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Art Subject: Building
CHRISTO ' PONTE NEUF EMPAQUETTE-LONG VIEW - 1985
By Christo
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo
Title: Ponte Neuf Empaquette-Long View
Medium: Photograph
Size: 25 x 38 inches
Year: 1985
Publisher: Nouvelles Image
Reference #:
Schellmann 86
Hand signed by the art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$960 Sale Price
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Paris - Original Etching by A. Buratti - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 27 cm.
Paris is an original artwork realized in 1947 by Armando Buratti.
Original black and white etching.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil on lower right. N...
Category
1940s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
SFO Playground
By Ludwig Favre
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre recently road tripped to California. His pictures of California's iconic architecture and beaches carry the same romantic feel of a...
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Power Station - Lithograph on vellum - 1968
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard BUFFET
Power Station, 1968
Lithograph (Printed in Atelier Mourlot)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 40 x 75 cm (c. 16 x 30in)
Excellent...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II" in pencil in the lower margin. One of 100 impressio...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Handmade Paper
French architecture house design lithograph, late 19th century, 1878
By Spiegel
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Petits Hotels. Boulevard Berthier 45 et 47, a Paris. Elevations, Coupe et Plans, par Mr Boland, Archte.'
French architectural chromolithograph. From 'La Brique Ordinaire', by J Lac...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
November
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful and delicate 19th century image of late autumn in New England.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat Editons, 1888.
Etching on cream laid paper, 6 x 11 inches (150 x 278 mm), full ma...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Rockbear House, Devon, English Regency country house colour aquatint, 1818
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Rockbear House, Seat of Thos Porter Esq'.
Rockbear House was originally built c. 1760-70 and owned by Sir John Duntze, the wealthy Exeter woollen merchant and banker. About 1820 t...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
A North West View of St. Paul's Cathedral, London
Located in Middletown, NY
London: R.H Laurie, 1823
Engraving on buff wove paper, 10 x 15 3/4 inches (252 x 398 mm), full margins. Age and light tone, as well as areas of light yellow discoloration from the e...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Oscar Weissbuch, Westchester Hills (NY), New Deal, WPA-era wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Jeux de boules - Near the City Gate
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (175 x 275 mm), thin margins. Some minor surface soiling and paper tape residue in four areas along the top sheet edge, verso, othe...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
The Greek Chapel of The Holy Sepulchre
Located in London, GB
First edition lithograph
Full plate: 4
Presented in a acid free mount
Modern hand-coloured lithograph for the first edition of David Roberts' The Holy Land.
Published by F.G. Moon &...
Category
1840s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
Kingsgate, Winchester
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (205 x 246 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. One minor printing defect appearing as a slightly folded bottom ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching
1950s Signed New Mexico Winter Lithograph – Original Vintage Snowy Landscape Art
Located in Denver, CO
Step into the serene beauty of a New Mexico winter with this stunning 1950s signed lithograph, New Mexico Village Under Snow, by acclaimed artist Kenneth Miller Adams. This rare vint...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thirteenth Century Belfry; Hôtel De Ville, Abbeville
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on Japon paper, 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (89 x 44 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and inscribed "III" in the lower margin. Likely an unrecorded trial proof impression from th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
L'Hotel de Ville, Arras
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph in colors on card stock (as issued), 15 x 10 5/8 inches (380 x 268 mm), full margins. In good condition with some minor toning and some extremely minor and unobtrusive edg...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Handmade Paper
Stanwick Churchyard
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 2 3/8 x 3/14 inches (61 x 83), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "IV" in the artist's hand. In very good condition. Fletcher states only two tria...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
'A View of Kanagawa', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a panoramic view of the banks of Kanagawa, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) and printed circa 1946 by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981). An exceptionally crisp image with fresh color, printed on traditional Washi paper and showing delicate bokashi gradation of sumi ink in the foreground, horizon and upper sky. Sheet Dimensions: 10.25 H x 15.25 W inches.
Travelers pass through a section of the Kanagawa post station, dominated by a variety of shops, each with views looking out over the water. A number are tea houses, outside of which stand waitresses inviting travelers inside. On the water we see several small fishing boats, as well as larger shipping vessels...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Washi Paper, Sumi Ink
Landscape - Etching by Pierre Quentin Chedel - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an etching realized by Pierre Quentin Chedel in 1755.
Good conditions.
Signed on Plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was realized f...
Category
1750s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$170 Sale Price
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Autumn in New York, Delphic Oracle suite of prints from Tate Gallery 1980
By Joe Tilson
Located in New York, NY
Suite of five prints including Gordon House "A Still Life at Millbank", R. B. Kitaj "Chris", John Piper "Eye and Camera, Red Blue and Yellow", Joe Tilson "Delphic Oracle", Gerd Winner...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
St. Paul's Cross
By James Stow
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Robert Wilkinson, c1620
Engraving on thin Japon paper,16 1/8 x 11 3/4 iches (408 x 297 mm), narrow margins. In good condition with some age-related toning and edge wear, including two small horizontal tears which appear at the right and left center sheet edges. There is a vertical edge tear on the the lower sheet edge which is expertly repaired with a tab of paper tape mounted to the verso, and a soft horizontal fold, as issued. Plate created circa 1620, however printed later, likely early 19th century.
Dr. John King preaching at St. Paul's Cross for James I, his Queen, Charles Prince of Wales...
Category
17th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Vertigo, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A sspectacular view from above of the buildings and traffic a large city. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to comple...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, Egypt. David Robert's Oriental lithograph, 1848.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo', tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) after David Roberts RA.
David Roberts (1796-1864) traveled throughout Egypt and the Holy Land in the l...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gloria, Saint Riquier; The Church of Saint Riquier; Gloria Ecclesiae Antiquae
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with an "England" watermark; 13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (353 x 221 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, titled, numbered "III," and inscribed in pencil. O...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Abbeville; St. Vulfran
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove Japon paper, 7 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (188 x 197 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with some minor surface soiling...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Prag / Prague
Located in Middletown, NY
An atmospheric view of the Charles Bridge and Old Town Bridge Tower.
Dresden: Max Sinz, 1928.
Etching and aquatint in colors on cream wove paper, 11 1/2 x 9 inches (292 x 227 mm) f...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
North Side of the Great Court, Sommerset Palace
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint printed in brownish ink with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on buff paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches (260 x 317 mm) (sheet), uneven narrow to full margins. Laid down to a contemporary wove paper support. Scattered condition issues on the sheet (excluding the mount) include surface soiling, creasing, a significant vertical repaired tear, and toning, despite these issues, the hand coloring remains good. Suitable for framing.
From A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta By Thomas Malton, published by Thomas Malton, London 1796. The work was published serially, in twenty-five numbers. The plates in Volume I carry the dates 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796 or 1797; those in Volume II, the dates 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800 or 1801. In most copies the title page of Volume I carries the publisher's later address, of 103 Long Acre...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
Cathedral - Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1970
By Ossi Czinner
Located in Roma, IT
The Cathedral of Tarragona is a beautiful lithograph realized by Ossi Czinner in the 1970s.
Hand signed. Artist's proof.
Good conditions!
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of Venice, including Gondolas, 18th Century Hand Colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
An early 18th century hand colored engraving of a scene of the city of Venice, Italy entitled "Palazzo Lin, a. S. Samuele sopra il Canal Grande". It depicts Venetian architecture, wa...
Category
1720s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lalibela - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Lalibela is an original etching on paper realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1939.
Hand-signed in pencil. Image Dimensions: 35 x 47.5 cm.
Num...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Piramide Cestia - Rome - Etching by Giuseppe Megna - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Piramide Cestia in Rome is an original lithograph on paper realized by Giuseppe Megna in 1972 ca.
In very good condition, hand-signed and numbered in ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Canal - Original Etching Hand Signed - Rheims #10
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
The Canal, 1955
Original etching
Hand signed in pencil
Numbered /125 copies
On BFK Rives vellum size 56 x 76.5 cm (c. 22 x 30 in)
Very good condition
REF...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Lalibela - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Lalibela is an original etching on paper realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1949.
Hand-signed in pencil. Image Dimensions: 35.5 x 49.5 cm.
Nu...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Campo Vio
By Peter Milton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One of eight prints completed for this set based on Henry James Aspern Papers. Signed and numbered digital print from the editon of 75. Peter Milton is one of the most honored and respected printmakers in the world today. His work is in most major museums, and he continues to produce stunning and masterful prints in his 6th decade of printmaking. Since 2008 he has been a major proponent for digital printmaking.
THE ASPERN PAPERS is a classic tale by Henry James of duplicity foiled and love denied. Taking place in Venice, this is one print from a portfolio set of eight prints...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Digital Pigment
The Workshop (Stirling)
Located in Storrs, CT
The Workshop (Stirling). 1905. Etching and drypoint. Rinder 369 state .ii/iv.Image: 8 3/16 x 12 (sheet 8 5/16 x 12). No published edition. A rich impression with drypoint burr printe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,000 Sale Price
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The Basilica of Constantine
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression of the 3rd State, still with the address and price which were eliminated in the following 4th state. The presence of the address and price confirms that this ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (99 x 150 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Sketch Grolier Club Library Demonstration Print," and numbered "I" in pen...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Temple of the Dea Tussis
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching and aquatint with engraving on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full margins. Small spots of adhesive resi...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Inside of the Duke's Theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields as it appeared...Charles II
Located in Middletown, NY
London: William Herbert & Robert Wilkinson, 1809
Engraving on buff wove paper, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (310 x 208 mm), full margins. In good condition with some scattered surface soiling, and edge wear along the top sheet edge, well outside of the image area. From a series of three views of the Duke's Theater.
An impression of this work may be viewed in the permanant collection of the Royal Collection...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
Migrants, Mayra, Eye In The Lower East Side, New York City, USA, 2018 10 colours
By J.R.
Located in Bristol, GB
Print - 10 colours lithography printed with Marinoni machine on white BFK Rives 270gsm
Edition 149 of 180
70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.6 in)
Signed, numbered and dated on the front
Mint. Mi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gresham College
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a Garden of Holland or Maid of Dort Pro Patria watermark, 11 x 14 1/4 inches (278 x 361 mm), thread margins. Lettered with the title in a cartouche at the top-center sheet, continuing "a Latere Occidentali Prospeus AD MDCCXXXIX," with numbers over the image at right that correspond to a key 1 to 29, and with publication details: "Georgius Vertue Londini delineavit et Sculpsit anno MDCCXXXIX". Multiple expert repairs, notably a Y-shaped, expert paper tape repair on the verso. Handling creases, toning. All issues are consistent with age. An impression of this work may be viewed in the permanent collection of the British Museum, registration No. 1880,1113.3963.
A bird's eye view of the college in Broad Street, London, showing the courtyard, adjoining stable yard to the right, and the buildings at the back.
This work was included in Frederick Crace...
Category
Early 18th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan' — WPA Era Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan', lithograph, edition 10 or fewer, 1936. Flint 135. Signed and dated in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right.
A fine, richly-inked...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
Located in Middletown, NY
An extremely scarce impression from the artist's own collection.
Etching on watermarked antique laid J Whatman Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Ludgate Hill
Located in Storrs, CT
Ludgate Hill. 1921. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Dickins 69. 5 5/8 x 5 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 9 3/4). A fine proof with plate tone, printed on 'J Wha[tman] cream wove paper. Edition of 275 for the UK and 125 for the US. Signed in pencil.
Ludgate Hill is a street that runs west from St. Paul's Churchyard to Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), and from there becomes Fleet Street. The Ludgate Hill railway station, between Water Lane and New Bridge Street, is a station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It was closed before World War II and the railway bridge and viaduct between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars stations was demolished in 1990 to enable the construction of the City Thameslink railway station in a tunnel. This also involved the regrading of the slope of Ludgate Hill at the junction. About halfway up Ludgate Hill is St Martin, Ludgate church. This was physically joined to the Ludgate.
When he was seventeen, William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$400 Sale Price
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12th Street Walls — 1940s New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Armin Landeck, '12th Street Walls', etching, edition 100, first state, 1944, Kraeft 93. Signed in pencil. Initialed in the plate lower left. A superb, early impression, with all the ...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Dorothy and John Taylor Arms M.D. MCMXXV
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper 5 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches (150 x 86 mm). Signed and dated in pencil in the lower margin. First state (of 2), before the removal of the inscription in the lowe...
Category
1920s Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Lescure, Une Tour Des Remparts
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Potentially a trial proof impression aside from the unsigned edition of 1459. Non-archival tape residue along the top and bottom sheet edges, recto, well outside of image area. Scattered handling creases and general scattered soiling in the margins, minor and unobtrusive.
[Fletcher 217].
This work was commissioned by The Architectural Forum...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
French pipe organ design, late 18th century engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Elevation Geometralle d'Un Buffet D'Orgue d'Une Nouvelle Decoration'
Copper-line engraving. C1770.
380mm by 420mm (platemark) 460mm by 560mm (sheet)
From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menui...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Place St. Louis, Metz
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint on cream wove paper, 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (114 x 174 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. In very good condition with no visible defects; inking is exce...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on elaborately watermarked, antique, cream laid Dard Hunter paper, 13 5/8 x 7 1/78 inches (347 x 181 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II." From...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
Map of Cheapside, as it Appeared in the Year 1585
Located in Middletown, NY
Bird's eye view of the old buildings in West Cheap (Cheapside) as they appeared in 1585, from Londina Illustrata.
London: Robert Wilkinson, 1814
Engraving on buff wove paper, 11 ...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Street in Porto Maurizio
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique handmade laid paper, 9 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches (246 x 109 mm), full margins. Signed and dated (1928) in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Frederick Reynolds. In very goo...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Waiting For My Train(track crossings that create Chicago EL / Merchandise Mart)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Waiting for my Train is #55 from edition of 100. "Waiting for my train" is the stop right before the tracks cross, and create Chicago's famous "Loop", on the above ground EL. The M...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Fountains of Rome
Located in Middletown, NY
A charming scene with romping dogs and spectators watching the cascading water play a trick on an unsuspecting man who is sprayed as he descends the steps, ...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
Diner
By Noel Kerns
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: This photograph is of a movie set diner and Joshua tree lost in the desert near a place called Lake Los Angeles, California.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Noel Kerns is a Tex...
Category
Early 2000s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper
$625
'Bridges of Florence' — Firenze Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alonzo C. Webb, 'Bridges of Florence', etching, 1929, edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in warm ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Palazzo dell'Angelo
Located in Middletown, NY
Palazzo dell'Angelo
1931
Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif.
Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116.
[Fletcher 233]
Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design.
In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436.
Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Cavendish Church
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on bluish-grey, thin laid paper, 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "II." In very good condition with three pin-point sized dots of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching and aquatint with engraving on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full margins. Small spots of adhesive residue from a former mount at each edge on the recto. Light ghost impression in the area of the sky. Scattered minor areas of light brown discoloration, with a 3 3/4 inch horizontal edge loss along the lower left sheet edge, outside of the platemark. Colors remain fresh. Plate No. 3 from Wonders: Images of the Ancient World. Likely printed 1828.
A view of the Temple of Hercules Victor...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Loggia of Raphael, Vatican, Rome, Italy. Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Loggia di Raffaello, in Vaticano'
Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa 1870.
Benoist was one of France's...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
