Decoration du Bal Masqué donné par le roy ... / C.N. Cochin filius del...
Decorations at the masked ball given by King Louis XV of France in February 1745, on the occasion of the marriage of his son, the Dauphin, to Marie Therese of Spain; also visible, ballroom interior and numerous... More
Vue du Chateau de Vincennes sous Charles V / Ransonette, graveur ordin...
Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
Giuseppe Girolamo Lalande / Demarchi, dis. ; Bonini, inc.
Full-length portrait of French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande. Tissandier collection.
Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé
Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... 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
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
Represantant d'une grande nation / J. Cooke, sculpt., 40 Howland St.
"A grotesque monster, nude and hairy, representing the Constitution of the Year III, stands against the trunk of L'Arbre de Liberté (right) with upraised hands. The tree, Emblême de l'Arbre de Connoissance, has... More
![[Seven men around table, eating and drinking, with one of them playing a lute] / peint par Manfredi ; dessiné par Desenne ; gravé par Alb. Reindel.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MDAvMDEvMDEvc2V2ZW4tbWVuLWFyb3VuZC10YWJsZS1lYXRpbmctYW5kLWRyaW5raW5nLXdpdGgtb25lLW9mLXRoZW0tcGxheWluZy1hLWx1dGUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "[Seven men around table, eating and drinking, with one of them playing a lute] / peint par Manfredi ; dessiné par Desenne ; gravé par Alb. Reindel.")
[Seven men around table, eating and drinking, with one of them playing...
Public domain image of 18th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
![[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / William Wadsworth(?).](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3OTgvMDEvMDEvZnJlbmNoLWF0cm9jaXRpZXMtaW4tZ2VybWFueS1kdXJpbmctbmFwb2xlb25pYy13YXItMTc5Ni13bS13YWRzd29ydGgtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[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.
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
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
![[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvZGVwYXJ0dXJlLW9mLWphY3F1ZXMtY2hhcmxlcy1hbmQtbWFyaWUtbm9lbC1yb2JlcnRzLWFlcm9zdGF0aWMtZ2xvYmUtYmFsbG9vbi0zODQ4ZjUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/54/webp "[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]")
[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...
Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More
![[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvZGVwYXJ0dXJlLW9mLWphY3F1ZXMtY2hhcmxlcy1hbmQtbWFyaWUtbm9lbC1yb2JlcnRzLWFlcm9zdGF0aWMtZ2xvYmUtYmFsbG9vbi01ODY3Y2UtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/50/webp "[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]")
[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...
Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More
![[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvZGVwYXJ0dXJlLW9mLWphY3F1ZXMtY2hhcmxlcy1hbmQtbWFyaWUtbm9lbC1yb2JlcnRzLWFlcm9zdGF0aWMtZ2xvYmUtYmFsbG9vbi1mZDU3OGYtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/58/webp "[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, on Dec. 1, 1783]")
[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...
Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More
Expérience aërostatique faite à Versailles le 19 septembre 1783 en pré...
Print shows the balloon of Etienne Montgolfier decorated with King Louis XVI's monogram above the Palace of Versailles carry the first passengers in a balloon flight: a rooster, a sheep and a duck. (Source: A.G... More
Constitution d'Angleterre. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows a critical response to the British political system by showing Prime Minister William Pitt standing on the British crown, which is possibly being flattened by the weight of his authority; he is hold... More
The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from t...
Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the backgrou... More
Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones / Richard Paton pinxit...
Vue d'optique showing naval battle during Revolutionary War between John Paul Jones of the Bonhomme Richard and Capt. Richard Pearson of the British naval vessel Serapis, Sept. 22, 1779. Title appears in revers... More
Bombardement de tous les trônes de l'Europe et la chûte des tirans pou...
Print shows members of the French National Assembly exposing their posteriors, from which streams labeled "Liberté ca ira" pour down on the heads of rulers of Europe, while Liberty ignites a cannon labeled "Vio... More
The contrast / R. Dighton, delin., British Cartoon Print
Political cartoon showing two men representing England and France seated and looking angrily at each other. The Frenchman is holding container (of snuff?) and the Englishman is smoking pipe and holding newspape... More
![[Sheet of playing cards, "Jeu de drapeaux" (i.e., game of flags)]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvc2hlZXQtb2YtcGxheWluZy1jYXJkcy1qZXUtZGUtZHJhcGVhdXgtaWUtZ2FtZS1vZi1mbGFncy01YWVhMmQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[Sheet of playing cards, \"Jeu de drapeaux\" (i.e., game of flags)]")
[Sheet of playing cards, "Jeu de drapeaux" (i.e., game of flags)]
Playing cards, titled in French, show soldiers of France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, bearing flags which show the card's suit and rank.
Embrâsement déplorable de la machine aërostatique des Srs. Miolan et J...
Print shows the balloon of Abbé Miolan and Janinet on fire and billowing smoke while being inflated for an ascension on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Abbé Miollan, as a cat, and Janinet, as ... More
![[Fish vendor seated at table, facing the viewer, holding a fish at a street market] / peint par A. Van-Ostade ; dessiné par Marchais ; gravé par Claessens.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMTIvZmlzaC12ZW5kb3Itc2VhdGVkLWF0LXRhYmxlLWZhY2luZy10aGUtdmlld2VyLWhvbGRpbmctYS1maXNoLWF0LWEtc3RyZWV0LW1hcmtldC1iYjdiOTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "[Fish vendor seated at table, facing the viewer, holding a fish at a street market] / peint par A. Van-Ostade ; dessiné par Marchais ; gravé par Claessens.")
[Fish vendor seated at table, facing the viewer, holding a fish at a s...
Inscribed in ink on verso: The fish market. Reference copy also available in LOT 4638-A.
![Charles aux Thuillieries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1r decembre MDCCLXXXIII / gravé p. Thoenert.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMTIvY2hhcmxlcy1hdXgtdGh1aWxsaWVyaWVzLWllLXR1aWxlcmllcy1sZS0xci1kZWNlbWJyZS1tZGNjbHh4eGlpaS1ncmF2ZS1wLXRob2VuZXJ0LWQ0NTMxNS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/58/webp "Charles aux Thuillieries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1r decembre MDCCLXXXIII / gravé p. Thoenert.")
Charles aux Thuillieries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1r decembre MDCCLXXXIII ...
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes balloon in background and large bird in foreground. Tissandier c... More
![Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantastic form / G.W. invt. [Gillray f.], British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvZmFzaGlvbi1iZWZvcmUtZWFzZS1vci1hLWdvb2QtY29uc3RpdHV0aW9uLXNhY3JpZmljZWQtZm9yLWEtZmFudGFzdGljLWZvcm0tYzFjZDhkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/50/webp "Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantastic form / G.W. invt. [Gillray f.], British Cartoon Print")
Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantas...
Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscri... More
Mal lui veut mal lui tourne dit le Bon Homme Richard - sujet mémorable...
Cartoon shows a man with feathered cap labeled "Ameriquain" (representing America) cutting the horns off a cow labeled "Commerce d'Angleterre" (representing British commerce) which is being milked by a Dutchman... More
A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...
Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skul... 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
La physique confond l'ignorance Dedié aux souscripteurs.
French cartoon shows a woman (Physics personified) whipping the bare bottom of one man (possibly Janinet) while another (possibly Abbé Miollan), walks away pulling up his trousers. In the background, men are in... More
Der Alliirten Schiff flotte - A black and white map of a town
Print shows a birds-eye view of ships in the harbor of Toulon, France during the battle of Toulon in 1707. Title from caption at bottom of print. Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 233A. Illustration in: Hauslab A... More
Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...
A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More
James I, King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, &c / M. Vdr. Gucht ...
James I, head-and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pierre Imbert Drevet - Adrienne Le Couvreur / peint par Ch. Coypel, gr...
French actress, portrayed in the role of Cornelia, half-length portrait holding jar. 3rd state.
Antoine de Parcieux, des Academies royales des sciences de France, de ...
Bust-length profile portrait of French mathematician Antoine de Parcieux. Tissandier collection.
The British lion engaging four powers, British Cartoon Print
Print shows a lion confronting a spaniel, representing Spain, a fighting cock, representing France, a rattlesnake, representing America, and a pug dog, representing Holland. Catalogue of prints and drawings in... More
![[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvcHJvcG9zZWQtZGVzaWduLWZvci1iYWxsb29uLXV0aWxpemluZy1zYWlscy1mb3ItcHJvcHVsc2lvbi1wYXJpcy0xNzgzLTEzOWVkMC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/50/webp "[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 1783]")
[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 17...
Design drawing shows two men in basket steering balloon by manipulation of a sail. A ladder connects the balloon to a parachute-style apparatus intended for safe descent where a third man handles the connection... More
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. (... More
Dédiée a Monsieur Coustard de Massi, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Mil...
Print shows "Le Suffren," the balloon of Anne-Pierre Coustard de Massy and R.P. Mouchet, ascending from Nantes, France. (Source: Le Temps des Ballons, www.perso.wanadoo.fr.)
Lord Rodney, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Print shows George Brydges Rodney, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing uniform; medallion on pedestal with nameplate. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : com... More
![[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3ODUvMDEvMDEvYXJtcy1vZi10aGUtYnJpdGlzaC1mb3JjZXMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/64/webp "[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print")
[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print
Print shows British arms with drum and flag as title page ornament. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 / John Andrews. London : J. Fi... More
Lord Hood - from a painting by West in the possession of Sir John Dick...
Print shows Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, in oval on pedestal with name plate. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Hollan... More
Admiral Hughes, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Print shows Admiral Edward Hughes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right; medallion on pedestal. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 178... More
Le jeu de quilles - A drawing of a man in a blue coat and a man in a p...
Print shows a member of the nobility complaining to a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, while a member of the working class, or third estate, bowling in the background, appears to be monop... More
![[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascension on April 4, 1784, profile portrait] / en aou[...] 1790, [...]ss. p. Fouquet ; gr. p. Chrétien, inv. du physionotrace, Cloitre St. Honoré à Paris.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMjQvbWFycXVpcy1kZS1icmFudGNvLXZhbmNsdXJlLXdoby13YXMtaW52b2x2ZWQtaW4tYS1iYWxsb29uLWFzY2Vuc2lvbi1vbi1hcHJpbC00NzQwOTAtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/56/webp "[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascension on April 4, 1784, profile portrait] / en aou[...] 1790, [...]ss. p. Fouquet ; gr. p. Chrétien, inv. du physionotrace, Cloitre St. Honoré à Paris.")
[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascensio...
"Son tableau est fidel et vrai comme lui" printed below portrait. Tissandier collection.
Menagerie nationale - A drawing of a group of people standing in front...
Print shows a harlequin standing on a makeshift stage with three cages on it containing members of the clergy and the nobility, and flying a banner "Collection d'Animaux Feroces et Traitres". The first cage is ... More
![[Madame d'Eon alias Chevalier D'Eon], British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjkvbWFkYW1lLWRlb24tYWxpYXMtY2hldmFsaWVyLWRlb24tYzZhYmU1LTEwMjQuanBn/40/50/webp "[Madame d'Eon alias Chevalier D'Eon], British Cartoon Print")
[Madame d'Eon alias Chevalier D'Eon], British Cartoon Print
Caricature of Charles Eon de Beaumont dressed as a woman. Windsor Collection. Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress).
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
Jean Paul Marat, né à Genève l'an 1743, député du dépt. de Paris à la ...
Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Representing Revolution : French & British Images, 1789-1804" at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachuset... More
L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France / compo...
Print shows an allegorical female figure riding in a chariot drawn by mules with the crowned heads of kings of various European countries; it is following three hags leading the way to the temple of folly in th... More
Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...
Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More
Vie de Bonaparte, premier Consul de la République française / dessiné ...
Print shows twenty-four numbered scenes depicting events in the life of Napoleon I. Scene number two shows Napoleon with his sword endeavoring to cut a hole in a balloon in which he was not allowed to ascend. ... More
Parachute par Mr. A.J. Garnerin
Technical illustration shows a man, possibly André Jacques Garnerin, standing in the basket of a descending parachute. "Fig. 10" from an unidentified publication. Tissandier collection.
![[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDQvYXJpc3RvY3JhdHMtZGlnZ2luZy10aGUtY2hhbXAtZGUtbWFycy1jMTRkNDEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]")
[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]
Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More
Assassinat de J.P. Marat, le 13 Juillet 1793, ou 25 Messidor, an 1er d...
Print shows Jean Paul Marat, lying down in his bath after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday, surrounded by six men, Charlotte Corday with knife in her hand, and another woman. Plate from: Collection complète d... 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.
Taming of the shrew: -Katharine & Petruchio; -The modern Quixotte, or,...
Cartoon shows Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and scarred George III whose authority has been usurped by Pitt), seated behin... More
Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann...
Print shows the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, two ships at anchor, British soldiers and men working, and merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Boston as a typical European city. Published in: Th... More
Il 18. brumale, anno VIII - A drawing of an elephant and people in a r...
Italian print published on the occasion of Napoleon's coming to power in France, November 9, 1799, following his successful campaign in Egypt. Image depicts France as a giant sphinx wearing the cap of Liberty a... More
Debarquement des troupes Engloises a Nouvelle Yorck Die anländung der ...
Print shows the disembarkation of British troops at New York. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Exhibited: "Creating the United States," the Library of Congress, Washington, D... More
The christian amazon, with her invincible target, Alias, the focus of ...
Cartoon shows Catherine II, as an amazon with sword raised and bearing a shield emblazoned with double-headed eagle, battling the Sultan, Selim III, attacking with a rifle fixed with bayonet; Joseph II, an ally... More
![Seconde suite destampes, pour servir a` lhistoire des modes, et du costume en France, dans le XVIII siecle, anne´e 1776. Paris, Moreau [1776] [1] l., 12 plates. 23 cm.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzYvMDEvMDEvc2Vjb25kZS1zdWl0ZS1kZXN0YW1wZXMtcG91ci1zZXJ2aXItYS1saGlzdG9pcmUtZGVzLW1vZGVzLWV0LWR1LWNvc3R1bWUtZW4tMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/54/webp "Seconde suite destampes, pour servir a` lhistoire des modes, et du costume en France, dans le XVIII siecle, anne´e 1776. Paris, Moreau [1776] [1] l., 12 plates. 23 cm.")
Seconde suite destampes, pour servir a` lhistoire des modes, et du c...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 18th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Le ballon de Lyon, nommé le de Flesselles de 120 pieds de haut sur 102...
Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC ... More
York town, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground... More
Premier descente en parachute ... Jacques Garnerin ... le 22 Octobre 1...
Painting shows descent of Garnerin in a basket attached to a parachute from about 1000 meters while the unmanned balloon falls to the ground. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Exhibited:... More
Premier hommage des Habitans de Paris á la Famille Royale le mercredi ...
The royal family--Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children. Translated title: First hommage of the people of Paris to the Royal Family, Wednesday, October 7, 1789, the day after his happy arrival in thi... More
Aux amateurs de physique - Public domain book illustration
French cartoon shows people crowded outside the Tuileries Garden wall in Paris to view the first balloon ascension of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noël Robert in 1783. Several people are climbing over the wall, in... More
Un peuple est sans honneur, et mérite ses chaines Quand il baisse le f...
Print shows a nude woman pulling back the curtain to a tent to reveal a female figure or mermaid on a bed stabbing a king sitting in a chair; a bust of a satyr is at the head of the bed, and two-faced Justice s... More
Défaite des contre révolutionnaires, commandés par le petit Condé
Print shows the retreating counterrevolutionary army of the Prince de Condé following its failed attempt to restore the monarchy in France. Among the caricatured cast of counterrevolutionaries forming Condé's a... More
L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e, British Cartoon Pr...
Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we... More
Experience de la machine areostatique
Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Caption (French): Experience de la machine aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier d... More
Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France
Print shows a large bull labeled "Tiers Etat - Orleans" referring to Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, tossing Marie Antoinette into the air as Louis XVI kneels in prayer on the left; standing behind the bu... More
The Contrast a French prisoner in England, an English prisoner in Fran...
Political cartoon showing French prisoner in England seated at table with plum pudding and woman serving him a large beef roast; in France a skinny English prisoner looks with disgust at food being served to hi... More
Destaing. Shewing how he cut the English mens head off
Charles Henri Estaing holding cat by tail in one hand and sword in another.
Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit cœlo fulme...
Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing front; map and his spectacles are on the table.
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. F.R.S. - one of the American plenipotentiarie...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, without spectacles, wearing fur cap, in oval. After a portrait by Cochin. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present war in America;... More
Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...
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; inset map shows locati... More
Portrait d'après nature de quatre phisiciens celebres volants sans bal...
French cartoon shows Abbé Miollan as a cat and Janinet with bag of money(?) over his shoulder beating a hasty retreat after the failure of their balloon ascension attempt on July 11, 1784 enraged the crowd of s... More
Précis du traité de paix, signé à Versailles le 3 Septembre 1783 / N. ...
Print shows ten battle scenes from the American revolutionary war, from the battle of Trenton in December 1776 to the victory of Comte de Grimouard, commander of the Scipion, in the West Indies in November 1782... More
Prise de la Dominique / gravé par Godefroy de l'Académie Imple. et Roy...
Print shows French troops storming the British fort on the island of Dominica in the Leeward Islands. Illus. in: Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'indépendan... More
Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in f...
Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... More
Jean Paul Marat / L.A. Claessens, sculp.
Print shows Jean Paul Marat, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval above nameplate.
Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each ...
Print shows figures of the estates general; a member of the clergy and a nobleman each place a hand on short pillar labeled "Je tien mon pied de bœuf"; a peasant, representing the third estate, places both of h... More
Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...
Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More
![[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists, with view of their birthplace, Annonay, and two other scenes from "France pittoresque"]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjkvZG91YmxlLXByb2ZpbGUtcG9ydHJhaXQtb2YtdGhlLW1vbnRnb2xmaWVyLWJyb3RoZXJzLWZyZW5jaC1iYWxsb29uaXN0cy13aXRoLWJmN2VjZi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists, with view of their birthplace, Annonay, and two other scenes from \"France pittoresque\"]")
[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonis...
Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDUvY2hhcmxlcy1hdXgtdGh1aWxsZXJpZXMtaWUtdHVpbGVyaWVzLWxlLTFlci1kZWNlbWJyZS0xNzgzLTI0Yzk0Yy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/58/webp "Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783")
Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" printed b... 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
Maria Antoinette, Queen of France / Leney sc.
Print shows Marie Antoinette, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a cameo necklace and a hat with feathers or feathers in her hair; in oval medallion. Trimmed to within plate mark. Lacking publication ... More
C.G. Lamoignon de Malesherbes - né a Paris le 6 Décembre 1721 ; mort l...
Print shows the apotheosis of Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, bust portrait, left profile among clouds above allegorical scene with a sarcophagus on which is a reclining female figure holding an... More
Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la ra...
Print shows Maximilien Robespierre playing a fiddle and dancing with a small dog, identified as Jean-Lambert Tallien, dancing to the music.
Par autorisation de M. Le Maire de la ville de Rouen. Le Sieur Bollé, ...
Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension at the Place de la Cathd́rale, Rouen, France. Tissandier collection.
Sculpture of French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac by August...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of French sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
General Washington / William Angus sc., engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform; framed medallion on pedestal with nameplate. Illus. from: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and ... More
Le représentant du peuple François en fonction / David inv. ; Denon sc...
Print shows a male figure modeling the costume designed by David for legislators. de Vinck, 6648 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
F. Pilatre de Rozier. Premier navigateur ae̋rien et pensionaire du roy...
Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, who took the first balloon flight in 1783. "Et se trouve chez Mr. Pujos Peintre, Quai Pelletier prés la Greve" at bottom o... More