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Medium: Etching
If Ever I should...
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered etching by Donald J. Handel, executed mid‑20th century, possibly part of a larger thematic portfolio. His work often combines allegorical subject matter with tech...
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1970s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Nadia au regard attentif
Located in London, GB
Aquatint on Marais wove paper Edition of 25 Signed and numbered 25/25 in pencil lower right Duthuit 794
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Mid-20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Entre Deux Trains
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Entre Deux Trains Year: 1916 Medium: etching Edition: Numbered 100/100 in pencil Paper...
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Early 20th Century Realist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Etching Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 11/135 43.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 16.93 in. x 14.96 in. (paper) 29.50 cm. x 27.50 cm. 11.61 in. x 10.83 in. (image) LCD1894
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1970s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Girl on Rhinoceros Horn
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl on Rhinoceros Horn - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum Signed in the plate References : Fi...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and sugarlift print of a Still-Life on a table. Edition of 100.
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1980s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

“The Bird”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower...
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1940s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching

Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
Located in Columbia, MO
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361 1797 Hand-colored etching Ed. 1st ed. 9 x 5.25 inches
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1790s Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Jane Peart, Forest Glen, Limited Edition Etching Print, Woodland Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart Forest Glen Limited Edition Etching Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 24cm x W 34cm Signed Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Nude X - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Monochromatic
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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Etching, Paper

Jesus Christ Mis Au Tombeau, Old Masters Heliogravure on Laid Paper by Rembrandt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Jesus Christ Mis Au Tombeau (B86), Year: 1878 (of original 1654), Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: ...
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Late 19th Century Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Nude Men - Original Etching (Baer #155)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Three Naked Women, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : -...
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1930s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Carmen, Portrait of Woman - Original Etching (Cramer #52)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Carmen, Portrait of a Woman, 1949 Original burin engraving (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On Montval wove paper 33 x 26 cm (12.9 x 10.2 in) REFERENCES : - Cata...
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1940s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching Stamp Signed Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

James Coignard Carborundum “Terre Des Autres”
Located in San Francisco, CA
James Coignard: 1925-2008. Well, listed French artist with Carborundum print auction results over $3000 for a single print. He is best known for his print in the Carborundum techniqu...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Barges, Dordrecht
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Barges, Dordrecht Etching, c. 1886 Signed in the plate with the butterfly Edition: One of 10 known impressions of this image. VERY RARE Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. with their ...
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19th Century Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Yosemite Blue Mountain, Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper, Landscape in Indigo
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. This cyanotype shows one of the mountains in beautiful Yosemite National park in California. Details: + Title: Yosemite Blue Mountain + Year: 2021 + Edition Size: 100 + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided + Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size + All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper * Frame is for illustrative purposes only. Artwork shipped carefully rolled and packaged in a tube. WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's. Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun. Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative to get the best image quality. Finally, the print is washed and fixed with water to stop the reaction and prevent fading. What you get is an amazing, royal blue image...
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2010s Photorealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Engraving, Etching, M...

Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying)
Located in New York, NY
John Marin (1870-1953), Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying), 1913, Etching. Z112. Edition c. 12 (Steiglitz); 1924, unknown but small (New Republic). Signed in pencil. Signed and dated...
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1910s Cubist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Gold Green Vitae- 21st C., Contemporary, Figurative, Pigment Print, Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Edition of 50 Ger Doornink's limited editions are based on a high resolution scan of the original artwork. They are printed on archival Hahnemühle German Etching paper. This techniq...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching

Metamorphosis Cat (A)
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Four Groups of Nine Grotesque Masks
By Alò Giovannoli
Located in London, GB
4 Groups of 9 plates of Grotesque Masks. [Published: Venanzio Monaldini, Rome, 1781]. Rare and strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks, after...
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1780s Gothic Etching Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Engraving

La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England) /// Old Masters Royal Family
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges Henri Manesse (French, 1854-1940) Title: "La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts Year: 1893 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: approx. 1,500 Printer: Chardon Wittman, Paris, France Publisher: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Reference: Sanchez/Seydoux 1893-7 Sheet size: 10.69" x 7.13" Image size: 7" x 5.25" Condition: Light discoloration at edges. It is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition Notes: This etching is after a painting from 1554 by Dutch artist Anthonis Mor (c. 1517-1577). Comes with its original tissue cover sleeve. This etching was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years - one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002. Mary I...
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1890s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio

Things and thoughts of everyday use saved from oblivion - XXI century, Etching
Located in Warsaw, PL
One of 50 copies. JERZY DMITRUK (born in 1960) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Paintings and Graphics. Dmitruk graduated in 1986 from the atelier of professo...
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2010s Other Art Style Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

TENTS
Located in Portland, ME
Prior, Scott (American born 1949). TENTS. Etching with hand-coloring, 1986. Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 30 (the regular edition is not colored; there were three hand-col...
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1980s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, The Artist's Father
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) Title: Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, The Artist's Father Year: 1630 Medium: Etching Paper: Verge paper Image (plate mark) size: ...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Milky Way ( La Voie Lactee ) Etching by Salvador Dali The Mythology suite
Located in Paonia, CO
The Milky Way ( La Voie Lactee ) is from The Mythology Suite by Salvador Dali. It is the fourteenth plate created out of sixteen in the years 1960-...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Jane Peart, Elephant Family, Limited Edition Etching Print, Elephant Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart Elephant Family Limited Edition Etching Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 14cm x W 11cm Signed Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Dido
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland Dido 1979 Etching, edition of 50 91.5 x 68.5 cms (36 x 27 ins) JHE001
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1970s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Karel Appel NIGHT FACES ON BROADWAY Etching / Carborundum
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006) Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 35/50; 1975 Materials: etching and aquatint with carborundum on paper Dimensions (H, W, D...
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1970s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Hage, Pyrenees , France original etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
La Hage, Pyrenees , France  by French artist J.J. Regal is an original signed, limited edition aquatint etching printed on BFK Rives paper. This is a very bold design with an or...
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20th Century Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Les deux tures coifffes d’un turban avec une aigrette (The turban with crest)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les deux tures coifffes d’un turban avec une aigrette (The two headdresses of a turban with a crest) Etching, 1618 From: Varie Figure (16 plates) Condition: Trimmed withing the plate...
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1610s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

London, England original signed original aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
London, England is an original signed limited edition aquatint etching by French artist J.J. Regal printed on BFK Rives paper. This is a very bold design with an original depict...
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20th Century Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Dog and Partridge No. 2
Located in New York, NY
Brad Davis has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in new York, the Hudson River Museum, the Univ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Greville Smyth Pine, Limited edition print, Landscape, Tree, Nature art
Located in Deddington, GB
A very detailed drypoint etching of a Pine tree printed onto gampi Japanese tissue and backed onto Hahnemule printmaking paper. This print considers how we view the contemporary sublime landscape and how easy it can be to experience when we take the time to look. We often don’t have to travel far: parks in cities, the coastline and stars in the night sky. The mature Scots Pine tree pictured...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Violin Scrolls, Etching by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Violin Scrolls Year: circa 1980 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 41/99 Image Size: 17.5 x 11.25 inches Size: 29.75 x...
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1980s Pop Art Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Saltimbanques : Drawings of Picasso & Max Jacob - Original etching (Baer #8c)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Acrobats: Plate of Drawings by Picasso and Max Jacob, 1913 Original Etching (Paul Fort Workshop) Signed in the plate On Arches vellum, 48 x 38 cm (c. 19 x ...
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1910s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Quatre Etudes pour une Figure Equestre, Heliogravure by Leonardo da Vinci
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leonardo da Vinci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1452 - 1519) - Quatre Etudes pour une Figure Equestre, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11.75 x 8.5 in. (29.85 x 21...
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1870s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali "The Lobster Quadrille"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Lobster Quadrille Series: Alice in Wonderland Date: 1969 Medium: Photogravure printed in color Unframed Dimensions: 15.25" x 10" Framed Dimens...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Death Appearing to a Married Couple from an open Grave by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Death Appearing to a Married Couple from an open Grave, Year: Of Original 1639, Medium: Etching, Size: 10.5 in. x 8....
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Late 18th Century Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Spring Cheer
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color etching with pochoir and paint applied with a tire on Pescia Italia paper. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 72/78 in pencil by Rosenquist. Prin...
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1970s Pop Art Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paint, Color, Etching

According to Milosz's poetry - XX Century, Figurative Etching Print, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Irena Snarska (b. 1934, d. 2013) Irena Snarska was born in 1934 in Lviv. She studied at the Faculty of Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 1956 and 1...
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1980s Other Art Style Etching Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

The Bridge, Santa Maria
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Bridge, Santa Marta, 1879-80, etching with drypoint, printed in sepia on fine laid paper. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp on the tab (also with an exceedingly light butterfly lower right in the plate). Kennedy 204, probably eighth (final) state; Glasgow 201, probably state 9 (of 9) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011), Lochnan 199. Trimmed to the platemark by the artist, h: 11.8 x w: 7.9 in / h: 30 x w: 20.1 cm. A fine impression, printed with subtle tone. The bridge theme occurs repeatedly in Whistler’s vistas. It is also the main focus of more than one of the Venetian prints. While some bridges are seen from below, from where one would see it if approaching in a gondola (for example Ponte del Piovan, Kennedy 209), The Bridge depicts the scene from a high perspective, opening up the view into the far distance. The small boat approaching the arch in the foreground is again, as in the earlier Thames prints, a stock motif that is probably ultimately derived from the Japanese woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige. The bridge here is the Ponte de le Terese over the Rio de l’Arzere in the Santa Marta quarter. The early biography of Whistler by Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell is essential for its “immense quantity of information” but also notorious for “the inherent hyperbole and misinformation” (Eric Denker, Annotated Bibliography, in Fine, p. 184). Still, it is worth quoting from the Pennels’ appraisal of The Bridge: “Simplicity of expression has never been carried further. Probably the finest plate, in its simplicity and directness, is The Bridge. Whistler now obtained the quality of richness by suggesting detail, and also by printing. In The Traghetto...
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1870s Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

The Anatomical Lesson, Photogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Bredius, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - The Anatomical Lesson, Year: of Original 1632 (Pubilished 1906), Medium: Photogravure, Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Italian Desserts, " Etching signed by Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An etching in red by American pop artist Wayne Thiebaud depicting six Italian desserts. This is #16 from the edition of 50. It is signed and dated in pencil lower right, and numbered...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Arboretum (with Snail), Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tighe O'Donoghue's detailed rendering of a flower with a snail retains elements of mysticism and magic while adhering to tenets of realism. Arboretum (with Snail) Tighe O’Donoghue,...
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1980s Folk Art Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Triptych of Three Monumental Etchings by Mimmo Paladino
Located in Long Island City, NY
A set of three monumental etchings by Italian contemporary artist, Mimmo Paladino. Each nicely framed in black. Artist: Mimmo Paladino Title: Si...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

La Vierge au Poisson (d'apres Raphael), Heliogravure by Marco Dente
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marco Dente, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1493 - 1527) - La Vierge au Poisson (d'apres Raphael), Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Image Size: 10...
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1870s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Origin-Beginning-7 (4/20)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One of seven images from the Origin-Beginning series. Seiko Tachibana was born in Japan and completed her Masters of Art Education at Kobe University, Japan. Her distinctive work b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Pastoral
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil from the edition of 50. Bozon's prints are often a balance between abstraction and landscape, which he creates with drypoint and aquatint. Chr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Pastoral
Pastoral
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Blue Iris, Photorealist Etching on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers. Blue Iris Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date:...
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1980s Photorealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Pout
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Sundial - Suite 2, Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sundial - Suite 2 Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1976 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of M 10 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
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1970s Folk Art Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

"Les quais de la Seine" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
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1930s Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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 and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso 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

Remains of Henry II's Palace, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Remains of Henry II's Palace, as it stood in Woodstock Park in 1714' Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author a...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Sombre est Noir, Surrealist Etching by Oscar Dominguez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oscar Dominguez, Spanish (1906 - 1957) - Sombre est Noir, Year: 1945, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 9.25 x 6.75 inches, Size: 12.75 x 9.25 in. (32.39 x 23.5 cm), Description: From t...
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1940s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Composition (Field 67-4; M/L 174-187), Dalí­ illustre Casanova
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper Size: 14.875 x 11.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Dalí­ ill...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

St Paul's School, London, signed etching by Mabel Oliver Rae, circa 1920
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'St Paul's School' Signed and titled by the artist in pencil lower edge. Monogrammed inside the plate lower left corner. Mabel Oliver Rae was an early 20th century printmaker who sp...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples

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Pierrot avec Parapluie, Surrealist Etching by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Pierrot avec Parapluie, Year: 1927, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Richard de Bas, Image Size: 14.25 x 11.5 inches, Size: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 ...
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1920s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Origami, by Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. This is one of the smallest prints done by Siet...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

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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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