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Medium: Engraving
An Icelandic GyrFalcon: An 18th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of an Icelandic Ger Falcon entitled "Gerfault d''Islande" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 210 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Violin et Coquille (violin and shell / inscribed Happy New Year 2000)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...
Category
1990s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Coot Bird, "Wasserhuhn": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Wasserhuhn" (Coot) by Johann Leonhard Frisch , which is plate 208 from ...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
18th Century Hand Colored Engraving of a Camel from Pennant's " British Zoology"
Located in Alamo, CA
An 18th Century Hand Colored Engraving of a Camel from Thomas Pennant's famous publication on natural history "The British Zoology, Published under the Inspection of the Cymmrodorion...
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1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Deerflake (The artist's first work celebrating the Solstice / deer as snowflake)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the deer. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Frog Cog
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the frog. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Carpe Diem I
Located in New Orleans, LA
this impression is #46 from edition of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Japan and currently lives in France. He is most known for his elegant, evocative black ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$127 Sale Price
49% Off
Traveling animals - Original etching enhanced with watercolor
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Traveling animals
Original engraving enhanced with watercolor
Signed in the plate and dated, 1746
28.6 x 23.5 cm
From Volume II of the Natural History of Birds, plat...
Category
1740s Academic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Raven and the Fox
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Raven and the Fox
Series: Bestiaire de la Fontaine
Date: 1974
Medium: drypoint with color added by stencil
Framed Dimensions: 35.75" x 28"
Sig...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Stencil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Bird and Beetle - Etching and watercolor (Natural History of Birds, 1741)
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Bird and beetle ('The Gowry Bird')
Original engraving, enhanced with watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
Dated, 1741
28.8 x 23.3 cm
Created for Volume I of the...
Category
1740s Academic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Antique Hand Colored Copper Engraving "Saint Bernard Rescue Dogs"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6037 Antique watercolored copper engraving of a group of Saint Bernard rescue dogs
Framed
Image size 8x6"
Category
Early 20th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Hambleden Orchard (Farm with chicken, ox and oxcart)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This engraving is from an edition of 60. It is signed and dedicated. A farmyard scene with barn, chicken and ox. It is in excellent condition and is a fine impression. There is a stain in the lower bottom margin away from the image and well below the mat line
Wilfred Fairclough...
Category
1940s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Birds of Paradigm
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...
Category
1980s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Eagles, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Eagles
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
Adresse Sagot - Two States, Before and After Lettering
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963), two drypoints, 1905, (Ginestet and Pouillion E156) each signed in pencil: an impression of the final state (third state of three) printed in bistre, with ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Sparrowhawk /// Antique Ornithology Bird Saverio Manetti Italian Watercolor Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Saverio Manetti (Italian, 1723-1785)
Title: "Sparrowhawk" (Plate XXI - 21)
Portfolio: Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)
Year: 1767-1776
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: heirs of Francesco Mouck (Vols. I-III), Gaetano Cambiagi (Vol. IV), Giuseppe Vanni (Vol. V), Florence, Italy
Reference: Ayer/Zimmer page 241; Fine Bird Books page 120; McGill/Wood, page 450; Nissen IVB No. 588
Sheet size: 17.88" x 14.07"
Platemark size: 13.69" x 11.69"
Condition: A few small minor areas of discoloration in margins. Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Engraved and hand-colored by Italian artists Lorenzo Lorenzi (Active: 1750-1780) and Violante Vanni (1732-1776). Latin and Italian texts by Saverio Manetti. Comes from Manetti's monumental five volume "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", (1767-1776), which consists of 600 hand-colored engravings. Unidentified watermark in center of sheet.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk, also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below.
Manetti's extraordinary "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", 1767-1776 was commissioned by Maria Luisa, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. It is a massive 5 book volume set of 600 hand-colored engraved plates of birds. Engraved and hand-colored by Italian artists Lorenzo Lorenzi (Active: 1750-1780) and Violante Vanni (1732-1776). Latin and Italian texts by Manetti. Manetti created the drawings almost exclusively from real specimens, beginning with the extensive collection of Marquis Giovanni Gerini, an affluent Florentine Senator. Manetti saw the work was published in parts of 12 plates, issued every two months or so, most plates dedicated to a prominent member of the Italian nobility and gentry. Printed on handmade watermarked laid paper and published by heirs of Francesco Mouck (Vols. I-III), Gaetano Cambiagi (Vol. IV), Giuseppe Vanni (Vol. V), between 1767-1776 in Florence, Italy. It took 10 years to complete and at its time, was one of the largest surveys of ornithology attempted and the finest set of bird books to ever be created.
Biography:
Francesco Saverio Manetti...
Category
1760s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Snow Geese (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snow Geese (Wyoming)
Drypoint, c. 1947
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Title in pencil lower left (see photo)
Note: This image is reprodcued in a Photogravure for Ducks Unlimited in 1947. This is the first original drypoint version.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches
Reference: Archives West #101
Kleiber 134
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...
Category
1940s American Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, Bird on Piano
Located in New York, NY
Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This one certainly is. Signed in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Le Téléphone (Lobster Telephone) /// Salvador Dali Surrealism Modern Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Le Téléphone (Lobster Telephone)"
Portfolio: Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (Great Inventions)
*Signe...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
White Head Eagle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
White Head Eagle
Mezzotint printed in colors, 2014
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower center (see photo)
WHITE HEAD EAGLE. The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 94, 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Salvador Dalí, "Le Cerf Malade" from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine, engraving
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original engraving with color added by pochoir by Salvador Dali. It is from Dali's suite of 12 original engravings entitled "Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine", which he c...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards /// Bird Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Edwards (English, 1694-1773)
Title: "Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards"
Portfolio: A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some O...
Category
1740s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
HERBST. A Group of Four Crustaceans
By Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
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...
Category
1920s American Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
CAT
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. CAT. Baro 80. Etching and drypoint, 1965/6. Edition of 40 (There were also three Trial Proofs and four Artist's Proofs). Signed and numbered in pencil. 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (plate), (sheet). The edition was printed at the Hollander Graphic...
Category
1960s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$4,200
Wild Fowl Shooting /// Osbaldiston The British Sportsman Hunting Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Augustus Osbaldiston (English, Active: Late 18th Century)
Title: "Wild Fowl Shooting" (Plate 2)
Portfolio: The British Sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer'...
Category
1790s English School Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
"The Winner" - Etching on Paper (10/25)
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Winner" - Etching on Paper
Clean and modern drypoint etching of a horse skeleton by Maria Bennett (American, 20th Century). This etching has layer...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
$460 Sale Price
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Francois Nicolas Martinet (1731-1804) - Engraving, Petite Outarde ou Canepetiere
Located in Corsham, GB
This hand-colored engraving comes from "Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux," a famous set of volumes edited by Georges Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon (1707-1788). The book was publish...
Category
Early 18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Rabbit Series #4
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rabbit Series #4" 1980, is an original mezzotint with embossing by noted Hungarian artist Radovan Kragulj, b.1935. It is hand signed, dated, titled and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The sheet size is 25.5 x 19.5 inches, framed size is 26.75 x 20.75 inches. It is custom framed in a silver metal frame, with white backing. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Radovan Kraguly...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Face and Houses - Original Etching by Macci - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Face and Houses is an original black and white etching on carboard realized by Macci.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents a face and houses composition through delicate...
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper, Drypoint
$198 Sale Price
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Cowdray Castle (with Geese)
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful proof on vergé crème, signed by the artist in pencil.
Full margins. Ex-coll. H.H. Benedict (Lugt 1298).
Ref. Cat. Harrington 221; Schneiderman 208.
Category
1880s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$523 Sale Price
25% Off
"Dialogue to the Wind" - Intaglio Print by Tomoya Uchida
Located in Soquel, CA
"Dialogue to the Wind" by Tomoya Uchida (American, 20th Century). Plant matter swirls in the air above a minimalist landscape. In the foreground, two bees have landed on a housekey. The sky is subtly textured, creating the impression of passing gusts of wind.
Titled "Dialogue to the Wind" along the bottom edge.
Signed and dated "T. Uchida - 89" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a new light grey mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 17"W
Paper size: 19.75"H x 13"W
Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category
1980s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
THE COMMON BUZZARD
By Peter Mazel
Located in Portland, ME
(Mazell, Peter). THE COMMON BUZZARD after Charles Collins. Engraving with hand-coloring, c. 1766. A plate from The British Zoology, London 1777. Titled in the plate, top, and with th...
Category
1760s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Study of Six Heads - Etching by J.-J. Boissieu
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Six Heads is a beautiful black and white etching with drypoint interventions on paper, realized at the end of XVIII century by the French artist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon, 1736- 1810).
Six study od heads ( four elder men, a middle-aged man at the center, and a woman with turbant) etched with a superb technique and an incredible draftsmanship are drawn to different scales and with different degrees of finish, have the dignity of six different portraits with the same passion and effort.
Signed on plate on lower right margin “De Boissieu”. Inscription ( number plate) on higher-right corner "10".
This old master’s original print with lifetime impressions, is in very good conditions, except for a usual yellowing of the paper above all on the edges and some signs of the time,do not affect the image.
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon,1736 –1810)
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu was a French artist studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon, but he was mostly self-taught.
His first prints were realized between 1758–64. When he went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador and Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, he had the lifechanging encounter: he met Voltaire and he entered in the world of luminaries, he had the opportunity of realizing some plates for the Diderot-d’Alembert’s Encyclopèdie. Then he continued to produce prints in Lyon, Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside, as well as the French countryside around Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Study of Five Heads - Original Etching by J.-J. Boissieu
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Five Heads is a beautiful black and white etching with drypoint interventions on paper, realized at the end of XVIII century by the French artist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon, 1736- 1810).
Five study of heads of which two profiles (a female and a male) are lightly sketched with the drypoint technique, and we could appreciate the incredible draftsmanship. Instead, the bigger three portraits are very detailed and etched with a superb technique. Although the subjects are drawn in different scales and with different degrees of finish, each portrait has the dignity of a unique piece and the composition is very balanced.
In particular on the lower margin at the center there is the portrait of "Le Père Cotrot, Garçon Teinturier à Lyon'", an elderly man, toothless and with a large-nosed, slightly turned to left, with a hat and unbuttoned jacket over waistcoat, shows all his wrinkles in a very realistic way.
Signed on plate on lower right margin “De Boissieu”.
This old master’s original print with fresh impressions, is in very good conditions, except for a usual yellowing of the paper above all on the edges and some signs of the time and light foxing along the margins, do not affect the image.
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon,1736 –1810)
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu was a French artist studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon, but he was mostly self-taught.
His first prints were realized between 1758–64. When he went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador and Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, he had the lifechanging encounter: he met Voltaire and he entered in the world of luminaries, he had the opportunity of realizing some plates for the Diderot-d’Alembert’s Encyclopèdie. Then he continued to produce prints in Lyon, Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside, as well as the French countryside around Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
After John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795-1865) - 1859 Mezzotint, A Moment Of Rest
Located in Corsham, GB
Acrylic paint is used on top of a scrim laid to paper laid to canvas to create an abstract composition in the style of Joan Miró. Well presented in a modern gilt-effect molded frame....
Category
19th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Ardea, Nycticorax (Black-crowned Night Heron) /// Dutch Ornithology Bird Animal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Cornelius Nozeman (Dutch, 1720-1786)
Title: "Ardea, Nycticorax (Black-crowned Night Heron)" (Plate 78)
Portfolio: Nederlandsche Vogelen (Dutch Birds)
Year: 1770-1829
Medium: ...
Category
1770s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
"Birth" - Intaglio Print by Tomoya Uchida
Located in Soquel, CA
"Birth" by Tomoya Uchida (American, 20th Century). This piece is mostly abstract, high-contrast organic shapes, with the exception of one straight line that sits above the organic shapes. In the lower left corner of the piece, there is a wasp.
Titled "Birth" along the bottom edge.
Signed "T. Uchida" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a new white and black double mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 14"H x 10"W
Paper size: 12"H x 8.5"W
Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category
1980s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
Rabbit Series #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rabbit Series #3" 1980, is an original mezzotint with embossing by noted Hungarian artist Radovan Kragulj, b.1935. It is hand signed, dated, titled and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The sheet size is 25.5 x 19.5 inches, framed size is 26.75 x 20.75 inches. It is custom framed in a silver metal frame, with white backing. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Radovan Kraguly...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
The Wasp, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.351)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Wasp 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 8 inches, u...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Millouinan /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck Natural History
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Millouinan" (Plate 1002)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signatur...
Category
1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
The Goldfinch, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.348 )
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Goldfinch 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 11.2 x 8.25 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
Red-tailed Tropic Bird, 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
Spur-winged Goose, 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
Chinese Jacana, 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
Red-billed Promerops, 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
Impeyan Pheasant, 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
White-eared Bustard, 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
Marbled Guillemot, 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...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
Artic Gull, 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...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
Harlequin Humming-Bird, 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
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Engraving
Capital Tanager, 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
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Engraving
The Royston Crow (Hooded Crow) /// Thomas Pennant Ornithology Bird Animal Art
By Thomas Pennant
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Thomas Pennant (Welsh, 1726-1798)
Title: "The Royston Crow (Hooded Crow)" (Plate D1)
Portfolio: The British Zoology, Class II: Birds
Year: 1761-1766 (First edition)
Medium: O...
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1760s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
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Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper
“Yellow Crested Parrot”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored copper plate engraving from “The History of Birds. Plate 117 published in 1776.. “Yellow Created Parrot” Dedicated to Daniele Farsetti, a well known art collector Veni...
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Late 18th Century Academic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
$850 Sale Price
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Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck)" (Plate 954)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des...
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1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
The Vulture. 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.341)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Vulture 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 8 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...
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20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
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Drypoint, Aquatint
Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson /// Equestrian Horse Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Cavendish (English, 1593-1676)
Title: "Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson" (Plate 17, Page 76)
Portfolio: Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser ...
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1730s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Turtledove: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a turtledove entitled "Tourterelle du Senegal (Turtledove of Senegal)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 160 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseau...
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1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
Strange Animals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Strange Animals
Engraving, 1949
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
The composition was created at the Univerisity of Iowa while the artist was enrolled in the famous M...
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1940s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
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Engraving
The Donkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.329)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Donkey 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 inches,...
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20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
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Drypoint, Aquatint
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