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Period: 1850s
Political Discussion - Original Lithograph on Paper - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Political Discussion is an original Modern Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century.
Original B/ Lithograph on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower left corner.
Good conditi...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Women - Woodcut Print - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Women is a beautiful woodcut print realized by Frédéric Florian in the mid-19th century.
In very good condition.
Hand signed on the right lower margin,...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) Allez au diable, la fille est à moi Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
"Allez au diable, la femme est à moi" (Go to hell, This woman is mine)
pencil on paper
annotated on the upper border "Alle...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Portrait - Original Drawing In Pen - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait 1850's is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized by an unwkown artist named Bruant (XIX-XX).
Sheet dimension: 29.4 x 22 cm.
The artwork represents beautiful quick ...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Pen
Bulls Fighting /// Antique Victorian Animal Landscape Etching Landscape Horse
By James Ward
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) James Ward (English, 1769-1859)
Title: "Bulls Fighting"
Portfolio: The Portfolio
*Signed by Wise in pencil lower right. It is also signed in the plate (printed signature) lower right
Year: 1874
Medium: Original Etching on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown, London, UK
Publisher: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, London, UK
Sheet size: 9.75" x 13.75"
Image size: 5" x 8"
Condition: In excellent condition
Very rare
Notes:
Engraved by English artist William Wise...
Category
Victorian 1850s Art
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
Emanuele Filiberto Monument - Original Black Pen Drawing - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Emanuele Filiberto Monument is an original modern artwork realized in the 1850s by an Italian artist.
Original Black Pen Drawing on ivory paper.
Titled on the upper margin "Emanu...
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1850s Art
Materials
Pen
Oriental Crying Woman - Lithograph on Paper - 1856
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Crying Woman is a hand-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1856 ca. by an unknown artist of the XIX century.
Titled on the lower center in Italian" Una donna che piange...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman Figure - Pencil on Paper - 1853
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" 1853's is a drawing on paper, signed and dated by Edmond De Beaumont, on the back of the drawing.
In excellent conditions: as good as new...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Pencil
Interieur de Geneve. L'Hopital - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. L'Hospital is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi...
Category
Old Masters 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Siege de Rome - Original Lithograph by Raffet San Donato Février - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Siege de Rome is an original lithograph on paper realized by A. Raffet. Titled San Donato Février in 1850.
Signed on the plate on the lower right.
Sheet dime...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Battle Scene - Original Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1859
Located in Roma, IT
Battle Scene of "Chemin De Ronde" is an original lithography artwork realized by Raffet in 1859.
Signed on the plate on the lower left, dated, titled on the lower center with descr...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
“House by the Lake”
Located in Southampton, NY
Finely executed watercolor and gouache landscape with figures by the Swiss artist, Louise Clauseau (Swiss). Signed under the mat by the artist and dated June, 1852. The watercolor ...
Category
Academic 1850s Art
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Interieur de Geneve [...] - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Fontaine de l'Hotel De Ville is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Interieur de Geneve. Bourg De Four - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Bourg De Four is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontan...
Category
Old Masters 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Buffalo Skull - Lithograph by Carlo Coleman - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Buffalo Skull is an original lithography artwork on ivory paper realized by Carlo Coleman (1807-1874) in 1850.
Signed on the plate and dated. Image dime...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Battle of Melegnano - Hand Colored Lithograph by C. Perrin - 1850 ca.
By C. Perrin
Located in Roma, IT
Battle of Melegnano is original Hand-colored lithograph on paper, realized by Carlo Perrin in 1850 ca. Titled in Italian" Battglia di Melegnano", on the lower center, signed on the ...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Interieur de Geneve. Place de la Grenet - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Place de la Grenette is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio...
Category
Old Masters 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gene - Original Lithograph - 1950 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Gene is a beautiful original lithograph realized by Eugène Flandin (1809-1889) in 1850 ca.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower left margin, lithographed by Jules Collign...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Workers - Lithograph by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Workers is an original lithograph on paper applied on cardboard realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet in 1854.
Signed on the plate on the lower left and dated.
Good conditions.
T...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) La Soubrette (The handmaid), watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
La Soubrette (The handmaid),
pencil, watercolor and heightenings of gouache on paper
Signed lower right (faded)
20 x 15 cm
In quite good condition, lightly sunstroke and yellowed
Framed 28.5 x 23 cm
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.
The story is told that he took his name from Gavarnie in Luz-Saint-Sauveur where he had taken a journey into the Pyrenees.
He was a very famous illustrator, friend of Felix Nadar...
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1850s Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Battle of Magenta -Hand Colored Lithograph by Carlo Bossoli - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Battle of Magenta is original Hand-colored lithography on paper, realized by Carlo Bossoli in the XIX century. Titled on the lower center, signed on ...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
View of Geneve - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1850 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: M-109655 cm.
This splendid lithograph View of Geneve is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent.
The signature is engraved on the plate the lower left. At the top of the paper, the inscription “Interieur de Geneve”, while at the bottom, below the image, the inscription “JMP Pilet & Cougnard Editeurs Geneve”.
Antonio Fontanesi (Reggio Emilia, 1818 - Turin, 1882) was an Italian painter, engraver, teacher, and soldier. He was one of the most important 19th-century Italian painters, though somewhat unknown. After fighting in the I Independence War...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Design of Furniture - Pen and Pencil on Paper - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Design of Furniture is a drawing in pen and pencil on paper realized in about 1850 by anonymous artist of the 19th Century.
The State of preservation is good except for diffused sta...
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1850s Art
Materials
Pencil, Pen
'Victor's Camp - Hell Gate Ronde' original John Mix Stanley lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole.
This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.' In particular, the print comes from the northern survey, commanded by Isaac Stevens, which explored the regions between the 47th and 49th parallels.
Stanley shows here the stop the Stanley Party made at the junction of the Bitterroot and Hell Gate, in present day Montana. While there, the Party met with the Flathead Chief by the name Victor, as is shown in the image. The figures and their encampment are dwarfed by the vast landscape around them, indicating the sublimity of these new American territories.
5.75 x 8.75 inches, image
6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone
17 x 20 inches, frame
Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left
Entitled 'Victor's Camp - Hell Gate Ronde' lower center margin
Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right
Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left
Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE XXXI' upper right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting with French accents; glazed with UV5 Plexiglas to inhibit fading; housed in a gold reverse ogee moulding.
Print in overall good condition; some localized foxing and discoloration; minor surface abrasions to frame.
John Mix Stanley...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters, drawing and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of characters
Black pencil and watercolor on paper
18.5 x 25.5 cm
Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right
In good condition, foxings on the original mount
Framed 34 x 40 cm
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Roman Statue - Etching On Paper - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Statue is an original etching on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century in 1850 ca.
In very good condition.
Included a white...
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1850s Art
Materials
Etching
Porte de la Treille - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Porte de la Treille is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi in 1854. Th...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
L'Hopital - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph L'hopital is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi in 1854. The lithogra...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century french school, Villefranche-sur Mer, the harbour, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1850
Villefranche sur mer, the Harbour
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24 cm
In good condition
Framed 29 x 38 cm
This very fine wat...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Interieur de Geneve. Rue de l'Hotel de Ville - Lithograph by A. Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Rue de l'hotel de Ville is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi in 1854...
Category
Naturalistic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Bout de la Treille - Original Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 1850 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph View of Geneve is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi.
The state of pres...
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1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
French School 19th century, Set of nine humoristic drawings, pencil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
France, 19th century
Set of nine humoristic drawings, various subjects in the same mount
Black pencil, for some of them with highlights of white gouache
various dimensions : 6 x 5.5 ...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Nonnenwerth - Lithograph After E. Emminger - 1850s
By Eberhard Emminger
Located in Roma, IT
Nonnenwerth is a lithograph of an original artwork by the German painter and lithographer Markus Eberhard Emminger, who lived from 1808 to 1885, representing a view of the island Non...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Distribution of Goods to the Assiniboines' original John Mix Stanley lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole.
This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.'
When it came to depicting the Assiniboine people, as seen in the present print, Stanley chose to juxtapose their encampment, marked by tipis in the distance, with the encampment of the Isaac Stevens survey party. In the foreground, commemorating this moment, Isaac Stevens can be seen presenting trade goods, which are known to include thirty two dressed skins and two robes. The survey leader Isaac Stevens noted being grateful for the generosity of the Assiniboine, commenting: "I felt very grateful indeed to those Indians, for their kindness to my men, their proffer of kind feeling and hospitality to myself and the survey." This description and this image, however, are arguably depicted through rose-colored glasses: to the Assiniboine people, this meeting may well have included stressful diplomatic relationships and have indicated a threat to the sovereignty over the territories agreed to be theirs by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.
5.75 x 8.75 inches, image
6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone
17 x 19.75 inches, frame
Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left
Entitled 'Distribution of Goods to the Assiniboines' lower center margin
Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right
Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left
Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE XIV' upper right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting with French accents; glazed with UV5 Plexiglas to inhibit fading; housed in a gold reverse ogee moulding.
Print in overall good condition; some localized foxing and discoloration; frame in excellent condition.
John Mix Stanley...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Knole House, English School 19th Century Country House Landscape Oil
Located in London, GB
English School
19th Century
Knole House
Oil on canvas
Image size: 22 ½ x 35 ½ inches
Gilt frame
This is not only a very beautiful work of art but also a v...
Category
Victorian 1850s Art
Materials
Oil
Charles-Emile Jacque (1813-1894) Two sheeps in the countryside, charcoal drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Charles-Emile Jacque (1813-1894)
Two sheeps in the countryside
Charcoal on paper
Signed lower left
19 x 21 cm
Not framed
Charles Jacque was born in 1813 in Paris.
He was part oft...
Category
Realist 1850s Art
Materials
Charcoal
Geneva, Port de la Treille - Lithograph by A. Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
City of Geneva is an original lithograph, realized by Antonio Fantanesi, hand-signed.
Image Dimension: 20.5 x15.5 cm
Included a Passepartout.
In good conditions.
Here the artwor...
Category
Naturalistic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Geneva, Cour Du Collège - Lithograph by A. Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Cour Du Collège is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Font...
Category
Naturalistic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Margot La Critique - Etching, Aquatint and Drypoint by F. Braquemond - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Margot la critique is an originaletching on Chine collé, realized by Frenc artist Félix Henri Bracquemond published in L’Artiste in 1854.
In good conditions.
This Etching is Re...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint
'Distribution of Goods to the Gros Ventres' lithograph by John Mix Stanley
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole.
This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.' In particular, the print comes from the northern survey, commanded by Isaac Stevens, which explored the regions between the 47th and 49th parallels.
In this image, Stanley documented the encounter with the Gros Ventre people at Milk River. The explorers were invited to the Gros Ventres camp and the two groups exchanged gifts in friendship. The Stevens Party provided "... blankets, shirts, calico, knives, beads, paint, powder, shot, tobacco, hard bread, etc." The image likewise alludes to how, in 1855, Isaac Stevens, concluded a treaty (Stat., L., XI, 657) to provide peace between the United States and the Blackfoot, Flathead and Nez Perce tribes. The Gros Ventres signed the treaty as part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, whose territory near the Three Fork area became a common hunting ground for the Flathead, Nez Perce, Kootenai, and Crow Indians.
5.75 x 8.75 inches, image
6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone
17 x 20 inches, frame
Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left
Entitled 'Distribution of Goods to the Gros Ventres' lower center margin
Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right
Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left
Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE XXI' upper right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting with French accents; glazed with UV5 Plexiglas to inhibit fading; housed in a gold reverse ogee moulding.
Print in overall good condition; some localized foxing and discoloration; minor surface abrasions to frame.
John Mix...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Maple River' original color lithograph by John Mix Stanley
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole.
This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.' Along with the image, Stanley also noted in the report of the Maple River: "It would be an excellent plan for an emigrant travelling through the country, before reaching one of these rivers on which he expects to camp, to catch a few frogs, for the purpose of fishing in these streams, which abound pike, picarel, and large catfish. Frogs are by far the best bait that can be used." This note from the artist perhaps describes some of the actions of the figures in the camp in the foreground of the image.
5.75 x 8.75 inches, image
6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone
13.25 x 16.25 inches, frame
Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left
Entitled 'Maple River' lower center margin
Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right
Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left
Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE VIII' upper right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass to inhibit fading; housed in a brass-surface aluminium moulding.
John Mix...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Kettle Falls, Columbia River' original color lithograph by John Mix Stanley
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole.
This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.'
When it came to depicting the Columbia River, as seen in the present print, Stanley chose to depict the river's characteristic rock formations and choppy waters. The figures in the image give the viewer a sense of the vase scale of the imposing landscape. Other explorers that reached the site years before the Pacific Railroad Survey, such as Lewis and Clark, observed this scene with wonder and awe – and it is clear Stanley felt the same way.
5.75 x 8.75 inches, image
6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone
13.25 x 16.25 inches, frame
Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left
Entitled 'Kettle Falls, Columbia River' lower center margin
Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right
Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left
Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE XLVII' upper right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass to inhibit fading; housed in a brass-surface aluminium moulding.
Print in overall good condition; wrinkles in upper margin and upper right corner; frame in excellent condition.
John Mix Stanley...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Geneva, Rue De L'Hôtel De Ville - Lithograph by A. Fontanesi - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.5 x 15 cm.
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Rue De L'Hôtel De Ville is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, en...
Category
Naturalistic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Monorganorama - Suite of 5 Original Lithographs by A. Grevin - 1858
Located in Roma, IT
"Monorganorama" are five original lithograph plates, realized by Alfred Grevin in 1858.
Included a frame for each of the prints.
In very good conditions except some foxing on one.
...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Louis Gallait (1810-1887) Portrait of a Gentleman, watercolor and gouache
By Louis Gallait
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Gallait (1810-1887)
Portrait of a Gentleman,
Watercolor and gouache on paper, square white lines,
24 x 16 cm
Stamp of the Louis Gallait Estate on the mount on the lower righ...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Flushing a Woodcock, " an Original Lithograph by Currier & Ives
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Flushing a Woodcock" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts two dogs at the edge of a pond going after a bird that has just flown into the air.
8" x 12 1/2" art
18 1/2" x 22 1/4" frame
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Cantonment Stevens, Looking Westward, " Hand-colored Lithograph by G. Sohon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cantonment Stevens, Looking Westward," is a hand-colored lithograph by Gustavus Sohon. His signature is printed under the lower right of the oval, and the publisher is printed under...
Category
Realist 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nasiterna Bruijni
By John Gould
Located in Missouri, MO
John Gould (British, 1804-1881)
Nasiterna Bruijni c. 1849-1861
Hand Colored Lithograph
Image Size: approx 19.5 x 13.5 inches
Framed Size: 27 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches
John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.
Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. He was for some time under the care of J T Aiton, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy, and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist, and his skill led to him becoming the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827.
Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists, and also meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Society. In 1830 a collection of birds arrived from the Himalayas, many not previously described. Gould published these birds in A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830-1832). The text was by Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and the illustrations were lithographed by Gould's wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Coxen of Kent.
This work was followed by four more in the next seven years including Birds of Europe in five volumes - completed in 1837, with the text written by Gould himself, edited by his clerk Edwin Prince. Some of the illustrations were made by Edward Lear as part of his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae in 1832. Lear however was in financial difficulty, and he sold the entire set of lithographs to Gould. The books were published in a very large size, imperial folio, with magnificent coloured plates. Eventually 41 of these volumes were published with about 3000 plates. They appeared in parts at £3 3s. a number, subscribed for in advance, and in spite of the heavy expense of preparing the plates, Gould succeeded in making his ventures pay and in realizing a fortune. In 1838 he and his wife moved to Australia to work on the Birds of Australia and shortly after his return to England, his wife died in 1841.
When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification. He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the Galápagos Islands, which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and finches were in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species." This story made the newspapers.
In March, Darwin met Gould again, learning that his Galápagos "wren" was another species of finch and the mockingbirds he had labeled by island were separate species rather than just varieties, with relatives on the South American mainland. Subsequently Gould advised that the smaller southern Rhea specimen that had been rescued from a Christmas dinner...
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Naturalistic 1850s Art
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Lithograph
Portraits - Original Pencil Drawing by Horace Vernet - Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is an original pencil drawing on paper by Horace Vernet realized during XIX century.
Very good conditions. Image dimensions: 22 x 17.5 cm. Inc...
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1850s Art
Materials
Pencil
A DIAMOND HYPNOTIST - Le Diamant Magnetiseur
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HONORE DAUMIER (1808 - 1879)
LE DIAMANT MAGNETISEUR.....1859 (DR 3227 iii/iii: LD 3227)
Original lithograph 9 1/2 x 11 incl. text. Published in Le Chariv...
Category
Barbizon School 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Morrisinia, New York in the Bronx
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left, titled and dated
Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold...
Category
Hudson River School 1850s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Fashionable Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by E. Morin - Mid 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fashionable Woman is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, composed by eight preparatory studies realized by the French artist Eugéne Morin (1833-1875).
Hand-s...
Category
Modern 1850s Art
Materials
Pencil
CHASSEURS TYROLIENS A L'AFFUT DU CHEVREUIL
By Gustave Doré
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE DORE (French 1832-1883)
CHASSEURS TYROLIENS A L'AFFUT DU CHEVREUIL (Tyrolian Hunters at the end of the Hunt) c.
1856-7 (B...
Category
Romantic 1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Saint Basile - Black and white Etching After F. Herrera the Old
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Basile is a black and white etching on Japon attached by Félix Bracquemond.
This modern artwork representing the saint writing his doctrine on...
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1850s Art
Materials
Etching
Caricatures - Original Pencil Drawing by Horace Vernet - Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Caricatures is an original pencil drawing on paper of XIX century realized by Horace Vernet.
Very good conditions, except for a stain on the left margin...
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1850s Art
Materials
Pencil
La Sorrentine - Original Pencil Drawing by Horace Vernet - Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
La Sorrentine is an original artwork realized by the famous artist Horace Vernet. Drawing on paper.
Original sheet mounted and glued on cardoboard. Pass...
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1850s Art
Materials
Pencil
Artilleurs - Lithograph by D.A.M. Raffet - 1858
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on plate, “Raffet San Donato Février 1858”. Title “Artilleurs allant prendre service des Batteries n. 1 e n.2, Siège de Rome, 5 juin 1849” was printed at the centre. “Paris,G...
Category
1850s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Cardeuse (Woman Carding Wool)
Located in Storrs, CT
La Cardeuse (Woman Carding Wool). c. 1858. Etching. Delteil, Melot 15. only state. 10 x 7 (sheet 12 3/8 x 9 1/2). Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 25 (1938): 146; Keppel, The...
Category
Barbizon School 1850s Art
Materials
Etching