18th Century and Earlier Landscape Prints

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To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. David Loggan (1634-1692) King's College Cambridge Engraving 1690 40x51cm Baptised in Danzig in 1634 Loggan's parents were English and Scottish. Studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658) he moved to London in the late 1650s producing the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Marrying in 1663 he moved to Nuffield, Oxfordshire in 1665 to avoid the Plague and was in 1668/9 appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford Colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. Oxonia illustrata was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion he commenced work on his equivalent work for Cambridge, Cantabrigia Illustrata which was finally published in 1690 when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. Oxonia illustrata also includes an engraving of Winchester College (sharing its founder – William of Wykeham – with New College) whilst Cantabrigia illustrata includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder – Henry VIII – with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist of that era as it was not until 1783 that the first living thing (a sheep, named Montauciel ‘climb to the sky’) was sent aloft by the Mongolfier brothers in a balloon. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in smaller numbers and it is thought largely no second edition was produced. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne c. 1708. Edmund Hort New (1871-1931) produced a series of pen-and-ink drawings of views of Oxford that paid homage to Loggan showing the development of the city in the following two hundred years. They were turned into photoengravings by Emery Walker...

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Image dimensions 40.6x56.8. Belongs to the Collection "Antiquities of Cori, described and etched by Giovambat Piranesi", and printed in 1764. Beautiful first roman edition/1st state ...

Palazzo Pontificio is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th Century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed and titled ...

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Artist: Johannes "Jan" Kip (Dutch, 1652/3-1722) Title: "The West Prospect of the Cathedral of York" (Vol. 3, Plate 31) Portfolio: Britannia Illustrata / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne Year: 1715-1724 (Third edition) Medium: Original Engraving and Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Joseph Smith, London, UK Publisher: Joseph Smith, London, UK Reference: "London Illustrated 1604-1850" - Adams No. 22; Crace No. 201; Brunet IV No. 114; Lowndes No. 1277; Lewine page 263-264 Sheet size: 19.25" x 24.19" Image size: 16.75" x 22.5" Condition: With centerfold as issued. Some light toning and foxing mainly in margins, and some light edgewear. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition Rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Ross-on-Wye, UK. Engraved by Dutch artist Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/3-1722) after a drawing by Dutch artist Leonard Knyff or Leendert Knijff (1650-1722). Comes from Kip's six volume (including Supplement and 'Atlas Anglois') "Britannia Illustrata" / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne", (1724-1728) (Third edition), which consists of 394 engravings and etchings. Printed in one color from one copper plate: black. Biography: Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam - 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. Together with Leonard Knyff, he made a speciality of engraved views of English country houses. Kip was a pupil of Bastiaen Stopendaal (1636–1707), from 1668 to 1670, before setting up on his own; his earliest dated engravings are from 1672. In April 1680, at the age of 27, he married Elisabeth Breda in Amsterdam. After producing works for the court of William of Orange in Amsterdam, Kip followed William and Mary to London and settled in St. John Street in Farringdon, where he conducted a thriving printselling business. He also worked for various London publishers producing engravings after such artists as Francis Barlow (c. 1626–1704) and Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700), largely for book illustrations. He made several engraved plates for Awnsham & John Churchill's "A Collection of Voyages & Travels" (first published 1704). He signed the African scenes in volume V of the 1732 edition as "J. Kip". His most important works were the large fold-out folio illustrations for "Britannia Illustrata", 1708; for the 65 folio plates he engraved for the antiquary Sir Robert Atkyns, "The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire", 1712 (1st edition); and for "Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne ou description exacte des palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne", 1715, an extended reprint in collaboration with other artists. The linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff made a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in detail from the bird's-eye view, a pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was "Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates", London (1707, published in the winter of 1708–9). The volume is among the most important English topographical publications of the 18th century. Architecture is rendered with care, and the settings of parterres and radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths, gates and toolsheds are illustrated in detail. The images are staffed with figures and horses, coaches pulling into forecourts, water...

Europa Myth and Centaur from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Pieter van den Keere (1571 - circa 1646) after John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629) Map of Cambridgeshire Engraving 8 x 12 cm A beautifully coloured map of Cambridgeshire, with an antique description of the county to the reverse. The map, along with many others, was published in Speed's atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', first published in 1611. This particular miniature edition of the 'Theatre' was published in miniature by George Humble in 1627, entitled 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume. Done by John Speed.’ Speed's original map was likely engraved for this edition by Peter van den Keere. van den Keere's maps soon came to be known as "Miniature Speeds". John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." William Kip (active 1598 - 1610) after Christopher Saxton (1540 - 1610). Map o...

Palazzi di Campidoglio is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions and aged margins with so...

Ancient view of Oxonium (Oxford) is an old master artwork realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg in the early 17th Century, as part of the famous Series "Civitates Orbis Terrar...

Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Alcyone. Wonderful plate with very fresh impression and a beautiful use of chiaroscuro, from the volume “Le...

London [WERNER, Friedrich Bernard]. Georg. Balthasar Probst, Augsburg, [c.1730]. A beautiful large, coloured panorama of ‘post fire’ London by Friedrich Bernhard Werner, a German pr...

Casino al Pigneto is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,17...

Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by A.Cattaneo in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lower righ...

View of the magnificent substructure is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Very precoius and rare specimen. Roman edition. Complete tit...

Temples of Iside and Serapi is an etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1759. Image dimensions: 41.5 x 55.5 cm. Very precious lifetime impression. C...

18th Century Engraving "Birdseye View of New Park in Surrey" c.1724 Bird's eye view of the the New Park in Surrey, the Seat of the Honorable Earle of Rochester From the 1724 editio...

Palazzo Madama is an etching of the Late 18th century realized by the Artist Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin.  Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi  (Corleone,1710 - Rome, 1782) was an engraver, architect, and landscape artist. Between 1746 and 1761, Vasi published 10 volumes with 240 engravings of the monuments of Rome...

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An original hand colored engraving by Johannes 'Jan' Kip (1653-1722) of Haughton in the County of Nottinghamshire, one of the seats of Prince John Duke of ...

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A View at Bolcheretzko (Russia) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.John Webber (1752-1793) was ...

Bath of Titus is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Vasi in the late 18th century. Etching, 33 x 45 cm. "Vasi and Piranesi dis.e inc" in the lower left part. Good conditions! Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,1710 - Rome, 1782) was an engraver, architect, and landscape artist. Between 1746 and 1761, Vasi published 10 volumes with 240 engravings of the monuments of Rome...

Chiesa dedicata a S. Gregorio Papa de Monaci Camaldolesi sul' Monte Celio is an etching realized in the Late 17th Century by Giovan Battista Falda. good condition except for some fo...

Braun G., Hogenberg F., Dantziat, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: cm 32.8 x 47.9; dimensions: cm 42 x 55.3; passep...

City of Loja (ancient name: Loxa) is an original etching realized by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous Atlas "Civitates Orbis Terra...

Letter of the Alphabet I, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century. Good conditions. The etching belon...

We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and search for 'Collaert' - or message us as they may not all have been uploaded yet. Theodoor Galle...

Malaga is an original etching realized in 1616 by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg. The state of preservation of the artwork is good but aged with trace of foxing that doesn't affec...

Letter V is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in 18th century. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (ori...

Skeleton is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". Artis...

Etching on laid and watermarked paper (a double circles visible near the bell tower). 38 th Plate from the series " Views of Rome". Signed on plate on lower-left margin "Piranesi F....

We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...

Letter A is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le...

Le Sacre is an etching realized in 1771 by Bernard Baron. Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cab...

Map Traiectvm ad Mosam is original etching realized by Georg Braun and Franz Hogengerg between the end of the 16th and the first years of the 17th Century. Dimension: 40 x 54 The ...

Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, verso L'Horologio by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.

Seascape With Monuments is an Etching realized by Raffaele Barone (18th Century). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le A...

Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good condit...

Porta Salaria is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions and aged margins with some foxing...

Fianco della Strada Giulia della Parte del Tevere is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimp...

Casino di Villa Lodovisi presso Porta Pinciana is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions ...

Basilica di S.Paolo e Monestero de Monici Casinensi is a vintage offset print realized in the early 20th Century after Giuseppe Vasi. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,1710 - Rome, 1782) was an engraver, architect, and landscape artist. Between 1746 and 1761, Vasi published 10 volumes with 240 engravings of the monuments of Rome...

Paysages et ruines de Rome is an original artwork realized by Stefano Della Bella in 1646. Etching in paper, signed on plate on the left margin, es. II/VI. Th...

S.Eustachio Church is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,1...

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Monastero e Chiesa dei SS. Domenico is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. ...

View of the Cave known as Bergantino is an etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1762. Very precious and rare lifetime impression. Roman edition. C...

Image dimensions 40x60. Veduta degli Avanzi sopra terra dell’antico Ustrino (View of the visible remains of the ancient crematorium) is a wonderful black and white etching on thick...

Maps is an original etching realized by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg as part of the so called "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) ...

R. Earlom fecit No. 61, From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire Etching by Claude le Lorrain 13.5 x 9 inches, 21 x 16.5 (framed)

Casino di Villa Mattei is an etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,1710 -...

Monastero e Chiesa di S.Susanna delle Monache Cisterciensi is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good...

Palazzo Barberini is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed and titled o...

Collegio De Neofiti is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions and aged mar...

Harbour is an original etching on paper realized by Italian artist Stefano Della Bella (1610 –1664). Plate signed on the lower left. Included a Passepartout: 40 x 60 cm Titled on...