Prints and Drawings — Page 137
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The Story Tellers
Richard Earlom, published 1768
Mr. Prudhomme: “- Obnoxious waves.... don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment?... oh audacious... know I shall, like Xerxes, whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: (shivering of fear) “- Pray, my dear friend, do not offend the sea any longer... you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely!,” plate 1 from Impressions Nautiques
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859
“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their women and make them have black children!,” plate 101 from Actualités
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859
View of the grand hall. Map, height and view from front of the conductor. Grand alliance between telegraph and music, plate 1 from Souvenir Du Grand Festival Des Orphéonistes
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859
“- Mr. Colimard, if you don't stop immediately ogling the dancers in such an unseemly manner, I will take you home before the end of the performance!,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Théatre par Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1864
A Misapprehension at the Odeon, on a Day of Drama. “- Come on, come on let's go! - I am telling you it's not finished. The curtain has gone up again and there is still Roman on the stage,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Théatre par Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1864
“- Ah, Théophile, what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles, I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!… - Oh, well…,” plate 1 from Ces Bons Parisiens
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1860
El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors, plate 116 from Actualités
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859
In Tangiers. “- Sublime Majesty... the Spanish are coming... in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with my umbrella, Belboul.... I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets,” plate 115 from Actualités
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, November 14, 1859
The Terrible Director. “- Indeed! You are telling me that you missed today's rehearsal because you had to set leeches onto your mother? - Yes sir. - But, when you first came here three months ago, you told me that you were an orphan. This is the first time in my long career at the theater that I have met a person who sets leeches on the body of a dead person,” plate 5 from Les Moments Difficiles De La Vie
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1864
D. Christopher Jacob Trew, from Plantae Selectae
Johann Jacob Haid, n.d.
Landscape with Old Gateway
Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1779–97
The English Farrier, plate 10 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, 1821
Landscape with Classical Statue
Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1779/97
Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in the ring at Saragossa, plate 22 from The Art of Bullfighting
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1814/16
The Crucifixion
Jean Duvet, 1545/55
Flying Cupid Kissing a Dove
Gilles Antoine Demarteau, the Younger, n.d.
Coat of Arms with a Skull
Jan Wierix, n.d.
Peter I of Russia
Jacobus Houbraken, 1752
Bearded Male Head with Steel Helmet
Christian Frederick Köhlitz, n.d.
Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis
Jacob Männl, n.d.
The Kitchen
James McNeill Whistler, 1858
Hurlingham
James McNeill Whistler, 1879
Old Putney Bridge
James McNeill Whistler, 1879
The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea
James McNeill Whistler, 1878
The Palaces
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Carlo Maratti, c. 1625
Apollo Slaying Python, plate one from The History of Apollo and Daphne
Master of the Die, c. 1532
The Two Doorways
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
François Rouxel de Medavy, Archbishop of Rouen
Antoine Masson, 1677
The Beggars
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
The Fish Shop, Venice
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
Nocturne: Palaces
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
San Giorgio
James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80
The Game Market
Richard Earlom, 1783
The Rape of a Sabine Woman, View from Behind
Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1598
F. Devillemontée
Jean Morin, n.d.
Galley
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665
Foliage Ornament from Ancient Roman Church
Agostino dei Musi, c. 1530–35
Warships and a Spouting Whale
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665
A Fish Market
Richard Earlom, published June 1, 1782
Warship in the Trough of a Wave
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665
The Altar of Love
Agostino dei Musi, 1510/36
Marriage Consultation
Edward Fisher, n.d.
Summer, from The Four Seasons
Jan Saenredam, 1601
Time Clipping the Wings of Love
James McArdell, c. 1765
Spring, from The Four Seasons
Jan Saenredam, 1601
Astronomy
Eloy Bonnejonne, n.d.