Ferdinando Ruggieri

Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy. 18th century architectural view engraving

1755

Colour aquatint by John Bluck (active 1791-1819) after Auguste Pugin (1762-1832). Architectural interior with superb original colour. From 'Westminster Abbey', published by Rudolf A...

'East Side of the Chapel of St Paul' Colour aquatint by John Bluck (active 1791-1819) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788-1854). Architectural interior with superb original colour. Fro...

'Waterfall on Fordingdale beck, at the foot of Hawes Water' Aquatint by William Green, 1804 William Green of Ambleside was a Lake District draughtsman...

'Alexandria' A view of the great harbour from a little behind the shoreline. Cornelis de Bruijn was a Dutch artist and traveler. He is best known for his drawings of the ruins of ...

Oskar Bergman (Stockholm 1879–1963 Saltsjöbaden) “Fjärden” (Expansive Archipelago Landscape) Signed "Oskar Bergman" in pencil Drypoint etching image size: 17.5 x 25 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7...

Oskar Bergman (Stockholm 1879–1963 Saltsjöbaden) “Skogskanten” (Winter Landscape with Spruce Trees) signed "Oskar Bergman" in pencil drypoint etching image size: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 ...

"Coastal Ti Tree" Drypoint Etching in Ink on Paper No. 30/100 Detailed etching attributed to Ernest Edwin Abbot (British, 1888-1973). Several trees grow along the coast at the edge of the water at Ti Tree, Australia. In the far distance, a mountain range can be seen on the opposite shore. Titled and numbered "Coastal Ti Tree 30-100" in the left corner. Signed "G. Cope" in the right corner. Presented in a new black mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 11"H x 14"W Paper size: 5.5"H x 10.25"W According to The Centre for Australian Art: Prints + Printmaking, Abbot often produced work under the pseudonym "G. Cope" Ernest Edwin Abbott was born in 1889 and grew up in Bideford United Kingdom, With his younger siblings Violet, Reginald, Olive and his parents Charles and Sarah Abbott, His Farther worked as a upholsterer. Abbott decided in 1911 to migrate to Western Australia on the ship Tainui, Settled in Western Australia he then married his wife Florence Radcliffe Olde in 1913 whom also came to Australia in 1912 from Bideford. They had two sons, Reginald Douglas Abbott and Kenneth John Abbott. They moved to South Australia where he taught art at Stott’s for four years. Later in 1920 the family moved to the suburb of Kew in Melbourne Victoria, where he took a studio in Oxford Chambers at 475 Bourke Street. He also built a studio later at his home in Black Rock. In about 1920 or 1930 he took up dry-point etching, and gave up his city studio to concentrate on printmaking at his home. Abbott made his own engraving tools...

Copperplate engraving hand colored map of Northern America. The figures of the mythical figure along the right side and the animals were added in later after the original printing. T...