Small Animal Prints

Antique lithograph by Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848), a German paleontologist and zoologist. This print is from his work, Naturalist Atlas, a comprehensive illustrated study of an...

Fishing Nets is an original etching realized by Camille Berg in 1904. Good condition. Hand-signed, dated and numbered by the artist with pencil.

Juan Bolivar Predella, 2021 Giclee print H 42cm x W 60cm Juan Bolivar (b. Caracas, Venezuela 1966) paintings negotiate the tension between meaning and form. The central preoccupation in recent works has been the intertextual merging of references from early European avant-garde (painters like Malevich, Mondrian and Van Doesburg), with popular culture and rock music references (bands like AC/DC, Def Leppard...

"Shooting on the Prairie" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a hunter shooting at fowl in an open field. 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" art 20 1/4" x 23 3/4" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. 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 at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...

The Shepherd playing in Roman Countrysideis an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition ...

Serpent is an original etching artwork by Marcel Chirnoaga (Romanian, 1930–2008) one of the most important artists of fantasy painting and mythology subjects in the XX century. The ...

Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare ...

Duck A L’Orange by Charlotte Gerrard [2021] limited_edition Hand pulled screen print Edition number 50 Image size: H:38 cm x W:29 cm Complete Size o...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: 23.5x19.6, edition of 15 — FACEMOUNTED TO PLEXI This piece is available face mounted to plexi glass giving a modern, durable, and sleek finish. Every print is fully...

Ben Frost - "Gotta Take 'Em All" - Giclee Print - Bauhaus 310gsm Photo Rag 100% Cotton Paper - 19.68 x 19.68 inches (50x50cm) - Edition of 100 signed, numbered with COA

Seated Monkey is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in 1975. Artist's proof. Good condition. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements...

Elegant Tit - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition This remarkable ornithology lithograph with hand-finis...

limited_edition linocut Edition number 1-5 Image size: H:20cm cm x W:30cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37cm cm x W:46cm cm x D:3mmcm Sold Unframed Please note that insi...

Ancient Roman statue of a horse, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carol Nolli in the 18th ce...

Artist Commentary: “Collage is the exploitation of the chance meeting of two distant realities on an unfamiliar plane… and the spark of poetry that leaps across the gap as the two r...

Antelope in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the contemporary edition...

Sharon Augusta Mitchell created this vividly colored image of five toucans with bright yellow bills set against a background of green tropical ferns and bright orange flowers. The im...

Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare ...

This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Iyngipicus Peninsularis, Hargitt" (Travancore Pygmy Woodpecker) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Asia", publishe...

"Roseate Spoonbills" is a print by Pippin Frisbie-Calder. It is number 5 in an edition of 100. The piece is 17 inches high and 22 inches wide. It is ...

Seated Monkey is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in 1975. Artist's proof. Good condition. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements...

The Fortune-Teller and Various Animals is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1972 by the italian artist Leo Guida. Original Etching on paper. Unique work. I State. Hand-s...

L’ADMIRAL, Jacob. Group of Six Insects. [Amsterdam, Johannes Sluyter, 1774]. Group of six copper engravings with fine original colour, showing the metamorphosis of butterflies, m...

Goats in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of only 25...

The Donkey is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition...

"Minotaure-Manga-D ". Lithographic print / Black ink printed on 240gr JOHANOT paper. Dimensions : 56 x 38 cm signed and numbered at 6 copies by the artist The prints were made in...

Bird is an original etching and drypoint realized by Leo Guida in 1972. Artist proof, 1st state, very good condition. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Leo Guida (1992 - 201...

The Bull in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of only...

Antelope in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare contemporary ed...

The Bulls in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of onl...

The Bulls in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of onl...

The Bulls in the Roman Countryside is an etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of only 25 copi...

The donkey in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate, the rare edition of on...

Horses is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s. Original etching. Image size: 9 x 12 Good conditions. Horses is an original work depicted through perfect hatchings with strong strokes. He frequented the Roman artistic environment that revolves around the "trident" between the poles of the Caffè Rosati and Canova in Piazza del Popolo and the Osterie of the "Bottaro" and the "King of friends" around Via Ripetta. He makes friends in particular with the poet Sandro Penna and the sculptors Francesco Coccia and Pietro de Laurentiis.

"Minotaure-Manga-A ". Lithographic print / Black ink printed on 240gr JOHANOT paper. Dimensions : 56 x 38 cm signed and numbered at 6 copies by the artist The prints were made in...

This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Yunx indica" (Indian Wryneck) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Asia", published in London in 1850-1883. The pri...

Homo Ludens is an original hand-colored etching realized by the Italian artist Sergio Barletta (Bologna, 1934). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin, titled "homo ludens"...

POPE Jr., Alexander Group of Six Water Fowl. Group of Six chromolithographs of game-birds, each laid on to contemporary card (as published). [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878]. Alexander Pope...

Original pochoir process print. Paris, Galerie Lutetia, circa 1920.

Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. The rare edition of only 25 co...

Roman Countryside with the carriage is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition of on...

The Shepherd beside the well in Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare...

The bulls' fight in Roman Countryside with the carriage is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. T...

Restrike of engraved plate with hand color, from a series of twelve portraits of celebrated race horses wwth their groomsmen, by Irish mezzotint engraver Richard Houston (1721-1775) after James Seymour (1702-1752) with ornamental borders and coat of arms. This series of 12 mezzotint plates commissioned by Thomas Spencer...

The Buffalo is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare editio...

Mikio WATANABE (1954-) Lizards , 2003 Original etching (Mezzotint) Signed and dated in pencil Numbered / 90 ex On vellum 57 x 35 cm (c. 22.4 x 13.7 inch) Excellent condition

The Buffalo is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare editio...

The Bull's skull is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition of only 25 copies. Good...

The Buffalo is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare editio...

The Fiend of the Road shows a man in a horse driven buggy going down a country road on a winters day who has apparently left in his wake several upset horses and drivers .This original 1881 lithograph by Scott Leighton...

Since the age of 10, Jill Greenberg has staged photographs and created characters using the media of drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and photography. She is known worldwide for her uniquely human animal portraits which intentionally anthropomorphize her subjects, as well as her infamous series “End...

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: As a child, I was the flower girl in the wedding of a family friend. After much coaxing, I only agreed to walk down the aisle once I was promised gummy bears...

"Minotaure-Manga-C ". Lithographic print / Black ink printed on 240gr JOHANOT paper. Dimensions : 56 x 38 cm signed and numbered at 6 copies by the artist The prints were made in...

"Minotaure-Manga-B ". Lithographic print / Black ink printed on 240gr JOHANOT paper. Dimensions : 56 x 38 cm signed and numbered at 6 copies by the artist The prints were made in...

The Kings and babies, 2019. Cardboard print on paper. Edition of 10. Elia Shiwoohamba was born in 1981 in Windhoek, Namibia. He graduated from the John Muafangejo Art Centre in Wind...

Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare ...

Van Gogh’s Dog by Mychael Barratt [2021] limited edition Silkscreen print Edition of 50 Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Wor...