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Period: Early 19th Century
Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 148 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Clau...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Simulacro di Diana - Origina Etching After Agostino Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
Simulacro Di Diana is an original print realized by Giovanni Folo After Agostino Tofanelli. Original etching on copper. Hand-colored on black ink background. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Giovanni Foto (as printed on plate on lower right). Original title: Simulacro Di Diana detto volgarmente la ZIngarella Included frame: 60 x 50 cm From "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli.", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published in Rome, 1821. It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique monuments or statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill. Remarkable contemporary artists like Luigi Cunego, Gio. Batta Leonetti, Pietro Bettelini, Gio. Brunetti, Giovanni Ottaviani, Angelo Campanella, Pietro Fontana contributed. Drawings are, above all, by Agostino Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis, Teodoro Matteini. Giovanni Folo Veneto (Bassano, 1764 – Rome 1836) Giovanni Folo Veneto was an Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period, active in Italy. He studied with Giulio Golini and G.B. Mengardi in Venice. In 1781 he moved to Rome to study with Giovanni Volpato, but later he followed the style of the Volpato's pupil, Raffaello Morghen...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 61 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Claud...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 98 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist L...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Bust of Septimius Severus - Original Etching by G.B. Leonetti After B. Nocchi
Located in Roma, IT
“Busto di Settimio Severo” (Bust of Settimio Severo) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Leonetti , after Bernardino Nocchi...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Customs of Trastevere (Rome) - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819, Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x41. Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 150 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

The Goatherd in Tivoli - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Il Capraro di Tivoli is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the left, “Pinel...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Costume of Felettino - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819, Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x40. Etching and Watercolor tecnique. In Good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, left. Signed and dated ...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 177 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

I Moccoletti - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
I Moccoletti is a pleasant etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The work is unsigned, but it is part of the 20 plates engraved in 18...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Gouache

Avanzi delle rovine della Villa... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi delle Rovine della casa del console Ventidio Basso, non molto lungi da Quintigliolo nella Valle verso Tramontana in Tivoli. Image dimensions: 36x46 cm. From the collection “L...
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Roman Costumes - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819, Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x40. Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Roman Girls Return from the Harvest - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions are at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the le...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Interno della Basilica della Fortuna Prenestina - by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Interno della Basilica della Fortuna Prenestina Image dimensions: 40x53 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)”, published in Rome, 1826 an artist's proof w...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Avanzi di una Sala Termane... - Original Etching by L. Rossini - 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi di una Sala Termale nella Villa d'Orazio a Tivoli, sotto il convento di S. Antonio Image dimensions: 43.5 x 52 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Jean-Jean - Original Lithograph by Horace Vernet - First half of 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Jean is a fine black and white lithograph, realized by Horace Vernet (1789-1863). This beautiful original print, representing a soldier playing the flute, is in very good condi...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Courtesan - Original Woodblock Print by Eisen Keisai - First Half of 1800
Located in Roma, IT
The Courtesan is an original print realized between in the beginning of XIX century by Keisai Eisen This is a mixed colored xylograph. Include passeparto...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Veduta della Gran Caduta dell' Aniene... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta della Gran Caduta dell'Aniene in Tivoli Image dimensions: 63x46 cm. From the series “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an artist's proof of technical virtuosity with sh...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Amore Scherza - Original Etching by G. B. da Ravenna after Bernardino Nocchi
Located in Roma, IT
“Amore che scherzo, Statua” (Joking Eros, Statue) is a wonderful black and white etching on paper, realized by the artist Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Gio Brunetti da Ravenna inc. Roma 1795”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher right corner “Tav. XXIX” and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints representing a precious piece of the Borghese collection, an Eros statue caressing a sparrow, is in excellent conditions with some light signs of the time (some little whormholes on the left margin beyond the marginal line of the matrix) but with fresh impression. Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were found and made available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Head of Woman - Original Etching by Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna
Located in Roma, IT
“Testa muliebre” (Head of a woman) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, after Bernardino Nocchi...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Bacchanalia - Etching by P. Fontana After A. Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Baccanale con Bacco, Sileno, Fauni, e Menadi” is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, ...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Birth of Telefon, on a Bas-Relief - Original Etching by A. Campanella
By Angelo Campanella
Located in Roma, IT
“Nascita di Telefo, Bassorilievo” (Birth of Telefo, Bas-relief) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Angelo Campanella, after Bernardino Nocchi, as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Angelo Campanella incise Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. IX" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints shows a beautiful piece of the Borghese's collection, a classical bas-rilief representing the birth of Telefo, a Greek hero and myth. In excellent conditions with some light signs of the time with some sporadic minor stains along the higher margins,this wonderful etching has preserved still today his beauty and his fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Angelo Campanella (Rome, 1748 – 1815) Angelo Campanella was an Italian painter and engraver, learned his art under Giovanni Volpato. He engraved the statues of twelve apostles found in the church of St. John Lateran in Rome, and some of the plates for Gavin Hamilton's Schola Itálica including The Presentation in the Temple after Fra Bartolommeo...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Avanzi delle grandi Mura ciclopee... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi delle grandi Mura Ciclopee da Vitruvio Opus Incertum, nella città di Cora Image dimensions: 47x67 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an artist's...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Death of Meleagro - Etching by Giovanni Foto Veneto - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Sarcofago rappresentante la morte di Meleagro” (Sarcophagus representing the Meleagro's death) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giovanni Folo...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Horse Race - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
La Corsa dei Cavalli is a beautiful etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The work, which presents a remarkable quality of strokes an...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Gouache

Il Corso - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Il Corso is a beautiful etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The work, which presents a remarkable quality of strokes and brilliant ...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Gouache

Horse Race - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Corsa dei Cavalli (Horse Race) is a beautiful etching on copper, printed on laid paper, hand-colored brightly with gouache. The artwork is unsigned, but it is part of the 20 plates ...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Gouache

Veduta delle rovine di una Conserva... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta delle Rovine di una Conserva d'acqua per la Villa di Domiziano vicino a Castel Gandolfo negl'Orti Lodovisi Image dimensions: 42 x 52 cm. From th...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

I Moccoletti - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
I Moccoletti is a pleasant etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The artwork is unsigned, but it is part of the 20 plates engraved in...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Gouache

Napoléon à Montereau - Original Lithograph by H. Bellange - 1828
Located in Roma, IT
Napoléon à Montereau is an original artwork realized by Hippolyte Bellangé in 1828. Original lithograph on paper. Passepartout included (cm 32.5 x...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

One Can't Tell Why - Proof from the Disasters of War
Located in New York, NY
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746 Fuendetodos – Bordeaux 1828), No se puede saber por qué – One can’t tell why ca. 1808–1814, etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, an...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Sculpture of Cupid Chained - Original Etching by F. Cecchini - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
"Amore incatenato Statua” (Unchained Eros, Statue) is a wonderful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Francesco Cecchini (1790-1820), after Bernardino Nocchi (Lucca, 1741 - Rome, 1812) as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Francesco Cecchini incise Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher right corner “Tom. II.Tav. XXX” and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. The Borghese Collection is known to be the most important antique statue one, after the Torlonia Collection in Rome. This old master’s original prints representing a precious piece of the Borghese collection, an Eros statue unchained, is in excellent conditions with some minor stains on the margins, some signs of the time and a usual yellowing of the paper along the external margins, do not affect the image. Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were found and made available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

TAMBIEN ESTO
Located in Aventura, FL
Tambien esto / So is this (Disasters of War, plate 43, Harris 163, Delteil 162). Original etching, burnished aquatint, and burnisher, c. 1808-1814. The clergy are running; their floc...
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Romantic Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Paper, Drypoint

Testa Quasi Colossale di Marco Aurelio - Etching by P. Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
“Testa quasi colossale di Marco Aurelio” (Almost colossal head of Marco Aurelio) is a beautiful black and white burin on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837), after Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1754 - Venice, 1831), as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Teodoro Matteini delineò./ Pietro Fontana incise a bollino Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXV" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints shows a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman philosopher and writer and one of the "good Roman Emperor" (according to Edward Gibbon) Marco Aurelio, represented in neoclassical style and with the traditional iconography with a thick hair and a long beard. In excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper on the lower margin and some light signs of the time with an imperceptible weaving of the paper on the lower right corner, this wonderful burin preserved his fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837) The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Altra Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Altra Veduta del Tempio di Sibilla in Tivoli Image dimensions: 46x65 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma”(..), Rome, 1826 by L. Rossini, an artist's proof with...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Kabuki Scene from "Kanjincho" - Woodcut by 1887 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
A scene from the important representation of Tenno Kabuki's Play "Kanjincho", held during the Meiji Era in the House of Minister Kaoru Inoue at the presence of the Emperor Akinori Aki and of the Princess Akira Terada. Attributed to the Ukiyo-e Master Kinichika Toyohara (Oshima Yasohachi), specialised in the representations of Kabuki Scenes on Woodcut blocks...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Testa Quasi Colossale di Lucio Vero - Etching by P. Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
“Testa quasi colossale di Lucio Vero” (Almost colossal head of Lucio Vero) is a wonderful black and white etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837), after Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1754 - Venice, 1831), as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Teodoro Matteini del./ Pietro Fontana inc. Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXVI" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints representing a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman Empero Lucio Vero, is in excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper at the edges, some light signs of the time( some light thinning of paper along the margin do not affect the image) but with fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837) The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Piazza di Palestrina costruita sulle rovine del famoso Tempio della Fortuna...
Located in Roma, IT
Full Title: Piazza di Palestrina costruita sulle rovine del famoso Tempio della Fortuna Prenestina Image dimensions: 41 x 52 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di R...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Battaglione Real Navi
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except a lightly damaged in right margins, and normal brown paper in margins. Interesting colored lithograph which de...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bust of Nero - Original Etching by P. Fontana After B. Nocchi - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Busto di Nerone” (Bust of Nerone) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò./ Pietro Fontana incise Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XVII" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints shows a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roma Emperor, Nerone, realized with neoclassical style and a wise touch In excellent conditions with some light signs of the time, with some sporadic minor stains along the margins above all on the lower, and a usual yellowing of the paper on the lower margin, this wonderful burin has preserved still today his fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837) The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello...
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The Sacrifice - Original Etching by F. Cecchini After A. Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Sagrifizio Trionfale” is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Francesco Cecchini (1790-1820), after Agostino Tofanelli (Lucca 177...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Androne della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli - Etching by L. Rossini - 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Androne della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli, per cui passava l'antica Via Consolare Tiburtina Image dimensions: 50x60 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” a...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi - Suite of Original Etchings by B. Pinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Complete Title: Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi Incisi all'Acquaforte". Suite of original colored etching realized by the italian engraver Bartolomeo Pinelli in 1815-...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Lithograph d'aprés Domenico Beccafumi - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph d'aprés Beccafumi is an original artwork realized by the French artist Louise Bouteillier in the first half of the XIX Century. Tirér du Cabinet de Vivant Denon...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Collection of Various Black and White and Colour Woodcuts
Located in Roma, IT
Original editorial soft cover with dowel on front plate. Nice collection of original fine woodcuts of the Utagawa school, partially coloured, including illustrations of Japanese thea...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Les Voila
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Les Voila Year: 1915 Medium: Original lithograph Edition: Numbered 73/100 in pencil Paper: Wove Size image: 16 ...
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Academic Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Veduta degl’Avanzi del Maestoso Ingresso della Villa d’Adriano
Located in Roma, IT
Entire Title : Veduta degl’Avanzi del Maestoso Ingresso della Villa d’Adriano tre miglia da Tivoli Like G.B.Piranesi, Rossini, well know as the “Piranesi’s heir”, trained as an arch...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Classe 17
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Classe 17 Year: 1917 Medium: Lithograph Edition: Numbered 61/100 in pencil Paper: Wove Image size: 10.5 x 14.25 inches ...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Avanzi di un Gran Salone nel piano terra della Villa di Mecenate in Tivoli
Located in Roma, IT
Like G.B.Piranesi, Rossini, well know as the “Piranesi’s heir”, trained as an architect and his etchings have the same tendency to emphasize the massive structure of the Ancient Rome...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Donne Tirolesi - Etching - 1809
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful etching enriched by watercolor technique. Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm Image Dimensions : 19 x 27 cm This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, ...
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Realist Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Tamaya Nishi, Hana-murasaki (Purple Flower)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Keisai Eisen ga; Seal: Kiwame Series: Contemporary Scenes in the Pleasure Quarters Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi Note: This is a famous ...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Bees - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Bees is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", Lo...
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Modern Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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William Hamilton Classical Greek Vase-Painting Engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting an athlete holding wreath and a trainer. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring Background information : F...
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Other Art Style Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Illustration to "The Book of Job", Every One Also Gave Him A Piece of Money
Located in London, GB
William Blake Illustration to 'The Book of Job': Every One Also Gave Him a Piece of Money (19) 1823-25 Line engraving on India paper (chine collé on wove p...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 189 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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Old Masters Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

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