rock below, and above, two Natives pour water from a cornucopia, a opossum hangs by its tail from the border

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perc...

Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus, 1753-59 [i.e., 1781 ; v. 1, 1759], no. 139. Published in: The American Revolution in ... More

A view of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada, taken partly from Pointe des Peres, and partly on board the vanguard man of war, by Captain Hervey Smyth Vue de la ville de Québec, capitale du Canada, prise en partie de la Ponte des Peres, et en partie àbord de l'avantgarde vaisseau de guerre, par le Cape. Hervey Smyth / / P. Benazech sculp.

A view of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada, taken partly from...

Print shows warships on the Saint Lawrence River with the city of Québec in the background. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of S... More

Commodore Hopkins, commander in chief of the American Fleet, British Cartoon Print

Commodore Hopkins, commander in chief of the American Fleet, British C...

Print shows Esek Hopkins, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing front, with sword drawn during naval engagement; ships in background display "Dont tread upon me" and "Liberty Tree - A... More

The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print

The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a female figure as the Mud Island fortress, Fort Mifflin, with two flags on her bonnet, astride a cannon firing on the British warship "Isis"; also show the "Somerset", "Roebuck", "Eagle", and the "... More

Gen'l. George Washington, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congress

Gen'l. George Washington, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows George Washington, half-length portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform; framed medallion on pedestal with nameplate. Illus. in: The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to th... More

The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button / John Simpson aqua forti., British Cartoon Print

The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button / John Simpson...

Print shows George III sitting on a table with the Earl of Bute preparing to cut a piece of cloth labeled "Ireland Great Britain Hanover." Lord North is standing to the left holding a piece of cloth already cut... More

Gin - engine for drawing the fuzes out of the shell - box with grapeshot - section of a petard

Gin - engine for drawing the fuzes out of the shell - box with grapesh...

Print shows various devices used with artillery and a cross-section of a petard. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, [PL] XXVII... More

The honble. Horatio Gates, major general of the American forces

The honble. Horatio Gates, major general of the American forces

Print shows General Horatio Gates, full-length portrait, standing, wearing uniform, facing slightly right, holding scroll labeled "Articles of Capitulation." Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in Ameri... More

John Andre esqr., late Adjutant General of the British forces in America

John Andre esqr., late Adjutant General of the British forces in Ameri...

John André, full-length portrait, facing right with left arm raised and pointing to the right, wearing military uniform. Illus. in: Walker's Hibernian magazine; or, Compendium of entertaining knowledge. Dublin ... More

Veduta del porto de Malamocco ai lidi di Venezia / F. Tironi pinxit ; A. Sandi scul.

Veduta del porto de Malamocco ai lidi di Venezia / F. Tironi pinxit ; ...

Print showing harbor scene in Venice. Caption continues: Fortezza S. Pietro, eretta circa l'anno 1650.

Lord Loughborough, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Lord Loughborough, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, Earl of Rosslyn, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile; in oval with sword and scale at top. Illus. in: The London magazine, 1780 (August), pp. 347-348... More

By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of punishing state criminals, British Cartoon Print

By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of puni...

Print shows Britannia drawn and quartered at a crossroad by ropes attached to three horses, one labeled "Tyranny" racing down the road "to America", another labeled "Venality" racing down the road "to Spain", a... More

A view of the guard-house and Simsbury-mines, now called Newgate - a prison for the confinement of loyalists in Connecticut

A view of the guard-house and Simsbury-mines, now called Newgate - a p...

Print shows a diagram of the guardhouse with sections identified by letter (legend not visible in print); shows shaft leading to underground chamber, "F. A strong trap door opening the descent to Hell" which le... More

General Gage / R. Pollard sculp., engraving, Library of Congress

General Gage / R. Pollard sculp., engraving, Library of Congress

General Thomas Gage, half-length portrait, wearing uniform, facing slightly left; in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America; from its firs... More

St. Lucia in the West Indies taken possession of by Admiral Barrington Monsieur de Micoud and the inhabitants having capitulated the 30th of December, 1778, being the day after Count d'Estaign left the island much disconcerted / Hamilton delin. ; Thornton sculp.

St. Lucia in the West Indies taken possession of by Admiral Barrington...

Print shows six ships in line flying the French flag, however, appears to be disembarking British troops who are about to take possession of the island after the French have withdrawn. Engraved for Barnard's N... More

Captain Asgill, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Captain Asgill, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Captain Sir Charles Asgill, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing military uniform and hat, left profile; in oval. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ... More

Lord Keppel / Golder sculp., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Lord Keppel / Golder sculp., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Augustus Keppel Viscount Keppel, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing uniform, left profile, in oval on pedestal with nameplate.

View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water, upon which the army under the command of Lt. General Burgoyne, took post on the 20th Sepr. 1777 (shewing General Frazer's funeral) / Barlow sculp.

View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water,...

Print shows a panoramic view of three hills along the west bank of the Hudson River in New York.

Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after they had surrendered to the Americans

Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after...

Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape in Charlottesville, Virginia, with British troops, captured at the surrender in Saratoga, engaged in subsistence farming. Illus. in: Travels through the interior p... More

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows George Washington, possibly at the time of inauguration, stepping on a flag with the crest of England on it.

Serment du jeu de paume, à Versailles / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Serment du jeu de paume, à Versailles / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault...

Print shows a large group of people taking an oath at the tennis court, Versailles, during the French Revolution. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, che... More

Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batch of kings - his man, Hopping Talley, mixing up the dough / Js. Gillray invd. & fec., British Cartoon Print

Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batc...

Print shows Napoleon standing before a large "New French Oven for Imperial Gingerbread" drawing out a freshly baked kings labeled "Bavaria, Wirtembg, [and] Baden." On the left, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pér... More

Le Combat naval, gloire Américaine / Garneray,del ; Coquerel,sc.

Le Combat naval, gloire Américaine / Garneray,del ; Coquerel,sc.

Print shows the U.S. Constitution and HBM Java, her masts and sails destroyed, after a battle during the War of 1812. Reference copy in LOT 4413A.

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485]

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... More

[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / William Wadsworth(?).

[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / William W...

Reference copy in LOT 7002. Illus. in: Aufrere, Anthony / The cannibals' progress; or ..., 1798, title page.

A view of the town & harbour of Halifax, from Dartmouth shore

A view of the town & harbour of Halifax, from Dartmouth shore

Print shows ships in harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with view of town in the distance. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, ...... More

Burning a Peruvian to make him tell where the gold is / J.W. Orr.

Burning a Peruvian to make him tell where the gold is / J.W. Orr.

Spanish soldiers, under command of Francisco Pizarro, burning a Peruvian. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T.... More

Death of Genl. Ross at Baltimore / from the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers.

Death of Genl. Ross at Baltimore / from the original painting by Chapp...

Print shows British General Robert Ross, on horseback, mortally wounded, on September 12th, 1814.

Ruins at Manassas Junction / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A Gardner.

Ruins at Manassas Junction / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive b...

Illustration showing the remains of a turntable on the Orange and Alexandria railroad after the station was destroyed by retreating Confederates. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alex... More

The War in Virginia - Battle of Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7 - a portion of Sedgwick's Sixth Corps, -- and the skirmishers of the 4th New York charging the Rebel works / sketched by -- Edwin Forbes.

The War in Virginia - Battle of Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7 - a porti...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 Nov. 28, pp. 152-153. Reference copy in LOT 4416G (1863)

Ruins of Petersburg and Richmond railroad bridge, across the James

Ruins of Petersburg and Richmond railroad bridge, across the James

Photograph showing the ruins of a Confederate bridge, destroyed by the Union army, from the Richmond side of the James River.

Guard mount, head-quarters, Army of the Potomac / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.

Guard mount, head-quarters, Army of the Potomac / negative by T.H. O'S...

Photograph showing the Zouaves of the one hundred fourteenth regiment in formation near Brandy Station, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. ... More

Vicksburg Canal, Confederate States of America.

Vicksburg Canal, Confederate States of America.

Confederates watching Union troops at work building a canal near Vicksburg in 1862-1863. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 29.

Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.

Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station, Virginia / negativ...

Photograph showing a group of Zouaves standing in front of the Army of the Potomac headquarters at Brandy Station, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washin... More

Making clothes for the boys in the army

Making clothes for the boys in the army

Women spinning, weaving, and sewing to make clothing for Confederate soldiers. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 11.

Charles City Court-House, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. positive by A. Gardner.

Charles City Court-House, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. posi...

Photograph showing a soldier guarding the front of the courthouse building, the county seat of Charles City. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Phi... More

Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia / negative by J. Gardner; positive by A. Gardner.

Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia / negative by J. Gardner; positiv...

Photo shows Alfred Waud seated on the ruins of the dock destroyed by the Confederates in 1861. (Source: Library staff, 2009) Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washin... More

Three first traverses on land end, Fort Fisher, N.C. / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.

Three first traverses on land end, Fort Fisher, N.C. / negative by T.H...

Photograph showing the Confederate fortifications at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More

View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.

View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virg...

Photograph showing several commercial buildings along the Appomattox River in Petersburg, Virginia, and the high road that leads out of town. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexande... More

President Andrew Johnson pardoning Rebels at the White House / sketched by Mr. Stanley Fox.  Andrew Johnson's tailor-shop in Greenville, Tennessee / photographed by J.B. Reef.

President Andrew Johnson pardoning Rebels at the White House / sketche...

Print showing title page of the Saturday October 14th issue with large illustration of President Johnson pardoning the Rebels after the Civil War and a smaller illustration of Johnson's tailor shop in Tennessee... More

National Academy of Design, Park Avenue and 23rd Street, New York, New York. Drinking fountains and botanical column capitals

National Academy of Design, Park Avenue and 23rd Street, New York, New...

Photographs show details in building designed by P.B. Wight. Illus. in: National academy of design. Photographs of the new building, with an introductory essay and description, by P. B. Wight. New York, S.P. A... More

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

This image may depict the final assault on Petersburg, at Fort Gregg, 2 April 1865. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: [B]attery Greig[sic]. Inscribed above image: Reb... More

Preparation for War to defend Commerce. The Swedish Church Southwark with the building of the Frigate Philadelphia

Preparation for War to defend Commerce. The Swedish Church Southwark w...

Print shows ship-building in dry-dock in Joshus Humphrey's shipyard on the eve of the war between the United States and Tripoli. The Philadelphia was captured in Tripoli and burned by Stephen Decatur in 1804. ... More

Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Boston Vuë de la Rue du Roi vers la porte de la campagne a Boston / / gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.

Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Bost...

Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un de l'Academie... More

Monitors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Monitors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Three broadside views. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed upper left: 4 of this pattern. Unidentified sketch on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.248) Reference print available in the Civil W... More

The fight in the cornfield; The Irish Brigade driving the rebels out, on the right wing

The fight in the cornfield; The Irish Brigade driving the rebels out, ...

Title inscribed below image. Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 290 (A size). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R2.2.290) Reference print available in the Civil W... More

A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North America Vue de la ville de Boston, capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre, dans l'Amérique Septentrionale / / drawn on the spot by his excellency, Governor Pownal ; painted by Mr. Pugh ; & engraved by P.C. Canot.

A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of S... More

Provision train / Painted by Imogene Robinson;  Engraved by C. Tomkins.

Provision train / Painted by Imogene Robinson; Engraved by C. Tomkins...

Print shows Washington, his officers and troops hailing a provision wagon train as it approaches their encampment. H4922 U.S. Copyright Office. Reference copy in LOT 4412 N.

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War, 1861-'65

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War, 1861-'65

Head-and-shoulders portrait of eighteen Union generals and two Union admirals; identified below image. 11076P U.S. Copyright Office.

The accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved by C.W. Peale.

The accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved b...

Print shows Chimney sweeps laughing at girl, who has dropped a pie on the street. The artist's residence and studio appear at left. Includes four line verse: The pye from Bake-house she had brought / But let it... More

First military execution in Washington; hanging of a private for shooting his superior officer

First military execution in Washington; hanging of a private for shoot...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Snow on the ground. Regiment on the left without overcoats and carrying their knapsacks-. Inscribed left margin: Prime. Published in: Harper's Weekly, Jan. 25... More

Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap - Public domain  drawing

Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1864, pp. 712-713, as part of: Yankee Improvements in Front of Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print avai... More

Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia / negative by D.B. Woodbury ; positive by A. Gardner.

Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia / negative by D.B. ...

Photograph by D.B. Woodbury and Alexander Gardner, for the Mathew B. Brady Studio. Copyright by A. Gardner. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Phil... More

Storming the line. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Storming the line. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed upper left: To the left of Ft. Mahone. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.416) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1865. Forms part of: Morga... More

Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness

Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 4, 1864, p. 357. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.535) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More

Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, Orleans / painted by J. Wood ; engraved on steel by C.G. Childs, Philadelphia.

Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, Or...

Print shows a campaign portrait of Andrew Jackson issued during the presidential election of 1828. An oval bust portrait of Jackson is surrounded by the words "Protector & Defender of Beauty & Booty. Orleans," ... More

The belle of Point Lookout - Public domain portrait

The belle of Point Lookout - Public domain portrait

Photograph shows young woman partially identified as Miss Bidlack, probably a relative of William Wallace Bidlack, a surgeon at Point Lookout during the Civil War.

Residence, chief quartermaster, Third Army Corps, Brandy Station / negative by J. Gardner, positive by A Gardner.

Residence, chief quartermaster, Third Army Corps, Brandy Station / neg...

Photograph showing the residence and business office of the Chief Quartermaster of the Third Army Corps with attendants. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More

Residence, chief quartermaster, Third Army Corps, Brandy Station / negative by J. Gardner, positive by A Gardner.

Residence, chief quartermaster, Third Army Corps, Brandy Station / neg...

Photograph showing the residence and business office of the Chief Quartermaster of the Third Army Corps with attendants. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More

Cattle Raid. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cattle Raid. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Confederate cattle raid Sept. 16th 1864. Genl. Wade Hampden [sic] suddenly appeared at Coggins point in th... More

President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect.

President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert C...

Crowd in front of White House during Andrew Jackson's first inaugural reception in 1829. Reference copy in WASHINGTONIANA - LOT 4386 59E. Illus. in: The Playfair papers. London : Saunders and Otley, 1841, v. 2,... More

[Washington and his generals] / drawn and engraved by A.H. Ritchie.

[Washington and his generals] / drawn and engraved by A.H. Ritchie.

Print showing General George Washington and other Revolutionary War generals meeting in a large room. LC-USZ62-3977 is a key to identifying the men in the print. Title from related item. Reference copy in Presi... More

Winslow Homer - War songs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Winslow Homer - War songs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Series of images relating to war songs. Mainly soldiers marching, but also African Americans hauling sacks on their backs. Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," is in center. Title inscribe... More

5th excelsiors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

5th excelsiors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Sketch of two soldiers. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.251) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file V. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur ...

Print shows a large bonfire of items related to the nobility as part of the celebration commemorating the fall of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution ... More

A view in Hudson's River of the entrance of what is called Topan Sea Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson, de l'entree counue sous le nom de Mer de Topan / / sketch'd on the spot by his excellency, Governor Pownal ; painted by Mr. Paul Sandby ; & engraved by Peter Benazech.

A view in Hudson's River of the entrance of what is called Topan Sea V...

Print shows view of the Hudson River at a point where it broadens to form a lake called Tappan Sea in New York.

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

The noble sons of Ireland - Public domain portrait painting

The noble sons of Ireland - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows men prominent in Irish history, each identified below the print, all standing before the viewer, wearing the particular dress of their times. Includes eight lines of verse. C7169D U.S. Copyright Off... More

The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americanites, British Cartoon Print

The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americ...

Print shows a group of men in the Hall of Commons, several seated around a table, on the wall is a map labeled "North America" which has burst into flames, in the foreground stands Lord North passing banknotes ... More

Fight at Mechanicsville [changed to] Beaver Creek between McCalls division and the rebels under Jackson

Fight at Mechanicsville [changed to] Beaver Creek between McCalls divi...

Title inscribed above image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 26, 1862, p. 470 as "The Army of the Potomac-The Battle of Beaver Creek, June 26, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.694) Reference ... More

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

View across the Potomac toward the arsenal, ships at anchor. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: the arsenal stands on a point running out into the river at the junc... More

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scenic drawing

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scenic drawing

Guard in canvas-covered trench in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of trench or breastworks on verso. See also Waud, No. 120. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.2... More

A sharpshooter's last sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

A sharpshooter's last sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / Alex. Gardner,...

Photograph showing a dead soldier and his gun. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 40. Copyright by A. Gardner.... More

Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo. Feb. of 17 1864. Charleston

Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo. Feb. of 17 1864. Charles...

Title inscribed below image. Attributed to William Waud. Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud no. 36 (A size). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.525) Reference prin... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Explosion at City Point - Public domain scan / drawing

Explosion at City Point - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower right: A R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 27, 1864, p. 545. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.361) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawi... More

[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: Aesop surrounded by symbols of fables, 1481 - #60]

[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: Aesop surround...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The coffee-house patriots, or news, from St. Eustatia / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; W. Dickinson excudt., British Cartoon Print

The coffee-house patriots, or news, from St. Eustatia / H. Bunbury Esq...

Print shows interior view of a coffeehouse, presumably in London, where several man of commerce appear disgruntled at the news of the successful campaign to capture Saint Eustatius, a port used by British merch... More

[Title page with vignette of allegorical scene]

[Title page with vignette of allegorical scene]

Illus. in: Antiquitates italicae medii aevi, sive Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, s... More

His majesty King George the III - contemplating a medal of King Alfred

His majesty King George the III - contemplating a medal of King Alfred

Print shows King George III, full-length portrait, wearing coronation robes, standing in library with seal of England over the doorway; he holds a medal with portrait of Alfred the Great. Illus. in: The Annual... More

The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print

The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More

A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.

A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows view across harbor of Boston from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777... More

Protestants, remember the massacre of St. Bartholemews in Paris, & the burning of martyrs in Smithfield

Protestants, remember the massacre of St. Bartholemews in Paris, & the...

Print shows a British minister handing a copy of the Québec Act to a kneeling bishop, George III is standing to the left, next to him is Lord Bute, with another minister and other clergymen completing the audie... More

General Howe, Esqr. of the Conecticut [i.e., Connecticut] and comander [sic] Army in America / I.M. Probst sc ; Ioh. Mich: Probst exc: AV.

General Howe, Esqr. of the Conecticut [i.e., Connecticut] and comander...

Print shows William Howe, wearing military uniform, seated on horse. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Don... More

The entrance of Havannah, from within the harbour

The entrance of Havannah, from within the harbour

Print shows ship in the foreground in the channel at the entrance to Havana, seen at left behind wall. This record contains unverified, old data from Cresswell, 1975. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published... More

[Cliffs at Saint Mary Bay, Nova Scotia]

[Cliffs at Saint Mary Bay, Nova Scotia]

Prints show a ship approaching cliffs on the right, passing between cliffs at entrance of the "Grand Passage," and passing cliffs on the left, at Saint Mary Bay, Nova Scotia. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, p... More

David Wooster, Esqr. - commandr beÿ der provincal armee in America

David Wooster, Esqr. - commandr beÿ der provincal armee in America

Print shows David Wooster, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing left, holding pike in right hand. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Korn. Nü... More

Horatio Gates Esqr., major general of the American forces, British Cartoon Print

Horatio Gates Esqr., major general of the American forces, British Car...

Print shows Horatio Gates, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, standing at table in tent, with tents and a flag with horizontal stripes in the background. Catalogue of prints and drawi... More

The honble. Chas. James Fox - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

The honble. Chas. James Fox - Public domain book illustration, Library...

Charles James Fox, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Illus. in: The London magazine, 1779 (November), p. 483. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graph... More

General Putnam. Book illustration from Library of Congress

General Putnam. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows Israel Putnam, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right and gesturing to the left with both arms, wearing military uniform and feathered cap with skull and crossbones over the words "or... More

[Views from offshore of islands in the Bay of Fundy and the entrance to the Saint John River on the mainland]

[Views from offshore of islands in the Bay of Fundy and the entrance t...

Prints show distant views of The Wolves, a cluster of islands off New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy, Grand Manan Island, and the entrance to the Saint John River, with ships passing in the foreground. Illus. i... More

Westminster election 1780 / E--g inv., British Cartoon Print

Westminster election 1780 / E--g inv., British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodn... More

John Bulls alternative. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

John Bulls alternative. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Br...

Print shows John Bull (representing England) standing on his toes on a rock, a rope around his neck and tied to a limb above him; on the right, across a body of water (probably representing the English Channel)... More

The Earl of Shelburne, Head and Shoulders Portrait

The Earl of Shelburne, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows William Petty, Lord Shelburne, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in oval on pedestal with nameplate. Illus. in: The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure [...]. London : Published [.... More

Die Americaner machen das Corps des General Bourgoyne zu Gefangnen, bey Saratoga, am 16ten Octobr 1777 / D. Chodowiecki inv. et del. ; D. Berger sculpsit 1784.

Die Americaner machen das Corps des General Bourgoyne zu Gefangnen, be...

Print shows British troops laying down their arms at the surrender at Saratoga, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. S. ii9. [Plate] 7. Published in: The American Revolution i... More

Major André, von drey Americanern angehalten zu Tarrytown am 23ten Septembr 1780 / D. Chodowiecki inv. et del. ; D. Berger sculpsit 1784.

Major André, von drey Americanern angehalten zu Tarrytown am 23ten Sep...

Print shows Major John André being taken into custody by three men, John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart, and David Williams, near Tarrytown, New York, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolu... More

General Eliott / G. Fredk. Koehler delt. ; W. Angus sculp.

General Eliott / G. Fredk. Koehler delt. ; W. Angus sculp.

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, wearing uniform with hat; in framed medallion. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : ... More

[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin]

[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Frankli...

Print shows right profile head-and-shoulders portrait of George Washington in oval facing oval containing left profile bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscell... More

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