prints

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... more

The OP spectacles / Cruikshank del.

Satire showing head of Clifford with two circles representing huge spectacles, "Old house old prices & no private boxes" and "Old house old prices & no pigeon holes," over his eyes. Each circle contains a symme... more

Andrew Jackson, president of the United States / painted by W.J. Hubar...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap.

Shrine of the Annunciation Nazareth April 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R...

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 1. Surroga... more

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

Harry Montague's Comedy Company. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world. Title from item.

Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 ...

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text. Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14. Title from item.

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank. Title from item.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.

Kellar

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Kellar

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Man of sorrow

Print shows Jesus Christ on the cross.

[Fable of the lion and the fox; the ass and the wolf]

Illus. in: Aesopus, Vita et fabulae (Latin), Strassburg, ca. 1481. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Fables; RBD; Shelf.

[Knights, some on horseback, in hand-to-hand combat]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: [L]art de cheualerie selon Vegece. Paris, Antoine Vérard, 26 June 1488. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Br... more

[Life of the Virgin. Angel appearing to Joachim] / AD.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. No. M. 190.

[Un officier allemand portant un drapeau, accompagné d'un tambour, d'u...

Five German soldiers, one carrying a sword, one playing the fife, a drummer whose drum bears Hopfer's initials, one carrying a flag, and one carrying a halberd.

[Christ on the cross] / DH.

Original etching: 2nd state.

[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regio...

Frontspiece in: Epytoma in Almagestum / Regiomontus. Venice : J. Hammam, 1496. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 29.

The Prodigal Son

Kneeling among pigs. Cut to, or within plate mark. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 28, Hollstein 28, Bartsch 28, Panofsky 135. Coll. mark on verso: Bradley (Lugt suppl. 288b). Bradley Collection. ... more

[The Virgin with child holding a book] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Meder, 212. Bartsch, 102. Bradley Collection.

Fortitude

Allegorical print showing a woman as Fortitude, one of the cardinal virtues, snapping off a portion of a pillar. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... more

Two nude men: one standing, one reclining / Micarino, fec.

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 46. Graphic sampler, pp. 10-28

The Tiburtine sibyl and the Emperor Augustus

Print shows a female prophet directing Emperor Augustus's gaze upward towards a group of spirits in the clouds. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washingt... more

[The Triumph of Time]

Allegorical representation of Time, winged man, on chariot pulled by two deer. Signed with monogram on plate. Inscription: Tempus edax...aut fuerint. Part of series: Six triumphs described by Petrarch. Bartsch,... more

Raphael and his beloved

Print showing Raphael standing before Margherita Luti, seated, looking up at him. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979... more

Pan

Print showing Pan, right profile view, resting his pipes against a rock.

St. Philip

Print shows St. Philip standing with a cross in one hand and a book in the other hand. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... more

The Virgin, St. Sebastian and a holy bishop

Print shows three separate vignettes: the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, Saint Sebastian, and a bishop wearing a mitre.

Circe

Print showing Circe, standing on a wharf with dragon-like serpents, offering a drink to sailors as their ship passes. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate title from "The 'Pembroke' album of chiarosc... more

Faith

Allegorical print showing a woman as Faith, one of the theological virtues, holding a chalice, with one knee on a low wall outside a temple(?). Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints an... more

Prudence

Allegorical print showing a woman as Prudence, one of the cardinal virtues, seated with left elbow resting on left knee, looking to the left into a mirror which she is holding in her right hand; with a large ur... more

The marriage of St. Catherine

Print shows St. Catherine kneeling next to the infant Jesus seated on his mother's lap. Jesus gives Catherine a ring. Anonymous artist after Correggio. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, ... more

[St. Cecilia surrounded by four saints]

Prudence

Allegorical print shows a woman as Prudence, one of the cardinal virtues, seated with left elbow resting on left knee, looking to the left into a mirror which she is holding in her right hand; with a large urn ... more

Diogenes with the featherless cock

Print showing Diogenes, full length portrait, sitting before an open book, holding a stick in right hand; a featherless rooster, plucked by Diogenes to challenge Plato's definition of Man, stands on the right, ... more

[St. Eustace] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Meder, 60. Library has two impressions. No. 60a: Marsh Collection. No. 60b: Hubbard Collection.

16th century mechanized warfare

Photograph shows reproduction of engraving of mechanized catapult. Title from item. Received from the U.S. Office of Emergency Management.

Adoration of the Magi AD monogram

Print shows Madonna presenting infant Jesus to the Three Wise Men. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to image. Print no. 199 from Marsh Collection.

Flight into Egypt AD monogram

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus on a donkey being led through a forest by Joseph. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to image. Print no. 201 from Marsh Collection.

[The visitation]

Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... more

[Susanna and the elders]

Title from shelflist card. Collector's mark of John P. Heseltine (Lugt 1508). Bartsch, 33. Amand-Durand, 33. Hubbard Fund, 510020.

The Betrayal of Christ

From his Passion set. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 5; Hollstein 5; Bartsch 5; Panosfky 112. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso of Gardiner Green Hubbard. (Lugt suppl ... more

[St. George on horseback] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Cut at or within plate mark. Meder, 56. Hollstein, 56. Bartsch, 54. Panofsky, 161. Coll. mark on verso (Lugt 677). Library has two impressions... more

[Resurrection] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Great passion series. Library has two impressions. No. 124a: Marsh Collection. No. 124b: source unknown.

Adoration of the Magi AD monogram

Print shows Madonna presenting infant Jesus to the Three Wise Men. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to image. Print no. 208 from Marsh Collection.

The mass of Saint Gregory AD monogram

Print shows the crucified Christ appearing on an altar to Pope Gregory the Great. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to image. Print no. 226 from Marsh Collection.

[The knight, Death, and the Devil] / AD [monogram].

Title from mount. Hubbard Collection. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 186.

Illus. of man slicing bread (making communion wafers?) and of a hawk, ...

Illus. in: Hortus sanitatis [minor], Dè grotè herbari (The great Herbarium), Antwerpen, Gheprint bi C. de Graue, 1514. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... more

[St. Jerome in his study] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Library has two impressions. No. 59a: Coll. mark: Possibly Baron H.A. von Derschau (Lugt, 2510). Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. No. 59b: Co... more

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88

The resurrection

Print shows Jesus, dressed in a shroud, stepping out of his tomb as it rests in a cave. On the right, the women weap, and on the left, the guards tumble over each other in fright. Title from Graphic sampler / ... more

[St. Christopher with infant Christ]

Title from shelflist card. Stains. Altdorfer, 85. Hubbard Collection.

St. Peter preaching the gospel

Print shows the apostle Peter, at left, with arm extended, preaching to a group. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979,... more

Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... more

[The desperate man]

Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Probably an experimental plate or sketch plate; profile of man at far left may be a portrait of Dürer's brother Endres. Meder, 95 Hollstein, 95 Bartsch, 70 Panofsky, 177

The death of Ananias / Raphael Urbinas, perugo da carpo.

Print shows Ananias lying on the ground in front of the disciples and other observers. The disciple Peter condemns him for telling a lie. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Pho... more

Imagines coeli meridionales

Earliest known European printed star chart. Originally bound in the Schöner Sammelband. LC copy annotated by Johann Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Venus and cupids / perugo da carpo.

Print shows Venus standing among a group of cupids. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally ... more

Sudarium held by one angel AD monogram

Print shows angel waving Veil of Veronica overhead. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to plate mark. Print no. 27 from Marsh Collection.

The sacrifice of Abraham

Print shows Abraham raising a sword against his son, Isaac. Anonymous artist fter Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photograp... more

Faith

Allegorical print shows a woman as Faith, one of the theological virtues, holding a chalice, with one knee on a low wall outside a doorway. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Ph... more

The Virgin in an oval

Print shows the Virgin Mary seated with a child in her lap. Anonymous artist after Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photogra... more

Death and the Devil surprise two women DH monogram

Print shows Death and the Devil interrupting the lives of two wealthy women. Title devised by Library staff. Bradley Collection. Stamped on verso: Tilgungs-Stempel K.K.C. Stamped on verso: Kupferstich-Sammlung ... more

Fortitude

Allegorical print shows a woman as Fortitude, one of the cardinal virtues, snapping off a portion of a pillar. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washingto... more

[Madonna with the pear]

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 18. Pauli, 19. Coll. marks: Paul J. Sachs (Lugt, 2091) and Baron Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt, 2773). Hubbard Fund, 410096-1.

The sacrifice

Print shows the Roman knight Mutius Scaevola putting his hand into a flame while a group of Etruscans stands by. Anonymous artist after Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic samp... more

The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background. After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... more

A pariquadrata superficie humai corporis perdistincta eo naturali cent...

Print shows a male human body on a grid within a circle. Title from item. Illus. in: De architectura / Vitruvius Pollio ; tr. & ed. by Cesare Cesariano. [Como : Impressa p G. de Pōte, a la spese e instantia del... more

[St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... more

Saint Christopher facing left AD monogram

Print shows Saint Christopher crossing a river carrying infant Jesus on his shoulders. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to plate mark. Print no. 53 from Marsh Collection.

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

Title from caption card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. No call number on caption card

[Four views of heads with proportions delineated in perspective grids,...

Illus. and text in: Hierin sind begriffin vier Bucher von menschlichen Proportion / Albrecht Durer. [Nurenberg : Gedrucky durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Durers velassen Witib], 1528. Published ... more

Fortitude

Allegorical print showing a seated woman holding onto a column. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print... more

[Man seated, seen from behind]

Print shows a man, possibly Narcissus, seated on a rock in a glade, turned away from a woman, possibly Echo. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington ... more

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... more

Diana hunting the stag

Allegorical print showing the Roman goddess Diana with hunting dogs; on the left, two dogs have caught the stag. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... more

The philosopher

Allegorical print showing a man sitting in a chair, thinking. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After P... more

Pallas

Print showing Pallas, one of the Greek titans, holding a shield. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attr... more

[Self-portrait, aged 28]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Bartsch, 188, 245. Hollstein, 188. Inscription, above: Aldegrevers hec est ... anno sue aetatis XXVIII; inscription, below: Anno domini MDXXX. Coll. mar... more

St. John

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attributed to Antonio da ... more

[Telescoping siege machine]

Print shows a telescoping tower raised from beneath by a screw mechanism manipulated by two men, used during siege warfare to gain an advantage of height by those perpetrating the siege. Title devised by Librar... more

[Underwater breathing apparatus]

Print shows a device with a long tube for breathing, worn over the head, to allow a soldier to walk underwater; also shows the device being used in the background. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Fl.... more

[Air mattress made from animal skins]

Print shows two soldiers resting on an air mattress made by sewing together and inflating animal skins. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Fl. Vegetii Renati De re militari libri qvatuor. Lutetiae : Apu... more

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated on block. Bartsch, 56. LC purchase, 1158.

[Jan van Leyden]

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 182. Hubbard Collection.

Haec est forma vivaque torqueti mago suis, et numeris, ...

Print shows a torquetum, a 16th century measuring device. Title from item. Illus. in: Astronomicum cæsareum. [Ingolstadii : 1540]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ...... more

The holy family with St. Margaret and a bishop

Allegorical print showing Saint Margaret and a bishop with Joseph, Mary, and Jesus.

The adoration of the Magi / F.[...].

Allegorical print showing the nativity scene with the Magi presenting their offerings to the infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : ... more

Hope

Allegorical print showing a woman as Hope, one of the theological virtues, with one knee on a bench and both hands raised in prayer toward the sky. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Print... more

[The story of the first men]

Print shows 6 small scenes. Each measures ca. 8.8 x 6.5 cm. Title from shelflist card. Each scene signed with monogram and dated on plate. Hubbard Fund, 217.

Charity

Allegorical print showing a woman as Charity, seated beneath a tree, facing front, comforting and nursing three infants.

[Cannons shooting fire tubes to frighten charging cavalry troops who a...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: De la pirotechnia. [Veneto] : 1540. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of C... more

Quarta musculos commonstrantium figura, omnes in posteriori corporis

Anatomical rare view of cadaver standing on skull holding head sections, with bones and musculature keyed to surrounding text. Illus. and text in: De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome / Andreas Vesalius.... more

Ensign, drummer and piper

Copy in reverse after B. Beham. Engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1500-1550. Bartscht 198, Pauli 201 (1st state), Hollstein 201. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. mark of Hubbard Coll. (Lugt Suppl. 1... more

[Page in Opera, quae Quidem extant, omnia; with mathematical diagram k...

Illus. and text in: Opera, quae quidem extant / Archimedes. Basileae : I. Heruagius, 1544. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 256.

[Page with mathematical essay in Greek, decorated initial, and mathema...

[Title page of Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, with Froben family devi...

Title page in: Opera quae ad nos extant omnia / Hippocrates. Basileae : [Per H. Forbenium et N. Episcopi]. 1546. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... more

[Apocalypse]

Title from shelflist card. Verso: stamps of Boston, MFA and HFS. On shelflist card: "2 plates."

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with initials on plate. Bartsch, 2. LeBlanc, 2. Nagler I: 280. Coll. mark of Bradley Collection on verso. Bradley Collection.

Expositio liburnæ

Print shows an oxen-powered paddle-wheel ship used for military purposes. Title from item. Illus. in: Notitia vtraqve cvm Orientis tvm Occidentis vltra Arcadii Honoriiqve Cæsarvm tempora ... (Notitia dignitatum... more