Allegory at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds 470 Allegory works in this public-domain catalogue, dating from 1465 to 1978. The collection is led by James Thornhill, Francesco Villamena and Raphael.
The Soul's Awakening
The Witch Anqarut ties Malik Iraj to a tree
An Allegory: Fidelity
An Allegory of Painting
An Allegorical Female Figure: Music (?)
An Allegory of Painting: A Man and a Woman Embodying 'Disegno' and 'Colore'
Merlin and Nimue
The Tree of Jesse (possibly Saint Matthew)
The Butt: Shooting a Cherry
A Chinese Dignitary Riding a Fish
Psyche Giving Gifts to Her Sisters
Cupids Playing
Saint Thomas Surrounded by Angels (copy of the fresco in the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
Salome Dancing before Herod
Fricasso
Three Cupids with Signs of the Zodiac: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra
An Allegory of Architecture
Allegorical Figures: Clemency, Prudence and Justice with Pallas, Heroic Poetry, Liberty, Discretion, History and Mercury (from the Royal State Coach for George I)
Pyramus and Thisbe (decorative panel)
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (Genesis 21.17)
Petrarch and Laura
Minerva with Allegorical Figures of the Arts and Sciences (sketch for the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Hampton Court Palace)
An Allegorical Female Figure: Poetry (?)
Allegorical Figures: Britannia Enthroned, Surrounded by Concord, Learning and Religion Overcoming Vice (from the Royal State Coach for George I)
Fame as an Allegory
Dido Conducting Aeneas to the Palace at Carthage
Saint John Bearing the Lamb (copy of the fresco in the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
A Chinese Dignitary Seated on a Throne
Saint Leo in Glory (sketch for the ceiling of the church of San Lio, Venice)
Ariel (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest')
Witches' Sabbath
desco da parto con il trionfo dell'amore
An Allegory of Sculpture
Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (after William Etty)
Bird-Catching by a Decoy with a Whistle and a Net (decorative painting for a supper-box at Vauxhall Gardens, London)
Count Eberhard Cutting the Tablecloth
Illustration from Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's 'The Humorous Lieutenant' (Act III, Scene 3)
Design for a Decorative Panel
Saint Bernard Surrounded by Angels (copy of the fresco in the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
Sancho Panza and Dapple (from Cervantes' 'Don Quixote')
The Dream of Queen Katherine (from William Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII', Act IV, Scene 2) (fragment)
Catherine de Médicis with the Head of Coligny
The Cumaean Sibyl (after Domenichino)
Shakespeare's Principal Characters
The Entombment (study for the painting in the Chapel of the Ascension, Bayswater Road)
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (after Titian)
Saint Hilary Surrounded by Angels (copy of the fresco in the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
The School of Athens (after Raphael)
Bird-Catching by a Decoy with a Whistle and Net (Decorative painting for a supper-box at Vauxhall Gardens, London)
St Leo in Glory (sketch for the ceiling of the church of San Lio, Venice)
Decorative painting for the Breakfast Room at Kedleston Hall
William and Mary Presenting the Cap of Liberty to Europe (sketch for the painted ceiling of the Great Hall, Greenwich Hospital)
A Chinese Princess at a Shrine (one of eleven panels with Chinoiserie decoration)
Full-scale monochrome cartoon for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace'
Half-size monochrome cartoon for the spirit fresco 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace'
An Allegory of Painting
An Ascetic Monk Torturing Himself
An Allegory of Painting
Allegory of Fire
Macready as Werner
An Allegory
An Allegory of Sculpture
Joseph sold by his brothers
Ariel
Prospero reveals Ferdinand to Miranda
Tobias and the Fish
Allegorical design with figures: Clemency, Prudence and Justice with Pallas, Heroic Poetry, Liberty, Discretion, History and Mercury (preliminary design for a panel from Royal State Coach for George I)
Copy after Giambattista Tiepolo’s fresco of the ‘Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra’ in the Ballroom Palazzo Labia, Venice (1746-1747), 1883.
Love
Selim discovered with Zuleika by Giaffir and his men
Siegfried and Chriemhilda
Comedy
Allegorical Composition
Macbeth instructing the murderers employed to kill Banquo
The Lady's Dream
Orlando Furioso
Dame Bragwaine
Fortune Distributing her Gifts
Chriemhilda and Hagen
An allegorical subject
Design for the decoration of the inner court of Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Eve and the Serpent
The Favourite Odalisque
A Fallen Warrior
Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Philosophy’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome,1509-11), 1864
Buonaparte Ordering Five Hundred & Eighty of his wounded Soldiers to be poisoned at Jaffa
Charity
Copy after La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi (Florence)
Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Poetry’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome,1509-11), 1864
Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Theology’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome,1508-09), 1864.
Spaghetti eaters
Yar hudgi
Copy after the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi (Florence)
Shylock, Salanio and Salarino
The Third Temptation
Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Jurisprudence’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1508-9), 1864
St Jerome in Penitence
Untitled
La Dialéctique et Logique
La Théologie et la Métaphysique
David cutting off the head of Goliath
Joseph Interpreting his Dreams
St Jerome in his Study
The Plague in Crete/ 'Il Morbetto'
The Sacrifice of Cain and Abel
Cupids binding and carrying sheaves of corn
The Coronation of the Virgin
A crowded food stall, and of hands holding a bowl and a pole
Anniversary of the Plague at Palermo
Aeneas before Dido in the Temple of Juno
Design for a ewer and a vase
St Peter healing the lame man
Preliminary design for the ceiling of the Upper Hall at Greenwich
Untitled
Design for an illusionistic panel in the Great Hall at Blenheim Palace
Reclining sibyl holding a book, with a winged putto supporting an inscribed tablet
Saturn Devouring his Child
Morte d'Arthur
Two designs for the inset paintings in the lower wall of the Great Hall at Moor Park, Hertfordshire
Untitled
Untitled
A fight between Cavaliers and Puritans
Untitled
Diogenese visited by Alexander the Great
Macbeth and the three witches
Taormina "Antichita" Giovanni Panarello
The Black Cat
Design for a painting within an architectural setting depicting Ptolemy I commissioning the Library at Alexandria
Kneeling angel holding a chalice
The Goddess Brizo
Allegory of the Union of Painting and Sculpture
Pietà
The punishment of Prometheus
Untitled
Untitled
A Chinese man and two goats beneath a banana palm
Untitled
Boys running
Harvest Celebration
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The Altar of Friendship [l’Autel de l'Amitié]
drawing from Ionides Album
Mankind Feasting and Making Love, Awaiting the Last Judgement (‘the coming of the son of man’) (Matthew 24:37–42)
Untitled
The Birth of the Virgin
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Fragments of a design for a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
The Education of the Virgin
An allegorical figure on a char
A coronation
A seated figure receiving an offering
The Adoration of the Shepherds, in an architectural frame ornamented with caryatids, putti, festoons, birds, trophies etc
Untitled
The Elector of Bavaria, Prince Ferdinand Maria, with his family, and a model of the Theatiner Church at Munich
Joseph and his brethren
Study of a soldier in Roman dress with uplifted arms
Faith, Hope and Charity
An angel in flight
Untitled
Diogenes visited by Alexander the Great
Drawing by a member of the Sketching Society
Twelve naked children dancing
Untitled
Judith showing the head of Holofernes to the Israelite elders
Study for an oval painting
Harpocrates (or Horus), God of Silence
Two Angels
Studies of modelli for sculptural projects by Giambologna, on the front the Apennine and detail from the base of the fountain of Samson and on the back a fountain, possibly with the figure of Neptune
Design
The Allegory of Sculpture
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La bataille au bouclier sur la lance
Untitled
King Henry IV
The Last Judgment
Democritus
Les Suites de la Guerre
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Triumph of Titus and Vespasian
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The Hunting of the Crocodile and Hippopotamus
Martyrdom of St. Peter the Dominican
Marriage at Cana
Assumption of the Virgin
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The Virgin Mary
The Four Prophets, Daniel, David, Jonas and Habakkuk
Fall of Phaeton
The Sacrifice of Abraham
Untitled
The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia
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Illustrations to Apuleius
Dido
Adoration of the Shepherds
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The Rape of Hippodamia
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The Body of St. Mark
Untitled
Untitled
The Last Judgment
Mercury and the Graces
Rape of the Sabines
Untitled
Dream of Human Life
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Figure of Charity
The Deluge
St. Catherine
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Massacre of the Innocents
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Diogenes
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
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The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
The Deluge
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The Martyrdom of St. James and St. Christopher
King John
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Noah's Sacrifice
Lion and Tiger Hunting
Coronation of the Virgin
Susannah Suprised by the Elders
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St. Lawrence
The Laughing Audience
Conversion of Saul
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Noah and his family leaving the Ark
Untitled
Healing of the Lame Man
Columbus Breaking the Egg
Martyrdom of St. Peter
Tomyris with the head of Cyrus
The sacrifices of Cain and Abel, and the death of Abel
Untitled
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Triumph of the Church
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Adoration of the Magi
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The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
Massacre of the Innocents
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
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St. George and the Dragon
The Massacre of the Innocents
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St. Cecilia
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St. Anne
Last Judgment
Raphael conducting Tobias
Martyrdom of St. Agnes
Mater Salvatoris
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The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
Triumph of Galatea
The Resurrection
Noah building the Ark
Punishment of Regulus
Rape of the Sabines
Untitled
Assumption of the Virgin
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Jason
Untitled
Faith, Hope and Charity
Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaele
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'Raphaelis Sanctij Vrbinatis Planetarium,' &c.
Belisarius
Untitled
Moses saved from the water
Last Judgment
The Hunt of the Lion and Lioness
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Moses Striking the Rock
Bacchanal with Silenus
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Untitled
The Sibyl Delphica
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Untitled
Untitled
St. Cecilia
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Murder of the Innocents
Untitled
The Emperor Caracalla killing his brother
St. Christopher
St. Agnes
The Continence of Scipio
The Sacrifice at Lystra
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Pericles
Last Judgement
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Untitled
St. George and the Dragon
St. Catherine
The Carrying Away of Helen
Diogenes Casting Away his Bowl
The Temptation of Adam
Abraham offering Isaac
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Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Pinacotheca Hamptoniana
Untitled
St. Catherine
Untitled
The Temptation
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Coronation of the Virgin
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Diogenes and Alexander
The Ploughman
Arms of the Undertakers' Company
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Tom Block
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Lucretia
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Untitled
Infant Moses
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Untitled
The taking down from the Cross
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The Archangel Michael
Untitled
Marriage of St. Catherine
The Triumph of Galatea
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Rubens and his Wife
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Alexander in the Studio of Apelles
Untitled
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The Descent from the Cross
Meleager and Atlanta
Untitled
Repose in Egypt
Return of the Prodigal Son
The Adoration of the Kings
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The Golden Calf
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Count Ugolino
The Silence
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Signorum Veterum Icones
Marche de Silene
St. John the Evangelist
Democritus in Meditation
The Last Judgment
Adrienne Le Couvreur
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Infant Moses
The Royall Oake of Brittayne
Noah and His Family Leaving the Ark
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The Judgment of Midas
Mrs Litchfield
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Providentia
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Assumption of the Virgin
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Death of St. Peter the Martyr
La bataille au coutelas
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Scene from Macbeth, Act IV., Scene I.
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Judith with the head of Holofernes
St. John the Evangelist
Vision of St. Jerome
Murder of the Innocents
Untitled
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La Belle Jardinière
St. Jerome
St. George and the Dragon
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Untitled
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Untitled
Harry Beard Print Collection
Pinacotheca Hamptoniana
Massacre of the Innocents
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Ezekiel
Scene from Hamlet, Act I., Scene IV.
Peter the Great
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ANCHORA o INPARO
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Virgin Enthroned
Untitled
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Sculpture at the Crystal Palace
Finding of Moses
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Rape of Europa
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Fall of Phaeton
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Schola Italica Picturæ
Paradise Lost
Timon of Athens
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Print depicting Act II, Scene 10 of <i>Socrates,</i>
Untitled
Lot
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Conversion of St. Paul
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Untitled
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The Children of Israel and the Plague of Fiery Serpents
The Fall of the Rebellious Angels
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Last Judgment
Triumph of David
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Untitled
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