1683 Collection (#4)

Emperor Koenraad III cuts Saracen cavalry battle
Emperor Koenraad III cuts through a Saracen in a cavalry battle, upper left mark: foli 246, militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc, battle

Conquest Jerusalem Print numbered top right 151
Conquest of Jerusalem, Print numbered top right: 151, militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc, capture of city (after the siege), Jerusalem, Jan Luyken (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

Passport card southern part Atlantic Ocean coasts
Passport card of the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Africa and Brazil and the Cape Verde islands, Jan Luyken, 1683 - 1799

Passport card east coast Brazil Passport card
Passport card from the east coast of Brazil Passport card, from the sea coasts, from, Brazil, between, Ponto De Lucena and Cabo S

Various stoves A-Z numbered top right Pag 34
Various stoves A-Z, numbered top right: Pag. 34, cooker, laboratory (tools, instruments, laboratory equipment, scientific research), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 137 mm × w 87 mm

Air pump bladders fig 5 Print upper right Pag
Air pump with bladders, fig. 5, Print upper right: Pag: 75, medical research, branches of medicine (scientific research), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 132 mm × w 79 mm

Jerusalem recaptured Saladin Print top right
Jerusalem recaptured by Saladin, Print on top right: foli 284, militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc, capture of city (after the siege), Jerusalem, Saladin

Emperor Frederik Barbarossa drowns Selef Print
Emperor Frederik Barbarossa drowns in the Selef, Print on the upper left marked: foli 344, militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc

Construction tabernacle led Moses Creation Tabernacle
Construction of the tabernacle led by Moses Creation of the Tabernacle in the Desert by the Service of the Levies, the making of the Tabernacle and its accessories, Exodus, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam

Ark Covenant Ark Covenant Holy Holies title object
Ark of the Covenant Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies (title on object), Ark of the Covenant, Jewish religion, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 142 mm × w 85 mm

Christ last day Feast Tabernacles Hosanna Rabba
Christ on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles Hosanna Rabba, or the Great Hosanna on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles (title on object)

Stone tablet instructions Moses Verklaar-Steen
Stone tablet with the instructions of Moses Verklaar-Steen on the Inauguration of the Hebrew Republijk (title on object), the reading of the law (Joshua 8: 30-35), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper

Weapons twelve tribes Israel Field-Drawing XII Tribes
Weapons of the twelve tribes of Israel The Field-Drawing of the XII Tribes (title on object), the twelve tribes of Israel (not in biblical context), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching

Sea chart part coast Brazil Pass chart sea shores
Sea chart of part of the coast of Brazil Pass chart of the sea shores of Brazil, between Rio das Contas and Cabo S. Thome (title on object), Sea chart of part of the coast of Brazil

Zacharias looks Den Kandelaar menorah sigma Zacharias
Zacharias looks at the Den Kandelaar menorah seen in a sigma of Zacharias (title on object), seven lamps, menorah, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 143 mm × w 84 mm

Tabernacle surrounded tent camps twelve tribes
Tabernacle surrounded by tent camps of the twelve tribes of Israel Army Ordering Israel according to the opinion of the Jews (title on object), the twelve tribes of Israel tabernacle, mishkan

pen cutter man cuts pen candlelight table two pouches
The pen cutter, A man cuts a pen by candlelight on his table, on which are two pouches of money and a piece of paper. He wears a dressing gown and a beret

Sleeping shepherd family resting cattle cow Nicolaes Pietersz
Sleeping shepherd family and resting cattle, cow, Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1630 - 1683 and/or 1694 - 1713, paper, etching, h 200 mm × w 256 mm

Singing woman Vrolicke Els title object Cheerful Els sings
Singing woman Vrolicke Els (title on object), Cheerful Els sings from a magazine on which: Amsterdam is so Schone ste / Mi fa so la re. She has a bottle in her hand

Equestrian Fight Mountain Landscape rider armor
Equestrian Fight, A Equestrian Fight in a Mountain Landscape. A rider in armor with a short sword falls to the side. A rider with a turban (left) fires a shot at a rider with a helmet (right)

Artemisia receives urn ashes deceased husband Mausolus
Artemisia receives urn with ashes from her deceased husband Mausolus. A kneeling man offers Artemisia an urn in which she shrinks in fright

Attilus killed son warrior landscape Attilus
Attilus is killed by a son of his warrior, In a landscape Attilus is attacked by a son of one of his warriors, whom he has just killed. Above left: fol. 301

Decapitated corpse Pompey burned Egyptian beach
Decapitated corpse of Pompey burned, On an Egyptian beach the corpse of Pompey is burned on a stake, after being beheaded upon arrival. His head will be offered to Caesar later

Moses turns Aaron staff serpent Reproductive prints
Moses turns Aarons staff into a serpent, Reproductive prints after paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Poilly, Francois de, 1623-1693, Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665, after 1683

Ce fragment de l antique Les proportions du corps
Ce fragment de l antique. Les proportions du corps humain: mesurees sur les plus belles figures de l antiquite, Audran, Gerard, 1640-1703, Etching, 1683, Plate 21, sculptural fragments

La Venus Aphrodide Les proportions du corps humain
La Venus Aphrodide, Les proportions du corps humain: mesurees sur les plus belles figures de l antiquite, Audran, Gerard, 1640-1703, Etching, 1683, Plate 16, depicting views of the Venus Aphrodite

L Europe Le grand escalier de Versailles Le Brun
L Europe, Le grand escalier de Versailles, Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690, Baudet, Etienne, 1638-1711, Etching, engraving, black-and-white, between 1679 and 1683, Escalier des Ambassadeurs

L Asie Le grand escalier de Versailles Baudet
L Asie, Le grand escalier de Versailles, Baudet, Etienne, 1638-1711, Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690, Etching, engraving, black-and-white, between 1679 and 1683, Escalier des Ambassadeurs

Prospettiva del Giardino del Serenis Li giardini
Prospettiva del Giardino del Serenis, Li giardini di Roma: con le loro piante alzate e vedute in prospettiva, Falda, Giovanni Battista, 1640-1678, Engraving, 1683, plate 6

Veduta e Prospettiva del Giardino dell Ecc Sig
Veduta e Prospettiva del Giardino dell Ecc. Sig. Prencipe Borghese Fuori di Porta Pinciana, Li giardini di Roma: con le loro piante alzate e vedute in prospettiva, Falda, Giovanni Battista

Anno MDCLXXXIII Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque a celebrioribus architectis inventi: nunc tandem suis cum plantis ac mensuris a Io

Vestigum templi andreae Insignium Romae templorum
Vestigum templi s. andreae, Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque a celebrioribus architectis inventi: nunc tandem suis cum plantis ac mensuris a Io

Dune Landscape Shepherds Nicolaes Berchem Dutch
Dune Landscape with Shepherds; Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620 - 1683); The Netherlands; 1652; Black chalk and grey wash; 14.1 × 19.2 cm (5 9, 16 × 7 9, 16 in.)

Landscape Nymph Satyr Nicolaes Berchem Dutch
Landscape with a Nymph and a Satyr; Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620 - 1683); 1647?; Oil on panel; 69.9 × 58.7 cm (27 1, 2 × 23 1, 8 in.)

Standing Ruff Gerardus van Veen Dutch 1620 1683
Standing Ruff; Gerardus van Veen (Dutch, about 1620 - about 1683); Holland; 1677; Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache over black chalk; 23.3 x 27.1 cm (9 3, 16 x 10 11, 16 in.)

Return Hunt Nicolaes Berchem Dutch 1620 1683
The Return from the Hunt; Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620 - 1683); Netherlands; 1660s; Oil on canvas; 74.3 × 63.5 cm (29 1, 4 × 25 in.)

Nathanael Dilgerus Minister Danzig 1683 Gerard Edelinck
Nathanael Dilgerus, Minister of Danzig, 1683. Gerard Edelinck (French, 1640-1707). Engraving

Thames Frost Fair / 1683
Various activities happening on the Thames when it froze over in 1683. These include ox-roasting, games, sledging and skating and a number of market stalls. Date: 1683

Marie-Therese Of Austria (1638-1683). Queen of France (1660-1683), queen consort of Louis XIV. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles

Ludwig De Souches
LUDWIG RADUTT de SOUCHES French-Austrian military commander Date: 1608 - 1683

SPANISH INQUISITION. An Auto-da-fe, the ceremony accompanying the pronouncement of judgement of the Spanish Inquisition, in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid. Detail of a painting by Francisco Ricci, c1683

Washing ore to extract gold. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. Solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth

Philip V of Spain (1683-1746). King of Spain. Oath of allegi
Philip V of Spain (1683-1746). King of Spain. House of Bourbon. Oath of allegiance of the military orders; Golden Fleece, Alcantara and Calatrava. Engraving. 18th century. Colored

John of Nepomuk (1345-1393). National saint of the Czech Republic. Statue at Charles Bridge in Prague, by baroque sculptor, Jan Brokoff (1652-1718). 1683

Statue of St. John of Nepomuk (1345-1393). Copy. Prague. Cz
Statue of St. John of Nepomuk (1345-1393). National saint. Bronze. By Volfgang Jeronym Heroldt, 1683. Decorates the Charles Bridge. Prague. Czech Republic

Jean Baptiste Grecourt
JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH WILLART de GRECOURT French writer, interrupted by the artist while writing with a quill pen. Date: 1683 - 1743

Ferdinand Furstemberg
FERDINAND FURSTEMBERG German churchman, bishop of Munster Date: 1626 - 1683

First Earl of Egmont
JOHN PERCEVAL, first earl of EGMONT Date: 1683 - 1748

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In the year 1683, a fascinating blend of art, history, and innovation unfolded. Jan Davidsz. De Heem's masterpiece "Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase" showcased the beauty of nature frozen in time, capturing the essence of life itself. Meanwhile, Pauline Baynes depicted an extraordinary event - the Frost Fair on the Thames - where Londoners turned their frozen river into a bustling marketplace. Amidst these artistic wonders, Thomas Holme unveiled his engraved plan of Philadelphia, offering a glimpse into the birth of one of America's most iconic cities. John Owen emerged as an influential churchman during this era, shaping religious discourse and beliefs. On another note entirely, George II took center stage alongside talented players in what must have been an enthralling performance - perhaps showcasing Shakespearean classics or captivating new works. The Map of Peru by Mallet provided explorers with valuable insights into uncharted territories while Valentine Greatrakes delved into healing practices that captivated many. However, it was not just art and culture that defined 1683; significant historical events also unfolded. The Ottoman Empire suffered defeat at Vienna's hands – marking a turning point in European history and shifting power dynamics across continents. Even amidst all this excitement and progress came Jan Griffier the Elder's depiction of yet another Frost Fair on the Thames – reminding us how nature can both inspire awe-inspiring creations and disrupt daily life simultaneously. And let us not forget about innovation. In 1683, inventors sought to unlock perpetual motion through their machines – pushing boundaries and challenging scientific understanding. Ultimately though it was King George II who reigned over this vibrant year filled with creativity and discovery – leaving his mark on history as he navigated political landscapes both within Britain and beyond its shores. Thus we find ourselves transported back to 1683.