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Size: Miniature
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wind Blown Poplars
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 – 1963)
WIND BLOWN POPLARS c. 1915-20
Color woodcut, Signed and titled in pencil. 9 x 12”. On thin paper....
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Low Country (South Carolina)
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Clouds III, Modern Lithograph by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Clouds III, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/30, Image Size: 6.5 x 9 inches, Size: 9.5...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Conscience of the Court, Bookmarks in the Pages of Life
By Betye Saar
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen in colors and sepia-tones on Langdell fait à la main paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Bookmarks i...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
THE THAW
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 - 1963)
THE THAW c 1915-20
Color woodcut, signed and titled in pencil. Image 8 7/8 x 12 inches, sheet 10 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches. On textured fibrous paper. V...
Category
1910s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Vuillard, La Passerelle, Douze pastels (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper mounted on backing museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Vuillard, Douze Pastels P...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Passage, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Anonymous pedestrians passing on a snowy walk through Central Park. Um...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Sailboat Series II, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Sailboat Series II
Year: 1998
Edition: 201/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper
Size: 4.75 x 5.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Al Dolo - Etching by Giovanni Antonio Canal - 1735/44
By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Located in Roma, IT
Al Dolo is an original Artwork realized by Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto (Venice, 1697 - 1768).
Original Etching on Laid paper...
Category
1730s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Flowers I, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, N...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Laguna Cove' — American Modernism, California
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Laguna Cove', wood engraving, 1935; edition 60 (16 printed), 2nd edition 150 (6 printed), Woodcut Society 200, Wien 247. Signed and titled in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (3/4 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
This impression is from the edition published for the Twentieth Presentation Print of the Woodcut Society, 1941. Printed by Torch Press, Cedar Rapids.
Literature: Reproduced in 'James Swann...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Piazza della Minerva - Rome - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza della Minerva - Rome is an artwork realized in the 1970s by Giuseppe Malandrino .
Original B.W. etching print.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right cor...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Umbrella Man (Retro Suite II), Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Umbrella Man (Retro Suite II)
Year: 1994
Edition: A.P.; 300, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Size: 11 x 10.5 inches
Condition: Excellen...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
'Summer Horse Fair', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing the summer horse fair, which Chiryu was well known for. Every summer, horse traders would bring near 500 horses to m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
Flowering Wild Bean Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "a. Phaseolus Americanus purgans, b. Phaseolus Brasilianus". It is plate 8...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins by James Bretherton after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Bretherton, James (After Rembrandt van Rijn).
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins.
London: c 1775.
Etching on light cream laid paper, 4 3/4...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
de Segonzac, Eden Roc, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1965. Published by Librairie ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, La Pique I (Bloch 1014-47; C. 113), A Los Toros Avec Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, A Los Toros Avec Picasso, 1961. Published by André Sauret, éditeur, Paris; prin...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Goût du Bonheur 34 (Cramer 148; Bloch 2013) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Destinations (Flatiron Bidg, 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Destinations", Frederick Mershimer creates an image of taxis rushing by the Fuller Building, better known as Flatiron Building. The building is only six feet wide at its rounded...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
La Cité Notre Dame (Duthuit I.248), A La gloire à Paris, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the princ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Chagall, Moses I (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25), Drawings from the Bible (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Right to Vote, Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 17.75 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 2007. ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Windmill by François Vivares, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 7/8 inches (202 x 149 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhered at each corner to a small sheet of archival laid paper. Horizontal edge loss at the ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Composition, Variations sur l'imaginaire, Leonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: hand signed and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Variations sur l'imaginaire, 1972. Published by Philipp...
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mou...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
River in Normandy - Original etching - Ed. Durand Ruel, 1873
By Alfred Sisley
Located in Paris, IDF
Alfred SISLEY (after)
The Angelus, 1873
Original Etching
Engraved by Flameng under the supervision of SISLEY
Printed signature in the plate
On laid paper...
Category
1870s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Degas, Dancer at the bar, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1945
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Degas, Ten Balle...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salish Canoe and Rock
Located in London, GB
Salish Canoe and Rock, 2023
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 34.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, mus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 101), Carnet de la Californie (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Year: 1959
Paper Size: 10.25 X 16.5 inches
Catalogue raisonné reference: Cramer, illustration 101
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and u...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ship Rock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 - 1957)
SHIP ROCK, c. 1940
Color woodcut signed and numbered in pencil, edition 40 on stiff fibrous paper.
10 x 14 inches, Sheet size 11 1/8 x 15 inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero,
Etching, 1756
Signed in the plate (see photo)
From: Le Antichità Roma...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Chagall, Tribe of Zebulun, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cherry Street
Located in Middletown, NY
A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions.
New York: 1904.
Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Original 1975 Aspen, Colorado vintage town and Rocky Mountains poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Aspen Colorado town and mountain scene printed in 1975. Artist: Jim Ford. This poster is archivally linen-backed in excellent condition, Grade A, and ready to frame. No...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
United We Stand, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: United We Stand
Year: 2002
Edition: 107/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 12.5 x 9 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscript...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Accord entre les Athéniens et les Spartiates, la paix (Bloch 267-272; C. 24)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition, Les Biches, Marie Laurencin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Biches, 1924. Published by Édi...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Lake Constance ; The Oberstadt at Bregenz with Lake Constance (the Bodensee) Bey
Located in Middletown, NY
Lake Constance
c 1850.
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted on thin card stock, 10 x 12 1/2 inches (255 x 320 mm), wide margins. Adhesive residue aro...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor
The Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
The Nile is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt betwe...
Category
1880s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tugs on the Hudson
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Cosmic Runner (Retro Suite I), Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Cosmic Runner (Retro Suite I)
Year: 1994
Edition: 137/300, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Size: 11 x 11 i...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Souvenir d'Italie
Located in Greenwich, CT
Etching "Souvenir d'Italie” by Jean Baptiste Camille
printed on laid paper (partial watermark Annonay).
rich impression
size : sight 11.5 x 9 in. , matted 17 x 14 in.
A remarkab...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
VALLEY RAMPARTS -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958)
VALLEY RAMPARTS 1933
Color block print, signed and titled in pencil. 10 1/8 x 12 inches. Very large and good impression In generally good condition. ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition, The Poems, Joan Mitchell
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on handmade Hahnemühle paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, The Poems, 1960. Published and printed by Tiber Press, New York un...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS
Located in Portland, ME
Benton, Thomas Hart (American, 1889-1975 SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS. Fath . Lithograph, 1941. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists (A.A.A.). 9 7/8 x 12 inches (im...
Category
1940s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Weather Eye" - 1989 Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Weather Eye" - 1989 Lithograph on Paper
1989 Lithograph on paper titled "Weather Eye" by Deborah Rumer (American, 20th Century). A windowsill is the focal point, as the viewer look...
Category
1980s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
'The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province' — Lifetime Impression
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fûkei shû II Kansai hen), woodblock print, 1934. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe ‘D’ seal indicating an early impression printed between 1931 - 1941. Stamped faintly 'Made in Japan' in the bottom center margin, verso.
Horizontal ôban; image size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (238 x 362 mm); sheet size approximately 10 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches ( 262 x 394 mm).
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna); Honolulu Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum in Warsaw; University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase...
Category
1930s Showa Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Trumpeter Swan, Adult: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Trumpeter Swan, Adult", No. 77, Plate 382 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 158-159, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Au Salon, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.25 x 8.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Gustave Baumann Color Woodblock - Three Pines
Located in Phoenix, AZ
“Three Pines” by well-known woodblock artist Gustave Baumann (1881-1971).
The medium is color woodblock. It's a beautiful print in excellent condition.
Baumann's personal Hand and He...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Woodcut
Mango Hummingbirds: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Mango Humming bird, 1. 2. Males. 3. Female. Bignonia grandifolia", No. 51, Plate 251 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, printed and colored by JT Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1870-1871. The lithograph depicts an adult male hummingbird, labelled 1, in flight above a beautiful flowering plant, a Chinese Trumpet-vine. Another male, labeled 2, is perched on a flower on the left and a female, labelled 3, is perched on a flower on the right.
This hand-colored Audubon bird octavo-size lithograph sheet measures 10.25" high by 6.75" wide. It is in excellent condition. The original text pages, 185-186, from Audubon's 19th century publication are included.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a naturalist and artist. He was initially unsuccessful financially prior to the publication of his famous work “The Birds of America”, spending time in debtor’s prison, once stabbing a disgruntled investor in self-defense. However, his obsession with birds and art motivated him to persist in his goal of documenting every bird in America via his watercolor paintings and publishing his works for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were purchased in rather small numbers by the wealthy. To reach a larger audience, Audubon, with the help of his sons and J. T. Bowen, published a smaller octavo sized lithograph version, which were much more affordable.
With the success of his bird projects, Audubon then turned his attention to four-legged animals. He explored the Missouri River in 1843 sketching the four-legged animals he encountered in their natural setting. His expedition covered some of the same regions recently explored by Lewis and Clark, traveling from present day Alaska to Mexico. Audubon realized that this was an opportunity to document these animals in the still relatively pristine American wilderness, before man encroached on their environment.
Between 1845 and 1848, Audubon and his sons John Woodhouse Audubon...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
