Jacob Xaver Schmuzer

Clam Engraving on Laid Paper with Orange Tints

18th Century

Aquatint print of an owl perched on a branch with bright yellow eyes. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a wooden frame with a burlap matte. Artist Biography: Kaiko M...

A signed and numbered print of a bobcat from Texas artist Charles Beckendorf. Charles did the original in pencil for this series. The print is displayed in a chrome frame and white m...

A signed and numbered print of two prairie dogs from Texas artist Charles Beckendorf. Charles did the original in pencil for this series. The print is displayed in a chrome frame an...

Naturalistic eagle etching done after the German engraver Curt Meyer-Eberhardt. Print is framed in a wooden frame with an off-white matte. Artist Biography: Curt Meyer- Eberheardt is an German engraver known for his images of dogs. He was born in Leipzig, German in 1895 and died in Munich in 1977. He studied at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Theodor Hagen and Lionel...

Green shell lithograph of a cone shell. Print is edition 33 of 34. Signed and dated by the artist along with titled. Print is framed in a golden frame...

Abstract modern screen print of a pair of intertwining snails floating against a grey toned ombre background. Signed, titled, and editioned along the lower edge of the print. Current...

After William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764) Royal Sports PIT TICKET • Engraving by William Dent (British), active from 1783 to 1793 • Inscribed bottom right: Dent sculp • Plate ca. 7.6 x 9.1cm • Image ca. 6.3 x 7.9 cm • Sheet ca. 23.5 x 15 cm Fantastic imagery full of detail and symbolism – For example discover the cast shadow of the dept collector with his truncheon, looming over the winner, whose fast gained riches are being stolen by a thief as we watch. Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. This well know subject was originally created by the famous British artist William Hogarth and then reproduced over time by many contemporary artists as prints of various formats and as paintings. Here we have a rendition engraved by William Dent, who was active from 1783 to 1793 and signed his work in the plate bottom right. I think this impression would date to the late 18th or then to the very early 19th Century. I was told, that these small prints, served as entry tickets to cock fights in Georgian England...

NOZEMAN, Cornelius and Jan Christian SEPP. A Group of Four Birds Nests: NIDUS ARDEAE, Nycticoracis; NIDUS PLATALEA, Leucorodia; NIDUS ARDEAE STELLARIS and NIDUS PELECANI, Carbonis f...

A Group of four hand-coloured engraved plates of Crabs by Schellenburg, P. Haas, Heidenreich and Ludwig Schmidt. Framed and glazed, overall size: 36.4 x 53.8 cm. Johann Friedric...

This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored engraving of an eagle is plate K2 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published between 1599 an...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Swainson's Warbler, Male, Sylvicola Swainsonia, Tree: Vulgo, White Oak", No. 10, Plate 50, from A...

This a rare 18th century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Platalea leucorodia" (Spoonbill) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlandsche Vogelen', engraved by Christiaan Sepp or his son Jan Christiaan Sepp, published in Amsterdam in 1770. This engraving depicts a Platalea leucorodia Spoonbill, a large bird that lives mainly in Europe, Asia and Africa. It commonly migrates long distances on thermal air currents from the colder Northern European climates to Sub-Saharan Africa in the winter, sometimes as far long as Finland to South Africa. The Asian black stork...