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a-l-ancien-regime:

L’Assemblée au Concert (A Gathering at a Concert) / François Dequevauviller (1745-1807) after Nicolas Lavreince (1737-1807) 

Etching and engraving, ca. 1785. In an elegant, oval salon, with muraled ceiling and sculpted walls, richly furnished, a group of people from the haut monde meet to converse and play music. The print is among the most famous images in French eighteenth-century engraving, far better known than the original gouache by the Swedish-born Lavreince (Lafrensen) that inspired it. 

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flutterknife:

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the Battle of Breitenfeld — Johann Walter, 1632

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kleidsam:

KJP.

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geisterseher:

Georg von Welling. Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum : vom Uhrsprung und Erzeugung des Saltzes, dessen Natur und Eigenschafft, wie auch dessen Nutz und Gebrauch … (1719)

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18thcentury:

Portrait of Two Gentlemen before the Arch of Constantine in Rome - Anton von Maron

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