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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/merchant-genie/ | Four men look astonished as a stern genie appears in the midst of a large cloud of smoke | Morten, Thomas | 1836 | 1866 | [
"UK"
] | Dalziel's illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Ward, Lock, and Tyler"
] | n.d. [1865?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7211704M/Dalziel's_Illustrated_Arabian_nights'_entertainments | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"eerie",
"frightened",
"giant",
"One thousand and one nights",
"supernatural",
"surprise",
"Victorian"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/dalzielsillustra00dulcrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Merchant and Genie | The merchant and the genie. | Four men in turbans look astonished and alarmed as a genie appears in the midst of a large cloud of smoke, visible from the waist up, in the guise of a stern giant carrying a scimitar.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tripping-conductor/ | Tripping Conductor | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Mr. Punch at the play | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Educational Book Co."
] | n.d. | nan | [
"black & white",
"cartoon",
"falling",
"male",
"music",
"performance",
"periodical",
"Punch"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/mrpunchatplayhum00keeniala"
] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | Tripping Conductor | Conductor of heat. | A conductor is falling backward, to the dismay of the musicians.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tangible-god/ | Found a Tangible God | Aldin, Cecil | 1870 | 1935 | [
"UK"
] | My dog | [
"Maeterlinck, Maurice"
] | [
"George Allen"
] | 1913 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7176512M/My_dog | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"Canidae",
"color",
"dog",
"mammal",
"pet"
] | [
"the New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/mydog00maet"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Found: a Tangible God | The only being that has found an indubitably tangible god. | A bulldog is sitting at the feet of his owner, of whom we only see the legs.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mosaic-golden-saloon/ | Mosaic in dado of balcony in the Alhambra | Murphy, James Cavanah | 1760 | 1814 | [
"Ireland"
] | The Arabian antiquities of Spain | [
"Horne, Thomas Hartwell"
] | [
"Cadell & Davies"
] | 1813 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125008545499/The_Arabian_antiquities_of_Spain | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"Alhambra",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"floral",
"geometric",
"Islamic",
"Moorish",
"Spain"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008545499"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Le Keux, John"
] | Mosaic at the Alhambra | Mosaic in dado of balcony in the Golden Saloon. | Mosaic with geometric pattern arranged in a floriated motif.
The title page of this book mentions 1813 as the date of publication and it is the one we chose to follow, as being officially provided by the publisher. It should be noted, however, that every plate in the book comes with the following inscription: London. Published by Cadell & Davies. June 1st. 1815.
In addition, the page facing the first illustration mentions the “just published” History of the Mahometan Empire in Spain by Thomas Hartwell Horne, a book which was first published in 1816. Therefore, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to believe that the actual date of publication of the edition presented here might have been 1816 and not 1813.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/melrose-aright/ | Fair Melrose | Myrick, Frank | 1840 | 1914 | [
"US"
] | The lay of the last minstrel | [
"Scott, Walter"
] | [
"Ticknor and Company"
] | 1887 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24133567M/The_lay_of_the_last_minstrel | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"church",
"Gothic",
"moon",
"night",
"ruins",
"Ticknor"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/layoflastminstre00sco"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [] | Fair Melrose | If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, | View of the ruins of Melrose Abbey in the moonlight. Melrose Abbey is a former Cistercian Gothic monastery founded in 1136 in the Scottish Borders.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mme-de-sevigne/ | Madame de Sévigné | Nanteuil, Robert | 1630 | 1678 | [
"France"
] | Lettres de madame de Sévigné (Furne) | [
"Madame de Sévigné"
] | [
"Furne et Cie"
] | 1855 | nan | [
"17th century",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"France",
"frontispiece",
"Furne",
"writer"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Madame de Sévigné | Madame de Sévigné. | Portrait of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696), a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/soon-shells/ | Shells, gunshots, and hails of bullets | Daumier, Honoré | 1808 | 1879 | [
"France"
] | Némésis médicale, vol. 1 | [
"Fabre, François"
] | [
"La Némésis Médicale"
] | 1840 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24337758M/N%C3%A9m%C3%A9sis_m%C3%A9dicale_illustr%C3%A9e | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"caring",
"medical",
"military",
"Némésis médicale",
"unwell",
"war"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/nmsismdic01fabr"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Plon, A."
] | Bullets and Shells | But soon shells, gunshots, and hails of bullets. | A doctor kneeling at the side of a wounded soldier puts a bandage around his leg.
The caption reads in the original French: Mais bientôt les obus, les balles, la mitraille.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/midwives/ | Midwives | Daumier, Honoré | 1808 | 1879 | [
"France"
] | Némésis médicale, vol. 2 | [
"Fabre, François"
] | [
"La Némésis Médicale"
] | 1840 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24337758M/N%C3%A9m%C3%A9sis_m%C3%A9dicale_illustr%C3%A9e | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Némésis médicale",
"satire"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/nmsismdic02fabr"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [
"Plon, A."
] | Midwives | Midwives | View of the facade of a building. Through an open window, a woman holding a jar containing a fetus can be seen while on the wall is a sign that says: “Mme Mitonneau, Midwife. We bleed, vaccinate and take in lodgers.”
The caption reads in the original French: Les sages-femmes.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/minos/ | Monumental head with eyes closed | Nettleship, John Trivett | 1841 | 1902 | [
"UK"
] | The yellow book, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Copeland & Day",
"Elkin Mathews & John Lane"
] | 1894 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"mythology",
"portrait",
"Victorian",
"Yellow book"
] | [
"The Ryerson University Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.ryerson.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/yellowapril189401uoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Swan's Electric Engraving Co."
] | Head of Minos | The head of Minos. | Monumental head with eyes closed and the lower part, including the mouth, hidden behind indeterminate, curved elements.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/calliandra-houstoniana/ | View of blooming Calliandra houstoniana in a hilly landscape with fluttering hummingbirds | Reinagle, Philip | 1749 | 1833 | [
"UK"
] | New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature | [
"Thornton, Robert John"
] | [] | 1807 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25456133M/New_illustration_of_the_sexual_system_of_Carolus_von_Linnaeus | [
"1800s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"color",
"Fabaceae",
"flower",
"reference book"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003125132"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Stadler, Joseph Constantine"
] | Calliandra houstoniana | Large flowering sentive-plant. | Aquatint showing a blooming Calliandra houstoniana in a hilly landscape with fluttering hummingbirds.
Calliandra houstoniana, formerly know as Mimosa grandiflora and Calliandra grandiflora, is a plant in the family Fabaceae native to Mexico.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/diligent-doctor/ | A boy is wrapped in a blanket on a couch as his mother sits crying at his side | Frohn, John C. | 18?? | ? | [] | Nonsense for old and young | [
"Field, Eugene"
] | [
"Henry A. Dickerman & Son"
] | 1901 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7073016M/Nonsense_for_old_and_young. | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"child",
"children's book",
"color",
"crying",
"yellow"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/nonsenseforoldyo00fieliala"
] | Narratives | Square | [] | Diligent Doctor | Enter the diligent doctor. | A boy is wrapped in a blanket on a couch as his mother sits crying at his side and the doctor pokes his head in through the door.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/incoherent-ball/ | Poster for the ball of the Incohérents with dancers and clownish figures hanging from a street lamp | Neumont, Maurice | 1868 | 1930 | [
"France"
] | Catalogue illustré de l'exposition des arts incohérents | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"E. Bernard et Cie."
] | 1884 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23284616M/Catalogue_illustr%C3%A9_de_l'exposition_des_arts_incoh%C3%A9rents. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"clown",
"color",
"dance",
"lighting",
"promotional"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/catalogueillustr00pari"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Ball of the Incoherents | Ball of the Incoherents. | Poster advertising the masked ball of the Incoherents and showing dancers and clownish or carnival-like figures hanging from a street lamp, suspended on strings like puppets.
The slogan reads in the original French: Bal des Incohérents.
This lithograph is dated 1892 and is possibly a later addition, inserted or pasted by the book owner. The first ball of the Incoherents took place in 1885.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/risked-life/ | He risked his life twenty times | Neuville, Alphonse de | 1835 | 1885 | [
"France"
] | Vingt mille lieues sous les mers | [
"Verne, Jules"
] | [
"Hetzel"
] | n.d. [1871?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24245739M/Vingt_mille_lieues_sous_les_mers | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"hunting",
"mountain",
"raptor"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/vingtmillelieue00vern"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Hildibrand, Henri Théophile"
] | Birds of Prey Hovered | He risked his life twenty times. | A man tries to catch a bustard on a steep rocky slope as birds of prey fly threateningly over him.
The caption reads in the original French: Il risqua vingt fois sa vie.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mount-washington/ | Mount Washington Began to Melt | Newell, Peter | 1862 | 1924 | [
"US"
] | The 20-Mule-Team brigade | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Pacific Coast Borax Co."
] | n.d. [ca. 1904?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7042088M/The_20-mule-team_brigade | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"anthropomorphic",
"cartoon",
"children's book",
"color",
"horse",
"promotional"
] | [
"the New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/20muleteambrigad00paci"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Mount Washington Began to Melt | Mount Washington began to melt, and soon was on the line. | Mules in a laundry room are busy washing clothes in tubs in order to deal with a large pile of wash—Mount Wash-ington.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/courthouse/ | Exterior view of the Paris courthouse | Daubigny, Charles-François | 1817 | 1878 | [
"France"
] | Notre-Dame de Paris | [
"Hugo, Victor"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1844 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24211750M/Notre-Dame_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"Europe",
"France",
"medieval",
"Paris"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/notredamedepar00hugo"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Outhwaite, Jean-Jacques"
] | Palais de Justice | Exterior view of the Palais de Justice. | Exterior view of the Paris courthouse and its crowded courtyard as it might have looked in the 1480s. Behind the timber-framed houses on the left is the Sainte-Chapelle.
The caption reads in the original French: Vue extérieure du Palais de justice.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lexington-university/ | Lexington, VA, the Washington & Lee University | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré | [
"Trousset, Jules (under the direction of)"
] | [
"La Librairie Illustrée"
] | 1885-1891 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24142868M/Nouveau_dictionnaire_encyclop%C3%A9dique_universel_illustr%C3%A9 | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"black & white",
"North America",
"reference book",
"US"
] | [
"record"
] | [
"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24142868M/Nouveau_dictionnaire_encyclop%C3%A9dique_universel_illustr%C3%A9"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [] | Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA. | Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA. | Formerly called Liberty Hall, the university of Lexington changed its name to Washington College in 1813 as a reminder of its first endowment received from George Washington in 1796. The building burned down in 1803 and took its current architectural aspect in the 1820s.
In 1865, General Robert E. Lee was appointed president of the college, and after his death in 1870, the trustees changed the name again to that of Washington and Lee University.
The caption reads in the original French: Université Washington-et-Lee, à Lexington (Virginie).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/parley-voo/ | Parley-Voo | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Nursery nonsense | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Hurd & Houghton"
] | n.d. [ca. 1865?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7139268M/Nursery_nonsense. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"anthropomorphic",
"children's book",
"color",
"fish",
"music",
"seafront"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/nurserynonsense00nyhuiala"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Parley-Voo | Parley-voo. | A weasel wearing a hat and holding a violin dances on the seashore, while fishes poke their heads out of the water.
The “Parley-Voo” rhyme goes:
One morning a weasel came swimming
All the way over from France
And taught all the weasels of England
To play the fiddle and dance.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ball-ore-stamp/ | Stamp mill used to crush ore prior to extracting metal | Norman | 18?? | ? | [
"US"
] | Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics, vol. 2 | [
"Benjamin, Park (editor)"
] | [
"D. Appleton and Company"
] | 1880 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13511601M/Appletons'_cyclopaedia_of_applied_mechanics | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Appletons' cyclopaedia...",
"black & white",
"industrial",
"machine",
"reference book"
] | [
"The Mugar Memorial Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://www.bu.edu/library/mugar-memorial/",
"https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclopa02dapp"
] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Cox, C. L."
] | Ball Ore-Stamp | The Ball ore-stamp. | Stamp mill used to crush ore prior to extracting metal. Ball’s stamps like the above were used in the 1870s at the Pewabic mill, Lake Superior, Michigan.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/woods-decked-leaves/ | Woodland view with a fallen tree trunk lying across a path almost obstructed by bushes | Foster, Myles Birket | 1825 | 1899 | [
"UK"
] | Odes and sonnets, illustrated | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Roberts Brothers"
] | 1866 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24240964M/Odes_and_sonnets_illustrated. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"tree",
"Victorian",
"woodland"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/odessonnetsillus00fost"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Woods Deck’d with Leaves | The woods are deck'd with leaves. | Woodland view with a fallen tree trunk lying across a path almost obstructed by bushes. It winds further along in the forest and disappears into the darkness of the trees.
Illustration for the ode “The Earth, Late Chok’d with Showers” by Thomas Lodge.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/first-name/ | First Name | Gavarni, Paul | 1804 | 1866 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres choisies de Gavarni, vol. 1 | [
"Gautier, Théophile",
"Laurent-Jan"
] | [
"Hetzel"
] | 1846 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:oeuvreschoisiesd01gava_0/Oeuvres_choisies_de_Gavarni | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"couple",
"leisure",
"Les lorettes"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvreschoisiesd01gava_0"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Bara, J.",
"Gérard, Louis Alphonse"
] | First Name | My darling, tell me your first name. | A man and a woman are sitting side by side on a couch in a relaxed atmosphere. This illustration is from the series “Les lorettes”.
The caption reads in the original French: Mon adoré, dis-moi ton petit nom.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cute-little-couple/ | Cute little couple | Gavarni, Paul | 1804 | 1866 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres choisies de Gavarni, vol. 4 | [
"Gavarni, Paul",
"Stahl, P.-J. (Pierre-Jules Hetzel),"
] | [
"Garnier Frères"
] | n.d. [ca. 1848?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:oeuvreschoisiesd04gava/Oeuvres_choisies_de_Gavarni | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"festive",
"Les débardeurs",
"Paris"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvreschoisiesd04gava"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Lavieille, Jacques Adrien"
] | Cute Little Couple | Say, what a cute little couple! they go back home at daybreak, and peacefully so. The perfect match!... they'll knock down their cheap shot of brandy, sleep until noon, and there you go! that'll do for the week... | This illustration was taken from the series “Les débardeurs,” which offers various depictions of characters inspired by the crowd which could be met at the Paris popular dances and carnival parties in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The caption reads in the original French:
Un amour de petit ménage quoi ! ça se retire à la pointe du jour, bien paisibles ! bien unis !… ça va se mettre sous le nez son pauvre polichinelle[1] de quatre sous, dormir jusqu’à midi, et puis bonjour ! en voilà pour la semaine…
^ Émile Littré, in his dictionary, informs us that the word polichinelle used to refer, among other things, to a canon d’eau-de-vie, i.e. a shot of brandy. (Littré, Émile. Dictionnaire de la langue française. Paris: L. Hachette, 1873-1874. Electronic version created by François Gannaz. https://www.littre.org)
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cornflower-wreath/ | A group of people is taking a rest in the shade of trees as the women make flower wreaths | Sandoz, Auguste | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Œuvres complètes de Béranger, vol. 2 | [
"Béranger, Pierre-Jean de"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1847 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24150755M/Oeuvres_compl%C3%A8tes. | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"flower",
"leisure",
"mixed genders",
"rural",
"song"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescompl02br"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Moret & Lalaisse"
] | The Cornflower Wreath | The cornflower wreath. | Illustration for a song showing a group of young people having a day in the country and taking a rest in the shade of trees and sunflowers, where the women make flower wreaths.
The original title of the song reads: La couronne de bleuets.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ephesian-matron/ | A dead man is being hoisted on the gallows by a soldier and a woman | Devéria, Achille | 1800 | 1857 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine | [
"La Fontaine, Jean de"
] | [
"Baudoin Frères"
] | 1826 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24134188M/Oeuvres_compl%C3%A8tes_de_La_Fontaine | [
"17th century",
"1820s",
"19th century",
"antiquity",
"black & white",
"death",
"gallows",
"hanging",
"sad"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescomplte00lafo"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Thompson, Charles"
] | The Ephesian Matron | The Ephesian matron. | The body of a dead man is being hoisted on the gallows by a soldier and a woman as a second woman laments over an open sarcophagus in the background.
The caption reads in the original French: La matrone d’Éphèse.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/publishers-mark3/ | Publisher's mark (4) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Œuvres de Millevoye | [
"Millevoye, Charles-Hubert"
] | [
"Furne"
] | 1833 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Furne",
"publisher's mark"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Publisher’s mark (4) | Mark of publisher Charles Furne (1833). | Mark of publisher Charles Furne in 1833, made of intertwined initials C. F. inside the half-circle formed by a crown of laurel and oak leaves.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/montesquieu/ | Montesquieu | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Œuvres de Montesquieu | [
"Montesquieu"
] | [
"Didot, P. l'Aîné et J. Fils"
] | 1819 | nan | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"France",
"male",
"portrait",
"writer"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Montesquieu | Montesquieu. | ||||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/song-good-man/ | Song of the Brave Man | Oer, Theobald von | 1807 | 1885 | [
"Germany"
] | Deutsches Balladenbuch | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Georg Wigand's Verlag"
] | 1852 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24578530M/Deutsches_Balladenbuch | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"boat",
"cityscape",
"flood",
"mixed genders"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/deutschesballade00ehrh"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Reusche, F."
] | Song of the Brave Man | Das Lied vom braven Manne. | As a flood sweeps over a city, a group of people trapped on a stone arch seems about to escape in a boat.
Das Lied vom braven Manne is a poem by Gottfried August Bürger.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tailpiece-17/ | Tailpiece (10) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Œuvres de Pierre et Thomas Corneille | [
"Corneille, Pierre",
"Corneille, Thomas"
] | [
"Alphonse Pigoreau"
] | 1846 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"foliate",
"tailpiece"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Tailpiece (10) | Triangle-shaped tailpiece with foliage designs. | ||||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/olivers-reception/ | Oliver Twist 's reception by Fagin and the boys | Cruikshank, George | 1792 | 1878 | [
"UK"
] | Oliver Twist, vol. 1 | [
"Dickens, Charles"
] | [
"Richard Bentley"
] | 1839 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14032267M/Oliver_Twist. | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"candle",
"crime",
"frontispiece",
"Oliver Twist",
"Victorian",
"youth"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/olivertwist01dickrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Fagin and the Boys | Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys. | A boy is ushered in a candlelit room where he is greeted by a stooped bearded man in an overcoat and another boy making fun of him, while a third character takes advantage of his surprise to pick his pockets.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/light-left-room/ | At the Open Door | Edwards, Mary Ellen | 1839 | 1910? | [
"UK"
] | Once a week, vol. 13 (June-December 1865) | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bradbury & Evans"
] | 1865 | nan | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"candle",
"mixed genders",
"night",
"Once a week",
"periodical",
"traveling"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/onceweek13londuoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Swain, Joseph"
] | At the Open Door | As he knocked, the light left the room, and appeared at the open door. | A traveler with his belongings tied on a walking stick knocked on a door which has just been opened by a young woman.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/outward-bound/ | A clipper ship is about to leave the harbor, surrounded by tugs and small boats | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | 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",
"boat",
"seascape",
"ship"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsp00flinrich"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [] | Outward Bound | Outward bound, laden with cotton—return trip with emigrants. | A clipper ship with its sails furled is about to leave the harbor, flanked by a steam tug and surrounded by small boats as people can be seen rowing in the foreground.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sobieski-otter/ | King John III Sobieski's Otter | Oudart, Paul Louis | 1796 | 1860 | [
"France"
] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 5 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1837 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"aquatic",
"black & white",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"mammal",
"Mustelidae",
"periodical",
"pet",
"Poland"
] | [] | [] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | King John III Sobieski’s Otter | The otter of King John III Sobieski. | This otter used to be the pet of a Polish aristocrat during the reign of King John III Sobieski (1629 – 1696). It slept in his bed, as the story has it, and woke him up anytime someone came close to the bedroom like a dog would do. He also used to rely on his companion to provide him with fish, whenever he had guests, and to take it around with him on his travels.
The otter gained the reputation of being such an extraordinary pet, that it soon came to the attention of the King, who decided he needed to have this amazing animal for himself. Our gentleman resisted as much as he could, but one cannot stand in the way of one’s king’s desires very long, and he painfully resigned himself to part with his friend.
It took a little while for the animal to get used to its new owner, but the two of them finally got along so well that the otter became the king’s favorite pet, the one he favored over his tamed lynx and his cassowary. Unfortunately, one day it was wandering around in the gardens of Wilanów Palace, an unsuspecting soldier saw it, and killed it with a stick. He sold the hide for the equivalent of a few shillings. When he learned about this tragedy, the king gave orders for the man to be shot, but later changed his mind.
The caption reads in the original French: La loutre du roi Jean Sobieski.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/manihot-lizard/ | Cassava, butterfly, and lizard | 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",
"lizard",
"reference book",
"reptile",
"South America",
"Suriname"
] | [
"The Smithsonian Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.si.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/MariaSybillaMer00Meri"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Mulder, Joseph"
] | Cassava, White Peacock Butterflies, and Lizard | Cassava, white peacock butterflies, and lizard. | A blue lizard climbs up a branch of cassava (Manihot esculenta) populated with caterpillars and a couple white peacock butterflies (Anartia jatrophae).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/heard-moan/ | she heard the moan | Jones, Owen | 1809 | 1874 | [
"UK"
] | Paradise and the Peri | [
"Moore, Thomas"
] | [
"Day & Son"
] | n.d. [1860?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6539682M/Paradise_and_the_Peri | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"color",
"female",
"foliate",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/paradiseperi00moor"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Heard the Moan | Beneath that fresh and springing bower, | Illuminated illustration with borders of foliated ornaments showing a woman standing on a gold background.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/anguish/ | Anguish | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Paul et Virginie | [
"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri"
] | [
"Léon Curmer"
] | 1838 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23161036M/Paul_et_Virginie | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"clerical",
"frightened",
"supernatural"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/pauletvirgi00sain"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Smith, John Orrin"
] | Anguish | The aunt tormented by her conscience. | Out of fright, a woman tormented by ghosts throws herself at the feet of a priest.
The caption reads in the original French: Angoisse de la tante.
When available, the captions in English were taken from the edition of Paul and Virginia published by W. S. Orr And Co., London, 1839.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/man-entered/ | A masked man with a cane stands wearing a frogged coat and a cape | Paget, Sidney | 1860 | 1908 | [
"UK"
] | The adventures of Sherlock Holmes | [
"Doyle, Arthur Conan"
] | [
"George Newnes, Limited"
] | 1892 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24349267M/The_adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"male"
] | [
"The Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/adventuresofsher001892doyl"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | A Man Entered | A man entered. | A masked man with a cane is standing wearing a frogged coat, a cape and holding a hat in one hand.
Illustration for the short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia.”
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/datura-cornucopia/ | Datura metel cornucopia | Pannemaeker, Pierre Joseph de | nan | nan | [
"Belgium"
] | L'Illustration horticole, vol. 42 | [
"Garnier, Max",
"Rodigas, Émile"
] | [
"L’Illustration Horticole"
] | 1895 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Datura",
"flower",
"L'Illustration horticole",
"periodical",
"reference book"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/lillustrationhor42lema",
"https://archive.org/details/lillustrationhor42lema"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Pannemaeker, Pierre Joseph de"
] | Datura metel cornucopia | Datura cornucopia fl. pl. | Cornucopia is a variety of the species Datura metel, a plant in the Solanaceae family also known as Devil’s trumpet. It is highly poisonous.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/altar-copan/ | Idol and altar at Copan | Catherwood, Frederick | 1799 | 1854 | [
"UK"
] | Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan | [
"Catherwood, Frederick"
] | [
"Frederick Catherwood"
] | 1844 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25574609M/Views_of_ancient_monuments_in_Central_America_Chiapas_and_Yucatan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"Central America",
"color",
"Honduras",
"Pre-Columbian",
"reference book",
"sculpture",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012602591"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | Idol and Altar at Copan | Idol and altar at Copan. | Below is the full text of the note associated with this illustration:
In this plate, the altar, or sacrificial stone, forms the principal object in the foreground. It is three feet six inches high, above the ground, and measures seven feet from angle to angle. It is sculpted into four hideous heads of colossal size, having enormous fangs, and distended eyes, adding, no doubt, the finishing horror to the bloody sacrifices which there can be little doubt were enacted on it. Certain channels (now nearly obliterated) exist on its upper surface, to carry off the blood of the human victim; and to render the operation of cutting open the breast, and tearing out the heart more easy, the upper surface of the stone is convex, agreeing with the account of the early Spanish discoverers. It was painted red, a fitting colour for so sanguinary a ritual. The idol, to whom the sacrifice was offered, stands at a distance of twelve feet from the sacrificial stone. It is eleven feet nine inches high, and three feet square, cut out of a single block of stone, and has elaborate carvings on the back and sides. It is conjectured to be the portrait of some deified hero or chieftain, from certain traces of individuality in the features. There are remains of a beard and moustache, and the whole figure is enveloped and overladen with a complicated dress and head ornament. It stands at the foot of a pyramidal terrace, or wall, which probably supported a sacred edifice.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/war-machine/ | War machine, after Roberto Valturio | Pasti, Matteo di | 1420 | 1467/8 | [
"Italy"
] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 8 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1840 | nan | [
"15th century",
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Italy",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"machine",
"war",
"weaponry"
] | [] | [] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Andrew, Best & Leloir"
] | War Machine, after Roberto Valturio | War machine, after Roberto Valturio. | This engraving is a copy of an illustration designed by Matteo di Pasti for De re militari, a military treatise written by Roberto Valturio (1405-1475) circa 1455. Both were in the service of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, the first as a medalist and architect, and the second as an engineer. De re militari was printed and published for the first time in Verona in 1472 and soon became very popular.
The caption reads in the original French: Une machine de guerre, d’après Valturio.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/orgeres-gang/ | Old Elouis and Rouge d'Auneau | Pauquet, Hippolyte | 1797 | ? | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"18th century",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"crime",
"France",
"male",
"orgeres gang",
"periodical"
] | [] | [] | People | Landscape (wider) | [
"Pothey, Alexandre"
] | Old Élouis and Rouge d’Auneau | Old Élouis and Rouge d'Auneau. | Rouge d’Auneau and old Élouis (le père Élouis) were both members of a dreaded band of criminals called the Orgères gang (la bande d’Orgères) active in France between 1792 and 1798. François Ringuette, known as Rouge d’Auneau (a nickname he probably owed to the color of his hair) was for some time one of the leaders of the gang, a time when he also married the La Belle Victoire. His influence later declined, when supporters of brute force took the advantage over those who preferred to use cunning and trickery to seize farms. He could be seen around 1795 fitting this description:
He was a young man, almost a child, lean and short, with a long and pale face, and his right eye bloodshot and teary. His hair, reddish and dull, without any glint, was tied into a tail. He wore a carmagnole jacket with black and yellow stripes, suede pants, mottled socks and steel-buckled shoes. The whole costume showed claims to elegance, thwarted by the fortunes of a vagrant and villainous life[1].
He seems to have been known for his cruelty and was sentenced to death and executed on October 4, 1800, in Chartres, along with 23 other members of the gang.
Old Élouis is introduced to us as follows:
Old Élouis was tradition alive. This plump little old man, white-haired, with a venerable beard, fresh little round cheeks, small gray-blue eyes full of fire, attested to a strong, excellent health. And yet he had been around for over eighty years. He had known several generations of thieves, and he could have told the name of every famous bandit who had worked between Chartres and Etampes since Louis XIV. With his spotless blue jacket, his crude clogs and his canvas trousers, old Élouis had quite the look of a workshop patriarch[2].
He is credited with suggesting the idea of burning the victims’ feet to make them tell where their money was hidden. He died before the trial of the gang.
The caption reads in the original French: Le père Élouis et le Rouge d’Auneau.
^ Fouquier, Armand. Causes célèbres de tous les peuples, vol. I (installments 1 to 3). Paris: Lebrun et Cie, 1857 [FR]
^ Ibid.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/snowballing/ | Snowballing | 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",
"impertinent",
"snow",
"Victorian",
"winter"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/philmaysguttersn00mayp"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Snowballing | Snowballing. | A street urchin throws snowballs at a plump woman who tries to protect herself with a folded umbrella. A policeman in the background is coming to the rescue.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tell-me/ | A circus clown tries to make a reluctant cat jump through a hoop | May, Phil | 1864 | 1903 | [
"UK"
] | Phil May's sketch-book: fifty cartoons | [
"May, Phil"
] | [
"R. H. Russell"
] | 1898 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125014434290/Phil_May's_sketch-book_fifty_cartoons | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cat",
"clown",
"performance",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125014434290"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | How to Do It | Tell me 'ow to do it. | A circus clown tries to make a reluctant cat jump through a hoop.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/zurich/ | Zürich | Pugin, Augustus | 1812 | 1852 | [
"UK"
] | Photographs from sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin, vol. 1 | [
"Ayling, Stephen"
] | [
"Stephen Ayling"
] | 1865 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24237914M/Photographs_from_sketches_by_Augustus_Welby_N._Pugin | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"church",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"sketch",
"Switzerland"
] | [
"University of Maryland",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.umd.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/photographsfroms01pugi"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Zürich | Zürich. | View of Zürich from a high building overlooking the Limmat river, with the The Grossmünster in the background.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/might-right/ | Might is right | Leech, John | 1817 | 1864 | [
"UK"
] | Pictures of life and character, vol. 1 | [
"Leech, John"
] | [
"Bradbury, Agnew & Co."
] | 1886 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7041268M/Pictures_of_life_and_character_from_the_collection_of_Mr._Punch. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"carriage",
"horse",
"Pictures of life and character",
"Punch",
"transportation"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesoflifech01leecuoft"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Might is Right | Might is right. | An enormous van pulled by three enormous horses blocks the way of a small carriage. The caption goes on:
Van driver: “I don’t know nuthun about no right sides nor wrong sides. You get out of the way if yer don’t want to be made a wafer of!”
[Where are the police?]
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/heartless-practical-joke/ | Heartless Practical Joke | Leech, John | 1817 | 1864 | [
"UK"
] | Pictures of life and character, vol. 2 | [
"Leech, John"
] | [
"Bradbury, Agnew & Co."
] | 1887 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7041268M/Pictures_of_life_and_character_from_the_collection_of_Mr._Punch. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"hat",
"Pictures of life and character",
"Punch",
"reading",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesoflifech02leecuoft"
] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | Heartless Practical Joke | Heartless Practical Joke. | Two women sitting on a bench outdoors keep their heads down, determined to ignore the two approaching men whose foreboding shadows can be seen on the background rocks. The caption goes on:
Charlotte.”Here they come, Blanche. Let us pretend we don’t recollect them.”
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cossacks-song/ | A fierce-looking Cossack riding a galloping horse as an army marches in the background | Penguilly L'Haridon, Octave | 1811 | 1870 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres complètes de Béranger, vol. 2 | [
"Béranger, Pierre-Jean de"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1847 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24150755M/Oeuvres_compl%C3%A8tes. | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"horse",
"military",
"riding",
"wolf"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescompl02br"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Frilley, Jean-Jacques"
] | The Cossack’s Song | The Cossack’s song. | Illustration for a song, showing a fierce-looking Cossack riding a galloping horse as an army marches in the background. Additional motifs can be seen around the main illustration, showing the Cossack’s horse drinking in a river, wolves watching a city burn in the distance, etc.
The original title reads: Le chant du cosaque.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bust-of-pierre-baillot/ | Bust of Pierre Baillot | Pérignon, Alexis | 1806 | 1882 | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"art",
"black & white",
"male",
"periodical",
"portrait",
"sculpture"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Bust of Pierre Baillot | Pierre Baillot. | Pierre-Marie-François de Sales Baillot after a bust by Briant the Younger.
Pierre Baillot (1771–1842) was a French violinist.
The caption reads in the original French: Baillot (Pierre-Marie-François de Sales). — Dessin de M. Pérignon, d’après le buste de M. Briant jeune.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ascent/ | Two men are suspended in mid-air, one on his way up, the other on his way down | Philippoteaux, Paul Dominique | 1846 | 1923 | [
"France"
] | Hector Servadac | [
"Verne, Jules"
] | [
"Hetzel"
] | n.d. | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24245080M/Hector_Servadac | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"flying",
"male"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/hectorservadacvo00vern"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Laplante, Charles"
] | In His Ascent | In his ascent he passed Ben Zoof, who had already commenced his downward course. | Two men are suspended in mid-air, one on his way up, the other on his way down.
The caption reads in the original French: Il croisa, en montant, Ben-Zouf, qui redescendait.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/being-fair/ | A woman stands with a book in one hand and looks at her reflection in a mirror | Pierce, H. Winthrop | 1850 | 1935 | [
"US"
] | The day dream | [
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
] | [
"E. P. Dutton & Co."
] | 1886 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7197431M/The_day_dream | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/daydream00tennuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Look in Any Glass | So, Lady Flora, take my lay, | A woman stands with a book in one hand and looks at her reflection in a mirror.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/people-evening/ | A people's evening | Pigal, Edme-Jean | 1798 | 1872 | [
"France"
] | La Caricature, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Aubert"
] | 1831 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"Aubert",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"drink",
"festive",
"La caricature",
"music",
"periodical",
"talking"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_caricaturexx01aube"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Delaporte"
] | People’s Evening | A people's evening. | People are coming and going outdoors, chatting and having drinks at tables to the sound of music.
The caption reads in the original French: Soirée du peuple.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cottage-door/ | A seated woman is knitting at the door of the kitchen garden on a sunny summer day | Foster, Myles Birket | 1825 | 1899 | [
"UK"
] | Pictures of rustic landscape | [
"Davidson, John"
] | [
"Longmans, Green and Co."
] | 1895 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18078442M/Pictures_of_rustic_landscape | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"garden",
"rural",
"Victorian"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesofrustic00fostrich"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Cottage Door | At the cottage door. | A seated woman is knitting at the door of the kitchen garden on a sunny summer day. The walls of the cottage are half-covered with climbing vegetation and a beehive can be seen in the foreground.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/richmond/ | Richmond, from the James | Fenn, Harry | 1845 | 1911 | [
"UK",
"US"
] | Picturesque America, vol. 1 | [
"Bryant, William Cullen (editor)"
] | [
"D. Appleton and Company"
] | n.d. [1872?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:picturesqueameri01brya/Picturesque_America_or_The_land_we_live_in._A_delineation_by_pen_and_pencil_of_the_mountains_rivers_ | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"Appleton",
"black & white",
"bridge",
"North America",
"US"
] | [
"The UNC university library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://library.unc.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesqueameri01brya"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Hinshelwood, Robert"
] | Richmond, from the James | Richmond, from the James. | View of a railway bridge stretching across the James River in the foreground toward Richmond, VA and its skyline, which shows smoking chimneys, spires and the Palladian-style state capitol.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fisherman-genie/ | A man stands beside a jar oozing dark smoke in the midst of which a figure is taking shape | Pinwell, George John | 1842 | 1875 | [
"UK"
] | Dalziel's illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"Ward, Lock, and Tyler"
] | n.d. [1865?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7211704M/Dalziel's_Illustrated_Arabian_nights'_entertainments | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"eerie",
"male",
"One thousand and one nights",
"supernatural",
"surprise",
"Victorian"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/dalzielsillustra00dulcrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Fisherman and genie | The fisherman and the genie. | A man with a knife in his hand stands on a beach beside a small jar oozing thick dark smoke in the midst of which a figure is beginning to take shape.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hairdresser/ | Getting a Hairdo | Chéret, Jules | 1836 | 1932 | [
"France"
] | Pierrot sceptique | [
"Hennique, Léon",
"Huysmans, Joris-Karl"
] | [
"Édouard Rouveyre"
] | 1881 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23325613M/Pierrot_sceptique | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"Pierrot"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/pierrotsceptique00hennuoft"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Getting a Hairdo | He takes his brushes and starts polishing [Pierrot's] sinciput. | Pierrot has a hairdresser polishing his skull with a large brush and doesn’t seem to enjoy it.
The caption reads in the original French: Il prend ses brosses et se met à lui cirer le sinciput.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fight-dragon/ | Fight with the Dragon | Plüddemann, Hermann Freihold | 1809 | 1868 | [
"Germany"
] | Deutsches Balladenbuch | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Georg Wigand's Verlag"
] | 1852 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24578530M/Deutsches_Balladenbuch | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"dog",
"dragon",
"fight",
"knight",
"monster"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/deutschesballade00ehrh"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Reusche, F."
] | Fight with the Dragon | Der Kampf mit dem Drachen. | A knight on his horse fights a dragon with a spear and the help of a hound.
Der Kampf mit dem Drachen is a poem by Friedrich Schiller.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lily-valley/ | Art Nouveau ornamental patterns with lily of the valley design | Poidevin, Aline | nan | nan | [
"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) | [] | Lily of the Valley | Lily of the valley. | Set of four Art Nouveau ornamental patterns with stylized lily of the valley design.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/patriarchal-tree/ | A young man sits reclining against a large dead tree on the bank of a brook | Foster, Myles Birket | 1865 | 1899 | [
"UK"
] | Poems (Longfellow) | [
"Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth"
] | [
"Ticknor, Reed, and Fields"
] | 1852 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24871214M/Poems | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Ticknor",
"tree",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Boston Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.bpl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/poems1852long"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Vizetelly, Henry"
] | Patriarchal Tree | Beneath some patriarchal tree | A young man sits reclining against a large dead tree on the bank of a brook. The vegetation in the foreground expands beyond the boundaries of the illustration to form a border to the beginning of text meant to be printed below.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/snippeting-scissors/ | A snippeting of scissors, and a snappeting of thread | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | [
"UK"
] | The tailor of Gloucester | [
"Potter, Beatrix"
] | [
"Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd"
] | n.d. [ca. 1903?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7106209M/The_tailor_of_Gloucester | [
"20th century",
"black & white",
"candle",
"children's book",
"color",
"rodent"
] | [
"Ontario Institute for Studies in Education",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/Home/",
"https://archive.org/details/tailorofgloucest00pottuoft"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Snappeting of Thread | There was a snippeting of scissors, and a snappeting of thread. | Five mice are sitting cross-legged in a circle, sewing by candlelight.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/instruments-resection/ | Instruments to Perform Resections | Fouché, J. | nan | nan | [
"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",
"color",
"instrument",
"medical",
"reference book"
] | [
"Columbia University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.columbia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/prcisiconograp01bern"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [
"Guiguet, jacques"
] | Instruments Required for Resections | Instruments required for resections. | Set of instruments used in surgery to perform resections. A resection is the removal of part of an organ, tissue, or structure.
Hey’s saw
Knife-shaped saw
Small semicircular saw
Larrey’s straight saw
Martin’s saw
Charrière’s rowel saw
Dupuytren’s perforator
Liston’s bone forceps
Strong forceps
Forceps for the extraction of sequestra
Chisel
Gouge
Leaden mallet
Rasp
Olive-shaped cautery-iron in its handle
Hatchet-shaped cautery-iron
Nummular cautery
The caption reads in the original French: Instruments pour les résections.
In the edition of this book in English by H. Bailliere (Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. New York: 1852), this plate is titled “Instruments for Exsection of Bones.”
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/arrow-heads/ | Flint Spear and Arrow-Heads | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Primitive man | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"G. P. Putnam's Sons"
] | 1876 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7066874M/Primitive_man | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"archaeology",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"instrument",
"prehistory",
"Switzerland",
"weaponry"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/primitiveman00figurich"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [] | Flint Spear and Arrow-Heads | —Flint spear-head from the lacustrine settlements of Switzerland. | The Swiss lake dwellings were discovered in mid-nineteenth century and have since become one of the best known and studied type of prehistoric settlement. Favorable climate conditions have allowed for good preservation of organic remains and fruitful research.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/caverswall-castle/ | Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire | Pratt, Henry Lark | 1805 | 1873 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 1 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc01halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Europe",
"mansion",
"The baronial halls...",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc01halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Day & Son"
] | Caverswall Castle | Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire. | View of Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire, with moat and bridge. The mansion shown in this picture was built on the foundations of a 13th century castle. Originally home of the Caverswall family, the unattended castle was bought in 1615 by Matthew Cradock, who built the mansion as it still stands today.
The credit line reads “From a sketch by J. L. Pratt,” which is most likely a typo. An 1845 edition of this drawing attributes the original sketch to “H. L. Pratt,” which seems consistent with this artist’s career and work.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/arundel-church/ | Arundel Church, Sussex. | Prout, Samuel | 1783 | 1852 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 1 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc01halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"church",
"color",
"Europe",
"religious",
"The baronial halls...",
"UK",
"Victorian",
"working"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc01halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Day & Son"
] | St Nicholas Church, Arundel | Arundel Church, Sussex. | View of the interior of St Nicholas Church, Arundel, seemingly during the restoration works that took place in the mid-nineteenth century. According to the author, the original ecclesiastical foundation was that of the alien priory, subjected to the Benedictine abbey of Sées (formerly Séez), in Normandy. The building of the present church dates from 1380.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/becoming-headdress/ | A Becoming Headdress | Du Maurier, George | 1834 | 1896 | [
"UK"
] | Punch, vol. 52 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Punch Publications Ltd"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7119899M/Punch. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"carefree",
"child",
"female",
"periodical",
"Punch",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/punch52lemo"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | A Becoming Headdress | New and becoming style of head-dress, invented by Aunt Isabel and much appreciated in the nursery. | A woman stands in front of a fireplace with a little girl sitting on her head, whom she holds by the hands.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/at-her-side/ | A Giant | Doré, Gustave | 1832 | 1883 | [
"France"
] | Purgatory and paradise | [
"Alighieri, Dante"
] | [
"Thompson & Thomas"
] | 1901 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23328124M/Purgatory_and_Paradise | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"eerie",
"mixed genders",
"monster",
"The divine comedy",
"woodland"
] | [
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://archive.org/details/purgatoryparadis00dant"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Pannemaker, Adolphe François"
] | A Giant | At her side,
As ’t were that none might bear her off, I saw
A giant stand; and ever and anon
They mingled kisses. | A man stands next to a seated woman as monstrous creatures are gathered around them.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/evreux/ | Évreux | Pugin, Augustus | 1812 | 1852 | [
"UK"
] | Photographs from sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin, vol. 1 | [
"Ayling, Stephen"
] | [
"Stephen Ayling"
] | 1865 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24237914M/Photographs_from_sketches_by_Augustus_Welby_N._Pugin | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"France",
"Gothic",
"sketch",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of Maryland",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.umd.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/photographsfroms01pugi"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Évreux | Évreux | View of a street of Évreux with the Tour de l’Horloge, a Gothic belfry built at the end of the fifteenth century.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/aged-palmer/ | The aged palmer | Pyle, Howard | 1853 | 1911 | [
"US"
] | The merry adventures of Robin Hood | [
"Pyle, Howard"
] | [
"Charles Scribner's Sons"
] | 1892 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7136095M/The_merry_adventures_of_Robin_Hood | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"border",
"children's book",
"medieval",
"pilgrim",
"Robin Hood",
"talking"
] | [
"the New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/merryadventureso00pyle2"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Aged Palmer | The aged palmer gives young David of Doncaster news of Will Stutely. | An older pilgrim has stopped to talk to a dapper young man and shows him a point in the distance, past the castle behind them.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/body-death/ | The body of this death | Bennett, Charles Henry | 1828 | 1867 | [
"UK"
] | Quarles' emblems | [
"Quarles, Francis"
] | [
"James Nisbet and Co."
] | 1861 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6611936M/Quarles%27_emblems | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"border",
"death",
"emblem",
"frame",
"skull",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/quarlesemblemsil00quar"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Body of This Death | Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
—Rom VII. 24. | Book the Fifth. Emblem VIII. A skeleton is sitting on a rock, legs crossed, with its head resting on one hand while a child trapped inside its ribcage tries to get out.
For this series of illustrations, the main figurative artwork was carried out by Charles Henry Bennett and the ornamental part by William Harry Rogers.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/wishful-scold/ | A woman holds out a newspaper to a sergeant so he will not mess up the floor with his muddy shoes | Thomson, Hugh | 1860 | 1920 | [
"UK"
] | Quality Street | [
"Barrie, James Matthew"
] | [
"Hodder & Stoughton"
] | n.d. [1913?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7059042M/Quality_street | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"color",
"frontispiece",
"military",
"mixed genders",
"theater"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/qualitystreetcom00barr"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Wishful to Scold You | Sergeant, I am wishful to scold you, but would you be so obliging as to stand on this paper while I do it? | A young woman holds out a newspaper to a recruiting sergeant so he can stand on it and not mess up the floor with his muddy shoes.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gossips/ | Gossips Sitting There | Rackham, Arthur | 1867 | 1939 | [
"UK"
] | The Ingoldsby legends (Rackham) | [
"Ingoldsby, Thomas (Richard Harris Barham)"
] | [
"E. P. Dutton & Co.",
"J. M. Dent & Co."
] | 1907 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6126673M/The_Ingoldsby_legends | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"female",
"J. M. Dent",
"night",
"talking",
"The Ingoldsby legends",
"witch"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/endsingoldsbyleg00ingorich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Gossips Sitting There | And there were gossips sitting there, | Three witches holding their brooms are sitting together at night.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bastille/ | The Bastille | Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie | 1804 | 1860 | [
"France"
] | Douze journées de la Révolution | [
"Barthélemy, Auguste Marseille"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1835 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22878868M/Douze_journ%C3%A9es_de_la_r%C3%A9volution | [
"1830s",
"18th century",
"19th century",
"battle",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"Europe",
"France",
"history",
"Paris"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/douzejourneesde00bart"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Frilley, Jean-Jacques"
] | The Bastille | The Bastille, 1789. | The storming of the Bastille has begun and the crowd is rushing to and fro at the foot of the building where rifles and guns are being fired and the wounded carried away.
The caption reads in the original French: La Bastille. — 1789.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/frame-history-mythology/ | Decorative frames | Unknown | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Recueil des divers caractères, vignettes et ornemens de la fonderie et imprimerie de J.G. Gillé | [
"Gillé, Joseph-Gaspard"
] | [] | 1808 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125012250623/Recueil_des_divers_caracte%CC%80res_vignettes_et_ornemens_de_la_fonderie_et_imprimerie_de_J.G._Gille%CC%81 | [
"1800s",
"19th century",
"border",
"frame",
"mythology",
"promotional"
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"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012250623"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Decorative Frames | Arabesque-like frames. | Two decorative frames showing antique historical and mythological ornaments.
The caption reads in the original French: Cadres en arabesque.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/raphael-holy-family/ | holy family with the palm tree | Raphael | 1483 | 1520 | [
"Italy"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"16th century",
"19th century",
"art",
"biblical",
"black & white",
"child",
"palm tree",
"periodical",
"Renaissance"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Tondo | [] | Holy Family with Palm Tree | Holy Family with palm tree. | Reproduction of a painting by Rafael depicting the holy family in front of a palm tree. Relief print from an intaglio reproduction of Raphael’s painting.
The caption reads in the original French: La sainte famille au palmier, reproduction en relief de la gravure en taille-douce du tableau de Raphael.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sly-reynard/ | Reynard the Fox is reclining on a couch with a plate displaying poultry bones before him | Kaulbach, Wilhelm von | 1805 | 1874 | [
"Germany"
] | Reineke Fuchs | [
"Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von"
] | [
"J. G. Cotta’scher Verlag"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24440982M/Reineke_Fuchs | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"anthropomorphic",
"black & white",
"death",
"fox",
"thoughtful"
] | [
"The Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/reinekefuchs00goet"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius"
] | Sly Reynard | Sly Reynard, that rascal and knave. | Reynard the Fox is at home, reclining on a couch and toying thoughtfully with his tail. Before him lies a plate containing the bones remaining from his last meal as dead poultry can be seen hanging in the background.
The caption reads in the original German: Reineke Fuchs, der Schelm!
The translation provided here is by John Storer Cobb.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cast-shadows/ | Coming events cast their shadows before | Read, Samuel | ca. 1816 | 1883 | [
"UK"
] | The illustrated London news, vol. 43 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"George C. Leighton"
] | 1863 | nan | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"garden",
"night",
"periodical",
"stairs",
"The illustrated London news",
"tree",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.lincolncollection.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/illustratedlondov43lond"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Linton, William James"
] | Coming Events | Coming events cast their shadows before. | Night view of a park with high slender trees, a stone gate decorated with statues, and entwined shadows of two people on the path leading to a short flight of stairs.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/advent-winter/ | The advent of winter | Sandys, Frederick | 1829 | 1904 | [
"UK"
] | Reproductions of woodcuts by F. Sandys, 1860-1866 | [
"Johnson, Borough (preface)"
] | [
"Carl Hentschel, Ltd."
] | n.d. [1915?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7043842M/Reproductions_of_woodcuts_by_F._Sandys_1860-1866. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"allegory",
"black & white",
"female",
"Victorian",
"winter"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/reproductionsofw00sandiala"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | The Advent of Winter | The advent of winter. | A woman is seen from behind in front of a forest of naked tree trunks. In the foreground is a vegetation of grass and slender shrubs, with some autumn fruit such as grapes and pears lying on the ground. This illustration was first published in the Quiver, January 1866.
F. Sandys was very disappointed in the way his drawing was cut.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tulips/ | Tulips stand in the foreground of a landscape with a river and a city in the background | Reinagle, Philip | 1749 | 1833 | [
"UK"
] | New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature | [
"Thornton, Robert John"
] | [] | 1807 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25456133M/New_illustration_of_the_sexual_system_of_Carolus_von_Linnaeus | [
"1800s",
"19th century",
"color",
"flower",
"Liliaceae",
"reference book",
"tulip"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003125132"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Earlom, Richard"
] | Tulips | Tulips. | Mezzotint showing the upper parts of tulips of various colors standing in the foreground of an open landscape with a river and a city in the background.
Tulips are bulbous plants in the family Liliaceae, grown for their decorative properties.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fear-nothing/ | Fear nothing, for I will do thee no harm | Rhead, Louis | 1857 | 1926 | [
"US"
] | Bold Robin Hood and his outlaw band | [
"Rhead, Louis"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1912 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23282026M/Bold_Robin_Hood_and_his_outlaw_band | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"frightened",
"horse",
"riding",
"Robin Hood",
"woodland"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/boldrobinhoodhis00rheaiala"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Fear Nothing | "Nay," quoth Robin, "fear nothing, for I will do thee no harm." | Robin Hood stands on a forest road and gestures reassuringly to a frightened merchant on horseback.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hengrave-hall/ | nan | Richardson, Charles James | 1806 | 1871 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 1 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc01halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Europe",
"mansion",
"The baronial halls...",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc01halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Day & Son"
] | Hengrave Hall | Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. | View of the main entrance of Hengrave Hall, a country house built in the first part of the sixteenth century for Thomas Kitson, a London merchant.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/post-office/ | A woman at the post-office takes a peep through the gap of a sealed letter | Richter, Henry James | 1772 | 1857 | [
"UK"
] | The gift | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Thomas Nelson and Sons"
] | 1866 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7024983M/The_gift | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"sneaky",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/giftbookoftalesa00unknuoft"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [
"Bacon, Frederick"
] | Post-Office at Fairport | Scene in the post-office at Fairport. | A woman at the post-office takes a peep through the gap of a sealed letter as another sitting at a table where more mail is piled up puts her finger in front of her lips. This engraving is also known as One Peep Was Enough.
The engraver’s credit line reads E. Bacon although the engraving of this illustration is usually attributed to Frederick Bacon (see the Athenaeum, Jan. to Dec. 1832 and V&A).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fly-kites/ | A man on a hill is seen from behind flying a kite with children | Rackham, Arthur | 1867 | 1939 | [
"UK"
] | Rip Van Winkle | [
"Irving, Washington"
] | [
"Doubleday, Page & Company",
"William Heinemann"
] | 1919 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7050369M/Rip_Van_Winkle | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"child",
"color",
"game",
"Rip Van Winkle"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/ripvanwinkle00irviuoft"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Fly Kites | Taught them to fly kites. | A man wearing a three-quarter-length coat and a hat is seen from behind flying a kite with children from the slopes of a hill overlooking a nearby village.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/louis-xiv/ | Louis XIV | Rigaud, Hyacinthe | 1659 | 1743 | [
"France"
] | Les mémoires de Saint-Simon | [
"Le Goffic, Charles",
"Saint-Simon",
"Tellier, Jules"
] | [
"Delagrave"
] | ca. 1900 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24145460M/Les_m%C3%A9moires | [
"17th century",
"black & white",
"costume",
"France",
"history",
"king",
"male",
"portrait"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Louis XIV | Louis XIV. | Full-length portrait of king Louis XIV of France and Navarre (1638–1715). His reign spanned over seventy-two years.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/iguanodon-megalosorus/ | An iguanodon and a megalosaurus are fighting in the Early Cretaceous period | 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",
"dinosaur",
"fight",
"prehistory",
"reptile",
"woodland"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61432",
"https://archive.org/details/laterreavantled00figu"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [
"Ferington, A. E."
] | Iguanodon and Megalosaurus | Iguanodon and Megalosaurus (Early Cretaceous period). | An iguanodon and a megalosaurus are fighting and biting each other in a forest of the Early Cretaceous period.
The caption reads in the original French: L’iguanodon et le mégalosaure. (Période crétacée inférieure.)
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/giant-owl/ | Duffy-Bob, Tricksey-Wee, and the giant owl | Robinson, C. | nan | nan | [
"UK"
] | The illustrated London news, vol. 43 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"George C. Leighton"
] | 1863 | nan | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"child",
"moon",
"night",
"owl",
"periodical",
"The illustrated London news",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.lincolncollection.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/illustratedlondov43lond"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Jackson, Mason"
] | Giant Owl | "Tell us a story:" Duffy-Bob, Tricksey-Wee, and the giant owl. | A girl wearing a cape and a hood talks to a boy sitting under the wing of a giant, white, and suspicious owl. “Tell Us A Story” is a tale by George MacDonald.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sleep-night-death/ | Inside a circular frame, a female figure is sitting on steps in the company of two children | Robinson, Frederick Cayley | 1862 | 1927 | [
"UK"
] | The blue bird: a fairy play in six acts | [
"Maeterlinck, Maurice"
] | [
"Dodd, Mead and Company"
] | 1920 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7214129M/The_blue_bird | [
"1920s",
"20th century",
"antiquity",
"child",
"children's book",
"color",
"fairy tale",
"sleeping",
"theater"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/bluebirdfairypla00maet2"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Sleep, Night, and Death | Sleep Night & Death. | Inside a circular frame, a female figure is sitting on steps with a child sleeping at her feet and another standing on her left on the lowest step. A predella-like addition below the main motif bears the inscription “Sleep Night & Death” hanging over two figures guarding an iron door among antique ornaments and architecture.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/present-mirth/ | Present mirth hath present laughter | Robinson, William Heath | 1872 | 1944 | [
"UK"
] | Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth night; or, What you will | [
"Shakespeare, William"
] | [
"Hodder & Stoughton"
] | n.d. [1908?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14038518M/Shakespeare's_comedy_of_Twelfth_night | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"color",
"dance",
"festive",
"Shakespeare",
"theater",
"woodland"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/rescomeshakespea00shakrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Present Mirth | Act 2, scene 3. | Silhouettes are dancing round in a ring in a forest clearing, where the statue of an ancient god stands by a pond.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/silversmiths-daughter/ | The silversmith's daughter | Robida, Albert | 1848 | 1926 | [
"France"
] | Les contes drolatiques, vol. 1 (Robida) | [
"Balzac, Honoré de"
] | [
"Librairie Illustrée — J. Tallandier"
] | ca. 1900 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25596900M/Les_contes_drolatiques | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"cityscape",
"Contes drolatiques",
"embroidery",
"female",
"medieval"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lescontesdrolati01balz"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Silversmith’s Daughter | The silversmith’s daughter. | A young woman is sitting on a bench in the street of a medieval city. She is busy with embroidery work while behind her the interior of her father’s workshop can be seen through an open window.
The caption reads in the original French: La fille de l’Orphebvre.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/emblem-frame/ | Title frame | Rogers, William Harry | 1825 | 1873 | [
"UK"
] | Quarles' emblems | [
"Quarles, Francis"
] | [
"James Nisbet and Co."
] | 1861 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6611936M/Quarles%27_emblems | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"foliate",
"frame",
"Victorian"
] | [
"the Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/quarlesemblemsil00quar"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Title Frame | Cross-shaped title frame. | Ornament with leaf designs and cross-shaped frame for a page title.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/time-death/ | Time and Death stand beside a man sitting at a table with an open book before him | Rowlandson, Thomas | 1756 | 1827 | [
"UK"
] | The English dance of death, vol. 1 | [
"Combe, William"
] | [
"R. Ackermann"
] | 1815 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125008440147/The_English_dance_of_death | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"art",
"color",
"death",
"drawing",
"thoughtful"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008440147"
] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | Time and Death | Time and Death their thoughts impart | Time and Death, represented as an old man carrying a scythe and a skeleton with an arrow and hourglass, stand beside a man sitting at a table with a blank book open before him, seemingly waiting for inspiration to start writing. A little further in front of him, an artist draws one of the many sculpted busts lining the room.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/wall-veil-decoration/ | Wall-veil decoration—San Michele, Lucca | Ruskin, John | 1819 | 1900 | [
"UK"
] | The stones of Venice, vol. 1 | [
"Ruskin, John"
] | [
"Smith, Elder & Co."
] | 1851 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6537598M/The_stones_of_Venice. | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"church",
"Europe",
"Italy",
"reference book",
"The stones of Venice",
"Venice",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/venicestones01rusk"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Armytage, James Charles"
] | Wall-Veil Decoration | Wall-veil decoration | Southern side of the lower arcade of the west front at San Michele in Foro, Lucca. It is described by Ruskin as follows:
St. Michele of Lucca is wrought entirely in white marble and green serpentine; there is hardly any relieved sculpture except in the capitals of the shafts and cornices, and all the designs of wall ornament are inlaid with exquisite precision—white on dark ground: the ground being cut out and filled with serpentine, the figures left in solid marble.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/right-left/ | But right or left as strikes the player goes | Vedder, Elihu | 1836 | 1923 | [
"US"
] | Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám | [
"FitzGerald, Edward",
"Khayyám, Omar"
] | [
"Houghton Mifflin and Company"
] | 1894 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL468920M/Rubai%CC%84ya%CC%84t_of_Omar_Khayya%CC%84m_the_astronomer-poet_of_Persia | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"allegory",
"black & white",
"female",
"mythology"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/rubaiyatofomark00omar"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Right or Left | But right or left as strikes the player goes. | The three Parcae are on a cloud, busy pulling a veil, or curtain, which covers the upper background of the picture. In the foreground lie their attributes: a distaff, a spindle, and scissors.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/grimaces-chapel/ | Grimace scene at the rosace of the chapel | Rudder, Louis-Henri de | 1807 | 1881 | [
"France"
] | Notre-Dame de Paris | [
"Hugo, Victor"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1844 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24211750M/Notre-Dame_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Laisné",
"performance"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/notredamedepar00hugo"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Laisné, father and daughters"
] | Grimaces at the Chapel | Grimace scene at the rosace of the chapel. | Quasimodo pokes his head through a broken stained glass window to take part in a grimace contest before a cheering audience.
The caption reads in the original French: Scène des grimaces à la rosace de la chapelle.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pointe-ecrins/ | Three men stand on one side of a chasm as a fourth has jumped to the other side | 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",
"Europe",
"mountain",
"rock",
"sport",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/scramblesamongst00whym"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Whymper, Edward",
"Whymper, Josiah Wood"
] | Descending the Pointe des Écrins | Descending the western arête of the Pointe des Écrins. | Three men stand on rocks on one side of a chasm, one behind the other, as a fourth one, leading the way, has jumped to the other side. they are all connected together by a rope.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/peppe-nappa/ | Peppe Nappa | Sand, Maurice | 1823 | 1889 | [
"France"
] | Masques et bouffons, vol. 1 | [
"Sand, Maurice"
] | [
"A. Lévy Fils"
] | 1862 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23317802M/Masques_et_bouffons | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"dance",
"male",
"Pierrot",
"theater"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/masquesetbouffon01sanduoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Manceau, Alexandre"
] | Peppe Nappa | Peppe Nappa. | A man wearing a hat, a hairband, and a jacket with large buttons and, as it seems, an excessively long sleeve dances with one hand to his hip.
Peppe Nappa is a Sicilian character in the commedia dell’arte, similar to Giglio, or the French Pierrot. He is often portrayed as a lively and nimble manservant.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/metempsychosis/ | A dying man is lying in bed, seen slightly from behind, as an otherworldly creature sits with him | Sandoz, Auguste | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Œuvres complètes de Béranger, vol. 2 | [
"Béranger, Pierre-Jean de"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1847 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7214129M/The_blue_bird | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"death",
"deathbed",
"eerie",
"supernatural"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescompl02br"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Metempsychosis | Metempsychosis. | Illustration for a song, showing a dying man lying in bed and seen slightly from behind as an otherworldly creature, suffused with light, sits with him. Additional motifs related to verses of the song and depicting Edenic and hellish landscapes can be seen above and below the main illustration.
The original title of the song reads: La métempsycose.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cassandra-helen/ | Cassandra and Helen | Sandys, Frederick | 1829 | 1904 | [
"UK"
] | Reproductions of woodcuts by F. Sandys, 1860-1866 | [
"Johnson, Borough (preface)"
] | [
"Carl Hentschel, Ltd."
] | n.d. [1915?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7043842M/Reproductions_of_woodcuts_by_F._Sandys_1860-1866. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"anger",
"antiquity",
"black & white",
"female",
"mythology",
"Victorian"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/reproductionsofw00sandiala"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Swain, Joseph"
] | Cassandra and Helen | Cassandra and Helen. | Cassandra, with one foot on a mirror, scolds Helen who chews on a lock of her hair with a reproving pout, while the city of Troy is burning in the background.
This illustration was first published in Once a Week on April 28, 1866.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/burial-tailpiece/ | A tree in the foreground partly hides a funeral procession arriving at the church | Bewick, Thomas | 1753 | 1828 | [
"UK"
] | Select fables | [
"Gay, John"
] | [] | 1820 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:selectfableswith00bewi/Select_fables_with_cuts | [
"1820s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"church",
"death",
"tree"
] | [
"The Duke University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.duke.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/selectfableswith00bewi"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bewick, John",
"Bewick, Thomas"
] | There’s No Tomorrow—Tailpiece | Tailpiece for the tale "There's No Tomorrow." | A tree stands in the foreground, partly hiding a funeral procession arriving at the church.
In this tailpiece, which is the last one of the book, Thomas Bewick represented his own funeral, with a view of the west end of Ovingham church, and the two family monuments fixed in the wall.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cask-amontillado/ | A man sitting in a cellar with bones scattered on the floor drinks from a glass | Shaw, Byam | 1872 | 1919 | [
"UK"
] | Selected tales of mystery | [
"Poe, Edgar Allan"
] | [
"Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd."
] | 1909 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7235574M/Selected_tales_of_mystery | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"color",
"death",
"drink",
"eerie",
"male"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/selectedtalesofm00poeeiala"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Cask of Amontillado | The cask of Amontillado | A man whose hat casts a large shadow on the wall behind him drinks a glass of wine sitting in a cellar with human skulls and bones scattered on the floor.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/racine/ | Racine | Santerre, Jean-Baptiste | 1658 | 1717 | [
"France"
] | Les mémoires de Saint-Simon | [
"Le Goffic, Charles",
"Saint-Simon",
"Tellier, Jules"
] | [
"Delagrave"
] | ca. 1900 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24145460M/Les_m%C3%A9moires | [
"17th century",
"black & white",
"France",
"male",
"portrait",
"theater",
"writer"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Jean Racine | Jean Racine. | Portrait of Jean Racine (1639–1699), a dramatist, and one of the most important French literary figures of the seventeenth century.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/vase-tempest/ | Terracotta vase with foliated ornaments and figures from The Tempest | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Selection of vases, statues, busts, &c., from terra-cottas | [
"Blashfield, John Marriott"
] | [
"John Weale"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"earthenware",
"foliate",
"promotional",
"Shakespeare",
"terracotta",
"vase",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Winterthur Museum Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.winterthur.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/selectionofvases00blas"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Day & Son"
] | Vase with Figures from “The Tempest” | Vase with allegory from Shakespeare's play of "The Tempest." | Terracotta vase with foliated ornaments and figures from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/frolic-virgins/ | A group of young women can be seen in a wooded landscape | Abbey, Edwin Austin | 1852 | 1911 | [
"US"
] | Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick | [
"Herrick, Robert"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1882 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7201160M/Selections_from_the_poetry_of_Robert_Herrick | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"floral",
"woodland"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/selectionsfrompo00herrrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Frolic Virgins | How heartsease came first. | A group of young women can be seen in a wooded landscape.
This picture is an illustration for the poem “How Pansies or Hearts-Ease Came First.”
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/respectable-condition/ | A man takes a walk with a woman carrying a parasol and gestures a gate | Thomson, Hugh | 1860 | 1920 | [
"UK"
] | Sense and sensibility | [
"Austen, Jane"
] | [
"Macmillan and Co."
] | 1896 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14041582M/Sense_and_sensibility | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"mixed genders",
"parasol",
"talking",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/sensesensibility00austrich"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Such Respectable Condition | Everything is in such respectable condition. | A man takes a walk with a woman carrying a parasol and gestures with his hand and cane toward a gate.
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