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Festivities held at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome on the occasion of the recovery of Louis XV after a serious illness in Metz. Etching by the pensioners (scholarship-holders) of the French Academy in Rome, 1744.
Pensionnaires de l'académie royale de France à Rome.Date: 1744Reference: 27204i- Pictures
The funeral of Marie Therese of Spain in St. Denis in Paris in 1746. Etching by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1748.
Date: 1748Reference: 42687i- Pictures
Banyan tree with Hindu shrine at Gaya, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by T. Daniell, 1796.
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.Date: May 1796Reference: 27581iPart of: Oriental scenery- Pictures
Peace arriving in Britain at the end of the Seven Years War. Etching by J.S. Miller and engraving by Cole, 1763.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: [1764]Reference: 2871155iPart of: Oxford almanacks- Pictures
Wind as an analogy for speculative short-selling in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721, and a warning to John Law about the indulgences of Shrove Tuesday. Etching, 1721.
Date: [1721]Reference: 816084iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
Date: On the 1st day of Trinity TermReference: 36230i- Pictures
The arrival in England of William of Orange; in the foreground, James II and Louis XIV surrounded by courtiers and Catholic clerics. Etching formerly attributed to R. de Hooghe, 1688.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1688]Reference: 2136645i- Pictures
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Two girls crying over a dead lamb. Etching with line engraving by T. Brown after H. Campotosto.
Campotosto, Henry, -1910.Date: [1872]Reference: 42300i- Books
The print before photography : an introduction to European printmaking, 1550-1820 / Antony Griffiths.
Griffiths, AntonyDate: 2016- Pictures
King George III and Queen Charlotte stand before the open gate of the Treasury from which William Pitt the younger has just wheeled a wheelbarrow laden with money bags one of which he hands to the King. Line block after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603163i- Pictures
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A prisoner sits in his cell and carves the Crucifixion in the wall with a nail. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.H. Wehnert.
Wehnert, Edward Henry, 1813-1868.Date: 1848Reference: 28886i