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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
"Shaft-Tailed Widah, " Antique Bird Print
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Hand-colored signed engraving after bird illustration by William Hayes (1735-1802) from "Portraits of the Rare and Curious Exotic Birds, with their descr...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Long Tail Duck, Pl. 264
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
From publication The Birds of Great Britain, Systematically Arranged, Accurately Engraved, and Painted from Nature. Published 1793-1801 in London.
Markings Watermark: 1794 J.Whatma...
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18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Hand-Colored Madagascar Parrot Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, hand-colored at the time of publication, after the work of George Edwards from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel" by Johann Michael Seligmann. Tab IX. Le Perroquet...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper
Man on Horseback - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Man on Horseback" is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored cardboard , by Anonymous Artist of the XVIII Century.
In excellent condi...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Zebras - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zebras is an original print realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Black and white lithograph reproducing a pair of zebras, the typical African equines with black...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
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
Victorian 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
18th Century Catesby Hand-colored Bird & Plant Engraving "The Crested Titmous"
By Mark Catesby
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copperplate engraving of a bird and plants by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) entitled "The Crested Titmous" from "The Natural History of Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Bahama Islands", published in 1731. It depicts a small Crested Titmous bird, facing left, perched on the stem of a plant with clusters of mauve colored star-like flowers.
This original Catesby hand-colored engraving, on laid paper with a large central Fleur-de-Lys watermark, is presented in a cream color French mat. The mat measures 20" x 15.5" and the sheet measures 18.75" x 14.75".
Mark Catesby was born in England to a prosperous family, but he traveled to America, first to visit his sister and her husband in 1712. From 1712 to 1719 he explored America observing its birds and plants, taking notes, creating drawings and collecting specimens. He returned to England with this material and created more detailed drawings. His next visit to America 1722-1726 allowed for more detailed research. Upon his return to England he created his monumental and beautiful work "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands", which was published in London in two folio volumes of 11 parts each consisting of 20 plates...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Bird and Beetle - Etching and watercolor (Natural History of Birds, 1741)
Located in Paris, FR
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
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
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
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
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...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Leopards and Mole Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper
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
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ostrich, Porcupine and Hedgehog Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper
Vintage Print, Grasshopper, Fish, "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds..."
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Hand-colored etching on laid paper by George Edwards (1694-1773) from A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrapeds, Reptiles, Fishe...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Packhorse and Soldiers /// Antique British Victorian Etching Figurative Animal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) John Hamilton Mortimer (English, 1740-1779)
Title: "Packhorse and Soldier"
Year: 1783
Medium: Original Etching on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Prin...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
THE PORTRAITURE OF LAMPREY
By Richard Houston
Located in Portland, ME
Houston, Richard. THE PORTRAITURE OF LAMPREY. Engraving with hand-coloring, 1755, by Houston after the painting by James Seymour. 11 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches, plus full margins. In excell...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
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...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw)" (1008)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Traveling animals - Original etching enhanced with watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
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
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Gran Grue Della Baia d'Hudson - Etching by Andrea Scacciati The Younger
By Andrea Scacciati
Located in Roma, IT
Gran Grue Della Baia d'Hudson is a beautiful black and white etching on laid paper realized by the Italian artist, Andrea Scacciati. Title engraved on the higher margin, inscription ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Het leeuwendeel (The Lion's Share) /// Old Masters Animals Landscape Dog Leopard
By Dirk Stoop
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dirk Stoop (Dutch, c.1615-1686)
Title: "Het leeuwendeel (The Lion's Share)"
Portfolio: The Fables of Aesop
Year: 1665 (an earlier state of unknown states)
Medium: Original Et...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Gesso, Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
Hunting Scene - Original Etching by Antonio Tempesta - Early 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.4 x 27.5 cm.
Hunting Scene is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master, Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Monogramm ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Clam Engraving on Laid Paper with Orange Tints
Located in Houston, TX
Clam engraving printed on laid paper with orange tones. Framed in a wood frame. Engraving has the signature on the bottom right corner.
Artist Biography: Jacob Xaver Schmuzer (1713–...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Two Rams Looking Down & To Their Left, " Etching by Karel DuJardin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Looking Down & To Their Left" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art
16 3/8" x 19 1/2" frame
Du Jardin was a master of various genres of painting, including refined and tranquil Italianising landscapes, monumental historical paintings and superb portraits of the aristocracy.
Unlike the majority of his contemporaries, Karel du Jardin (b. Amsterdam 1626, d. Venice 1678) was a talented painter in not one, but many different genres. He is especially famous for his small-scale landscapes, such as the charming Italian landscape with a woman milking a goa" (1652) from the Rijksmuseum's collection. Du Jardin depicted both sun-filled Italianate scenes and Dutch farmyards with pigs and sheep. He also painted a range of elegant portraits of aristocrats and merchants. His self-portrait (1662) on copper is one of the most fascinating 17th-century portraits of a Dutch artist. Du Jardin's spectacular large-scale historical pieces, represented is the show by the impressive Conversion of Saint Pau" (1662) from the collection of the National Gallery of London, are among his most remarkable achievements; he often chose themes that were only rarely depicted by other Dutch painters of the period.
During his own lifetime Du Jardin was praised by poets and writers, particularly for his attention to detail and elegant painting technique. As Cornelis de Bie, the artist’s biographer, wrote in 1661: "the surety of the brush at his finger and such sharpe clarity […] that the eye thereon doth linger." Du Jardin's valuable paintings were mainly purchased by rich individuals with an eye for elegance, but were also commissioned by prominent institutions such as the Amsterdam 'Spinhuis' (a women's prison), for whom he painted a vast group portrait of the prison-governors.
Karel du Jardin was an artist who liked to travel. He lived for a time in Lyon and in Paris, and sailed with Joan Reynst, Heer van Drakestein, by ship via England, Portugal and Spain to Tangier and Algiers, where they met Michiel de Ruyter...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
"Two Rams Looking Down, One Quarter View One Straight Ahead, " by Karel Dujardin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Looking Down, One Quarter View, One Straight Ahead" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of ram...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
"Two Rams Facing Each Other, " Original Etching signed by Karel DuJardin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Facing Each Other" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. The artist signed the plate. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel" (Plate 949)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Engraving, Watercolor
"Ram Eating Bark, " Etching signed by Karel DuJardin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ram Eating Bark" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art
16 3/8" x 19 1/8" f...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser)" (Plate 953)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Purple Martin Bien Ed. J.J. Audubon rare hand colored chromolithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Two adult Purple Martins are feeding their two fledglings at the nest. This chromolithograph is from The Birds of America by John James Audubon and is ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman Spinner and a Shepherd with Flock /// Sheep Lady Antique Landscape Animal
By Francesco Londonio
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Francesco Londonio (Italian, 1723-1783)
Title: "Woman Spinner and a Shepherd with Flock"
*Signed and dated by Londonio in the plate (printed signature) upper right
Year: 1759 (first state of two)
Medium: Original Etching on blue wove handmade paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Likely the artist Londonio himself
Reference: Scola No. 13
Sheet size: 7.25" x 5.5"
Image size: 6.75" x 5.25"
Condition: Presently archivally tipped into a storage mat. Some light foxmarks to sheet. Minor crease across the two sheeps' heads. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
The plate number "12" printed upper right in margin. "Sammlung Hämmer (Hammer Collection)" inkstamp in green on verso lower center.
Biography:
Francesco Londonio (Milan, 1723 – Milan, 1783) was an Italian painter, engraver, and scenographer, active mainly in Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style. Londonio trained as a painter under Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battista Sassi in Milan, but traveled to Rome and Naples. He studied engraving with Benigno Bossi. He is best known for his paintings and ectchings of rustic and pastoral landscapes and subjects, with both animals and peasants playing a dominating role over the landscape. This focus on genre themes was popular among the wealthy patrons of the time, specially in Northern Italy; and artists such as the Brescian painters Ceruti and Cifrondi worked with such themes. In his engravings, he recalls Gaetano Zompini.
Londonio is also known for his scenography. An example, of this poorly conserved art form that still exists is a nativity scene on cut wooden shapes for the church of San Marco in Milan. The effect is a cheaper version of the naturalistic Sacri Monti scenes, which had been painted stucco statuary. It also can be seen as a cross between the holy scenes described above, and the theatrical set pieces, for example, those needed for the newly founded La Scala theater. The work at San Marco prompted Empress Maria Theresa of Austria...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Etching, Handmade Paper
Honden Jagen Op Een Beer (Hounds Hunting a Bear) /// Old Masters Dogs Landscape
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Abraham Hondius (Dutch, c.1625-1691)
Title: "Honden Jagen Op Een Beer (Hounds Hunting a Bear)"
*Signed and dated by Hondius in the plate (print...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Etching, Laid Paper
Plate IX. Palissade. (Butterfly)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN (1647-1717)
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium…
(Insects of Surinam)
Amsterdam, 1705
Hand-colored engravings.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, then a free i...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Tab. LIV. Lynx, Tigris, Panthera
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Elder (1593-1650)
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Younger (1621 – 1687)
Theatrum universale omnium Animalium.
Frankfurt, 1650.
Engraving with Later Hand-Color.
14.75” ...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Rag Paper
George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
Four Late 18th Century Hand-coloured Monkey Engravings
Located in London, GB
A group of four late eighteenth century hand-coloured engravings depicting monkeys. Set within giltwood frames
From “Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis Peintres d’après Natu...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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