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Period: 15th Century and Earlier
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
Category
Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Quartet No. 1
By Eugene Larkin
Located in Kansas City, MO
Eugene Larkin
Quartet No. 1
Woodcut in two colors
Signed and titled by hand
Size: 20 x 29.5 inches
COA provided
Eugene Larkin (1921-2010)
The late Eugene Larkin was an artist who worked in the Twin Cities area for many years and needs little introduction. His works have been shown, collected and appreciated by numerous galleries, museums and collectors throughout the United States.
Larkin was influential both as an artist and as a teacher. He taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design between 1954 and 1969, where he was head of printmaking and Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts. From 1969-1991 he was a professor in the Design Department at the University of Minnesota.
Eugene Larkin, a lithographer, teacher and artist who left behind scores of works, some of them in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art. He was considered an early promoter of lithography education, Larkin introduced it into arts programs while teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota. He held a prominent place in the art world through decades of working and teaching in Minneapolis. His work depicted a wide range of subjects, from musicians to nature, including a series of woodcuts based on William Blake's ""Songs of Innocence and Experience."
Larkin also wrote a textbook, ""Design: The Search for Unity."" It was his work with lithography, an 18th-century printmaking process, for which he was best known.
His last local exhibit was a retrospective at The University of Minnesota Weisman Museum in 2005. ""Sometimes I start the artistic process from a literary source - Adam and Eve, the Egyptian nature gods, or classical Greek themes but sometimes I start from nature. Trees have always been a favorite subject. I see trees as people, as vertical objects...
Category
Modern 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
Woodcuts
Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
Category
Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Moses Parts the Red Sea & Receives the Ten Commandments
Located in Soquel, CA
Moses Parts the Red Sea & Receives the Ten Commandments - Leaflet from the 1497 'Pirate' Nuremberg Chronicles
The Nuremberg Chronicles were first published in 1493 by Anton Koberg...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Bildnis mit florentiner Hut. - Original Etching by Hans Thoma - 1900
By Hans Thoma 1
Located in Roma, IT
Bildnis mit florentiner Hut. is a beautiful black and white etching on cream-colored and laid paper, realized in 1898 by Hans Thoma.
Monogram and Date on p...
Category
Symbolist 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ crucified between the two thieves: oval plate, 1648
Located in Torino, IT
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Original Etching.
Bibliography: Bartsch, 79; Hind 173; Biörlund, 41-2; White & Boon, B79. (mm. 163x131).
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Symbolist 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Paper, Ink
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Located in Roma, IT
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Materials
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Good condition and little signs of aging.
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Modern 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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Located in Alamo, CA
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Located in Roma, IT
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Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
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Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Located in Petworth, West Sussex
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'Witch riding backwards on a goat'
Initialled 'AD' (lower right)
Engraving
Circa 1500
4.7/8 x 2.3/4in. (11.7 x 7cm.)
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Located in San Francisco, CA
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Medium: Etching
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original copperplate engraving by Flemish artist Johannes Sadeler I (1550-1600) titled "Lapsus homo tolerant miseram cum coniuge vitam, cunctaq tabescunt membra dolore graui" (plate 8), 1583, depicting a scene of Adam and Eve with God from the Book of Genesis. "Thesaurus Sacrum Historian Veteris Testamenti / The Sacred History of the Old Testament" (Antwerp, 1583) Laid paper lightly tipped to backing paper. Signed in the plate lower right. Catalog #OM-117, W-1387. Excellent condition. Size: 7.75" x 10.5.
Jan (Johannes) Sadeler, Flemish draughtsman, engraver and publisher. Sadeler belonged to a productive and commercially astute family of printmakers that was involved internationally in printmaking and publishing for several generations during the 16th and 17th centuries. He began work as a steel-chiseller or damascener but moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in 1572 as a copperplate engraver. It was probably through Christoph Plantin's publishing house that Jan came into contact with members of the Dutch Reformed Church with which he had close links. Jan engraved illustrations for Plantin. It was probably in Antwerp also that he met Maarten de Vos, with whom he and his brothers collaborated for many years. However, during his Antwerp years Jan engraved principally after the works of Crispin van den Broeck (1523-c. 1590) and Michiel Coxcie. Jan Sadeler travelled to Cologne and Antwerp (1582-85), to Frankfurt (1585). He worked in Munich at the court of the Bavarian court (1589-95) then went to Italy (1597) where he worked until his death in Venice.
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Jan (Johannes) Sadeler, Flemish draughtsman, engraver and publisher. Sadeler belonged to a productive and commercially astute family of printmakers that was involved internationally in printmaking and publishing for several generations during the 16th and 17th centuries. He began work as a steel-chiseller or damascener but moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in 1572 as a copperplate engraver. It was probably through Christoph Plantin's publishing house that Jan came into contact with members of the Dutch Reformed Church with which he had close links. Jan engraved illustrations for Plantin. It was probably in Antwerp also that he met Maarten de Vos, with whom he and his brothers collaborated for many years. However, during his Antwerp years Jan engraved principally after the works of Crispin van den Broeck (1523-c. 1590) and Michiel Coxcie. Jan Sadeler travelled to Cologne and Antwerp (1582-85), to Frankfurt (1585). He worked in Munich at the court of the Bavarian court (1589-95) then went to Italy (1597) where he worked until his death in Venice.
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Ecce nouo demptan tollit de corpore costam
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original copperplate engraving by Flemish artist Johannes Sadeler I (1550-1600) titled "Ecce nouo demptan tollit de corpore costam, et capit hinc formiac facta puella decuc" (plat...
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Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Lady on Horseback and Lansquenet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provenance:
Collection Defer-Dusmesnil, Lugt 739
Private Collection, South Bend, IN
Reference: Meder a-b/D
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
