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Portraits

More portraits of famous people can be found here.
"Aristide et L'Ostracisme" "Aristide et le Paysan" Aristides (530-468 BC) was an Athenuan statesman. Herodotus named Aristides the most honorable man in Athens. On the reverse side is French text about Aristides, Plutarch and the political situation of Athens at the time. Wood engraving made after the painting by M. Hillemacher. Dated 1870. Original antique print

Ancient World, Portraits, Greece, Aristides

$35.00 $21.00

"Diogene et Alexandre" "Diogenes und Alexander" Steel engraving published 1869. Original antique print

Portraits, Ancient World, Diogenes, Alexander

$40.00 $24.00

"Quo fas et fata nos vocant" English: Where divine Law and Fate challenge us! Copper etching by Pierre Philippe (born? - 1664) After Adriaen Pietrsz van de Venne (1589-1662) The scene shows the embarkment of King Charles II of Great Britain as he arrives with great pomp at the port for sailing from Schevneningen in the Netherlands back to England. A large crowd greeting him. The sky full of putti and, upper left side, coat of arms "Order of the Garter": Honi soit qui mal y pense. Shame on him who think

Portraits, Netherlands, Scheveningen, King Charles II

$400.00 $280.00

"Muteczuma" "Rex ultimus Mexicanorum" Wood engraving made after an older copper engraving. Published 1881. Overall light natural age toning. Image: 17.5 x 10.5 cm (6.8 x 4.1") Original antique print

Portraits, Indegenous Peoples,Mexico, Muteczuma, Montezuma, Rex ultimus Mexicanorum

$35.00 $21.00

"Amerigo Vespucco, piloto mayor (Reichspilot)" Wood engraving made after an earlier copper engraving of the famous sailor who gave the American hemisphere its name. Published 1881. On the reverse side is German text about Vespucci's exploration.

Portraits, Amerigo Vespuccio, piloto mayor

$40.00 $24.00

"Johann Hevel und seine Gattin beobachten gemeinsam die Gestirne" Wood engraving ca 1900. Reverse side is printed.

Portraits, Astronomy, Observation, Johann Hevel, Hevelius

$25.00 $15.00

"Melanchton" (or Melanchthon) Close companion of Martin Luther and an important German reformer. Steel engraving after Vernier for Lemaitre published ca 1840.

Religious, Portraits, Protestantism, Melanchton, Luther companion, reformer

$35.00 $21.00

"Sta. Anna lehrt Sta. Maria" Lithograph by W. Glaessner after the painting by Peter Paul Rubens Published in Frankfurt on the Main, ca. 1840 Mother of St. Mary teaching her daughter Maria. Behind Anna her husband and father of St. Mary, Joachim. Above Maria's head two putti with a floral wreath crown.

Religious, Portraits, St. Anna, St. Mary, St. Joachim, after Rubens

$160.00 $96.00

"Cartier errichtet die ersten Kreuze am Lorenzstrom" Wood engraving published 1889 showing Jacque Cartier erecting the first Cross on the St. Lawrence River. Below the image and on the reverse side is text (in German) about the early exploration and colinization of French Canada.

Landscapes, Portraits, Canada, Jacque Cartier, St. Lawrence River

$25.00 $15.00

"Hannibal's Zug durch die Alpen" (Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants) Wood engraving published 1881. On the reverse side is text about the Celts and Alps.

Portraits, Ancient World, Animals, Hannibal, crossing the Alps, elephants

$30.00 $18.00

"Catharina von Bora - Dr. Martin Luther" Das Ehepaar Martin Luther und Catharina von Bora Two lithographs by Franz Josef Zimmernann (1794-1857) After the paintings by Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) Published in "Saxonia" Publisher: Eduard Pietzsch & Co. Dresden, 1840

Portraits, Catharina von Bora, Martin Luther, after Cranach

$130.00 $78.00

"Della Valle am persicher Hofe" Wood engraving showing Pietro della Valle at the Persian court. Published 1885. Reverse side with text about Pietro della Valle in Persia.

Genre, Portraits, della Valle, Persian Court

$25.00 $15.00

"Der heilige Ulrich" Wood engraving ca 1875. Reverse side is printed. Natural age toning.

Portraits, Religious, Heiliger Ulrich

$35.00 $21.00

"Sir Hugh Wiloughby" Wood engraving of the English sea explorer who died in 1554. Published 1885. Reverse side is printed.

Portraits, Sir Hugh Wiloughby

$25.00 $15.00

"Alaric in Rome" Photogravure after the painting by Wilhelm von Lindenschmit (1829-1895). London, ca. 1890 After having ransacked Constantinople, Corinth, Sparta an other places in Greece, Alaric, first king of the Visigoths (370-410), moved on to Rome battling down places he happened to pass.

Ancient World, Genre, Portraits, Italy, Rome, Alaric, Visigoths, after Lindenschmit

$80.00 $48.00

Principis Friderici Wilhelmi latissimis inerementis efflorescens cum adjacentib. Regionibus mappa Geographica delineatum Cura et sumtibus Matth. Seuteri" Copper etching with original hand coloring. Published by Matthaeus Seutter. Augsburg, ca. 1740 Map shows the former East Prussi including parts of Pommerania in the West and along the Baltic Sea coast up to Memel (Klaipeda).

Maps, Portraits, Poland, East Prussia, Pommerania, Baltic Sea, Memel, King Friedrich Wilhelm I. of Prussia, Seutter

$670.00 $469.00

"Columbus geht am 3. August 1492 im Hafen von Palos an Bord seines Schiffes" Columbus and his crew bord ship for his first famous exploration voyage. Xylograph made after a painting by Ricardo Balaca. The painting is in the La Plata Museum. This historical image was publish ca 1900.

Ships, Portraits, City Views, Palos, Columbus, after Balaca

$55.00 $33.00