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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1920s
Sir. John Powell, Knight: Early 18th C. Engraved Portrait After William Sherwin
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century portrait of Sir John Powell entitled "The Honorable Sr. John Powell, Knight. one of the Justices of her Majesties' Court of Common Pleas. Ano. D 1711". It was engraved and published by John King in London in 1711, after an earlier work by William Sherwin. The engraving depicts a bust length portrait of Powell wearing an elaborate fir-trimmed robe and collar. The portrait is encompassed in an ornate oval frame, sitting on a pedestal with an impressive coat-of-arms below.
This engraved portrait is printed on laid, chain-linked watermarked cream-colored paper The sheet measures 15.25" high and 11.38" wide. It is adhered to an archival thick card at the upper corners, There is a 1/8" tear at the lower edge of the sheet, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. This engraving is held by museums and institutions, including the British Museum and the Harvard University Art Museum.
Sir John Powell (1632-1696) was an English lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the King's Bench from 1683 until his death. He was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, and studied at Jesus College, Oxford, before being called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1656. Powell was known for his staunch support of the monarchy and the Church of England, and he played a prominent role in the trial of the Whig leader Lord William Russell in 1683, which resulted in Russell's execution for his alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate King Charles II. Powell was also involved in the trials of several other prominent Whig politicians, including Algernon Sidney and Titus Oates. In addition to his work as a judge, Powell was also a member of Parliament for various constituencies throughout his career, and he served as Solicitor General and Attorney General for Wales under King James II. However, he opposed James's efforts to promote Catholicism and supported the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which led to James's overthrow and the installation of William and Mary as joint monarchs.
Powell was known for his intellectual rigor and his legal expertise, and he authored several influential legal treatises during his lifetime. He was widely respected by his peers and by the legal community as a whole, and his legacy as a jurist and judge continues to be celebrated today.
William Sherwin (1645-1709) was an English engraver who worked during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and is known for his high-quality engravings of various subjects, including portraits, landscapes, and architectural views. Sherwin was trained as an engraver and worked as an apprentice to the renowned engraver Robert White. After completing his training, he went on to establish his own studio in London, where he produced a significant body of work over the course of his career. One of Sherwin's most famous works is his engraving of the portrait of John Locke...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Untitled /// French Ornaments Designs Architecture Jean Bérain Old Master Print
By Jean Bérain
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jean Berain (the Elder) (French, 1640-1711)
Title: "Untitled" (Plate 35)
Portfolio: Ornemens Inventez par J. Berain (Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain)
Circa: 1711 (Firs...
Category
1710s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio, Etching
London Bridge, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'London Bridge'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Les Allies a Versailles
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on plate. From the portfolio “Le Bonheur du Jour” by George Barbier. Etching and Pochoir.
Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Le Leopard - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Leopard is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Ro...
Category
1770s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Orientale à la croix trifoliée
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 65 x 50.5 cms (25 1/2 x 19 7/8 ins)
Image size: 54.3 x 45 cms (21 3/8 x 17 3/4 ins)
Category
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map
Size: 28 x 22.5 in (71.12 x 57.15 cm)
Every good condition for it's age
Originally came folded in envelope for mailing....
Category
1920s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
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Late 18th Century Italian School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving, Etching
Landscape "Campi Phlegraei - Plate XXXIII" Naples - By Hamilton-Fabris
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21.5x39 cm.
Beautiful plate from the volume "Campi Flegrei" by William Hamilton including 59 plates by Pietro Fabris. This particular plate illustrates the eruptio...
Category
18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
5th or 8th edition print of "Que pico de Oro" from the Los Caprichos with burnished aquatints, drypoints etchi...
Category
1790s Northern Renaissance Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Bolet Bisannuel' & 'Le Bolet Coriace'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
Woodcuts
Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Colored Engraving
Collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational Histor...
Category
17th Century French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
Remains of Henry II's Palace, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Remains of Henry II's Palace, as it stood in Woodstock Park in 1714'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author a...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Engraving
Ancient Roman Fresco/Naval Battle - Original Etching by V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco / Naval Battle from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plat...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
New Staines Bridge, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'New Staines Bridge'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aquat...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Aquatint
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Original Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condit...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Art Deco : Women with Doves - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
By Henri Clement-Serveau
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Clement-Serveau
Art Deco : Women with Doves, 1925
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On Perrigot vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp o...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Two Girls with Horses and Dog - Signed Stone Lithograph - 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Two Girls with Horses and Dog (1928)
Stone Lithograph
Printed in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the plate
On China paper 31 x 42 c...
Category
1920s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
George II, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George II'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Ruins - Etching and Drypoint - Late 1700
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21.5 x 15 cm.
Ancient Roman Ruins is a beautiful black and white etching and burin on laid paper, representing the Sepulcher of the Plauzia family in Tivoli and th...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Set of Two Engravings from Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus" /// Architecture
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Titles: "The Plan of Lindsey House in Lincolns Inn Fields" (Vol. 1, Plate 49) and "Lindsey House in Lincolns Inn Fields" (Vol. 1, Plate 5...
Category
1710s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Ivy Bridge near Plymouth, Devon. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ivy Bridge near Plymouth'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Irelan...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1552)
FLORENCZ - -- FIGUR UND GELEGENHEIT DER EDLEN UND HOCH BERHÜMPTEN STATT FLORENTZ. . c 1550 (Fauser, #3925.)
Woodcut f...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Chertsey Bridge, Surrey, Thames, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chertsey Bridge, Surrey'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Aquatint
The Human Body - De Humani Corporis Fabrica - by Andrea Vesalio - 1642
Located in Roma, IT
The Human Body is an original etching from the famous "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" by Andrea Vesalio.
The "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" is commonly consi...
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1640s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Castle and Town of Tanlay, French architecture, mid 17th century engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp du Chasteau et Bourg de Tanlay'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, garden...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"Landschaft mit Frauen" original woodcut
By Aloys Wach
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. The title means "Landscape with Women". Printed in 1920 for the German Expressionist art revue Das Kunstblatt, published in Berlin by Verlag Gustav Kiepenhe...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Katu-Belluren": A 17th Century Botanical Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraving of a vine spinach plant entitled "Katu-Belluren" by Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 46 from his 'Hortus Indicus M...
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Late 17th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen, "Seated Female Nude w/Orange Drapery" Collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Silvery Marmoset Amazon Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mico. Buff, Simia Argentata. Linn", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste Audebert...
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Late 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Piazza Colona
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Piazza Colona
Etching, 1752
From: Della Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna ( The Magnificense of Ancient and Modern Rome) , (1747-1761)
Volume II, The Main Squares and Obelisks, ...
Category
1750s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Original "Ring It Again, Third Liberty Loan vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Ring it Again Third Liberty Loan. Buy U. S. Gov't Bonds. World War 1 lithograph poster over 100 years old. It is mounted on acid-free archival linen. It looks l...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Le Chien Courant - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chien Courant is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet...
Category
1770s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Landlord - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Landlord is an original vintage offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is plate n.29 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Goddess - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Goddess from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
L'Ecuyère - Lithograph by Georges Rouault - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ecuyere is a beautiful original lithograph realized by Georges Rouault in 1920.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist in pencil.
Edition of 25 prints.
5th ad final state of a s...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Returning to the Stable.
Located in Storrs, CT
Returning to the Stable. 1920. Drypoint. Appleby 64. 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 (sheet 11 7/16 x 16 1/8). Edition 100. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper wi...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Homeland Figures - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Homeland figures from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922.
The artwork is the plate n. 47 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published betwee...
Category
1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Sir Francis Bacon: 18th C. Portrait of Philosopher, Scientist, Author, Statesman
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, Lord Chancellor by Jacobus Houbraken in 1738 after a p...
Category
1730s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Hague - Le Fameux Vivier de la Haye - Etching by French Master 1700
Located in Roma, IT
The Hague - Le fameux Vivier de la Haye is an original print realized on peep-leaf in the 18th Century.
A beautiful watercolored etching (on copper plaque) sold at the time by Daumi...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Don Juan
By Louis Icart
Located in Missouri, MO
Aquating Engraving
Image Size: approx. 20 1/4 x 13 3/8
Framed Size: 28 x 20.5 inches
Pencil Signed Lower Right
Louis Justin Laurent Icart was born in Toulouse in 1890 and died in Paris in 1950. He lived in New York City in the 1920s, where he became known for his Art-Deco color etchings of glamourous women.
He was first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart and was officially named Louis Justin Laurent Icart. The use of his initials L.I. would be sufficient in this household. Therefore, from the moment of his birth he was dubbed 'Helli'. The Icart family lived modestly in a small brick home on rue Traversière-de-la-balance, in the culturally rich Southern French city of Toulouse, which was the home of many prominent writers and artists, the most famous being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Icart entered the l'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Toulouse in order to continue his studies for a career in business, particularly banking (his father's profession). However, he soon discovered the play writings of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), which were to change the course of his life. Icart borrowed whatever books he could find by Hugo at the Toulouse library, devouring the tales, rich in both romantic imagery and the dilemmas of the human condition. It was through Icart's love of the theater that he developed a taste for all the arts, though the urge to paint was not as yet as strong for him as the urge to act.
It was not until his move to Paris in 1907 that Icart would concentrate on painting, drawing and the production of countless beautiful etchings, which have served (more than the other mediums) to indelibly preserve his name in twentieth century art history.
Art Deco, a term coined at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, had taken its grip on the Paris of the 1920s. By the late 1920s Icart, working for both publications and major fashion and design studios, had become very successful, both artistically and financially. His etchings reached their height of brilliance in this era of Art Deco, and Icart had become the symbol of the epoch. Yet, although Icart has created for us a picture of Paris and New York life in the 1920s and 1930s, he worked in his own style, derived principally from the study of eighteenth-century French masters such as Jean Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard.
In Icart's drawings, one sees the Impressionists Degas...
Category
1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards /// Bird Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Edwards (English, 1694-1773)
Title: "Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards"
Portfolio: A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals / Gleanings Of Natural History
Year: 1743-1764
Medium: Set of Two Original Hand-Colored Engravings on watermarked laid and wove papers
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: C. Rickaby, London, UK
Publisher: William Gardiner and Messrs. Robinson, London, UK
Reference: Mullens and Swann page 194-195; Anker No. 124-126; Fine Bird Books page 93; Lisney page 128-144; Nissen IVB No. 286-288; Zimmer page 192-198
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.25" x 9"
Image size (each): approx. 8.63" x 7.38"
Condition: "90" has faint offsetting to sheet. "308" has one foxmark center right. They are both otherwise in excellent condition with strong colors
Notes:
Comes from Edwards seven volume portfolio "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals" / "Gleanings Of Natural History" (1743-1764), which consists of 362 hand-colored engravings. "90" is on laid paper with a "fleur-de-lis" watermark at center left edge. "308" is on wove paper with no watermark. The last image of the cover title sheets is for reference/provenance; it is not included.
Biography:
George Edwards FRS (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology". Edwards was born at West Ham...
Category
1740s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Sparrowhawk /// Antique Ornithology Bird Saverio Manetti Italian Watercolor Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Saverio Manetti (Italian, 1723-1785)
Title: "Sparrowhawk" (Plate XXI - 21)
Portfolio: Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)
Year: 1767-1776
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: heirs of Francesco Mouck (Vols. I-III), Gaetano Cambiagi (Vol. IV), Giuseppe Vanni (Vol. V), Florence, Italy
Reference: Ayer/Zimmer page 241; Fine Bird Books page 120; McGill/Wood, page 450; Nissen IVB No. 588
Sheet size: 17.88" x 14.07"
Platemark size: 13.69" x 11.69"
Condition: A few small minor areas of discoloration in margins. Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Engraved and hand-colored by Italian artists Lorenzo Lorenzi (Active: 1750-1780) and Violante Vanni (1732-1776). Latin and Italian texts by Saverio Manetti. Comes from Manetti's monumental five volume "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", (1767-1776), which consists of 600 hand-colored engravings. Unidentified watermark in center of sheet.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk, also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below.
Manetti's extraordinary "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", 1767-1776 was commissioned by Maria Luisa, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. It is a massive 5 book volume set of 600 hand-colored engraved plates of birds. Engraved and hand-colored by Italian artists Lorenzo Lorenzi (Active: 1750-1780) and Violante Vanni (1732-1776). Latin and Italian texts by Manetti. Manetti created the drawings almost exclusively from real specimens, beginning with the extensive collection of Marquis Giovanni Gerini, an affluent Florentine Senator. Manetti saw the work was published in parts of 12 plates, issued every two months or so, most plates dedicated to a prominent member of the Italian nobility and gentry. Printed on handmade watermarked laid paper and published by heirs of Francesco Mouck (Vols. I-III), Gaetano Cambiagi (Vol. IV), Giuseppe Vanni (Vol. V), between 1767-1776 in Florence, Italy. It took 10 years to complete and at its time, was one of the largest surveys of ornithology attempted and the finest set of bird books to ever be created.
Biography:
Francesco Saverio Manetti...
Category
1760s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Newstead in Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newstead in Nottinghamshire, the Seat of Lord Byron'
Engraving by Thomas Malton after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views i...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Musicians, Serigraph on Canvas, Embellished w/ Marker by Anatole Krasnyansky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anatole Krasnyansky, Ukrainian/American (1930 - ) - The Musicians, Medium: Serigraph on Canvas, Embellished with Marker, Edition: 21/21, Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm)
Category
Late 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Vaso antico di marmo, che si conosceva nella Galleria del Palazzo
Located in Roma, IT
Artist's proof, printed on antique laid paper, large margins, representing an “antique marble vase in the gallery of the palazzo Barberini” as he r...
Category
1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Pictures Of Noh" - 1922 Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pictures Of Noh" - 1922 Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Original Japanese woodblock print by Tsukioka Kogyo (Japanese, 1869-1927...
Category
1920s Edo Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Thomas Willis, MD, 17th C. Pioneer of Neurology & Psychiatry: 18th C. Portrait
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of the 17th century physician and scientist Thomas Willis, MD from "The Heads of Illustrious Person...
Category
1740s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Munchen, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful black and white aquatint showing an antique view of Munchen, capital of Bavaria.
From the collection by Braun G. and Hogenberg F., "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. ...
Category
16th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Southeastern Ireland: A 17th Century Hand Colored Map by Mercator and Hondius
Located in Alamo, CA
A 17th century copperplate hand-colored map entitled "The Second Table of Ireland, Udrone" by Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, published in Amsterdam in 1635 in 'Cosmographicall ...
Category
1630s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Original Vintage Renault Early Auto Car Poster by Pierre de Bas 1925
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The exhilarating feeling of speed is felt in this thrilling design for Renault cars by Pierre de Bas. It is one of the rarer car posters created during this ...
Category
1920s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Le Lapin Domestique - Etching by Jacques De sève - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lapin Domestique is an artwork realized by Jacques de Seve in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is glued on cardb...
Category
1770s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Chair - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
The Chairis a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Not signed and not numbered, as issued.
The artwork is depicted through confid...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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