1870s Landscape Prints

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Making Hay", was published in Harper's Weekly in the July 6, 1872 edition. It depicts a two men hand cutting high grass on a hill. The man in the foreground is looking at a young boy and a girl (presumably his children), who are sitting on the ground with a picnic basket. This beautiful Homer woodcut engraving is presented in a brown wood frame and a light beige fabric mat with a black inner mat. The print is in excellent condition. There are two other Homer woodcut engravings in identical frames and mats that are listed on 1stdibs. See LU117326148332 and LU117326148272. These would make a wonderful display grouping. A discount is available for the purchase of two or all three of these prints. This Winslow Homer engraving...

This framed 19th century map of the Louisiana territory was published in "Gray's Atlas of the United States with General Maps of the World, accompanied by Descriptions Geographical, Historical, Scientific and Statistica" published in 1873 in Philadelphia by O.W. Gray and Son and Stedman, Brown and Lyon. It is a highly detailed map of Louisiana...

JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER (American 1834-1903 London) FULHAM 1879 (K 182 ii/ii; Glasgow 181 iii/iv?) Etching 5 1/8 x 8, sheet, 9 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. In very good condition save for hint o...

Jean Francois MILLET (after) The Angelus, 1873 Original Etching Engraved by Martinez under the supervision of PUVIS DE CHAVANNES Printed signature in the ...

"Illustrations of the Book of Job" Engraving "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven...And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power" Engraving, third printing...

Paysage d'Italie is an artwork realized by Corot in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alfre...

Whistler, James A. M. NOCTURNE: PALACES. Glascow 200, Kennedy 202. Etching and drypoint with platetone, 1879-80. From the Second Venice Set. Signed on the tab with the butterfly in pencil. Printed in sepia on laid paper with no visible watermark. Trimmed just outside the platemark, leaving the tab. In excellent condition. As with all of the Whistler Nocturnes, each impressions of this print is different, dependng on how Whistler wiped and manipulated the platetone. 11 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (plate and sheet, plus the tab). Framed to 20 x 16 inches. Provenance: Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. with his collection stamp (Lugt 1429) verso; Kennedy Galleries, with its inventory number a65609 in pencil verso, and with another inscription, "FWCX" in pencil, verso. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, 1831-1920, was a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, a powerful Boston businessman, and an Ambassador to France. In 1875 he became the manager of the largest textile mill in America, the Amoskeag Mill in Manchester New Hampshire, and had major financial interests in the textile, banking, railroad, publishing and electrical industries. In 1880 he became the President of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. He was one of the founders of the United Fruit Company...

"Fulham A.K.A. Chelsea" is an original etching by James Abbott MacNeill Whistler. The artist signed the piece in the plate with his butterfly monogram in the lower right. IT was publ...

Alfred SISLEY (after) The Angelus, 1873 Original Etching Engraved by Flameng under the supervision of SISLEY Printed signature in the plate On laid paper...

Horseman is an original etching artwork on paper realized in 1875 by Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian (French, Paris 1833– 1887). Signed on the plate on the lower of t...

Felix Buhot (1847-1898), L’Hiver a Paris ou La Neige a Paris, 1879, etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette. [signed and dated in the plate Felix Buhot Par...

Scene on the Nihonbashi Bridge is an artwork realized in 1875 by Utagawa Yoshitora. Woodcut print triptych. Signed: Mosai ga. Publisher: Sawamuraya...

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) Limehouse, from Notes lithotint, on cream Japan paper mounted to plate paper (as issued), 1878, Spink, Stratis & Tedesch 7, second state (of three)...

Draham Harbour is an artwork realized by William Ridley in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publish...

James Whistler (1834-1903), The Bridge, Santa Marta, 1879-80, etching with drypoint, printed in sepia on fine laid paper. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp on the tab (also with an exceedingly light butterfly lower right in the plate). Kennedy 204, probably eighth (final) state; Glasgow 201, probably state 9 (of 9) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011), Lochnan 199. Trimmed to the platemark by the artist, h: 11.8 x w: 7.9 in / h: 30 x w: 20.1 cm. A fine impression, printed with subtle tone. The bridge theme occurs repeatedly in Whistler’s vistas. It is also the main focus of more than one of the Venetian prints. While some bridges are seen from below, from where one would see it if approaching in a gondola (for example Ponte del Piovan, Kennedy 209), The Bridge depicts the scene from a high perspective, opening up the view into the far distance. The small boat approaching the arch in the foreground is again, as in the earlier Thames prints, a stock motif that is probably ultimately derived from the Japanese woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige. The bridge here is the Ponte de le Terese over the Rio de l’Arzere in the Santa Marta quarter. The early biography of Whistler by Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell is essential for its “immense quantity of information” but also notorious for “the inherent hyperbole and misinformation” (Eric Denker, Annotated Bibliography, in Fine, p. 184). Still, it is worth quoting from the Pennels’ appraisal of The Bridge: “Simplicity of expression has never been carried further. Probably the finest plate, in its simplicity and directness, is The Bridge. Whistler now obtained the quality of richness by suggesting detail, and also by printing. In The Traghetto...

"Shooting on the Prairie" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a hunter shooting at fowl in an open field. 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" art 20 1/4" x 23 3/4" frame 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. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

Old Battersea Bridge View, Chelsea, 1879 - Etching on Paper Black and white 1897 etching titled "Old Battersea Bridge View" by Charles John Watson (British, 1846-1947). View at Chelsea from the bank of the Thames, with boats moored in foreground at left, Old Battersea Bridge in background, and Chelsea Old Church beyond. Signed and dated "Charles J Watson...

James Whistler (1830-1903), Battersea Morn (also Battersea Dawn), drypoint, 1875, Kennedy 155, signed in pencil with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Kennedy 155, first state (of ...

Cliché-verre. Magnificent proof of ancient edition, numbered in red pencil on verso, and whose subject wasn’t included in the later reprints by Bouasse-Lebel and Le Garrec. Signed on...

Bords du Sornin is an artwork realized by A.Charnay in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:19x29 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative...

En Italie is an artwork realized by Giberto Borroméo in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher...

La Chasse aux Canards is a black and white etching realized by Charles Émile Jacque (French, 1813–1894) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 30.5cmx16cm. Very Good condition...

Michael Angelo Rooker (1746–1801) St John's College, Oxford Watercolour 25 x 40 cm Depicting a lovely view over the gardens of St John's College, Oxford, this watercolour may have ...

Jean Baptiste Camille COROT (after) After the Bath, 1873 Original Etching Engraved by Boilevin under the supervision of COROT Printed sig...

La Répétition is an artwork realized by Edouard Moyse in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:19x29 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiati...

Le Val Clémence is an artwork realized by T.Abraham in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher ...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Greyhounds D France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inc...

L' étang neuf près de Creys is a black and white etching realized by Adolphe Appian (1818 –1898) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 26.5cmx14cm. Very Good condition. Sign...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Bulldog and Frog France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portr...

Une Mare is an artwork realized by Appian in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alfred Cadar...

Harfleur is an artwork realized by A. Brunet Debaines in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publishe...

Buhot, Felix (French, 1847-1898). UNE JETEE EN ANGLETERRE. B & G 132, State two of eight. Etching with drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1879. Signed in pencil, and with the red owl...

Un Sentier is an artwork realized by Tancrède Abraham in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:34x23 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiati...

Vue du Port au Chemin de Fer à Honfleur is an artwork realized by Jongkind in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initi...

"Un Grain à Trouville" (Squall at Trouville) from L'Illustration Nouvelle Dramatic etching of an approaching storm by Félix Hilaire Buhot (French,...

Souvenir du Jura is an artwork realized by X.Dananche in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher ...

Rose Trémière is an artwork realized by Alfred Taiée in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher...

A Nohant-Vico is an artwork realized by Joseph François Villevieille in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of...

Signed in plate lower left. Stamped title. Published by Lovera. Good condition.

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Saint Bernard France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portrait...

Vue Prise du Pont St Michel is an artwork realized by Maxime Lalanne in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:22x29 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born ...

Les Demoiselles de Village is an artwork realized by Gustave Courbet in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative o...

Landscape is an original artwork realized by Rodolphe Piguet (1840-1915) in 1875. Original etching. The work is contained in a white passepartout. Hand-signed and dated by the art...

Paysage is an artwork realized by Léo Drouyn in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alfred C...

Ministere de la Marine is an artwork realized by Charles Meryon in the 1870s. Etching. Image size: 17x14 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on th...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Newfoundland France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portraits...

L’Angelus (The Bell Tower) etching & drypoint, c. 1876 Signed in the plate with the artist's initials (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches Sheet s...

Le Matin is an artwork realized by E. Delatre in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:16x25 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of th...

Rue Du Canal à Figeac is an artwork realized by E.Mazas in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publis...

Ancien Boulevard Extérieur de Paris is an artwork realized by Adolphe Martial-Potémon in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:20x28. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aq...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste." Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...

La Jouane is an artwork realized by Tancrède Abraham in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "The Morning Walk, Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue", was published in Harper's Weekly in the...

Puer Expossitus is an artwork realized by E. Ulm in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:31x23 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of...

Carrefour des Gorges d'Apremont is an artwork realized by T. Chauvel in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative ...

Claude MONET (after) Windmills in Holland, 1873 Original Etching Engraved by Gaucherel under the supervision of Monet Printed signature in the plate (with misspelled signature Monnet) On laid paper 20,5 x 30 cm (c. 8 x 12 in) INFORMATION : This etchings was edited in 1873 by Galerie Durand Ruel...

Chambre des Députés is an artwork realized by Alfred Cadart in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:19x25 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the in...

Environs De Varennes En Argonne  is an artwork realized by Alphonse Beaujouint in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the ini...

Landscape is an artwork realized in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alfred Cadart, the ...

Croquis d'Orient is a black and white etching realized by Charles Longueville (1829-1899) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 29cmx20cm. Very Good condition. Realized by C...