Mummy of Sethos I, who lived in the fourteenth century B.C., Cairo, Eg...
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All Saint's Church, Lowell. - Public domain dedication image
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Red - dark, Flemish - dark, blue - dark
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Blue - dark, blue - light, red - light
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#1. The Annunciation and the boy in the Temple
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Merrick Thread Co., Best Six Cord, 8.
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Jesus at the home of Mary and Martha (Mary hath chosen that good part)...
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Brookline Mass. clerestory, All Saints Church
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Be still and know that I am God, o come let us sing unto the Lord, Uni...
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Design for windows on St. William's Church. Emblems for right window.
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The Blessed Virgin, Christ the king. Marblehead, Star of the Sea Churc...
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I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. John, who bore record ...
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Wesley Church, Worcester, aisle. Motherhood, childhood, fatherhood
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Sketch - cartoon for the enrichment of an oblong window-space
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Family sitting at the table, the children sitting by their father, wit...
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Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton Advertising - Vintage American Trade Car...
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Costume de Marguerite de Navarre, jouée par Mme Dorus. - Les Huguenots...
She is almost in profile turned to the right, one hand extended at the height of her waist. She wears a costume of the 16th century. She has a Marie-Stuart coiffure, with a crown, she wears a long dress trimmed... More
Detail from a south east view of ye great town of Boston in New Englan...
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Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier
Photograph of a man in a costume resembling a 16th-century courtier style. He is wearing a hat with a feather. On his torso, he is wearing a short cape and doublet with intricate embroidery. He has leather glov... More
Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier
Photograph of a man in a costume resembling a 16th-century courtier style. He is wearing a hat with a feather. On his torso, he is wearing a short cape and doublet with intricate embroidery. He has leather glov... More
Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
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Costume de duc de Guise, joué par Chollet. - Guise, ou les Etats de Bl...
A person facing forward, his head 3/4 to the right, one hand extended at chest height. He wears a costume of the 16th century, his sleeves are puffed and creased, he wears a decoration hanging on a ribbon on hi... More
Costume de Marcel, joué par Levasseur. - Les Juguenots, opéra. - Acadé...
A horseman of the 16th century, almost facing forward his head to the right, one fist raised above his head, the other hand holding his hat, his legs wide apart. His hair is cut short, he wears a pleated jerkin... More
Ships Through the Ages: The Ship of Romance - "Great Harry"
Built by King Henry VIII in the 16th century, this vessel was of more than a thousand tons burden and it carried 34 large guns and a vast armament of smaller guns. It was called "Great Harry" which served as a ... More
Ships Through the Ages: Pirate Dhow, Spanish or Venetian Galley, Spani...
Pirate Dhow. This is a typical 16th century dhow, a grab-built, lateen-rigged vessel of Arabia, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It has the usual long overhang forward, high poop deck and open waist. Th... More
Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
9 small images on one page showing various scenes, including some scenes with horses and with dancing. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th cent... More
Boston Public Library, furniture. Walnut table, 16th century
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Costume de Larchant, joué par Henry. - Guise, ou les États de Blois, o...
An officer of the Scottish guard (16th century) turned 3/4 to the right, one hand on the sword hanging at his waist. He wears a hat with cock feathers, a steel neck-piece, a coat of arms on a coat of mail, glov... More
Adam and Eve - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Madonna and Child - Public domain portrait painting
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Madonna and Child - Public domain portrait print
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A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image
Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More
Hilly river landscape, Thomas Rowlandson
Hilly river landscape; a boat in the water at foreground left, the shore curving round at right, a figure on the far shore at left, houses on a wooded hill beyond. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowl... More
From an original, late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq...
Landscape with figures binding a bundle of wood at right, cattle and sheep resting at left, hills beyond. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th c... More
View of Boston taken on the road leading to Dorchester showing the Gov...
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Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...
A large basket of loaves and fishes lies upset in the street, probably due to the grinning American buffalo, which looks on. Ministers and would-be ministers scramble for the fallen food. Courtesy of Boston pu... More
Country characters no. 9: Exciseman, Thomas Rowlandson
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North east view of the great Town of Boston
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View of the triumphal arch and colonnade, erected in Boston, in honor ...
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People on a boat, Thomas Rowlandson
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A south-east view of the City of Boston in North America
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Prospect von Boston gegen der Bucht am Hafen = Vuë de Boston vers le C...
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The colonies reduced ; Its companion
Two cartoons. The upper cartoon, "The colonies reduced," shows Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. The lower cartoon, "Its companion," shows France defend... More
Luxury, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing
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Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
A number of small scenes on one page, various subjects. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More
The able doctor, or American swallowing the bitter draught
The fair Indian damsel America held down by Lord Mansfield while Lord North forces tea down her throat. Boston is cannonaded in the background. Published the day after the Boston Port Bill closed Boston's port ... More
Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiteria...
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Tremont Street in 1798 - Boston pictorial archive
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The town of Boston in New England and Brittish ships of war landing th...
A restrike of a cropped plate originally engraved, printed, and sold by Paul Revere in 1770. See Brigham. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...
The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav... More
The recruiting serjeant or Brittanniais happy prospect
Henry Fox plays the recruiting sergeant, trying to get political recruits like the Earl of Sandwich, who follows. George III and his German connections are attacked. On a pedestal is inscribed "Britannia Subac ... More
Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
22 small scenes on one page, various subjects. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satiric... More
Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper a...
Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the "Irish Channel." On a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shiel... More
The times, anno 1783, James Gillray
Figures personifying England, France, Spain, and Holland represent the international situation. England (right), a John Bull, stout and plainly dressed, holds up his hands, with a melancholy expression. By his ... More
Simon & Iphigenia, Thomas Rowlandson
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The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More
Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
13 small scenes on one page, various subjects. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satiric... More
Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...
7 small scenes, various subjects. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, ... More
Cries of London, No. 8 : Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns
A decent woman, wearing a white apron, and with a cloth over her basket, is supplying a patroness with a plateful of hot cross buns. A pretty woman, in a neat morning dress, is buying buns, and her children by ... More
Alecto and her train at the gate of Pandoemonium - or - the recruiting...
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holdi... More
Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...
Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More
A cottage, &c., Thomas Rowlandson
Landscape with figures on horseback resting under the shade of a gnarled tree, a cottage nestling in the trees at right. This print was also released in a volume entitled "Imitations of Modern Drawings" which i... More
Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiteria...
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The political cartoon, for the year 1775
Mansfield drives an open coach carrying George III and North toward a cliff. North looks on with approval -- only Chatham and Camden try to stop the coach. Across the waters America burns. Courtesy of Boston Pu... More
S.E. prospect, from an eminence near the Common, Boston
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The posting inn, Thomas Rowlandson
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An east view of the Meeting House in Hollis Street, Boston -- new erec...
An east view of the Meeting House in Hollis Street, Boston. Built 1788, C. Bulfinch, del. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
"Cooks, scullions - Hear me, every mother's son."
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Traffic, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
Two Jewish clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel. In the street beyond is shown th... More
The rival candidates, Thomas Rowlandson
The three candidates who were contesting the great fight for the representation of Westminster are represented according to their supposititious characteristics. Fox, with his hand on his heart, and his arm hel... More
The Irish baronet and his nurse!, Thomas Rowlandson
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From an original late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq'...
Landscape with figures collecting wood beside a gnarled tree, cows grazing in the fields at left. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries... More
View on the French coast, Thomas Rowlandson
Partially dismantled ships of war, canted for caulking. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More
Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Post house, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain scan / drawing
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Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiteria...
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Man with a pitchfork walking toward buildings
Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known fo... More
A prospect of ye great town of Boston in New England in America
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The new country dance, as dance at C****. July the 30th, 1766
Satire on George III's court (the king plays the fiddler). Wilkes is carried off by a witch as he relieves himself on Lord Bute. Pitt talks with a half-naked Indian representing America and the devil dances wit... More
Procession of a country corporation, Thomas Rowlandson
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The Whitehall pump - A drawing of a group of people standing around a ...
Lord North pumps water into the mouth of Britannia, nearly drowning her, while her Indian daughter America lies underneath her. The pump head is shaped like George III. Fox smiles on from a window in the backgr... More
Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
Old State House in 1785 - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Cows, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain scenic drawing
Landscape with a figure herding cattle along a road beside a cottage on a hillside at left, a forest in the valley below at right. This print was also released in a volume entitled "Imitations of Modern Drawing... More
Fox hunting: a landscape scene, Thomas Rowlandson
The artist has taken great pains with the trees and rich foliage which grace this view. The pack have come up with the fox, and the huntsmen are in 'at the death.' Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowl... More
Self portrait with plumed cap and lowered sabre
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A woman standing in a pink floor-length dress in three-quarter profile
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William Hogarth - Simon Francois - The pool of Bethesda
Scene from John 5. The central protagonist is the man unable to reach the pool to be healed on account of a chronic ulcerous wound on his leg. He is then healed by Jesus. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Evening - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene at Sadler's Wells Theater with a dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River. The wife holds a fan with a design of Venus and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older ... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 6
A dilapidated room with Moll's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin. To left, a clergyman gropes beneath a woman's skirt, to right, the undertaker pays court to another who picks a handk... More
Quixote being cared for by the innkeeper's wife and daughter
One of six illustrations for a projected Spanish language edition of Don Quixote that Hogarth and other illustrators were asked to submit by Tonson, the publisher of the work. The innkeeper's wife and daughter ... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - Strolling actresses dressing in a barn
Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being ... More
William Hogarth - A midnight modern conversation
A drinking scene with eleven men in a paneled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower right... More
William Hogarth - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene near Charing Cross with le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I in the background and celebrations of the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foregrou... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 1
The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 2
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border a... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 5
Interior of the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone where Tom is marrying a one-eyed, wealthy old woman. In the background Sarah Young attempts to enter with her child. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More