Ebenezer Challis

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Sidney Street engraving by Challis

1834

Colen Campbell (1676-1729) Althrop Hall in Northamptonshire the Seat of the Rt Honourable The Earl of Sunderland & co. 35x50cm Engraving (1715-1725) from 'Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect...' Althorp Hall - as it is now written, but still pronounced 'Althrop' - is the seat of the Earl Spencer and the location of the grave of Diana, Princess of Wales...

Franciscus de Neve (c.1632-1704) 'Landscape with Shepherdess Playing a Tambourine' and 'Echo & Narcissus' Engravings Both signed in the lower margin: 'Franciscus de Neue In. e fecit' and 'Si Stampano in Roma da Gio: Iacomo de Rossi alla Paca' Each 31.5 x 38.5cm (plate) Franciscus (or Frans) de Neve was a Flemish painter and engraver, born in Antwerp in 1632. His father, also an artist, was called by the same name, resulting in some confusion for art historians. The younger de Neve was working in Rome from 1660-1670, producing paintings for the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili (alongside Pietro da Cortona) and was known for his religious subjects, mythological scenes and landscapes. He was part of a network of Dutch and Flemish artists in the city, who helped to promote and support his career. Many of his works are known only from the engravings which in Rome were produced by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi alla Pace (including these examples). After 1670 he travelled to Augsburg and Munich, then to Austria and Moravia, where he completed numerous commissions for altarpieces. Towards the end of his life he returned to his native Flanders and became Master of the Guild of Saint Luke. De Neve had a reputation as a gifted landscape painter, and these two engravings show his keen interest in the details of the natural world, as well as the influence of Claude Lorrain in the extensive vistas. The painting of ‘Narcissus and Echo...

Samuel & Nathaniel Buck Byland Abbey, Yorkshire Engraving “Byland Abbey is an interesting ruin about five miles from Helmsley. It was a fine specimen of ecclesiastical architecture,...

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"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...

Drypoint etching on watermarked cream wove paper, 5 7/16 x 8 7/16 inches (39 x 215 mm), wide (perhaps full) margins. A very desirable, bright and richly inked impression, with the da...

A luminous first state impression, Hamerton's "Portfolio" edition. Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (135 x 213 mm), wide margins. First state (of 5)...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Orage en Briere, etching and drypoint, 1932, signed in pencil lower left, numbered lower right and annotated “imp” (impressit, printed by the artist...