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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Capital Letter C - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter C is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Letter S - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter S is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$178 Sale Price
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An Inland View; in Atooi ( Hawaii ) 1784 Captain Cook engraving by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
An Inland View in Atooi ( Hawaii ) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. This engraving depicts ...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Terence, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Terenzio' (Terence)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomared after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) w...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
The Bohemians
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), The Bohemians, the set of four etchings touched with burin, 1621. Reference: Lieure 374 (second state of four); Lieure 375-77 (second state of two). In ve...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
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.
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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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English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Hercule - Etching by Jean François Poletnich - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hercule is an etching realized by Jean François Poletnich in 18th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Map of Lucca - Etching by Pierre Mortier - Early 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Map of Lucca is an etching realized by Pierre Mortier in the early 18th Century
Good condition.
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Le Dogue de Forte Race - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Dogue de Forte Race 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 C...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Antique Italian Engraving - Goddess Bellona
Located in Houston, TX
Over 350 year old antique copper engraving of the female Roman goddess Bellona, the goddess of war, circa 1650.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
$300 Sale Price
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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...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Le Paon - Etching by Catherine Haussard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Paon is an etching realized by Haussard in 1771.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la d...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Dog - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
Dog is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Not signed.
In good 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
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Etching
$223 Sale Price
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Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Ba...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Internal Organs - From "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" - by A. Vesalio - 1642
Located in Roma, IT
The internal organs is an ancient original etching Table no. 36 of the popular "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" by Andrea Vesalio, in the 1642 edition by Nicolaus Fontanus (Fontayn), Am...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Dominus Nicolaus Vander Borcht /// Anthony van Dyck Full Length Portrait Flemish
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Anthony van Dyck (Dutch, 1599-1641)
Title: "Dominus Nicolaus Vander Borcht"
Year: 1703 (first or second state of three)
Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper
Limi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet A from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
A Framed 18th C. Piranesi Etching of an Ancient Marble Vase from Hadrian's Villa
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is entitled "Vaso antico di Marmo adornato di eccellenti Sculture si nella parte anteriere che nell' opposta, le ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Temple of Asclepius with the Chariot - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
The architect is Paolo Posi, and the image is engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.
The title: Prospetto della prima machina de fuochi d'artifizio, rappresentante il Tempio di Esculapio figl...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Thisbe and Pyramus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical Myth engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Nicolas de Launay after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Thisbe, finding the dead body of Pyramus, throws herself on a sword.
Fro...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Wolfdietrich - Original leaflet from Johann Prüss' Das Heldenbuch
Located in Soquel, CA
Original leaflet from Johann Prüss' 1479 printing of "Das Heldenbuch."
The Heldenbücher is the title given to a group of late medieval/early renaissance Germanic manuscripts primari...
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Medieval 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paint, Laid Paper, Woodcut
The Archer, a Moor holding a Bow
By Johannes Visscher
Located in Stockholm, SE
“The Black Archer” is a striking 17th-century Dutch engraving, executed by Johannes (Jan) de Visscher (c. 1633–c. 1712). It reproduces a captivating design “drawn from life” by his e...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
German folk dancing, set of six engravings, circa 1720
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A series of six German engravings of couples dancing. Published by Josef Friderick Leopold in Bavaria.
260mm by 165mm (platemark)
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Fabricius (Ponte Cestio) Bridge : Framed 18th C. Piranesi Architectural Etching
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is entitled "Dimostransi nella Tav. presente la Pianta, ed Elevazione del Ponte, oggi detto Quattro Capi egli è antichissimo, e chiamavasi Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, che lo fabbrico' nel fine della Repubblica. "(The Plan and Elevation of the Bridge, today called Quattro Capi. The architect is very ancient, and was called Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, who built it at the end of the Republic). This is plate 18 in volume 4 of Piranesi's "Le antichita romane opera di Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano" (Roman antiquities by Giambatista Piranesi Venetian architect). It was published in Rome in 1756-1757.
This etching depicts the plan and elevation of the bridge now called the Ponte dei Quattoro Capi or Ponte Cestio (Bridge of the Four Heads), which in antiquity was called the Bridge of Fabricius after L. Fabricius, the Superintendant of the Streets who built it at the end of the Republic, around 62 BC. It was also been known in the Middle Ages as ‘Ponte Giudeo’ (Bridge of the Jews). The bridge crossed from the left bank or northeast side of the Tiber River to Tiber Island...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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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
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Engraving
Two Nude Me - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Two Nude Men is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with central folding.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$250 Sale Price
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Capital Letter C - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter C is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Letter B - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter B is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Ancient Roman Architecture: Original Framed 18th C. Etching by G. Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching, Engraving, Drypoint
View of Castello dell'Acqua Felice - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1751
Located in Roma, IT
View of Castel of Acqua Felice is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1751.
Very precoius and rare lifetime impression. Roman edition. I...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Capital Letter C - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter C is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Skeleton - Etching by Jean Moitte - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Les Adieux d'Hector d'Andromaque - Etching by Jean Moyreau - 18th Century
By Jean Moyreau
Located in Roma, IT
Les Adieux d'Hector d'Andromaque is an etching realized by Jean Moyreau in the 18th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well balanced condit...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Roman Theater - Etching after Michelangelo Specchi - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Theater is an original etching on paper realized after Michelangelo Specchi, the engraver is anonymous.
Signed on the plate, lower left.
With the description on the lower.
T...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$581 Sale Price
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Le Lapin Sauvage - Etching by Jacques De sève - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lapin Sauvage is an artwork realized by Jacques de Seve in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is glued on cardboar...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$161 Sale Price
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A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite (Tahiti) 1784 James Cook Final Voyage
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite (Tahiti) 1784 by John Webber is from the First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Altra veduta della Chiesa di ... - Etching by G.B. Falda - Late 1600
Located in Roma, IT
Altra veduta della Chiesa di S. Ignatio de Papa della Compa di Giesu nel Rione della Pigna is an etching realized in the Late 17th Century by Giovan Battista Falda.
Good condition e...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
18th-century celestial - Aquila Sagitta.Vulpecula & Anser Delphinus
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Aquila Sagitta.Vulpecula & Anser Delphinus
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by ...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the lower ri...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Academie de l’Espee Tabula XXI by Girard Thibault 17thc fencing engraving
Located in Paonia, CO
Hand colored original engraving from the Academie de l’Espee ( full title can be translated as Academy of the Sword: wherein is demonstrated by mathematical rules on the foundation of a mysterious circle the theory and practice of the true and heretofore unknown secrets of handling arms on foot and horseback ) by Girard Thibault...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Head of Camel - Etching by Stefano Della Bella - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias' Family is an etching by Rembrandt Camel head is an etching by Stefano Della Bella executed in 17th century.
Monogrammed “SDB fec.”
Plate 8,1x8,5...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Aquarius - Etching by Charles De la Haye - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Aquarius is an original etchingon paper realized by Charles De la Haye after Andrea Stech, in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower.
Good condit...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$697 Sale Price
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Meridies; Der Mittag (Noon; The Midday) /// Johann Daniel Preissler Old Master
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Johann Daniel Preissler (German, 1666-1737)
Title: "Meridies; Der Mittag (Noon; The Midday)"
Portfolio: Die Vier Tageszeiten (The Four Times of Day)
Year: 1723
Medium: Original Etching and Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: likely Johann Balthasar Probst, Augsburg, Germany
Publisher: Jeremias Wolff (Erben), Augsburg, Germany
Reference: Le Blanc No. 255, 38; Nagler No. 23
Sheet size: 22.5" x 16.32"
Image size: 18.13" x 14.32"
Condition: Soft handling creases and folds to sheet. A few light areas of staining and scattered small areas of discoloration in margins. Two small tears skillfully repaired from verso in margins. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition with full margins
Extremely rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Engraved by German artist Johann Balthasar Probst (1673-1750) after a drawing by German artist Johann Daniel Preissler (1666-1737). Comes from Preissler's 1723 "Die Vier Tageszeiten (The Four Times of Day)" portfolio of four etchings and engravings. Printed from one copper plate in one color: black. Descriptions of the portrayed image are printed in Latin and German.
Biography:
Johann Daniel Preissler, or Preisler (1666–1737) was a German painter and director of Nuremberg's Academy of Fine Arts. He was a notable member of a German artistic family, originating in Bohemia. His children included Johann Justin Preissler (1698–1771), Georg Martin Preisler (1700–1754), Barbara Helena Preisler (1707–1758; married to Oeding), Johan Martin Preisler (1715–1794), and Valentin Daniel Preisler (1717–1765), all in their time renowned artists. Most notable for his portraits, nudes and history paintings, Johann Daniel Preissler also produced drawings and frescoes. He was particularly known beyond his native Nuremberg for his "Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic", a sequence of works on art theory – the individual works were translated into several other languages and served as textbooks for students such as the Swiss Salomon Gessner...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
18th-century celestial - Eridanus Orion Lepus
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Eridanus Orion Lepus
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star atlas publish...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
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
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Etching
$143 Sale Price
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Citrus and Apricots
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Citrus and Apricots
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plate, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann ...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper, Mezzotint
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]...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Skeleton after Titian - Etching by Jean François Poletnich - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton after Titian is an etching realized by Jean Francois Poletnich in 1755.
Signed in the plate.
Good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is depicted through confident stroke...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Hermes in Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Hermes in Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on th...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1762
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino is an original etching realized by G. B. Piranesi in 1762.
Image Dimensions: 43 x 63 cm
Very good condition.
Ref. Ficacci., p.442
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
View of Gorlitz - Etching by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This View of Gorlitz is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the Series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".
The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of C...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Four original etchings of women from 'Aula Veneris' series by Wenceslaus Hollar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Presented here as a group are four original etchings of women in European national dress from the master printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar's series "Aula V...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching, Paper
Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat
Color woodcut with gauffrage (embossing)
Unsigned (as usual)
Format: Shikishiban
Publisher: Privately produced
Unusually well preserved with the fugitive blue still intact
Image size: 5-1/8 x 5-3/4"
Sheet size: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this Japanese name, the surname is Isoda.
Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer and painter active from 1769 to 1790.
Life and career
Koryūsai was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts.
Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series,[1] most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881.
In 1782, Koryūsai applied for and received the Buddhist honour hokkyō ("Bridge of the Law") from the imperial court and thereafter used the title as part of his signature. His output slowed from this time, though he continued to design prints until his death in 1790.
Works
Koryūsai created a total of 2,500 known designs, or an average of four a week. According to art historian Allen Hockley, "Koryūsai may ... have been the most productive artist of the eighteenth century".
The series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō, 1776–1781) ran for 140 prints, the longest known ukiyo-e print series of beauties. He designed at least 350 hashira-e pillar prints, numerous kachō-e bird-and-flower prints, a great number of shunga erotic prints, and others. Ninety of his nikuhitsu-ga paintings are known, making him one of the most productive painters of the period.
Legacy
Despite Koryūsai's productivity and popularity—both in his time and amongst later collectors—his work has attracted little scholarship. The first ukiyo-e histories written in the West in the 19th century elevated certain artists as exemplars; Koryūsai's work came to be seen as too indebted to Harunobu, who died in 1770, and inferior to that of Kiyonaga, whose peak period came in the 1880s. An example is Woldemar von Seidlitz's Geschichte des japanischen Farbenholzschnittes ("History of Japanese colour prints", 1897), the most popular of the early ukiyo-e histories, which paints Koryūsai as a successor to Harunobu and a rival of Kiyonaga in the 1770s who slipped into mediocrity and imitation of his rival by the end of the decade.[5] Interest lay mainly in the details of Koryūsai's life—a samurai who received court honours was unusual in the proletarian world of ukiyo-e. In 2021, contemporary woodblock printmaker David Bull...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori - Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori - Original Woodblock Print
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori, from the Series "Beauties of the Floating World Associated with Flowers" by S...
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Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Woodcut, Ink, Rice Paper
Adrian Collaert 17th Century Engraving Wedding at Cana Martin de Vos
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand from Captain Cooks Travels
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook John...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Veduta della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano by G.B.Piranesi - 1749
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, is an original etching realized by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1749.
S. Giovanni in Laterano with palace and Scala Santa on t...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Tuscan Proverbs - Etching by Carlo Lasinio - 1786
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Proverbs 3 is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786.
Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$581 Sale Price
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The Death of Lazarus
By Hieronymus Wierix
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Death of Lazarus
Engraving, 1593
Feria VI. Post Domin IIII
From: Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, Plate 76
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches
Reference: Referen...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Chauvesouris - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Chauve- souris 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 partic...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
$178 Sale Price
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