Rococo Prints and Multiples

Engraving from a book titled, "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" printed in 1753. Thomas Chippendale was the designer and Mary and Matthew Darly...

An original stipple engraving printed in colors with additional hand-coloring on wove paper by French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) titled "Myrsine Africana (Cape Myrtle)"...

An original copperplate engraving on laid paper by English artist John Goldar (1729-1795) titled "Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk", 1784. Comes from the "History of England" portfolio. Printed and published by Harrison & Co for Paul Rapin de Thoyras in London, UK. Recently framed in gold moulding and silk cotton mats from Holland. All archival. Framed size: 20.25" x 15.25". Platemark size: 12.25" x 8". Image size (with border): 8" x 6.75". Some faint foxing associated with age. In otherwise very good condition. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk KG PC (1473 – 25 August 1554), was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, namely Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages. After falling from favour in 1546, he was stripped of his dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower of London, avoiding execution when Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547. He was released on the accession of the Roman Catholic queen, Mary I, whom he aided in securing her throne, thus setting the stage for tensions between his Catholic family and the Protestant royal line that would be continued by Mary I's half-sister, Elizabeth I. John Goldar, born at Oxford in 1729, resided in Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, Southwark. He made a couple of forays into print publishing on his own account (of John Dixon after William Lawrenson, and much later of naval prints...

Each of these tinted etchings depicts a young woman with cherubs (putti), one of which holds an arrow, possibly representing Cupid. These etchings we...

Etching on paper, XVIII century. Dimensions: 46x70 cm. Plate n 101, Viev Of The Gran Piazza And The Basilica Of St. Peter. Signed in the bottom right corner: Cavaliere Piranesi delin. e inc. -I State (Previous numbers B.M.L., KING'S. SOANE. TUBBS. First Ed. parigina.) - II State Title engraved on the title page: Views of Rome drawn and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect. The Plates, executed over the course of Piranesi's career, from the second half of the 1740s until his death, were printed and sold as individual sheets or in collections that gradually increased as his output progressed, and occasionally included other series of prints as well. Posthumous edition, bearing the same title, consisting of 135 prints engraved in 1778 plus 2 title pages. The additions consisted of Pianta di Roma e...

An original hand colored copper plate engraving on laid paper after French artist Antoine Borel (1743-1810) titled "L'Indiscret", 1786. Engraved by French engraver Francois-Nicolas-B...

An original hand-colored engraving on wove paper by Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) titled "Cydonea Mala cotonea majora (Quinces - Pears)", c. 1750. (Plate 137). Edit...

An original color stipple engraving by French artist Jean-Louis Darcis (?-1801) titled "Une Femme Denudee", c. 1790. Signed in the plate by Darcis lower right. This work is magnifice...

Two original copper plate engravings framed together by English artist William Henry Toms (c.1700-c.1758), both produced in 1758. Top engraving: "A Little Vessel" engraved by Toms, published in "Nature Displayed", 1758. Bottom engraving: "The Launching a Vessell into ye water" engraved by Toms, published in "Nature Displayed" as well in 1758. Framed size: 26" x 21". Individual image print size: 5" x 7". Beautifully framed with moulding from Spain and matting from Holland. William Henry Toms (c. 1700–c. 1758) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings...

An original copper plate engraving by English artist John Goldar (1729-1795) titled "James II. King of England", published August 25, 1787. An incredible amount of work goes into the plate to execute this reverse image once the paper is pressed against the plate. Some minor foxing about the image; see pictures. This is museum mounted in silk cotton matt from Holland and shrink wrapped (some glare in pictures); this work is frame ready. Perfect for any anglophile or Royal history buffs. Image size: 7.5" x 6". Matted size: 18.5" 14.75". Born at Oxford in 1729, Goldar resided in Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, Southwark. He made a couple of forays into print publishing on his own account (of John Dixon after William Lawrenson, and much later of naval prints...