Old Masters Figurative Prints
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Athena Goddess Armed-Ancient Roman Art-Etching by Vincenzo Campana-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Athena Goddess Armed - Ancient Roman Art, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
La celebre impresa di Ercole negl'Esperidi - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1774
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "The Famous Ercole’s undertaking in “Esperidi”
Beautiful Artist's Proof, representing the first complex apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Pe...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Ruins - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Ruins, 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 rig...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Veduta degli Avanzi della Villa... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta degli Avanzi della Villa di Domiziano da altri chiamata le Terme di Pompeo Magno
Image dimensions: 46x60 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an a...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Etching by Ferdinando Campana - Late 18 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Campana.
Signed on the plate, on the lower right.
Good cond...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Pegasus, Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pegasus, Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on t...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Hippogriffs - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hippogriffs from Antiquities of Herculaneum is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower right
Good condition.
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Portrait of a Man - Original Etching by John Hall - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original artwork realized by John Chapman for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge an...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Etching by Nicolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized from a design by Vincenzo Aloja after Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century....
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Drawings - Original Etching by -N. Vanni 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Drawings, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized from a design by Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Physiognomy - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - The Portrait is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and th...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Three Grotesque Characters - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Three Grotesque Characters is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of M...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of S. John - Original Etching by Heinrich Fuseli - 1810
By Heinrich Fuseli
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of S. John is an original artwork realized by Heinrich Fuseli (1741 - 1825).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge ...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
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 plate on the lower right.
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Giacomo Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giacomo Casanova in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good con...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Francesco Cepparoli - 1700s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of a Man - Original Etching by John Thornthwaite - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original artwork realized by John Thornthwaite for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind",...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Head of a Man - Original Etching by John Hall - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Head of a man is an original artwork realized by John Hall for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", London, Be...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching by Carlo Oraty - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching realized by Carlo Oraty in the late 18th century.
Signed on the p...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
In Honour of the Sun God - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
In honour of the Sun God is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representing the...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Liber Veritatis - Plate 176 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Portrait of a Man - Original Etching by John Thornthwaite - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original artwork realized by John Thornthwaite for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind"...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Human Heads from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Human headsfrom Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good cond...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 1700s
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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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Profiles of Men - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Man's Portrait is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", Lond...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Human Heads from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Human heads from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters..
In very good co...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Heads of Johnfon - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Heads of Johnfon is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", Lo...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Knipperdolling - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Knipperdolling is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Ma...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of a Man - Original Etching by John Hall - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original artwork realized by John Hall for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", London...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Funeral Procession - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Procession Accompanying of a Mandarin in China.
Etching, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XXXIX
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Smoker and the Drinker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685)
Title: The Smoker and the Drinker
Year: 1650
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Image (plate mark) size...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait After Schmuzer - Original Etching After Thomas Trotter - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Schmuzer is an original artwork realized by Thomas Trotter (1756 - 1803).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowled...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Duke of Weymar - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Duke of Weymar is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Kno...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Strength - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Strength is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of M...after Raphael - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of M...after Raphael is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the ...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio - Original Etching by T. Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Bentivoglio is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowle...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Sir Thomas More - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Kn...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Nuptial Ceremony and Birth among the Mexicans - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Nuptial Ceremony and Birth among the Mexicans
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII, Plate LXVII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Cannonieri di Mare (Sea Gunner) - Lithograph Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except some stains in lower margin, slightly damaged in the right margin (three minor cracks) and normal brown paper ...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Turkish Carnival - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Turkish Carnival
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom. , Plate XVI
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Etching, Hand-watercoloured, show...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Frame from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Framefrom Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good cond...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Japanese Wedding Ceremony - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Wedding Ceremony
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XLVII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of Talapini - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of "Talapini"
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XXIX
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim:...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - by G. Pivati 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - Inca offering a liquor vase
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXVII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Temple of Neptune - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Temple of Neptune is an original black and white etching realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Good conditions except for the trace of being fold at the middle and a folding on the top-rig...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Ancient View of Novgorod - Original Lithograph - First Half of 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Novgorod is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower central margin: N...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ancient View of Benares - Original Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Benares is an original modern artwork realizedin the first half of the 19th Century.
Original Black and White Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower ma...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is anoriginal etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In ...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Habits et Maisons des Floridiens - Original Etching by J.-N. Bellin - 1747
Located in Roma, IT
Habits et Maisons des Floridiens is a beautiful black and white etching 8 engraving on copper) on wire rod paper realized by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), from volume 14 by the...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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In Prag der Grosse Ring - Original Lithograph - Half of the 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
In Prag der Grosse Ring is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower ma...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ancient View of Sultan Selims Moschee in Costantinople - Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Sultan Selims Moschee in Costantinople is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original Black and W...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ancient Roman Busts - Original Etching by Various Masters - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Busts from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, exc...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Frame from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Frame from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good con...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is anoriginal etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In v...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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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 anoriginal etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In v...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Profilo d'una Sedia Curule di Marmo
Located in Roma, IT
Etching of the serie “Vases, candelabras, gravestones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments”, made and etched by Piranesi, published in the year 1778 by his son Francesco. Very fine etching, “Profile of the curial chair...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Man - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is a beautiful etching realized by an Anonymous artist active in the 18th century. Titled on the lower center "Giovanni Paisiello", wit...
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Early 1700s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Colonie d'Alger - Original Etching - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Colonie d'Alger is an original etching realized by an Anonymous engraver of the 19th Century.
Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center.
The state of preservation...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Old Masters figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.
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