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A hot day in the batteries / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows action in a British artillery battery, mortar fire, mortars and cannon being loaded, the removal of wounded, and in the distance, the fortifications of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the... More

The beginning and the end / Keppler.

Print shows Paul Kruger taking "John Bull" by the horns above a notice that states "'Oom Pauls' Ultimatum to John Bull"; then shows Kruger being tossed into the air by the bull. Illus. from Puck, v. 46, no. 11... More

Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of all nations, by her most...

Print shows an interior view of the Crystal Palace during the Great Industrial Exhibition, with Queen Victoria and the royal family at center, the Archbishop to the left, and many spectators gathered in the win... More

The choir at Westminster Abbey - Victorian era public domain image

Print shows an interior view of the choir at Westminster Abbey. Y45731 U.S. Copyright Office. On label at bottom: "The Choir at Westminster Abbey" ; Original etching by Henry Crickmore; Copyright, 1893, by C. ... More

Waiting for the verdict / A. Solomon 1857 ; painted by A. Solomon ; en...

Print shows the anguish and fear of the unknown, of the parents, wife, and sister of a young man who has been accused of a crime, as they await the verdict. A young boy is asleep on his mother's lap and the you... More

England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Ar...

Printed by T. Brooker. Exchange; Old Print Gallery; (DLC/PP-1975:059).

American privateer "General Armstrong" Capt. Sam. C. Reid / lith. & pu...

Print shows the American privateer "General Armstrong" firing on British boats sent from HBM Carnation to capture her. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Rese... More

Reading-room of the British Museum

Print shows the domed reading of the British Library at the British Museum. Illus. in: Memoirs of libraries: including a handbook of library economy / By Edward Edwards. London : Trübner & Co.,1859, p. 701.

Napoleon's return from the Island of Elba, March 7th 1815 / painted by...

Print showing Napoleon I greeting French soldiers and citizens after his escape from Elba. Trimmed within plate mark.

Mutual sympathy / F.M. Hutchins., Political Cartoon

Print shows John Bull and Uncle Sam, both bent under the weight of the governing bodies that they are carrying on their backs with papers labeled "Hereditary Right to Obstruct Legislation" and "Senatorial Rules... More

H.M.S. "Blenheim" / W.S. Tomkin.

Print shows the battleship H.M.S. Blenheim under steam. Other ships are nearby. Illus. in: The British navy from 1837 to 1897 : souvenir of Her Majesty's record reign. London : Waterlow & Sons. 1897(?). Legend... More

Satisfying their curiosity / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon

Print shows John Bull sitting on a strong fortress representing England, with a telescope in one hand and strings attached to battleships in the other; on the edge of the continent are four figures representing... More

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

48683 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: De-Carteret plays his last card. De-Carteret, "I object to Lady-Love being declared the winner, because Lord Woodstock is dead, and ... should therefore be disqualified! Cre... More

[Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Igirisukoku Rondon no zu - Victorian era public domain image

Japanese triptych print shows cityscape view of London with pedestrian bridge over the Thames River and vehicular traffic in the foreground. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Tiger 3. Triptych in one mat, wi... More

Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga N.Y. Oct. 17th. 1777

Print shows British General Burgoyne surrendering his sword to General George Washington after the Battle of Saratoga.

M'Donough's victy. on Lake Champlain / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows an American warship between two British ships during the battle on Lake Champlain (Battle of Plattsburgh). Smoke from the battle is visible in the background. Legend on image: American guns 86, Ame... More

Siege of Sevastopol from the New 32 pounder battery above the left att...

Interior view of the British 32 pounder battery before Sevastopolʹ showing soldiers firing cannons and sailors dragging a large cannon into the battery; in the middle distance is Sevastopolʹ, and on the horizon... More

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Virginia Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...

Created and copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York. Library copy missing bottom third of panel. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

A Christmas dinner on the heights before Sebastopol / W. Simpson delt....

Print shows (from left) Capn. Sir Charles Russell, Bart, Capn. Charles Turner, Capn. Alexander Viscount Balgonie, Capn. Fredk. Bathurst, Capn. Burnaby, Lieut. Colonel Charles Lindsay, Col. Fredk. Wm. Hamilton, ... More

Sebastopol from the east or extreme right of English attack / W. Simps...

Print shows English pickets in the foreground, soldiers in trenches, and a distant view of the forts and other buildings in Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her m... More

The camp of the second division, looking east January 1855 / W. Simpso...

Print shows men on a roadway, horses tethered on the right, and a distant view of the tents of the 2nd Division during winter.

James McNeill Whistler - [Piccadilly]

Print shows buildings and people on Piccadilly street in London, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title and some oth... More

Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

68074 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Spirited boxing contest conducted strictly according to the rules of the ring. Lord Woodstock knocks out his professional antagonist. At the National Sporting Club, London. ... More

[Battle at the machine works, Tʻien-chin, China]

Print shows British and Japanese troops engaging Boxer forces at Tianjin, China. Title from accompanying material. From series: Boxer Rebellion picture series. No. 3.

The bull in the China shop / Dalrymple.

Print shows John Bull as a bull in the "China Department" of a shop selling tablewares, he is charging a cabinet labeled "China Department" on the left, with dishes labeled "Port Arthur - Reserved for Russia", ... More

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (Engl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2843

British Blonde Burlesque Troupe

A579 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Parisian sauce. Copyrighted by Sheridan Corbyn, 1870. Created by "Ledger Steam Job Print, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philad'a." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More

Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, October / Kronheim & C...

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, October 1876, with illustration of surrender of British Major General Charles, Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781; ... More

Sebastopol from the rear of the English batteries / W. Simpson del. ; ...

Print shows a distant view of the English batteries and of Sevastopolʹ with British soldiers in the foreground on the road to the front. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her m... More

The camp of the 1st Division, looking north towards the camp of the 2n...

Print shows a distant view of bell tents at British military camps, as well as hospital tents, soldiers and a wagon hauling supplies toward the camps, the skeletal remains of an animal on the roadside, and men ... More

Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major Gener...

Print shows Lord Cardigan leading the charge of the light brigade toward Russian artillery on the left, in the foreground, Russian artillery fire on the left flank of the charging light brigade, as artillery on... More

Highland Brigade camp, looking south / W. Simpson del. ; T. Picken lit...

Print shows an artillery battery with Capn. Mansfield, Major Shadwell, Lieut. Col. Stirling, Major Gordon, and Sir Colin Campbell standing near the cannons, with the camp of the Highland Brigade, showing huts a... More

The gale off the port of Balaklava, 14th Nov. 1854 / W. Simpson del. ;...

Print shows British ships in the storm-tossed sea outside the harbor at Balaklava. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. Firs... More

Battle between the Constitution and the Guerriere / painted by Alonzo ...

Print shows the Constitution and the wreckage of the HMS Guerriere, at sea in the aftermath of the battle between the two ships.

James McNeill Whistler - [Steamboats off the Tower]

Print shows view of the Thames River with the Tower of London on the opposite side. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butter... More

Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

48673 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The great English Derby. Before the start. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8182. Forms part of: Thea... More

The loss of the Pennsylvania New York packet ship; the Lockwoods emigr...

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

The Prince of Wales and family / photographed by Vernon Heath.

No. 4063. Currier & Ives: a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5348.

Igirisukoku Rondon no zu - Victorian era public domain image

The martyrs of Ireland / L. Gray des. & lith.

Print shows bust portraits of the "Manchester martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen, and William O'Brien, in a shamrock on a shield with allegorical scene above, and an Irish wolfhound guarding a view of the ... More

The new works at the siege of Sebastopol on the right attack - from th...

Print shows a mortar battery with soldiers, two mortars, gabions, and earthworks, with a distant view of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majest... More

A quiet day in the diamond battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68 pounde...

Print shows a large Lancaster cannon in a British artillery battery. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. Lond... More

Shō utsushi igirisujin - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a woman holding a portrait of a couple, standing next to a man holding a dog on a leash; the man is wearing a stove-pipe hat and has a beard that makes him look like Abraham Lincoln. Title and other... More

Will. B. Dorman's original red cross bitters / New England Lith. Co., ...

Patent medicine label showing crusader in armor. Copyright by Will. B. Dorman.

The main question - Victorian era public domain image

Satire on the escalation of tensions during the Maine-New Brunswick border conflict in February and March 1839. The dispute involved the claim to valuable, timber-rich territory in the Aroostook region. The are... More

British Blonde Burlesque Troupe

The great exhibition of 1851 American department.

Illustration shows a group of men standing on the shore with the exhibition buildings in the background. Two men stand in the foreground, on the left, an American, boasting of "Yankee superiority" over the Brit... More

Lieut. Dan Godfrey's British Guards Band tour of America and Australia...

Includes portrait of Lieut. Dan Godfrey. Captions: Lieut. Dan Godfrey R.A.M. Changing guard in St. James' Palace Yard, London. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N... More

The Constitution and Guerriere / drawn by G. White ; engd by J.C. McRa...

Print shows the Constitution, in the background, firing on the wreckage of the HMS Guerriere in the aftermath of the battle between the two ships.

Russian rifle pit - now part of the British advanced trenches, on the ...

Print shows soldiers filling sand bags and firing over a barrier of sand bags and gabions. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simps... More

Graves at the head of the harbour of Balaklava / W. Simpson del. ; C. ...

Print shows a burial party gathered around a grave during funeral at a cemetery at the head of the harbor in Balaklava, during winter, also shows ships in the harbor, and men, on the left, hauling supplies on t... More

The valley of the shadow of death - caves in the Woronzoff Road behind...

Print shows bird's-eye view of the landscape along the Woronzoff Road with cannon balls lining the roadside, also shows the entrance to a valley and, in the foreground, soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a ... More

Lord Raglan's head quarters at Khutor-Karagatch / W. Simpson delt. ; C...

Print shows cluster of buildings being used by Lord Raglan as the British headquarters. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson.... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Tilbury]

Print shows view of Tilbury, Thurrock, Essex, England, across the Thames during a naval review for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project websit... More

Our American girls are capturing the House of Lords / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a group of women in a gallery "Reserved for American Wives of English Lords" holding strings attached to crowns on the heads of their husbands in the House of Lords. Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 98... More

He did it all / F. Opper. - Victorian era public domain image

Print shows a vignette cartoon with President McKinley standing at center holding a hat labeled "Inexhaustible Prosperity Hat" and a magic wand, behind him are "Joshua" and "Moses" who has beams of light emanat... More

New England scenery - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4800

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...

D14316 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: At the National Sporting Club, London : spirited boxing contest conducted strictly according to the rules of the ring. Lord Woodstock knocks out his professional antagonist... More

Highland Brigade camp, looking south / W. Simpson, del. ; T. Picken, l...

Artillery battery with soldiers standing near the cannons, and the camp of Highland Brigade in the background; Balaklava Harbor and the remains of the old Genoese castle are visible in the distance on the right... More

British Blonde Burlesque Troupe

Ninth annual New England Fair, at Lowell, Massachusetts., Sept. 3, 4, ...

View of fairground, with horses racing, tents, and crowds, and railroad train in foreground, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Land Marks, Liverpool Bay - Public domain architectural drawing

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Commissariat difficulties - the road from Balaklava to Sevastopol, at ...

Print shows wagons and a cannon mired in mud, broken wagons, and dead or dying horses and oxen on the roadside, at Kadikoi, on the road to Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by perm... More

The shores of old England / painted by G.E. Hicks ; engraved by T.L. S...

Print showing four young women standing in the water at a beach in England.

James McNeill Whistler - [The clothes exchange, Houndsditch. No. 1]

Print shows women at a secondhand clothing shop. Title from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. mark: Sir John Day (Lugt, 52... More

[The Savoy] - Victorian era public domain image

Print shows a view of the Savoy Hotel from across the Thames River, with Cleopatra's Needle on the left and a steamboat passing in the foreground.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Buffalo Bill, composed of guns, rope, heads of buffalo and horse, snowshoes, etc. Promotional goal: Gt. Brit. K73. 1890. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, ... More

John Martin & Co., Sheffield, England. File and steel manufacturers & ...

Wentworth Works, with busy street scene in foreground. Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The devils thumb, ships boring and warping in the pack / Lithod. by Ch...

Print shows two ships, probably the Enterprise and the Investigator, ice bound in Baffin Bay off Devil's Point in the Arctic; the crews work to break up the ice and tow the ships to open water. Caption continu... More

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (Engl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2843

Capture of Major John Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Issac...

Print shows British Major John André being captured by members of the New York militia. The men are examining papers concerning the capture of West Point which André had hidden in his boot. Reference copy in L... More

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Virginia Oct. 1781

Ninth annual New England Fair, at Lowell, Massachusetts., Sept. 3, 4, ...

View of fairground, with horses racing, tents, and crowds, and railroad train in foreground, Lowell, Massachusetts.

[Ariel, the first carriage of the Aerial Transit Company] / W. Walton ...

Print showing a winged boat, or "carriage," flying over the Nile river, with pyramids in the background. Inscription lower right: Restrike. Bella C. Landauer collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : Amer... More

Cremorne Gardens ... Grand Victoria fete in honour of the Inauguration...

Broadside announcing an inaugural festival for the Exhibition of All Nations, London, England, 1851. Includes a picture of the balloon "Erin-go-Bragh" to publicize an ascent by balloonist John Hampton during th... More

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

Now let the lion beware! / Dalrymple.

Print shows Henry C. Lodge playing a horn labeled "Discrimination Against England", Benjamin Harrison playing cymbals labeled "Bimetallic Standard", Thomas B. Reed beating a tub labeled "Bimetallism" with a clu... More

An awful day of reckoning at hand for John Bull - Ireland's dream of a...

Print shows Puck's stereotyped Irish man labeled "Ireland" as a military general sitting on a rocking horse labeled "Home Rule", holding papers that state "Muster-Roll of the Anti-English Army", and addressing ... 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

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports team, group of people in uniform, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

Caption: Policeman Doxey's first arrest. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti, N.Y." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8063. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D9745 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4516. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D1026 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: An actual scene: The explosion. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 3802. Piece missing from lower cent... More

Secret service by William Gillette. during American Civil War

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie.

American privateer "General Armstrong" Capt. Sam. C. Reid / lith. & pu...

Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. Grand day and evening fete, next Tuesday, Aug...

Broadside announcing Charles Green's ascension in the balloon "Nassau" from Vauxhall Gardens, London. Includes a picture of passengers in a balloon basket. At head of title: Under the direct patronage of Her Ma... More

Banque, Bourse et palais du Lord Maire, Londres The bank, the exchange...

Print shows a view of the Tuileries Palace with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and a large plaza with pedestrians and carriages in the foreground. Signed on stone on lower right: Tuonra [Arnout spelled backwards].

View from the heights above Balaklava, looking towards Sebastopol, she...

Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape between the heights above Balaklava and Sevastopolʹ, including the battlefields at Balaklava and Inkerman, also, on the far left, is the inlet to the harbor at Bala... More

Francis Seymour Haden - [Battersea Bridge] / S. Haden.

Print shows view of the Battersea Bridge and Old Chelsea from across the Thames River. Title from: The engraved work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. ; an illustrated and descriptive catalogue / by H. Nazeb... More

The fire at the Union League Club house last Sunday morning The new Al...

First print shows scenes at the clubhouse after a fire including: the staircase, where the fire started, the art gallery, covered art and furniture, workers shoveling debris, and a copy of Jaspar Cropsey's pain... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Salvation Army, Sandwich]

Print shows crowd of people with flags in Cattle Market, Sandwich, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title and some o... More

Misery loves company / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

Print shows three men holding spoons labeled "Russia, England, [and] Japan", attempting to force a large pill labeled "Ultimatum" from an "International Pill Box" into a despairing Chinese man sitting on a thro... More

The railway at Balaklava, looking south / W. Simpson, del. ; R. Carric...

Construction of the railway in Balaklava at the harbor, also shows masts of numerous ships, and on a hill in the distance, the ruins of the old Genoese castle. Colnaghi's Authentic Series. Déposé Paris, Goupil & Cie.