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Period: 1880s
"Twilight in Arizona" original etching
By Thomas Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Klackner 27. This is a rich, dark impression on wove paper, printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and publ...
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1880s Landscape Prints
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Etching
"A Burro Train, New Mexico" original etching
By Peter Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: White 1. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for The American Art Review. The plate measures 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches; the sh...
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1880s Landscape Prints
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Etching
19th C. Currier & Ives lithograph "Celebrated Trotting Team Edward & Swiveller"
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century Currier and Ives hand-colored lithograph entitled "The Celebrated Trotting Team Edward and Swiveller, Owned by Frank Work Esq. N.Y.: Winning their ma...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Mt Otawa Moon - Bright God Tamura
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mount Otawa Moon: Bright God Tamura" - Woodblock on Paper by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
From the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon"
This piece depicts the general Sakanoe no Tamura...
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Edo 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
View of the Island of San Mauro - Lithograph by Giuseppe Ruo- 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored, realized by Giuseppe Ruo in 1880s.
Good condition.
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mending the Tears
Located in New York, NY
Winslow Homer created this etching entitled “MENDING THE TEARS” in 1888. This is a lifetime impression signed by Homer and printed by the famous New York etcher George W. H. Ritchie.
This piece is signed in pencil “Winslow Homer, N.A.” in the lower left above the etched remarque of an anchor. Etched above the image (top left) is “Copyright, 1888 by Winslow Homer N.Y.” and (top right) “G. W. H. Ritchie Imp.” Also etched in the plate (lower right) “Winslow Homer Sc.” ). The printed image size 15.25 x 21.5" (38.8 x 54.5 cm) plus margins – printed on Japan paper. This item is in very good condition and framed in 2.25 inch scooped molding finished in gold leaf with a rag stock bevel (mat edge) wrapped in metal leaf and rag stock top mat wrapped in silk. Glazed in TruVue Museum Glass.
“Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's great artists of the 19th century and the sea...
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American Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Fallen Rider - Etching by Max Klinger - 1881
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Fallen Rider is a modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881.
The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroef...
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Symbolist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Opus IV, Simplicius in der Waldeinode - Etching by Max Klinger - 1881
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Opus IV, Simplicius in der Waldeinode (Simplicius in the Wilderness) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881.
...
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Symbolist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
“Tending the Sheep”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original hand colored lithograph using gouache and watercolor. Scene in Surrey, England. Signedxwith monogram in plate lower left, Myles Birket Foster. Published by M. H. Long. Condition is very good. In original 2 inch wide birdseye maple antique frame with thick museum mat with gold innner edge. Overall 22 by 26 inches.
Biography
Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster.
Life and work
Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons — a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the notable wood engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News.
On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack. He also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow’s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (Later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades.
Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. In 1863 he moved to Witley, near Godalming in Surrey where he had a house ("The Hill") built. Being friendly with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, he had the house decorated and furnished in contemporary style, with tiles and paintings by Burne-Jones and Morris' firm, Morris and Company. The same year he published a volume of "English Landscapes," with text by Tom Taylor...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Three Engravings Depicting Sailing Yachts Competing in 1885 America's Cup Trials
Located in Alamo, CA
Three woodcut engravings produced in 1885 to commemorate the sailing yacht trials competition to determine the team to represent the United States in the America's Cup races off the New Jersey coast in that same year.
These three beautiful woodcut engravings are part of a group of six equally attractive prints, all framed identically in gold scrolled wood frames with pleasing light grey French mats, each with a medium grey band. Each frame measures 16.13" x 17.25" x 0.5". See Item Reference #LU117325094852 to view the other three prints in this series. These prints may be purchased individually for $1,075/each, as a set of three for $2,875/3 or as a set of six for $5,575/6.
Three American racing yachts, the Puritan, the Priscilla and the Bedouin, participating in the 1885 America’s Cup trials off the coast of New Jersey are shown in their qualifying races. The Puritan, owned by several members of the Eastern Yacht Club...
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Other Art Style 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Egypt - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egypt is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt between 1...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Enshoku Sanju-roku Kasen" (Thirty-six Enchanting Flowers) Woodblock on paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Enshoku Sanju-roku Kasen" (Thirty-six Enchanting Flowers) Woodblock on paper
Elegant woodblock print by Toyohara Kunuchika (Japanese, 1835-1900). Three women are in talking with each other inside, while a man waits outside holding a bag of some kind. The colors in this piece are rich and saturated, primarily blues, greens, and purple.
Mat size: 16"H x 20"W
Paper size: 14.75"H x 9.88"W
Born in 1835, Toyohara Kunichika grew up in the Kyobashi district of Edo in the midst of merchants and artisans. In 1848, at age 13, he was accepted as an apprentice into the studio of Utagawa Kunisada I...
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Edo 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Suk - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Suk is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt between 18...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La rentrée du Berger by Camille Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
La rentrée du Berger by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Etching
7.6 x 10.9 cm (3 x 4 ¹/₄ inches)
Stamped with initials C.P. lower left, and numbered 13/18 lower right
This work was crea...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Sphinx of Giza - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Sphinx of Giza is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt ...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Egyptian Ruins - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Egyptian ruins is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner.
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip t...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figure along Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Figure along Nile is an modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is from the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Eg...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
The Nile is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt betwe...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Egyptians Along the Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian on camel is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner.
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egy...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pug, Greyhound, Terrier
Located in Columbia, MO
Pug, Greyhound, Terrier
1883-84
Chromolithograph
8.5 x 11 inches
Category
Naturalistic 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Egyptian Ruins - Lithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian Ruins is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner.
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt b...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Egyptian Barber - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian barber is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Food - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Food is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt between 18...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Temple on the Nilo - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Temple on the Nilo is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Eg...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea - 19th Century British Etching by Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA
(1847-1926)
The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
Etching, unsigned, with the artist’s tab, signed in the plate, trimmed to th...
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Realist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
SOLITUDE
By Mary Nimmo Moran
Located in Portland, ME
Moran, Mary Nimmo (American 1842-1899). SOLITUDE. Etching, 1880. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower right. 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches, plus margins. Framed to 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. ...
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1880s Landscape Prints
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Etching
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
L’île Lacroix, à Rouen
Located in New York, NY
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), L’île Lacroix, à Rouen, etching, aquatint, maniere grise, drypoint, burnishing, c. 1887. Signed and numbered (No. 1) in pencil lower left, annotated 1...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Interior of the Temple - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of the Temple is a modern artwork realized d'aprés Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip ...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Along the Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Along the Nile is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner
Mixed colored Chromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt...
Category
Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fallen Rider - Etching by Max Klinger - 1881
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Fallen Rider is a modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881.
The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroef...
Category
Symbolist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Bridge, Amsterdam
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Bridge, Amsterdam, etching, 1889, printed in brown ink on thin laid paper, signed with the butterfly on the tab and annotated “imp”, also signed with the butterfly on the verso and numbered 11. References: Kennedy 409, Glasgow 447, fifth state (of 5). In very good condition (slight nicks at edges), trimmed by the artist on the plate mark apart from the tab, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.
Provenance:
Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 1989, lot 302
Samuel Josefowitz, Pully, Switzerland
A very fine, shimmering impression of this great rarity.
This impression is included in the Glasgow inventory, ID number K4090301; only about 11 lifetime impressions in all states are known (three were also printed posthumously by Nathaniel Sparks...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Gate, Chelsea
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Gate, Chelsea; etching and drypoint, 1889-1890, signed on the tab and inscribed imp [also signed in the plate lowere right]. Reference: Hausberg 33, fourth state (of 4), from the total printing of about 43 impressions. In excellent condition, trimmed by the artist all around on the plate mark except for the tab, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, printed on a light cream wove paper with plate tone (wiped to brighten the gate and doorway area) and substantial burr in the drypoint work.
According to Hausberg, “The gate and house behind it still stand today at No. 4 Cheyne Walk...
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Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Water Mill
Located in Storrs, CT
Water Mill (after the drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851). 1885. Mezzotint. Hardie 3.ii. With the publication line. 7 x 10 1/8 (sheet 12 1/4 x 16 5/8...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
"Church of San Miguel, Santa Fe, New Mexico" original etching
By Peter Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 x 6 3...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Fujieda Station - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Fujieda Station is a modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in the Late 19th Century.
Original Woodcut Print Oban Yoko...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
SAN BIAGIO
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. SAN BIAGIO. Etching and Drypoint, 1880. Glascow 237, K.197; M.194; W.163. State 8 of 17. With the printed butterfly at left, and with the butterfly signature in...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Plan de la Nouvelle Orléans - Original Lithograph - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 9.3 x 16 cm.
Plan de la Nouvelle Orléans is an interesting black and white lithograph on paper, realized in 1880 by an anonymous artist.
Original Title: Plan de l...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Scene in the Campagna
Located in Storrs, CT
Scene in the Campagna, also known as Woman at a Tank and Hindu Ablutions. (after the drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851.) 1886. Hardie 4.ii. Mezzotint. 8 1/2 x 11 3/8 (sheet 1...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
19th century etching black and white seascape print boats water buildings signed
By Thomas Moran
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This black and white etching by American painter and print maker of the Hudson River School in New York: Thomas Moran, is a rare Klackner #53 of the catalogue raisonné, depicting "The Harbor of Vera...
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Hudson River School 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Parchment Paper, Etching
"Noonday Rest" original etching
By Peter Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. A nice impression on cream laid paper, published for the American Art Review in 1880; the American Art Review was a lavishly produced revue featuring origin...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
“Flower Picking”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original hand colored lithograph using gouache and watercolor. Scene in Surrey, England. Signedxwith monogram in plate lower left, Myles Birket Foster. Published by M. H. Long. Condition is very good. In original 2 inch wide birdseye maple antique frame with thick museum mat with gold innner edge. Overall 22 by 26 inches.
Biography
Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster.
Life and work
Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons — a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the notable wood engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News.
On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack. He also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow’s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (Later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades.
Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. In 1863 he moved to Witley, near Godalming in Surrey where he had a house ("The Hill") built. Being friendly with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, he had the house decorated and furnished in contemporary style, with tiles and paintings by Burne-Jones and Morris' firm, Morris and Company. The same year he published a volume of "English Landscapes," with text by Tom Taylor...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
"A Game of Lacrosse": A Hand-colored 19th Century Woodcut Engraving by Hall
Located in Alamo, CA
A colorful and attractive hand-colored 19th century woodcut engraving entitled "A Game of Lacrosse" after a drawing by W. H. Hall. It was published in New York in Harper's Weekly on May 10, 1884. It depicts a scene from an intense lacrosse game.
This hand-colored woodcut engraving is presented in a red mat that measures 16" high x 20.63" wide. The sheet measures 10.63" high x 15.88" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. The print is in excellent condition.
Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America, possibly originating as far back as the 1400's. The sport was first invented by Native Americans, who originally played it as a means to toughen braves for war or to settle tribal disputes. It was played by between 100 and 1,000 participants at a time. There were no strict boundaries and the game could cover miles and take days to complete. It was very violent with many injuries, which were sometimes fatal. The game was unknown to whites until the 17th century when a Jesuit priest observed Heron Indians playing it. He thought the stick and netting resembled the "crosier" carried by bishops during religious ceremonies, This led to the name "la crosse".
A Canadian dentist standardized the rules of the game in 1867 and the 1st college team was created at New York University in 1877. The game gained national attention and popularity in 1956 when the Hall-of-Fame football player Jim Brown...
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Interieur d'Ecurie a Samois" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in London in 1880 for P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Signed in the plate.
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1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Gibbon Falls, Yellow-Stone National Park
Located in Paonia, CO
Gibbon Falls, Yellow-Stone National Park is a chromolithograph from c.1880 showing two fisherman at the base of Gibbon Falls. This chromolithograph is a dramatic view of the powerful Gibbon waterfall that cascades 84 feet into a small, clear pool. The setting is quintessential Yellowstone, with scrubby pine trees and rocky cliffs. The inscription on the bottom left corner below the image says Scenery From Nature on the Northern Pacific R.R. Established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872 Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is widely held to be the first national park in the world. Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years. The Northern Pacific Railroad...
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Naturalistic 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Amor, Tod und Jenseits - Etching by M. Klinger - 1881
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Amor, Tod und Jenseits, (Cupid, death and afterlife) is an original etching and aquatint on paper Chine collé, realized by Max Klinger in 1881, plate XII from “Intermezzi” Opus IV,...
Category
Symbolist 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$1,324 Sale Price
30% 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
Naturalistic 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
THE LITTLE COURT - CLOTH FAIR
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. THE LITTLE COURT CLOTH FAIR. Spink 22. Lithograph, 1887. A lifetime impression, one of 12 printed by Way and signed in pencil with the Butterfly.
Printed on Ivory colored wove paper without watermark. The sheet 11 9/16 x 6 inches. In very good condition with slight discoloration from the mat in the areas outside the mat window. Provenance: Collection of Otto Gerstenberg (see below) with his collectors stamp, Lugt 2785, the Secretary Montag's "M" and the inventory numbers 61248 KO5182 all on the verso; Horizon Gallery, Rockport, MA, with its label and annotations on the frame backing. Framed. Very rare.
The following are translations from the entry on Gerstenberg in Lugt:
Lugt 1921:
O. GERSTENBERG (born 1848), director of the Insurance Company "Victoria", lives in Berlin. Old and modern prints.
Otto Gerstenberg, born in Pyritz, studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin. After having been employed at the Prussian Statistical Office, in 1873 he entered the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin as a mathematician-calculator, and became its director in 1888. He developed it in the following years and brought it up. to its present importance. Around 1900 he began to collect prints of which he now has a very large cabinet; as elders especially Schongauer, Dürer and Rembrandt, then Lucas de Leyde, Hirschvogel, van Dijck, Ostade and the French portrait painters. As modern it is necessary to point out, among the Germans »Greiner, Klinger, Leibl, Liebermann, Menzel, Stauffer-Bern; among the French, Corot, Daumier, Degas, Forain, Lepère, Manet, Meryon, Toulouse-Lautrec; among the English, Bone, Dodd, Goff, Haden, Strang; then an important work by Whistler and Goya and leaves by Rops and Zorn. Also has beautiful paintings.
Lugt 1956:
During the 1914-1918 war, the collectort had his collection transported to Switzerland and, when the war was over, he decided, quite reluctantly, to sell it. In the spring of 1922 the sale was concluded in Zurich with the merchants Gust. Mayer, of Colnaghi & C ° of London, and Mr. A. MacDonald, then a partner of Harlow & C ° of New York, who bought the set at a price corresponding roughly to the total prices paid by Gerstenberg. This was a large sum, because he had acquired several of his finest pieces in the big sales between 1900 and 1914 against the big enthusiasts of the time such as Morgan, Gutmann, Rothschild etc. It was Gaiser, of the firm H. G. Gutekunst in Stuttgart, who had generally carried out his orders in the sales. MacDonald believed he had a buyer for the set in America, but when the collection arrived there those hopes were dashed by a change in economic conditions. He then sold the parts separately.
We will get an idea of the importance of this collection by the following enumeration of the most beautiful pieces: among the Dürer, the Adam and Eve (from the Buccleuch and Hubert collections), the Saint-Eustache, the Mélancolie (from the collection Behaim, Dumesnil and Scholtz), the Knight of Death (from the Barnard and Hubert collections) and the Life of the Virgin series (from the St. Aubin collection); Dürer's work was almost complete. Quite remarkable was the Rembrandts' series, in which we note the Piece aux cent florins, sur Japon (collection Weber and Hubert), the Three Crosses, 1st state and 2nd state (collection Artaria and Hubert), the Little Tomb ( coll. John Wilson) and another proof on Japan, Death of the Virgin in Irstate (Josi coll.), St. Jerome, B. 103, unstead (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hawkins coll.), the St. François (coll. Theobald); the series of portraits by Rembrandt was superb: Rembrandt himself drawing, B. 22, Ir état (from the Worlidge, Brit. Mus., Dighton and Theobald collections) and the same in the second state on Japan (Morrison collection), all the states of Clement de Jonghe, Jan Asselijn, Irtat (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hubert coll.), old Haaring, 2nd state (same sources) and the young, 2nd state in Japan (Brodhurst and Lanna collection) , the Lutma in 1st state on japan (Josi, Aylesford, Baccleuch and Hubert collection) and a superb 2nd state (from the Firmin-Didot and Hubert collections), the Six in 3rd state (Ploos van Amstel collection); in landscapes: the three Trees (coll. Theobald), the three Chaumières (coll. Morgan and Lesecq des Tournelles), the Landscape with the tower, Ir état (coll. Aylesford, Holford and Hubert), the Campagne du peseur d ' gold, on Japan (Barnard, Holford and Theobald collection) and a State of Landscape with the drinking cow, on Japan (Theobald collection). Then a series of 51 Schongauer, including several of the first order, 8 of Hirschvogel, the portraits by van Dijck himself in first states (except D. 10 and 15, the most beautiful of the collection Theobald), beautiful series by Claude and van Ostade.
The purchase included neither the important modern prints that Gerstenberg owned, nor his beautiful prints by Goya, nor a few drawings by the latter and Rembrandt. Gerstenberg was an enthusiastic collector who passionately loved his collection. When in 1922 the buyers announced their decision to acquire his old prints at the agreed price, he could not contain his tears. He later consoled himself by developing his series of watercolors and drawings of the French school of the nineteenth century, and he managed to own a magnificent set of Delacroix, Daumier, Degas, Monet and, in general, the Impressionists. . We do not know, at the present time, what happened to this part of his collection, but it is feared that part of it was lost or destroyed in the offices of the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin or in its property in Silesia during the Russian invasion in 1945. The Toulouse-Lautrec which had been evacuated to Denmark were sold out of court after the war from 1939 to 1945. Gertstenberg died ,very old in 1935.
The mark reproduced by us in L.2785 has rarely been used, but the origin of the prints is more easily recognized by the initial M, followed by a number (see L.1840c...
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1880s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Jack Russell Terriers by Alexander Pope
By Alexander Pope
Located in Paonia, CO
An original chromolithograph from the Celebrated Dogs of America by Alexander Pope Jr. and published by S.E. Casino, Boston,1882. This compositio...
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Other Art Style 1880s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
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...
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Naturalistic 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cowdray Castle (with Geese)
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful proof on vergé crème, signed by the artist in pencil.
Full margins. Ex-coll. H.H. Benedict (Lugt 1298).
Ref. Cat. Harrington 221; Schneiderman 208.
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
La Mare aux Peupliers - Original Etching by James Ensor - 1889
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching realized by James Ensor in 1889.
Hand signed and dated. Good conditions, small stain lower right.
Image Dimensions : 15 x 23 cm
References: Delteil, Taevernier 74.
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
El Santuario de Chimayó, large lithograph, signed, numbered 1/40 renowned artist
Located in New York, NY
GREGORY AMENOFF
El Santuario de Chimayó, 1986
Lithograph in Colors on wove paper
37 × 38 inches
Edition 1/40
Hand Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil 1 from the edition of ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
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...
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Naturalistic 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Egyptians Along the Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptians along the Nile is a modern artwork realized d'après Karl Werner.
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a tri...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lido (Venice)
By Otto Henry Bacher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lido (Venice)
Etching on chine collee, 1880
Part of the artist's "Venice Set"
Signed upper right in plate :Otto H Bacher" (see photo)
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 2002 recto lower right beneath image. (see photo)
Created October 20, 1880
Reference: Andrew Venice No. 29
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909)
Otto Henry Bacher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent. He first studied art at the age of sixteen with local genre trompe l'oeil still-life artist, DeScott Evans. Although he studied with Evans for less than one year, Bacher's early work, comprised mainly of still lifes, betrays Evans's influence. After a short period in Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bacher returned to Cleveland and met Willis Seaver Adams, an artist from Springfield, Massachusetts, who had just recently arrived upon the Cleveland art scene. Soon the two artists were rooming together. Adams was instrumental in the founding of the Cleveland Art Club, as well as the establishment of the Cleveland Academy of the Fine Arts, to the board of which Adams had Bacher appointed. Also during this time, Bacher began to learn the process of etching from local etcher and landscape painter Sion Longley Wenban.
In 1878, Bacher and Adams left for Europe. After stopping briefly in Scotland, Bacher went on to Munich, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy. He quickly tired of the rigors of the academy, and soon he was studying with Cincinnati artist Frank Duveneck, the prime American exponent of the Munich School. In 1879, Bacher made a trip to Florence with Duveneck as one of the celebrated "Duveneck Boys." Early the following year, the group proceeded to Venice, where Bacher and several other artists established studios in the Casa Jankovitz.
By this time an avid printmaker, Bacher had his etching press sent from Muni ch, and it was in his Venice studio that he taught Duveneck the rudiments of etching. Soon Bacher, Duveneck, and other members of the Duveneck circle were experimenting in printmaking. Among the group's contributions were some of the first American examples of monotypes, which they called "Bachertypes" because they were printed using Bacher's press.
It was also in Venice that Bacher met the venerable American expatriate artist, James McNeill Whistler. On learning of Bacher's press and his collection of etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler made himself a regular visitor to Bacher's studio, and he eventually took his own room in the Casa Jankovitz. Bacher spent much of the rest of 1880 with Whistler, the two artists sharing etching techniques. From Whistler, Bacher learned tone and line graduation; from Bacher, Whistler learned his etching techniques, including better ways of using the acid bath which produced less tedious and more efficient work. Bacher visited Whistler occasionally in the years that followed, and in 1908 he published With Whistler in Venice, his famous recollections of his time with the great artist.
Bacher spent the next two years traveling extensively throughout Italy, with Venice as the center of his operations, and he produced a number of important etchings of Italian subjects. Bacher sent several of these works to America in 1881 to be included in the Society of American artists exhibition that year, and had a similar group of works shown at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers' first exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London. Following the exhibition, Bacher, along with several other of the American contributors, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Bacher collected twelve of his etchings of Venetian subjects and sold them in bound volumes through his New York dealer, Frederick Keppel.
Bacher returned to Cleveland in January 1883 as a fully cosmopolitan artist. He set up a lavish studio furnished with exotic items and objets-d'art he had collected on his travels, and began to hold art classes as a means to supplement his income. He soon joined with Joseph De Camp in forming a summer sketch class in Richfield, Ohio. Bacher and De Camp also planned the Cleveland Room for a major loan exhibition in Detroit that year. During this period, Bacher increasingly painted in oil, and he began to produce sun-dappled canvases in an impressionistic mode.
Unable to sell any paintings from this early period, however, Bacher left Cleveland for Paris in 1885, where he planned to undertake further studies. Stopping first in London to visit Whistler, Bacher stayed only briefly in Paris before heading to Venice, where he spent the remainder of the year. In January 1886, Bacher returned to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and also entered the atelier of Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran. The life of the student seems never to have suited Bacher, as he stayed in Paris only through June, before departing again for Venice. For the next six months he, Robert Blum, and Charles Ulrich...
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American Impressionist 1880s Landscape Prints
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Etching
A LANCASHIRE RIVER,
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (1818-1910)
A LANCASHIRE RIVER, 1881 (Schneiderman 203 viii/ix; Harrington 215 ii/ii)
Original etching with drypoint. Signed in pencil., image 11 x 16. A large sheet, 18 x 22 inches with 3 inch margins.
In very good condition.
According to British dealer...
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English School 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Sailing on the Nile - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Sailing on the Nile is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner.
Mixed colored cromolithograph.
The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to E...
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Modern 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Westminster Palace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Westminster Palace
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint, roulette and salt ground lift
1884
Depicts the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben Clock and Tower and the...
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French School 1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ôkubo Hikozaemon Protects the Hidden Shogun Triptych
Located in Burbank, CA
“War Chronicles of Osaka” (Osaka gunki no uchi). Okubo Hikozaemon, raising his sword, protects the hidden Tokugawa shogun from the spear of Gorô Matabei Mototsugu in a moonlit fores...
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Other Art Style 1880s Landscape Prints
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Mulberry Paper, Woodcut