Print this page or go back to standard view.
XEE4166696: Feast of Saint Ambrose, Saint Gervais and Saint Protais in the Church of San Marco in Milan, 14 May 1874: under a large canopy there is a hunt in which the relics of the three patron saints of Milan are preserved. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°896 of 13 June 1874., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166705: Aeronautics: the ascent of the “Polar Star” balloon in 1874. To combat respiratory problems encountered at high altitude, the two aeronautics fitted balloons containing oxygen and inhaled through the mouth using a rubber hose. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°886 of 4 April 1874., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166753: Cartoon about men. A narcissistic gentleman admires his high-form hat with regret in a mirror. “” Those idiots who have fun wearing hats with too narrow edges are because the edges of mine seem too wide!” Engraving in “” Petite Journal pour Rire”” by A. Grevin, 1879., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166763: Cartoon about people at sea. Two women, one of whom speaks of fashion: “Tell me where you bought your suit which makes you so thin; see how much mine grows.” Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour Rire”” by A. Grevin, 1879., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166779: Cartoon about Parisian couples. A woman with her lover asks the maid to send her appointment back with another man: “Tell her that mom is here and I have to go.” Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour Rire””, 1879., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166794: Cartoon about the country. A peasant woman and her pig: “Ben names a pig, great Gieu, it's dirty.” Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour Rire””, 1879., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166797: Cartoon about Parisian couples. The maid interrupted with her lover by the owner of the house: “An idyll. Let's go! Lady ring! Tonnerr'ed dog! Quee crystere! Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour Rire””, 1879., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166822: Political and social cartoon during the Second Empire. “” Music””: concert by a violinist. Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour rire””, 1860., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166827: Political and social cartoon during the Second Empire. “” Les invalides””: a man hurts war (butt de jatte or cul-de-jatte with wooden legs) ironically seduces two young women. Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour rire””, 1860., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166830: Political and social cartoon during the Second Empire. “” Champetre””: a conversation of a slightly clumsy peasant woman with a lady from the city who is hearing from her. Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour rire””, 1860., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166832: Political and social cartoon during the Second Empire. “The disabled”. A war wounded ironises politics and its condition of disability. Engraving in “” Petity Journal pour rire””, 1860., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166863: Deces of Pope Pius IX (Pio) (1792-1878): ritual of the recognition of the death of the Pope. A cardinal hits the deceased's forehead with a silver hammer. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1089 of 16 February 1878., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166879: Portrait of Mercedes d'Orleans (Maria de las Mercedes de Orleans) (1860-1878), Queen of Spain. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1085 of 19 January 1878., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166892: Kurdish soldiers in 1877 during the Eastern War (1875-1878) also called the Turkish Russo War (Russo-Turkish). Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1055 of June 30, 1877., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166906: Theatrical representation: “” Hernani”” by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), act III scene 6. Paris, Comedie Francaise, 1877. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1077 of 1 December 1877., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166910: Theatrical representation: “” Hernani”” by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), act I scene 3. Paris, Comedie Francaise, 1877. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1077 of 1 December 1877., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166919: Parisian department stores: exterior view of the “City of Saint Denis”, at the corner of Rue Paradis Poissonniere and Faubourg Sant Denis, Paris, 1878. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1109 of 29 June 1878., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166955: The fee running away with a golden spindle was singing the fate of a golden button. Illustration by Carl Offterdinger (1829-1889) in “” Bouton d'or””. Private collection., Offterdinger, Carl (1829-89) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166973: Children walking in a park with their housekeeper and games of balls, hoops and small drum. Illustration in “La jour de Ginette et Raymond”, beginning 20th century., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4166998: The chapel wagon in the Russian Transsiberian, 1904. Engraving in “” Le-Soleil-du-Dimanche”” of 19 June 1904., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167005: Russo Japanese War (Russian-Japanese) (1904-1905): Russian tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) reviewing his troops. Engraving in “” Le-Soleil-du-Dimanche”” of January 31, 1904., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167018: Buddhism: Lama procession in the streets of Lhasa in Tibet, 1904. One of “The Sun-of-Sunday” of October 2, 1904., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167028: Queen Marie Antoinette and the dolphin at the time of arrest. Portrait of comedian Henriette Rosine Bernard called Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in the role of Marie-Antoinette for the theatre play “” Varennes” by Henri Lavedan (1859-1940) and Theodore Gosselin, known as G. Lenotre (1855-1935). One of “Le Soleil-du-dimanche” of June 12, 1904., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167038: First flight: experience of the Wright brothers (Orville Wright, 1871-1948 and Wilbur Wright, 1867-1912) at Kitty Hawk in the United States. Engraving in “” Le-Soleil-du-Dimanche”” of 7 February 1904., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167054: Portrait of Maria Favart (Pierrette Ignace Pingaud, dit) (1833-1908), French comedian, member of the Comedie Francaise. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n¡1168 of 16 August 1879., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4167061: Before the war: Russia and Japan exchanged some notes. Cartoon on relations between the two countries before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905. Engraving appeared in the “New York Herald” in 1904., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165760: A giant cactus (giant candle, cereus giganteus) of the United States, 1862. Engraving by Freeman in “” Le Magasin picturesque””, 1862., Freeman, William Henry (fl.1839-1875) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165768: Railway: cross-section of an extraction and tunnel well used when drilling a tunnel. Engraving in “” Le Magasin picturesque””, 1862., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165778: 1829, the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mahmud II (Mahmud) II (1784-1839): but a mysterious hand appears and pulls to it the rug which diminishes. It's the turn of the Crescent to go back. The sultan is worried. Illustration by Felix Lorioux (1872-1964), 1913., Lorioux, Felix (1872-1964) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165814: Portrait of Dr. Jules Cabarrus (1801-1870), French physician. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°685 of 28 May 1870., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165839: Portrait of Auguste Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely (Saint-Jean-d'Angely) (1794-1870), marechal of France. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°670 of 12 February 1870., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165879: First World War; French artillery soldiers near a cannon on a battlefield. One of them climbs on a ladder and observes with binoculars. One of the newspaper “Lectures pour tous”” of May 15, 1915., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165882: First World War: French Alpine hunters smoking pipe in a trench. One of the newspaper “Lectures pour tous”” of August 1, 1915., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165916: War of 1870 - Government of the National Defense: portrait of Jules Simon (Francois Jules Suisse, dit) (1814-1896), member of the provisional government of 1870. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°706 of October 22, 1870., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165927: War of 1870: portrait of Leon Franchetti (1834-1870), French soldier, commander of the Scouts of the Seine. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°714 of 17 December 1870., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4165935: Portrait of Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870), French writer. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°690 of 2 July 1870., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images