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Medium: Engraving
Don't Invite the Ringling to Dinner (color version)
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 11.75 x 17.5 inches
Scene of jugglers in dining room juggling plates in this comical print from Werger's Circus series of prints...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Beauties of Claude Lorrain mezzotint - Plate 10
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...
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1820s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Une rue de Rouen
Located in Middletown, NY
Copper plate etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic watermark, 11 x 8 inches (280 x 204 mm), full margins. Toning and some discoloration along the left mar...
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Late 19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Profils Sous Angle 2
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Edition of 80. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Pasternak's work was featured o on the title page of Carol Wax's masterful book "The History of the Mezzotint".
Pasternak has b...
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1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
"Mount Edgcumbe" engraving
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: engraving (after the painting). Printed on Holland-style wove paper, from the rare large size deluxe portfolio entitled "Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England", ...
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Early 19th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Peacock Butterfly, Moth & Botanical: An 18th C. Hand-colored M. Harris Engraving
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare, original first edition hand-colored engraving of Peacock Butterflies and Water Betony Moths depicted in their natural botanical environment, which is plate 8 from Mos...
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Mid-18th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
WINTERSONNE
By Erich Heckel
Located in Portland, ME
Heckel, Erich (German, 1883-1970). WINTERSONNE. Dube 318. Drypoint, 1913. Edition size not known. Signed and dated "Heckel 1913" in pencil. Printed on heavy wove paper. 4 3/4 x 6 1/...
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1910s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Drypoint
George Washington, early 19th century portrait engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Giorgio Washington'
Stipple engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso (active 1809-1816) after Jean Bosio (1767-1832), 1818.
220mm by 155mm (platemark)
295mm by 220mm (sheet)
George W...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Web
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Web
Engraving and soft ground, 1950
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist
Edition: 35 (26/35)
Printed by Master Printer, Jon Clemens, 2000
Provenance:
Estate of the ar...
Category
1950s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Great Fire of London, 1666
By James Stow
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare early 19th century view of the Great Fire of London over Ludgate, enhanced with hand coloring.
London: Robert Wilkinson, 1811.
Copperplat...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Watercolor
Degas, La Loge, 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: 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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: 6.375 x 8.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Degas, La Pianiste et le Chanteur, 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: 6.75 x 5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vo...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Francesco Battalia - The Stone Eater
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Francesco Battalia, the Stone Eater, 17th century. Born in Rome with three stones in his hands, he lived on a diet of stones and red wine. Performed in London at Bartholomew Fair and...
Category
19th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$104 Sale Price
20% Off
TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
Category
1930s Cubist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$31,600 Sale Price
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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...
Category
1820s Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape 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.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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Early 18th Century Academic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Tigre couché à l'entrée de son antre (Tiger Lying at the Entrance to its Lair)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching, drypoint, and roulette on watermarked Hallines cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (95 x 148 mm), full margins. A very good impression of this charming image, with all of...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Man Unveiling a Woman, 1931 (Vollard Suite, B.138)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Man Unveiling a Woman" is a drypoint from Picasso's Vollard Suite, image size 14.5 x 11.5 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black an...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Degas, Au Salon, 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: 6.25 x 8.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Materials
Engraving
4 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: LIV, LV, LVI, & LVII.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Charles Louis Balzac ca. 1809-1829 Engraving Koum Omboû (Ombos)
Located in Chicago, IL
An engraving on paper by Charles Louis Balzac, "DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Koum Omboû (Ombos) Vue du Grand Temple". (ANTIQUITES, volume I, planche 40). Artwork size: 21" x 28". Arch...
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Early 19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Composition, L'amour du plus lointain, James Coignard
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin papier à la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, L'amour du plus lointain, neuf gravures...
Category
1960s Post-War Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$1,676 Sale Price
20% Off
Marquis de Marigny: An 18th C. Wille Engraved Portrait after a Tocque Painting
By Louis Tocqué
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a mid 18th century engraved portrait of Abel François Poisson de Vandières, Marquis de Marigny by Jean Georges Wille after a painting by Louis Tocque...
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Mid-18th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Woolworth Building, New York
Located in Middletown, NY
A rich and tonal image of an icon of Manhattan architecture.
Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
wood engraving for Mille Nuits
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...
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1950s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
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...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Azalea Pulchra, 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.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Femme dans la Baignoire, 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: 8.75 x 6.375 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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: 9 x 6 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the volum...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Prophétie de Dalínean (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Prophétie de Dalínean (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Dalínean Prophecy, Imaginations and Objects ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
The Gothic Spirit
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
Category
1920s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,500 Sale Price
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London Bridge, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'London Bridge'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Thistle and Moths, plate no. 6, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 6; Thistle and Moths. The Netherlands: 1705. Engraving with hand coloring in w...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Cocoa plant, caterpillar, ..., Plate 26, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 26; Cocoa plant, caterpillar, pupa, and butterflies. The Netherlands: 1705. En...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Grand Marsh, mezzotint by James Groleau of coastal Maine
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This is one of eighteen color mezzotints (printed on chine collé) depicting the landscape of coastal Maine. Intimations of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early twentieth century are evident in the palette of greens and grays, with additional touches of violet, eggplant and ochre. The suite of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowering Cotton Plant: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Egypt. Early 19th century engraving, 1820
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue des Deux Colosses. Thebes, Memnonium'
Elephant folio engraving, by Baltard after Dutetre, from 'Description de l'Egypte', published after Napoleon's expedition to colonize Egyp...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford, portrait engraving, c1820
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).
Houbraken was a Dutch engraver famous for his series of portraits of famous English hi...
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Early 19th Century Renaissance Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Sous Bois
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, c1870.
Etching with engraving on Chine-collé mounted to wove paper, 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches (360 x 244 mm) full margins. In good condition with some marginal w...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
$300
Peggy /// Antique Victorian Etching Portrait Figurative British Children Child
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sidney Tushingham (English, 1884-1968)
Title: "Peggy"
*Signed by Tushingham in pencil lower right. It is also monogram signed in the plate (printed signature) lower right
Cir...
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1910s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$22,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Still Night (Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Avenue off Flatbush Avenue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
Category
1980s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
The Lake
By Udo Claassen
Located in New Orleans, LA
German artist Udo Claassen created a dramatic landscape of this Icelandic scene in 1985 in an edition of 40. This is #33.
Claassen was born in Itzehoe in the state of Schleswig-Hol...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Susan, Lady Belasyse /// Memoirs of Count Grammont Royal Portrait Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Anthony Hamilton (British-French, 1645-1719)
Title: "Susan, Lady Belasyse" (Plate 45)
Portfolio: Memoirs of Grammont
Year: 1808 (First edition)
Medium: Original Stipple Engra...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Intaglio
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
Category
1930s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Petit Braconnier
Located in Middletown, NY
A boy kneels on a grass slope, trying to tempt an unseen animal.
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid ...
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Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Degas, Deux Femmes, 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 ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House - Engraving after Rembrandt
Located in Roma, IT
Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece ...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 12 3/8 x 6 9/16 inches (315 x 167 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very goo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Canterbury: An Original 16th C. Framed Hand-colored Map by Braun & Hogenberg
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 16th century map and city view of Canterbury, England entitled "Cantuarbury" by Braun & Hogenburg, from their famous landmark atlas of city views 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' (Atlas of the Cities of the World), which was first published in Cologne, Germany in 1572. The map of Canterbury was first published in 1588. It depicts a detailed birdseye view of the completely walled and fortified city of Canterbury, with its cathedral the most prominent feature. The coat of arms of England, Canterbury, and the Archbishop of Canterbury are included.
This beautifully hand-colored map is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a beaded inner trim and a paprika-colored mat that highlights details in the map. The frame measures 18.75" high by 22.25" wide by 0.875" deep. There is a central vertical fold, as issued. The map is in excellent condition.
Braun and Hogenberg's 'The Civitates Orbis Terrarum' was the second atlas of maps ever published and the first atlas of cities and towns of the world. It is one of the most important books published in the 16th century. Most of the maps in the atlas were engraved by Franz Hogenberg and the text, with its descriptions of the history and additional factual information of the cities, was written by a team of writers and edited by Georg Braun. The work contained 546 bird-eye views and map views of cities and towns from all over the world. It gave graphic representation of the main features of the illustrated cities and towns, including the buildings and streets. Although the ordinary buildings are stylized, the principal buildings are reproduced from actual drawings created on location. The principal landmarks and streets can still be recognized today. In addition, the maps often include the heraldic arms of the city, the nature of the surrounding countryside, the important rivers, streams and harbors, even depicting stone bridges, wooden pontoons, flat-bottomed ferries, ships and working boats, wharves and jetties, as well as land-based activities, including horsemen, pedestrians, wagons, coaches, and palanquins. Small vignettes are often included which illustrate the trade, occupations and habits of the local inhabitants, such as agriculture, paper-making and textiles, as well as local forms of punishment, such as gibbets, wheels, floggings etc. Large figures dressed in their local costume are often presented out of proportion in the foreground. The aim of the authors was to give as much information as possible in a pleasing visual form. They succeeded in creating maps that were both informative and decorative works of art. The atlas is a wonderful glimpse of life in medieval Europe.
Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic...
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16th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Stones
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
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1990s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
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Ancient Roman Architecture: Original Framed 18th C. Etching by G. Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Engraving, Drypoint
Cambridge Midsummer Fair
Located in Middletown, NY
A peaceful image by Britian's first official war artist.
Drypoint printed in brownish black ink on fibrous, laid Japon paper, 3 3/8 x 6 5/16 inches (85 x 161 mm), full margins. Sign...
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Early 20th Century Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Drypoint
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
A Drypoint etching on Wove...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
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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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