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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Besler Hand Colored Botanical Engraving of Wood Pink & Cottage Pink Flowers
Located in Alamo, CA
A 17th century hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Caryophyllus Maior Sylve Strisvarie Gatus" (Wood Pink & Cottage Pink 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 engraving is presented in a silver and gold-colored wood frame with a green edge and three elaborate cream-colored French mats...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Holy Family with Two Saints, after Parmigianino
By Antonio Da Trento
Located in Middletown, NY
Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Old man with a long beard and cap - After Rembrandt, copy
By Ferdinand Bol
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 x 2 1/4 inches (76 x 57 mm), margins. In very good condition with some minor losses at the extreme lower right corner. Pencil inscriptions on the ver...
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Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper
Legionnaire with the horse - Etching by Francesco Cepparoli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Legionnaire with the horse, Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th century.
...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Mountstuart Coat of Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. Spilsbury & Son, 1790.
Engraving on light-weight wove paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (950 x 145 mm), full margins at top and sides of sheet, lower portion of sheet trimmed. ...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, 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...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crucifixion
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jean Pichore workshop, 1500-1541
Crucifixion
Metal cut engraving printed on vellum with vintage hand coloring
c. 1500-1541
Miniature (image) size: 4 3/4 x 3 1/8"
Including decorated ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Sunburst Garden Fountain
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'SunBurst Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly inked...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with Bridge - Etching by J. C. Richard de Saint-Non - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Bridge is a beautiful black and white etching realized by Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non at the end of 18th Century.
On lower margin under the image the inscriptio...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Genre Scenes Compositions - Original Artwork after Angelika Kauffmann - 1780
Located in Roma, IT
Genre Scenes Compositions is an original artwork realized in 1780s After Angelika Kauffmann.
The artwork consist in a pair of mixed colored hand wa...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Watercolor
St. Paul's Cross
By James Stow
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Robert Wilkinson, c1620
Engraving on thin Japon paper,16 1/8 x 11 3/4 iches (408 x 297 mm), narrow margins. In good condition with some age-related toning and edge wear, including two small horizontal tears which appear at the right and left center sheet edges. There is a vertical edge tear on the the lower sheet edge which is expertly repaired with a tab of paper tape mounted to the verso, and a soft horizontal fold, as issued. Plate created circa 1620, however printed later, likely early 19th century.
Dr. John King preaching at St. Paul's Cross for James I, his Queen, Charles Prince of Wales...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Ben Alexander - Etching by Erich Heckel - 1927
By Erich Heckel
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on laid paper realized by Heckel in 1927.
Signed and dated in pencil lower right.
Hand numbered 11/20 lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Private Col...
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Expressionist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Cavaliers (after Herman Swanevelt)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with a large foolscap watermark, 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 (150 x 200 mm), thread margins. In excellent condition with a light pencil inscription and an inventory num...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
A Chinese Nobleman, 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
The Hopes of the Family, University of Cambridge engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton
The Hopes of the Family
Hand coloured engraving
26 x 36 cm
c.1790
This engraving, titled "The Hopes of the Family – An Admission at the University", is satirical work by William Bunbury. The scene portrays a young man being presented for admission to the University of Cambridge. Although the title suggests that the boy is expected to achieve great things, his appearance and and general demeanour hint at incompetence or lack of enthusiasm, thus introducing an ironic paradox.
This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Letter I - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter I 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
Materials
Etching
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings.
1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau
Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713.
Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings.
Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death.
2. Description of the drawing and related artworks
Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions.
His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s.
The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Chalk
Epirus Albania - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
Located in Roma, IT
Epirus Albania is an ancient map realized in 1650 by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664).
Good conditions.
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: ca...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A set of Biblical prints after the Dutch painter and engraver Gerard Hoet
By Gerard Hoet
Located in London, GB
The present collection is a set of 131 prints after Gerard Hoet, the Dutch golden age painter and engraver, depicting various biblical scenes. Hoet was a leading artist in the Classicizing Dutch Academic style, and his work is defined by history paintings, with a particular interest in mythological, classical, historical, and biblical scene, in particular Old testament scenes...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Black and White, Engraving
Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints
Located in Middletown, NY
Joseph de Montalegre (after)
Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints
1702-1725. Four (4) reproductive prints with handcoloring on thick C.M. Fabriano cotton wove ...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Study of a Head
Located in Middletown, NY
By Wenceslaus Hollar, after Jan Van Bylert (Biler)
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/16 x 2 3/4 inches (87 x 70 mm), thread margins. Lacking the inscription in the plate; "Felix Bil...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing (Hawaii) from Captain Cooks travels engra
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of the Sandwich Islands Dancing (Hawaii) 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 artist for the third voyage of Captain James Cook (1728-1779). The purpose of this voyage was to discover the Northwest Passage and to explore the Pacific Ocean north of the Equator. These engravings were published in 1784-85 by G. Nichol and Thomas Cadell of London in the four large format atlas, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Captain Cook was an extraordinary explorer known for discovering and mapping unknown territory and for his many contributions to the scientific world. These original engravings from Webber’s drawings and paintings are only a glimpse into this great man’s historical contributions that make him one of the greatest explorers of all times.
This image shows a Hawaiian dancer...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
L'annonciation
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s "Annunciation" is an etching created from the original plate and issued as a restrike by the Louvre Museum collection in Paris. The piece pre...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Farmers enjoying a barn dance with a violinist and a bagpiper.
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper mounted to a cream laid paper support, 9 x 12 7/8 inches (230 x 327 mm), thread margins. Three small areas of light skinning with one extremely small hole...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper
Sextus Tarquinius Raping Lucretia
By Georg Pencz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sextus Tarquinius Raping Lucretia
Engraving, c. 1546-47
Signed with the intials in the plate (see photo)
From: "Four Scenes of Early Roman History"
An early impression with plate ton...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Saint Paul, from the series of Standing Saints
By Lucas van Leyden
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper laid down to wove paper, 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (109 x 68), trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered discoloration and uniform age tone, all consistent wit...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Moscovie dite autrement... - Etching by Pierre Duval - 1676
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on copper with colored borders.
Image dimension: 40x50.8 cm.
Unusual map of European Russia extending from the Gulf of Finland south to just before the Black Sea and the Ca...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Penisola dell'India... - Etching by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola - 1683
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola, and published by Giacomo dé Rossi in 1683.
It is part of the Series "Mercurio Geografico or Geographical Guide to All Parts of the W...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Anatomy Studies - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Studies is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Signed in the plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The...
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Surrealist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Hercule Gaulois, ou L’Éloquence
By Charles-Nicolas II Cochin
Located in Middletown, NY
A classical chiaroscuro woodcut after Raphael executed by Charles Nicolas Cochin Père (1688-1754) & Vincent Le Sueur (1668-1743) . Printed from two bloc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
Court wrestlers of the Sultan of Turkey-dressed for outdoors, resting and fighti
Located in Middletown, NY
Bruyn, Abraham de (after). Court wrestlers of the Sultan of Turkey-dressed for outdoors, resting and fighting. 1577. Engraving on hand made laid paper, 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (268 x 1...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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 ...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig
Located in Middletown, NY
Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig club in distress etc. &c
London: S.W. Fores, 1798. Etching on white wove paper, 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inche...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions exc...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two men standing ankle-deep in a body of water, rocky outcrop ... hilltop
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on light, fibrous, laid Japon paper, 5 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (132 x 158 mm), full margins. Scattered moderate foxing throughout, very minor printing creases (innate), and one s...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
"A Harlot's Progress" Plate 3 Etching
Located in Houston, TX
Etching from the series titled "A Harlots Progress" by William Hogarth. The series consists of six paintings and engravings. The story is about a woman named M. Hackabout who arrived in London and started working as a prostitute. The third plate is of her getting arrest for her choice in profession. The series is a satirical story that emphasizes the dangers of being a prostitute and the health risks that come from it.
In 18th century engraving, the detail of the black mole on women and men's face is a symbol of the deadly venereal disease, syphilis. In this plate, Hackabout has already contracted the disease and that is why the black dot is visible on her forehead as well as her madam's.
In 1828, William Innell Clement published Harlot's Progress in columns on a single page of his newspaper Bell's Life in London #330. The detail with the cross seen in earlier reproductions of the engraving.
Dimensions without Frame: H 14.5 in x W 16.5 in.
Artist Biography: William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known to be his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
17th Century Dutch engraving 'Mein Greit; Mein Greit'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Julius Goltzius (Dutch c.1550-1595)
Mein Greit; Mein Greit
Engraving
6.5/8 x 11.3/8 in. (16.8 x 29 cm.) (measured to slip edge)
Christie’s have suggested this impression is from the ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Spectacle Seller
By Adriaen Jansz van Ostade
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 4 x 3 3/8 inches (102 x 86 mm), 1/4 inch margins. Signed in the plate, lower left corner. The 3rd state (of 6), after the rounding of the pl...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Elizabeth Duchess of Hamilton - Etching by W. Hamilton - Late 1700
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful portrait of Elizabeth Duchess of Hamilton, in very good conditions.
Prov.
Ederheimer Gallery N.Y.
Private Collection, Italy
Category
18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Offering Vesta - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Offering Vesta from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is a Hand-colored etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
The etching...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cainus fratri necem molitur (Cain kills his brother), Plate I Battles from Old T
Located in Middletown, NY
Rome: Nicolas van Aelst, 1613.
Engraving on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark, 8 x 11 1/4 inches (203 x 282 mm), thread margins. Scattered expert repairs including minor pu...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Agenor and Cadmus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
By Binet after Charles Monnet (1732-1808)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Binet after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Agenor tells Cadmus to go and look for his sister Europae.
From 'Les Metamorphoses d'...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Adrian Collaert Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Mary Washes Jesus' Feet
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
Four chiaroscuro medallion portrait woodcuts of emperors in sepia tones c.1557
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
After Hubert Goltzius (Dutch, 1526-1583)
Maximilian; Frideri; Hadrian; and Antoninus
Four chiaroscuro medallion portrait woodcuts of emperors in sepia tones c.1557,
the diameter of each print 18.5cm overall frame dimension approximately 54 x 54cm
Provenance: Trowbridge Gallery
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Landscape with a Sailboat and Fishermen - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Landscape with a Sailboat and Fishermen
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Fishermen - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Landscape with Fishermen
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by Gabriel, the f...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Building a Ship - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Building a Ship
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by Gabriel, the father, an...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Altar de St. Antonio de Padua Hand Colored Engraving 1724
Located in Paonia, CO
Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon born Fernando Martins de Bulhoes 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his powerful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was one of the most quickly canonized saints in church history, being canonized less than a year after his death. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Carolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck
Located in Middletown, NY
An exalted portrait of fellow Flemish engraver and publisher Karel van Mallery.
Lucas Vorsterman the Elder (after Anthony van Dyck).
Carolus de Mallery, from Icones Principum Viror...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
Dyeing Paper
Located in Middletown, NY
Japan: circa 1770.
Woodcut on cream laid paper, 7 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (182 x 63 mm), narrow margins. Laid down to non-archival board with scattered soiling and some adhesive staining...
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Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Vaso Antico della Galleria Farnese - Etching by G.B. Piranesi - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Original 18th century etching realized by Giovan Battista Piranesi.
Representation of the vase in the centre, description below "Ancient marble vase...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Map of Dordrecht - Etching by G. Braun/F. Hogenberg - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Map od Dordrecht is an artwork realized by Braun and Hogemberg in the late 16th century.
Hand watercolored etching.
40x54 cm.
Good conditions.
Braun Hoghemberg (1541-1622) was a ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Apollo Emerging from the Waters
By Simon Thomassin
Located in Houston, TX
Antique engraving titled "Apollon Sortant Des Eaux" over 250 years old by Simon Henri Thomassin, circa 1720. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white ma...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Royal Exchange of London
Located in Middletown, NY
London: A. Churchill & J. Knapton, 1754
Engraving on fibrous laid paper with a "C" watermark, 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (246 x 297 mm), full margins. Significant edge wear including mul...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Laid Paper
Bacchanal
By Giovanni Andrea Podestà
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bacchanal
Etching, 1649
Inscribed in the square left: "Magnificentis/simo Principi/Paolo lorda/no. II Bracci/ani Duci/Aud. P.DDD/1640; Inscribed on right: Rome apud Franciscsum Saluucium
Condition: Usual centerfolds from paper manufacture
Plate: 10 3/8 x 15 1/2"
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2";
References:
Bartsch XX.4
Sopher Plate 145
An impression of this image is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington
An exceptionally rich impression in excellent condition.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Putti as Allegory of Music
Giovanni Andrea Podestà or Giovanni Andrea Podesta (1608 - c. 1674) was an Italian painter and engraver who was principally active in Rome. His principal subject matter is children playing in landscapes with classical objects. His works show the influence of Poussin's Arcadian landscapes and bacchanals, which were ultimately derived from Titian's bacchanals.
Life
Giovanni Andrea Podestà was born in Genoa. He was formed in Genoa with Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Domenico Fiasella according to the information provided by the contemporary Genoese biographer Raffaele Soprani. He is also recorded as an apprentice of Giovanni Battista Paggi in 1627.
His presence is documented from in 1634 in Rome where he made drawings after the statues and ancient reliefs at the famous Giustiniani collection. These were subsequently engraved for publication in the 'Galleria Giustiniani'. The artist's career ran a course similar to that of the young Domenico Fiasella. In Rome his art evolved in contact with the works of Poussin, Andrea di Leone, Pietro Testa...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient View of Windsor - Etching by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient view of Vindesorium (Windsor) is an old master artwork realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg in the Late 17th Century, as part of the famous Series "Civitates Orbis Te...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
