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Period: 18th Century
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...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Chalk
Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile, from Raccolta delle più belle Vedute ...
Located in Middletown, NY
By Giuseppe Vasi after Giovanni Piranesi: Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on laid paper with an E and R watermark, full margins. Minor...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
'A College Trick', English Satirist, London's Royal Academy, Comedic, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An amusing view of an academic wagging his finger in disapproval as a young lady in a rope seat is pulled up to a college dorm window by a group of revelling students.
Thomas R...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper, Engraving, Lithograph
Vaso antico di marmo che è ornato di quattro Maschere - Etching 1778
Located in Roma, IT
Antique marble vase decorated with four masks
Artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, wide margins, representing an “antique marble vase ...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Moralist - Etching by William Nutter - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mezzotint and etching with hand-colouring on paper realized by William Nutter (1750-1802) after J.R. Smith.
Not signed, as issued.
Very good condition.
An elderly clergyman or mor...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
Veduta della Piazza della Rotonda - Early Lifetime Impression
Located in Roma, IT
The Piazza della Rotonda, with the Pantheon and Obelisk. Etching on fine watermarked paper. Signed on plate on lower-left margin "Piranesi del. Sc." and with the address of Bouchard...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
18th Century Etching of Ancient Roman Architectural Objects by Giovanni Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
A. Tigna Protensa Super Media Epistylia, B. Praecisiones Tigorum Quaqua Versus Extrinsectus Apparentium, C. Opae Extremitates Tigorum Contintes, Fig. I, plate 88 from "Vasi, Candelab...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Tour de Clermont en Dauphine apartenant a Monsieur de Tonnerre
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and engraving on handmade cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (97 x 173 mm), full margins. In good condition, consistent with age. Several small notations in pencil in t...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving, 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Shooting" after George Stubbs
Located in GB
William Woollett (1735–1785)
William Woollett was one of the most accomplished British engravers of the 18th century, renowned for his precision and his ability to capture the paint...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Ancient Views of Paris - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
4 Etchings on paper realized in 1748. Each cm. 17x22.
Very good condition except for some minor foxing.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Collegio De Neofiti - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Collegio De Neofiti is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions and aged mar...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Theseus and Achelous, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Massard after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Theseus returns from the Calydonian hunt and is met by the river god Achelous.
From...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Man and Soldier with an Urn - Etching by G.B. Tiepolo - 1785
Located in Roma, IT
Man and soldier with an urn is an etching realized by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1785.
A woman looks out of the print. Two characters, a man and a soldier, are in front of a funeral ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,997 Sale Price
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A Young Woman of Otaheite, Dancing (Tahiti) 1784 Captain Cooks Voyage by Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Young Woman of Taheite Dancing (Tahiti) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.John Webber (1752-...
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Realist 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Four 18th Century Optical views of Paris etc.; "Vue des Rives de la Seine ....
Located in Middletown, NY
Four 18th Century Optical views
"Vue des Rives de la Seine prise du Pont Neuf à Paris"
"Vue de la Place de l'Hôtel de Ville et du Phare à Calais"
"Vue de Paris prise du Port de la Co...
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French School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
Molino d'Acqua - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 19th century in Italy, showing the technologies and methodologies in vogue at the time for managing production in various manufacturing plants.
Good condition wi...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Della Girotecnia - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 19th century in Italy, showing the technologies and methodologies in vogue at the time for managing production in various manufacturing plants.
Good condition wi...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Machine per Batter le Monete - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 19th century in Italy, showing the technologies and methodologies in vogue at the time for managing production in various manufacturing plants.
Good condition wi...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Machine per Fonder le Ruote - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 19th century in Italy, showing the technologies and methodologies in vogue at the time for managing production in various manufacturing plants.
Good condition wi...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ceraria - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 19th century in Italy, showing the technologies and methodologies in vogue at the time for managing production in various manufacturing plants.
Good condition wi...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Déluge, from "Temple des Muses" - Original Etching by Bernard Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Deluge.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, published in Amsterdam in 1742 by Z...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Faon du Cerf - Etching by Jacques De Sève - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Faon du Cerf 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 cardboard...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54) (Los Caprichos Series)
Located in London, GB
Francisco Jose Goya Y Lucientes
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54)
(Los Caprichos Series)
1799
Etching with aquatint
31.5 x 20.5 cms (12.4 x 8.1 ins)
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18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Etching by Giambattista Tiepolo - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
This etching on laid paper is the 13th plate of the series of 27 entitled Idee pittoresche sopra la fugga in Egitto di Giesù, Maria e Gioseppe executed by Giambattista Tiepolo and pu...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
The etchin...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Promenade to a Rout on a fair Evening
By Isaac Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Allen & West, 1797.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (213 x 270 mm), wide margins. Scattered toning, mat tone, and dog-e...
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English School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
A Calvary Skirmish - by Jan van Huchtenburg
Located in Middletown, NY
Haarlem: c1700.
Mezzotint on watermarked laid paper, 11 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches (290 x 462 mm), thread margins. In good condition with expert repairs at the right corners, and upper-lef...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
San Benedetto Con Altri Nanti, religious engraving after Veronese, circa 1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Religious copper-line engraving by CM after Francesco Petrucci after (Paolo Caliari) Veronese. Depicts Saint Benedict and other holy figures.
Paolo Vero...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
La Panthere - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Panthere 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 R...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$184 Sale Price
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William Woollett, engraver, late 18th century artist portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
William Woollett, Engraver
Proof before letters. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi after Thomas Hearne, 1795. Wove paper.
William Woollett (1735-85) was an important English 18th cen...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Dionysus Bacchus - Etching by Aniello Cataneo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dionysus Bacchus from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Aniello Cataneo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Cupid prepares to shoot an arrow as Venus looks over her right shoulder
By Odoardo Fialetti
Located in Middletown, NY
from "Sport of Love" (Scherzi d'amore)
Etching on laid paper with a partial, indiscernible watermark, 5 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches (143 x 93 mm), margins. Scattered light areas of brown disc...
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Italian School 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper
Drying Paper
Located in Middletown, NY
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.
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women").
While Masanobu's early life is largely undocumented, he is believed to have been born about 1686, possibly in Edo (modern Tokyo). Edo was a small fishing village when Tokugawa Ieyasu chose it as his administrative capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, and by the early 17th century the city had prospered and its population had grown to half a million. Masanobu appears to have been self-taught painter (though he did study poetry under Tachiba Fukaku); he is not known to have belonged to any artistic school. His early work shows the influence of the Torii school of ukiyo-e painting...
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Edo 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Woodcut
La Nymphe Echo - Etching by B. Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of the nymph Echo.
Wonderful plate with fresh impression and a beautiful use of chiaroscuro, from the volume “...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$397 Sale Price
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Animal Figures - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
'Bacchus' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original by Giovan...
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Realist 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Ancient Roman Statue - 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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Contemporary 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Painting - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
The Painting is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was realized ...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$177 Sale Price
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Portrait of an infamous thief
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating image of a well-known theif robbing a merchant of goods held atop her head.
Paris: circa 1670.
Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (17...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Landscape - Etching by Pierre Quentin Chedel - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an etching realized by Pierre Quentin Chedel in 1755.
Good conditions.
Signed on Plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was realized f...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$170 Sale Price
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John Flamsteed, astronomer, 18th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Flamsteed'
Copper-line engraving by Joseph Baker after T Gibson. 1790.
John Flamsteed FRS (1646 - 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued ov...
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English School 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
“Man with Magic Show”
Located in Southampton, NY
China Trade aquatint engraving. The plate was engraved by Dadley in London after drawings by Pu Qua of Canton and published in 1799 by W. Miller of Bond Street in London. Sight size 11.5 by 9.5 inches. Under glass. Silver leaf frame with wear consistent with age. Overall framed measurements are 13.5 by 11.5 inches. Not examined out of frame. Borghese label verso. Provenance: Sarasota collector.
Inscriptions read as follows:
Pu-Qua. Canton. Delin.
Dadley, London, Sculpt.
Published May 4, 1799, by W. Miller, Old Bond Street, London.
John Dadley...
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Academic 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
$340 Sale Price
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Le Brebis des Indes - 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.
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
$148 Sale Price
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Le Brebis des Indes - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Horns - 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.
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Map of Europe
Located in Roma, IT
Etching hand colored realized by Giovanni Maria Cassini in 1788.
Table from "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale", published in Rome in 1788 at Calcografia Camerale.
Very good cond...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
La Sfera Artificiale overo Armillare Obliqua
Located in Roma, IT
Very rare black and white copperplate map after the first franch edition of ca. 1770.
Italian edition after the french version by Pierre Bourgoin and Luois Capitaine.
In very good ...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$184 Sale Price
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Le Perdrix Rouge - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$148 Sale Price
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Le Hocco Femelle - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Le Hocco Male - Etching by François Hubert - 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 Figurative Prints
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Etching
$148 Sale Price
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Le Faisan - Etching by Jacques Blanchon - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Le Petit Tetras - Etching after Jacques De Seve - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Le Tetràs - Etching by Etienne Fessard - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Le Peintade - Etching by Catherine Haussard - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$165 Sale Price
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Horns - Etching by Jacques Baron - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$148 Sale Price
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Le Foque - 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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$148 Sale Price
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Hermes, Ancient Roman Statue- Original Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hermes, Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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