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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/comedienne/ | La comédienne | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | La comédienne | [
"Houssaye, Arsène"
] | [
"Édouard Dentu"
] | 1884 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24144533M/La_com%C3%A9dienne. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fan",
"female",
"frontispiece",
"mask"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lacomdienne00housuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Actress | The actress. | A woman wearing an eye-mask has her index finger in front of her lips, as if to hush the viewer. She holds a fan with the words “La comédienne” written across it.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/headpiece-20/ | Headpiece (20) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | La corbeille | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"P. A. Desrosiers"
] | ca. 1850 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"headpiece"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Headpiece (20) | headpiece with symbols of liberal arts. | Headpiece decorated with architectural elements and symbols representing music, comedy, and literature, among others.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/geryon/ | Bestir Thyself | Dargent, Yan' | 1824 | 1899 | [
"France"
] | La divine comédie | [
"Alighieri, Dante"
] | [
"Garnier Frères"
] | 1870 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23308724M/La_divine_com%C3%A9die | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"flying",
"monster",
"supernatural",
"The divine comedy"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/ladivinecomartau00dantuoft"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Marichal"
] | Bestir Thyself | And as soon as I had mounted, he said: "Now, Geryon, bestir thyself." | Dante and Virgil ride on the back of Geryon depicted as an old and gigantic winged monster with a snake-like tail and paws of a lion. This picture illustrates the following passage:
…And said: “Now, Geryon, bestir thyself;
The circles large, and the descent be little;
Think of the novel burden which thou hast.”
(Inferno, Canto XVII)
The caption reads in the original French: Et aussitôt que je fus placé, il dit : ‘Géryon, tu peux partir.’
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/flat-broad/ | A UFO in the shape of a disk with a floating sphere at its center hovers over the sea | Corrêa, Henrique Alvim | 1876 | 1910 | [
"Brazil"
] | La guerre des mondes | [
"Wells, Herbert George"
] | [
"L. Vandamme & Co."
] | 1906 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25656925M/La_guerre_des_mondes | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"color",
"flying",
"science-fiction",
"seascape"
] | [
"The Duke University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.duke.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/laguerredesmonde00well"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Something Flat and Broad | Something rushed up into the sky out of the greyness— rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly, and vanished again into the grey mystery of the night. And as it flew it rained down darkness upon the land. | A UFO in the shape of a disk with a sphere bearing dangling tentacles at its center hovers over the sea.
The caption reads in the Belgian edition:
Hors de l’horizon grisâtre quelque chose monta dans le ciel, monta obliquement et très rapidement dans la lumineuse clarté, au-dessus des nuages du ciel occidental, un objet plat, large et vaste qui décrivit une courbe immense, diminua peu à peu, s’enfonça lentement et s’évanouit dans le mystère gris de la nuit. Quand il eut disparu, on eût dit qu’il pleuvait des ténèbres.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/nieuwezijds-voorburgwal/ | Amsterdam, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal | Lalanne, Maxime | 1827 | 1886 | [
"France"
] | La Hollande à vol d'oiseau | [
"Havard, Henry"
] | [
"Albert Quantin",
"Georges Decaux"
] | 1882 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13520242M/La_Hollande_%C3%A0_vol_d'oiseau. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Amsterdam",
"black & white",
"canal",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"frontispiece",
"Netherlands"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lahollandevold00havauoft"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dujardin"
] | Amsterdam—Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal | Amsterdam—Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. | View of the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam, with the canal which was filled in 1884, only two years after this illustration was published. As its name suggests, the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal (New Side Front Bastion Wall) follows the line of a former rampart.
Photoengraving from a charcoal drawing.
The caption reads in the original French: Amsterdam. Le Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lucknow-roomi-gate/ | Roomi gate, Lucknow | Lagrange, Alexis de | 1825 | 1917 | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"India",
"Lucknow",
"periodical"
] | [] | [] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [] | Roomi gate, Lucknow | Roomi gate, Lucknow. From photographic prints and sketches by Baron A. de Lagrange. | Roomi gate in Lucknow, capital city of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India.
The caption reads in the original French: La porte Roomee Durwaza à Lucknow. D’après les épreuves photographiques et les dessins de M. le baron Al. de Lagrange.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/desperate-curses/ | A man on horseback is taking part in a battle and waving his fist | Tenniel, John | 1820 | 1914 | [
"UK"
] | Lalla Rookh: an Oriental romance | [
"Moore, Thomas"
] | [
"Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts"
] | 1861 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7141069M/Lalla_Rookh | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"anger",
"Asia",
"battle",
"black & white",
"fight",
"horse",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lallrookhanorien00mooruoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Desperate Curses | In vain he yells his desperate curses out, | A man on horseback and holding an ax is seen from behind taking part in a battle and waving his fist as the back of his headscarf flutters in the wind.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/crown-imperial/ | Art Nouveau ornamental patterns with crown imperial design | Pillard Verneuil, Maurice | 1869 | 1942 | [
"France"
] | La plante et ses applications ornementales | [
"Grasset, Eugène"
] | [
"E. Lévy"
] | n.d. [ca. 1896] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25591928M/La_plante_et_ses_applications_ornementales | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"Art Nouveau",
"color",
"floral",
"flower"
] | [
"The Smithsonian Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/planteetsesappl00gras",
"https://archive.org/details/planteetsesappl00Gras"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Crown Imperial | Crown imperial. | Set of four Art Nouveau ornamental patterns with stylized crown imperial design.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/humann-dressing-gown/ | Fashion plate showing a man in a stylish dressing gown reclining on cushions | Gavarni, Paul | 1804 | 1866 | [
"France"
] | L'Artiste, 2e série — tome VI | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bureaux de L'Artiste"
] | 1840 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"color",
"costume",
"L'Artiste",
"leisure",
"male",
"smoking"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lartisterevuedel62pariuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Dressing Gown by Humann | Faces of fashion. Dressing gown by Humann. | Fashion plate showing a bearded man in a stylish dressing gown reclining on cushions while smoking a cigar and looking sideways at the viewer.
The caption reads in the original French: Physionomie des modes. Robe de chambre de Humann.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bois-le-duc/ | 's-Hertogenbosch, Market Place | Lalanne, Maxime | 1827 | 1886 | [
"France"
] | La Hollande à vol d'oiseau | [
"Havard, Henry"
] | [
"Albert Quantin",
"Georges Decaux"
] | 1882 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13520242M/La_Hollande_%C3%A0_vol_d'oiseau. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"Netherlands"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lahollandevold00havauoft"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Dujardin"
] | ‘s-Hertogenbosch—the Market | 's-Hertogenbosch—the market. | View of the busy market place of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the main city of North Brabant, Netherlands.
Photoengraving from a charcoal drawing.
The caption reads in the original French: Bois-le-Duc. Le marché.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/evening/ | Evening | Français, François-Louis | 1814 | 1897 | [
"France"
] | L'Artiste, 4e série — tome IV | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bureaux de L'Artiste"
] | 1845 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"L'Artiste",
"nudity",
"periodical",
"woodland"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lartisterevuedel44pariuoft"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [] | Evening | In the evening. | View of a clearing in the woods with a woman coming out of a pond.
The caption reads in the original French: Le soir.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/windmills/ | The windmills | Lalauze, Adolphe | 1838 | 1905 | [
"France"
] | The history of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, vol. 1 | [
"Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de"
] | [
"John Grant"
] | 1908 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14012867M/The_history_of_the_ingenious_gentleman_Don_Quixote_of_La_Mancha. | [
"1900s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Don Quixote",
"Equidae",
"windmill"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/historyofingenio01cerv"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Windmills | The windmills. | Don Quixote lies unconscious in the foreground as Sancho Panza comes along on his donkey with a background of windmills.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/initial-d-lartiste/ | Capital D decorated with figures interacting amid ornamental foliage | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | L'Artiste, nouvelle série — tome IV | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bureaux de L'Artiste"
] | 1892 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"foliate",
"L'Artiste",
"lettering",
"mixed genders",
"mythology",
"periodical",
"typographic"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lartisterevuedel04pariuoft"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Square | [] | Initial D with Figures | Initial D with figures. | Capital D decorated with male and female figures interacting amid ornamental foliage.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/manufacture-bottles/ | Glass bottle factory with workers blowing glass near a furnace and apprentices | Lallemand, Charles | 1826 | 1904 | [
"France"
] | One hundred years' progress of the United States | [
"Brockett, Linus Pierpont",
"Flint, Charles Louis",
"Kettell, Thomas Prentice",
"McCay, Charles Francis",
"Merriam, John Clark"
] | [
"L. Stebbins"
] | 1871 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7055562M/One_hundred_years'_progress_of_the_United_States_... | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"industrial",
"working"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsp00flinrich"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [] | Manufacture of Glass Bottles | Manufacture of glass bottles. | View of a glass bottle factory with workers blowing glass near a furnace and apprentices carrying bottles at the end of poles they hold upright.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/condensation-globe/ | meteorological phenomenons as they were supposed to occur on the primitive Earth | Riou, Édouard | 1833 | 1900 | [
"France"
] | La terre avant le déluge | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Hachette et Cie."
] | 1874 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25459135M/La_terre_avant_le_d%C3%A9luge | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Hachette",
"prehistory",
"rain",
"seascape"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61432",
"https://archive.org/details/laterreavantled00figu"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [
"Maurand, Charles"
] | Condensation and Rainfall | Condensation and rainfall on the primitive globe. | View of meteorological phenomenons as they were supposed to occur on the primitive Earth.
The caption reads in the original French: Condensation et chute des eaux sur le globe primitif.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rainforest/ | south American rainforest | Bayard, Émile | 1837 | 1891 | [
"France"
] | La terre à vol d'oiseau | [
"Reclus, Onésime"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1886 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25232804M/La_Terre_%C3%A0_vol_d'oiseau | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"South America",
"woodland"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/laterrevoldoisea00recl"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Rainforest | "Selva," or South American rainforest. | People walking in line are making their way toward the depths of a South American rainforest.
The caption reads in the original French: ‘Selva’ ou forêt tropicale de l’Amérique du Sud.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/assyrian-temple/ | Assyrian Temple in Khorsabad | Lancelot, Dieudonné | 1822 | 1894 | [
"France"
] | Les merveilles de l'architecture | [
"Lefèvre, André"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23311560M/Les_merveilles_de_l%27architecture | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"antiquity",
"Assyrian",
"black & white",
"Iraq",
"Middle East",
"reference book",
"temple"
] | [] | [] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Bertrand, Antoine Valérie"
] | Assyrian Temple in Khorsabad | Khorsabad: restored Assyrian Temple. | Khorsabad is an ancient Assyrian city now in Iraq. It is famous in particular for the palace of King Sargon II, who was also the founder of the city: the ancient Akkadian name of Khorsabad, Dur Sharrukin, means “Fortress of Sargon”.
In addition to the palace, the city included a temple dedicated to Nabu, a god of Nature and of the art of writing.
The caption reads in the original French: Khorsabad. — Temple assyrien restauré.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/two-cylinder-engine/ | Two-cylinder steam engine | Jahandier, Albert | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | La vapeur | [
"Guillemin, Amédée"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1876 | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7560084W/La_vapeur | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cutaway",
"diagram",
"reference book"
] | [] | [] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [] | Two-Cylinder Steam Engine | Mr. Dupuy de Lôme's two-cylinder steam engine. Cross section. | This steam engine was designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme to be fitted on steamships. The horizontal position of the cylinders shows that they were intended to operate a propeller, whereas, in the case of paddle steamers, the cylinders were positioned vertically.
In addition to the above device, gearing had to be used to give the propeller shaft sufficient rotation speed.
The caption reads in the original French: Machine à deux cylindres de M. Dupuy de Lôme. Coupe.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pistolet/ | Pistolet | Gavarni, Paul | 1804 | 1866 | [
"France"
] | Le bal Chicard | [
"Gavarni, Paul"
] | [
"Le Charivari"
] | n.d. [1840?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25604027M/Le_bal_chicard | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"carnival",
"costume",
"female"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lebalchicard00gava"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Pistolet | Pistolet. | A young woman wears shorts and a puff sleeve shirt at the Bal Chicard.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/joy-soul/ | The joy of a soul is the measure of its force | Larson, Fred Thomas | 1868 | 1944 | [
"US"
] | The turmoil | [
"Tarkington, Booth"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1915 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6573965M/The_turmoil | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"bookplate",
"child",
"female",
"game"
] | [
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://archive.org/details/turmoilnovel00tark"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Larson, Fred Thomas"
] | Joy of a Soul | The joy of a soul is the measure of its force. | Ex-libris of Angela May Crawley pasted to the inside front cover of The Turmoil and showing a little girl jumping rope in a park and the motto written on a banner held by an angel.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/poisoned-draught/ | Poisoned Draught | Larsson, Carl | 1853 | 1919 | [
"Sweden"
] | Singoalla | [
"Rydberg, Viktor"
] | [
"Albert Bonniers Förlag"
] | 1894 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"medieval",
"mixed genders",
"Swantype",
"unwell"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/singoalla00rydb"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Poisoned Draught | Giftdrycken. | A man walking down an outdoor stairway is too weak to support himself and has to lean on two women.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bolivian-mummy/ | Aymara Mummies | Lassalle, Émile | 1813 | 1871 | [
"France"
] | Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, vol. 8 | [
"Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d'"
] | [
"P. Bertrand"
] | 1846 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6908996M/Voyage_dans_l'Ame%CC%81rique_me%CC%81ridionale | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"black & white",
"Bolivia",
"death",
"mummy",
"South America",
"Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/85973",
"https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslamriq81847orbi"
] | People | Landscape (wider) | [] | Aymara Mummies | Ancient Aymara mummies. | Two mummified bodies show elongated skulls and the squatting position in which they were interred. One of them is covered in a sort of woven cloak leaving only the face visible.
The caption reads in the original French: Momies des anciens Aymaras.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/frederiksborg-castle/ | View of Frederiksborg Castle from the city entrance | Lauvergne, Barthélémy | 1805 | 1871 | [
"France"
] | Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 1) | [
"Gaimard, Paul (under the direction of)"
] | [
"Arthus-Bertrand"
] | n.d. [1852] | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"castle",
"Denmark",
"Europe",
"Frederiksborg",
"Voyages en Scandinavie..."
] | [
"Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www-bsg.univ-paris1.fr/",
"https://archive.org/details/FOLSC0948_1NOR"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bayot, Adolphe Jean Baptiste",
"Tirpenne, Jean-Louis"
] | Frederiksborg Castle | Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. | View of Frederiksborg Castle from the city entrance. Frederiksborg Castle is a Renaissance complex located in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. It was built for King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway (1577 – 1648) and was severely damaged by fire in 1859.
The caption reads in the original French: Château de Frederiksborg. Danemark.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mapledurham/ | watermill at Mapledurham | Law, David | 1831 | 1901/2 | [
"UK"
] | The Thames: Oxford to London | [
"Dullea, Owen John",
"Law, David"
] | [
"George Bell and Sons"
] | 1882 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7167867M/The_Thames | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"mill",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/thamesoxfordtolo00lawduoft"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [] | Mapledurham | Mapledurham. | View of the watermill at Mapledurham, a village in Oxfordshire.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/went-on/ | Overcoming these chimerical terrors | Doré, Gustave | 1832 | 1883 | [
"France"
] | Le capitaine Fracasse | [
"Gautier, Théophile"
] | [
"F. Polo"
] | 1860 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24195724M/Le_capitaine_Fracasse | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"night"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/lecapitainefraca00gaut"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Ligny, Ad."
] | Chimerical Terrors | Overcoming these chimerical terrors, Isabelle went on her way. | A woman stands in a dark room holding a lantern and presumably looking at a coat of arms decorating the mantel of large fireplace.
The caption reads in the original French: Domptant ces terreurs chimériques, Isabelle continua son chemin.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tailpiece-cats-skull/ | Two cats are seen around a jug and a skull, one of them looking at the viewer with a scowl | Beaumont, Édouard de | 1821 | 1888 | [
"France"
] | Le diable amoureux | [
"Cazotte, Jacques"
] | [
"Henri Plon"
] | 1871 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6613970M/Le_diable_amoureux | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cat",
"skull",
"sullen",
"tailpiece"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/lediableamoureux00cazo"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Tailpiece with Scowling Cat | Tailpiece with skull and scowling cat. Chapter one. | Two cats are seen around a jug and a skull, one of them looking at the viewer with a scowl.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/author/ | A man sits writing at a desk in a corner of a study | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Le diable boiteux | [
"Lesage, Alain-René"
] | [
"Ernest Bourdin et Cie."
] | 1840 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6610570M/Le_diable_boiteux | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"book",
"male",
"writing"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/lediableboiteux00lesa"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Author | He is surrounded by a thousand volumes, and is compiling one, in which there will not be a line of his own. | A man sits at a desk in a corner of a study, using one hand to prop up a book open against the wall facing him and the other to write with a quill.
The caption reads in the original French: Il est entouré de mille volumes et il en compose un où il ne met rien du sien.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cartouche2/ | Cartouche | Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe | 1707 | 1783 | [
"France"
] | Histoire ancienne | [
"Rollin, Charles"
] | [] | 1738 | nan | [
"1730s",
"18th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"Rococo"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Bourgoin, Pierre"
] | Cartouche | Rococo cartouche for a map of ancient Greece and Sicily. | Rococo cartouche for a map of Greece and Sicily at the time of Pyrrhus’s wars. The irregular frame is decorated with foliage and shell-like designs.
The cartographer for this series of maps was Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas seems to have been consistently responsible for the artwork, although his name doesn’t appear on every map. The publication date we mention is that which appears in the cartouche (i.e. not necessarily the publication date of the book the map refers to: we don’t know if the maps were included with the books or published separately).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rapture/ | Rapture | Le Brun, Charles | 1619 | 1690 | [
"France"
] | The juvenile Lavater | [
"Brewer, George"
] | [
"A. K. Newman and Co"
] | n.d. [1812?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25390175M/The_juvenile_Lavater | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"female",
"happy",
"portrait"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/juvenilelavater00brew"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Rapture | Rapture. | Study of facial expression showing a female figure looking upwards with ecstatic eyes and representing rapture.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/souvigny-bible-center/ | Decoration from the Bible of Souvigny (center) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 5 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1837 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"book",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"medieval",
"periodical"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Tondo | [] | Decoration from the Bible of Souvigny | Bronze plate from the front cover of the Bible of Souvigny. | According to one of the librarians who was able to see it before its 1833 restoration, the binding of the Bible of Souvigny was at the time made of oak wood covered with sow leather. It was additionally decorated with bronze, copper, and enamel ornaments of which most remain. The nineteenth century work, however, was so disastrous that it made it impossible to preserve the integrity of the binding, which later had to be taken to pieces.
The finely cast plates can nowadays be seen on a background of red velvet, while a plain, low-key modern binding provides protection for the manuscript. The circular plate depicted in the above illustration was featured at the center of the front cover.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/coatlicue/ | Aztec Goddess Coatlicue | Wattier, Édouard | 1793 | 1871 | [
"France"
] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 8 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1840 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"antiquity",
"art",
"black & white",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"North America",
"periodical",
"Pre-Columbian",
"sculpture"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Andrew, Best & Leloir"
] | Aztec Goddess Coatlicue | Aztec goddess Coatlicue. | Wood engraving made after a famous statue of the goddess Coatlicue, which was discovered in Mexico in 1790. It was at first incorrectly identified as a representation of Teoyaomiqui.
Coatlicue (She who wears a skirt of snakes) is represented as a fearsome-looking woman with clawed fingers, a necklace made of human remains (hands, heart, skull) and, of course, her skirt of snakes. In the Aztec mythology, she was the goddess of the earth.
The caption reads in the original French: Teoyaomiqui, la Déesse de la Mort, idole mexicaine.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/daydreaming/ | A woman is seen reclining on a couch above a landscape with a sphinx, a casket, and an urn | Avril, Paul | 1849 | 1928 | [
"France"
] | Le miroir du monde | [
"Uzanne, Octave"
] | [
"Maison Quantin"
] | 1888 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14018916M/Le_miroir_du_monde | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"female",
"mythology",
"nudity"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lemiroirdumonden00uzanuoft"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Daydreaming | Daydreaming. | A woman is seen reclining on a couch above a landscape with a sphinx, a casket, and an urn.
The title reads in the original French: La rêverie.
Various techniques were used in this book to reproduce the original illustrations by Paul Avril, including heliogravure and chromotypographic processes.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/south-australian-cobbler/ | South Australian cobbler, an estuarine fish in the family Tetrarogidae | Acarie-Baron, Jacques Reyne Isidore | 178? | 185? | [
"France"
] | Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, vol. 4 (atlas) | [
"Cuvier et al."
] | [
"Fortin, Masson et Cie."
] | 1836-1849 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6948700M/Le_re%CC%80gne_animal_distribue%CC%81_d'apre%CC%80s_son_organisation | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fish",
"reference book",
"saltwater",
"Tetrarogidae"
] | [
"The Ernst Mayr Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/regneanimaldistv4poCuvi"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [
"Schmelz, Charles Simon Guillaume"
] | South Australian Cobbler | South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus). | Aquatint depicting the South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a fish in the family Tetrarogidae. It is an estuarine, nocturnal species which feeds on fish for the larger individuals, and on shrimps and crabs for the smaller ones. The spines of its dorsal fin are poisonous.
The caption reads in the original French: L’aptiste marbré. (Apistus marmoratus, Cuv. Val.)
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/turkish-gunner/ | Turkish Gunner in 1690 | Lecurieux, Jacques | 1801 | 1867 | [
"France"
] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 8 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1840 | nan | [
"17th century",
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"male",
"military",
"periodical",
"Turkey",
"weaponry"
] | [] | [] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Turkish Gunner in 1690 | A Turkish gunner in 1690. | This illustration was inspired by events told by Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, in his book L’État militaire de l’empire ottoman, ses progrès et sa décadence (The military state of the Ottoman Empire, its progress and its decline), Amsterdam, 1732.
According to Count Marsigli, during the course of the Great Turkish War, and while fighting for the domination of Hungary, the Turkish army had several camels equipped with two guns, which were operated by a gunner riding the animal. This stratagem didn’t prove effective at all.
The caption reads in the original French: Un canonnier Turc, en 1690.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/project-seller/ | Project Seller | Heidbrinck, Oswald | 1860 | 1914 | [
"France"
] | Le Rire | [
"Collective work"
] | [] | 1896 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"hat",
"male",
"periodical",
"sly"
] | [] | [] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Project Seller | Author, manager, organizer of anything you want and broker in charity. | A man with a satchel under his arm and a roll of paper in his hand is ready to enter an administrative building.
The caption reads in the original French: Auteur, directeur, administrateur, organisateur de tout ce qu’on voudra et placier en bonnes œuvres.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/night-crime/ | A man holding a donkey by the bridle pulls on a rope in order to haul up a cello | Robida, Albert | 1848 | 1926 | [
"France"
] | Le voyage de M. Dumollet | [
"Robida, Albert"
] | [
"Georges Decaux"
] | n.d. [1883?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24526023M/Le_voyage_de_M._Dumollet | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"color",
"music",
"night",
"street"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/levoyagedemdumol00robi"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Night of the Crime | The night of the crime. | A man holding a donkey by the bridle pulls on a rope in order to haul up a cello and have it hang from the street lighting wire.
The caption reads in the original French: La nuit du crime.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/admonition/ | The admonition | Stephanoff, Philip Francis | ca. 1788 | 1860 | [
"UK"
] | Leila; or, the siege of Granada | [
"Bulwer-Lytton, Edward"
] | [
"Henry G. Bohn"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23310669M/Leila | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"admonishment",
"mixed genders",
"snake",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/leilaorsiegeofgr00lytt"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Goodyear, Joseph"
] | admonition | The admonition. | In a room with a decorative architecture of snakes coiled around pillars, a man reprimands a young woman who has fallen to her knees.
Steel engraving.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/comte-artois/ | Aerostat "Le Comte d'Artois" | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les aérostats | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1887 | nan | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"airship",
"black & white",
"flying",
"Furne",
"machine"
] | [
"Cushing-Whitney Medical Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.medicine.yale.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/39002011210649.med.yale.edu"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [] | Aerostat “Le Comte d’Artois” | "Le Comte d'Artois", hydrogen aerostat built by Alban et Vallet. | The aerostat le Comte d’Artois consisted of two propellers and a balloon filled with . It was built by Alban and Vallet, two chemists familiar with hydrogen production. They tested their creation in August 1785.
The caption reads in the original French: Le Comte d’Artois, aérostat à gaz hydrogène, construit par Alban and Vallet.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/horse-ride/ | Horse riding in the street | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les Bons Romans | [
"Collective work"
] | [] | 1862 | nan | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"horse",
"male",
"periodical",
"Un beau-père"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Carbonneau, Jean-Baptiste Charles"
] | Horse Riding in the Street | Just one word, sir. | A man in a top hat rides a horse and stops to talk to an acquaintance hailing him from a cab.
The caption reads in the original French: Monsieur, un seul mot.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/first-interview/ | First Interview | Leech, John | 1817 | 1864 | [
"UK"
] | Colin Clink, vol. 1 | [
"Hooton, Charles"
] | [
"Richard Bentley"
] | 1841 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23663899M/Colin_Clink | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Colin Clink",
"male",
"smoking",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/colinclink01hoot"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | First Interview | Colin’s first interview with Mr. Palethorpe. | A boy carrying his belongings tied to a walking stick faces a man in an armchair smoking a pipe outdoors.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/macaire-4/ | A peddler stands at the rear of a carriage and sells stocks to the crowd | Daumier, Honoré | 1808 | 1879 | [
"France"
] | Les cent et un Robert-Macaire | [
"Alhoy, Maurice",
"Huart, Louis"
] | [
"Aubert et Cie"
] | 1839 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125012910929/Les_cent_et_un_Robert-Macaire | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"Aubert",
"black & white",
"male",
"peddling",
"street"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012910929"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Ladies and Gentlemen! | Ladies and gentlemen! | A peddler stands at the rear of a carriage and sells stocks to the crowd gathered around him as his sidekick beats a drum. The caption reads in the original French:
Messieurs et dames !
— Les mines d’argent, les mines d’or, les mines de diamant ne sont que de la pot-bouille, de la ratatouille en comparaison de ma houille… Mais (que vous m’allez dire), tu vends alors tes actions un million ? Mes actions, messieurs, je ne les vends pas je les donne pour deux cents misérables francs, j’en donne deux pour une, je donne une aiguille, un cure-oreille, un passe-lacet, et je vous donne encore ma bénédiction par-dessus le marché… En avant la grosse caisse !
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/woman-with-hennin/ | Lady Wearing a Hennin | Doré, Gustave | 1832 | 1883 | [
"France"
] | Les contes drolatiques (Doré) | [
"Balzac, Honoré de"
] | [
"Garnier Frères"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24136957M/Les_contes_drolatiques_colligez_ez_abbayes_de_Touraine_et_mis_en_lumi%C3%A8re | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Contes drolatiques",
"courtship",
"False courtesan",
"hat",
"medieval"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Lavieille, Jacques Adrien"
] | Lady Wearing a Hennin | The modest and virtuous Lady D'Hocquetonville. | Profile view of a woman wearing a hennin and followed by a suitor. She’s walking with a little page bearing her long train while the suitor is stepping over it. He has long white hair and a beard and looks much older than she does. Although of a seemingly average height, he is also shorter than she as illustrated by her tall shadow sharply silhouetted against the wall behind them.
This picture is an illustration for the story called “The False Courtesan,” from Droll Stories. The lady is the character named Lady of Hocquetonville and the suitor is the duc d’Orleans.
The caption reads in the original French: La preude et chaste femme, dame d’Hocquetonville.
The translation provided here is from the edition published in London by the Bibliophilist Society, 1874.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/winnower/ | Winnower in the Pontine Marshes | Lehmann, Rudolf | 1819 | 1905 | [
"Germany",
"UK"
] | L'Artiste, 4e série — tome IV | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bureaux de L'Artiste"
] | 1845 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"agriculture",
"black & white",
"female",
"Italy",
"L'Artiste",
"portrait",
"working"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lartisterevuedel44pariuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Pinçon, A."
] | Winnower | Winnower in the Pontine Marshes. | Profile view of a woman in Italian traditional dress winnowing wheat over a basket.
The caption reads in the original French: Vanneuse des marais pontins.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/matches/ | A young barefooted woman wearing a patched-up dress sells matches at the Bank of England | Leighton, John (aka Luke Limner) | 1822 | 1912 | [
"UK"
] | London cries & public edifices | [
"Leighton, John (aka Luke Limner)"
] | [
"Grant and Griffith"
] | 1851 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25119238M/London_cries_public_edifices | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Album of types",
"black & white",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"female",
"London",
"street",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/londoncriespubli00leig"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Bank of England—Matches | Matches!—buy a box of matches of a poor girl! | A young barefooted woman wearing a patched-up dress sells matches in front of the Bank of England. The book offers the following information:
Of all the poor itinerants of London the match-sellers are the poorest, and subsist as much by donations as by the sale of their wares. The old match, a splinter of wood, with ends dipped in brimstone, is fast disappearing before the modern lucifer or congreve[1]. The poor creature here represented is appealing to a lady and gentleman, (whose shadows are seen in the picture,) on their way to the Bank of England.
^ Congreve was the name given, in honor of Sir William Congreve, to friction matches coated with sulphur and tipped with a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, and gum. Lucifer matches were a variant of the congreves.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/punishment/ | Punishment | Robida, Albert | 1848 | 1926 | [
"France"
] | Les contes drolatiques, vol. 1 (Robida) | [
"Balzac, Honoré de"
] | [
"Librairie Illustrée — J. Tallandier"
] | ca. 1900 | nan | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"Contes drolatiques",
"eerie",
"fantasy",
"female",
"frontispiece",
"medieval",
"monster"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lescontesdrolati01balz"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Punishment | Punishment. | In the underground rooms of a medieval castle, women are left to be tortured by nightmarish monsters and devils.
The caption reads in the original French: Punition.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/esmeralda-phoebus/ | Esmeralda set free by Phœbus | Lemud, Aimé de | 1816/7 | 1887 | [
"France"
] | Notre-Dame de Paris | [
"Hugo, Victor"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1844 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24211750M/Notre-Dame_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"mixed genders",
"night",
"riding",
"street"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/notredamedepar00hugo"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Tamisier, Charles"
] | Esmeralda Set Free | Esmeralda set free by Phœbus. | A man in armor is riding on horseback and trying to get away through the streets of the city with the young woman he is abducting. A second man standing at a corner grabs and pulls the woman by her dress to set her free, ready to dodge the blow the first man is about to deliver.
The caption reads in the original French: Esméralda délivrée par Phœbus.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cornflower-poppy/ | A cornflower and a poppy are depicted as women holding hands among weeds and wheat ears | Grandville, J.-J. | 1803 | 1847 | [
"France"
] | Les fleurs animées, vol. 1 | [
"Delord, Taxile",
"Karr, Alphonse",
"Raban, Louis-François"
] | [
"Garnier Frères"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2752527M/Les_fleurs_anime%CC%81es | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"allegory",
"color",
"female",
"flower",
"insect",
"music"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesfleursanime01gran"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Geoffroy, Charles"
] | Cornflower and Poppy | Cornflower and poppy. | A cornflower and a poppy are depicted as women holding hands among weeds and wheat ears as a grasshopper and a cicada (?) play music to them.
The caption reads in the original French: Bleuet et coquelicot.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/actress-mother/ | Portrait of an old woman wearing a hat and a shawl and carrying a basket | Monnier, Henry | 1799 | 1877 | [
"France"
] | Les français peints par eux-mêmes, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Léon Curmer"
] | 1840 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24165799M/Les_fran%C3%A7ais_peints_par_eux-m%C3%AAmes | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"Album of types",
"color",
"female",
"France",
"portrait",
"reference book"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesfranaispei01pari"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Lavieille, Jacques Adrien"
] | Actress’s Mother | Actress's mother. | Full-length portrait of an old woman wearing a hat and a checked shawl and carrying a basket.
The caption reads in the original French: La mère d’actrice.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/silversmiths-workshop/ | Silversmith's workshop where workers can be seen at a large collective workbench | Morin, Edmond | 1824 | 1882 | [
"France"
] | Les grandes usines, vol. 1 | [
"Turgan, Julien"
] | [
"Michel Lévy Frères"
] | 1875 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125000937041b/Les_grandes_usines_de_France | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"craft",
"industrial",
"working"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000937041b"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [
"Linton, Henry Duff"
] | Christofle Silversmith’s Workshop | Paris factory: the main silversmith's workshop. | Silversmith’s workshop at the Christofle flatware factory where people can be seen at work, most of them at a large collective workbench equipped with vices and other tools.
The caption reads in the original French: Usine de Paris. — Grand atelier d’orfèvrerie.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/amputation-leg/ | Amputation of the Leg | Léveillé, Jean-Baptiste | 1769 | 1829 | [
"France"
] | Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d'anatomie chirurgicale, vol. 1 | [
"Bernard, Claude",
"Huette, Charles"
] | [
"Méquignon-Marvis Fils"
] | 1848 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24342044M/Pr%C3%A9cis_iconographique_de_m%C3%A9decine_op%C3%A9ratoire_et_danatomie_chirurgicale | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"anatomy",
"color",
"medical",
"reference book",
"surgery"
] | [
"Columbia University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.columbia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/prcisiconograp01bern"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Davesne"
] | Amputation of the Leg | Amputation of the leg. | Depiction of the surgical process involved in the amputation of a leg.
The caption reads in the original French: Amputation de la jambe.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/book-candle-tailpiece/ | Vignette with books and candle | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les livres à vignettes du XIXe siècle | [
"Bouchot, Henri"
] | [
"Édouard Rouveyre"
] | 1891 | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11469064W/Les_livres_a_vignettes_du_XIXe_siecle_... | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"book",
"candle",
"tailpiece"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11469064W/Les_livres_a_vignettes_du_XIXe_siecle_..."
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Tailpiece with Books and Candle | Tailpiece with open book. | A book that which looks like a medieval manuscript is left open on a small table, propped up as though leaning on a book-rest. Two other books and a candle can be seen behind it.
On the pages of the open book we can read “Ed Rouveyre éditeur 76 r de Seine.”
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/publishers-mark2/ | Publisher's mark (2) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les mémoires de Saint-Simon | [
"Le Goffic, Charles",
"Saint-Simon",
"Tellier, Jules"
] | [
"Delagrave"
] | ca. 1900 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24145460M/Les_m%C3%A9moires | [
"allegory",
"black & white",
"publisher's mark"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24145460M/Les_m%C3%A9moires"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Publisher’s mark (2) | Mark of publisher Delagrave. | Mark of publisher Delagrave featuring a seated woman holding books with winged figures at her sides.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sarah-bernhardt-day/ | a Pierrot stands holding bunches of flowers in his arms while looking to the side of the picture, where the menu unfolds | Chéret, Jules | 1836 | 1932 | [
"France"
] | Les menus & programmes illustrés | [
"Maillard, Léon"
] | [
"G. Boudet"
] | 1898 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24343643M/Les_menus_programmes_illustr%C3%A9s | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"flower",
"leaflet",
"Pierrot"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmenusprogramm00mail"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Menu for Sarah Bernhardt’s Day | Menu for Sarah Bernhardt's Day—1896. | A Pierrot stands holding bunches of flowers in his arms while looking to the side of the picture, where the menu unfolds.
The heading reads in the original French: Journée Sarah Bernhardt.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ellora-cave-temples/ | Cave Temples, Ellora | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les merveilles de l'architecture | [
"Lefèvre, André"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23311560M/Les_merveilles_de_l%27architecture | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"India",
"religious",
"temple"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23311560M/Les_merveilles_de_l%27architecture"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bertrand, Antoine Valérie"
] | Cave Temples, Ellora | Cave temples, Ellora. | Ellora is a village in India known for the 34 temples cut in the rock of nearby basaltic cliffs. Three religions are represented at the Ellora caves: Buddhism, Hindouism, and Jainism. While the Buddhist caves are the oldest, the Hindu temples show more sophisticated decoration, especially the Kailasa (or Kailash) Temple depicted in the above engraving.
The caption reads in the original French: Temples d’Ellora.
Another picture, showing the same Kailasa Temple from a different angle can also be found on this site.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/wallpaper-printing-detail/ | Detail of Wallpaper printing machine | Broux, P. | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Les merveilles de l'industrie, vol. 2 | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | n.d. [1873-1877] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:b21497187_0002/Les_merveilles_de_l'industrie_ou_Description_des_principales_industries_modernes | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Furne",
"industrial",
"Les merveilles de l'industrie",
"printing"
] | [
"The Wellcome Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://wellcomelibrary.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/b21497187_0002"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [
"Navellier, Narcisse"
] | Detail of Wallpaper Printing Machine | various elements of the wallpaper printing machine. | Detail of a wallpaper printing machine showing rollers, a strip of printed paper, and the color trough.
The caption reads in the original French: Divers éléments de la machine à imprimer les papiers peints.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pasta-press/ | Vertical Pasta Press | Broux, P. | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Les merveilles de l'industrie, vol. 4 | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1877 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:b21497187_0004/Les_merveilles_de_l'industrie_ou_Description_des_principales_industries_modernes | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"food",
"Furne",
"Les merveilles de l'industrie",
"machine",
"press"
] | [
"Wellcome Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://wellcomelibrary.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/b21497187_0004"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Navellier, Narcisse"
] | Vertical Pasta Press | Vertical pasta press. | Vertical press used to shape pasta.
The caption reads in the original French: Presse verticale pour mouler les pâtes alimentaires.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jewish-doctor/ | She breathed her last in my arms | Lalauze, Adolphe | 1838 | 1905 | [
"France"
] | Les mille & une nuits : contes arabes, vol. 3 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Librairie des Bibliophiles"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24511391M/Les_Mille_une_nuits | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Arabia",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"couple",
"death",
"One thousand and one nights"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmilleunenuits03gall"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | In My Arms | She breathed her last in my arms. | A man dressed in the traditional Arabic fashion holds a fainting woman in his arms. This picture is an illustration for “The Tale of the Jewish Doctor.”
The caption reads in the original French: Elle rendit l’âme entre mes bras.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/amgrad-assad/ | They discovered Assad asleep | Lalauze, Adolphe | 1838 | 1905 | [
"France"
] | Les mille & une nuits : contes arabes, vol. 5 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Librairie des Bibliophiles"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24511391M/Les_Mille_une_nuits | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"One thousand and one nights",
"sleeping"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmilleunenuits05gall"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | They Discovered Assad Asleep | They came near him and knew him as Assad. | A small group of men who came to a fountain to fill their jars discovers a young man lying asleep in the grass. This picture is an illustration for “The Story of the Two Princes Amgrad and Assad.”
The caption reads in the original French: Ils s’approchèrent de lui et le reconnurent pour Assad.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/nureddins-tale/ | The bath of the fair Persian | Lalauze, Adolphe | 1838 | 1905 | [
"France"
] | Les mille & une nuits : contes arabes, vol. 6 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Librairie des Bibliophiles"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24511391M/Les_Mille_une_nuits | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"nudity",
"One thousand and one nights"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmilleunenuits06gall"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Bath of the Fair Persian Woman | The bath of the fair Persian woman. | A young woman is getting ready for her bath with the help of four maids. This picture is an illustration for “The Story of Noureddin and the Fair Persian.”
(Click on any high-resolution link to view the uncropped illustration.)
The caption reads in the original French: Le bain de la belle Persienne.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/badrulbudur/ | Badrulbudur Going to the bath | Lalauze, Adolphe | 1838 | 1905 | [
"France"
] | Les mille & une nuits : contes arabes, vol. 8 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Librairie des Bibliophiles"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24511391M/Les_Mille_une_nuits | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"One thousand and one nights",
"parasol"
] | [
"University of Ottawa Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmilleunenuits08gall"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Badrulbudur Going to the Bath | Badrulbudur going to the bath. | A woman is going to the bath followed by a long train of servants and assisted by a maid who holds a parasol for her. This picture is an illustration for “The Story of Aladdin.”
The caption reads in the original French: Badroulboudour se rendant au bain.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/javert-bound/ | A man looks slightly sideways as he is tied to a wooden support column | Brion, Gustave | 1824 | 1877 | [
"France"
] | Les misérables | [
"Hugo, Victor"
] | [
"J. Hetzel et A. Lacroix"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24225109M/Les_mis%C3%A9rables | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"male",
"prisoner"
] | [
"University of Toronto Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmisrable00hugo"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Yon & Perrichon"
] | Javert Bound to the Post | Javert bound to the post. | A man looks slightly sideways as he is tied facing the viewer with his arms behind his back to a wooden support column.
The caption reads in the original French: Javert lié au poteau.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/palmistry/ | Palmistry, Division of the Hand | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Les mystères de la main | [
"Desbarrolles, Adolphe"
] | [
"Édouard Dentu"
] | 1859 | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16721900W/Chiromancie_nouvelle | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"palmistry",
"supernatural"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16721900W/Chiromancie_nouvelle"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [] | Palmistry, Division of the Hand | The hand divided into male and female parts. | Palmistry, or chiromancy, consists of studying people’s hands in order to foretell their future and decipher their personality. It seems to have originated in India from where it probably spread to China, the Arabic world, Europe, etc. For a long time it was considered a genuine science and from the fifteenth century on, works about palm reading have been regularly published in England, Italy, France and other countries.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tooth-extraction/ | Tooth Extraction | Castelli, Horace | 1825 | 1889 | [
"France"
] | Les mystères de la science | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"La Librairie Illustrée"
] | n.d. [ca. 1880?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:b21498180_0002/Les_myst%C3%A8res_de_la_science | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"dentistry",
"medical",
"mixed genders"
] | [
"Wellcome Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://wellcomelibrary.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/b21498180_0002"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Navellier, Narcisse"
] | Tooth Extraction | Dr. Oudet performs a tooth extraction on a woman who has been hypnotized and doesn't feel any pain. | A man stands watching as a woman sitting in an armchair is having a tooth pulled out.
The caption reads in the original French: Le docteur Oudet fait l’extraction d’une dent, supportée sans douleur, à une femme magnétisée.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/shady-inn/ | Shady Inn | Trimolet, Alphonse Louis Pierre | 1813 | 1843 | [
"France"
] | Les mystères de Paris, vol. 1 | [
"Süe, Eugène"
] | [
"Charles Gosselin"
] | 1843 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6537028M/Les_myste%CC%80res_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"drink",
"Les mystères de Paris"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmystresdepari01suee"
] | People | Landscape (wider) | [
"Lavoignat, Hippolyte"
] | Shady Inn | The shady inn. | Interior of an inn filled with shady customers.
The caption reads in the original French: Le tapis-franc.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/be-careful/ | Two men are standing the rain at night, under the lantern of a seedy hotel | Tofani, Oswaldo | 1849 | 1915 | [
"Italy"
] | Les mystères de Paris (Tofani), vol. 1 | [
"Süe, Eugène"
] | [
"Jules Rouff et Cie."
] | n.d. [ca. 1885] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24338313M/Les_mystères_de_Paris | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Les mystères de Paris",
"male",
"night",
"rain",
"street"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmystresd01suee"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Marie, Alexandre Léon",
"Navellier, Narcisse"
] | Be on Your Guard | Your highness, be on your guard. | Two men are standing in the rain in a narrow street at night, under the lantern of a seedy hotel.
The caption reads in the original French: Monseigneur, prenez bien garde !
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bookplate/ | Bookplate | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Lettres de madame de Sévigné (Lefèvre) | [
"Madame de Sévigné"
] | [
"Lefèvre"
] | 1843 | nan | [
"19th century",
"blazon",
"bookplate",
"coat of arms",
"emblem"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Bookplate | Bookplate of lord James Butler. | Bookplate of lord James Butler featuring a coat of arms, a helmet, a bird, and the motto Comme je trouve.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/publishers-mark/ | Publisher's mark (3) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Lettres de madame de Sévigné (Furne) | [
"Madame de Sévigné"
] | [
"Furne et Cie"
] | 1855 | nan | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"frame",
"Furne",
"publisher's mark"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Publisher’s mark (3) | Mark of publisher Charles Furne (1855). | ||||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/masked-nun/ | The masked nun | Neuville, Alphonse de | 1835 | 1885 | [
"France"
] | Les Bons Romans | [
"Collective work"
] | [] | 1862 | nan | [
"17th century",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"clerical",
"Le vicomte de Bragelonne",
"periodical"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Linton, Henry Duff"
] | The Masked Nun | The Queen stood up suddenly, pale, with her fists clenched. | A seated masked nun is pointing in an accusing and threatening fashion at a standing woman.
The caption reads in the original French: La reine se leva brusquement, pâle et les poings crispés.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rotating-house/ | Aerial Rotating House | Robida, Albert | 1848 | 1926 | [
"France"
] | Le vingtième siècle | [
"Robida, Albert"
] | [
"Georges Decaux"
] | 1883 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25127915M/Le_vingti%C3%A8me_si%C3%A8cle | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fantasy",
"retrofuturism"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008772267"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | Aerial Rotating House | Aerial rotating house. | A house with a bartizan and checkered tile pattern stands on a high, circular, rotating platform operated by wheels and gears. A man wearing a cap manages the device while at house level, people are going on with their lives with a woman reading on the terrace and children flying a kite.
The caption reads in the original French: Maison tournante aérienne.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fusiform-object/ | A submarine surfaces in a sea cave showing rocky pillars and concretions | Férat, Jules | 1829 | 1906 | [
"France"
] | L'île mystérieuse | [
"Verne, Jules"
] | [
"Hetzel"
] | n.d. | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24245234M/L'%C3%AEle_myst%C3%A9rieuse | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"rock",
"submarine"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/llemystrieus00vern"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Barbant, Charles"
] | A Long Fusiform Object | A long fusiform object floated on the surface of the water. | A submarine surfaces in a sea cave, projecting light beams which reveal rocky pillars and concretions.
The caption reads in the original French: Un long objet fusiforme flottait à la surface des eaux…
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gallo-roman-dove/ | Gallo-Roman Statuette of a Dove | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"antiquity",
"bird",
"black & white",
"earthenware",
"Europe",
"France",
"periodical",
"terracotta"
] | [] | [] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Gallo-Roman Statuette of a Dove | Terracotta statuette of a dove or pigeon. | This picture is part of a series about archaeological digs which took place in Toulon-sur-Allier (France) in 1856-1857. Terracotta statuettes of doves and roosters are common in children’s tombs of Gallo-Roman times. Although the dove and the pigeon could be symbolically associated with Venus, the author of the article illustrated with these pictures suggests that these objects were probably toys.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/stanhopea-eburnea/ | Stanhopea Grandiflora | Stroobant, P. | nan | nan | [] | L'Illustration horticole, vol. 14 | [
"Lemaire, Charles"
] | [
"Verschaffelt, Ambroise"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL19521343M/L'_Illustration_horticole | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"color",
"flower",
"L'Illustration horticole",
"Orchidaceae",
"periodical",
"reference book",
"white"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364047"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Établissements L. Stroobant"
] | Stanhopea grandiflora | Stanhopea eburnea. Lindl. Var. spectabilis. | Stanhopea grandiflora is the currently accepted scientific name for Stanhopea eburnea var. spectabilis, an orchid with white fragrant flowers, which can grow up to 1 ft. 11 in. (60 cm) tall.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/nelumbium-speciosum/ | Nelumbo Nucifera | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | L'Illustration horticole, vol. 42 | [
"Garnier, Max",
"Rodigas, Émile"
] | [
"L’Illustration Horticole"
] | 1895 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"aquatic",
"color",
"flower",
"L'Illustration horticole",
"periodical",
"red",
"reference book"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/lillustrationhor42lema",
"https://archive.org/details/lillustrationhor42lema"
] | Plants | Landscape (wider) | [
"Pannemaeker, Pierre Joseph de"
] | Nelumbo nucifera | Nelumbium speciosum. | Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, is a flowering aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is native to Tropical Asia and Australia and is commonly grown in water gardens for its ornamental qualities.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sick-nurse/ | Half-title page for Lewis Arundel showing a man lying in bed not looking well | Browne, Hablot Knight (Phiz) | 1815 | 1882 | [
"UK"
] | Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life | [
"Smedley, Frank Edward"
] | [
"Virtue, Hall, & Virtue"
] | 1852 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13515181M/Lewis_Arundel_or_The_railroad_of_life. | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"dog",
"title",
"unwell",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/lewisarundelorra00smedrich"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Sick-Nurse | The sick-nurse. | Half-title page for Lewis Arundel showing a man lying in bed and not looking well with a dog keeping watch on the floor.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/miss-little-dorrit/ | Miss Dorrit and Little Dorrit | Browne, Hablot Knight (Phiz) | 1815 | 1882 | [
"UK"
] | Little Dorrit | [
"Dickens, Charles"
] | [
"Bradbury & Evans"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14020643M/Little_Dorrit | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"talking",
"theater",
"Victorian"
] | [
"the Internet Archive",
"University of California Libraries"
] | [
"https://archive.org/details/littledorrit00dickrich",
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Miss Dorrit & Little Dorrit | Miss Dorrit and Little Dorrit. | Backstage at a theater a girl sits in an armchair speaking with her sister while several groups of women chat in the background.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cries-london-frontispiece/ | A man sitting at a desk looks at a picture while tiny characters get busy around him | Leighton, John (aka Luke Limner) | 1822 | 1912 | [
"UK"
] | London cries & public edifices | [
"Leighton, John (aka Luke Limner)"
] | [
"Grant and Griffith"
] | 1851 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25119238M/London_cries_public_edifices | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Album of types",
"black & white",
"fantasy",
"frontispiece",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/londoncriespubli00leig"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | London Cries & Public Edifices—Frontispiece | Frontispiece of "London Cries & Public Edifices." | A man sitting at a desk in his study or library looks at a picture while tiny characters out of the book get busy around him.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/crato-mylius/ | Printer's mark of Kraft Müller | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Marques typographiques, vol. 2 | [
"Silvestre, Louis-Catherine"
] | [
"Renou et Maulde (printer)"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6929408M/Marques_typographiques_ou_Recueil_des_monogrammes_chiffres_enseignes_emble%CC%80mes_devises_re%CC%81bus_et_fle | [
"16th century",
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Germany",
"heraldry",
"lion",
"mammal",
"reference book"
] | [
"The Boston Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.bpl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/marquestypograph02silv"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Printer’s Mark of Kraft Müller | Crato Mylius. | Printer’s mark of Kraft Müller, also known as Crato Mylius, showing a lion carrying a column on its shoulder and holding a shield featuring a man (Samson?) waving a jaw bone. Kraft Müller (1503-1547) was a printer in Wittenberg and Strasbourg.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/columbina/ | Columbina | Sand, Maurice | 1823 | 1889 | [
"France"
] | Masques et bouffons, vol. 1 | [
"Sand, Maurice"
] | [
"A. Lévy Fils"
] | 1862 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23317802M/Masques_et_bouffons | [
"17th century",
"1860s",
"19th century",
"female",
"theater"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/masquesetbouffon01sanduoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Manceau, Alexandre"
] | Columbina | Colombine. | A woman wearing a seventeenth-century dress and a fontange stands with a finger resting on her chin and a thoughtful, slightly mischievous look on her face.
Columbina is a bold and witty maid in the commedia dell’arte.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/always-grieving/ | A grieving woman sits leaning on a shield | Blashfield, Edwin Howland | 1848 | 1936 | [
"US"
] | Masques of Cupid | [
"Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour"
] | [
"Charles Scribner's Sons"
] | 1901 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7211109M/Masques_of_Cupid | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"antiquity",
"black & white",
"Greece",
"sad",
"sketch",
"weaponry"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/masquesofcupid00blasrich"
] | People | Tondo | [] | Always Grieving | Always grieving. | A grieving woman sits leaning on the shield and clutching the sword of a warrior of Ancient Greece as his helmet lies beside her.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/york-crypt/ | York Cathedral, Crypt under the Altar | Mackenzie, Frederick | ca. 1787 | 1854 | [
"UK"
] | Cathedral antiquities of England, vol. 1 | [
"Britton, John"
] | [
"Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown"
] | 1814-1835 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25463310M/Cathedral_antiquities | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cathedral",
"Cathedral antiquities",
"church",
"Europe",
"Longman & Co.",
"medieval",
"pillar",
"reference book",
"religious",
"UK",
"underground",
"York Minster"
] | [
"the Duke University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.duke.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/cathedralantiqui05brit"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Scott, J(ohn?)"
] | York Cathedral, Crypt under the Altar | York cathedral church. | The crypt is the earliest part of today’s York Minster, featuring carved capitals and ribbed vaulting.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/reproach/ | Ayxa la Horra reproaching Boabdil | Maclise, Daniel | 1806 | 1870 | [
"UK"
] | Leila; or, the siege of Granada | [
"Bulwer-Lytton, Edward"
] | [
"Henry G. Bohn"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23310669M/Leila | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"anger",
"black & white",
"couple",
"hat",
"mixed genders",
"Moorish",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/leilaorsiegeofgr00lytt"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Rolls, Charles"
] | Reproach | Ayxa la Horra reproaching Boabdil. | A man wearing a hat adorned with a large feather holds a woman in his arms, as a second woman looks at them with angry eyes.
Steel engraving.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/stationery/ | Decorative Stationery | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Mes prisons | [
"Pellico, Silvio"
] | [
"Charpentier"
] | 1843 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16018418M/Mes_prisons | [
"1740s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"tailpiece",
"writing"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16018418M/Mes_prisons"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Decorative Stationery | Vignette with paper and quills. | A few written sheets of paper are loosely gathered on a table, with a quill-pen resting upon them. The first page bears the title >Mes prisons, while in the background is an ink bottle, with another quill.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cannonade/ | A mountaineer climbing an uneven rock face shelters himself from falling rocks | Mahoney, James | 1816 | 1879 | [
"Ireland"
] | Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69 | [
"Whymper, Edward"
] | [
"John Murray"
] | 1871 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6941512M/Scrambles_amongst_the_Alps_in_the_years_1860-69 | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"Alps",
"black & white",
"climbing",
"Europe",
"mountain",
"rock",
"sport",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/scramblesamongst00whym"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Whymper, Edward",
"Whymper, Josiah Wood"
] | Cannonade on the Matterhorn | A cannonade on the Matterhorn. (1862) | A mountaineer climbing an uneven rock face tries to shelter himself from falling rocks.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dancers/ | Caricature of two ballet dancers | Marcelin, Émile (Émile Planat) | 1825 | 1887 | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"dance",
"female",
"male",
"mixed genders",
"performance"
] | [] | [] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | Caricature of Two Ballet Dancers | Opera—Marco Spada. A foot duel between Ms. Ferris and Ms. Rosati. | Two ballet dancers are facing each other with lifted legs while a male character in a military outfit is singing in the background.
In 1830, French caricature drawing reached its height, but the first satirical cartoons would sometimes send their authors to court. To avoid this censorship by the new July Monarchy (1830-1848), artists became more cautious and resorted to hints rather than bold mockery. They also began to turn their wit against social customs and celebrities. During the Second Empire (1852-1870) caricature drawings had become so popular they were sometimes used to decorate plates.
The choreographic performance depicted here is Marco Spada, ou la fille du bandit by Joseph Mazilier. It was created in Paris on April 1, 1857, by the ballet of the Paris Opera.
The caption reads in the original French: Opéra. — Marco Spada. Un duel au pied entre madame Ferris et madame Rosati.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hide-seek/ | Hide & seek | May, Phil | 1864 | 1903 | [
"UK"
] | Phil May's gutter-snipes | [
"May, Phil"
] | [
"Leadenhall Press, Limited"
] | 1896 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22152998M/Phil_May's_gutter-snipes | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cartoon",
"child",
"game",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/philmaysguttersn00mayp"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Hide & Seek | Hide & seek. | A boy stands in a backyard, probably facing a wall and counting down the time to turn around as his playmates keep an eye on him from their hiding places.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/roskilde-cathedral/ | Tombs of Christian III and Frederick II of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral | Mayer, Auguste Etienne François | 1805 | 1890 | [
"France"
] | Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 1) | [
"Gaimard, Paul (under the direction of)"
] | [
"Arthus-Bertrand"
] | n.d. [1852] | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"cathedral",
"Denmark",
"Europe",
"sculpture",
"tomb",
"Voyages en Scandinavie..."
] | [
"Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www-bsg.univ-paris1.fr/",
"https://archive.org/details/FOLSC0948_1NOR"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bayot, Adolphe Jean Baptiste"
] | Roskilde Cathedral, Chapel of the Magi | Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark. Tombs of Christian III and Frederick II. | View of the sepulchral monuments of Christian III and Frederick II of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral. The two monuments were created in the sixteenth century, respectively by Flemish sculptors Cornelis Floris and his pupil Gert van Egen.
The caption reads in the original French: Cathédrale de Röeskilde, Tombeaux de Chrétien III et de Frédéric II. Danemark.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/amine/ | Amine | Meadows, Joseph Kenny | 1790 | 1874 | [
"UK"
] | Leila; or, the siege of Granada | [
"Bulwer-Lytton, Edward"
] | [
"Henry G. Bohn"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23310669M/Leila | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"Moorish",
"music",
"portrait",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/leilaorsiegeofgr00lytt"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Artlett, Richard Austin"
] | Amine | Amine. | A richly dressed young woman plays the sitar in Moorish surroundings.
Steel engraving.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/albrecht-achilles/ | Albrecht Achilles | Menzel, Adolph von | 1815 | 1905 | [
"Germany"
] | Die Werke Friedrichs des Großen, vol. 1 | [
"Volz, Gustav Berthold"
] | [
"Reimar Hobbing"
] | 1913 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25460583M/Die_Werke_Friedrichs_des_Grossen | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"armor",
"black & white",
"Die Werke Friedrichs des Großen",
"fight",
"knight",
"medieval",
"sword"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/diewerkefriedric01fred"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Unzelmann, Friedrich Ludwig"
] | Albrecht Achilles | Albrecht Achilles. | A knight in medieval armor fights with his sword a group of assailants armed with halberds.
Albert III (1414-1486), also known as Albert Achilles, was elector of Brandenburg. He belonged to the same family as Frederick the Great: the house of Hohenzollern.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/caterpillar-moth/ | Giant Silk Moths and purple coraltree | Merian, Maria Sibylla | 1647 | 1717 | [
"Germany"
] | Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaamsche insecten | [
"Merian, Maria Sibylla"
] | [
"Jean Frederic Bernard"
] | 1730 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25521650M/Maria_Sybilla_Meriaen_Over_de_voortteeling_en_wonderbaerlyke_veranderingen_der_Surinaamsche_insecten | [
"1730s",
"18th century",
"butterfly",
"color",
"flower",
"reference book",
"South America",
"Suriname",
"yellow"
] | [
"The Smithsonian Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.si.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/MariaSybillaMer00Meri"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Mulder, Joseph"
] | Giant Silk Moths and Purple Coraltree | Giant Silk Moths and purple coraltree. | Giant Silk Moths (Arsenura armida), caterpillars, and larvae are populating a branch of flowering Purple Coraltree (Erythrina fusca).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/altitude-experiments/ | Altitude Experiments | Mès, François-Constant | ? | 1905 | [
"France"
] | Les aérostats | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1887 | nan | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"airship",
"black & white",
"cutaway",
"flying",
"Furne"
] | [
"Cushing-Whitney Medical Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.medicine.yale.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/39002011210649.med.yale.edu"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Deschamps, Émile"
] | Altitude Experiments | Gay-Lussac and Biot carrying out experiments in physics from a height of 4,000 meters. | Cutaway view of the gondola of the hot-air balloon in which Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot are sitting.
On August 24, 1804, Gay-Lussac goes on his first balloon ascent in the company of Biot to study terrestrial magnetism. He’ll go on a second one alone on September 16 for further investigations of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The caption reads in the original French: Gay-Lussac et Biot font des expériences de physique à 4 000 mètres de hauteur.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/food-play/ | Sailors stand on the deck of a ship, watching an albatross fly over their heads | Metcalfe, Gerald Fenwick | nan | nan | [
"UK"
] | The poems of Coleridge | [
"Coleridge, Samuel Taylor"
] | [
"John Lane"
] | n.d. [1907] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7164765M/Poems | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"ship",
"The rime of the ancient mariner"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/poemscolmet00coleuoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | For Food or Play | And every day, for food or play, | Sailors are gathered on the deck of a ship, watching an albatross fly over their heads.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/satan-pain/ | Satan Knew Pain | Doré, Gustave | 1832 | 1883 | [
"France"
] | Milton's paradise lost | [
"Milton, John"
] | [
"Collier"
] | n.d. [ca. 1880?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14022842M/Paradise_Lost | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"falling"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/miltonsparadisel00miltuoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Piaud, Antoine-Alphée"
] | Satan Knew Pain | Then Satan first knew pain, | Satan lies on the ground along with his shield and sword, and his wings are stretched out behind him.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/love/ | Love | Millais, John Everett | 1829 | 1896 | [
"UK"
] | The poets of the nineteenth century | [
"Coleridge, Samuel Taylor",
"Willmott, Robert Aris (editor)"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6412707M/The_poets_of_the_nineteenth_century. | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"couple",
"embrace",
"night",
"Victorian",
"woodland"
] | [
"Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/poetsofnineteent02will"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Love | Love. | At night, a couple is locked in a tight embrace in a wooded area. Illustration for the poem “Love” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/shepherd-flock/ | A shepherd stands with his flock in a level landscape in the late afternoon | Millet, Jean-François | 1814 | 1875 | [
"France"
] | J.-F. Millet : souvenirs de Barbizon | [
"Piedagnel, Alexandre"
] | [
"Vve A. Cadart"
] | 1876 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6933384M/J.-F._Millet_souvenirs_de_Barbizon | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"pastoral",
"rural"
] | [
"The Boston Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.bpl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/jfmilletsouvenir00pied"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Beauverie, Charles-Joseph"
] | Shepherd with His Flock | Shepherd looking after his flock (autumn effect). | A shepherd stands with his flock in a level landscape in the late afternoon.
The caption reads in the original French: Berger gardant son troupeau (effet d’automne).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/come-out/ | A man moves toward the door of a bedroom as a woman tries to cling to him | Fildes, Luke | 1844 | 1927 | [
"UK"
] | Miss or Mrs.? and other stories in outline | [
"Collins, Wilkie"
] | [
"Chatto & Windus"
] | 1894 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7021712M/Miss_or_Mrs._and_other_stories_in_outline. | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"mixed genders",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/missormrsandothe00colluoft"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Give Yourself Up! | "Come out and give yourself up!" he called through the door. | A man moves toward the door of a bedroom where clouds of smoke are floating. A woman tries to cling to him as a man lies unconscious on the floor in the forefront.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fantasy-dance/ | Fantasy Dance | Monnier, Henry | 1799 | 1877 | [
"France"
] | La Caricature, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Aubert"
] | 1831 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"Aubert",
"cartoon",
"color",
"dance",
"La caricature",
"periodical"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_caricaturexx01aube"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [
"Delaporte"
] | Fantasy Dance | Fantasy dance. | Two crabs are having a dance.
The caption reads in the original French: Danse fantastique.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/octopus-vulgaris/ | Octopus Vulgaris | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Mollusques vivants et fossiles | [
"Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d'"
] | [
"Gide et Cie, Éditeurs"
] | 1845 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23412814M/Mollusques_vivants_et_fossiles | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"color",
"mollusk",
"Octopodidae",
"octopus",
"reference book",
"saltwater",
"tentacle"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14454",
"https://archive.org/details/mollusquesvivant00orbi"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Annedouche, Christophe"
] | Octopus vulgaris | 1-6. Octopus tuberculatus, Blainville. | The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusk in the Octopodidae family. As the name suggests, it has eight arms, each bearing strong fleshy suckers. It feeds on crustaceans and other mollusks.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ciphers-pd/ | Plate showing nine ciphers combining the letter D with P, Q, R, and S | Carlton Studio | 1866 | 1940 | [
"US"
] | Monograms & ciphers | [
"Turbayne, Albert Angus"
] | [
"T.C. and E.C. Jack"
] | n.d. [1906?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7056493M/Monograms_ciphers | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"cipher",
"lettering",
"reference book"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/monogramsciphers00turbuoft"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Ciphers—DP, DR, DS… | Plate XXXV—DP, DQ, DR, DS. | Plate showing nine ciphers combining the letter D with P, Q, R, and S.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lion-and-gnat/ | The lion and the gnat | Moreau le Jeune (Jean-Michel Moreau) | 1741 | 1814 | [
"France"
] | Fables de La Fontaine | [
"La Fontaine, Jean de"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1875 | nan | [
"black & white",
"fable",
"Fables de La Fontaine",
"Furne"
] | [] | [] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Lalaisse, Charles de"
] | The Lion and the Gnat | The lion and the gnat. | A lion lies on his side trying to catch a gnat with his paw while men come running.
The caption reads in the original French: Le lion et le moucheron.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/christofle-stamping-press/ | Stamping press at Christofle's | Morin, Edmond | 1824 | 1882 | [
"France"
] | Les grandes usines, vol. 1 | [
"Turgan, Julien"
] | [
"Michel Lévy Frères"
] | 1875 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125000937041b/Les_grandes_usines_de_France | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"industrial",
"press",
"working"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000937041b"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Linton, Henry Duff"
] | Stamping Press | Christofle flatware factory: the ram. | Stamping press at Christofle’s.
The caption reads in the original French: Orfèvrerie Christofle. — Le mouton.
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