Engravings Collection (page 8)

Moses and the Ten Commandments - Bible
3784248 Moses and the Ten Commandments - Bible; (add.info.: Moses holding the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Payne's Illustrated Family Bible)

The River Ure at Sunderland
3783048 The River Ure at Sunderland; (add.info.: The River Ure at Sunderland. Engraving from Rivers of Great Britain, 1892)

Artillerie
3782925 Artillerie; (add.info.: Artillerie: a member of the 19th century French artillery. From series Paris au XIX. Siecle (hand- coloured lithograph Parisian costume plates)

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
3785906 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; (add.info.: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - from engraving by Zobel after painting by F. Cruikshank)

The Interior of the Fives Court - from engraving
3786246 The Interior of the Fives Court - from engraving; (add.info.: The Interior of the Fives Court - from engraving by C. Turner after painting by T. Blake)

The Holy Land - Mount Thabor - Bible
3783728 The Holy Land - Mount Thabor - Bible; (add.info.: The Holy Land - Mount Thabor.(Tabor) c.1840 hand coloured engraving. Drawn by William Henry Bartlett : 26 March 1809 - 13 September 1854

Joy in the service of the sanctuary - Bible
3781705 Joy in the service of the sanctuary - Bible; (add.info.: Joy in the service of the sanctuary. Bible, Psalm XXXIV, 10: For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand)

William of Wykeham's crest
3787449 William of Wykeham's crest; (add.info.: William of Wykeham's crest. Engraving from Prayers for the use of Winchester College, 1677. Author unknown. William Collins of London, 1945)

James Watt
3786606 James Watt; (add.info.: James Watt - after portrait by Sir W. Beechey. Watt, Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer)

Un porteur d'eau
3782870 Un porteur d'eau; (add.info.: Un porteur d'eau: 19th century French person whose occupation was to carry water (to households, restaurants etc.) in the city

Moreau
3783128 Moreau; (add.info.: Jean Victor Marie Moreau. French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power. 1763-1843. Engraving by Louis Jean Desire Delaistre.c.1847 Le Plutarque Francais)

The Brewer
3782502 The Brewer by Amman, Jost (1539-91); (add.info.: The Brewer from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Acts of Peter and John - Bible, New Testament
3784286 Acts of Peter and John - Bible, New Testament; (add.info.: Acts of Peter and John, the healing of a crippled man outside the temple)

Jesus heals a woman with issues of the blood - Bible, New Testament
3784278 Jesus heals a woman with issues of the blood - Bible, New Testament; (add.info.: Jesus heals a woman with issues of the blood)

David hands Uriah a letter - Bible
3784255 David hands Uriah a letter - Bible; (add.info.: David hands Uriah a letter to deliver to Joab, commanding Uriah's death)

Christopher Columbus is arrested
3785303 Christopher Columbus is arrested; (add.info.: Christopher Columbus is arrested and sent back to Spain, 1 October 1500. Caption:brought back a prisoner to Spain, a victim of his rivals')

The Beginning of the flood - Bible
3784235 The Beginning of the flood - Bible; (add.info.: The beginning of the flood. Caption reads: The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened)

Vivandiere
3782868 Vivandiere; (add.info.: Vivandiere: 19th century Frenchwoman attached to military regiments, selling wine to the troops and working in canteens (also called cantiniere')

The Basket of first fruits - Bible
3781676 The Basket of first fruits - Bible; (add.info.: The Basket of firstfruits - Bible, Deuteronomy XXVL, 2: That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth)

Joseph and Jacob before the Pharaoh - Bible
3784246 Joseph and Jacob before the Pharaoh - Bible; (add.info.: Joseph presents his father Jacob, to the Pharaoh. Caption reads)

Clasp maker
3782521 Clasp maker by Amman, Jost (1539-91); (add.info.: Clasp maker from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

London Views: The Quadrant, and part of Regent Street
3783795 London Views: The Quadrant, and part of Regent Street.; (add.info.: London Views: The Quadrant, and part of Regent Street. Drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 1792 - 1864. Engraved by W. Wallis)

Building locomotive by McConnell
3783626 Building locomotive by McConnell; (add.info.: Building locomotive designed by McConnell for the London and North Western Railway at Fairbairn in Manchester, 1852)

Esau begs Jacob for food - Bible
3784240 Esau begs Jacob for food - Bible; (add.info.: Esau begs Jacob for food. Caption reads: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee'. Genesis, Chapter 25, Verse 30)

Hussard: Hussar on foot
3782874 Hussard: Hussar on foot; (add.info.: Hussard: a member of 19th century light cavalry in the French Army - here on foot. Hussars belonged to elite troops with a colourful uniform)

Marchand de choco
3782869 Marchand de choco; (add.info.: Marchand de choco: 19th century French person who would move around on foot, selling hot chocolate from a portable container. From series Paris au XIX)

Miriam the prophetess - Bible
3784247 Miriam the prophetess - Bible; (add.info.: Miriam the prophetess holding a timbrel and dancing after Moses led the Israelites through the Red Sea)

Henry M. Stanley in central Africa
3785295 Henry M. Stanley in central Africa.; (add.info.: Henry M. Stanley in central Africa. 9- 1521. Published in 1891. Liebig Company series of Dutch collectible cards showing famous explorers)

Edward VII - aged 18 years old
3785177 Edward VII - aged 18 years old; (add.info.: Edward VII - aged 18 years old, at time of appointment to the rank of colonel. From engraving after photograph taken at Windsor)

Mansi people hunting with falcons, 1914
3785277 Mansi people hunting with falcons, 1914; (add.info.: Mansi people hunting with falcons, 1914. Indigenous people living in Khantia-Mansia)

The miracle of the loaves and fishes - Bible
3781711 The miracle of the loaves and fishes - Bible; (add.info.: The miracle of the loaves and fishes. Bible, Matthew XV, 36: And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks)

The denial of Peter - Bible, New Testament
3784270 The denial of Peter - Bible, New Testament; (add.info.: The denial of Peter. Caption reads: But he denied before them all saying, I know not what thou sayest. Matthew 26, verse 70)

Merchandise and cattle carriages, Liverpool-Manchester Railway
3783629 Merchandise and cattle carriages, Liverpool-Manchester Railway; (add.info.: Trains on the Liverpool-Manchester Railway)

Chasseur d'Afrique
3782923 Chasseur d'Afrique; (add.info.: Chasseur d'Afrique: member of the Army of Africa (Armee d'Afrique), referring to those portions of the French Army recruited from or normally

The worship of the Golden Calf - Bible
3784249 The worship of the Golden Calf - Bible; (add.info.: The worship of the Golden Calf, made by Aaron Exodus 22. After an engraving by W French. Payne's Illustrated Family Bible)

De Brazzas exploration in the French Congo
3785294 De Brazzas exploration in the French Congo; (add.info.: De Brazzas exploration in the French Congo, 1875- 1886. Showing Congolese youths carrying de Brazza in a stretcher. Published in 1891)

The Holy Land - Mount Sion - Bible
3783733 The Holy Land - Mount Sion - Bible; (add.info.: The Holy Land - Mount Sion, Jerusalem, from the Hill of Evil Counsel c.1840 hand coloured engraving)

Wall Street - Panic of 1884
3790300 Wall Street - Panic of 1884; (add.info.: Crowds gather in Wall Street after the collapse of Grant and Ward and the Marine National Bank of New York City, 14 May 1884. Recession of 1882-85)

Repton School from the Cricket Field
3787438 Repton School from the Cricket Field; (add.info.: Repton School from the Cricket Field. Coloured engraving by F. G. Stevenson (dates unknown) after F. P. Barraud. English public school

Christopher Columbuss second voyage across the Altantic
3785289 Christopher Columbuss second voyage across the Altantic; (add.info.: Christopher Columbuss second voyage across the Altantic)

Holy Land- Jews Place of Wailing, Jerusalem -Bible
3783727 Holy Land- Jews Place of Wailing, Jerusalem -Bible; (add.info.: The Holy Land - Jews Place of Wailing, Jerusalem. (Remaining wall of Herod's Temple)

Jacob declares his love for Rachel - Bible
3784266 Jacob declares his love for Rachel - Bible; (add.info.: Jacob declares his love for Rachel, a daughter of Laban. Laban agrees to their marriage, if Jacob will serve him for seven years)

Coppersmith
3782527 Coppersmith by Amman, Jost (1539-91); (add.info.: Coppersmith from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Shoemaker
3782860 Shoemaker by Amman, Jost (1539-91); (add.info.: Shoemaker by Jost Amman, from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
3785792 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; (add.info.: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - portrait. Engraving after photograph by Mayall and Co, Limited)

Johnny Walker - from engraving by Geo. Hunt
3786254 Johnny Walker - from engraving by Geo. Hunt; (add.info.: Johnny Walker - from engraving by Geo. Hunt after painting by A.S.Henning)

Wagons for fist class passengers, Liverpool-Manchester Railway
3783637 Wagons for fist class passengers, Liverpool-Manchester Railway; (add.info.: Trains on the Liverpool-Manchester Railway: wagons for fist class passengers, pulled by locomotive Northumbrian)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3789938 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; (add.info.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. English poet, literary critic and philosopher. Engraving by W. Wagstaff after painting by A. Wivell)

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Discover the timeless artistry of engravings, where history and beauty intertwine. Hortensia's intricate designs transport us to Balliol College in 1675, as we delve into Plate 113. Unveiling the secrets of alchemy, the Emerald Tablet or Tabula Smaragdina captivates our imagination like The Book Of Kells itself. VERNE's vivid illustrations from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea take us on an unforgettable journey beneath the waves. Lincoln College and Pembroke College unveil their architectural splendor through engravings dating back to 1675. Awful Changes come alive before our eyes in Plate 127, a testament to human resilience amidst adversity. In this captivating world of engravings, nature takes center stage with Wilmots Late Scarlet Strawberry gracing one plate with its vibrant hues while Geranium varieties enchant another with their delicate petals. Each stroke etched onto these plates tells a story, capturing moments frozen in time and can more than just images; they are windows into history and culture that transcend generations. They allow us to appreciate the craftsmanship and dedication behind each piece, reminding us of the power art holds in preserving memories. So let your eyes wander through these engraved masterpieces and immerse yourself in a world where past meets present – where every detail is meticulously crafted for eternity.