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Art Subject: Bird
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Biblia Sacra the Family of Ruth Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
The Family of Ruth is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Rizzoli , 1965-1969. ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Meet Me in Toronto
Located in Toronto, ON
Regular Edition
6.5" x 13" Unframed
Limited Edition 3-D Lithograph
Numbered of 200
Hand Signed by Charles Fazzino
DX Edition
6.5" x 13" Unframed
Limited Edition 3-D Lithograph
Numbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Square in Paris with the Kiss Sculpture - Original handsigned lithograph - 275ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Rolf RAFFLEWSKI
Square in Paris with the Kiss Sculpture
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Limited /275 copies
On vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tim Southall, The Sea Eagle, Limited edition animal print
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
The Sea Eagle by Tim Southall [2019]
limited_edition
Screen Print on Paper
Edition number 50
Image size: H:40 cm x W:59 cm
Complete Size of Unframed W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Garden Blackcap
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
Garden Blackcap by Kate Heiss [2021]
limited_edition
Linocut
Edition number 30
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:0.5cm
Sold Unframe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
37% Off
Over Cape Cod
Located in New York, NY
"Over Cape Cod" is an etching created by Frank W. Benson in 1932. Benson only printed trial proofs of this plate - there is no edition. This impression is a first state of four. There are six impressions of the first state, three impressions of the second, four impressions of the third, and eight of the fourth state have been recorded. Signed in pencil in the lower left under the image. The image size is 7 15/16 x 14 7/8" (20.1 x 37.8 cm) and sheet size 11 9/16 x 18 3/8" (29.3 x 46.7 cm).
FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951)
Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Plants and Animals - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Plants and Animals is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of t...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$158 Sale Price
25% Off
Red Breasted Merganser from Illustrations of British Ornithology Pl.58 by Selby
Located in Paonia, CO
Red Breasted Merganser PL 58 from a rare black and white edition of Prideaux John Selby’s two volume set of 222 engravings “Illustrations of British Ornithology”. These original...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Robert Greenhalf, Great White Egrets, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Great White Egrets
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 48.5cm x W25.5 cm
Image Size: H38.5cm x 16.5cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Trumpeter Swan
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
$130 Sale Price
30% Off
Flamingo! 2, Art print, Animal print, Landscape, Flamingo
Located in Deddington, GB
Flamingo! 2 is a limited edition giclée print hand finished with screen printed layers of diamond dust and varnish by printmaker Benjamin Thomas Taylor. The diamond dust animates the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée, Screen
Colorful Parrot: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a parrot bird entitled "La Perruche-Ara, de Cayenne (Parrot)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 864 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in ass...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sailing at Sunset By Kate Heiss
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
limited_edition
Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset Velvet Paper
Edition number 50
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:1cm
Sold Unf...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Bromoil
Clare Halifax, Champagne City, Aqua Thames, Contemporary Cityscape London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames
Clare Halifax
Signed by the artist
Limited edition of 10
Image size: H:48 cm x W:48 cm
Paper size: H:56 cm x W:56 cm x D:0.1 cm
Please note that insitus are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames is a limited edition cityscape print by Clare Halifax. Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames features hand gilded champagne gold leaf 22.5ct with aqua blue thames. This 2 colour screen print with hand finished gilding is printed by the artist and shows the view of the thames from sky garden, edition of 10, printed onto somerset satin 300gms with deckle edge.
Clare Halifax, artist, joins Wychwood Art selling art online and in their art gallery in Deddington. Clare Halifax is offering exclusive Cotswold screen prints with Wychwood Art as well as scenes of London and Oxford. Clare Halifax graduated from the University of Loughborough in 2000 with a BA Hons in Printed Textile design and went on to sell her work internationally to the fashion and interior markets...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Spring, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spring
Israel Rubinstein
Israeli (1944)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 36 x 26.5 inches
Size: 39 x 27.5 in. (99.06 x 69.85 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Milwaukee Bay From Pumping Station
By George Raab
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 19.38 x 16.50 in
8.88 x 12 inches (sheet), 8.88 x 11.88 inches (block)
linoleum block print on green laid paper
signed in plate
Category
1930s Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Swallows in Summer, Mounted Linocut print, Landscape art, Nature, Birds
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
Swallows are a real signal that summer has arrived. I created this as a warm afternoon landscape with swallows providing movement.
Additional information:
Swallows in Summer [2023] ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Castle, Aquatint Etching by Keiko Minami
By Keiko Minami
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004)
Title: Castle
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 12 x 11 inches
Size: 22 ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Oyster Catchers with Geese, Limited Edition Print, Seascape Art, Affordable Art
By Mark Pearce
Located in Deddington, GB
'Oyster Catchers with Geese' is an original linocut by Mark A Pearce. His handprinted linocuts available to buy online and in our art gallery. Mark Pearce grew up in Cumbria where h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen, Linocut
London Bestiary, Art print, Animals Art, Contemporary Art, Figurative
Located in Deddington, GB
London Bestiary by Mychael Barratt. Limited Edition Silkscreen Print. Edition of 100. Image Size: H 66cm x W 99.7cm. Sheet Size: H 112.1cm x W 76.9cm x D 0.1cm. Signed and titled. So...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Rob Barnes, Woodland Pheasants, Winter Artwork, Landscape Art, Pheasant Art
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes
Woodland Pheasants
Limited Edition Linocut Print
Edition of 50
Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm
Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm
Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard
Free...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Robert Greenhalf, Berwick’s Swans and Lapwings, Limited Edition Print, Bird Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Berwick’s Swans and Lapwings
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 38.5cm x W 41 cm
Image Size: H 27.5c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Woodpeckers, Sonnerat's Pygmy: A 19th C. Gould Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Iyngipicu Maculatus" (Sonnerat's Pygmy Woodpeckers) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Asia", published in London ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jane Peart, Forest Glen, Limited Edition Etching Print, Woodland Art
By Jane Peart
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart
Forest Glen
Limited Edition Etching Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 24cm x W 34cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Paradise, Sophie Harden, Limited edition print, Contemporary art, Flamingo art
Located in Deddington, GB
Paradise by Sophie Harden
Limited edition print and hand signed by the artist
Giclée Print on Paper
Image Size: H:60cm x W:90cm
Complete size of mounted work: H:75cm x W:105cm x D:0.1cm
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Large Limited Edition print...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Hiboux et Chouettes #6, portrait of an owl by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: aquatint and drypoint
Year: 2016
Edition of 21
Image Size: 16 × 12 inches
Portrait of a plump and possibly perplexed owl in a nocturnal setting, by Franco-Iranian artist M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Cloud Reflection, Seascape Print, Coastal Art, Beach Art, Bird Art, Animal Art
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
On a bright sunlit day at the coast, I was inspired by a cloud reflection on the wet sand. It was dramatic and completed by seeing a dog walker in the distance. The linocut is all ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Days Like These II, Emma Reynolds, Seascape Print, Beach Art, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Days Like These ii [2021]
limited_edition
Screenprint
Edition number 15
Image size: H:60cm cm x W:60cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65cm cm x W:65cm cm x D:400gsmcm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Days Like these ii is the second in a series of coastal print...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Vicky Oldfield, Moments of Reflection, Limited Edition Still Collograph Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield
Moments of Reflection
Limited Edition Hand Coloured Collagraph Print
Edition of 30
Sheet Size: H 49cm x W 40cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Solitary Puffin by Paul Bartlett, Bird Art, Animal Art, Limited Edition Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Paul Bartlett is a highly acclaimed artist who has won many awards for his original depictions of nature which inform and educate the viewer on conservation issues.
Solitary Puffin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Giclée
Kate Heiss, Curlew On the Beach – Lulworth Blue Series, Seascape Art, Art Online
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Heiss
Curlew On the Beach – Lulworth Blue Series
Linocut
Edition of 50
Image Size 30 x 30cm
Mounted size 40x 40cm
Oil based inks on 300GSM Soft white Somerset Velvet Paper
Signed and dated on the front
Mounted
Unframed
Edition numbers may vary from the photo.
Linocut Print – A relief printing technique where lino is cut, inked and rolled to create an inverse relief print, generating the image as seen.
This work is sold mounted but not framed.
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Printed in a soft chalky Lulworth Blue* this print depicts a Curlew on the beach in front of Orfordness Lighthouse in Suffolk. The lighthouse is framed by a medley of wild flowers; sea holly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Robert Greenhalf, Curlews and Woodpigeons, Limited Edition Print, Bird Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Curlews and Woodpigeons
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 26cm x W49 cm
Image Size: H 16cm x W 38.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
River Walk
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
River Walk by Rob Barnes [2021]
limited_edition
Linocut
Edition number 50
Image size: H:33 cm x W:44 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
About half a mile from where I live is a river walk, punctuated by a windmill used...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Christian Ludwig Martin, Geese
Located in New York, NY
Christian Ludwig Martin worked in Vienna. He was an artist, illustrator, and art teacher. 'Geese' is titled in German, and titled and signed in pencil. It is on a large sheet.
While ...
Category
1920s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Beach Boats, Norfolk Seascape Art, Linocut Prints of England, Seaside Art
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
Beach Boats [2022]
limited_edition
Linocut print
Edition number 50
Image size: H:33 cm x W:45 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Clinker-built boats have always been a fascination of mine. I love their lines and shapes at low tide. These I came across on a coastal walk in Suffolk. The sun was setting and I tried to capture the effect of light on water.
Rob Barnes, artist, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Rob Barnes studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006. Presently he divides his time between printmaking and his other passion, playing the violin in local orchestras and for choral performances. In 2017 he began making a small number of sterling silver jewellery pieces following a course at West Dean, Sussex. His artwork follows themes, such as light on water, or shadows in the landscape. Linocuts are hand-printed on an Albion press...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Robert Greenhalf, Shoverlers, Limited Edition Print, Bird Print, Wildlife Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Shoverlers
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 38.5cm x W 41 cm
Image Size: H 27.5cm x W 27.5cm
Sold ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
The Cormorant, Tim Southall, Handmade print, contemporary print for sale
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
The Cormorant by Tim Southall
Limited Edition Silkscreen Print and hand signed by the artist
Silkscreen Print on Paper
Image Size: 40 cm x 60 cm
Sheet Si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Linnets over Salthouse by Joanna Padfield, Limited edition print, Birds
Located in Deddington, GB
Linnets Over Salthouse by Joanna Padfield [2022]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Linocuts
Edition number 50
Image size: H:30.5 cm x W:30.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:38 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Linnets Over Salthouse is an original limited edition linocut print, printed in a light blue. All of my prints are printed by hand. The inspiration for this print comes from walks along the beautiful North Norfolk coast. Salthouse is a small and very pretty village. On one side is the heathland and woodland, and on the other are marshes and the sea, making this village rich in wildlife.
Jo Padfield, printmaker and artist, is available for sale online and in our gallery at Wychwood Art. Jo Padfield is an artist based in rural Norfolk - I love the natural world and my work celebrates nature and the natural environment, using bright vibrant colours and bold eye catching shapes and patterns. After studying at Norwich School of Art I went on to study and work in architecture. As my path in design continued, I have developed my love of colour and graphics in print making to create linocut prints. I like the process of cutting fresh lino with sharp tools and the anticipation of peeling paper off an inked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Paper
"Pinnated Grouse", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Pinnated Grouse", No. 60, Pl. 296, from Audubon's "Birds of A...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Winter in Flanders" by Pieter Brueghel, Limited Edition Litho, Printed in USA.
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Winter in Flanders" by Pieter Brueghel, Limited Edition Litho, 4751
Published by New York Graphic Society, 1950
Printed in USA.
Measures 16 in x 18 in
Print is in good/fair condition
Category
20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mark Pearce, Sunshine and Seagulls, Limited Edition Print, Seascape Art
By Mark Pearce
Located in Deddington, GB
Mark A Pearce
Sunshine and Seagulls
Limited Edition Print
Edition of 45
Image Size: H 46cm x W 46cm
Sheet Size: H 58cm x W 54cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Sunshine and Seagulls is a limited edition print by Mark A Pearce.
At school I spent most of my time in the art department. I then went on to do a one year foundation course at Carlisle College of Art. It was here that I learnt the art of printmaking and then continued my studies at the Norwich School of Art doing a degree in graphic design. Keen to move to London I found my first job as a graphic designer with John Nash and Friends and my second with Michael Peters and Partners. I went on to win a D&AD (Design and Art Directors Club of Great Britain) silver award for the very first greeting stamps issued by the Royal Mail. These featured smiles from the likes of Dennis the Menace...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Ueno Yamashita
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Hiroshige Ando 1797-1858)
Title: No.12 Ueno Yamashita
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (名所江戸百景)
Size: O-ban 大判
Age: 1858
Category
1850s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$4,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Kate Heiss, In the Sand Dunes, Limited Edition Print, Beach Art, Art Online
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Heiss
In the Sand Dunes
Linocut
Edition of 50
Image Size 30 x 30cm
Mounted size 40x 40cm
Oil based inks on 300GSM Soft white Somerset Velvet Paper
Signed and dated on the front
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Roman Church near Bordeaux - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis SOULAS (1905-1954)
Roman Church near Bordeaux, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the e...
Category
1920s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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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1870s Other Art Style Animal Prints
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Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Hummingbirds: 19th C. Gould Hand-colored "Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Saucerottia Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two green, blue and a little brown colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and pink flowers.
This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph has a few very small faint spots, but it is otherwise in excellent condition. The original text page is included.
There are other unframed Gould hummingbird...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Rough-legged Buzzard: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by J. Gould & Edward Lear
By Edward Lear
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Archibuteo Lagopus" (Rough-Legged Buzzard) by John Gould and Edward Lear, from Gould's "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Rough-Legged Buzzard perched on a branch of a tree looking to the left.
This beautiful framed Gould hand-colored lithograph is presented in a gold-colored wood frame and cream-colored French mat, embellished by a gold-colored fillet. The frame measures 33" high, 25.5" wide and 1.25" thick. It is in excellent condition
There are several other unframed Gould bird lithographs available on our 1stdibs and InCollect storefronts. Two or more of these striking lithographs would make an attractive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of a set depending on the number. These additional Gould hummingbirds may be viewed by typing Timeless Intaglio in the 1stdibs or InCollect search field to be taken to our storefront.
John Gould (1804-1881]) was an English ornithologist and artist. He, like his American contemporary John James Audubon, published a number of books on birds in the mid 19th century, illustrated by hand-colored lithographs. His wife and fellow artist, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear and Henry Constantine Richter produced lithographs for his various publications. He has been considered the father of bird study in Australia and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. Charles Darwin referenced Gould’s work in his book, "On the Origin of Species" and Gould named a bird after Darwin; "Darwin's finches".
Gould began his career in London as a taxidermist, but in 1827 became the first curator and conservator at the museum of the Zoological Society of London. In this position naturalists brought him collections of birds from all over the world. He began creating drawings and eventually hand-colored lithographs with his wife and Edward Lear, which were the basis for his first publications. Darwin brought him specimens from the Galapagos Islands, including 12 species of finches which had never been described. In 1838, Gould and his wife travelled to Australia and their work led to the seven volume publication of “The Birds of Australia”. Gould had a fascination for hummingbirds and collected specimens of 320 varieties before ever seeing a live hummingbird on a trip to the United States in 1857. He eventually published “A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds". Other large publications include: "The Birds of Europe"," A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans”, “A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands”, “A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America”, “The Birds of Asia”, “The Birds of Great Britain” and "The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia".
John Gould (1804-1881) was a British ornithologist and illustrator who is best known for his monumental work, "The Birds of Europe," published between 1832 and 1837. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, and began working as a taxidermist and natural history dealer in London in the 1820s. In 1827, Gould was appointed the first curator and preserver of birds at the Zoological Society of London, where he began to build his collection of specimens and began to study the birds of the world. He published his first monograph, "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains," in 1831, which included 80 plates of Himalayan birds. Gould continued to publish numerous volumes on the birds of the world throughout his life, including "The Birds of Australia" (1840-1848) and "The Birds of Great Britain" (1862-1873). His works were highly regarded for their accuracy and detail, and he was one of the most prominent ornithologists of his time.
In addition to his work as an ornithologist, Gould was also a successful businessman, and he used his profits to fund expeditions and to support the scientific community. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843, and he was awarded the Royal Medal...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Gad, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, . Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Déco...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Inferno, Canto XXVII (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Paysage de Normandie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paysage de Normandie" c.1910 Is an original color aquatint by noted French artist Maurice Levis, 1860-1940. It is hand signed and numbered 245/350 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 17.5 x 24.85 inches, sheet size is 19.75 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of the piece.
About the artist:
Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism. Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
BAR MITZVAH AT THE WESTERN WALL (JUDAICA ART)
By Amram Ebgi
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph with foil stamping and embossing on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 200.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticit...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Foil
$100 Sale Price
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Maternity: Hug After a Mistake - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
HERMANN-PAUL (1864-1940)
Maternity: Hug After a Mistake, 1927
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of t...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Flowering Digitalis Plants: An Original 17th C. Botanical Engraving by E. Sweert
By Emanuel Sweert
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful and extremely rare early 17th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of four flowering Digitalis plants by the Dutch artist and botanist Emanuel Sweert is plate 6 ...
Category
Early 17th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Original San Diego (Home Federal) 1974 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original travel poster: San Diego (Home Federal), artist: Robert Kinyon, 24.25" x 38", 1974; original Southern California poster. Excellent condi...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
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