Vincente Requeno

Scoperta della Chironimia ossia dell'arte di gestire con le mani... - 1797

1797

Edition original illustrated by J.J. Grandville. Half leather hardback. Golden letters and decorations spine. Very light foxing on few pages. Language: french. Very good conditions.

Edition of 2100 copies. Copy on Velin Blanc paper. Binding unglued. Language: French. Perfect conditions inside. Uncut.

Game Lover, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a contemporary artwork realized by Matteo Basilé in 2008 Mixed colored lithograph Hand-signed on the lower right, Numbered on the lower le...

Marie Claire is an illustrated book with lithograph prints by Paul Emil Colin. Marguerite Audoux, 21 biosorinaux de Paul Emil Colin. Published by Le Livre De Demain, Arthème Fayard...

This detailed artwork on paper puts emphasis on design and composition. A Navajo inspired rug motif is created using traditional design elements with a contemporary outcome. Symmetry...

This detailed artwork on paper puts emphasis on design and composition. A navajo inspired pattern is created using traditional design elements. The high contrasting, geometric patter...

This detailed artwork on paper puts emphasis on design and composition. A Navajo inspired rug motif is created using traditional design elements with a contemporary outcome. Symmetry...

Pen and ink on paper, laid down on canvas, mounted to wooden scroll bars Signed and dated lower right: “Drawn by N. B. Rogers August. 1843” Inscribed with an ownership inscription on the verso: Rev. E. D. Daniels, Palmer, Mass. Provenance: Rev. Eugene Davidson Daniels, Palmer, Massachusetts, 1871 This extraordinary manuscript map is a rare survivor of the devotional and educational culture of New England in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although at first glance resembling a large-scale engraving or printed publication, this precisely rendered wall map was entirely drawn by hand, the product of meticulous research by a minister working in isolation in rural Maine. The map shows New Testament era cities, towns, tribal areas, and political borders as well as physical features such as rivers, lakes, mountains, and hills (indicated by half-tone cross-hatching). On to this geographically accurate rendering of the Holy Land, Rogers has located and inscribed significant locales mentioned in the Gospels and has annotated these places with relevant citations from the Bible. He further records these by plotting the travels of Jesus on what resemble a series of trails across the Holy Land. Each is distinguished by a different pattern of dots and dashes – correlated to an explanatory table at the lower right. From this we know that these lines document the “Flight into Egypt and return,” “Travels of Christ from Nazareth to Jerusalem and return,” “Travels from the commencement of his Ministry to the first Passover,” “Travels from the first and the second Passover,” “Travels from Jerusalem to Galilee after the 2nd Passover,” and “Travels from the third Passover to the Crucifixion.” An inset map of “Jerusalem...