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St. Christopher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

En reviendra-t'elle? - A painting of a group of people sitting around ...

Print shows seven royal physicians in consultation over the health of a female figure, representing the new French constitution, slumped in a chair; a clergyman is washing her feet.

A view of New York, Governors Island, the river &c. from Long Island

Print shows a panoramic view of the battle of Long Island. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr.... More

Danse aristocrate Il ne sçait sur quel pied danser.

Print shows Abbé Maury walking a tightrope, attended by the devil disguised as a jester, as nobles encourage him from the left, and on the right, a man and woman, representing members of the Third Estate, attem... More

Harris's list; or, Cupid's London directory / R. Newton del. ; etch'd ...

Print shows a man with a copy of "Harris's list" open to the page for "Miss Love" standing in front of Miss Love's establishment; there is a young woman standing at the door, one leaning out a first floor windo... More

The way to keep him, or the female flagellants attacking the platonic ...

Print shows a smiling man, "platonic love", on one knee as three women beat him with whips made of bulrushes(?); on the wall in the background are two portraits, "The Maid of Drury" and "The Maid of the Oaks." ... More

[Composite figures in cubist and surrealistic style composed of materi...

50 plates (t.p., frontis., Medici coat of arms to whom the work is dedicated, and 47 etchings). Illus. in: only known complete copy of Bizzarie di varie figure of Giovanni Battista Braccelli, publ. in Livorno, ... More

Templi Concordie inter Capito. et forum R. reliquiae

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veduta dell' arco di Costantino, e dell' anfiteatro Flavio detto il co...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of ruins with the Arch of Constantine in the foreground and the Flavian Amphitheater or Colosseum in the background, with numbered key. Some of the men appear to be examining the r... More

The drunkard's coat of arms, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a coat of arms devised for a drunkard. A poem, entitled "The Drunkard - display'd" is printed below the image. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

[The market at Dolo] / A. Canal., f.

Title from shelflist card. Signed in pencil. Constable, 19. Pallucchini, 19. George Lothrop Bradley Collection.

To the tune of a cobler there was

Caricature of a man, seated, three-quarter length, squinting, and poem starting, "A colonel there was, tho' he is not for now, if you want to know why, I'll soon tell you how ..."

(1756). Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Pr...

"A view of a street where an effigy of an unpopular Minister on horseback is conducted to be burned by a cheering mob, with a gallows and a bundle of faggots..." (Source: Stephens) This record contains unverifi... More

The Englishman in Paris, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an Englishman, only recently arrived, still wearing his hat, standing just inside the entrance of the home of a Frenchman at dinner time. He is eating the goose which he has taken off the serving pl... More

Dr. Beniamin [i.e., Benjamin] Franklin gebohrn zu Boston den 17 Janü. ...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur hat, holding book, in oval. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Korn. Nürnberg : G... More

Les Anglois molestes et chatiees, Political Cartoon

Print shows 1. a beaming sun with fleur-de-lis shining on 2. a man who resembles George Washington, wearing military uniform and hat labeled "Congress" and "Washington," holding a raised lash in his right hand ... More

Matthew Darly - Prattle / MD., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a full-length portrait of a man, right profile, holding hat in right hand. Includes inscription below which expresses the opinion of the character depicted regarding the progress of the war in Ameri... More

Pontoon carriage. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the plan and pontoon of a pontoon carriage, with a view of the axel. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, PL XXVI. P... More

The political raree-show: or a picture of parties and politics, during...

Print shows a man directing a boy to view a peepshow of events and actions of the British government, as well as international affairs involving England. The peepshow presents 12 views in three columns; number ... More

[The grand school master] / DB, 1780.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated in pencil. Restrike, published in 1820 by Potrelle & Chaillou. LeBlanc, 31. Bartsch, 80.

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More

[Cartouche showing a Native woman, representing America, nursing infan...

Illus. in: L'Amérique septentrionale, ou se remarquent les États Unis. / par M. Brion de la Tour, ingénieur-géographe du roi. Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly, 1783. Published in: The American Revolution in dra... More

Globe aërostatique. Dédié à Monsieur Charles. Cette machine est repres...

Jacques Alexandre César Charles departs Nesle, France after the landing of the first hydrogen balloon flight from Paris on December 1, 1783. Marie-Nöel Robert (on the ground at left), who accompanied Charles o... More

Das erste Bürger Blut, zu Gründung der Americanischen Freyheit, vergos...

Print shows British troops firing into mass of American militiamen at the battle of Lexington, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. S. 84. [Plate] 3. Published in: The America... More

Lord mayor's feast at Guildhall 1786 - no dinner, no ball, British Car...

Print shows a large group of city officials gathered around a table in Guildhall, some are jumping up and down on the table and have lost their hats and wigs. Posted on the wall are two notices: (1) "Nov. 1st 1... More

An east view of Gray's Ferry, on the river Schuylkill / C.W. Peale del...

Print shows footbridge, towline, and landings of Gray's Ferry across the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswoo... More

Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789

Print shows members of the Gardes du Corps who had been disarmed, joined by the National Guard, and the market-women of Paris who had marched on Versailles in the preceding days, now making the return trip to P... More

Le Souhait accompli v'la comme j'avions toujours désiré que ça fut.

Cartoon showing three men representing the three estates (clergyman, nobleman, and peasant) embracing and standing on red, white, and blue sheets marked "haine," "grandeurs," and "benefices." (National Assembly... More

A word of comfort, British Cartoon Print

A British satire on the efforts of Charles James Fox to get the Test and Corporation Acts repealed. Joseph Priestley, preaching, speaks for the concerns of the clergy, stating their opposition to "Reynard and A... More

John Kay - Thomas Paine. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine, half-length portrait, facing right. No. 234.

Mr. Charles, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Tissandier collection.

Modern hospitality, or A friendly party in high life, British Cartoon ...

Print showing Lady Archer, the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), the Countess of Buckinghamshire, and Charles Fox engaged in a game of faro as spectators observe. "A scene at a faro-table; part of the ta... More

Fouquier-Thinville jugé par le tribunal révolutionnaire, le 12 Floréal...

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville on trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal in the third year of the Republic. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez A... More

Cries of London / Rd. Newn. del. et. fecit., British Cartoon Print

Four town criers announcing "Rare news! bloody news! Ireland is sunk in the bog of Allen! The ... French Army is totally destroyed ..." ; "Any-bad-schillings!" ; "Bill o' the play, your honour" ; "Rare Norfolk ... More

Grand review of the Windsor camp

Print shows a woman from "the Windsor camp" turned out of a cart as a dog startles the horse, several men on horseback and one leading a horse, among them possibly George III and the Duke of York, race up behin... More

[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc...

Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of deployed parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la sép... More

The washing-tub expedition, British Cartoon Print

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. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Co... More

The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver

King George III in military uniform, holds a tiny Napoleon in the palm of his hand while inspecting him with a spy-glass.

Buonaparté pie / Woodward delin., British Cartoon Print

Caricature of British person holding small figure of Napoleon on fork toward mouth. Form part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

L'assemblée nationale: - or - grand co-operation meeting at St. Ann's ...

Print shows a reception given by Charles James Fox and wife for various groups and friends of the Prince of Wales, all opposed to the government. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Divisio... More

Les dames de la Halle partant pour aller chercher le Roi a Versailles,...

Print shows a large procession of women and some members of the National Guard, with a carriage and a covered wagon, marching to Versailles. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de l... More

[The dead hog] / Williamson & Howitt ; J. Clark etched.

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

Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Napoleon convincing the Spanish royalty, who are enclosed in a bubble, of his friendship as he fires a cannonball at Madrid. Information from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Soc... More

Scene on the Susquehannah [sic.] See the Foresters a poem

Print shows Alexander Wilson and two companions walking along a trail in a heavily wooded area near the Susquehanna River where they encounter a large rattlesnake blocking their way, one man raises a rifle to s... More

A view of Winchester in North America - dedicated to Mr. President Mad...

Print shows "an American officer, General Winchester, stands stripped to the waist, his face and body covered with bold patterns in paint: stars, circles, an anchor, &c ..." (Source: George). James Winchester s... More

Aricula sic, apple blossom, great daffodil Thackara sc

Print shows a bouquet of spring blossoms and flowers tied with a ribbon; shown are a Primula auricula cultivar, a sprig of apple blossoms, and daffodils. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Popular graphic art pr... More

George Cruikshank - Economy, British Cartoon Print

Brougham, in the guise of John Bull, appears to the Regent, holding up a broom which points towards a small scene surrounded by clouds. The Regent, who has been revelling over a large bowl of punch, falls back ... More

Gloria Frederici, Andromeda, and Triangula / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing Andromeda in chains, two triangles, and a scepter with eagle's head and palm frond forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 5.

Leo Major and Leo Minor - Public domain book illustration

Astronomical chart showing two lions forming the constellation. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 20.

Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Vulpecula and Anser / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing a swan, a lyre, a lizard, and a fox killing a goose forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 14.

The aerial steam carriage - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam powered flying machine in an imaginary flight over the Thames River, London, 1843. Attempts to fly a model of the aerial steam... More

The water works at Fair Mount / eng. and coloured by R.H. Filbert.

Print shows a distant view of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Print was splattered with muddy water or ot... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Longshoremen] / Whistler 1859.

Title and other information from Beall. Signed and dated on plate, "Whistler, 1859." Library has two states identified in Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill W... More

Madame Blanchard (Madeleine Sophie Armand) aéronaute née vers 1778 [de...

Half-length portrait of French balloonist, Marie-Madeleine-Sophie Armand Blanchard. Tissandier collection. Reference copy in LOT 3844.

James McNeill Whistler - [The slipper]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading in bed with single slipper on the floor. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchin... More

Vanity fair H.L.S. monogram ; Wevill sc

Print shows a cover design for Vanity Fair magazine showing a harlequin standing on the left gesturing toward a theater stage for a puppet show and a large audience at his feet, in the foreground. 317 U.S. Copy... More

[Reading by lamplight]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table.

James McNeill Whistler - [Greenwich pensioner]

Print shows a retired gentleman relaxing in grass in Greenwich, London, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed and dated on p... More

Formation of guerilla bands, Confederate States of America.

Ruined farmers being recruited for Confederate guerrilla forces during the Civil War. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63 / by V. Blada... More

Cave life in Vicksburg - A black and white drawing of a man and a woma...

Southern wife praying in makeshift cave home during bombardment of Vicksburg. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 30.

Eccitamento ai Sicarii - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows Beatrice Cenci and her mother on the left and her father with another man on the right during the aftermath of an argument. Title from contents on title page. Printed in upper right corner: 1. (DLC/PP-43735)

Reteria or net makers, Chioggia, [Veneto, Italy]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The bridge of sighs, I], Italy

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Printed by L.H. Meakin for the Cincinnati Museum Ass'n. Printer's stamp, verso. Poole, 14. Pennell Exchange, 430085.

Up and down in Siena / Joseph Pennell, 1883.

Street on hill in Siena, Italy. Signed and dated in pen. Watermark: AJB monogram. Wuerth 83.

Venice / Stephen Parris after Walter F. Brown.

Couple in gondola in foreground. Public domain photograph - historical image of Venice, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[House of the Swan, Brussels]. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Winslow Homer - [The netmenders] / Winslow Homer.

Signed in pencil. Remarque: anchor. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A painter-etcher, Zorn] - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A breezy sunset R Lovewell - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

Print shows sailboats under sail on the ocean at sunset, with a sailing ship in the background; includes a remarque on the lower left of plate showing a sailboat anchored offshore. V41490 U.S. Copyright Office.... More

The end of the skein / W. Dendy Sadler ; painted by W. Dendy Sadler ; ...

Print showing an elderly couple balling a skein of yarn. They are sitting in chairs facing each other before a fireplace in an elegantly decorated room with a large urn with Asian motif below a table against a ... More

[Dining hall of the Middle Temple, London, England]

Illus. in: The Temple, London / A series of twelve original etchings by Percy Thomas. With descriptive letterpress by the Master of the Temple (Rev. Canon Ainger). Bristol : Frost & Reed, 1898.

George Meredith / etched by Hollyer from photo by F. Hollyer.

George Meredith, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The antiquary, print - Public domain print

Print shows an interior view with an old man sitting before an open book on a desk that is cluttered with such objects as candle holders, incensors, teapot, papers, an open jewelry box, and what may be a pen wi... More

[Pittsburgh, no. II] - A black and white drawing of a city

Print showing Pittsburgh across river through smoke produced tugboats and smokestacks on the riverside.

The physician of the x-rays / Ivo Saliger.

Print showing a physician using x-rays to repel Death, personified as a skeleton wearing a shroud, as it approaches a young woman on an operating table. Inscribed in pencil: Copyright.

[The ugliest bridge in the world, between Camden and Philadelphia]

Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, li...

Poster for Federal Art Project sponsored art classes at the Harlem Community Center, 290 Lenox Ave, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Z. Taylor, the people's choice, inaugurated March 5th, 1849

A commemorative badge for the inauguration of President Zachary Taylor. Taylor was sworn in on March 5, a day later than the customary inauguration date, which in 1849 fell on a Sunday. The badge features a bus... More

El sueño de la razon produce monstros

Print shows man seated at a table, his head cradled in his arms, as if asleep. Behind him appear owls, bats and wolves. Illus. in: Caprichos de Goya, plate 43.

The Old Brick - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a street level view of First Church, also known as "the Old Brick", in Boston, Massachusetts. Includes a 1-page historical note about "the First Church of Christ in Boston." Alternate title appears... More

A view of the falls on the Passaick, or second river, in the province ...

Print shows view of the waterfalls on the Passaic River in New Jersey.

The Russian bear and her invincible rider encountering the British leg...

Cartoon shows Potemkin, with sword raised overhead and wearing hussar's uniform, riding Catherine the Great who is dressed as a black bear, they approach George III and his ministers, Pitt, Salisbury, and Thurl... More

Stowage of the British slave ship "Brookes" under the regulated slave ...

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

Saint Catharine and St. George - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Cartoon shows Potemkin addressing a man identified as "Sweden" with his back to Catherine II as she suggestively mounts St. George who is dressed as a knight representing George III.

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

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

Frederick William - Picture of Europe for July 1772, British Cartoon P...

Cartoon shows Catherine II, Joseph II, and Frederick II seated at table on which rests a map of Poland; standing behind them and looking over their shoulders are Charles III and Louis XV, still further back, as... More

A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the "humane" British and thei...

Charles denounces British and Indian depredations on the American frontier during the War of 1812, alluding specifically to the practice of offering bounties for American scalps. The cartoon may have been prom... More

[Longhouse, Dyer's, Amsterdam]. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Signed in pencil with butterfly. Public domain scan of Dutch 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Offering of bells to be cast into cannon

A southern pastor and his congregation present Confederate officer with church bells to be cast. Initialed "F.B.M." and "A.J.V." Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... 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

The repeal, or the funeral of Miss Ame=Stamp, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a popular satire commenting on the Stamp Act. The supporters of the act gather at a dock to carry a small coffin containing the remains of the bill toward an open vault. Leading the procession and... More

Skedaddlers Hall, Harrisons Landing, engraving, Library of Congress

Signed lower right: Waud. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower left: Sk[etch in Sutlers's] store Excelsior Brigade July 3rd. Note that the figure seated to the left of the doorway bears a close resembla... More

First snow / etched by Ernest C. Rost .

Print shows a snowy landscape with a man driving a horse-drawn wagon through the snow. V36665 U.S. Copyright Office.

Veduta dell'Arco fabbricato in onore d'Augusto ...

Print shows a view of the arch built in honor of the emperor Augustus.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonists Albert Tissandier (...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

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

[Lagoon, noon] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing sailing ships and boats in the Venice lagoon. Title from Kennedy. Signed in pencil on tab with butterfly. From: Second Venice Set (Twenty-six etchings). Kennedy, no. 216 (second state) American pr... More