Albertus Seba

Ostrich, Porcupine and Hedgehog Engraving

1734

Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...

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...

Original engraving, hand-colored at publication, after the work of Mark Catesby by Johann Michael Seligmann from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel." Nuremberg:...

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 Seligma...

Color wood engraving with hand finishing from "Parrots in Captivity" by William Thomas Greene after an original drawing by A.F. Lydon. London: G...

Benedictus, Edouard. Relais. Plate 1. Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930. Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.

Jane Peart Elephant Family Limited Edition Etching Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 14cm x W 11cm Signed Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of h...

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” ...

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...

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...

Artist: Cornelius Ary Renan (French, 1857-1900) Title: "La Douleur d'Orphée (The Pain of Orpheus)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etc...

Antique Rooster Portrait Prosper Alphonse Isaac (France, 1858-1924) Woodblock Print circa 1910 9 x 7 1/8 (15 1/4 x 17 frame) inches The excellent book "The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints" which was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1974, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons its particular impact on the graphic work of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. This print directly relates to the discovery of Japanese art most notably through the woodblock prints which found their way to the West oftentimes as stuffing or packing materials from consumer goods that were being imported to the West at the end of the 19th century. Prosper-Alphonse Isaac was born in a well-to-do family. This gave him the means not only of leaving his native Calais to pursue a career as an artist in Paris, but also the means to acquire art. Isaac was particularly drawn to Japanese arts, which he collected avidly. Many of the objects he bought were eventually given to museums. As a printmaker Isaac started drawing seascapes in dry point, but eventually moved on to become one of only a handful of artists versed in color woodcut techniques in France. His compositions, generally small in scale, are heavily influenced by the arts of Japan. He printed small editions of these works. Aside from this artistic activity, Isaac was also an active textile decorator. "This mark, which he borrows from Hokusaï and Totoya Hokkeï...