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Medium: Engraving
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
1980s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$100 Sale Price
45% Off
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolored Etching
Antique Birds, from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Di...
Category
17th Century French School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
Mizuhiki
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100.
Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Cattle, English antique animal engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cattle
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Black Guillemot: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a black guillemot bird entitled "Le Guillemot" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 903 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in association with G...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas — Atelier 17
By Joseph Hecht
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Hecht, 'Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas', engraving, 1928, edition c. 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 162. Signed and annotated 'epreuve definitive' (final proof) in pencil...
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1930s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tree with moth, caterpillar..., Plate 39, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 39; Unidentified tree with moth, caterpillar and pupa.
The Netherlands: 1705....
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Vultures, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Vultures
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Elephant Equilibriste, Signed Surrealist Mezzotint by Mario Avati
By Mario Avati
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mario Avati, French (1921 - 2009)
Title: Elephant Equilibriste
Year: 1969
Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 35/50
Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches
Size: 2...
Category
1960s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
5th or 8th edition print of "Que pico de Oro" from the Los Caprichos with burnished aquatints, drypoints etchi...
Category
1790s Northern Renaissance Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
Her Majesty's Stag Hounds on Ascot, A Colored 19th Century British Hunting Scene
Located in Alamo, CA
"The Meeting of Her Majesty's Stag Hounds on Ascot Heath" is a large colorful mezzotint engraving of an extensive British hunting scene. It was created by Sir Francis Grant...
Category
1830s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Gravure Panthere 2
By Paul Jouve
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Engraving after Paul Jouve
From the work of Terrasse in 1948
490 copies
Size etching: 23 x 18 cm
Frame: 45 x 49 cm
Category
2010s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Poultry, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Poultry
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Echidna and Platypus, Australian animal monotreme antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Kloakentiere'
(Monotremes - echidna and platypus))
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cocoa plant, caterpillar, ..., Plate 26, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 26; Cocoa plant, caterpillar, pupa, and butterflies. The Netherlands: 1705. En...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Portraits of the Famous Horses 'Old Partner' & 'White Nose'
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
The Portraiture of the Famous Horse 'Old Partner'
The Portraiture of 'White Nose'
Engraved by Richard Houston
Image size 14 x 16 in
Framed size 16 x 18 in
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$1,613 Sale Price
35% Off
Lizards - Original handsigned etching / 90ex
Located in Paris, IDF
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
Category
Early 2000s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was engraved, printed and colored in London by Robert Havell, Jr. in 1834. It depicts a male and a female Esquimaux Curlew birds...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Set of Four Hand Colored Monkey Prints
Located in Palm Beach, FL
This set of four hand colored copper plate engravings are illustrations by early 19th century naturalist J. H. Jacob first published in Italy in 1812, and are referred to as "Jacob's...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Engraving of a British Fox Hunting Scene "The Pink Of Condition"
Located in Alamo, CA
The engraving "The Pink Of Condition" by George Wright was published in London in 1909. It depicts the beginning of a British fox hunting scene. The ...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
$860 Sale Price
20% Off
Tigre couché à l'entrée de son antre (Tiger Lying at the Entrance to its Lair)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching, drypoint, and roulette on watermarked Hallines cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (95 x 148 mm), full margins. A very good impression of this charming image, with all of...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
White Stork "Storch Ciconia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Der Storch Ciconia" (White Stork) by Johann Leonhard Frisch is plate 19...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
A Fierce Bull
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Fierce Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 108. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 11 7/8). Edition 8. An exceptional impression with rich drypoint burr printed on antique laid paper. A proof of t...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
40% Off
TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
Category
1930s Cubist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$31,600 Sale Price
29% Off
Barnacle Geese Affrighted
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed and numbered 59/75 in pencil, lower margin. Notations in pencil along the lower sheet edge, recto, well outside of ima...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
A Standing Leap at a Gate
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
A Standing Leap at a Gate
Mezzotint with hand colouring
Image size 10 x 14 in
Framed size 16 1/2 x 20 in
James Seymour was an English artist renowned for h...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Moths and a Lady Bug in a Landscape: A Hand-colored Engraving by Moses Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of moths and a lady bug, which is plate 22 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aurelian: or Natural History of English Insects; Namely Moths & Butterflies", first published in London in 1766 and this from an 1840 edition. The engraving depicts the natural history developmental stages of the Burnished Brass Moth, the Dark Gothic...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Fish, English antique fish angling engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fish
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Turtledove of Senegal: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a turtledove entitled "Tourterelle a Collier, du Senegal (Turtledove of Senegal)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 161 from 'Histoire Naturelle...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
White-throated Capuchin Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Sai a gorge blanche. Variete A. Buff. Simia capucina. v.a.", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste Audebert...
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Late 18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hermit Crabs, German animal antique underwater crustacean engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Einsiedlerkrebse'
(Hermit crabs)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cream-coloured Plover, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Game Birds, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Game Birds
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Chinese Diver, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Artwork by Paul Jouve.
Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
Paul...
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans - Coconut and hermit crabs, natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
A Falkland Island Quail: An 18th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a Falkland Island Quail ("Caille des Isles Malouines") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 222 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Greyhound
Located in Columbia, MO
Greyhound
1773-1802
Engraving
14 x 10 inches
Framed: 24 x 21 inches
Category
1770s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tortoise-shell Butterfly, Hawk Moth: Antique Hand-colored Engraving by M. Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored antique engraving depicting the natural history of the Tortoise-shell Butterfly and Privet Hawk Moth, which is plate 2 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aure...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Spoonbill "Platalea leucorodia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
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...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Giant Petrel, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Spectacle Owl, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hooked Salmon, angling fish etching by George Marples, circa 1920
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Marples was a painter, etcher, writer on ornithology, and principal of Huddersfield, Hull and Liverpool School of Art. He specialized in etchings of fish...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
The Porculine Opossum (Bandicoot), Australia, engraving, 1795
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Porculine Opossum' (Bandicoot)
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. Circa 1795, by Richard Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
155mm by 125mm (platemark)
225mm by...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ostend Horse
Located in Storrs, CT
Ostend Horse. 1926-27. Drypoint. Appleby 125. 7 x 815/16 (sheet 9 1/8x 12 1/5). Proof B, apart from the edition 100. A rich impression with tonal wiping and drypoint burr, printed on...
Category
1920s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
La Brebis, antique French 1760s sheep engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'La Brebis'
Copper-line engraving, circa 1765
From Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi" which was published in Paris.
24c...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Swainson's Warbler: A Framed Original Hand-colored Audubon Folio Bird Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Mangabey Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mangabey, Buff, Simia Aethiops, Linne", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste Audebert...
Category
Late 18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
$1,340 Sale Price
20% Off
Crustaceans - crabs, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Peacock Butterfly, Moth & Botanical: An 18th C. Hand-colored M. Harris Engraving
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare, original first edition hand-colored engraving of Peacock Butterflies and Water Betony Moths depicted in their natural botanical environment, which is plate 8 from Mos...
Category
Mid-18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Picador Incites the Bull.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
The Picador Incites the Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 104. 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 1/4 x 11 7/8). Edition 30, #5. Slight mat line, 1 hinge stain in the lower margin, well outside the i...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$1,200 Sale Price
27% Off
A Pair of Woodpeckers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of male and female woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Male de la Encenada, 2. Petit Pic des Moluques (Woodpeckers)"...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Mouton de Barbarie, antique French 1760s sheep engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Mouton de Barbarie'
Copper-line engraving, circa 1765
From Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi" which was published in Paris.
Jacques E. De Seve...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Moths in Their Natural Landscape: Antique Hand-colored Engraving by Moses Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of Pinkunderwing Moths, Cream Spotted Tyger Moths in their natural botanical environment, which is plate 4 from Moses H...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Admirable Butterflies, Magpie Moths: A Hand-colored Engraving by Moses Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored antique engraving depicting the natural history of the Admirable Butterfly and the Small Magpie Moth, which is plate 6 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aure...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Butterflies & Moths in Nature: An Antique Hand-colored Engraving by Moses Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored antique engraving depicting the natural history of the the Brown Hairstreak Butterfly, the Larke Skipper Butterfly, the Small Skipper Butterfly, the Scarce Mar...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Butterflies & Moths in a Landscape: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by M. Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare, original first edition hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of butterflies and moths, which is plate 10 from Moses Harris' publication "The Aurelian: ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Drypoint, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in the plate lower left
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Hans Kleiber (1887-1967)
Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains.
Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife.
Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
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1930s American Realist Engraving Animal Prints
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Drypoint
Lice
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lice (Mallards grooming themselves)
Drypoint, 1927
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left corner
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches
Shee...
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1920s American Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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