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Medium: Watercolor
'Malibrand' Italian 1960s Women's Fashion Design Illustration
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Union - Whom --- Has Join'd, Let No Man put Asunder!
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper. 6 3/4 X 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm), margins trimmed, image intact. Rubbing in the lower left image area obscuring the publishing information (which reads Published by Mm. Darchery, St. James Street March 11, 1783), scattered light foxing, corner loss, top left corner, well outside of image area. "SMP" collector's stamp in red ink on the verso (not in Lugt), and the name "Renier" and the initials "AR" in black ink on the verso. Colors are extremely fresh. Impressions of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art. Ex-Collection of Anne & Ferdinand Gabriel (F.G.) Renier, reknowned for their inspriational collection of children's books and works on paper, now housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum. _____ The devil officiates at the wedding of Tory Lord North, and Charles James Fox, the Whig statesman whose career spanned almost four decades in Parliament. The satirical scene is the signing of the Fox-North coalition, which was a short-lived partnership the two formed while combining forces in the House of Commons to oust then Prime Minister William Petty, Earl of Shelburne. Fox had fallen out of favor with the Irish born Shelburne, also a Whig, whose ministry remained in power just long enough to see the American War of Independence...
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Late 18th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Watercolored By Jim Dine
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Jim Dine Watercolored By Jim Dine 2015 Watercolor and copperplate etching 42 x 56 1/2 in. Edition of 6; each piece is unique Pencil signed, dated and numbered...
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2010s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Etching

'Claudette' Italian 1960s Women's Fashion Design Illustration
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Two Botanical Lithographs, Flora Of America
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Étienne DENISSE (1785-1861) Gombeau Edible and Trompette. Collection of the most remarkable Flowers and Fruits, natural size. Two lithographs enhanced with watercolor. Around 1830. F...
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1830s Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Watercolor

"La Lengua Castellana" (Spanish Tongue/Language) Red Watercolor Woodcut w/ Video
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'La Lengua Castellana (Red)" (The Spanish Tongue/Language), 2015 woodcut, manual intervention on paper 47.3 x 84.7 in. (120 x 215 cm.) Edition of 10 R...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut, Acrylic, Watercolor

Jim Dine New York SIGNED poster "Gilbert and Sullivan" hand painted pink copper
Located in New York, NY
This radiant purple pink poster was designed by Jim Dine for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan at New York City Center in 1968. The stripe down...
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1960s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset, Gouache

"Neighborhood I" 2015 signed original watercolor woodcut cityscape 45x80in
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Vecindario I' (Neighborhood I), 2015 woodcut and watercolor on paper 44.5 x 80.4 in. (113 x 204 cm.) Edition of 10 ID: VAL-599 Unframed Luis Miguel ...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut, Watercolor

Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui
Located in Wilton, CT
7 volumes, complete. Six 8vo volumes (292 x 190 mm), and one 4to (Huitieme année, 1919, 310 x 245 mm). Publisher's pictorial paper board portfolios, patterned endpapers, housing loos...
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1910s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Gouache

"Oriental Flowers" - Figurative Etching and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Oriental Flowers" - Figurative Etching and Watercolor Figurative etching and watercolor of four men sitting, wearing coats and berets by San Francisco artist Margaret (Maggi) McEll...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Etching

Plucking a Branch from a Neighbor's Plum Tree
Located in Middletown, NY
A mischevious tableau with sexual undertones. Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1768. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (273 x 200 mm), full margins. ...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

The Punishments of China, 8 plates
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of gruesome 19th century images illustrating the barbarism of the Qing penal code. London: William Miller, 1801. Six (6) stipple point engravings with hand coloring in...
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Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving

Interior
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Interior" is an original watercolor on paper by Israeli artist Itzchac Tarkay 1935-2012. It is signed at the lower right corner. The image size is 11.5 x 9 inc...
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Late 20th Century Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor

Amicalement - from Rues et Visages de Paris - Drypoint/Etching - 1920s - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Amicalement is a hand-colored etching and drypoint, signed by Chas Laborde on the lower right margin. Hand-titled on the lower left margin. This original print is hand-colored with t...
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Tempera, Watercolor

Vieux Faust - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Femme au Clown (Woman with Clown) is an artwork belonging to the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), and realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon ...
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1960s Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Watercolor

Salvador Dalí – La Botte violette – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
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1960s Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

J.L. Stripes
Located in Burlingame, CA
An iconic female Frohsin figure with red and white stripes and heavy hand coloring. Monotype EV Ed 4/4. Signed front in pencil by Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay Are...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pencil, Pigment

18th-century celestial - Hydra Crater Corvus Sextans Virgo
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial FLAMSTEED, John. Hydra Crater Corvus Sextans Virgo London, C. Nourse, 1753. A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star a...
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1750s Naturalistic Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Mezzotint

St. Gervais - Watercolor and China Ink by C. Lartigue- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gervais is an original drawing in mixed media: watercolor and China ink on paper, realized by the French Artist C. Lartigue in the early 20th Century Hand-signed on the lower ri...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

J. T. Skirt
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 2/7 with hand coloring. The plate (image) is 15 x 14 inches and the overall paper size is 29 1/2 x 22 inches. The artist spent 12 years creating monotype ev's, an...
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1990s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor. Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - ) As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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1960s Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

Mid 19thCent. Kings Hall Party Session, Athelhampton, Dorsetshire by Joseph Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Historical mid-19th century hand tinted lithograph and a lively scene of men and women engaging in a light hearted game of the era by artist Joseph Nash (British, 1808-1878). Signed ...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Village House - Original Ink and Watercolor - 1890 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Village House is an original painting in watercolor realized in 1890 ca. by an anonymous French artist of the end of 19th century. The state of preservation is good. Included a Pass...
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1890s Naturalistic Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Ink

Nude Woman - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original mixed media on cardboard artwork by Leo Guida in the XX century. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings. Sheet dimension: 35 x 50 ONn...
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1970s Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Ink, Mixed Media

Triumphal Arches - Original Lithographs and Watercolors - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Triumphal Arches is a beautiful lot of five hand-watercolored lithographs realized by an Italian artist of the XIX century later watercolored, and repre...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Conte des 1001 Nuits
Located in Wilton, CT
The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights is interpreted by Dutch painter and illustrator Kees Van Dongen in over one hundred full-page original black and white line drawings and seven f...
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1910s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Gouache

Roman Colums - Original Lithographs and Watercolors - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Columns is a lot of two hand-watercolored lithographs realized by an Italian artist of the XIX century later watercolored, and representing the beautiful historiated columns wi...
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Mid-19th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

18th-century celestial - Cetus
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial FLAMSTEED, John. Cetus London, C. Nourse, 1753. A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star atlas published up to that ti...
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1750s Naturalistic Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving

Santa sitting on the Globe Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache with stencil by Warner Kreuter. Wisconsin, 1929. Initialed lower/mid right. Dated lower left. Mounted on green card stock. Unframed.
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Gouache

John Duke of Somerset /// Medieval Knight Soldier Warrior Sword Spear Pike Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel Rush Meyrick (English, 1783-1848) Title: "John Duke of Somerset" (Vol. 2, Plate XLIX) Portfolio: A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour Year: 1824 (First edition) Medi...
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1820s Old Masters Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio, Etching

Hand Colored Etching Vintage Hollywood Legends Etching with Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: Side by side Ann Chernow (Connecticut b. 1936) etching. hand signed 'Ann Chernow' in pencil lower right. Numbered '5/15' in pencil lower left. Titled in pencil lower center. ...
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1990s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Etching

Mexican Garden Tangle
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint and watercolor depicting a cactus-filled Mexican garden, a mirror tilted up and an image of the artist s...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint, Watercolor

A Hong Kong Canal Boat
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on watermarked, laid Arches paper, 8 1/16 x 5 9/16 inches (206 x 142 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 22/40 in pencil,...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Watercolor, Aquatint

The New Testament /// Old Masters Biblical Religious Engraving Dutch Angel Art
By Michael Burghers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Michael Burghers (Dutch, c.1647/1648-1727) Title: "The New Testament" Portfolio: Holy Bible *Signed by Burghers in the plate (printed signature) lower left Year: 1680 Medium: Original Etching and Engraving with recent Hand-Color on watermarked laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: John Baskett, London?, UK Publisher: Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, London?, UK Sheet size (irregular margins): 17.25" x 10.5" Image size: 14.75" x 9.5" Condition: Uneven trimming and light edgewear in margins. One small tear entering image lower right which has been skillfully repaired with added backing paper with archival tape from verso. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition with strong colors Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Cotswolds, UK. Comes from the 1685 "Holy Bible" portfolio. John Baskett was deemed printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, for Great Britain and to the University of Oxford. Large unidentified watermark within center of sheet. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the British Museum in London, UK. In the foreground, John the Evangelist, holding a pen and writing...
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1680s Old Masters Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving, Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio

David's Pool at Night (David Hockney's Pool) black white abstract Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Large scale black and white etching depicting an abstracted pool, at David Hockney’s home in Los Angeles. This hand painted Howard Hodgkin work is i...
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1980s Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Etching, Aquatint

Les Quatre Saisons
Located in Wilton, CT
Allier's colorful, charming illustrations of the four seasons, winter, summer, spring, and fall, done in beautiful pochoir coloring. Each image reads ""dessiné par Paul Allier"" and...
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1920s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Gouache

19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier: William W. Peabody Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA December 18th, 1864 Aged 18 years The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds. 13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork 23 x 19 inches, frame Published before 1864 Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Fortune Hunting
Located in Middletown, NY
A richly hand-colored image with a counterstrike on the verso. London: Hannah Humphrey, 1804. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on buff wove paper, 10 1/4 x 15 inches (260 x...
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Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Etching, Watercolor

Phili ou Par le Bien et le Mal
Located in Wilton, CT
Hermant's “moralistic tale” is interpreted and illuminated by Brunelleschi's radically modern designs, which are found throughout the volume, both as 12 full-page plates and smaller ...
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1920s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Gouache

La Dernière Lettre Persane
Located in Wilton, CT
A large format book (15.25 x 11.25 inches), following the trend among leading Parisian couture houses who had been producing elaborately designed luxury catalogs since Paul Poiret’s ...
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1920s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Gouache

'Floorboard Plus Four' original collagraph signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present unique collagraph is an excellent example of Joseph Rozman's pictographic style. The composition is organized like a tiled floor, each square containing an abstracted ima...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Bronze Urns with Citrus Trees, 2 prints
Located in Middletown, NY
Pair of reproductive prints after Jean le Pautre’s engravings after Claude Ballin, 1670s, heightened with gouache and gold, on Fabriano wove paper, a deckle edge at bottom. 22 x 14 3...
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Late 17th Century French School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint, Watercolor

Girls. Figurative limited edition etching, Surrealist, Nude, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative surreal etching print with watercolor by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. Artwork depicts several portraits in different styles. Artwork is signed by the artist, it comes from ...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Etching

First Look (hand finished etching)
Located in Aventura, FL
Printed on 300gr off-white Arches velin paper, combining a traditional soft ground etching using a copper plate with unique hand-finished elements in pencil and watercolor. Hand sig...
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2010s Street Art Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Etching

North Side of the Great Court, Sommerset Palace
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint printed in brownish ink with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on buff paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches (260 x 317 mm) (sheet), uneven narrow to full margins. Laid down to a contemporary wove paper support. Scattered condition issues on the sheet (excluding the mount) include surface soiling, creasing, a significant vertical repaired tear, and toning, despite these issues, the hand coloring remains good. Suitable for framing. From A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta By Thomas Malton, published by Thomas Malton, London 1796. The work was published serially, in twenty-five numbers. The plates in Volume I carry the dates 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796 or 1797; those in Volume II, the dates 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800 or 1801. In most copies the title page of Volume I carries the publisher's later address, of 103 Long Acre...
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Late 18th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Aquatint

Marc Chagall "Song of the Bow"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL ( 1887- 1985 ) “ Song of the Bow” 1958 from ‘The Bible’ Original Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor. Signed with initials and numbered ##/100 in pencil, published...
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Mid-20th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Etching

Four 18th Century Optical views of Paris etc.; "Vue des Rives de la Seine ....
Located in Middletown, NY
Four 18th Century Optical views "Vue des Rives de la Seine prise du Pont Neuf à Paris" "Vue de la Place de l'Hôtel de Ville et du Phare à Calais" "Vue de Paris prise du Port de la Co...
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Mid-18th Century French School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

The Lonely House at Asajigahara.
Located in Middletown, NY
A scene from a series of ghost stories and spooky rural legends. Tokyo: Matsuki Heikichi, 1896. Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry pa...
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Late 19th Century Edo Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Le Buste - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Buste, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), is an artwork realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed and numbered. Ed...
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1960s Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint, Watercolor

Cleansing A Shrike/ Blackbird's Bath - Hand coloured Print in Walnut frame
Located in London, GB
Hand-coloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a spring-time bath. A character formed from Naiads (a Greek nymph of flowing water), and exploring the idea of a ritualistic cleansing to wash away sombre deeds. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical sculpture...
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21st Century and Contemporary Victorian Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Walnut, Paint, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographi...

The South West Prospect of London – English School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A stunning 18th century optical view of London from the Thames. London: 1760. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper with a large circular wate...
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Mid-18th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Two botanical prints after Cornelisi Bloemaert & Vincenzo Leonardi
Located in Middletown, NY
Two botanical prints after Cornelis Bloemaert & Vincenzo Leonardi "Lemon", from Hesperides. Reproductive print on thick C.M. Fabriano cotton wove paper; and Pierre Joseph Buchot (17...
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Late 17th Century French School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

The South East Prospect of Westminster Bridge
By Alfred Benjamin Cole
Located in Middletown, NY
After Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto Copper plate engraving with hand coloring on cream laid paper with the Arms of France watermark (a crown in shield topped by a fleur-de-lys and the letters GR), 22 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (576 x 400 mm), wide to full margins. Multiple vertical and horizontal creases from folding and rolling; none appear to be particularly hard, there is however some associated cockeling. While there is some minor mat tone visible around the perimeter of the sheet, the extensive handcoloring remains extremely fresh and saturated in the intended areas. There are edge tears at each the right and left sheet edge (outside of the image area) due to an improper effort to mount the sheet to a mat. Otherwise in very good condition with all issues being consistent with age. The print is wrongly titled "The South East Prospect of Westminster Bridge...
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Mid-18th Century English School Watercolor Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving, Watercolor

Watercolor figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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