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Art Subject: Castle
View of Castel Sant'Angelo - Offset Print after G. Vasi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Castel Sant'Angelo and the Vatican is a vintage offset print realized after Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vasi (Corle...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled - Lithograph by Pedro Cano - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph, on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 22.5cmx33cm, work size 22.5cmx33cm. Excellent condition, no defects.
Pedro Cano (Blanca, 1944), one of the greatest contempor...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$132 Sale Price
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Uses and Customs - Otranto - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Otranto in Lucca 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...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$158 Sale Price
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Ancient View of Schloss Ambras - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Schloss Ambras is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower margin: Schloss Amb...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Veduta degli Avanzi della Villa... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta degli Avanzi della Villa di Domiziano da altri chiamata le Terme di Pompeo Magno
Image dimensions: 46x60 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an a...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$308 Sale Price
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Scilla - Etching on Cardboard by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Scilla is a beautiful etching on cardboard, realized in 1971 by the Italian artist Giovanni Omiccioli (Rome, 1901-1975).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right and dated. Numbere...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$264 Sale Price
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View of Rome - Etching and Drypoint by C.A. Petrucci - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is an original Etching and Drypoint realized by Carlo Alberto Petrucci in 1964.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (37x52 cm).
Hand signed by the artist with pencil.
Carlo Alberto Petrucci (4 August 1881 - 11 February 1963) was an Italian engraver, painter and museologist. The son of Luigi, owner of an antique library, and Beatrice del Nero of an old Roman family, after graduating from the Leonardo da Vinci Institute he worked as an accountant. Between 1902 and 1903 he attended the evening classes of the nude school at the International Artistic Association and there he met Umberto Prencipe and Antonio Mancini...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$528 Sale Price
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Roman Temples - Offset After G. Engelmann - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Temple is an offset print artwork on paper, realized after G. Engelmann(1788-1839), in the late 20th century.
The artwork is signed on the plate. I...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$308 Sale Price
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Vue du Temple de Mars-Vengeur -Offset after G. Engelmann - 1970s
By G. Engelmann
Located in Roma, IT
Vue du Temple de Mars-Vengeur is a vintage offset print artwork on paper, realized after G. Engelmann (1788-1839), in the 1970s.
The artwork is signed on the plate. In very good con...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Gate in Algeria - Original Lithograph - 1846
Located in Roma, IT
Gate in Algeria is an original Hand-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1846 by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century.
Titled in Italian on the lower center "Porta Bab-Azoun i...
Category
1840s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$255 Sale Price
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Ponte Lucano - Etching by L.Cavalieri - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ponte Lucano is an original etching realized by L.Cavalieri in the XIX century.
signed on the plate on the lower right corner. Tav.123
Good conditions except for margins that are a...
Category
19th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$220 Sale Price
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Porta S.Sebastiano - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Porta S.Sebastiano 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...
Category
18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Paris - Original Etching by Auguste Brouet - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paris is an original etching on paper, realized by the French artist Auguste Brouet.
Passepartout dimension: 35 x 32 cm
In very good condition.
This artwork represents the river...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Porta Angelica - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porta Angelica 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 margins...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 20th century etching by Valerie Thornton
Located in London, GB
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Valerie Thornton (1931-1991)
Bodleian Quadrangle, Oxford (1983)
Etching
24 x 35 cm
Numbered 13/75 lower left, titled below, and signed and dated lower right, all in pencil.
A very good example of Thornton's recognisable and unusual etching style. Her work is deeply concerned with material, and many of her etchings focus on eroded stone, emotive landscapes, and weathered architecture. Here, Thornton draws out the exceptional texture of the Bodleian Library's local stone.
Valerie Thornton was a British etcher and printmaker. She was born in London, but was evacuated to Canada with her two brothers during World War II. She returned to London in 1944 and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1949. From 1950 to 1953 Thornton studied under P.F. Millard at the Regent Street Polytechnic, then spent eight months at Atelier 17 in Paris. In the early 1960s, she moved to New York and worked at Pratt Graphic Art Center. In 1955, she succeeded Howard Hodgkin as assistant art teacher at Charterhouse School and in 1965 she became a founding member of the Print Makers Council. In 1970 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers.
Thornton was a member of The Regent Street Group (a group of nine artists who studied together at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1950s). The group also included Susan Horsfield, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis...
Category
1980s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Tomb of Caecilia Metella - Hand Watercolored Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tomb of Caecilia Metella is an original etching, hand-colored on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century, the state of artwork is good with some foxing on the upper ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
$211 Sale Price
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Pau - Original Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pau - France Pittoresque is an original lithograph realized by an Anonymous artist of the 19th Century.
Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center.
Titled in Franc...
Category
19th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$176 Sale Price
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Hugh Casson: Magdalene College, Cambridge, First Court limited edition print
By Hugh Casson
Located in London, GB
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Category
1990s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
A City Wall in Tunisia - Tunisiaca - Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 34.6 x 35 cm.
Editions of 120 examples and many Artist's proofs (111/120).
Published in the Portafoglio "Tunisiaca3 1996: d'aprés Auguste Lumière".
Signed and nu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
All Souls College, Oxford, William Nicholson lithograph 1905 Stafford Gallery
Located in London, GB
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William Nicholson (1872-1949)
All Souls College, Oxford
Signed, and numbered 98, published by Stafford Gallery with blindstamp
Lithograph
35x28cm
Probably best known through his graphic works, as a book designer and illustrator, Nicholson was greatly encouraged in his landscapes by Whistler from about 1900. In 1902-03 he produced a series of watercolour, chalk and pen drawings of Oxford which were published in 1905 by the Stafford Gallery as two portfolios of lithographs, with descriptions by Arthur Waugh – father of Evelyn Waugh...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Londonderry - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Londonderry is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the Mid-19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower central margin: Londonderry....
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$176 Sale Price
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Temple à Boro Boudor - Original Lithograph - Half of the 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Temple à Boro Boudor is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the central mar...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lac De la Geneve - Lithograph by Antonio Fontanesi - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This splendid lithograph Lac De la Geneve is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi.
The state of pr...
Category
19th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Melun - Original Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Melun - France Pittoresque is an original lithograph realized by an Anonymous artist of the 19th Century.
Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center.
Titled in Fra...
Category
19th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$193 Sale Price
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Chateau de Rochechouart - Original Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
French castle is an original etching artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century.
Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center.
Included two images...
Category
19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$246 Sale Price
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Mausoleum of Theodore in Ravenna - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mausoleum of Theodore is an original print on paper realized by an Anonymous. titled on the lower of image.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimension: 16.5x 24.5 cm
The artwork...
Category
19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$176 Sale Price
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Fontainebleau - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fontainebleau is an original lithograph artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century.
Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center.
Titled in France...
Category
19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$193 Sale Price
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View of Rome - Vintage Offset Print after G. Engelmann - Early 20h Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is a vintage offset print on paper, realized by Godefroy Engelmann in the early 20th Century.
In very good condition.
The artwork represents the roman landscape " "Cam...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
View of Rome - Vintage Offset Print after G. Engelmann - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is an offset print artwork on paper, realized by G. Engelmann.
The artwork is signed on the plate.
In very good condition.
The artwork represents the roman landscape ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Ruins of Erenfels - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ruins of Erenfels is an original print on paper realized by an Anonymous. titled on the lower of image.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimension: 16 x23 cm
The artwork represents ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$176 Sale Price
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Die Festung Coburg - Original Etching 19° Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 12.5x17.5 cm.
Die Festung Coburg is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper, realized at the end of XIX century by the German landscapist artist, Georg Mic...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$211 Sale Price
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Interieur de Geneve. Porte Neuve - Lithograph by A. Fontanesi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15 x 22 cm.
This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Porte Neuve is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the ...
Category
1850s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$335 Sale Price
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Window, Modern Etching by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Window, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 11.75 x 8.75 inches, S...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
France - Cathedral of Albi, Toulouse original vintage poster
Located in London, GB
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Category
20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mabel Oliver Rae, Trinity College Cambridge Great Court Etching (c.1920)
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints
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Etching
Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury /// William Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sir William Dugdale (English, 1605-1686)
Title: "Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury"
Portfolio: Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hosp...
Category
1810s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Quadrangle of Jesus College. Oxford University. Antique C19th engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Quadrangle of Jesus College'
Engraving by John Le Keux after Frederick Mackenzie, 1837. From James Ingram's 'Memorials of Oxford'.
135mm by 175mm (...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
ISOLA BELLA
By Andrew Affleck
Located in Portland, ME
Affleck, Andrew. ISOLA BELLA.
Etching, not dated.
Signed in pencil.
Edition size not known.
9 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches (image), 13 5/8 x 22 1/4 inches (shee...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Midnight Observatory, Landscape Art, Architectural Art, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Midnight Observatory [2012]
limited_edition
etching and aquatint
Edition number 69
Image size: H:20 cm x W:13.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37.5 cm x W:27.5 cm x D:.03cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
An etching and aquatint depicting the Royal Observatory at midnight in winter, printed from a copper plate in deep blue. This view of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park as seen from One Tree hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Copper
Midnight Observatory, Landscape Art, Architectural Art, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Midnight Observatory [2012]
limited_edition
etching and aquatint
Edition number 69
Image size: H:20 cm x W:13.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37.5 cm x W:27.5 cm x D:.03cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
An etching and aquatint depicting the Royal Observatory at midnight in winter, printed from a copper plate in deep blue. This view of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park as seen from One Tree hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Copper
Rue Eginhard, Signed Impressionist Etching by Lester George Hornby
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rue Eginhard
Lester George Hornby, American (1882–1956)
Date: 1908
Etching on laid paper, signed in pencil
Image Size: 7.25 x 5.5 inches
Size: 8.75 x 6.5 in. (22.23 x 16.51 cm)
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Midnight Observatory, Landscape Art, Architectural Art, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Midnight Observatory [2012]
limited_edition
etching and aquatint
Edition number 69
Image size: H:20 cm x W:13.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37.5 cm x W:27.5 cm x D:.03cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
An etching and aquatint depicting the Royal Observatory at midnight in winter, printed from a copper plate in deep blue. This view of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park as seen from One Tree hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vue du Capitole - Offset After G. Engelmann - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vue du Capitole is a print realized after Godefroy Engelmann in the 1970s.
Signed on the plate
Offset on paper
Good condition with slight foxing.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$176 Sale Price
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Vue de Rome Prise de Mont Palatin - Offset After G. Engelmann - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vue de Rome Prise de Mont Palatin is a print realized after Godefroy Engelmann in the 1970s.
Signed on the plate
Offset on paper
Good condition with slight foxing.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$176 Sale Price
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Castle Rock, Edinburgh
Located in Deddington, GB
Cities 19 – Castle Rock, Edinburgh by Susan Brown.
Hand signed by the artist
Limited edition giclée print.
The print edition is 150
The image size is 40 x 40 cm, overall size is 50 x 50 cm.
Each print is signed and numbered by Susan Brown
Sold unframed.
Discover limited edition giclée prints online with Wychwood Art and in their Oxfordshire art gallery. Susan Brown (BAHons HonDArts. MCSD) is an interior architect and a painter,and has been involved in both disciplines for many years. The paintings are held in many collections including, The Royal Bank of Canada, HBOS, Universities of York and Sheffield, and the National Trust. The work has been represented and shown by many galleries throughout the UK, has been represented internationally in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, the paintings have been included in many open exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and the Scottish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Giclée
Approaching Slains Castle #7, black white and grey monotype
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline quality of northern light. She has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Archival Paper
Julia Basilica and Tabularium - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Julia Basilica and Tabularium is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$141 Sale Price
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Porta Palatino in Turin - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Porta Palatino in Turin 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...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$158 Sale Price
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Uses and Customs - Roman Portico in Verona - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Roman Portico in Verona 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...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$141 Sale Price
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Uses and Customs - Cityscape - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs 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 the...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$141 Sale Price
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Uses and Customs - Sermione Fortress on Lake Garda - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Sermione Fortress on Lake Garda is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: "...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Bridge of Vaprio - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Bridge of Vaprio 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...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Piazza d'Armi and Amphitheater of the... - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Piazza d'Armi and Amphitheater of the Arena of Milan is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peopl...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Trezzo Castle - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Trezzo Castle 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 go...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$158 Sale Price
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Uses and Customs - Castel of Lavenza - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Castel of Lavenza 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 th...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$158 Sale Price
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Evening - The depth of the visible -
Located in Berlin, DE
Max Clarenbach (1880 Neuss - Cologne 1952), Evening. Etching, 18 x 41 cm (platemark), 33.5 x 57 cm (frame), inscribed "Abend" in pencil at lower left, signed and dated "M. Clarenbach. 28.III.[19]09". Framed and mounted under glass.
- Somewhat browned and slightly foxed.
About the artwork
The horizontally elongated etching depicts the panoramic view of a small town as seen from the other side of the river. There are gabled houses on the left and a mighty church spire on the right. The bourgeois houses and the large religious building indicate the urban character. These buildings are rendered in dark tones to emphasise the lighter row of houses in the centre of the picture, closer to the water. The chiaroscuro contrast creates two parallel planes that open up a space for the imagination of what the city could be. The imagination is stimulated by the almost entirely dark, barely recognisable buildings, while the arm of the river leading into the city further stimulates the imagination.
However, as the silhouette of the city as a whole is reflected in the water, the parallel planes are perceived as a band of houses that stretches across the entire horizontality of the etching and seems to continue beyond the borders of the picture. The reflection has almost the same intensity as the houses themselves, so that the band of buildings merges with their reflection to form the dominant formal unit of the picture. Only the parallel horizontal hatching creates the convincing impression of seeing water, demonstrating Max Clarenbach's mastery of the etching needle.
The water is completely motionless, the reflection unclouded by the slightest movement of the waves, creating a symmetry within the formal unity of the cityscape and its reflection that goes beyond the motif of a mere cityscape. A pictorial order is established that integrates everything in the picture and has a metaphysical character as a structure of order that transcends the individual things. This pictorial order is not only relevant in the pictorial world, but the picture itself reveals the order of the reality it depicts. Revealing the metaphysical order of reality in the structures of its visibility is what drives Clarenbach as an artist and motivates him to return to the same circle of motifs.
The symmetry described is at the same time inherent an asymmetry that is a reflection on art: While the real cityscape is cut off at the top of the picture, two chimneys and above all the church tower are not visible, the reflection illustrates reality in its entirety. The reflection occupies a much larger space in the picture than reality itself. Since antiquity, art has been understood primarily as a reflection of reality, but here Clarenbach makes it clear that art is not a mere appearance, which can at best be a reflection of reality, but that art has the potential to reveal reality itself.
The revealed structure of order is by no means purely formalistic; it appears at the same time as the mood of the landscape. The picture is filled with an almost sacred silence. Nothing in the picture evokes a sound, and there is complete stillness. There are no people in Clarenbach's landscape paintings to bring action into the picture. Not even we ourselves are assigned a viewing position in the picture, so that we do not become thematic subjects of action. Clarenbach also refrains from depicting technical achievements. The absence of man and technology creates an atmosphere of timelessness. Even if the specific date proves that Clarenbach is depicting something that happened before his eyes, without the date we would not be able to say which decade, or even which century, we are in. The motionless stillness, then, does not result in time being frozen in the picture, but rather in a timeless eternity that is nevertheless, as the title "Abend" (evening), added by Clarenbach himself, makes clear, a phenomenon of transition. The landscape of the stalls is about to be completely plunged into darkness, the buildings behind it only faintly discernible. The slightly darkened state of the sheet is in keeping with this transitional quality, which also lends the scene a sepia quality that underlines its timelessness. And yet the depiction is tied to a very specific time. Clarenbach dates the picture to the evening of 28 March 1909, which does not refer to the making of the etching, but to the capture of the landscape's essence in the landscape itself.
If the real landscape is thus in a state of transition, and therefore something ephemeral, art reveals its true nature in that reality, subject to the flow of phenomena, is transferred to an eternal moment, subject to a supra-temporal structure of order - revealed by art. Despite this supratemporality, the picture also shows the harbingers of night as the coming darkening of the world, which gives the picture a deeply melancholy quality, enhanced by the browning of the leaf.
It is the philosophical content and the lyrical-melancholic effect of the graphic that give it its enchanting power. Once we are immersed in the image, it literally takes a jerk to disengage from it.
This etching, so characteristic of Max Clarenbach's art, is - not least because of its dimensions - a major work in his graphic oeuvre.
About the artist
Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, the artistically gifted young Max Clarenbach was discovered by Andreas Achenbach and admitted to the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 13.
"Completely penniless, I worked for an uncle in a cardboard factory in the evenings to pay for my studies.”
- Max Clarenbach
At the academy he studied under Arthur Kampf, among others, and in 1897 was accepted into Eugen Dücker...
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Early 1900s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$545 Sale Price
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Conway Quay - Etching by J.C.Armytage - 1845
Located in Roma, IT
Conway Quay is an etching realized in 1845 by J.C. Armytage.
Signed in plate.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$193 Sale Price
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Gate - Tunis - Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Gate - Tunis is a photolithograph realized in 1996 by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi.
Hand-signed in on the lower right "Craxi d'après Lumieère", Numbered, edition of 120 prin...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$423 Sale Price
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Porta S. Pancrazio - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porta S. Pancrazio 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...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching