Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François X...
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 brief text (five lines) in both German... More
John Malcom / dessiné et gravé par F. Godefroy de l'Académie Imple. et...
Print shows John Malcolm, a customs officer, standing in a two-wheeled cart on a street crowded with onlookers as men prepare to tar and feather him. Illus. in: Recueil d'estampes representant les différents é... More
La quatorzieme expérience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagné du C...
Print shows the balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascending from Lille, France. Tissandier collection.
Admiral Parker / Birrell sculp., Head and Shoulders Portrait
Print shows Sir Peter Parker, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, wearing naval uniform; medallion on pedestal with name plate. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : ... More
Lord Cornwallis, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Charles Cornwallis, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing military uniform, facing slightly right; in oval. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending ... More
Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni machine and instructions for ...
Reproduction number: A30 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-180 (B&W negative) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, acquired a tas... More
Le Pied de nez ou l'aristocratie ecrasée
Aristocrat with crown, clergy with long noses, triumphant figures of the Republic, destruction of the aristocracy.
M. 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.
La reine à la conciergerie / Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. l'Abbé Carron ; Pr...
Print shows Marie Antoinette, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned to the right, facing front, in a prison cell at the Conciergerie. Trimmed to within plate mark. de Vinck, 541 Exhibited: "Representing Revoluti... More
Héroïsme des marins qui montoient le vaisseau Le Vengeur, le 3 juin 17...
Print shows the sinking of the vessel Vengeur. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 99.
L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere
Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More
Vorderseite des Marsfeldes, am 1 Vendemiaire des Jahres VII. Wettrenne...
German print shows an imaginary view of the festivities at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, on September 22, 1798. Includes a chariot race, captive balloon, and burning wooden castle, with spectators watchi... More
![[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulder and sees the balloon carrying Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert on the first manned gas balloon flight, from Paris, December 1, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYveW91bmctd29tYW4tcHV0dGluZy1mbG93ZXJzLW9uLXN0YXR1ZS1vZi1jdXBpZC1sb29rcy1vdmVyLWhlci1zaG91bGRlci1hbmQtZTQxZjI0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/42/webp "[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulder and sees the balloon carrying Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert on the first manned gas balloon flight, from Paris, December 1, 1783]")
[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulde...
Accompanied by letter clipped from a book and note by Paul Tissandier. Tissandier collection.
L'Anglais corrigé comme un enfant, Political Cartoon
Print shows a man wearing a feathered headdress, representing America, whipping the exposed buttocks of an Englishman, as a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and a Dutchman look on. Figures numbered, includes legend with ... More
The American rattle snake, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, Brit...
Cartoon shows "American" snake, the emblem used by Americans as a device on their flag before the adoption of the stars and stripes, with two of three coils around units of British soldiers, commanded by Burgoy... 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