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Medium: Engraving
'Digging for the Fox' & 'Death of a Fox'
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
Digging for the Fox
Death of the Fox
A pair of Mezzotints
Image size 10 x 14 in
Framed size 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
James Seymour was an English artist renowned...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
The Lobster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.352)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lobster 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 10.6 x 7.9 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
Bloodhound, early 19th century English dog engraving
By Philip Reinagle
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Blood Hound'
Copper-line engraving by J Scott (1774-1827) after Philip Reinagle (1749-1815), 1803.
Philip Reinagle was one of the best of the sporti...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Birds of Prey, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Birds of Prey
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
"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
4 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: CI; CII; CIII & CIV.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
"Yo animal" contemporary interviened fertility animals lithograph
By Yanieb Fabre
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A gathering of prehistoric plants, fantastic animals, and people along with elements that represent fertility, seem to be craved as ancient drawings in stone. These lithographs, orig...
Category
2010s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
4 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: No.1:I; No. 2:1; II & III.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
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
$772 Sale Price
20% Off
[ Bird of Paradise] La Pie de paradise, vue par derriere, No.21
Located in Paonia, CO
[ Bird of Paradise] La Pie de paradise, vue par derriere , No.21, Paris 1801-1806 [Astrapia nigra]. Color-printed engraving with hand-coloring. French botanical and zoological illustrator Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was known as one of the finest ornithological artists of his time .He is best known for his watercolors and engravings that were commissioned by François LeVaillant, French explorer, naturalist, zoological collector , noted ornithologist and author. Levaillant’s Histoire naturelle des perroquets (1801-05) and his Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis (Birds of Paradise, 1801-06), both of which Barraband contributed to, are still considered some of the most beautiful bird books of all times because of their exceptional scientific accuracy, rich color and detail. The Astrapia nigra is a Bird of Paradise that inhabits the Vogelkop Peninsula of West Papua...
Category
Early 18th Century Other Art Style Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
![[ Bird of Paradise] La Pie de paradise, vue par derriere, No.21](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/jacques-barraband-prints-works-on-paper--bird-of-paradise-la-pie-de-paradise-vue-par-derriere-no21-for-sale/a_7803/1543778408303/Bird_of_Paradise_master.jpg?width=240 "jacques bird")
$5,200 Sale Price
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Chasseur Fortune, Engraving, Van Falenz / Le Bas, Hunter, Decorative Piece
Located in Greven, DE
Le Chasseur Fortune
Engraving
framed
Bez.: C. Van Falenz pinixit // Jac. Ph. Le Bas Sculp. // a Paris chez Le Bas graveur du Cabinet du Roy au bas de la rue de la Harpe...
Category
18th Century Rococo Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
$336 Sale Price
30% Off
Bols de Fruit, by Laurent Schkolnyk
By Karl Wirsum
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Mezzotint on Lana paper
Signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 4.63 x 3.5 inches
Edition : 90 copies
in mint condition
Laurent Schkolnyk is internationally recognized as a maste...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$175 Sale Price
27% Off
Gold-breasted Trumpeter, 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
3 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Three plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: XLVIII; XLIX & L.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
"Tumba y Raja" 2019 (see video) Signed Original Large Engraving Cuban Art Print
By Jose Bedia
Located in Miami, FL
"Tumba y Raja', is a term in Spanish that colloquially refers to an uncontrollable force that "knocks something down and rips it apart". In this case it refers to the Nkisi (magic po...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
CANGREJO MANO LARGA
Located in New York, NY
paper: 22 x 15 in.
printed image: 4 3/4 x 6 in.
english translation: Long Hand Crab
Latin
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
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
Vicuna and Llama, mid 19th French century animal engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Vigigne 2. Lama' (1. Vicuna 2' Llama)
French engraving with original hand-colourimg, circa 1840.
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cat with Red Claws and a Bird
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
Once a peer of David Hockney and Peter Blake during school, Colin Self is an important contemporary British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found mate...
Category
Early 2000s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Capuchins, mid 19th French century animal engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Le Sajou cornu 2. Le Sajou brun' (1. Black-horned Capuchin 2. Tufted Capuchin)
French engraving with original hand-colourimg, circa 1840.
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Mountstuart Coat of Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. Spilsbury & Son, 1790.
Engraving on light-weight wove paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (950 x 145 mm), full margins at top and sides of sheet, lower portion of sheet trimmed. ...
Category
17th Century Italian School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Misty Morning.
Located in Storrs, CT
Misty Morning. 1928-29. Drypoint. Appleby 137. 8 5/8 x 12 (sheet 11 5/8 x 18 1/16). Edition 100, #86. A rich impression with drypoint burr. Printed with ...
Category
1920s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Finale, from Carnival of Animals (Tyler Graphics, 119:SB31), mixed media Framed
Located in New York, NY
Stanley Boxer
Finale, from Carnival of Animals (Tyler Graphics, 119:SB31), 1979
Etching, aquatint, engraving and drypoint on hand colored TGL handmade paper
Edition 16/20
Pencil sign...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Pencil, Graphite, Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Horses, Antique French 19th century natural history engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cheval Barbe - Cheval Normand'
French engraving with original hand-colouring by Madame Fournier after Edouard Travies.
260mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
1840s Victorian 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
Red & Black 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 a pair of red and black woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Roux, de Cayenne 2. Petit Pie Noir, de Cayenne (Red a...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Vraic Season (No 1).
Located in Storrs, CT
The Vraic Season (No 1). 1936. Etching. Appleby 181. 12 x 14 1/4 (sheet 15 1/4 x 20). Edition 125 for The American College Society of Print Collectors (alternatively titled Seaweed H...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$900 Sale Price
40% Off
"Our time", 1977 original linocut signed limited edition 24x18in Cuban Latin art
Located in Miami, FL
Ernesto Garcia Peña (Cuba, 1949)
'Our time" (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1977
linocut print on paper Canson 320 g.
23.6 x 17.6 in. (59.8 x 44.6 cm.)
Edition of 200
Ref: GAE-309...
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen, Linocut
La Perruche Javane, Pl. 69
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Jacques Barraband
Title: La Perruche Javane Pt 69
Year: 1801 - 1805
Medium: Engravings with Original Hand-Coloring
Sheet Size: 20" x 13.38"
About the Artist:
Jacques Barraba...
Category
Early 1800s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Engraving
"Yo animal" contemporary lithograph interviened fertility animals
By Yanieb Fabre
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A gathering of prehistoric plants, fantastic animals, and people along with elements that represent fertility, seem to be craved as ancient drawings in stone. These lithographs, orig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
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
American Wild Turkey and Curassows, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
American Wild Turkey and Curassows
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Pygmy Parrot and Three Coloured Lorikeet, French bird colour engraving, 1839
By Da Casse after A Fries
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Perroquets 1 Psittacule pygmee 2 Lori tricolore'
Engraving with original hand-colouring by Da Casse after A Fries
From Guerin-Meneville's 'Dictionnaire Pittoresque D'histoire Nat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ducks, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Ducks
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
Goldfinch etc, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Goldfinch etc
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
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
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
Song Thrush etc, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Song Thrush etc'
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
Bird of Prey: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a parrot bird entitled "La Bondree (Bird of Prey)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 420 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in association wi...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ass, Ape & Mole, antique animal fable etching by Samuel Howitt
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original antique etching by Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) . C1810. Published by Edward Orme.
An early 19th century etching by Howitt from a series depicting ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
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
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 3...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
A. Schultz, Riders in Central Park (New York City)
Located in New York, NY
Such an innovative image on the classic 'Riders in the Park' theme! Further, the use of drypoint and the rather direct -- even aggressive -- drawing style, bring it into the German E...
Category
1930s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Eurasian Teal Duck: An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving "Anas Crecca"
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Anas Crecca" (Eurasian Teal) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlan...
Category
1770s Naturalistic 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
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867) - Early 20th Century Engraving, Manx's Petrel
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful ornithological study by the artist Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). This artwork is an early 20th-century restrike of a mid-19th-century engraving. Signed in plate to th...
Category
20th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Yacou, 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
Goats, mid 19th French century animal engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Chevre de India 2. Chevre de Syrie'
French engraving with original hand-colourimg, circa 1840.
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Shooting. English engraving by Woollett after George Stubbs, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Shooting - Plate II', engraving from George Stubb's famous set of four shooting engravings.
Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring by William...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
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
Mastiff, early 19th century English dog engraving
By Philip Reinagle
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Mastiff'
Copper-line engraving by J Scott (1774-1827) after Philip Reinagle (1749-1815), 1803.
Philip Reinagle was one of the best of the sporting a...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
Fighting Bulls and Frogs, antique animal fable etching by Samuel Howitt
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original antique etching by Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) . C1810. Published by Edward Orme.
An early 19th century etching by Howitt from a series depicting ...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving, Etching
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...
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1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Red-necked Grebe, 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
Red Damsel (Human looks at small Tinker Bell like figure)
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward's "Red Damsel" is a color mezzotint created in 1994 in a very small edition of just 10. This impression is #2 of 10. A young human figure in green gazes down on a Tinker B...
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1990s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
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Mezzotint
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...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Full Practice. Terrier dogs. 19th century mixed method engraving, circa 1865
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Full Practice', mixed method engraving published in New York, circa 1865.
After the painting by George Armfield.
475mm by 610mm (platemark)
505mm by 645mm (sheet)
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Pink-headed Duck, 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
Hackled Partridge, 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
White Stork "Ardea Ciconia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Nozeman
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Ardea Ciconia" (White Stork) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlan...
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1780s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
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