Thomas Holloway

The Child and the Monkey - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810

1810

Portrait of a Child 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",...

The Monkey is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630). Not signed. In excellent conditions, except for some stains. Image Dimensions: 5 x 7 / 8 x 10 cm. Including a cream-colored cardboard passepartout, 34 x 50 cm. An exciting original print, with all the dignity of a mythological or epic story, represented with an incredible balance of black and white, light and shadow, and a typical Baroque dynamism. Antonio Tempesta, also known as Il Tempestino (Florence, 1555 - Rome, 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period. Antonio Tempesta trained in the culture of late Mannerism, with a naturalistic but also calligraphic taste, acquired from the frequentation of Giovanni Stradano, with whom he collaborated in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio. Moving to Rome in 1573, he worked for Pope Gregory XIII, frescoing some maps of Rome in the Vatican, including the famous Map of Rome (1593). In the pontifical capital, he worked for many noble families and for important cardinals, such as Alessandro Farnese and Scipione Borghese. His works are in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, at the villa in Caprarola, in Tivoli. He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori...

Antique Engraving of a Capuchin Monkey (Simia Apella Linn.), engraved by A. Hoffer, circa 1800 This elegant natural history engraving depicts the Capuchin Monkey (Simia Apella Linn....

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Beraldi 3. Executed in 1822; this impression on cream wove paper was printed in Paris by Bertauts and published in 1869 by Gazette d...