Willem Blaeu

Ischia Isola, olim Aenaria (Antique Italian Map Italy)

1640

Gouvernement general de l'Isle de France : ou sont la France, le Valois, Soissonnois, le Beauvaisis, Laonnois, la Brie, Francoise, l'Hurepoix noyonnois et les comtes de Senlis et de ...

Original exhibition poster for Ruckus Manhattan by Red Grooms and the Ruckus Construction Company, 1975. Presented by Creative Time, Inc. Lithograph with offset lithographic photo elements, sheet measures 23 x 29 inches; 24 x 30 inches framed. Design by M. Samuels. Produced by Polychrome Lithography Co., Inc, NYC. Condition is outstanding with no damage or conservation. No creasing, staining, toning or fading. A rare poster from an early show produced by Creative Time Inc. while only in their 2nd season. A lovely document of NYC art history. Ruckus Manhattan was a multimedia, three-dimensional representation of Manhattan on display on the ground level of 88 Pine Street. The out-of-scale model, constructed of papier-mâché, wood, plastic, fiberglass, and vinyl, was designed to conform to Manhattan’s psychic dimensions, rather than its physical ones, and included such landmarks as the Apollo Theatre, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, the Chrysler Building, the Stock Exchange floor, Trinity Church, and the World Trade Center. Finding inspiration in sources as diverse as cubism and newspaper comics, Red and Mimi Gross Grooms...

Don Swann (1899-1954). Monoplane in flight. Etching, plate measures6 x 7.25 inches. Edition of 300. Signed and numbered in pencil lower margins. Don Swann was an important American...

Naomi Charles Limont (1929-2010). PFSF Building, Philadelphia, ca. 1990. This piece is a restrike of the following Earl Horter image, using the exact plate created by Horter nearly 6...

Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001). Dark Landscape, 1958. Etching, engraving and aquatint with five stenciled colors. Image measures 20 x 24 inches. Signed, date...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute su la Via d'Albano, cinque miglia lontan da Roma... (Ancient Temple popularly known as the Temple of Health on the Via d'Albano five miles outside Rome...), from Vedute di Roma...

Artist: William Henry Toms (English, c.1700-1765) Title: "Draught of a Galley" (Plate 13, Vol. III, page 131) Portfolio: La Spectacle de la Nature Year: 1737 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown, London, UK Publisher: Humphreys, London, UK Framing: Recently framed in a Regency style gold moulding with rag matting from Holland and museum glass. The frame is an antique frame we've reused, originally built by Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY Framed size: 10.25" x 10.25" Sheet size (irregular margins): 6.63" x 8.25" Image size: 4.75" x 6.75" Condition: In excellent condition with strong colors and good margins Rare Notes: Comes from the 1737 volume edition of Noël-Antoine Pluche's "La Spectacle de la Nature", translated from the original French by Humphreys as "Nature Displayed". With two soft vertical folds within paper as issued. Various dealer reference numbers and an old price pencil inscribed in margins and on verso. Biography: William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings. Among his works were the plates for Robert West's "Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London" (1736–1739). In 1741, he worked with Thomas Badeslade on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. Among Toms's apprentices was the engraver and publisher John Boydell. W. H. Toms lived in Masham Street, London, and was the father of the painter Peter Toms. Toms died in 1765. Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) , known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest...

Johannes Sadeler I (Flemish, ∗ 1550 in Brussels, Belgium – † 1600 Venice, Italy) Jonah Spat Up by the Whale (Sheet II) Engraved by Sadeler after an image created by Theodor Bernard...

Defeat of the Turkish Cavalry (1st State) From: The Life of Ferdinando de'Medici Engraving 224 x 300 mm.; 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches Reference: Lieure No. 154 Meaume No. 541 Ru...

Mixed media on laid paper by Hubert Brake. "Abstrakte Komposition I", 1952 48,6 x 62 cm signed and dated

Women Outside Breton Hotel - Chromolithograph on Paper In a pastel palette, Alson Skinner Clark (American, 1876-1949) captures the rustic beauty of a side street in a Breton village as two women converse outside of a hotel on a blue sky day. Signed “Alson Clark...

François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731 - c. 1800) Le Pigeon Ramier de Madacascar (The Wood Pigeon of Madagascar) • 18th century hand colored Copper Plate engraving • Plate No. 192 from : L' Histoir e des oiseaux, peints dans leurs aspects apparents et sensibles, published in 1790 (“The History of the Birds, painted in their appearing and sensitive aspects“) • Glased & ebonized hardwood frame contemporary to the engraving, ca. 43 x 33 cm Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery. A rare pigeon print...