't Pest huys (BM 1928,1210.223) - Public domain scan / engraving
Plague house of Amsterdam; the plague house amongst trees and mills in central background, a meadow with cows and farmers in the foreground Engraving and etching
A hard passage or Boney playing base on the continent. (BM 1868,0808.7...
Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' ... More
A Specimen of Ancient Building (BM 1880,1113.5910)
View from the street of a tudor style house, with the second floor over-hanging the first, large beams in the walls; later state; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'. 1791 Etching and engraving
A taylor's board!!! (BM 1948,0214.884)
A board meeting, with (?) Sidebotham at the head of the table (left) facing a Scot in Highland dress, seated on a cask of 'Sulpher Bri'. Two tailors stand at the nearer side of the table in angry controversy, ... More
A True Portrait of that ridiculous Beau Squire Would be, or the Old Cl...
Satire on a dissolute old gentleman. He is richly dressed in an embroidered waistcoat and with a wig with long queue; his sword is padlocked; a ribbon coming from his mouth is lettered with "Noted expressions ... More
A tub to the whale or the retort courteous to city remonstrances (BM 1...
A freely-drawn representation of the gateway to St. James's Palace. From a window over the gate lean three men who have just thrown out a barrel labelled "The Coin Act": in the centre is the king saying: "This... More
Aaron staying the Plague (BM 1849,0512.805)
High priest Aaron surrounded by a group at left standing amongst the afflicted in a camp with incense burner held aloft; frame surrounding; plate to Boydell's Illustrations of Holy Writ (Numbers 16:48). 1815... More
Aaron staying the Plague (BM 1876,0510.704)
High priest Aaron surrounded by a group at left standing amongst the afflicted in a camp with incense burner held aloft; illustration to Hurst & Co's edition of the Bible (Numbers 16:48). 1815, re-published 1... More
Aaron staying the plague (BM S,3.11)
Aaron making his way through a crowd of plague sufferers, arms outstretched, swinging an incense burner in his right hand, men kneel at the right with their hands clasped and pleading with him, while a man lie... More
Aegros curare (BM 1856,0815.16)
Visit the sick: David praying for his people struck by the plague. c.1660/70 Etching
Allgemeiner Landtschwarmb der Jesuitischen Hewschrecken, auß der Offen...
A fragment of a broadside satirising the Jesuits, likening them to the plague of locusts recorded in the Revelations of St John; with an etching showing in the centre a Papal tiara with holes through which loc... More
Buonaparte ordering five hundred & eighty of his wounded soldiers to b...
See BMSat 10062. Bonaparte stands under the draped entrance to a tent, expostulating with a horrified doctor (r.) who holds a bottle of 'Opium'. Behind, in the tent, are figures of apparently moribund men. 12... More
Buonaparte ordering five hundred & eighty of his wounded soldiers to b...
See BMSat 10062. Bonaparte stands under the draped entrance to a tent, expostulating with a horrified doctor (r.) who holds a bottle of 'Opium'. Behind, in the tent, are figures of apparently moribund men. 12... More
Buonaparte visitant l'hopital de Jaffa (BM 1981,U.3077)
Napoleon visiting plague sufferers in the courtyard of a mosque at Jaffa, standing under a colonnade, the city walls and a minaret visible through the arches; men in various stages of disease standing, sittin... More
David praying, the Plague is Stayed (BM 1876,0510.725)
David standing by burning altar at left, a column of smoke in the centre, the hand of God with sword above, bodies surrounding; illustration to Hurst & Co's edition of the Bible (Chronicles 21:16). 1820 Etchi... More
Doctor Schnabel von Rom (BM 1876,0510.512 1)
A broadside on doctors in Rome and their protective clothing against the plague; with an engraving after an Italian broadside showing a figure dressed with along coat, gloves, mask and hat, holding in the righ... More
Doctor Schnabel von Rom (BM 1876,0510.512 2)
A broadside on doctors in Rome and their protective clothing against the plague; with an engraving after an Italian broadside showing a figure dressed with along coat, gloves, mask and hat, holding in the righ... More
Doctor Schnabel von Rom (BM 1876,0510.512)
A broadside on doctors in Rome and their protective clothing against the plague; with an engraving after an Italian broadside showing a figure dressed with along coat, gloves, mask and hat, holding in the righ... More
Eigentlicher bericht Von Aderlassen in der zeit der Pestilentz, und vo...
A broadside with medical instructions on blood-letting against plague; with an engraving depicting three men, one of which a doctor holding a bleeding dish and an instrument box, and on the right a medical dep... More
Episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses (BM 1875,0710.525)
Erysichton and Ceres; an emaciated man crawling in foreground, Ceres on a chariot drawn by dragons at top centre, ruins of classical buildings at left and at centre, a city in background at right; after Gerard... More
Essay on duelling- anglice doing= him! (BM 1868,0808.10329)
A burlesqued duelling scene. In the centre stands Lennox, legs wide astride, his head turned in profile to the left; he aims one pistol point-blank at the stomach of a man close to him, while he fires with his... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.72 1)
Copy D, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light partially covered by clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses and r... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.72 2)
Copy D, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light partially covered by clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses and r... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.72 3)
Copy D, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light partially covered by clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses and r... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.72)
Copy D, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light partially covered by clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses and r... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.77 1)
Copy D, plate 9: known as "Plague"; 4 figures before a wall in which a door is inscribed "Lord have mercy on us" and marked with a cross; a male figure, with hat and uniform, facing left carrying a bell; a gow... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1859,0625.77)
Copy D, plate 9: known as "Plague"; 4 figures before a wall in which a door is inscribed "Lord have mercy on us" and marked with a cross; a male figure, with hat and uniform, facing left carrying a bell; a gow... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1936,1002.1 1)
Known as "Plague"; 4 figures before a wall in which a door is inscribed "Lord have mercy on us" and marked with a cross; a male figure, with hat, facing left carrying a bell; a gowned female kneeling on the ri... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1936,1002.1)
Known as "Plague"; 4 figures before a wall in which a door is inscribed "Lord have mercy on us" and marked with a cross; a male figure, with hat, facing left carrying a bell; a gowned female kneeling on the ri... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1936,1116.32 1)
Copy A, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light illuminating surrounding clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses a... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1936,1116.32)
Copy A, plate 1, frontispiece: "The Ancient of Days"; a bearded nude male (probably Urizen) crouching in a heavenly sphere, its light illuminating surrounding clouds; his left arm holding a pair of compasses a... More
Europe- a Prophecy (BM 1936,1116.37)
Copy A, plate 8: known as "Plague"; 4 figures before a wall in which a door is inscribed "Lord have mercy on us" and marked with a cross; a male figure, with hat and uniform, facing left carrying a bell; a gow... More
Florio. (BM J,2.53) - Public domain portrait engraving
The interior of a drawing-room or boudoir. A fashionably dressed young man sits in an arm-chair, his right arm over its back, his right leg over an arm, contemplating his reflection in an oval wall-mirror (lef... More
French alias Corsican villainy or the contrast to English humanity. (B...
Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag fl... More
French alias Corsican villainy or the contrast to English humanity. (B...
Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag fl... More
General Cheathem's marvellous return from his exhibition of fire works...
Lord Chatham (left) flies across the Channel towards the English coast on a wooden horse, mule, or ass with feathered wings. Two little puppets labelled 'Dutch Dolls' are placed before him on his saddle. From ... More
Geschiedenis van graef Hugo van Craenhove en zynen vriend Abulfaragus ...
Plate 15: A scene inside a prison for plague victims, a woman (Abigaïl) sitting on the ground before a wooden barrier, a girl (Rebecca) standing behind her on the right leaning on her head, a boy (Abulfaragus)... More
Geschiedenis van graef Hugo van Craenhove en zynen vriend Abulfaragus ...
Plate 16: A scene inside a prison for plague victims with a standing bearded old man (Abul Farach) leaning against a wall on the right and reading a letter, several plague victims laying, standing and sitting ... More
Geschiedenis van graef Hugo van Craenhove en zynen vriend Abulfaragus ...
Plate 17: Four figures inside a cave, a kneeling old bearded man (Abul Farach) suffering from the plague on the left, a standing boy (Abulfaragus) on his left holding his hands, stretching his hand to a woman ... More
Het pesthuis buiten Amsterdam (The Plague House outside Amsterdam) (BM...
View of a quarantine hospital for the plague-stricken, outside Amsterdam, a windmill to the left, different animals and a canal with several small boats in the background Etching
Illustrations for the Lübeck Bible- The Apocalypse (BM 1907,1029.17)
Recto: The Star falling into the Pit of Hell and the Plague of Locusts. Verso: The Four Angels of Death; in the clouds with their swords, underneath their cavalry on lion-headed horses. Clipping from the Lübe... More
John Bull supporting, the nuptial bed!!! (BM 1868,0808.8388)
John Bull, a stout 'cit', stoops in profile to the left, supporting on his head and shoulders, in a horizontal position, a large ornate bed with a tent-shaped canopy, he says: "This is a Piece!! [altered to] P... More
L'Habito con il quale vanno i Medici per Roma... (BM 1880,0710.522 1)
A broadside on the dress of a plague doctor in Rome; with a woodcut showing a man dressed in a long coat, wearing gloves, a flat, broad-rimmed hat, glasses, and a bird-like mask with a long beak, in the left h... More
L'Habito con il quale vanno i Medici per Roma... (BM 1880,0710.522)
A broadside on the dress of a plague doctor in Rome; with a woodcut showing a man dressed in a long coat, wearing gloves, a flat, broad-rimmed hat, glasses, and a bird-like mask with a long beak, in the left h... More
La Peste dans la ville de Marseille en 1720 (BM 1870,0625.828)
The Great Plague in Marseille, 1720: Chevalier Roze, on horseback, ordering men to move the corpses of the plague victims into abandoned strongholds overlooking the sea. 1727 Etching with some engraving
La Peste de Marseille (BM 1866,1208.445)
The Great Plague in Marseille, 1720, after Jean François de Troy; scene set on the waterfront, with at centre Chevalier Roze, on horseback, ordering men to move corpses into abandoned strongholds overlooking t... More
La Sentenza Data A Quelli Che Hanno Avelenato Molte Persone In Milano ...
A broadside on the execution of Guglielmo Piazza and Giovanni Giacomo Moro accused of spreading the plague in Milan on 1 August 1630; with an engraving showing a town square with different stages of the execut... More
Leonard Holt conversing with the Masons before the Portico of Saint Pa...
View of old St Paul's Cathedral; the masons working with large blocks of stone outside to the right, a working cart to the left; three men stand conversing while two women wait behind; illustration to Ainswort... More
Les pestiférés de Rome (BM 1907,0424.15)
Cardinal, accompanied by clergymen carrying cross and lanterns, adminstering viaticum (eucharist) to assembled group of plague victims in the streets of Rome. 1852-77? Etching with light surface tone, printed... More
Les Pestiférés de Rome (The Plague Victims of Rome) (BM 2019,7015.360)
A procession of clerical figures (right) approach a group of plague victims (left); in the foreground a woman with infant seated on a step and a man with nude torso lying on the ground. Etching on laid paper
Liberazione dal Colera (BM 1871,0429.520)
The citizens of Ancona, struck by a plague of cholera, supplicate their patron St Ciriaco to invoke the Virgin to intercede with the Trinity to free the city, dated September 1836; below the image is a text ex... More
Macklin's Bible (BM 1859,0312.300 1)
Head-piece to the book of Habakkuk, vignette with grotesque angel in clouds breathing plague, represented by frog, insects and snake, to left; letterpress in two columns below and one verso. c.1790-1800 Etchi... More
Macklin's Bible (BM 1859,0312.300)
Head-piece to the book of Habakkuk, vignette with grotesque angel in clouds breathing plague, represented by frog, insects and snake, to left; letterpress in two columns below and one verso. c.1790-1800 Etchi... More
March of the liberator. (BM 1868,0808.8966)
After the title: Tis the times, plague when Madmen lead the Blind Shakspear—['Lear', IV. i]. Below the design as a second title: "Bent He Seems. On Desperate revenge, which shall rebound upon his own rebelliou... More
Moses and the Brazen Serpent (BM 2010,7081.636)
Moses gesturing with his staff at the brazen serpent, twined around a 'T'-shaped pole, urging those who have been bitten by serpents in the plague set upon them in the desert, to look on it and be cured; Israe... More
Napoleon massacring three thousand eight hundred men at Jaffa (BM 1866...
A companion pl. to BMSat 10063 with the same signature and imprint. Turkish prisoners (l.), their hands tied behind their backs, are being shot and bayoneted by massed French troops, directed by an officer in... More
Oh! The Plague! (BM 1990,0303.17)
Caricature with a youth with a monkey teasing a dog held by a girl; copied after Boilly. October 1824 Hand-coloured lithograph
Old Testament Illustrations (BM 1875,0710.261)
The tenth plague: death of the firstborn; on the left a prince lying dead on the floor, having fallen off the chair behind him. Running diagonally from left foreground to right background a city, to its right ... More
Ovid's Metamorphoses (BM 2AA+,a.31.67)
Plate 67: The Plague at Aegina; in the sky, billowing clouds; at top right, Juno with her crown and sceptre, pointing downwards at the land below; below, a temple at left; figures and cattle dispersed, lying o... More
Plague in 1665 (BM 1875,0508.1513)
Three men loading plague victims from the street onto a cart to left, two of them smoking pipes to protect themselves, a figure with a bundle over his shoulder walking under an arch in the background to right;... More
Poisoning the sick at Jaffa. (BM 1865,1111.2285)
See No. 12454. P. 92. Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to... More
Poor Bull & his burden-or the political murraion-!!- (BM 1868,0808.847...
A bull, John Bull, lies on the ground to which he is stapled by heavy chains, one attached to a muzzle inscribed 'Gagging Bill'. He is weighed down by a pyramid of men piled high above his back, topped by a hu... More
Print (BM 1845,0809.1105) - Public domain engraving
St Roch; the saint is depicted as a pilgrim, showing a plague-spot on his leg to an angel to the right Engraving
Print (BM 1845,1223.2) - Public domain monumental decor engraving
St Charles Borromeo, a rope around his neck, kneeling before a crucifix and praying for his city struck by the plague; beyond at left figures carrying candles; before letter. c.1690 Engraving, with some etching
Jan Saenredam - Print (BM 1846,0509.271)
A beached whale near Beverwijk witnessed by Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz; the whale lies on a beach, its head to left and a rope tied around its tail, with four figures clambering on its side; the pri... More
Print (BM 1846,0709.1) - Public domain portrait engraving
The martyrdom of St Sebastian: Sebastian chained up to a pillar, and three torturers on the left, watching him. c.1520/25 Engraving
Print (BM 1847,0522.2 1) - Public domain print
St Sebastian; the saint is bound to a tree and his body is pierced by five arrows; to the left and right stand archers; at upper margin is the sign "T", inscription below, separated by a line. Nineteenth-centu... More
Print (BM 1847,0522.2) - Public domain print
St Sebastian; the saint is bound to a tree and his body is pierced by five arrows; to the left and right stand archers; at upper margin is the sign "T", inscription below, separated by a line. Nineteenth-centu... More
Print (BM 1852,1009.206) - Public domain scan / print
Four saints adoring Christ crucified upon the Sacred Heart; Christ appears on the cross with a banderole, within a bleeding heart at upper centre; the heart is displayed by a shield, which is held by four ange... More
Print (BM 1856,0712.342) - Public domain print
The star falling into the pit of hell and the plague of locusts; after Lemberger (Hollstein 7); the pit at centre, above it an angel blowing a fanfare; in front of the pit bodies on the ground; illustration to... More
Print (BM 1858,0417.1508) - Public domain monumental decor print
St Charles Borromeo kneeling, praying for the plague-stricken lying around him, and the exterminating angel sheathing his sword, in a frame surmounted by a cardinal hat Etching
Francesco Faraone Aquila - Print (BM 1860,0211.150)
Depiction of the plague, after Raphael Engraving Public domain scan of 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Print (BM 1863,0110.72) - Public domain scan / engraving
A plague scene; at right, a man holding a torch illuminating a cow and a dead flock of sheep, steps behind lead to a bedchamber where two women are tending an old man in bed; an inscribed term at centre; at le... More
Print (BM 1865,0610.399) - Public domain scenic print
An angel appearing to King David; David kneeling in front of a streetscape, his harp at left; the angel at upper left holding a skull, a sword and a bundle of twigs. Woodcut David was a skilled musician and p... More
Print (BM 1868,0612.54) - Public domain scenic print
St Roch, standing on the right with angel at his side, looks upwards, and holds the hand of a plague victim Etching
Print (BM 1869,0410.692) - Public domain city architecture print
Six scenes (in five rows) of activities in Rome during plague outbreak. c.1656 Etching
Print (BM 1869,0410.693) - Public domain city architecture print
Sixteen scenes (in five rows) of activities in Rome during plague outbreak. c.1656 Etching
Jan Saenredam - Print (BM 1871,0812.1545 1)
A beached whale near Beverwijk witnessed by Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz; the whale lies on a beach, its head to left and a rope tied around its tail, with four figures clambering on its side; the princ... More
Jan Saenredam - Print (BM 1871,0812.1545)
A beached whale near Beverwijk witnessed by Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz; the whale lies on a beach, its head to left and a rope tied around its tail, with four figures clambering on its side; the princ... More
Print (BM 1874,0808.812) - Public domain print
Abdon and Sennen bearing off for burial the early Christian martyrs: two men carrying to the right a dead body lying on a sheet, another dead body lies on the ground at left, and at right a boy holds a torch, ... More
Print (BM 1877,1124.1-20) - Public domain drawing
The ten commandments and ten plagues of Egypt; the sheet contains twenty cuts, arranged in five rows of two pairs each; every pair consists of the commandment and an illustration of its infringement, followed ... More
Print (BM 1880,1113.4599) - Public domain portrait print
View near Craven Hill, Bayswater; on of the places occupied by the citizens of London during the Plague; a woman with a basket stands in the field with very tall trees behind her, to the left a wooden fence, f... More
Print (BM 1891,0414.824) - Public domain engraving
St Roch interceding for the plague-stricken; St Roch half-kneeling on a rocky platform with his dog behind him, Christ appearing to him and pointing at a tablet held by an angel; seven victims of the plague ly... More
Print (BM 1891,0414.853) - Public domain engraving
The Horrors of War; allegorical scene with Mars walking away from the temple of Janus at left, encouraged by Alecto (Fury of War), while Venus tries to stop him followed by Europe who throws her arms in the ai... More
Print (BM 1895,0122.267) - Public domain scan / print
Four saints adoring Christ crucified upon the Sacred Heart; Christ appears on the cross with a banderole, within a bleeding heart at upper centre; the heart is displayed by a shield, which is held by four ange... More
Print (BM 1895,0122.492) - Public domain scan / print
St Roch and St Sebastian; St Roch as a pilgrim showing the plague spot on his leg at left; St Sebastian holding arrows at r; both standing in front of a Renaissance portico; landscape background. 1510 Woodcut
Print (BM 1909,0612.42) - Public domain scan / engraving
St Roch; the saint sitting before a wall to the left, while an angel to the right blesses a plague-spot on his leg; first/second state. c. 1490 Engraving
Print (BM 1917,1208.1333) - Public domain monumental decor engraving
St Charles Borromeo, a rope around his neck, kneeling before a crucifix and praying for his city struck by the plague; beyond at left figures carrying candles; lettered proof, with border surrounding the image... More
Print (BM 1927,0614.1) - Public domain scan / print
Four saints adoring Christ crucified upon the Sacred Heart; Christ appears on the cross with a banderole, within a bleeding heart at upper centre; the heart is displayed by a shield, which is held by four ange... More
Print (BM 1949,0411.4048) - Public domain scan / print
St Elizabeth of Hungary (?) tending to the sick; the crowned female saint washing a kneeling patient's hair in foreground, in right background a plague victim in bed; another patient seated at left. Woodcut
Print (BM 1973,U.583) - Public domain portrait engraving
St Sebastian, crowned by an angel, standing between St Anthony on the left, holding open book and bell, and St Roch on the right, healed by an angel; the plate is unfinished. c.1555 Engraving
Print (BM 1979,U.869) - Public domain engraving
The Vision of St Dominic, with God the Father, Christ holding arrows signifying the plague and the Dove at the top, with the Virgin on a crescent moon, with numerous saints with open books below and in the for... More
Print (BM E,8.78) - Public domain scan / print
St Roch and St Sebastian; St Roch as a pilgrim showing the plague spot on his leg at left; St Sebastian holding arrows at right; both standing in front of a Renaissance portico; landscape background. 1510 Woodcut
Print (BM H,3.46) - Public domain scan / engraving
A plague scene; at left, a man holding a torch illuminating a cow and a dead flock of sheep, steps behind lead to a bedchamber where two women are tending an old man in bed; an uninscribed term at centre; at r... More
Print (BM H,3.47) - Public domain scan / engraving
A plague scene; at left, a man holding a torch illuminating a cow and a dead flock of sheep, steps behind lead to a bedchamber where two women are tending an old man in bed; an inscribed term at centre; at rig... More
Print (BM P,2.11 1) - Public domain engraving
Portrait of Charles I, sculpted bust on a pedestal. c.1636 Engraving
Print (BM P,2.11 2) - Public domain portrait engraving
Portrait of Charles I, sculpted bust on a pedestal. c.1636 Engraving
Print (BM P,2.11) - Public domain engraving
Portrait of Charles I, sculpted bust on a pedestal. c.1636 Engraving
Print (BM R,4.34) - Public domain engraving
Jesus Christ in the upper section appearing to St Roch who is kneeling with his dog, an angel at right, below plague patients witness the scene; after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Print (BM V,10.136 1) - Public domain scenic print
Three Lucchese patron saints, Sts Nicholas Tolentino, Nicholas of Bari and Roch, interceding with the Virgin and Child for the victims of the plague. c.1630/1 Etching