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A man caught between the female personifications of vice and virtue. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588.Date: [between 1729 and 1742]Reference: 27737iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.
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A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
Date: [1563?]Reference: 26276i
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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
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Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26660iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
Bakewell, J., active 1770.Date: 1870Reference: 26799i
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A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1690Reference: 17931i
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A personification of Obedience with her attributes is attacked from the sides by eight vices; above her appears Christ on the cross; (top left) the sacrifice of Isaac; (right) Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; (below) three examples of disobedience, including the expulsion from Paradise. Engraving after H. Wierix .
Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 29538i
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A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26037iPart of: The drunkard's children
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Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
Ward, Samuel, -1639.Date: 1627Reference: 25926i
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A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 30 September 1756Reference: 26782i
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26036iPart of: The drunkard's children
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Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26694iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26678iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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A drunken man surrounded by women in a dingy alehouse. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
Wilson, T. C.Date: [1840?]Reference: 25949iPart of: The life of a working man
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A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26035iPart of: The drunkard's children
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A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
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Blessings attributed to the Regency of Marie de' Medici. Engraving by B. Picart, 1704, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [1704]Reference: 2853623iPart of: Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg.
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A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
Bakewell, J., active 1770.Date: 1 January 1771Reference: 26769i
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A lecherous old man leans over to a molest a woman who holds a bottle and drinking glass. Mezzotint by J. Smith, c. 1700, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1700Reference: 26536i- Pictures
Four men attempt to destroy the pillars of the Temple of fame, the Hanoverian horse devours the British lion chained to a post while two men to the left remove a stone cover to a pit. Engraving, 1757.
Date: 1757Reference: 579992i
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A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26022iPart of: The drunkard's children
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Forms of misbehaviour, drunkeness, debauchery, and violence among Sikhs. Coloured transfer lithograph.
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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 18173i
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A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26027iPart of: The drunkard's children
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26026iPart of: The drunkard's children