Albertus Seba

Hand-Colored Shell Engraving

1734

Pair of original engravings with later hand-coloring from Viridarium Reformatum Seu Regnum Vegetabile... by Michael Bernhard Valentini. Tab. XXVII [Snapdragons and Throatwort] and ...

Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...

Seba, Albertus. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...

Original engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann from "Phytanthosa Iconographia." Ratisbon, 1737-1745. This plate: No. 113 Ananas Folio Latiore. Mezzotint engraving printed in color and...

Original engraving by Francesco Piranesi from "Raccolta di Statue Antiche." Rome, 1780-1792.

Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...

Johannes Sadeler I (Flemish, ∗ 1550 in Brussels, Belgium – † 1600 Venice, Italy) Jonah Spat Up by the Whale (Sheet II) Engraved by Sadeler after an image created by Theodor Bernard...

Jean Dubuffet Ustensiles Utopiques 1966: Hand-signed Jean Dubuffet lithographic poster published on the occasion of: "Jean Dubuffet, Recent Pa...

Artist: (after) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Title: "L'Etang a Ville d'Array (The Pond in Ville d'Array)" Portfolio: Cent Chefs d'Oeuvre (Hundred Masterpieces of Work) *Issued unsigned, though signed by Giroux in the plate (printed signature) lower right Year: 1883 Medium: Original Etching on laid paper Limited edition: 600 Printer: Unknown, Paris?, France Publisher: Unknown, Paris?, France Framing: Framed in a silver Baroque style moulding with a 8-ply silver silk mat Framed size: 16.25" x 19" Image size: 6" x 10" Condition: Some light cosmetic wear to frame. In excellent condition Notes: This etching is after a painting of the same title by French artist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Engraved by French artist Charles Giroux (1828-1885). This etching was exhibited at the "Cent Chefs d'Oeuvre" or "Hundred Masterpieces of Work", an exhibition held June 12, 1883 in the Gallery of Georges Petit, Paris, France. Georges Petit (1856-1920) was a French art dealer, a key figure in the Paris art world and an important promoter and cultivator of Impressionist artists. Biography: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Camille Corot was born in Paris in 1796, in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were bourgeois people-his father was a wigmaker and his mother a milliner-and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his parents made good...

Artist: William Henry Toms (English, c.1700-1765) Title: "Draught of a Galley" (Plate 13, Vol. III, page 131) Portfolio: La Spectacle de la Nature Year: 1737 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown, London, UK Publisher: Humphreys, London, UK Framing: Recently framed in a Regency style gold moulding with rag matting from Holland and museum glass. The frame is an antique frame we've reused, originally built by Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY Framed size: 10.25" x 10.25" Sheet size (irregular margins): 6.63" x 8.25" Image size: 4.75" x 6.75" Condition: In excellent condition with strong colors and good margins Rare Notes: Comes from the 1737 volume edition of Noël-Antoine Pluche's "La Spectacle de la Nature", translated from the original French by Humphreys as "Nature Displayed". With two soft vertical folds within paper as issued. Various dealer reference numbers and an old price pencil inscribed in margins and on verso. Biography: William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings. Among his works were the plates for Robert West's "Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London" (1736–1739). In 1741, he worked with Thomas Badeslade on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. Among Toms's apprentices was the engraver and publisher John Boydell. W. H. Toms lived in Masham Street, London, and was the father of the painter Peter Toms. Toms died in 1765. Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) , known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest...

Edition of 50 Ger Doornink's limited editions are based on a high resolution scan of the original artwork. They are printed on archival Hahnemühle German Etching paper. This techniq...

Edition of 50 Ger Doornink's limited editions are based on a high resolution scan of the original artwork. They are printed on archival Hahnemühle German Etching paper. This techniq...