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Antique Map - Gallia - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
Located in Roma, IT
Antique Map - Gallia is an antique map realized in 1650 by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664).
The Map is Hand-colored etching, with coeval watercoloring.
Good conditions with slight ...
Category
1650s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jenkins, Composition pour Eric, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Pu...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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The Pool of London.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Pool of London. c. 1915. Etching and drypoint. 7 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 11 x 14 7/8 x 21 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on the full sheet of simili-Japan paper. ...
Category
1910s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
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"Haze in the Forest, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 16" x 20"
By Ken Elliott
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape limited edition print by Ken Elliott features a cool violet-blue palette, capturing an abstracted scene of a forest in the winter. The trees are depicted in s...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Digital, Giclée
Boy at the source / - Elixir of Life -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), Boy at the source, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper after a drawing from 1897, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenös...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Winter Landscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Winter Landscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 17.25 x 13.75 inches
Framed size: 23 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: very good
Frame: Custom framed in a silver and gold frame
About the artist.
Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) was a noted painter and etcher, who was well known for his aquatint etchings on paper or satin of European and American landscape and cityscape scenes, as well as paintings of landscape and cityscape scenes, Tyrolean Alp scenes of villages and chalets, street scenes, harbor and marine scenes.
Hans Figura was born January 22, 1898, in the small town of Nagy-Kikinda near the Austro-Hungarian border, to Austrian parents. His father was a railway official and he spent his childhood in various small villages along the railway line between Vienna and Hungary. He graduated from the highschool in Vienna and also studied at the Higher Graphical Federal Education and Research Institute, a vocational school there (Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr und Versuchsanstalt)
As a young man, he served as an officer in the Austrian Army during WWI from 1916-18 on the Russian and Italian fronts. After the war he attended medical school at the University of Vienna for several years beginning in 1918, and seven semesters later, he passed his first state exam, but eventually decided that he preferred the arts to medicine. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) and by 1922 he had devoted himself to painting and etching, while also working in other artistic printing mediums, batik, illustration, bookbinding and working with leather.
From 1923-28, Figura made numerous art study trips throughout Europe including; Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. His first major success came in 1924, when he won acclaim for his etchings exhibited in Italy and the United States. In 1929, he visited the United States and in 1930, he traveled back to France, Holland and also Switzerland. During this time, Figura maintained studios in both New York City and Vienna, Austria. Throughout the course of his career, he exhibited his paintings and prints in many of the large cities throughout Europe and the United States and many of his etchings and paintings were acquired by museums and galleries, including The Kulturamt, Vienna, Austria; the Landesmuseum of Lower Austria; as well as The Society of Art Lovers, Berlin and Munich.
Select Exhibitions:
1924- Exhibitions in Italy and the United States.
Circa Mid 1920's-1939- All the exhibitions at the Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
1926- "Secession...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Switzerland : View on the Lake - Original lithograph, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES
Switzerland : View on the Lake
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Justified EA (artist proof)
On vellum 36 x 56 cm (c. 14 x 22 in)
Very good condition
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$178 Sale Price
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New York (Golden Hour)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag, edition 10 of 25 with 5 APs.
In this new series of paintings, Moore explores themes of wanderlust and memory. From glowing neon signa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Giclée
Donald Baechler Blue Muffin 1999 (Donald Baechler prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Donald Baechler, Blue Muffin, 1999:
A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting.
Medium: Soft-ground etching and a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen
A View of Scarborough, England: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After J. M. W. Turner
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "Scarborough" by W. Chapman is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published in London by ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Umbrellas (Yellow) (FRAMED - BLACK OR WHITE - YOU CHOOSE - FREE US SHIPPING)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christo
The Umbrellas (Yellow) (FRAMED - either black or white frame - you choose)
Lithoserigraph
Year: 1991
Size: 14.6 × 16.4 on 19.1 × 19.9 inches
Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 inches
...
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), Robert Mangold
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Mangold (1937)
Title: Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), from Multiple Panel Paintings suite
Year: 1992
Edition: 300, plus proofs
...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$3,676 Sale Price
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Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath helicopters overhead. The title of the work refers ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Braque, Composition, Braque Espaces, 13 Dessins, Lavis, Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,996 Sale Price
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Ray of Light, Ho Chi Minh City - Color Photography of Trees
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Ray of Light', part of Richard Heeps Vietnam series 'This is Not America', this unusual photograph of trees has a spiritual quality.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 605), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 182. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Wahini #2 - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Wahini #2 - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Orchids: Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Laelia Anceps" by J. Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Laelia Anceps Williamsii" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Album...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Georges Braque, Composition, L'édition de tête (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré a George...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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Landscape - Vintage Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a superb original offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi.
Also the signature in pencil by the artist is perfectly reproduced.
From the vo...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Campagne Grecque (Greek Country) by Charles Lapicque - signed color lithograph
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful original lithograph depicting a Greek landscape by Charles Lapicque was printed in Paris at the Atelier Mourlot in 1964. The artist produced some of his first landscap...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
LES QUATRE SAISONS DE L'AMOUR 4 Signed Lithographs Clamshell Case, Paris Lovers
Located in Union City, NJ
LES QUATRE SAISONS DE L'AMOUR is a very distinctive boxed set of 4 signed original hand drawn limited edition lithographs in a red clamshell box by ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nocturne VII (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
20% Off
St Paul's Survives, Night Blitz in London - 1940
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
Flames around St Paul's, Night Blitz in London - 1940
Lithograph
42 x 54 cm
This striking lithograph depicts St Paul's Cathedral in London peaking through the swathes of...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shepard Fairey Lifeguard Not on Duty Screenprint Contemporary Street Art Summer
Located in Draper, UT
Manufacturer:
Obey Giant
Edition Details:
Year: 2014
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Released: 08/12/14
Run: 98/450
Technique: Screen Print
Size: 18 X 24
Markings: Signed & Numbere...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Cistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy. Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cappella Sistina in Vaticano. Un giorno di Festa'
Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Gr...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Poems, Willem de Kooning
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier Kitakata à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main paper, as issued. Paper Size: 23.5 x 19 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Caunga Cucumber Plant: A 17th Century Botanical Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Caunga" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 6 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the caunga plant, also known as Inca cucumber or horned squash, which is a climbing vine that produces edible, cucumber-like fruits. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants.
The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked paper, watermarked with an elaborate crown design. The sheet measures 15.25" high by 18.88" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There is a small dark spot on the left which appears to represent a paper inclusion which occurred when the hand-made paper was produced. The print is otherwise in excellent condition.
There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,636 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Éloge de André Lhote
By André Lhote
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de André Lhote, 1960. P...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
44% Off
Orchids" Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Lycaste Harrisoniae" by Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Bermuda: An Early 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Henricus Hondius
By Henricus Hondius
Located in Alamo, CA
This attractive and interesting map of Bermuda by Henricus Hondius in 1633 is entitled "Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas". It is based on a ...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Butterfly suite : Roussillon - Heliogravure - 1969 (Field #69-2 E)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Butterfly suite : Roussillon, 1969
Heliogravure / Photogravure after an original design by Dali
Blind stamp signature bottom right
Numbered / 1700 copies
Printed in Draeger workshop
On vellum 53,5 x 37 cm (c. 21 x 15 in)
References :
- Catalog raisonné Field 69-2 E
- Catalog raisonné Michler & Lopsinger 1227
- Catalog raisonné Sahli 130
Information : This artwork was edited by J...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Orchids" Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Lycaste Skinneri" by Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The C
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The Capitol and the Steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli)
Etching, 1775
Watermark: Double Circle Fleur de Lys
A lifetime impression with the price etching in the plate
Printed in Rome, before the plates are moved to Paris and the numerous posthumous editions
Reference: Hind 38 ii/IV
Robison 38 ii/V with the price
Wilton Ely 190
Condition: A fine Roman...
Category
1770s Baroque Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
London Bridge.
Located in Storrs, CT
London Bridge, London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 9 7/8 x 17 1/4). Mat line; otherwise fine condition. A rich impression with dryp...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
22% Off
Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" c.1980 is an original lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Two Nudes (Orozco 95), Picasso (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 18.75 x 12.625 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue raisonné reference: Or...
Category
1940s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,996 Sale Price
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Views of London: A Pair of Framed 19th Century Engravings by Havell and Allom
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a pair of framed hand-colored prints, both utilizing engraving and etching techniques, depicting two London architectural landmarks: "The National Gallery, Charing Cross" and "Covent Garden Market" from the Stationers' Almanac, published in London by J. Robins & Sons in the early 19th century. Both of these prints show vibrant London street scenes with markets, carriages, common people as well as the wealthy in the foreground of "Covent Garden Market" and wealthy well dressed people, carriages, a begger, street merchants, as well as uniformed military on horseback in the foreground of "The National Gallery". "The National Gallery, Charing Cross" was created by James Sands from a painting by Thomas Allom (1804-1872), published in 1836. "Covent Garden Market" was created by Frederick James Havell (1801–1840/41) after a painting by William Havell...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Ince's Paradise Flycatcher Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Muscipeta Incei" ( (Ince's Paradise Flycatcher)) by John Gould, which is plate 19 from his monograph "The Birds of Great Brita...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rising Tide
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. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, at Séez /// John Sell Cotman Architectural Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Sell Cotman (English, 1782-1842)
Title: "Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, at Séez (West Front)" (Vol. 2, Plate 99)
Portfolio: Architectural Antiquities of Normandy
Year: ...
Category
1820s Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
A Throw of the Dice (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 138, 1963. Published by Aim...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Horizon II, American Realist Etching with Aquatint by John McNulty
By John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Horizon II, Year: 1984, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 200, Size: 19 in. x 22 in. (48.26 cm x 55.88...
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Alhambra XII
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled “Alhambra XII” in 1963. This piece is signed titled, and dated in pencil. The edition is 12, and paper size is 18 x 24 inches. “...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
George Walter Chandler (1866-1928) - Etching, Via Monte San Remo, Italy
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a street in San Remo, Italy in fine detail. In the foreground a woman stands with on the steps collecting water from a well. The background captures tall Italian buildings...
Category
19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ernst, Composition (Monod 2619; Spies/Leppien A19/C), Dent Prompte (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Dent Prompte, Dix poèmes inédits illustrés par Max Ernst, ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,996 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches, each; 15 x 22 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 2...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Utrillo, Composition, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo, 1956. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), This book was completed and printed on June 5, 1956 on the presses of madame Jean-Gabriel Daragnès for typography and by the Mourlot Frères for lithographs. It was shot on Vidalon blanc. Two hundred numbered copies from 1 to 200, including the first twenty with a suite on vélin paper of the Marais. It has been attached to each copy a simulated fac of the Sonnet d'Utrillo: "Lyric art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Moscow /Moscovia Antique Map, Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun and Hogenberg
Located in Roma, IT
Hand colored Etching from Civitates Orbis Terrarum. One of the first printed views of Moscow, and the first of Braun and Hogenberg,The table shows ...
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
At the Crossroads (color), by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A spectacular view from above of a major cross roads in a town where some large gathering of people or protest is happening. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
A Charming Lithograph of a Carnival by Children's Book Illustrator, Jo Poulson
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming ca. 1935 lithograph of children on a carousel, created by children's book illustrator, Jo Poulson. Artwork size: 10" x 14". Archivally matted to 16" x 20".
In 1904, Josephine Hollingsworth Poulson was born in Lebanon Indiana. In 1926, she graduated from the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and in 1929, she moved to Chicago to become an illustrator of children’s books. She continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, studying with Francis Chapin. In 1942, she had a one-woman show of her watercolors at the Hoosier Art...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Tracks To Home?
By Juan Fuentes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: linocut
Year: 2023
Image Size: 18 x 24 inches
Edition Size: 10
Image of a immigrants Walking along train tracks near the border between Mexico and the United States, moving ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches à la forme savoir paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Dans l'Atelier de Picasso, 1957. Published by Fernan...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$10,396 Sale Price
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Landscape, Modern Drypoint with Embossing by Alena Kučerová
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alena Kucerova, Czech (1935 - ) - Landscape, Year: 1971, Medium: Drypoint with Embossing, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil, Edition: 1/100, Image Size: 10.5 x 15 inches, Siz...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Georges Braque, Les Champs (Maeght N°1045), L'édition de tête (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacre a Pierr...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier:
William W. Peabody
Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA
December 18th, 1864
Aged 18 years
The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds.
13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork
23 x 19 inches, frame
Published before 1864
Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y."
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding.
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
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