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Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

Date

[1787]

Reference

3006309i

An old shoemaker is stitching a boot as a young woman leans over him holding a jug in her hand. Engraving by P. Duflos, 1778 after D. van Tol.

Date

[1778]

Reference

29847i

A fishing boat drawn up on to a beach, surrounded by fishermen and a fishwife selling fish to customers. Etching by C. Weisbrod and engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1779, after P. Bout.

Date

[1779]

Reference

29863i

Astronomy: an scholar in his study, plotting points on a globe. Engraving by L. Garreau after J. Vermeer.

Date

1700-1799

Reference

46323i

A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.

Date

1700-1799

Reference

16474i

An allegory celebrating Dutch painters. Engraving by J.A. Pierron after P. Peyron.

Date

[1796]

Reference

33087i

A boy blowing bubbles. Engraving by Mathieu Blot, 17--, after F. van Mieris.

Date

[between 1773 and 1789]

Reference

673814i

Vertumnus disguised as an old woman seduces Pomona. Engraving by H. Guttenberg after F. Bol.

Date

[between 1700 and 1799]

Reference

2863318i

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Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun.

People playing a game of skittles (bowling) in the garden of an inn, as others sit on the grass drinking, smoking and chatting. Engraving by E. de Ghendt after J. Steen.

Date

1790-1799

Reference

33171i

Zenobia, ruler of the Palmyrene empire, is besieged in Antioch by the Roman emperor Aurelian, and gives orders for the moving of her treasure: a man carrying a large vessel filled with coins carries it past the tomb of Odenathus. Line engraving by Charles Etienne Gaucher, 1789, after J. Werner.

Date

1789

Reference

44511i

A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.

Reference

21685i