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Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field

Print shows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed monster pulling in opposite directions; Louis wears the horns of a cuckold and Marie Antoinette has the head of Medusa wearing ostrich feathers. de Vi... More

Death and the Devil surprise two women DH monogram

Print shows Death and the Devil interrupting the lives of two wealthy women. Bradley Collection. Stamped on verso: Tilgungs-Stempel K.K.C. Stamped on verso: Kupferstich-Sammlung der Königl: Museen. Stamped on ... More

Jacques Callot - [Trastullo kneeling before Signorina Lucia]

Part of a set by Israel Silvestre after the Balli di Sfessania by Callot, 1621.

A touch of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman playing cards with a monkey dressed as a man, two figures in masquerade attend to them, above and in the background are a musician, a man and a woman, and a cuckold, also seated is an owl sm... More

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Print shows a man, possibly Joseph-François Foullon, on his hands and knees with a woman of the Third Estate, a sword at her side, riding on his back. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: French Political C... More

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Print shows a pig sitting upright on the ground, dressed in ecclesiastical vestiments, on the right is a member of the Third Estate holding a long staff and a bell-like device on a string which he holds up befo... More

[Landscape with a pilgrim in prayer] / A. Canal. f.

George Lothrop Bradley collection. Constable, 22. Pallucchini, 22. Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A comfortable dish of tea in high-life, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two wealthy and fashionable European women sitting in a room with pets including a dog, a cat, a monkey, a squirrel, and birds being served tea by an African servant. Not found in British Museum Cat... More

Der K:M: von Schweden und dero armee wǔnderbarer zǔg zwölff Meilen übe...

Print of map showing surprise attack of the March across the Belts when Swedish troops were able to cross the frozen water between the islands in Denmark. The winter of 1658 was one of the coldest winters on re... More

Machine aérostatique de 70 pieds de hauteur sur 46 de diametre, qui s'...

Illustration shows the ornate balloon used by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Girond de Villete in a captive balloon ascent from Paris, October 19, 1783, reaching an altitude of 330 feet for nine minutes. (... More

Canaletto - [The portico with a lantern]

George Lothrop Bradley Collection. Constable, no. 11. Pallucchini, no. 11 (2nd state).

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [Castle in ruins]

Marsh collection. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two thatched cottages on the edge of a river]

Marsh Collection. LeBlanc, no. 106.

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...

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

The Scots triumph, or a peep behind the curtain, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows the entrance to a large building furnished with columns, from which heavy curtains are suspended. In the distance is the dome of St. Paul's to signify that the scene is in London. A coach, which i... More

A perspective view of the salt works in Salisbury, New England

Print shows view of a salt works on the Merrimack River, near Newburyport, Massachusetts, with large meadow in the foreground. Engrav'd for the Penna. Magazine. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania Magazine: or America... More

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

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

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 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

Expérience du globe aërostatique du MM. les freres Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Anne-Jean and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, September 19, 1784, accompanied by Colin Hulin. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staf... More

Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins Mee...

Print shows citizens of Boston, disguised as Indians, boarding ships in Boston Harbor and throwing chests of tea overboard, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. S. 74. [Plate]... More

General mourning, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Print shows a well-dressed West Indian? couple with big smiles on their faces, in the background is a depressed man (a plantation owner?) holding a piece of paper on which is written "No more credit given by [?... More

Street walkers / RST ; etch'd by B. Smith., British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a well dressed man wearing large hat, possibly George Hanger, walking at the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly, there he meets the gaze of a fashionably dressed young woman, a prostitute(?), al... More

While Commerce spreads her canvas o'er the main, ...

Print shows Columbia with two children being welcomed by Minerva. Public domain scan of 18th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Subsidiary treaty, or the lion turned ass / designed & executed by Sin...

Print shows a man with a whip driving a donkey with the head of a lion, laden with sacks of money past a pike labeled "Liberty" with a Phrygian cap and a hand pointing the way "to Hesse Cassel." The man says, "... More

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...

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

Mirabeau pere du peuple / Lacaille sculp cit.

Print shows Mirabeau, bust portrait, left profile, in medallion. Purchase; Denenberg Fine Arts; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:180). Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

Bréf du Pape en 1791 - A cartoon of a man in a blue coat and hat

Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with cockade on his hat and a big smile, using a Papal letter to clean himself after defecating on papers of Le Clerc de Juigné on the ground; Abbé Royou, with glass, a... More

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More

The great South Sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly / J...

Cartoon shows the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result of his South Sea expedition. Draped with the ribbon, and wearing... More

A view of St. Paul's Church, New-York / T. Anderson del. ; Scoles scul...

Illus. in: New York Magazine, 1795 (October). Reference copy in LOT 4445.

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 billowin... More

Isaac Cruikshank - An Irish union / IC., British Cartoon Print

Print shows William Pitt joining the hands of "Paddy," an Irish farmer, and John Bull, neither of whom seem anxious for the union, while Lord Dundas, on the left, reading from a "History of Scotland" says, "dep... More

Milord Pouf montant à cheval - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Print shows "Milord Pouf", an overweight Englishman, being hoisted onto a horse by three men using ropes, pulleys (block and tackle), and a jack. The horse is looking fearfully wide-eyed at the pospect of succe... More

A view in Spain / Price G.P., British Cartoon Print

Print shows animals dressed as Spanish monks and gentlemen. Listed in an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Cartoons, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," co... More

Le Triomphe de la religion - Public domain dedication image

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

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / F...

Print shows the interior of a room used by the Revolutionary committee during the Reign of Terror; citizens enter on the left and submit their appeals, then procede along the table where judgment is pronounced ... More

National contrasts or Bulky and Boney / etch'd by Roberts., British Ca...

Print shows, on the left, a plump, "bulky" Englishman smoking a pipe while seated at a table laden with food and drink, on his left a cornucopia overflows with coins, and under the table is a dog with collar la... More

An evergreen, British Cartoon Print

Caricature of a lean, green William Pitt standing, full lgth., left profile. Hand-coloured etching by John Cawse, published 1806. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This r... More

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

China Retreat, Pennsyl'a, the seat of Mr. Manigault / drawn, engraved ...

Illus. in: The country seats of the United States of North America ... / W. Birch. Springland near Bristol, Pennsylv'a : W. Birch, 1808. Reference copy in LOT 4385-A. DCRM(G) example 1E1 - statement of responsibility

The bassoon with a French horn accompanyment Rowlandson, del, British ...

"A man and woman sleep in a rough wooden bed, heads thrown back so that their nostrils face the spectator..." (Source: George) Repository impression is hand-colored. Filed in Caricature Magazine, London (77-10... More

The spirit of the book - or anticipation of the year 1813, British Car...

A satire on the pending publication of "The Book" part of a campaign to attack the Regent through his wife, showing a figure, draped in white, supporting on outstretched arms the open pages of a huge book. He s... More

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI, a bishop, and a member of the aristocracy riding on the back of a man, representing the people, who's blindfolded and in chains and crawling on his hands and knees. de Vinck, 10309 Pur... More

Suspension of the habeas corpus, British Cartoon Print

Print showing John Bull suspended by his feet between two columns labeled "Lords" and "Commons." Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Dandies dressing / I. R. Cruikshank fect., British Cartoon Print

Six men dressing in grotesque attire. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)

Justice rendue au courage - A drawing of a man standing on top of a ta...

Print shows Minerva or Justice crowning an Ultra royalist on the left with an over-sized candle snuffer or extinguisher and an officer of the empire on the right with a laurel wreath.

Cleopatra morta, a vista dé soui ornamenti Reali / Pinelli inv. e inc...

Roman soldiers enter Cleopatra's chamber as she lay dying. Plate no. 4. LC no. 5.

Panorama of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man, the celebrated juggler, standing on a stage greeting the audience, sitting at his sides are two hurdy-gurdy players, one on a box labeled "Money Box" and the other on a box labeled "Quack Med... More

North front of the President's house / etched by W.I Stone, Washn.

Print shows an exterior view of the north front of the White House.

Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus...

Astronomical chart showing an owl, raven, ornate bowl, sextant, snake, cat, wolf, centaur, air pump, and a ship forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 32.

Cancer. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Astronomical chart showing crab forming the constellation. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 19.

Aquarius, Piscis Australis & Ballon Aerostatique / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing a male figure holding an inverted bowl from which water flows, at his feet appears the back of a fish and a balloon forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 2... More

[John Bull and the Yankee barber]

Title from handwritten notation on mat. Study for etching, plate 1, published in "Scraps" #2, 1830. Purchase; Childs Gallery; (DLC/PP-1984:366). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Leeds - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a man, possibly the Earl of Leeds, standing in the street, holding an umbrella, with a man wearing a cape walking in front of a classical style building in the background. Also shows a secondary ima... More

Le tiers état confesseur La constitution Française.

Print shows on the left, a member of the Third Estate sitting in a confessional listening to the confession of the clergy from a clergyman reading a long list of sins, a nobleman is departing, carrying a long l... More

Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill

William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading by lamplight]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table. Exhibit caption (2014): With deft handling of line and light, painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler created this s... More

[Miss Columbia with stars-and-stripes shield and eagle]

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 165. Etching cut from larger sheet. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Marcoussis (Corot) / Corot ; Lalanne., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows the pastoral setting of Marcoussis, France. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

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.

Shipping on the Giudecca, Venice

Ships and boats with buildings in background. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A night march Plate 16. - A black and white drawing of a train in a fo...

Print shows Union soldiers marching through a pine forest at night by the light of a burning tree. Signed on plate on lower left corner. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Printed at bottom... More

Palazzo Casa d'Oro / Otto [artist's stamp].

Print showing the Cà d'Oro in Venice, at the edge of the Grand Canal; gondola in the foreground. Signed below plate with artist's stamp "Otto". Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series. Exhibite... More

A canal in Venice / Otto., Italy

Print showing a canal with boats in Venice. Title from note attached to mount. Signed below plate in pencil "Otto". Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series, no. 28. Exhibited: "Whistler and his ... More

[The rialto, Venice] - Public domain scenic drawing

Poole, no. 23. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fonte Nuovo, Siena, Italy] / Jo Pennell.

People bending over fountain or trough near arched structure. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below plate. Wuerth 82.

Salute from the lagoon / Joseph Pennell.

View of lagoon with boats, Santa Maria della Salute in the distance. Signed in pencil. Wuerth, no. 99 Exhibited: "Whistler and his circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003.

[Landscape with cattle]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows cattle grazing near a river. Signed on plate on vellum. Remarque: men at capstan, fish, birds. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the c... More

[Loys Delteil] / Loys Delteil, ad. vivum d&sc.

Title from shelflist card. Pencil note: Hommage M.G. Geffroy, Loys Delteil. Pennell Fund, 510022.

[Portrait of Lincoln]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Inscribed in pencil at top right: C 24. Inscribed in pencil at bottom right: 4. Stamped on verso: Deposit received from Joseph Verner Reed 1949. Gift; Joseph Verner Reed; 1949. Forms part of: Popular graphic a... More

[Charles V, King of Spain and Emperor of Germany, head-and-shoulders p...

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

[Stephen Girard, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / etched by...

Copyright by the Pennsylvania Historical Publishing Assn. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hell Gate channel on the East River, New York City, New York, ca. 177...

Y23405 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Pennell - [Scene at Taormina]

View of Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily. Wuerth, 658 (trial proof). Edition of 40? Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a cat... More

Joseph Pennell - Oil refining, Whiting, Indiana

Library has two impressions No. 729-1: [The horseshoe curve, Pennsylvania Railroad], [His Railroad series] Wuerth, 729. Edition of 50? Trial proof. Signed in pencil. Ex coll.: E. A. Ballard. Plate destroyed. ... More

The inquisitorial triumph, or the investiture of orator M[ackli]n, Bri...

This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Cartoons, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470... More

[Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1740], Landscape view print

Print shows two rows of buildings, numbered 1-6, at Williamsburg, Virginia, and plant specimens, insects, and two views of Natives, numbered 7-16, and four tools, numbered a-d, used by the Natives. Inscribed i... More

Vuë de Quebeck. Quebeck - eine stadt in Nord-America, in Canada, an de...

Print shows the wharf at the city of Québec with ship at dock and men working in small boats. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Printed at bot... More

Volcian Campagna / Jno. G. Chapman, fect. Roma.

Print shows a woman praying at a cross as people travel with donkeys through a rural landscape with ruins in the distance. Signed in pencil. Date based on period when Chapman lived in Italy. American prints in... More

First view of the battle of Patapsco Neck dedicated to those who lost ...

Print showing American soldiers in the foreground, Boulden's house, and the British troops, as well as General Robert Ross being shot, his horse rearing, and the retreat of the British, with Ross, back to the w... More

The hermitage, Landscape view print, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a distant view of the Hermitage, with trees on the left and horses in a fenced pasture in the foreground. Proof with unfinished sky. Trimmed to within plate mark.

Altra veduta degli avanzi dell Pronao del Templo della Concordia Caval...

View of the temple of Concordia, with numbered key. Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap / Wm. Charles, Sc.

Charles's satire attacks the Hartford Convention, a series of secret meetings of New England Federalists held in December 1814. The artist caricatures radical secessionist leader Timothy Pickering and lampoons... More

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

William Heath - The royal milling match, British Cartoon Print

Caricature showing Lord Yarmouth hitting the Prince Regent in the eye, as Lady Yarmouth looks from behind screen covered with caricatures. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress... More

Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit / Js. Gillray inv. & f...

Cartoon showing Napoleon in a fury over relations between France and England. Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9998 Forms part of: Brit... More

Drink to me only with thine eyes. And I will pledge with mine!, Britis...

Caricature of man and woman seated. She is holding up glass and he is smiling. Hand-colored etching by Richard Newton. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record cont... More

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

A consultation previous to an aerial voyage from London to Weilburg in...

Group portrait with balloon in the background of (from left to right) W. Prideaux, J. Hollins, W. M. James, Robert Hollond, Charles Green, and Thomas Monck Mason. Hollond was a sponsor of the 500 mile flight ta... More

The repeal, or the funeral procession of Miss Americ-Stamp, British Ca...

Illustration shows a group of men in a funeral procession on the banks of the Thames River with a row of warehouses in the background, one of which is labeled "The Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods now s... More

Monstrous craws, at a new coalition feast, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows King George, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen; they eagerly spoon the contents, representing gold coins, ... More

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

Village politicians / painted by D. Wilkie, R.A. ; etch'd by A. Raimba...

Print showing two groups of men discussing politics in a dwelling or public house. Library has three impressions of different states, one dated "First proof, Augt. 30th 1813." Inscribed in ink on undated proof... More

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in ...

A British satire in which Charles James Fox, depicted with two faces, seeks the support of a former enemy, Sir Samuel Hood, while repudiating a former friend, Lord John Townshend. A scene in the background show... More

A march to the bank Vide, the Strand, Fleet Street, Cheapside &c. morn...

Cartoon shows heavily armed British troops arrogantly marching double file through the streets of London trampling and stomping pedestrians and street merchants. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British ... More

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