Historical Scenes

Illustrations of significant historical events involving prominent figures, capturing dramatic moments and cultural contexts of the time.

Scene from J M Barrie s Play The Admirable Crichton Illustration by Hugh Thomsom 1860 to 1920

Photos Series Theater Alt-Berlin, controversy over the inheritance of the Elector Joachim II., 1571 / Bilderserie Theater Alt-Berlin, Streit um die Erbschaft des Kurfürsten Joachim II., 1571, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French lawyer and politician. Figure of the French Revolution. Member of Jacobin Club. Executed by guillotine, 1794. Corpse exhibited at the Paris City Hall. Colored engraving.

The swearing in of King Vittorio Emanuele III in the Senate Chambers in Rome. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 19th August 1900.

PALMERO, Alfredo (1901-1991). 'La segunda cripta de Pombo' ('The second crypt of Pombo'). 20th c. Collective portrait of a Generation of the 27's intellectual gathering. In this picture, we can see: Ramn Gmez de la Serna, JosŽ Bergamin, Manuel de Falla, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gregorio Mara-on, Miguel de Unamuno, Santiago Rusi-ol, among others. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. GALICIA. Pontevedra. Pontevedra Museum.

Soviet propaganda image of Vladimir Lenin 1920.

Death of the Hon. Andrew Johnson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Ex-President of the United States, Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1875

Italian Foreign Minister, Baron Sidney Sonnino, in his office, drawing by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 48, November 29, 1914.

Daniel Good.

John Trumbull's 'Declaration of Independence,' commissioned in 1817

Der Tod kommt zum Amtmann, Totentanz, dance of death, Todten-Tantz after Beck, Nöller a. other painters by Georg Max. Theodor Goetz, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

9827 Date: Illustration

Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull (17561843). John Trumbull's painting, shows the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda

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