Pierre Gabriel Berthault (1748-1819) after Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791)

French Neoclassical Design for Candlesticks, engraving after Delafosse

1768

'Plan et Elevation d'un Buffet en Niche' French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's 'L'Art du ...

'Plan et Elevation d'une Alcove' French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menuisie...

'Construction des Parclauses et Le Profil des Museaux' French copper-line engraving by Milsan after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's...

'Developments des Appuis et Des Museaux des Stalles' French copper-line engraving by P Le Cor after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's...

“INTERIORS IV : HOTEL PARADISE” Contemporary artist Peter Milton created this etching and engraving in 1987. The printed Image size is 24 x 35.50 inches and the paper size is 30.75 x 41.75 inches. This impression is signed, dated, and titled in pencil, and inscribed “84/175” – the 84th impression of an edition of 175 pieces. “I do love to draw. I feel that I am being granted membership in the Brotherhood of Merlin, conjuring forth some apparition. As a drawing develops, I sense a vague presence coming more and more into focus, something in a white fog emerging and becoming increasingly palpable.” – P. Milton, “The primacy of touch. The Drawings of Peter Milton” “Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul.” – T. L. Johnson and A. Shafer Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute...

A copper mezzotint printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 20, Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" in 2005. Study of graphic arts. Printer and spe...

This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #34 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil. Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954) Jukka Vanttinen...

This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #44 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil. Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954) Jukka Vanttinen...