William Hayes

"Erne, " Antique Bird Print

Hand-colored signed engraving after bird illustration by William Hayes (1735-1802) from "Portraits of the Rare and Curious Exotic Birds, with their descr...

This piece is a lithograph from a portfolio of Audubon's Fifty Best watercolors published by Joel Oppenheimer and the Field Museum in 1999. This collection includes fifty best waterc...

This piece is a lithograph from a portfolio of Audubon's Fifty Best watercolors published by Joel Oppenheimer and the Field Museum in 1999. This collection includes fifty best waterc...

Chromolithographs from “Birds of Pennsylvania. With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations”. By B.H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist, Penn...

Chromolithographs from “Birds of Pennsylvania. With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations”. By B.H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist, Penn...

Chromolithographs from “Birds of Pennsylvania. With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations”. By B.H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist, Penn...

After William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764) Royal Sports PIT TICKET • Engraving by William Dent (British), active from 1783 to 1793 • Inscribed bottom right: Dent sculp • Plate ca. 7.6 x 9.1cm • Image ca. 6.3 x 7.9 cm • Sheet ca. 23.5 x 15 cm Fantastic imagery full of detail and symbolism – For example discover the cast shadow of the dept collector with his truncheon, looming over the winner, whose fast gained riches are being stolen by a thief as we watch. This well know subject was originally created by the famous British artist William Hogarth and then reproduced over time by many contemporary artists as prints of various formats and as paintings. Here we have a rendition engraved by William Dent, who was active from 1783 to 1793 and signed his work in the plate bottom right. I think this impression would date to the late 18th or then to the very early 19th Century. I was told, that these small prints, served as entry tickets to cock fights in Georgian England...

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...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a Greenfinch bird and a tree sparrow ("1, Le Friquet, 2. Le Verdier") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 227 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a Falkland Island Quail ("Caille des Isles Malouines") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 222 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...

The engraving "The Pink Of Condition" by George Wright was published in London in 1909. It depicts the beginning of a British fox hunting scene. The ...

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...