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Period: 1870s
La Chasse aux Canards - Etching by Charles Émile Jacque - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Baiser d'Une Mère - Etching by Henri Charles Guérard - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Baiser d'Une Mère is an artwork realized by Henri Charles Guérard in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:24x17 Good conditions. Realized for the...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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L' étang neuf près de Creys - Etching by Adolphe Appian - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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La Répétition - Etching by Edouard Moyse - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Chambre des Députés - Etching by Alfred Cadart - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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La Fontain du Pasturian - Etching by Maurice Matieu - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La Fontaine du Pasturiau is an artwork realized by A.Matieu in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the pu...
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Rue Souk El Selah au Caire - Etching by Edouard Dufeu - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Rue Souk El Selah au Caire is an artwork realized by Edouard Dufeu in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:23x12 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Environs de Rix - Etching by Appian - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Environs de Rix is an artwork realized by A.Appian in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:9x17 and 9x17 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the ini...
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La Champagne - Etching by Charles Jaque - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La Champagne is an artwork realized by Charles Jaque in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher A...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Landscape - Etching - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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 ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Croquis d'Orient - Etching by Charles Longueville - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Site en Norvège - Etching by Carolus-Duran - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Site en Norvège is a black and white etching realized by Carolus-Duran (1837–1917) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 28cmx17.5cm. Very Good condition. Realized by Cadart...
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The Ford - Etching by Adolfo Bignami - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in plate lower left. Stamped title. Published by Lovera. Good condition.
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Près de Fontainebleau - Etching by Paul Huet - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Près de Fontainebleau is a black and white etching realized by Paul Huet (1803 –1869) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 28cmx19.5cm. Very Good condition. Signed on the u...
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Cour de Ferme à Marzy - Etching by Auguste Mathieu - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Cour de Ferme à Marzy is a black and white etching realized by Auguste Mathieu(1807-1863) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 28.5cmx20cm. Very Good condition. Signed in t...
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Old Battersea Bridge View, Chelsea, 1879 - Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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Impressionist 1870s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

The Reaper : Life and Death - Original etching - Ed. Durand Ruel, 1873
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES (after) The Reaper : Life and Death, 1873 Original Etching Engraved by Boilvin under the supervision of PUVIS DE CHAVANNES Printed signature in the plate On laid paper 20,5 x 30 cm (c. 8 x 12 in) INFORMATION : This etchings was edited in 1873 by Galerie Durand Ruel...
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Impressionist 1870s Landscape Prints

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Nihonbashi Bridge - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Scene on the Nihonbashi Bridge is an artwork realized in 1875 by Utagawa Yoshitora. Woodcut print triptych. Signed: Mosai ga. Publisher: Sawamuraya...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

View of Mount Fuji - Woodcut after K. Hokusai - 1878
Located in Roma, IT
View of Mount Fuji is a modern artwork realized after Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849). Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Le Christ au Roseau - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Les Cinq Enfants de Charles 1er - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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The Body of Tee, a Chief, as preferred after Death, in Otaheite (Tahiti)
Located in Paonia, CO
The Body of Tee a chief as preferred after Death in Otaheite (Tahiti) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Capt...
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Realist 1870s Landscape Prints

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Engraving

The Cabin - Original Drypoint by Sir Francis Saymour-Haden - 1877
Located in Roma, IT
The Cabin is an original Modern artwork realized by Sir Francis Saymour-Haden (16 September 1818 – 1 June 1910) in 1877. Beautiful Proof on vélin fort, with stamp "Lugt 1048”. Full ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

St John's College, Oxford (1783), watercolour by Michael Angelo Rooker
Located in London, GB
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 ...
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Realist 1870s Landscape Prints

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Watercolor

Landscape - Original Etching - 1879
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape" is an original drawing in etching, realized by Edwin Edwards. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 18.5 ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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The Heath - La Brughiera - Etching by Adolfo Bignami - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Etching by Adolfo Bignami in the late 19th Century. Printed by Carlo Lovera Very good condition.
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Venice - Original Etching on Paper by Tintoretto (after) - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Venice is a beautiful etching on paper realized after Tintoretto in 1870. Titled on the lower center. In good condition, except for some cutting along the margins and foxing. The a...
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Fontainebleau Forest - Original Etching by L. Beltrami - 1877
Located in Roma, IT
Fontainebleau Forest is an original Modern artwork realized by Luca Beltrami (1854 - 1933) in 1877. Original B/W Etching on ivory cardboard. Mint con...
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Naturalistic 1870s Landscape Prints

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Souvenir d’Eza
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Plate Glass

The Cabin
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful proof on vélin fort, with stamp “Lugt 1048”. Full margins. Ref. Cat. Harrington 170; Schneiderman 163.
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

Horseman - Original Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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The Cabin - Drypoint by Francis Saymour-Haden - 1877
Located in Roma, IT
The Cabin is an original Modern artwork realized by Sir Francis Saymour-Haden (16 September 1818 – 1 June 1910) in 1877. Beautiful Proof on vélin fort, with stamp "Lugt 1048”. Full ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Spring - Original Etching by Telemaco Signorini - 1873
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape and figures. Signed on plate. Image Dimensions : 15x21 cm. Publisher : Editore Lovera Excellent conditions This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, ...
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Realist 1870s Landscape Prints

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La Nouvelle Orléans - Original Woodcut Print After T.A. Weber - 1876
By Theodore Alexander Weber
Located in Roma, IT
La Nouvelle Orléans is a wonderful black and white xilograph on paper, realized in 1876 by an unknown artist, whose signature is not completely readable on lower right corner, after the German artist and marine painter Theodore Alexander Weber (1838-1907). With high meticulousness of sign this original print describes the new port...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Novembre
Located in Roma, IT
Signed the plate with the artist's monogram “TS”lower left. Inscription “C. Lovera imp” lower right. Very rare print from “L'Art in Italia”, 1871.Original Prints. Image Dimensions : ...
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Three-tree Farm
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful proof printed in brown on verge paper, signed by the artist in pencil. Some minor folds on top and bottom of sheet; fold of edition on center of sheet. Full margins. Ex-col...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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UNE JETEE EN ANGLETERRE
Located in Portland, ME
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...
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1870s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

L’Angelus (The Bell Tower)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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...
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French School 1870s Landscape Prints

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Marais de la Canche - Etching by Alexandre Segé - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Marais de la Canche is an artwork realized by A. Segé in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:21x30 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiati...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Puer Expossitus - Etching by Edmond Ulm - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Vue de Longueville - Etching by César DE COCK - 1870s
By César De Cock
Located in Roma, IT
Vue de Longueville is an artwork realized by C.De Cok in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:23x31 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiati...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Intériueur de Ferme - Etching by Léon Jacque - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Intérieur de Ferme is an artwork realized by Léon Jacque in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:16x22 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initi...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Campagne de Rome - Etching by Pontus Cinier - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Campagne de Rome is an artwork realized by Pontus Cinier in the 1870s. Etching. Image size: 23 x 17.  Good condition.  Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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En Écosse - Etching by Otto Weber - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
En Écosse is an artwork realized by Otto Weber in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:19x31 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of t...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Le Bac - Etching by Jules Jacques Veyrassat - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Bac is an artwork realized by J.Veyrassat in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alfred ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Batterie de New-York - Etching by Anatole De Bonsonge - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Batterie de New-York is an artwork realized by Anatole De Bonsonge in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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À Bordeaux - Etching by Maxime Lalanne - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
À Bordeaux is an artwork realized by Maxime Lalanne in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Vue de Monaco - Etching by Paul Borol - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Vue de Monaco is an artwork realized by P. Borol in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher Alf...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Château de Neuvie - Etching by Henri de Gourcy - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Château de Neuvie is an artwork realized by Henri de Gourcy in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the pu...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Environs De Varennes En Argonne - Etching by Alphonse Beaujouint - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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La chasse du Beau Pécopin - Etching by Charles Amédée De Boret - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La chasse du Beau Pécopin is an artwork realized by Charles Amédée De Boret in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initia...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Ruine de la Villa Adrienne - Etching by Joseph-Charles Nigote - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Ruine de la Villa Adrienne is an artwork realized by Joseph-Charles Nigote in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initi...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Nature Morte - Etching by Jules Chervier - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Nature Morte is an artwork realized by Jules Chervier in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publishe...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Femmes de l'Ile de Batz Attendant la Chaloupe de Passage - Etching - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Femmes de l'Île de Batz Attendant la Chaloupe de Passage is an artwork realized in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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19th century color lithograph birds landscape nature grass sky water figure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"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...
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Other Art Style 1870s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Lagoon: Noon
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1830-1903), Lagoon: Noon, etching and drypoint, 1879-1880, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp” on the tab [also signed with the butterfly in the plate lower left]. Reference: Glasgow 209, third state (of 3), Kennedy 216, third state (of 3); Lochnan 231, 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches. A fine impression with very little plate tone, and printed with extraordinary attention to the etching and drypoint details. The printed butterfly, usually only barely visible, is clearly defined in this impression (see detail below). Kennedy mades special note that an impression like this, with the clearly visible butterfly, was in the collection of John H. Wrenn. On a commission from the Fine Arts Society, Whistler created the plates of his Venice series...
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Impressionist 1870s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Un Bal Public - Etching by Edme Penauille - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Un Bal Public is a black and white etching realized by Edme Penauille (1840-1871) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 28.5cmx20cm. Very Good condition. Realized by Cadart ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Etching

En Provence - Etching by Justin Gabriel - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
En Provence is a black and white etching realized by Justin Gabriel (1838-1923) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 31cmx22cm. Very Good condition. Dated in the upper righ...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Porte d'Amsterdam a Harlem - Etching by Charles Cuisin - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Porte d'Amsterdam a Harlem is a black and white etching realized by Charles Cuisin (1832-1900) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 31cmx22cm. Very Good condition. Signed o...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Le Canal St Martin - Etching by Adolphe Martial-Potémont - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Canal St Martin is a black and white etching realized by Adolphe Martial-Potémont (1827-1883) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 30cmx21cm. Very Good condition. Realiz...
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Modern 1870s Landscape Prints

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Etching

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