The Petition to the King shows townspeople presenting the king with a basket of bones, the dragon's latest victims, pleading for a solution. The king deliberates and will soon declare that lots must be drawn by the young women...
William McKendree Snyder (1848-1930). American artist. , Donated in memory of Frieda Bach., and This work is a landscape painting depicted a view of the Point from Hanover College. The foreground of the work is dark and...
Edouard Manet (1832-1883). French artist. and Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in Profile. Monogrammed in the upper left. Artist's name and printer's line in plate below image. “Peint et gravé [painted and engraved] par Manet,...
George W. Morrison (1820 - 1893). American artist. and This painting by Morrison features a portrait of a woman who may have been affiliated with Hanover College in 1841.
Etching of the poet and painter Armand Guillaumin. In the upper left corner of the work is a small gallows with a hanged man. and Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). French artist.
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898). English artist. and In Princess Sabra Drawing the Lot, the young women draw a lot from a bag to decide which one is to be sacrificed to the dragton. The king's daughter, Sabra, picks the...
Propriétaire, from Masques et Visages, par Gavarni, Sèrie nouvelle. Physionomies Parisiennes, plate 44. Printed by Lemercier in Paris and published by Paulin et Le Chevalier in 1857-1858. and Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). French...
Medical drawing of the human rear, lower leg muscles by Emile Beau. Plate number 78 from the publication, Atlas d'Anatomie Descriptive du Corps Humain by Constantin Bonamy (b.1812), Paul Broca (1824-1880), and Emile Beau...
The work is highly detailed and realistic. Five figures, including Benjamin Franklin, are depicted sitting around a table with a vase on it. One of the men appears to be reading a book. The image is mostly comprised of muted...
This work is a highly detailed and realistic landscape painting. It depicts a river view, with the river in the background, and there are trees and hills in the foreground. The background is light, while the foreground is dark...