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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
The Great Garden, and... - Etching by Giambattista Albrizzi - 1745 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Giambattista Albrizzi (1698-1777) for Thomas Salmon's Lo Stato presente di tutti i Paesi e Popoli do Mondo. Regno di Spagna.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV
By Andrea Mantegna
Located in Middletown, NY
Andreani, Andrea (Italian, about 1558–1610), after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431-1506)
Chiaroscuro woodcut in colors printed from four blocks on laid paper in dark brown, grey, and...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Self Portrait, Drawing at the Window
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Title: Self Portrait, Drawing at the Window
Year: 1648
Medium: Etching
Paper: Verge paper
Image (plate mark) size: 6.35 x 5.25 inch...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Title: Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Year: 1634
Medium: Etching
Paper: Verge paper
Image (plate mark) size: 4.75 x 4.25 inches
Fr...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Apollo, plate 11 from the series of The Gods in Niches
Located in Middletown, NY
by Jacopo Caraglio (after Rosso Fiorentino)
Rome: Carlo Losi, 1526. Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches, 215 x 110 mm), thread margins. In very good condition with a...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, The Artist's Father
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Title: Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, The Artist's Father
Year: 1630
Medium: Etching
Paper: Verge paper
Image (plate mark) size: ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias' Family - Etching by Rembrandt - 1641
Located in Roma, IT
The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias' Family is an etching by Rembrandt executed in 1641. This etching is a proof of the 3rd state (of 4) before of the diagonals on the ground at the...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Harbour with a Round Tower
Located in Middletown, NY
1641. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (128 x 195 mm), narrow margins. Printed 19th century on a remainder which has a partially trimmed, printed image of a Virgi...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol) by James Bretherton, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (96 x 83 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with some minor surface soiling.
[Björklund's second state ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate... - Etching by Rembrandt - 1659
Located in Roma, IT
Etching, excellent proof of II state on IV, before the retouching of the ground and the vault on the right, margin line.
Ref. Bartsch, Hollstein 94; Hind 301; New Hollstein 312; Sto...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Watercolor
Church of St. Costanza, Rome: An 18th Century Piranesi Architectural Etching
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century Giovanni Battista Piranesi etching entitled: "Veduta interna del Sepocro di Santa Costanza, fabbricat...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Robert van Audenaerde after Carlo Maratti - Engraving, Rebecca at the Well
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 18th-century engraving depicting the religious scene of Rebecca at The Well. Inscribed in plate. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Windmill by François Vivares, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 7/8 inches (202 x 149 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhered at each corner to a small sheet of archival laid paper. Horizontal edge loss at the ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins by James Bretherton after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Bretherton, James (After Rembrandt van Rijn).
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins.
London: c 1775.
Etching on light cream laid paper, 4 3/4...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Plucking a Branch from a Neighbor's Plum Tree
Located in Middletown, NY
A mischievous tableau with sexual overtones.
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. I...
Category
Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Leopard - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Leopard is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Ro...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Margay - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Margay is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
Titled and Signed on the plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulièr...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Buttercup Flowers: A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup) flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thick laid chain-linked paper. There is latin text on the verso. There are central horizontal creases and two small holes on the right and another in the left lower corner. It is otherwise in excellent condition.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Chat Sauvage - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chat Sauvage is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chiesa Dedicata a Sant'Ignacio - Etching by G.B. Falda
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa dedicata a Sant’Ignatio is a wonderful black and white etching on cream-colored paper realized in the second half of the XVII century by Giovanbattista Falda.
Signed on plate on the lower left margin "Giò Batta...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Patas A Bandeau Noir - Etching by Jacques Mesnil - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Patas A Bandeau Noir is an etching realized in 1771 by Jacques Mesnil.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descr...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Chinese Watchman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
By Agostino Carracci
Located in Middletown, NY
Agostino CARRACCI, after Jacopo TINTORETTO
Sapientia Martem depellente Pax et Abundantia cogaudent; Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
Engraving on handmade laid ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Shunga - Woodcut by Katsukawa Schuncho - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century.
Oban yokoe.
Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko" (Erotic pictures...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Le Serval - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Serval is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Fer a Cheval - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Fer a Cheval is an etching realized in 1771 by Juste Chevillet (1729–1802)
Signed in plate.
The piece belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, géné...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Munchen, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful black and white aquatint showing an antique view of Munchen, capital of Bavaria.
From the collection by Braun G. and Hogenberg F., "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. ...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Man of Mangea 1784 final voyage of Captain Cook by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Mangea is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was the official a...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
5th or 8th edition print of "Que pico de Oro" from the Los Caprichos with burnished aquatints, drypoints etchi...
Category
Northern Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
Flowering Peppermint Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Pulegium Cervinum, Pseudo Pulegium Struthium, Pulegium Regium", depicting flowering Peppermint, Weld and Pennyroyal plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. There are subtle creases in the right upper corner, very common with Besler's relating to the drying of the paper during its production. The right margin is thinner than the others. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Donde va Mama from Los Caprichos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Donde va Mama from Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Etching and aqua...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Le Loup - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon".
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle
Located in Middletown, NY
Woodcut on laid paper, 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (212 x 233 mm), the full sheet. In excellent condition with text and portraits of Empedocles, Sapho, Zeuxis and others on the verso, as is...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV of IX
By Andrea Mantegna
Located in Middletown, NY
Andreani, Andrea, after Andrea Mantegna
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV of IX
1599. Chiaroscuro woodcut in colors printed from four blocks on laid paper in dark brown, grey, and thr...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Canal with a large Boat and Bridge – after Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Heliogravure on cream laid paper, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (80 x118 mm), thread margins. In good condition with a soft vertical crease and minor uniform toning. Printed early 19th centur...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Photogravure
Deer Horns - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Deer Horns is an artwork realized by Buvée l'Américain in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is glued on cardboard....
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Organ Grinder
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with a large heraldic watermark which is partially trimmed, 4 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches (105 x 84 mm), margins trimmed but preserving the signature in the lower...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Compliment & Les Bouquets, pair French aquatints by Debucourt , 1787 and 1788
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Compliment ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille' (The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family) and it's pair 'Les Bouquets...
Category
Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Academy of Plato Plato and His Disciples
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Academy of Plato
Plato and His Disciples
Etching and drypoint
c. 1662, printed c. 1710
Signed in the plate lower left
Inscribed lower left: 'In villa ab Academo attributa sua[m]...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hadrian's Mausoleum, Castel S. Angelo: A Framed 18th Century Etching by Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriana ora chiamato Castello S. Angelo nella parte opposta alla Facciata de...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The plan of St. Martin's Church, St. Martin in the Fields
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Society of Antiqauries London, 1744. Engraving on buff wove paper with a large heraldic watermark with Strasbourg lily with a crown and shied and the letters LVG, 9 1/2 x 14 ...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Flowering Hyacinth & Calla Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyacinthus Comosus Spurius" (Hyacinth), "Hyacinthus Anglicus" (Blue Hyacinth), "Palma ...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Roman Colosseum: A Framed 18th Century Etching of the Interior by Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta dell'interno dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo" (View of the interior of the Flavian Amph...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Framed Rubbing of 1550 Brass Monument in Grote Kerk Church, Breda, Netherlands
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an engraving of a tomb monument rubbing that has been highlighted with gold color on a dark grey to black background. The rubbing is of a brass plaque on a stone slab. It has...
Category
Northern Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist - Etching by Rembrandt - 1640
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful proof of I state on III before the white space under the sword is covered.
Without Margins.
Very good condition.
Ref. Bartsch 92; Biörklund 40-B; Hollstein (White and Bo...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Goat - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
Goat is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Not signed.
In excellent conditions.
Including a cream-colored cardboard passepartout, 34 x 50 cm.
An exciting original print, with all the dignity of a mythological or epic story, represented with an incredible balance of black and white, light and shadow, and a typical Baroque dynamism.
Antonio Tempesta, also known as Il Tempestino (Florence, 1555 - Rome, 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period. Antonio Tempesta trained in the culture of late Mannerism, with a naturalistic but also calligraphic taste, acquired from the frequentation of Giovanni Stradano, with whom he collaborated in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio.
Moving to Rome in 1573, he worked for Pope Gregory XIII, frescoing some maps of Rome in the Vatican, including the famous Map of Rome (1593). In the pontifical capital, he worked for many noble families and for important cardinals, such as Alessandro Farnese and Scipione Borghese. His works are in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, at the villa in Caprarola, in Tivoli.
He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Skeleton of a Walrus - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771.
It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon".
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Shunga - Woodcut by Katsukawa Schuncho - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century.
Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko".
A courtesan with a customer under a kimono stand...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Cerf - Etching by Claude Jardinier - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cerf is an etching realized in 1771 by Claude Jardinier.
Titled and Signed on the plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la d...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chamomile & Safflower: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici (Chamomile), Cincus Sativus (False saffron, Safflower), Chamaemelum Romanum Flore (Roman Chamomile)", depicting flowering Chamomile, Safflower and Roman Chamomile plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There are a few small spots and some irregularity of the lower edge. There is some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.25" high and 17.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Henbane : A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyosciamus albus and Hyosciamus vulgaris" (Henbane) plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensi...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
BATHOS / Tail PIece
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.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
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.
British Caricature...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
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