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A bald man with a long beard smiles faintly as he carries on his back a little girl wearing his hat
Dante stumbles against the traitor Bocca degli Abati caught with others in the ice a frozen lake
View of the Arno at Florence with a section of the Ponte alla Carraia busy with people and carts
Terracotta vase with foliated ornaments and figures from The Tempest
A family can be seen next to a holy water basin with two angels standing out in a ray of sunlight
Three ghostly female figures are seen winding a rope on the top of a mountain surrounded by flames
A woman carrying a parasol stands next to a small rose bush in a park dotted with cypresses
A woman leans over a tall fishtank and teases the small fish swimming inside with a twig
An Irish Wolfhound is seen from the side standing in moorland hills and looking backward
A performing artist stands among large planets while juggling smaller ones and their satellites
Machinelike musicians with heads like puffs of steam are playing a variety of instruments
A youth stands on the back of a gliding eagle contemplating the castle standing before him
Swanneck barouche and unspecified traveling carriage possibly a variant of the britzka
Two flying devils are about to crash into each other above a pit of boiling tar
A Victoria a light carriage with a folding top and the Sovereign a four wheel closed vehicle
A spectacled man is seen in fulllength standing in the pew and singing from a book of anthems
Lilium brownii is a plant in the family Liliaceae native to China
Mr Smiths Yellow RoseBay Rhododendron smithii aureum is a plant in the family Ericaceae
A man reclining on a small river boat plays the banjo as a woman pushs on the oar behind him
A shepherd takes shelter from the heavy rain by flattening himself against a tree trunk
A traveler is sitting on a fence his dog and his bag next to him as he stares at the sky
A woman stands smiling in a richly decorated room while her furniture is being taken away by movers
Gardens of Harewood House after a storm showing a balustrade fountains and flower beds
Gardens at Alton Towers with the colonnade a walk and the Gothic Prospect Tower in the background
Crosssection of three levels of the Wieliczka Salt Mine showing multiple chambers stables etc
A youth is sitting on the edge of a cliff blowing into a horn with his legs dangling in the void
Lower case and capital W showing a girl and a dog dancing and a man bracing himself to fight another
lower case and capital H showing boys playing hide seek and a man playing the bandoneon to a woman
A monkey wearing a feathered hat walks around the countryside playing the pipe and tabor
An anthropomorphic tree comes alive to catch a scarecrow with its branches
A girl stands in the woods with a robotlike creature and a scarecrow looking like a rag doll
A man in a striped gown speaks to another sitting in front of the fireplace holding a bellows
A woman is sitting on a bench outside a cottage merging with the trees and vegetation around
View of a rustic cottage with a thatched roof as seen from the chimney side
A woman and her interlocutor are seen from above through the branches and leaves of a tree
Interior of a cylinder glass factory with workers busy blowing cylinders around a furnace
A veiled woman walks at night along a colonnade in the upper floors of a palace
A couple has put its children in safety on a rock where a tiger has found refuge with her cubs
Color plate showing a symmetrical pattern with starshaped passionflowers and foliage
Square panel with geometric decoration including stars and a multifoil motif
A young man leans forward to kiss a woman as she was about to go through a gate
A woman and a man with a parrot on his shoulder ride winged horse flying over a wide river
A woman floats in the air a radiant gem shining in her hand as she looks up toward the sky
Two men are fighting on a hillock one wielding a knife and about to stab the other
Shells of three species of sea snails in the family Conidae commonly known as cone snails
Plate showing the shells of four sea snails in the family Muricidae
A man sees his family into a carriage as the neighbors look on from doorways and balconies
An older woman sitting by a staircase shows a spinningwheel to a younger one
A princely couple stands in the foreground interlocking arms followed by other couples
Three workers at a soap factory are moving an oil barrel up an inclined plane made of two planks
The letters Q R S T are drawn in white over a background of plants and fruit
Four men in evening dress stand holding hands to contain a crowd of guests in similar attire
A woman sitting at a grand piano plays and sings under the gaze of a man leaning beside her
Fourth plate of Rethels Dance of Death showing Death stirring up an uprising and offering a sword
A young man in ancient dress is seen from the side raising his hand to bid farewell
A man in extravagant garments strikes a pose in the midst of lush vegetation
Leaves and acorns of the southern live oak Quercus virginiana a tree in the family Fagaceae
Engraving showing two ringtailed lemurs a species of primate in the family Lemuridae
A group of squirrels has stopped by a tree looking in all directions as an owl sits nearby
A sleepy owl sits with mice in its claws heedless of the squirrels fluttering about
A man stands at the edge of a trench speaking into a microphone as war rages around him
Northern end of the Aletsch Glacier with view of the Jungfrau the Monch and the Trugberg
A circular group of mountains with jagged summits slopes down toward the Norwegian Sea
A group of people is seen at the end of a picnic by a large waterwheel smoking singing etc
A Fifteencentury soldier in the army of the King of Castile is about to swing his sling
EighthCentury foot soldier wearing a coat of plate and covers himself with a kite shield
A woman leans out of a window to talk to a mother with her little girl in the street below
Rocaille composition combining seashelllike elements and vegetation with mythological figures
Engraving showing a liontailed macaque Macaca silenus a monkey native to India
Two crested terns are sitting on a rock surrounded by the sea facing opposite directions
An Australasian Darter is perched on the branch of a fallen tree with marshland in the background
Illustrated title for An Address to the Deil showing a man peering into one of Hells chambers
Gravediggers are lowering a coffin into the ground while three men stand side by side by the grave
A man stands on a shingle bank while the sun sets behind the hills across the river
A hedgehog performs a forward roll to impale and pick up an apple on its spines
A is seen slightly from the back sitting in a deckchair a parasol at her side
At an exhibition a woman with her face turned way from the viewer looks at the pictures
Perspective view of the Corliss gear cutter designed for cutting the teeth of large bevel gears
A worker lays a cable at the top of one of the piers of the Brooklyn bridge
Engraving showing a Virginia opossum a marsupial in the family Didelphidae native to the Americas
Three men in a room try to locate the fourth one who is hanging from the ceiling on a rope
A man sitting in a large basin barely manages to stay afloat on the open sea
View of the Chimera gallery at NotreDame showing the colonnade and crows fluttering about
A boy accidentally fires a gun smashing a clock and making a hole in the wall
A bass drum player has his instrument shot through as he marches much to his astonishment
A pimp and his girl stand by a streetlamp on a street overrun by frisky dogs
Three workers and a woman have gathered around the oldest one who reads a newspaper
View of stalk leaves and flowers of Shell ginger in the foreground of an open landscape
While walking through luxuriant vegetation Cupid aims his arrow at a group of flowers
A pirate wearing a red sash stands on a beach next to a chest as two men dig a hole in the sand
A woman dressed in the 1830s fashion reads from a book as NotreDame stands in the background
A ship filled with travelers is sailing with its sails swollen by the wind
Illfortune is symbolized by a naked woman riding a bird and brandishing punishment instruments
Two elderly women examine the back of a younger one seen from the side
Two gnomes are squatting at the foot of tree on which a bird and an imaginary creature are perched
View of the Ganges with the city of Varanasi on its shore showing domes and minarets
A young woman is sitting on a bench between two men one kissing her the other crying
A man in uniform plays blind mans buff at a reception and starts groping around
A crazedlooking dog comes racing forth as two men watch in the background hidden behind a rock
A man crouches at the bottom of a hut as the shadow of a man approaching can be seen on the ground

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