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Medium: Etching
Les Deux Matrones, Art Nouveau Etching by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georges Rouault, French (1871 - 1958) Title: Les Deux Matrones from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Year: 1928 Medium: Aquatint on Arches, signed in the...
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1920s Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

THE BIG HORSE CHESTNUT TREE
Located in Portland, ME
Hassam, Childe. THE BIG HORSE CHESTNUT TREE, EASTHAMPTON. C/C 304. Etching, 1922. Signed with the cypher and inscribed "imp." in pencil, and signed, date...
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1920s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Starfish Etching in Ink on Paper (#8/16)
Located in Soquel, CA
Delightfully detailed starfish at the shore by unknown artist J. Brown (20th Century). A starfish sits atop a rock at the edge of the water. The scene is rendered with great detail, ...
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1980s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Archival Paper, Etching

Not Yet - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Not Yet (Original Title: Non ancora) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1975 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017) Original black and white etching. Hand sign...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Capital Letter - Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good...
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Mid-18th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Testa Quasi Colossale di Marco Aurelio - Etching by P. Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
“Testa quasi colossale di Marco Aurelio” (Almost colossal head of Marco Aurelio) is a beautiful black and white burin on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837), after Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1754 - Venice, 1831), as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Teodoro Matteini delineò./ Pietro Fontana incise a bollino Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXV" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints shows a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman philosopher and writer and one of the "good Roman Emperor" (according to Edward Gibbon) Marco Aurelio, represented in neoclassical style and with the traditional iconography with a thick hair and a long beard. In excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper on the lower margin and some light signs of the time with an imperceptible weaving of the paper on the lower right corner, this wonderful burin preserved his fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837) The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen...
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1820s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching by Carlo Oratij - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Ortij in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions ex...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait of G. Heidegger - Original Etching by William Sharp - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of G. Heidegger is an original artwork realized by William Sharp (1749 - 1824). Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, De...
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1810s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Legend of Colapesce - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
The Legend of Colapesce (Original Title: Colapesce nello stretto) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1972 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Or...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Urbino Under the Snow - Etching - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Urbino con la neve is an original artwork realized by an artist of the 17th century. Beautiful etching on ivory paper. Image Dimensions: 20...
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17th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Haaring Levieux (B274), Old Masters Framed Heliogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Haaring Levieux (B274), Year: 1878 (of original 1655), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7.75 x 6 in. (19.69 x 1...
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Late 19th Century Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"La rue de la Paix" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1909 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (241 x 1...
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Early 1900s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Nautical Festival Fête nautique - France Nautical Dufy & Villon Collab
Located in London, GB
RAOUL DUFY 1877-1953 Le Havre 1877-1953 Forcalquier (French) and JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963 (Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875 - 1963 Paris (French) Tit...
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1920s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Leap Fail Leap
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media Photo Etching, Aquatint and Drypoint Printed on Arches Cover titled Leap Fail Leap, created by the artistic collaboration of Robert Flemming and Mizin Shin. ...
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2010s Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

I Can Still Read Your Face
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 15. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Le Supplice du Garrot, Old Masters Heliogravure Etching by Francisco de Goya
Located in Long Island City, NY
Francisco de Goya, After by Amand Durand, Spanish (1746 - 1828) - Le Supplice du Garrot, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12.5 x 8.5 in. (31.75 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Description: An Amand Durand etching...
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1870s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Owl - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009). Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in pencil. Ed...
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1960s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Mezzotint

Seascape With Monuments and Figures - Etching by Niccolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Niccolò Vanni (1750-1770). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title...
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18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Warangal
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 13/65 Publisher : L'Œuvre Gravée (Paris) 89.50 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.24 in. x 24.8 in. (paper) 76.00 cm. x 56...
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1970s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Drinkers - Etching By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
Drinkers is an Etching realized by Georges Jeanniot in 1914. Signed on the lower, titled. Good condition.
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1910s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Large Abstract Expressionist Etching with Chine Colle by Michael Steiner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract expressionist print by American artist Michael Steiner, who is most commonly known for his large scale sculptures. Medium: Etching with chine colle...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Guy Allen, Horse Study Blue, Bright Art, Etching Print, Contemporary Equine Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Guy Allen Horse Study Blue Limited Edition Etching with Screen Print Overlay Edition of 45 Image Size: H 53.5cm x W 56.5cm Sheet Size: H 80cm x W 77cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Screen

The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea - 19th Century British Etching by Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA (1847-1926) The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Etching, unsigned, with the artist’s tab, signed in the plate, trimmed to th...
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1880s Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ancient Still Life 5 - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Guerra in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and aged with some folding...
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18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

NOCTURNE: PALACES
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler (circle)
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. NOCTURNE: PALACES. Glascow 200, Kennedy 202. Etching and drypoint with platetone, 1879-80. From the Second Venice Set. Signed on the tab with the butterfly in pencil. Printed in sepia on laid paper with no visible watermark. Trimmed just outside the platemark, leaving the tab. In excellent condition. As with all of the Whistler Nocturnes, each impressions of this print is different, dependng on how Whistler wiped and manipulated the platetone. 11 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (plate and sheet, plus the tab). Framed to 20 x 16 inches. Provenance: Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. with his collection stamp (Lugt 1429) verso; Kennedy Galleries, with its inventory number a65609 in pencil verso, and with another inscription, "FWCX" in pencil, verso. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, 1831-1920, was a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, a powerful Boston businessman, and an Ambassador to France. In 1875 he became the manager of the largest textile mill in America, the Amoskeag Mill in Manchester New Hampshire, and had major financial interests in the textile, banking, railroad, publishing and electrical industries. In 1880 he became the President of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. He was one of the founders of the United Fruit Company...
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1870s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Homeless. 19th Century Etching
By Charles-Jean-Louis Courtry
Located in Brecon, Powys
A very poignant depiction. A H Marsh is one of the English artists who devoted themselves to the representation of pathetic subjects. The gravity of this painter's idea is always to ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Offers to the Sun God among the Incas - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Offers to the Sun God among the Incas Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII , Plate LXXVI Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Very fi...
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1740s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Reactions to Death - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Reactions to Death is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind",...
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1810s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ancient Roman Decorations - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Decorations from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is a etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditio...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Lida & the Swan', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) and created circa 1915. An early twentieth-century sugar-lift aquatint showing Zeus in the guise of a swan, reclining and cradling Lida in his wings while King Tyndareus ponders the mutability of human circumstance. Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies attended the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He furthered his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, before moving to New York City in 1885 where he studied at the Art Students League and Gotham Art Students League. In 1893, he made the first of many trips to Europe, visiting Holland, Paris, and London. He became an arch-exponent of Modernism and the central organizing figure of 1913's watershed Armory Show. Davies developed a style that combined visionary Symbolism with elements of Tonalism and Cubism. Who Was Who in American Art describes him as an “…important but enigmatic Modernist whose work was poetic, mysterious, and visionary”. Davies was the recipient of many gold medals and prizes and juried awards and his work is held in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Photo of Arthur B Davies circa 1907 in New York City by Gertrude Käsebier courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 835; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 280; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 7/8, p. 470; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 293; Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, p. 672; et al. Additional biographical information follows, written by Catherine Southwick and Robert Torchia from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions: Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
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Early 1900s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

The Physiognomy - The Owl and the Peacock - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - The owl and peacock is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge...
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1810s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Nude Woman - Original Etching - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original etching artwork on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. Hand-signed on the lower right. With the stamp of "Galerie J. Frapier Paris" o...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

SFE-080RC
Located in Malmo, SE
Untitled. SFE-080RC. Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm. Frame size : 75 x 97 x 4 cm Museum glass anti-reflective. Signed and numbered 46/75 ex. Sam Francis Archive Number : SF-353. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Set of Two Engravings from Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus" /// Architecture
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729) Titles: "The Plan of this New Design to the Earl of Islay" (Vol. 1, Plate 53) and "This New Design to the Earl of Islay" (Vol. 1, Plate 5...
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1710s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio

Palazzo Pontificio sul Quirinale - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi- 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Pontificio sul Quirinale is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions and aged margi...
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18th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Sunspot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sunspot" c.1980 is an original color aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed, titled, and numbered 3/30 in pencil by the ...
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Late 20th Century Op Art Etching Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Untitled - Etching by Renata Boero - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. Artist's proof. Image Dimensions: 38 x 38 cm. God conditions except for some stains.
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1960s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Nature Morte a la Fenille Timide - Original Etching by Mario Avati - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Belonging to the 'Maniera Nera' series. Hand numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 60 prints.
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1960s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Map of Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Alessandro Moschetti - 1848
Located in Roma, IT
Plan of Rome is a beautiful original black and white etching, a rare and antique illustrated map of the eternal city of Rome, published in 1848. Image Di...
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1840s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Maui, Abstract Etching by Gabor Peterdi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001) Title: Maui Year: 1969 Medium: Color Etching on BFK Rives paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 146/200 Image Size: 10 x 7 inch...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Warthog, Drypoint Etching by Leonard Baskin, 1969
Located in Long Island City, NY
This drypoint etching was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This etc...
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1970s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Jewish Shtetl Shabbat Candles Russian Judaica Etching w Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, (1939-2008) Hand-Colored, with watercolor painting, Etching hand signed in pencil in English and Hebrew Numbered 47/110 Framed 21.5 x 16. image 13.5 x 9 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений Абезгауз in Russian; 1939–2008) was a Jewish artist who worked in Russia (then USSR) and Israel. Born in Leningrad to a typical intelligentsia family, Abeshaus was educated as an electrical engineer but soon abandoned this career and enrolled in the Mukhina School for Applied Art. By the time of his graduation from the famous “Mukha” (Fly in Russian), he had already developed a critical stance towards the official Soviet art dominated by the Communist ideology and began exhibiting at semi-underground exhibitions. This was culminated by his taking part in a famous 1975 exhibition at the Nevsky Palace of Culture. Abeshaus was fired from his job and censured by the official press – which however admitted his "artistic taste, a good sense of color and form". Soon afterwards, Abeshaus set up, together with several Jewish artists, the Alef Group and became its leader. The group’s first exhibition in November 1975 was held at Abeshauses’ small apartment. According to the Alef Manifesto written by Alek Rapoport, “We are trying to conquer the influence of small-town Jewish art and find sources for our work in deeper, wiser, and more spiritual European culture, and from it build a bridge to today and tomorrow". He was part of a generation of Russian, mostly Jewish artist's that included Oskar Rabin, Evgeny Rukhin...
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20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Etching, Paper

German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp. Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
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20th Century Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Eros and Thanatos - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Eros and Thanatos is an Original Etching realized by Sergio Barletta in the Early 1970s. Good conditions. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, 81/160 The artwork is depicted through a...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Letter From Vienna Color Etching 3/60
By Krystyna Smiechowska
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Letter From Vienna Artist signed, dated, paper sheet 30x22.5 Krystyna Smiechowska was born in 1935 Krakow -2014 Paris France. Printmaker Krystyna Smiechowska draws her inspiration f...
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1970s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Archival Paper

India Landscape Etching Original 1917 Limited Edition Signed Listed Artist Rare
Located in Norfolk, GB
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA (1883 – 1948) Enthusiast Image Size: 15cm x 30 cm Sheet size: 21.5 cm x 35 cm Mounted: 50cm x 41 cm Lumsden reference: 254 Edition 33/50 Whatman ...
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1910s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Animals Muzzles - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - Animals Muzzles is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and...
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1810s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Thames Bridges Dusk, Limited Edition London Cityscape Print, Monochrome Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Thames Bridges Dusk is an limited edition cityscape print by John Duffin. The monochromatic colour scheme highlights Duffin’s highly detailed style. John Duffin is a painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern environments of cities and towns, creating dynamic, cinematic images of contemporary urban life. His unique images of architecture, lighting and figures have been greatly praised and awarded, recently receiving The Most Outstanding Print Award from Sir peter Blake, he has a distinctive artistic voice and has much to say in his work about contemporary life in all of it’s manifestations. His work is in the tradition of LS Lowry...
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2010s Minimalist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching F. Cepparoli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions....
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Surreal Fantasy original 1967 etching by Alberto Longoni
Located in Paonia, CO
Surreal Fantasy is a 1967 original limited edition ( 18/30 ) black and white signed etching by Italian artist Alberto Longoni in good condition. ...
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1960s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Phinée - Etching by Bernard Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Phineus. Beautiful plate with fresh impression and sharp details, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, pu...
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1740s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Communion
By Eileen Cooper
Located in London, GB
Eileen Cooper is a distinguished British artist celebrated for her expressive and dynamic prints that often explore themes of femininity, relationships, and the natural world. Her wo...
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1990s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) Title: Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk Edition: Unknown Pl...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Taubenliebhaber (Pigeon Fanciers) - Original Etching by Arthur Kampf - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Taubenliebhaber is a black and white etching on ivory-colored paper, realized by the German artist, Arthur Kampf. Signed and dated on plate on lower left margin. From the portfolio “Deutscher Kunstverein zu Berlin “ published by Vereinsgabe, Berlin, in 1904-1905 and composed by a frontispiece, a index, and eleven etchings by Karl Koepping, Leopold Graf Kalckreuth, Hans Herrmann, Max Slevogt, Ludwig Hofmann, Reinhold Lepsius...
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Early 1900s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Roman Girls Return from the Harvest - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions are at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the le...
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1810s Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Nude XVII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

The Villa by the Sea -Original Etching by George-Henri Tribout - Early 20th
Located in Roma, IT
The Villa by the Sea is an original artwork realized by George Henri Tribout. Original etching on paper glued on cardboard. Signature on the lower right corner. Another sketches o...
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Early 20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 embossed signature On Arches Vellum References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions exc...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Chiesa di Sant'Athanagio e Collegio della Natione de Greci - by G.B. Falda
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa di Sant'Athanagio e Collegio della Natione de' Greci is a wonderful black and white etching on cream-colored paper realized in the second half of the XVII century by Giovanni Battista Falda. Signed on plate on the lower left margin "Giò Batta Falda dis. et fece". Title etched on plate at the center, with a urbanistic caption and a dedication to "Gio. Iacomo Rossi" on plate on the right corner of the lower margin. In excellent conditions, except for the wavy paper. An ivory-colored cardboard passepartout is included (34 x 49 cm). A beautiful urban landscape of Rome with full blacks and precise lines, to admire a disappeared view of the eternal city. Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia, 1643 - Rome, 1678) was an Italian engraver, who documented architectures and urban planning in Rome in the second half of the seventeenth century. Born in the province of Vercelli, he soon showed a passion for drawing. He was thus placed in the workshop of a local painter, and then, at the age of 14, sent to Rome to stay at his uncle's, who spoke about him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He also studied with Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi. From De Rossi, the adolescent...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Find Etchings and Other Prints on 1stDibs

Has the art-collecting bug bitten you? If not, maybe you’re merely looking to warm your space with art. Etchings and other types of fine art prints can help add interest to any room in your home while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.

First invented in the 1500s, etching is a way of incising lines in a metal plate by first drawing on an acid-resistant coating, or ground, to reveal the metal beneath. The plate is then submerged in acid, which “bites” the lines into the metal plate. The ground is then removed and the plate inked for pressing. Etched lines tend to reveal the movement of the artist’s hand more than a technique like engraving, since the image is created on a softer ground.

“People often ask me what types of prints they should collect — etchings or woodcuts or linocuts or silkscreens or lithographs or whatever,” explains Ryan Cross, associate director of Boston’s Barbara Krakow Gallery. “But it’s really more how the artist used those processes and what he or she was trying to express through the medium.”

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