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Period: 18th Century
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 Figurative Prints
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Engraving
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
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Watercolor, Mezzotint
'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...
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Baroque 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Letter of the Alphabet S - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions.
The etching belon...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Scene - Etching Nicolo Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Nicolo Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Monastero e Chiesa di S. Apollonia-Etching by Giuseppe Vasi-Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Monastero e Chiesa di S. Apollonia is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome.
Si...
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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
Ancient View of Lyon - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748.
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
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Etching
After Jacques Stella (1596-1657) - 18th Century Engraving, One Lily
Located in Corsham, GB
An original 18th century engraving after Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Unsigned. Well presented in a gilt frame with a beaded inner. On paper.
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
A Harlot's Progress - Etching after William Hogarth - 1732
Located in Roma, IT
A Harlot's Progress is an etching print realized after William Hogarth in 1732
Signature on the plate on the lower right.
Good conditions, with some foxing.
A Harlot's Progress" i...
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Surrealist 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Sacrifices Among the Natives - Original Color Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Sacrifices among the natives - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VII, Plate XIV
Image Dim: cm 25....
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) 1784 Captain Cooks Final voyage by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) 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 t...
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Realist 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
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
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Etching
Rovine del Tempio de' Castori nella città di Cora - Etching by G. B. Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 40.6x56.8.
Belongs to the Collection "Antiquities of Cori, described and etched by Giovambat Piranesi", and printed in 1764.
Beautiful first roman edition/1st state ...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Arrival of the Angels - Original Etching by J.B. Huet - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Arrival of the Angels is an original artwork realized by Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) in the Late 19th Century.
Etching print.
Signed on plate.
Good conditions.
The artwork...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
"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...
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Northern Renaissance 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
India Balthazar Solvyns European Buildings Calcutta 18th Century, rare 1st proof
Located in Norfolk, GB
Balthazar Solvyns European Buildings in Calcutta 13.25” x 19” c1796
This is an extremely rare 1st Proof etching from Solvyns first publication, A Collection of Two Hundred and F...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper, Etching
Four Soldiers, one with Flag - Etching after Salvator Rosa - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This etching, representing Four soldiers, one with flag, is an 18th century copy after Salvator Rosa and it is from the series of capricci with soldiers, called Figurine.
The first ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Venus Goddess With Horse - Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Venus Goddess With Horse from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some fo...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Glaucus, from "Le Temple des Muses" - Etching by B. Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Glaucus.
Wonderful plate with very fresh impression and an elegant line, from the volume “Le Temple des Mus...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
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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
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
North Side of the Great Court, Sommerset Palace
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint printed in brownish ink with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on buff paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches (260 x 317 mm) (sheet), uneven narrow to full margins. Laid down to a contemporary wove paper support. Scattered condition issues on the sheet (excluding the mount) include surface soiling, creasing, a significant vertical repaired tear, and toning, despite these issues, the hand coloring remains good. Suitable for framing.
From A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta By Thomas Malton, published by Thomas Malton, London 1796. The work was published serially, in twenty-five numbers. The plates in Volume I carry the dates 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796 or 1797; those in Volume II, the dates 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800 or 1801. In most copies the title page of Volume I carries the publisher's later address, of 103 Long Acre...
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English School 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
Ancient Roman Statue of a Horse - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 1700s
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman statue of a horse, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th ce...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
18th C. Italian Architectural Engraving of a Borromini Designed Church in Rome
Located in Alamo, CA
"Pianta del Finestrone, Prospetto del finestrone con suoi ornamenti nel mezzo della naue maggiore per fianco nella Basilica di S. Gio. in Laterano" is an architectural engraving of an elevation of monumental windows with their associated columns and ornaments above an entrance to the Basilica of S. Gio. In Laterano in Rome, the Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the Lateran, also known as the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John in Lateran. It is the church of the Diocese of Rome which serves as the seat of the Roman Pontiff. The print was engraved by Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729), an engraver and architect, after a design by the Italian architect Francesco...
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Realist 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
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
Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) - 1788 Mezzotint, Christ Laid In The Sepulchre
By Charles Howard Hodges
Located in Corsham, GB
A dramatic and high quality 18th Century mezzotint with stipple engraving, showing Christ being laid in the sepulchre after the crucifixion. This is a plate from the "Houghton Galler...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon
Located in Middletown, NY
An image that originally appeared in an astrological calendar for the year 1766.
Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1766. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in...
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Edo 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
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
Johann Weinmann : Mezzotint 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...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Venetian School: Neoclassical banquet scene with angels and putti.
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish black ink on dark cream, handmade, laid paper, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (208 x 260 mm). Uniform age tone with several scattered, unobtrusive spots of brown discoloration, consistent with age. Right top corner loss, evenly trimmed, paper tape remnants at top left corner, recto. Collector's stamp in blue ink ("PRB"), lower left corner, recto. On the verso is a neoclassical graphite and brown ink study of a procession showing a woman being carried in a birthing sedan chair. The woman is being carried backwards, with putti, and horn players, leading her up an embankment, across a river. In her wake we see a crowned man...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Laid Paper
'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
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 Figurative Prints
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Etching
Jacob blesses his sons - Flemish School, 18th Centruy
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on light wove paper with a large Amsterdam Coat of Arms watermark, 9 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches (236 x 190 mm), narrow margins. Scattered lig...
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Flemish School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Black and White, Engraving
Ancient Roman Artifacts - Etching by Carlo Cataneo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Artifacts is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Cataneo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing an...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
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
Letter L - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter L is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in 18th century.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Er...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
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The Resurrection
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and beautiful 18th century bible illustration by a female artist.
Engraving on cream laid paper with a "V" shaped watermark, 8 x 4 5/8 inch...
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Italian School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Allegories: Lies - Etching by F. Cepparuli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Allegories: Lies is a vintage poster realized by the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1981
Original Colored Offset on paper.
The artwork was realized on the occasion of the exhibition realized in 1981 at Galleria Rondanini in Rome.
The offset poster depicts the artwork Le Allegorie: Le Menzogne realized by the artist in 1979
Printed on the lower left corner: Renato Guttuso - Le Allegorie: Le Menzogne - 1979 .
Allegories: Lies is an excellent artwork realized in Italy in the Second half of the XX Century by the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987). His father Gioacchino, a land-surveyor and amateur watercolourist, and his mother Giuseppina d’Amico, due to disagreements with their own town depending on their liberal ideas, registered the birth on 2 January 1912 in Palermo. In his birthplace Guttuso discovered painting at a very early age; as he himself wrote: “… among my father’s watercolours, the studio of the painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the cart painter Emilio Murdolo my path was taking shape when I was six, seven, ten years old…”.Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Prize at the time of his exhibition at the Art Academy in Moscow, 1972. The same year a large retrospective toured Eastern Europe calling at Praha, Bucarest, Bratislava and Budapest. Two major paintings belong to this period: La Vucciria (1974), later presented by the artist to the University of Palermo, and Caffe Greco...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Gresham College
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a Garden of Holland or Maid of Dort Pro Patria watermark, 11 x 14 1/4 inches (278 x 361 mm), thread margins. Lettered with the title in a cartouche at the top-center sheet, continuing "a Latere Occidentali Prospeus AD MDCCXXXIX," with numbers over the image at right that correspond to a key 1 to 29, and with publication details: "Georgius Vertue Londini delineavit et Sculpsit anno MDCCXXXIX". Multiple expert repairs, notably a Y-shaped, expert paper tape repair on the verso. Handling creases, toning. All issues are consistent with age. An impression of this work may be viewed in the permanent collection of the British Museum, registration No. 1880,1113.3963.
A bird's eye view of the college in Broad Street, London, showing the courtyard, adjoining stable yard to the right, and the buildings at the back.
This work was included in Frederick Crace...
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English School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Elderly Shepherd Leaning on a Staff (after Parmigianino)
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder after a work by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Printed on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream lai...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
A Prospect of Lincoln's Inn; A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
By Johannes Kip
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine prospect image of gardens at Lincoln's Inn, London.
A Prospect of Lincoln's Inn; A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster; The Fountain and Gardens in New Square, Lin...
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English School 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
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
La Predicazione di S. Giovanni Battista - Etching by Tiepolo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
La Predicazione di San Giovanni Battista is an original etching realized by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804) in the Second Half of the 18th Century.
Original Black and white etching and burin on paper. 1st state on 2, fresh and lively Impression.
Dimensions: 230 x 275 mm.
Wonderful etching in excellent impression, very fresh and bright, in a vibrant black ink, wide margins. Some minor stains, some minor folds and a little fold on the lower right margin.
Excellent conditions.
Ref: Rizzi 108, Prouté no. 163, 1981.
Provenance: Ex Coll. Paul I Ermitage. Lugt 2061.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804). Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker, mastering the art of etching. He is well known wolrdwide as he assisted his father in Wurzburg (Germany), he made stairwell fresco in Vicenza (Italy) and at the Palace of Charles III in Madrid (Spain). La Via Crucis is among the earliest works engraved by Giandomenico Tiepolo, just about twenty years old, where he translates into etchings the namesake series of paintings realised for the oratory...
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Modern 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Oraty in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Tears of Sensibility –Sympathy a Poem – Let's all be unhappy together. Wig Club
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
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
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
Materials
Chalk
The Temple of Glory - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Temple of Glory is an original etching artwork realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents the artificial Fire Machine and the temple of glory, with the ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Masinissa, King of Nubia, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Massinissa re de' Numidi'
Copper-line engraving by Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an ancient marble bust...
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Renaissance 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Vaso Anzio di Marmo press S.E. il Sig. Schowvaloff-Etching by G.B. Piranesi-1778
Located in Roma, IT
Artist proof, printed on contemporary filigree paper, large margins, representing an antique marble vase , whose details are described in the ending note . The piece is dedicated to ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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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 Figurative Prints
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Etching
Convento dei Padri di S.Bernardo, e Chiesa di S.Pudenziana by G. Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
Monastero e Chiesa di S.Giuseppe is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions except for con...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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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 Figurative Prints
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Etching
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Ancient Roman Still Life - Etching by Giacomo Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Still Life from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Azzerboni and Casanova in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Fair cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Cavalcade - Etching by G. B. Brambilla - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cavalcade is an original old master artwork realized by Giovanni Battista Brambilla in 18th Century.
Black and white etching.
Inscriptions on plate.
Good conditions except for som...
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Old Masters 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Veduta della Magnifica Sostruzione Fabricata - Etching by G. B. Piranesi -1760s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the magnificent substructure is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Very precoius and rare specimen. Roman edition.
Complete tit...
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18th Century Figurative Prints
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