1880s Art

Medium: etching. Etched by Jules Jacquemart after Frans Hals. This impression on cream laid paper was published in Paris by L'Art in 1880. The image m...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (197 x 1...

Medium: original etching. Published in 1880 by the American Art Review. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. Not signed. Condition: there is minor foxing.

Medium: original etching. This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1880 and published by the American Art Review. The American Art Review featured original etchings by lead...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1888 and published by The New York Etching Club. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (215 x 140 mm). Signed in the plate, not by hand. Condition: t...

RATHBONE, Frederick “Crystaline Agate” Vase with four handles. Pl. XXXIX Published by Bernard Quartich, London 1898 Original chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Old Wedgewood, the...

Scene in the Campagna, also known as Woman at a Tank and Hindu Ablutions. (after the drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851.) 1886. Hardie 4.ii. Mezzotint. 8 1/2 x 11 3/8 (sheet 1...

Medium: photogravure (after the watercolor). Samuel Palmer had always admired the work of John Milton, and executed a suite of watercolors which were made into photo-engravings for "...

The View is a print realized by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906), in the late 1880s. Lithograph on ivory-colored paper. Signed on the plate on the lower. Good conditions with diffused foxing due to the time. The artwork is realized by soft strokes, the tender...

Moonlit Night from Intermezzi belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. Etching on paper. Signed on the plate ...

Medium: lithograph (after the poster). This lithograph (in reduced size) was published in Paris in 1884 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Size: 10 5/8 x 7 inches (265 x 180 mm). Signed in t...

Medium: Pastel Style: Animal Painting Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches Frame Size: 31.5 x 25.5 inches Condition: This artwork is in good condition for its age. Signature: Hand-signed Artis...

Medium: original etching. Published in 1880 by the American Art Review. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. Not signed. Condition: there is minor foxing.

Ya Tienen Asiento is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition...

Very pretty English 19th century River landscape with sailboats, a Paddle Steamer, and a crew rowing. Possibly a view on the Thames in London, this piece ...

"Mount Otawa Moon: Bright God Tamura" - Woodblock on Paper by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi From the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" This piece depicts the general Sakanoe no Tamura...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Henri Becque, Year: 1885, Medium: Etching on Arches, initialed 'AR' in pencil lower right, Image Size: 5.75 x 7.5 inches, Size: 16.5 x 23 in. ...

After the original by Henrika Langus (Slovenian, 1836-1876) and painted circa 1880. Unsigned. Framed dimensions: 17.25 x 1 x 15.5 inches. A charming and antique study of a young, f...

Ancient Egyptian ruins is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner. Mixed colored cromolithograph.  The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip t...

Signed lower right, 'Arthur Parton' (American, 1842-1914) and painted circa 1885. This notable Hudson River School painter first studied under William Trost Richards, from whom he g...

'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided. About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...

This late 19th-century maritime painting by George Stainton captures the dramatic return of a fishing boat to harbor, skillfully portraying the power of the sea and the resilience of...

Work on paper

Ancient Views of Panama city is a set of of 2 original albumen prints made in 1880s. Prints in excellent condition, applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian ink hand-written on hardcover under each print. Prints 17.5 x 23 cm, 16.5 x 21.5 cm, cardboard 26 x 33.5 cm In the photographs two different views of Panama City, Central Park and Cathedral Square...

Ancient Views of Guatemala City is a set of two original albumen prints made in 1880s. Prints in very good condition, applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian ink hand-wri...

This is an original 19th century Currier and Ives hand-colored lithograph entitled "The Celebrated Trotting Team Edward and Swiveller, Owned by Frank Work Esq. N.Y.: Winning their ma...

Print Sz: 14"H x 20"W Frame Sz: 19 3/4"H x 25 1/2"W Vanity Fair Caricature “The Winning Post” By 'Lib' (Liborio Prosperi, 1854-1928) Original ...

The women in the wood is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804...

Love, Death and the Beyond is a original modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881. The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, publish...

‘A Scion of a Noble’ by Andrew MacCallum (1821-1902). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1889, in which year it was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. At fir...

A fine 19th century coastal lanscape at Brest in Brittany, France by the imprtant British artist Richard Principal Leitch. The work is signed lower left and further signed, inscribed and dated 1880 on a label verso. Presented in a swept gilt frame and glazed. Artist: Richard Principal Leitch (British, 1827-1888) Title: View at Brest Medium: Watercolour on paper Size: 19 x 22 inches (48 x 56 cm) including the frame Richard Principal Leitch was the son of the royal watercolour tutor William Leighton Leitch, who taught Queen Victoria, her daughters and her daughter-in-law Princess (later Queen) Alexandra for almost twenty years. In September 1857 he was in Normandy painting...

Fallen Rider  is a modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881. The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroef...

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge, British/American (1830 - 1904) Title: Animal Locomotion. plate 402 Year: 1887 Medium: Collotype Image Size: 7.25 x 16 inches Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 ...

Cancer-The Crab From: Les Douze Mois de 1889 As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui. Published by Sagot, Paris Proof before letters without the calendarium as p...

Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919) pen and black ink on paper, inscribed with the name of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing 15 x 12 cm In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London. He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892. Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...

Running Death from Intermezzi belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. Etching on paper. Signed and dated on ...

Bust of Franz Liszt with autograph of Moses Jacob Ezekiel is a photographic albumen print applied on cardboard. Moses Jacob Ezekiel's signature and dedica...

Glimpes of Japanese Shrines in Kyoto is a lot of four hand-inked Albumen print with aniline applied on a single cardboard. Very good conditions. Cardboar...

A fine signed and dated 1880 Spanish oil on panel portrait of a man wearing a white shirt and waistcoat by Manuel Pla y Valor. The work is superbly ...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Antonin Proust State Five, Year: 1884-1888, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 4.5 x 3 inches, Size: 14.5 x 11 in. (36.83 x 27.94 cm), Reference: Tho...

"Postface. La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde I" (1886) 1886 French illustration from Felicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898) depicting a young partially nude woman. The woman is st...

Ancient View of the Port of Ensenada is a silver salt photograph realized by unknown photographer of the end of 19th Century. Very good condition, applied on a single cardboard. Ca...

Lido (Venice) Etching on chine collee, 1880 Part of the artist's "Venice Set" Signed upper right in plate :Otto H Bacher" (see photo) Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 2002 recto lower right beneath image. (see photo) Created October 20, 1880 Reference: Andrew Venice No. 29 Provenance: Estate of the Artist Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909) Otto Henry Bacher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent. He first studied art at the age of sixteen with local genre trompe l'oeil still-life artist, DeScott Evans. Although he studied with Evans for less than one year, Bacher's early work, comprised mainly of still lifes, betrays Evans's influence. After a short period in Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bacher returned to Cleveland and met Willis Seaver Adams, an artist from Springfield, Massachusetts, who had just recently arrived upon the Cleveland art scene. Soon the two artists were rooming together. Adams was instrumental in the founding of the Cleveland Art Club, as well as the establishment of the Cleveland Academy of the Fine Arts, to the board of which Adams had Bacher appointed. Also during this time, Bacher began to learn the process of etching from local etcher and landscape painter Sion Longley Wenban. In 1878, Bacher and Adams left for Europe. After stopping briefly in Scotland, Bacher went on to Munich, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy. He quickly tired of the rigors of the academy, and soon he was studying with Cincinnati artist Frank Duveneck, the prime American exponent of the Munich School. In 1879, Bacher made a trip to Florence with Duveneck as one of the celebrated "Duveneck Boys." Early the following year, the group proceeded to Venice, where Bacher and several other artists established studios in the Casa Jankovitz. By this time an avid printmaker, Bacher had his etching press sent from Muni ch, and it was in his Venice studio that he taught Duveneck the rudiments of etching. Soon Bacher, Duveneck, and other members of the Duveneck circle were experimenting in printmaking. Among the group's contributions were some of the first American examples of monotypes, which they called "Bachertypes" because they were printed using Bacher's press. It was also in Venice that Bacher met the venerable American expatriate artist, James McNeill Whistler. On learning of Bacher's press and his collection of etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler made himself a regular visitor to Bacher's studio, and he eventually took his own room in the Casa Jankovitz. Bacher spent much of the rest of 1880 with Whistler, the two artists sharing etching techniques. From Whistler, Bacher learned tone and line graduation; from Bacher, Whistler learned his etching techniques, including better ways of using the acid bath which produced less tedious and more efficient work. Bacher visited Whistler occasionally in the years that followed, and in 1908 he published With Whistler in Venice, his famous recollections of his time with the great artist. Bacher spent the next two years traveling extensively throughout Italy, with Venice as the center of his operations, and he produced a number of important etchings of Italian subjects. Bacher sent several of these works to America in 1881 to be included in the Society of American artists exhibition that year, and had a similar group of works shown at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers' first exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London. Following the exhibition, Bacher, along with several other of the American contributors, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Bacher collected twelve of his etchings of Venetian subjects and sold them in bound volumes through his New York dealer, Frederick Keppel. Bacher returned to Cleveland in January 1883 as a fully cosmopolitan artist. He set up a lavish studio furnished with exotic items and objets-d'art he had collected on his travels, and began to hold art classes as a means to supplement his income. He soon joined with Joseph De Camp in forming a summer sketch class in Richfield, Ohio. Bacher and De Camp also planned the Cleveland Room for a major loan exhibition in Detroit that year. During this period, Bacher increasingly painted in oil, and he began to produce sun-dappled canvases in an impressionistic mode. Unable to sell any paintings from this early period, however, Bacher left Cleveland for Paris in 1885, where he planned to undertake further studies. Stopping first in London to visit Whistler, Bacher stayed only briefly in Paris before heading to Venice, where he spent the remainder of the year. In January 1886, Bacher returned to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and also entered the atelier of Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran. The life of the student seems never to have suited Bacher, as he stayed in Paris only through June, before departing again for Venice. For the next six months he, Robert Blum, and Charles Ulrich...

Image dimensions: 11.8 x 15.4 cm. La rue du Canal is a beautiful black and white xilograph on paper, realized in 1880 by the French wooden engraver Charles Laplante (Sèvres, 1837 - Paris, 1903), after Hubert Clerget (1818-1899). Original title: La rue du Canal, à la Nouvelle-Orléans Signed on plate on sides. With an incredible freshness of line and a full mastery of the artistic technique, this original print portrays a wonderful glimpse of a street in New Orleans. Title on plate, on lower margin at the center. The original print is mounted in a white cardboard passepartout, cm 30 x 40. In excellent conditions, this beautiful modern artwork is an illustration of the French newspaper " Le Tour du Monde", and on the back has another illustration representing the general Sherman...

Kämpfende Kentauren (Fighting Centaurs), is an etching and aquatint realized by  Max Klinger in 1881. Plate V from “Intermezzi” Opus IV, 2nd state on 2,  first edition. Here the art...

Portrait of Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of the late 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Not signed. Good conditions except for sign of times. Le...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

William Rickarby Miller Rapelyea House, New York, 1884 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold through the American Art Union...

"The Boat House" is a signed (lower center) etching by Edward Loyal Field. It depicts a scene across a river in the foreground, where a quaint set of houses sits in black and white.1...

Pursued Centaur (Verfolgter Centaur) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. Etching on paper. Signed in the...

The bronze proposed here was initially presented in November 1878 at the Competition for the Encouragement of Brera. It is therefore one of the first celebratory works of the sculptor Ambrogio Borghi...

SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (1818-1910) A LANCASHIRE RIVER, 1881 (Schneiderman 203 viii/ix; Harrington 215 ii/ii) Original etching with drypoint. Signed in pencil., image 11 x 16. A large sheet, 18 x 22 inches with 3 inch margins. In very good condition. According to British dealer...

This charming British male portrait oil painting is of a gentleman in an iconic bowler hat. Painted circa 1880 it is a wonderful soft focus realistic image of a man in a suit with a wide pale blue tie and handkerchief in pocket. We can also just see the chain of his pocket watch. He is positioned again a wall with wonderful brushwork. A really fantastic painting in a stunning gilded oak frame...

Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) Brighton, the beach 1889 signed located and dated lower left "Brighton juin 89" watercolor on paper 18.5 x 27.5 cm (view) framed 41 x 49.5 cm Paul Lecomt...

19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...

Figurative landscape of four infantrymen in formation with their long arquebus guns by Adolphe Ancker (Dutch, 19th Century), after Marchetti. Signed and dated "Adolph Ancker 1888" lo...

Opus IV, Simplicius in der Waldeinode (Simplicius in the Wilderness) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. ...

This black and white etching by American painter and print maker of the Hudson River School in New York: Thomas Moran, is a rare Klackner #53 of the catalogue raisonné, depicting "The Harbor of Vera...

Washington and His Family published in Philadelphia in 1884 by Bradlee & Co. This impressive mezzotint was engraved by William Sartain after a painting by the well-known Philadelphia artist Christian...