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Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Date: Paris, ca. 1899
![Terre de Diemen. Bara-Ourou. [plate VIII]](/uploads/cache/46271-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Bara-Ourou. [plate VIII]
A portrait of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Bara-Ourou, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The ...
Date: Paris, 1824
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![Terre de Diemen. Grou-Agara. [plate X]](/uploads/cache/46273-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Grou-Agara. [plate X]
A portrait of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Grou-Agara, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The ...
Date: Paris, 1824
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![Terre de Diemen. Arra-Maida. [plate XII]](/uploads/cache/46275-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Arra-Maida. [plate XII]
A portrait of a female Tasmanian Aboriginal Arra-Maida, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824...
Date: Paris, 1824
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![Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]](/uploads/cache/46279-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]
An aboriginal campfire, near the ruins of an old wooden fence, and a dead tree, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes b...
Date: Paris, 1824
![Terre de Diemen. Ourlaga. [plate IX]](/uploads/cache/46272-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Ourlaga. [plate IX]
A portrait of the female Tasmanian Aboriginal Ourlaga, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824....
Date: Paris, 1824
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Le Curieux.
A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...
Date: Paris, ca. 1790
![[Young lady dancing]](/uploads/cache/46518-250x250.jpg)
[Young lady dancing]
Lovely art deco etching with light hand coloring showing a beautiful lady dancing, and a dog. The artwork is signed in black pencil, but not identifiable.
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
![[A lady playing a piano.]](/uploads/cache/46519-250x250.jpg)
[A lady playing a piano.]
Lovely art deco etching with hand coloring showing a lady playing piano. The artwork is signed in black pencil, but not identifiable.
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
![[A beautifully dressed woman in a garden.]](/uploads/cache/46520-250x250.jpg)
[A beautifully dressed woman in a garden.]
Lovely art deco pochoir showing a beautifully dressed woman in a garden.
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]](/uploads/cache/46354-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]
Plate illustrating seals by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commission...
Date: Paris, 1824
![Timor. Rhinolophe Cruménifére. [plate XXXV]](/uploads/cache/46357-250x250.jpg)
Timor. Rhinolophe Cruménifére. [plate XXXV]
Plate illustrating Horseshoe bats from Timor Island, by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...
Date: Paris, 1824
![Nouvelle-Hollande Nelle Galles du sud. Vue d'une partie de la ville de Sydney capitale des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes . . . [plate XXXVII]](/uploads/cache/46359-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande Nelle Galles du sud. Vue d'une partie de la ville de Sydney capitale des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes . . . [plate XXXVII]
An important view of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point looking eastward from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. This is one of the earliest...
Date: Paris, 1824
![Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .](/uploads/cache/46365-250x250.jpg)
Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .
Two maps on one sheet, on top a map of the southern portion of Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island, and islets in the southern part of the Furneaux Group.With in lower part...
Date: Paris, 1824
![Actualites. [News]](/uploads/cache/46547-250x250.jpg)
Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Date: Paris, ca 1840
![Aux grands maux les grands remedes. [To great ills great remedies]](/uploads/cache/46558-250x250.jpg)
Aux grands maux les grands remedes. [To great ills great remedies]
A humorous French lithograph showing a village scene where a small infant is held face down on his/her mother's lap, with clothing pulled up to reveal its bottom. An enor...
Date: Paris, ca 1850
La Crise salutaire.
In this` fine French caricature we see Napoleon seated in side profile to the left on an ornate chair-commode, clasping his knees, benign forward to vomit into a bowl hel...
Date: Paris, 1814
![Voyage et conduite d'un moribond pour l'autre monde [Caricature Parisienne.]](/uploads/cache/46786-250x250.jpg)
Voyage et conduite d'un moribond pour l'autre monde [Caricature Parisienne.]
A 'busy', but sobering print depicting the procession of a dying old man to the afterlife. Attractively colored. Accompanying the old man on his inevitable journey are a ...
Date: Paris, 1820
![[Untitled cartoon in pencil.]](/uploads/cache/46791-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled cartoon in pencil.]
A pharmacy cartoon in French, drawn probably in the first half of the last century. It depicts a pharmacist giving some advice to another, seen crushing a powder with a p...
Date: French, ca. 1950
Les Jouissance du Juste Milieu.
[The Joys of the Happy Medium.] A waiter is about to serve a customer with a clyster pump and water jug. It looks as though the man has a 'menu' in one hand. On another t...
Date: Paris, ca 1820
![[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.](/uploads/cache/46799-250x250.jpg)
[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.
A nice set of sixteen French professions, or trades, or stage characters. The print is faint on some titles. Some of the characters are a soldier, a doctor, a nun, a lawy...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
La Galerie Comique.
A lithograph by Gustave Frison, showing three town inhabitants discussing a clyster or syringe found in a public place. They think it may be a musical instrument, without...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
Le Turban.
Etching in brown ink on cream laid paper by Albert Besnard (1849–1934) of a young naked woman with feathered turban. Inscribed below the borderline: (left) “A. Besnar...
Date: Paris, 1910
La Galerie Comique.
Lithograph by Gustave Frison showing a man writing a letter "to Monsieur Battaupieu, Manufacturer of trumpets for the Last Judgment…." (which is written in fu...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
20 advertising gouaches for tobacco industry.
A stunning collection of 20 original square and rectangular decorative commercial designs for the Tabaco industries in gouache and watercolor by the artist and graphic de...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Le Pal - Nous ne connaissons ni la discipline des partis ni les complaisances de la camaraderie.
Original cover design in pen and ink by Henri Desbarbieux for the satirical bi-monthly journal Le Pal.Not much information is found about Henri Desbarbieux. In this BNF l...
Date: Paris, 1925
![[No title] Gouache of a class scene with globe, revolting students and a teacher.](/uploads/cache/44404-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Gouache of a class scene with globe, revolting students and a teacher.
Gouache of a class scene with a globe centered on Europe and Africa with revolting students and a teacher. Original design for a pulp publication.
Date: ca. 1950-1960
Piscantur tevetes sinuato in gargite pices.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Sic leporem in laqueos agitnat per aperta fugacem - Gramina, siq canes rapidi sua terga sequutur
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Sic per secta repens venator consista dumis - Torquet et undosos anates, Fusicasp palustres
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Sic inter dumos, pregrandi corpore cerus. - In pecus extrorquent dumeta per auia, acuto.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Par permission sur l'aprobation des médecins du roi...la véritable Boule de Mars...
Printed broadsheet promoting the "Boule de Mars" (March Ball) produced and sold by Renault in Nancy and Paris. Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France. Pr...
Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
Eleazar sacerdos, et Iosue Rex sorte dividunt in Haereditatem Filiis Israel universam Terram ( Plate 49)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Eleazar and Joshua to divide Canaan among the trib...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Svbacta Syria, tvlit David arma avrea, et detvlit ea in Jervsalem. ( Plate 43)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating David's conquest of Syria, during which he took th...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Vidit David de Solario Domus regiae Bethsabeam . . . ( Plate 44)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating King David looking at Bathsheba bathing.From the f...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Sacerdos cornu olei unxit Salomonem omnisque clamauit. . . . ( Plate 45)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating a priest anointing Solomon with oil.From the first...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Saba Aethiopum Regina venit ad Salomonem, cum magnis Opibus aromatum, Auri, ac Gemmarum. ( Plate 47)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba.From the first Par...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
![Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28](/uploads/cache/47690-250x250.jpg)
Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
![Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40](/uploads/cache/47693-250x250.jpg)
Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
![Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]](/uploads/cache/47694-250x250.jpg)
Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]
A superb example of this illustration showing Ruth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
