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Medium: Engraving
Frog Cog
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the frog. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Wardell-Power, L'homme calculateur, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching and engraving on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Extracted from the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n° 5-6, 1939. Published and ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Nude Woman with Orb)
Located in New York, NY
Sander's figures are captivating. Here a women stands facing right, just touching, and holding still, a globe shape, on a flat surface.
It was difficult getting the color to show p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Captain Cook's Exploration of Tahiti: 18th C. Hand-colored Map by Bellin
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 18th century hand-colored copper plate engraved map is entitled "Carte de l'Isle de Taiti, par le Lieutenant J. Cook" was created by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and publish...
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Late 18th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
THE CAPTURE OF MAJOR ANDRE
Located in Portland, ME
Smillie, James and Robert Hinshelwood and Alfred Jones. THE CAPTURE OF MAJOR ANDRE. Engraving after the painting by Asher B. Durand, 1845. Printed on cream-colored wove paper. 13 1/8 x 17 inches 333 x 431 mm.(image). In the margin, just under the image, left: "Painted by A.M. Durand," center: "Figures engr'd by Alfred Jones," right: "Landscaped engr'd by Smillie & Hinshelwood." Ttiled "The Capture of Major Andre" in the margin, Center, and further annotated "From a painting by A. B. Durandin the possession of the Honble James K.Paulding / Published by the American Art Union...
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1840s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Amour - Etching by André Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Amour is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print
Good conditions.
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Venice: View of the Grand Canal - Héliogravure, 1975
By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Located in Paris, IDF
After Giovanni Antonio Canaletto
Venice: View of the Grand Canal
Héliogravure after the original etching (Atelier Jacomet)
Printed signature i...
Category
1970s Academic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Ponte de Rodillas - Etching, Drypoint - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Ponte de Rodillas is a contemporary artwork realized in 1977.
The artwork is from the series: 'Les Caprices de Goya de Dali'.
Drypoint on Heliosgravure, on Rives paper.
Plate dime...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Boissy Les-Perches
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAURICE de VLAMINCK (1876 - 1958)
BOISSY LES-PERCHES, 1951 (W148)
Drypoint and etching. Unsigned but initialed in drypoint lower right in image, MV. 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches.
Full sh...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Coot Bird, "Wasserhuhn": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Wasserhuhn" (Coot) by Johann Leonhard Frisch , which is plate 208 from ...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Young Girl with Umbrella - Original Etching ad Drypoint by A. Doré -1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Young Girl with Umbrella is a beautiful drypoint made by the French painter, illustrator, and writer Amandine Doré in the second half of the 20th century. The state of preservation i...
Category
1950s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Utrecht, Netherlands: A Large 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Sanson & Jaillot
Located in Alamo, CA
This large hand-colored map entitled "La Seigneurie d'Utrecht. Dressé sur les memoires les plus nouveaux par le Sr. Sanson" was originally created by Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville. Thi...
Category
1690s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Kitchen of Trinity College, Cambridge engraving by Stadler after WH Pyne
Located in London, GB
To see our other Oxford and Cambridge pictures, including an extensive collection of works by Ackermann, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from th...
Category
1810s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
The Rialto
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this etching and drypoint, printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper. Second state (of 3). Edition of approximately 30. Signed w...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
North America: A Framed Hand-colored 19th Century German Map by Adolph Stieler
By Adolf Stieler
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed early 19th century map of North America entitled "Nord-Amerika" is plate No. LIV (No. 46) from Adolph Stieler's Hand-Atlas, published in Gotha, Germany by Justus Perthes ...
Category
1830s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Perturbation en O #1172
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Edition of 40 ex.
Unframed.
Carborundum engraving.
Moulin de Larroque handmade paper.
Free shipment worldwide.
“With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Peterhouse, Cambridge engraving by Stadler after Westall
Located in London, GB
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Category
1810s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Lady - Etching by A. Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Lady is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print, Included a Passepartout.
Good conditions.
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fructidore (Fruit being carried is hard to distinguish from the woman's body)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
In Anne Dykmans' "Fructidore", a well endowed woman uses her plaid apron to carry a bunch of fruit. Parts of her body clothed in plaid seem to suggest the same fruit she is carrying...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Leaf
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Carpe Diem I
Located in New Orleans, LA
this impression is #46 from edition of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Japan and currently lives in France. He is most known for his elegant, evocative black ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Sinopsis, by Javier Roz
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50.
Roz is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between photography and drawing, line and light. His current work is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Film, Pen, Drypoint, Etching
In Ancient Tunis
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
In Ancient Tunis
Image: 23.0 x 15.2 cm
Mount: 35.7 x 26.8 cm
Wood engraving
1932
One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Wood, Engraving
Entering the Sauna - Original etching - 1951
By André Derain
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre DERAIN
Entering the Sauna
Original drypoint etching
Stamp signature of the artist
On vellum 45 x 34 cm (c. 18 x 14 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Vienna, Austria: A Large 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Sanson and Jaillot
Located in Alamo, CA
This large 17th century hand-colored map of Vienna, Austria and the surrounding countryside and villages entitled "Plan de la Ville de Vienne en Austrich...
Category
1690s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury: An 18th C. Hand-Colored Portrait by Kneller
By (After) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored portrait of John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, engraved and etched by the Dutch master of portraits Jacobus Houb...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Cambridge map 17th century engraving after John Speed
By John Speed
Located in London, GB
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Pieter van den Keere (1571 - circa 1646) after John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629)
Map of Cambridgeshire
Engraving
8 x 12 cm
A beautifully coloured map of Cambridgeshire, with an antique description of the county to the reverse. The map, along with many others, was published in Speed's atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', first published in 1611. This particular miniature edition of the 'Theatre' was published in miniature by George Humble in 1627, entitled 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume. Done by John Speed.’ Speed's original map was likely engraved for this edition by Peter van den Keere. van den Keere's maps soon came to be known as "Miniature Speeds".
John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible...
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1620s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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 Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Before It Happened (A mysterious staircase offers no clues as to what happened)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #44 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil.
Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954)
Jukka Vanttinen...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Drenched (Lincoln Park, Chicago)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Drenched (Lincoln Park, Chicago)" c.1960 is an original drypoint etching by noted Chicago artist James Swann, 1905-1985. It is hand s...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Bath - Etching by A. Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
The Bath is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print, Including a Passepartout
Good conditions.
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"II Walnuts" - Intaglio Print by Tomoya Uchida
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted dry point etching by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, 20th Century). Two walnuts sit in an abstracted space, with ropes in the background.
Titled "II Walnuts" along the bottom edge.
Signed and dated "T. Uchida - 89" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a new grey mat with foam core backing.
Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category
1980s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
The Arrow - Illustration for Cressidra - Etching by A. Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
The Arrow is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print, Including a Passepartout
Good conditi...
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Joseph Addison: 18th C. Portrait of Philosopher, Poet, Playwright and Politician
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of Joseph Addison, Esq. by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, from "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain", published in London in 1748 by John & Paul Knapton. It depicts a bust portrait of Addison in an ornamental oval. He is turned to his right, but he is looking directly at the viewer. He is wearing a dark coat over a white shirt. Below the oval are items relating to plays, music, as well as the rod of Asclepius and books lying in foreground on the right.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. he founded The Spectator magazine with his friend Richard Steele. In 1712, Addison wrote his most famous work, "Cato, a Tragedy". It focussed on the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, He was dealing with issues of individual liberty versus government tyranny. The play was particularly popular in America. It is credited as an inspiration for the American Revolution. General George Washington had Cato performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78.
Several famous quotations from the American Revolution were inspired by passages in Cato, including: Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!", inspired by Act II, Scene 4: "It is not now time to talk of aught, But chains or conquest, liberty or death.") and Nathan Hale...
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1740s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Grief - Etching by A. Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Grief is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print. Including a Passepartout.
Good conditions...
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Nude - Etching by A. Suares - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is from Illustrations for Cressidra, a print on paper realized by André Suares in 1926.
Etching and drypoint
Edition of 200 print, Including a Passepartout
Good conditions.
Category
1920s Symbolist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Heads and a torso - Figurative drypoint print, Surrealist, Black & white
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts) in the studios of professors Władysław Strzemiński, Adam Rychtarski, Stefan Wegner and Ludwik Tyrowicz. He graduated with special award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1954. In 1958 he became a member of the Piąte Koło association ("Fifth Wheel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Banchetto d’Amore - Original Etching by A. Martini - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
Banchetto d’Amore is an original etching and aquatint, realized by Alberto Martini in 1917, signed in the plate, 2nd state on 3, edition 25 copies in 1945 .
Included a frame.
In v...
Category
1910s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Hiboux et Chouettes #7, 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 seemingly disgruntled owl in a nocturnal setting, by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Self-Portrait, Frowning - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait, Frowning is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Composition
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1960
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered XXIV/XXV
56.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 14.96 in. (paper)
29.00 cm. x 19.00 cm. 11.42 in. x 7.48 in. (image)
BFK ...
Category
1960s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Crab, Plaice and Prawns
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his d...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
St. Christophe (St. Kitts): Bellin 18th Century Hand Colored Map
Located in Alamo, CA
Jacques Bellin's copper-plate map of the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts entitled "Carte De De l'Isle St. Christophe Pour servir á l'Histoire Genle. des V...
Category
1740s Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
La Luna
Located in New York, NY
G.Sils, "La Luna", Abstract Drypoint/Etching/Aquatint Prints signed on Paper, 8.50 x 8.50 (In Frame 13.75 x 13.75), Mid to Late 20th Century, 1969
Colors: Bro...
Category
1960s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
The Divine Back of Gala
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Divine Back of Gala
Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism
Date: 1974
Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring on Arches
Unframed Dimensions...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Philips’ New Map of Africa
Located in London, GB
[PHILIP, George]
Philips’ New Map of Africa
London & Liverpool George Philip & Son [1899]
Attractive large map of Africa by the firm founded by the Scottish cartographer George Ph...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Downtown Paris - Etching by Anselmo Bucci - 1915 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Very good conditions.
Category
1910s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Capturas
Located in New Orleans, LA
4 individual drypoint engravings sold as a grouping that forms the whole. There are only 5 sets. This is #2 of 5. Paper size is 30 x 32 cm. Paper is Grabado, Punta seca.
Graduat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Maniere Noire a la Noisette Belle, Dark Minimalist Mezzotint by Mario Avati
By Mario Avati
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mario Avati, French (1921 - 2009)
Title: Maniere Noire a la Noisette Belle
Year: 1963
Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 22/75
Image Size: 9.5 x 11.5 i...
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1960s Post-Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) 1784 Captain Cooks Final voyage by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was t...
Category
1780s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Bernard Sanders, Bird on Piano
Located in New York, NY
Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This one certainly is. Signed in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Les Piler, by JMM Mathieux-Marie
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered, from the edition of 180. The base and parapets of a bridge.
Mathieux-Marie was born in Paris in 1947 and has been honored throughout his career with awa...
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Sew What (the swells and swirls of the stripes are now in the hands of others)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Sew What" is a color mezzotint with burin engraving created in an edition of 35. This impression is #6. I love sumptuously designed textiles in both real life and art. Patterns metamorphosing over fabric folds appeal to my interest in modulating rhythmic forms, particularly the swells and swirls of calligraphic stripes. I’m also fascinated by articulated wooden hand models, which appear in many of my paintings. Combining these passions with sewing paraphernalia from my seamstress days provided inspiration for my color mezzotint engraving "Sew What".
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Folkwang - Abstract drypoint & watercolor, Colorful, Surrealist, Vibrant
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts) in the studios of professors Władysław Strzemiński, Adam Rychtarski, Stefan Wegner and Ludwik Tyrowicz. He graduated with special award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1954. In 1958 he became a member of the Piąte Koło association ("Fifth Wheel"). In 1967 he began working in the field of graphics in Lodz. In 1971, he co-founded Faculty of Graphic. In 1970s Polish etchings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Drypoint
England and the British Isles: A Large 17th Century Hand-colored Map by de Wit
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a large hand-colored 17th century map of England and the British Isles by Frederick de Wit entitled "Accuratissima Angliæ Regni et Walliæ Principatus", published in Amsterdam in 1680. It is a highly detailed map of England, Scotland, the Scottish Isles...
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Late 17th Century Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Fishermen - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fishermen is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is realize...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Tondo Portfolio, by Jenny Robinson
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Please note that these are six individual prints, Drypoint on Okawara paper. The main image is meant to show how them might look grouped together. Each is signed and numbered by the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
BUCHOZ. A Group of Four Tulips
Located in London, GB
A Group of 4 hand-coloured engraved plates of tulips, in matching silver leaf frames. Dimensions: 34.6cm by 48.5cm.
A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Collection des Fleurs de la Chine & de l'Europe, first published in 1776.
[Paris 1781]
The second half of the eighteenth century saw a boom in natural history publications in France fuelled by such works as Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. The accession of Louis XVI in 1774 was followed by a relaxation in the regulation of the book trade making it easier for authors to publish their own works. No other writer was to take such copious advantage of these two developments as Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807), a French physician, lawyer and naturalist. His works are characterised by the beauty of the illustrations, and their rarity owing to the small size of the print runs.
The final tulip plate...
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1780s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Paper
Find Engravings and Other Fine Art Prints on 1stDibs
Art is a smart investment if the print-collecting bug has bitten you. But maybe you’re merely looking to bring art into your home — if so, engravings and other types of fine art prints can help enhance your space while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.
An engraving is a print made by incising lines into a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin. After the image is drawn, the plate is inked, wiped clean, and then firmly pressed to paper so the ink remaining in the incised grooves is transferred. Considerable force is required to mark the metal, so the lines made by engraving tend to be stronger than those made through etching, and characterized by gentle tapering. Light and shade have to be created through cross-hatching since the technique is line-based.
Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Francisco Goya are among the Old Masters admired for their engravings, but postwar and contemporary artists have made the most of the technique as well.
Vija Celmins, for example, engraved wood to create her series of ocean surfaces, while Louise Bourgeois, who spoke about the symbolic power of engraving to convert aggression into something useful, revisited the medium throughout her long career. For Jasper Johns, recognized as one of the most innovative, masterful print artists of all time, printmaking was ideal for exploring the ideas of repetition, seriality, patterning, semiotics, order and symbolism that intrigued him. His crosshatch prints (and paintings, for that matter) are a wonderful reference to the engraving process but also a brilliant conceptual update of Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, which Johns subverted again and again.
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Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt’s ‘Wild Raspberries’ Cookbook Is an Artful, Fanciful Delight
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Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
Shapero Modern’s Director Tells Us All about 20th-Century Prints
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Yoshitomo Nara Puts a Punk Rock Twist on the Traditional Prints of His Ancestors
The forever-rebellious Japanese artist craftily defaces famous Edo Period woodblock prints with “In the Floating World.”