Art by Medium: Engraving

A gathering of prehistoric plants, fantastic animals, and people along with elements that represent fertility, seem to be craved as ancient drawings in stone. These lithographs, orig...

Inscriptions: Bottom, plate: Io. Dom. Campiglia del. / Cosmus Mogalli Sculp. Top right, plate: XXIV Summary/Description: Engraving by Cosmus Mogalli after drawing by Giovanni Domenic...

Restrike of engraved plate with hand color, from a series of twelve portraits of celebrated race horses wwth their groomsmen, by Irish mezzotint engraver Richard Houston (1721-1775) after James Seymour (1702-1752) with ornamental borders and coat of arms. This series of 12 mezzotint plates commissioned by Thomas Spencer...

A Fierce Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 108. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 11 7/8). Edition 8. An exceptional impression with rich drypoint burr printed on antique laid paper. A proof of t...

Jacques Villon (1875-1963) etching, aquatint, and drypoint, Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat),1907, signed in pencil and numbered (12/30)(Ginestet and Pouillon 192...

Etching, drypoint, and roulette on watermarked Hallines cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (95 x 148 mm), full margins. A very good impression of this charming image, with all of...

In 'The Rabbit,' Wisconsin artist Clarice George Logan presents the viewer with a multi-figural scene: under a wood-frame structure, four children crouch on the ground, gathered around a young woman who presents a rabbit. Under normal circumstances, such an image of children with a bunny would recall childhood storybooks. In this case, however, the image is more ambiguous and suggests the unfortunate economic circumstances many children suffered during the interwar years. Nonetheless, the group could also be interpreted as a nativity play, with the rabbit taking the place of the Christ child, shining light on the children like in a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints - one for each week of the year. Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von...

Once a peer of David Hockney and Peter Blake during school, Colin Self is an important contemporary British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found mate...

c.1925. Line engraving. 6 1/2 x 10 3/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17). A rich impression with plate tone printed on cream laid paper. Signed and dated in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archi...

Restrike of engraved plate with hand color, from a series of twelve portraits of celebrated race horses wwth their groomsmen, by Irish mezzotint engraver Richard Houston (1721-1775) after James Seymour (1702-1752) with ornamental borders and coat of arms. This series of 12 mezzotint plates commissioned by Thomas Spencer...

Restrike of engraved plate with hand color, from a series of twelve portraits of celebrated race horses wwth their groomsmen, by Irish mezzotint engraver Richard Houston (1721-1775) after James Seymour (1702-1752) with ornamental borders and coat of arms. This series of 12 mezzotint plates commissioned by Thomas Spencer...

Vintage color engraving by W. H. Simmons after a painting by Richard Ansdell (1815-1885). The print depicts two men fishing, one in Scottish kilt in the ...