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Medium: Engraving
Book 1, line 192: Satan on the Burning Lake
By John Martin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Book 1, line 192: Satan on the Burning Lake
Mezzotint, 1825
Engraved signature below the image (see photo)
From John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Published by Septimus Prowett
Printed by...
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1820s Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
The Goldfinch, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.348 )
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Goldfinch is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 11.2 x 8.25 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Wandelaars II, Contemporary Mezzotint by Anne Dykmans
By Anne Dykmans
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Dykmans, Belgian (1952 - ) - Wandelaars II, Year: 2002, Medium: Mezzotint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 50, Image Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches, Frame Siz...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Hermit Crabs, German animal antique underwater crustacean engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Einsiedlerkrebse'
(Hermit crabs)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Salvador Dalí -- Pegasus from The Mythology suite
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí
Pegasus from The Mythology suite, 1960-1964
Etching and engraving with color aquatint.
Hand Signed lower right
Numbered 28/150
Image size: 52 x 61 cm
Sheet size: 55...
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1960s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Wrath of Elihu: 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid.'
Located in Storrs, CT
The Wrath of Elihu. 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid'. 1823-25. Engraving. .Binyon catalog 117 state ii, Bindman catalog 632. Image 7 7/8 x 5 15/16; plate 8 ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Composition, Alternance, Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alternance, 1946. Published by Le Gerbier, Paris; printed by atelier Quesnevill...
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1940s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$1,436 Sale Price
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Large Italian Aquatint Etching Francesco Clemente Neo Expressionist Avant Garde
Located in Surfside, FL
Francesco Clemente (Italian b. 1952),
'This side up / Telemone #2,
1981
Medium: Intaglio hard ground etching, color aquatint, drypoint, and soft-ground etching with chine collé (ha...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
"Encuentro" 2006 Original Unique Signed Artist Proof 28x20in Woodcut Mexican
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Diaz Cortes (Mexico, 1935)
'Encuentro' (meeting), 2006
woodcut on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
P/A (Artist Proof), unique piece
Unframed
ID: DIA-10...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut, Ink, Linocut
Salvador Dali "Icarus (Eolus)"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Icarus (Eolus)
Series: The Mythology
Date: 1963
Medium: drypoint
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 18"
Framed Dimensions: 41" x 33" x 2"
Signature: Pen...
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1960s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building. 1925. Etching. Wuerth 853. 9 7/8 x 11 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 17 1/8). Edition probably 35. An atmospheric impression with plate tone, printed on antique laid paper...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$850 Sale Price
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George II, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George II'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...
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Late 18th Century Renaissance Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"Study of nude woman" 2007 Original Signed Engraving Drypoint Mexican Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Javier Areán (Mexico, 1969)
"Mujer desnuda (estudio)" (Study of nude woman), 2007
dry point on paper Fabriano 300 g.
16 x 13.6 in. (40.5 x 34.5 cm.)
Edition of 20
ID: ARA-101
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Drypoint
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench).
Located in Storrs, CT
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench). 1883. Mezzotint. Tissot catalog 79, Béraldi catalog 66, Wentworth catalog 75 state ii/iii. 16 1/2 x 22 1/8 (s...
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19th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
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Poesies de Mallarme
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: engraving (after the 1932 etching for Poésies de Mallarmé). Printed in 1933 on watermarked Montgolfier laid paper and published in Paris by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Size: ...
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1930s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Low Country (South Carolina)
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm).
Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing.
Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green.
An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...
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1960s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"Catastrophe programmée"
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 2002
Edition : 20/50
76.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 22.05 in. (paper)
76.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 22.05 in. (image)
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Ref : LCD...
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Early 2000s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Mountain
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Mezzotint print. Edition of 18, signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Caulfield has exhibited his prints, drawings, installations and artist’s books extensively throughout Cana...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
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1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Degas, Un Client serieux, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size 8.5 x 6.375 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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Flowering Chestnut Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Castanea Equina, Chateignier amaire (Horse Chestnut)". It is plate 342 in...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Landscape, Modern Drypoint with Embossing by Alena Kučerová
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alena Kucerova, Czech (1935 - ) - Landscape, Year: 1971, Medium: Drypoint with Embossing, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil, Edition: 1/100, Image Size: 10.5 x 15 inches, Siz...
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1970s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
En passant (Passing by)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by)
Drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Edition: 30, this state with remarque
Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris
A very rich impression wwith burr
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque)
Exteens 277 i/II
IFF 148 (portfolio)
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Ancient Etruscan Greek vase painting. Early 19th century engraving, 1808
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Etruscan Vase-painting
Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring. 1808. From Millin's 'Peintures de Vases Antiques' published in Paris in 1808.
Depicts scene from an ancient ...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel" (Plate 949)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the...
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1770s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Buitenzijde Van Het Colosseum (Exterior of the Colosseum)
Located in Middletown, NY
The Hague: circa 1799.
Engraving with burin on cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 13 inches (198 x 330 mm) full margins. Octavo fold with additional hard creases with an associated loss in t...
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Late 18th Century Dutch School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
Pee-amerdu Plant: A Rare 17th Century Botanical Engraving by H. van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Pee-amerdu" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 19 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the Pee-amerdu plant, a large leafed plant climbing plant off the Malabar Coast in India. The plant is noted for its medicinal uses. It may be related to Tinospora species. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants.
The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked watermarked paper. The sheet measures 14.88" high by 18.75" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There are a few faint smudges, a spot in the upper margin and there is minimal irregularity of the left edge of the paper where the print was previously bound in the 17th century publication. The print is otherwise in very good condition.
There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein...
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Late 17th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Fish, engraving with original hand-colouring, circa 1815
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fish and seahorse, engraving with original hand-colouring, circa 1815.
From Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic ...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Wren's City, by Joseph Pennell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
WREN'S CITY (Wuerth. 504) by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) . Mezzotint, 1909, signed and inscribed imp. in pencil, edition of approximately 75. Fine rich impression and condition, trimm...
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Early 1900s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
$2,500 Sale Price
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'Grand Central, Night' — 1920s New York City Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Walter Tittle, 'Grand Central Night', drypoint, edition not stated, c. 1920s. Signed in pencil. Titled, and annotated '36.00' and with the inventory numb...
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1920s American Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Untitled by Bruce Nauman abstract black and white drypoint etching 70s
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
A moody, evocative black and white abstract etching by pioneer Bruce Nauman.
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media inc...
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1970s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Aquatint
William Hamilton Classical Greek Vase-Painting Engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting from depicting a departure scene with a young warrior between two women.
Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring
Back...
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Early 1800s Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Flowering Feverfew Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Matricaria Flore Simplici, Matricaria Flore Pleno, depicting flowering Feverfew and Double-flowered Feverfew plants, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. The feverfew plant is also known as featherfew, featherfoil, or bachelor’s buttons...
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1640s Academic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
untitled, original
By Paul Colin
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is a limited edition, pencil signed by the artist on the print and in the plate. It is part of my private collection of artists from the School of Paris era. It is in very...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Degas, Famille Cardinal, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.24 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Malopa grandiflora, antique botanical flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
"Open Wide" 1972 original signed engraving lithograph limited edition American
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Smith (United States, 1944)
'Open wide', 1972
lithograph in color on paper
21.7 x 29.6 in. (55 x 75 cm.)
Edition of 75
Unframed
ID: SMI1158-001-075
Hand-signed by author
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Degas, Dans l'Omnibus, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 7 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vol...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Degas, Femme sortant du bain, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife
Located in Middletown, NY
Sadeler, Aegidius II, after Bartholomeus Spranger
Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller
Engraving on hand made laid paper wit...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
Degas, Devant la Cheminee, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 9.125 x 12.25 inches; image size: 6.5 x 9 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vol...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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Lincoln and His Family, Philadalphia 1866
Located in Paonia, CO
Lincoln and His Family, Philadelphia 1866 is a mezzotint engraving from the painting by Samual B. Waugh and engraved by prestigious engraver William Sartain. This family portrait...
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Mid-19th Century Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Roman Costumes: Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of 50 copperplate engravings featuring early 19th century costume scenes set in the Roman countryside. With characters dedicated to work, games, revelry, and various act...
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Early 19th Century Italian School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching
Human Eye, German antique medical anatomy wood-engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Auge des Menschen'
(Human Eye)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Dans les Cendres (In the embers)
Located in Storrs, CT
Dans les Cendres (In the embers). 1887. Delteil catalog 67 state iii. State after the plate was cut down and a second figure eliminated (the two earlier states are of the greatest rarity). Etching, drypoint and roulette. 16 3/4 x 12 1/8 (sheet 19 1/2 x 14). Edition 50. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 9 (1921): 254. A very rich impression with plate tone and drypoint burr, printed on simili-japon. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. This is one of the artist's most striking images. Signed in pencil. Housed in 25 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Paul Albert Besnard, was an impressionist painter. In 1866, the seventeen-year-old son of artist parents began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts Paris. In 1874, Besnard won the important Prix de Rome, with which the academy distinguished young talent. A portion of the scholarship is a stay of several years in Rome. Besnard married Charlotte Dubray, a sculptress, during this time in Rome. The couple lived in England, where Besnard exhibited at the Royal Academy London, between 1881 and 1884. He became involved with English portrait painting during this period, which had a lasting influence on his work.
In the years that followed, Besnard broke with the academic tradition. In 1886, he presented the portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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Autumn Light
Located in Deddington, GB
This print of a tree uses litho printed kitakata chine collé to depict the warmth and colour of early autumnal sunlight. The depth of the blacks along with the layering, allude to th...
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2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Plan et Elevation d'un Buffet en Niche, Roubo French design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Plan et Elevation d'un Buffet en Niche'
French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
From Roubo's 'L'Art du ...
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Late 18th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
18th Century Catesby Hand-colored Bird & Plant Engraving "The Crested Titmous"
By Mark Catesby
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copperplate engraving of a bird and plants by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) entitled "The Crested Titmous" from "The Natural History of Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Bahama Islands", published in 1731. It depicts a small Crested Titmous bird, facing left, perched on the stem of a plant with clusters of mauve colored star-like flowers.
This original Catesby hand-colored engraving, on laid paper with a large central Fleur-de-Lys watermark, is presented in a cream color French mat. The mat measures 20" x 15.5" and the sheet measures 18.75" x 14.75".
Mark Catesby was born in England to a prosperous family, but he traveled to America, first to visit his sister and her husband in 1712. From 1712 to 1719 he explored America observing its birds and plants, taking notes, creating drawings and collecting specimens. He returned to England with this material and created more detailed drawings. His next visit to America 1722-1726 allowed for more detailed research. Upon his return to England he created his monumental and beautiful work "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands", which was published in London in two folio volumes of 11 parts each consisting of 20 plates...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
The Quebec and the Surveillante [an animated naval battle scene]
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with extensive handcoloring, on laid paper with a Fleur de Lys watermark, with margins. Plate 11 13/16 x 15 3/4 (300 x 400 mm); Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 3/8 inches (317 x 415 mm)...
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Late 18th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Laid Paper
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Ascension (Traffic in front of St. Bartholomew / Park Ave bet 50th and 51s
Located in New Orleans, LA
An overflow of traffic in front of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Cathedral on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st
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1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Streptanthera cuprea, antique botanical flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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1940s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
El llibre dels sentits
By Joan Miró
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Author: Joan Miró
Title: El llibre dels Sentits
Year: 1981
Technique: Engraving 21/50. Print run of 50 copies
Sizes: 92 x 73 cm. Framed
Edited by Sala Gaspar.
Catalogue raisonné Miró...
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1980s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Four French Louis XIV period chimney-piece design engravings by Jean Dolivar
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Luire de Cheminees a la Moderne nouvellement Invente et Grave par Jean Dolivar.'
Collection of 4 engravings with designs for chimney-pieces. Published in Paris, circa 1670.
210mm ...
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Mid-17th Century Baroque Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was engraved, printed and colored in London by Robert Havell, Jr. in 1834. It depicts a male and a female Esquimaux Curlew birds...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
La Fantasie
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 7 x 3 1/2 inches (177 x 90 mm), full margins. An engraving by the artist after his own drawing which is housed in the permanent collection of the Metro...
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Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
YELLOW CALLA LILLIES
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (American, born 1935). YELLOW CALLA LILLIES. D'Oench and Feinberg 19. Etching, soft-ground, drypoint, photogravure and electric tools, with hand-...
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1970s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
The Fighting Temeraire: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After J. M. W. Turner
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "The Fighting Temeraire" by James Tibbetts Willmore is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published by James S. Virtue & Co. in London between 1859-1875. It depicts the once mighty British warship the HMS Temeraire being towed away down the river Thames by a much smaller steamboat to a ship-breaking yard to be broken up for scrap. The Temeraire was first launched in 1798 and represented the pinnacle of British ship-building. 180-feet long, constructed of English oak and armed with 98 guns, she was one of the largest warships of the period. The Temeraire became a symbol of British pride and military power that endured throughout the 19th century. The man-of-war served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was among the last serving ships to have been at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It became one of the many older ships put out of service in the 1830s and 1840s. The once mighty and feared ship symbolizes a once magnificent, but now obsolete, technology. Turner seems to lament her inglorious final journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat.
The Turner painting was created in 1838 and is now held in the National Gallery in London. Willmore's engraving, created in 1859, captures the dramatic scene with great detail and skill. The image has become an iconic representation of the decline of Britain's naval power and the transition from sail to steam in the 19th century. The sunset in the background is symbolic of the sun going down on British naval power and tradition. The painting conveys profound and diverse themes that are central to the human experience: those of mortality and change, technology and progress, heroism and brutality. The painting demonstrates Turner’s skill as an artist. His ability to produce scenes of great beauty that are dramatic, but are also symbolic, stimulating both thoughtful analysis, as well as emotion. Turner's painting was voted by the British public in a 2005 BBC radio sponsored survey to be the British people's favorite painting of all time. In 2020 it was included on a new British banknote...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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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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