1790s Art

FEOLI, Vincenzo. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino. Rome, 1790. A double-page engraved plate after Miccinelli and Costa. Sheet size: 70.5cm by 99cm. Mounted size: 81cm by 101cm. Magnificent series of extra-large plates illustrating the Vatican Museum...

Artist: John Hutchins (English, 1698-1773) Title: "Came, the Seat of the Hon. Lionel Damer" (Plate 48) Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset Year: 1796-1815 ...

Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: "Cyrilla Pulchella Scarlet-Flowered Cyrilla" (Vol. 11, Plate 374) Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed Ye...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...

"Iron arm, musing over the body of Meduna" is an original etching on ivory-colored paper realized in 1791 by Thomas Holloway d'apres Heinrich Fuseli Signed on the plate on the lowe...

"Near Mill Hill, Gravesend" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. It depicts a cottage and farmstead with a few small figures. The piece is titled on ...

Plan of Port Siagi is al colored etching realized by Joseph Roux in 1795. The title at the top " Plan du Port Siagi" Passepartout included: 34 x 49 The artwork is hand water-color...

First edition of this rare and important work by the spanish Abbot Vincente Requeno (1743-1811) on the importance of hand signs and positions in communications. Dedication of the Ed...

Assassinat De Basseville à Rome is an original black and white etching realized by Pierre Gabriel Berthault, after Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines in 1793. Title with caption on plate on the lower center: "Assassinat de Basseville, à Rome/ le 13 Janvier 1793, ou 23 Nivose An Ier de la République". Below the image on the lower margin, "Swebach Desfontaines onv. et del. / Berthault sculp." is etched on plate. This modern artwork is numbered "N. 76", because it is from the series Les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française. As a matter of fact, Pierre-Gabriel Berthault is well-known for having engraved plates from this collection with the collaboration of the engraver Jean Duplessis-Bertaux. A work - hanging in the balance between news and history - with illustrations of salient or minimal events occurred during the French Revolution. As a celebration of the new ideals of brotherhood, justice, and equality, Les Tableaux immediately became a point of reference for journalism at the time. Of traditional cut, namely showing a view with many human figures, the engraving simplified the lines to be immediately readable for the general public. In our specific case, this original print represents the murder of Hugou de Bassville or Basseville (7 February, 1743 – 13 January, 1793), a French journalist and diplomatist, and protector of the radical Jacobins in Rome. In excellent conditions, except for a usual yellowing of the paper on the edges and a light trace of oxidations on the lower and right margins, beyond the marginal line of the matrix. Pierre-Gabriel Berthault (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 1737 - Paris, 1831) was a French master who made engravings from drawings by Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (known as the Abbot of Saint-Non) and from paintings by Louis François Cassas. He depicted many views of Italy and created the collections Voyage à Naples and Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Palestine et de la basse-Egypte. Before the French Revolution, he was famous for being the author of the Vues intérieures de Paris and for tables with architectural elevations.

"English Country Fisherman by the Cottage" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. The miniature etching features a country cottage with a thatc...

"Near Tottenham Midd." is an original etching by John Thomas Smith at the top right of the image, reading "Drawn & Etch'd by J. T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London & Envi...

"Figure by the Cottage in Forest" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. The miniature landscape shows a pair of cottages in the woods, nestled back into the trees. A river flo...

Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362 1797 Hand-colored etching Ed. 1st ed. 9 x 5.25 inches

"Forest Glen" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. The piece was initialed in plate. It depicts a small inlet to a lush forest. 3 5/8" x 3 1/2" art 12 7/8" x 12 3/4" frame ...

"Country Inn by the Pond" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. It depicts a cozy building surrounded by trees and vegetation and next to a pond. 3" x 5 1/4" art 16" x 18 1/...

Map Sz: 14 1/2"H x 19 7/8"W Frame Sz: 21"H x 26 3/8"W A fine example of Cassini's 1798 map of Alaska, the Bering Strait, and Siberia. Cassini issued this map in his 1798 atlas to illustrate the discoveries made by James Cook. Cook was the first to accurately chart the Alaskan coastline and provide a detailed mapping of the Aleutian Islands. Cook's zigzagging route is shown as he skirts the Aleutian Islands, passes through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, and then turns back to sail south along the Siberian Coast. Here the Aleutians are collectively identified as Isole Alessiane, though many of the original islands...