Art by Medium: Engraving

Thomas Laugher, commonly called Old Tommy, 1700-1812. Teetotaller, former liquor merchant of Tower Street, London, famous for his great longevity. Standing with a cane and hat at a d...

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting young nude man with thyrsus and flowers, opposite two young women with fillet, situla, phiale and thyrsus. Above left, Hercules in Nem...

Rome: Nicolas van Aelst, 1613. Engraving on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark, 8 x 11 1/4 inches (203 x 282 mm), thread margins. Scattered expert repairs including minor pu...

Owl - Night is a hand coloured limited edition drypoint etching with carborundum by artist and printmaker, Kate Boxer. The deep navy background of this Kate Boxer artwork hints at th...

Francisco Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1954) "Haz del Viento / Bco / Azul/" from serie "El exilio de los sentidos", 2004 Engraving, aquatint on paper...

An Inland View in Atooi ( Hawaii ) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. This engraving depicts ...

A stipple engraving titled "The Landlord's Family" by Charles Knight (1743-1827) after Thomas Stothard (1755-1834). A sentimental poem is inscribed below the image. This print forms ...

Work on paper

"Genesis Americana 2-6" 1982 Serigraph Ed. 84 of 92 26 x 20 in These are five prints from the series "Genesis Americana" by the artist in 1982. They are numbered from 2 to 6, and ea...

This is a hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of moths and a lady bug, which is plate 22 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aurelian: or Natural History of English Insects; Namely Moths & Butterflies", first published in London in 1766 and this from an 1840 edition. The engraving depicts the natural history developmental stages of the Burnished Brass Moth, the Dark Gothic...

"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100. Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...

Tribute to Artists 18 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with Indian ink, acrylic, charcoal, pastel and engraving on gray cardboard mounte...

A magnificent eighteenth-century "vue d'optique" engraving with hand colouring depicting Windsor Castle. Engraved by Nathaniel Parr (act.1742-1751) after Brookes for the publisher Ro...

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Digitalis rubra floribus albis maculatis. Digitalis angustifolia flore fe...

Signed lower right, 'Ynez Johnston' (American, b. 1920) and dated 1964; additionally inscribed 'imp' lower right, titled lower center 'Tribal Coast' with number and limitation, 198/2...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Hanasakaji san (The old man who made trees blossom) Drypoint etching with stencil from 1974. The edition of XVII/LXXV on Richard de Bas paper. Dimensio...

Stags Admiring a Waterfall is a hand coloured limited edition drypoint etching on chîne collée paper by Kate Boxer. This sophisticated vibrant contemporary Kate Boxer artwork is heig...

A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...

Juan Alcalde Alonso (Spain, 1918-2020) 'El rastro', 2003 silkscreen on paper 25.6 x 30 in. (65 x 76 cm.) Edition of 100 ID: ALC1002-036-100 Hand-si...

From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...

Chino López (Cuba, ) 'Che Guevara', N/A silkscreen on paper 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: LOP1095-001-099 Unframed Hand-signed by author

JOHANNES JANSSON (1588 - 1664) PERU, engraving with early coloring. Platemark 15 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches, sheet 17 x 20 1/2 A nice example of one of the earliest maps of Peru. From the ...

"PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) Le Chapeau Épinglé, 1ère Planche (Delteil; Stella 6) Drypoint, 1894-95, on laid paper, with watermark MBM, an extr...

This artwork titled "Figure Rouge avec Portrait de Quevedo" from the suite, Visions De Quevedo, 1975. is an original engraving with pochoir hand coloring on Richard de Bas paper, by ...

Fish, engraving with original hand-colouring, circa 1815. From Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic collection of...

This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...

Etruscan Vase-painting Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring. 1808. From Millin's 'Peintures de Vases Antiques' published in Paris in 1808. Depicts scene from an ancient ...

Craig McPherson captures a night view of the neon lights from commercial signs reflected in the water at Ocean Terminal in Kowloon, as seen from the terminal of the Star Ferry to cen...

A dynamic football image from the 1920s by a female artist known for her sports scenes. Etching with drypoint on exceptionally fine laid Japon paper with a double watermark, 10 7/8 ...

Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831). The Pio-Clementino museum, named after the two popes wh...

Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed. London, 1...

Medium: engraving (after the 1932 etching for Poésies de Mallarmé). Printed in 1933 on watermarked Montgolfier laid paper and published in Paris by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Size: ...

A still-life print of renowned jazz sing - Billie Holiday. This contemporary portrait artwork of Billie Holiday captures the glamour of the Jazz Age. Painting by Kate Boxer Additi...

Bathed in the gentle light of a Parisian afternoon, this charming original aquatint by Manuel Robbe captures an idyllic moment of bourgeois leisure in the Parc Monceau, one of the ca...

'Durham' Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809). From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland', published by G...

Sacred Geometry of Piscis. Associated with the number 12, Neptune and Jupiter; representing fusion, compassion, dreams and sensitivity. Embodies faith, inspiration and altruism. I...

This is an original antique hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Chrysanthemum matricaria plants. It is entitled "A. Chrysanthemum Matricarice Folus Flore...

Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet is a hand-colored steel engraving after a painting by Francis Bickne...

Moses Harris ( British 1731-1785 ) The Aurelian, A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies Hand colored engraving – Plate XXVII 1778 edition Plate XXVII is from The A...

The sitter was born of humble origin near Chaliez in Polish Russia in November 1739. He was one of a family of six children, three of whom were of normal stature. He was brought into...

'Einsiedlerkrebse' (Hermit crabs) German wood-engraving, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)

Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the bro...

Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Micenelli and Costa. The Pio-Clementino museum, na...

"Ascent to Heaven" Abstract Expressionist Drypoint Print with Dancing Figures Lively figurative print by British-Indian artist Sonia Kakkar (20th/21st Century.) A group of figures d...

Like Seeing Fallen Brightly Away is a portfolio of three etchings by artist David Urban made in collaboration with Durham Press in 1998. Moving away from ...

'Adenandra umbellata' Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps & Jean Claude M...

Copper-line engraving by Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) after Peter Lely. Houbraken was a Dutch engraver famous for his series of portraits of famous English historical figures with elaborate cartouches. Originally published 1739, this impression c1820. 360mm by 230mm (platemark) Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington, 1618-85, was an English statesman who fought for the royalists in the English civil war...

This is a rare, original first edition hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of butterflies and moths, which is plate 10 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aurelian: ...

Etching with drypoint in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 6 1/8 x 10 inches (155 x 255 mm), full margins with a deckle edge. Signed in pencil, lower right margin, and titled (...

This is a hand-colored antique engraving depicting the natural history of the Admirable Butterfly and the Small Magpie Moth, which is plate 6 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aure...

French botanical flower engraving, 1818. Colour-printed stipple engraving by J Lambert after Pierre Turpin (1775-1840) From Francois Pierre Chaumeton's 'Flore Medicale' which portrayed a variety of flowers, trees and herbs which could be used for treating illnesses. The engravings were produced during the great period of French colour printing using the stipple-engraving process pioneered by the great botanical artist Pierre-Jospeh Redoute. The artist is the celebrated Pierre Jean Francois Turpin...

The Grand Coronation Banquet of King George IV at Westminster Hall, the oldest building on the Parliamentary estate. A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster Hall; The Grand Coronati...

Jorge Castillo - COMPOSICIÓN ERÓTICA (Erotic Composition) Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching on paper Edition: 75 + 20 E.A. Size: 50 x 65,5 cm Condition: In perfect conditions an...

Alfonso Fraile (Spain, 1930-1988) 'Hombres', 1985 engraving on paper 18.2 x 13.8 in. (46 x 35 cm.) Edition of 10 ID: FRA1262-002-010 Hand-signed by author ___________________________...

Kate Boxer Goat Limited Edition Print Edition of 30 Drypoint and Carborundum on paper Image Size: H 65.5cm x W 82.5 cm Sheet Size: H 78.5cm x W 94cm x D 0.1cm Sold unframed (Please n...

Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a Garden of Holland or Maid of Dort Pro Patria watermark, 11 x 14 1/4 inches (278 x 361 mm), thread margins. Lettered with the title in a cartouche at the top-center sheet, continuing "a Latere Occidentali Prospeus AD MDCCXXXIX," with numbers over the image at right that correspond to a key 1 to 29, and with publication details: "Georgius Vertue Londini delineavit et Sculpsit anno MDCCXXXIX". Multiple expert repairs, notably a Y-shaped, expert paper tape repair on the verso. Handling creases, toning. All issues are consistent with age. An impression of this work may be viewed in the permanent collection of the British Museum, registration No. 1880,1113.3963. A bird's eye view of the college in Broad Street, London, showing the courtyard, adjoining stable yard to the right, and the buildings at the back. This work was included in Frederick Crace...

Christine Ravaux created this mezzotint which translates to the phase "against sense". This impression is #7 of 20 Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing p...

Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...