1880s Prints and Multiples

Simplicius' Writing Lesson (Simplici Schreibstunde) (plate VII) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. Etchi...

Le Descanona is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.  T...

Beautifully executed original hand colored lithograph using gouache and watercolor. Scene in Surrey, England. Signedxwith monogram in plate lower left, Myles Birket Foster. Published by M. H. Long. Condition is very good. In original 2 inch wide birdseye maple antique frame with thick museum mat with gold innner edge. Overall 22 by 26 inches. Biography Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster. Life and work Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons — a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the notable wood engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News. On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack. He also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow’s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (Later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades. Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. In 1863 he moved to Witley, near Godalming in Surrey where he had a house ("The Hill") built. Being friendly with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, he had the house decorated and furnished in contemporary style, with tiles and paintings by Burne-Jones and Morris' firm, Morris and Company. The same year he published a volume of "English Landscapes," with text by Tom Taylor...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Arches laid paper printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 8 x 5 inches (200 x 127 mm...

The Men Reading the news is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpi...

Simplicius at the Hermit's Grave- Simplicius am Grabe des Einsiedlers (plate VIII) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Str...

Qual La Descanonan is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Editio...

A colorful and attractive hand-colored 19th century woodcut engraving entitled "A Game of Lacrosse" after a drawing by W. H. Hall. It was published in New York in Harper's Weekly on May 10, 1884. It depicts a scene from an intense lacrosse game. This hand-colored woodcut engraving is presented in a red mat that measures 16" high x 20.63" wide. The sheet measures 10.63" high x 15.88" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. The print is in excellent condition. Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America, possibly originating as far back as the 1400's. The sport was first invented by Native Americans, who originally played it as a means to toughen braves for war or to settle tribal disputes. It was played by between 100 and 1,000 participants at a time. There were no strict boundaries and the game could cover miles and take days to complete. It was very violent with many injuries, which were sometimes fatal. The game was unknown to whites until the 17th century when a Jesuit priest observed Heron Indians playing it. He thought the stick and netting resembled the "crosier" carried by bishops during religious ceremonies, This led to the name "la crosse". A Canadian dentist standardized the rules of the game in 1867 and the 1st college team was created at New York University in 1877. The game gained national attention and popularity in 1956 when the Hall-of-Fame football player Jim Brown...

Medium: etching. Etched by James D. Smillie after this charming pastoral composition by Barbizon artist Charles Emile Jacque. This is a rich, dark impression on wove paper, printed i...

Medium: etching. Etched by Jules Jacquemart after Frans Hals. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very sca...

Que pico de Oro! is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition....

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference Beraldi 218. Published in Paris in 1884 by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. A lovely impression in brown ink on laid paper. Plate size: 4 x 5 7/8...

Medium: lithograph (after the poster). This lithograph (in reduced size) was published in Paris in 1884 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Size: 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (268 x 170 mm). Signed ...

Nadie Nos Ha Visto is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Editio...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in London in 1880 for P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Signed in the plate.

Siquebró el Cantaro is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Editi...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Le Printemps II (Red-Brown), Year: 1882-1888, Medium: Color Etching on Japan paper, Image Size: 5.5 x 3.75 inches, Size: 9 x 6.25 in. (22.86 x ...

Deque mal Morira? is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition...

Amor, Tod und Jenseits, (Cupid, death and afterlife) is an original etching and aquatint on paper Chine collé, realized by Max Klinger in 1881, plate XII from “Intermezzi” Opus IV,...

"Postface. La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde I" (1886) 1886 French illustration from Felicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898) depicting a young partially nude woman. The woman is st...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Victor Hugo, de Face (State 5), Year: 1885, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed in the plate, Edition: 60, Image Size: 8 x 6.25 inches, Size: 17...

Bellos Consejos is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition. ...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 4 1/2 x 7 inches (113 x 175 m...

Ya es Hora. is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.Very g...

Whistler, James A. M. THE LITTLE COURT CLOTH FAIR. Spink 22. Lithograph, 1887. A lifetime impression, one of 12 printed by Way and signed in pencil with the Butterfly. Printed on Ivory colored wove paper without watermark. The sheet 11 9/16 x 6 inches. In very good condition with slight discoloration from the mat in the areas outside the mat window. Provenance: Collection of Otto Gerstenberg (see below) with his collectors stamp, Lugt 2785, the Secretary Montag's "M" and the inventory numbers 61248 KO5182 all on the verso; Horizon Gallery, Rockport, MA, with its label and annotations on the frame backing. Framed. Very rare. The following are translations from the entry on Gerstenberg in Lugt: Lugt 1921: O. GERSTENBERG (born 1848), director of the Insurance Company "Victoria", lives in Berlin. Old and modern prints. Otto Gerstenberg, born in Pyritz, studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin. After having been employed at the Prussian Statistical Office, in 1873 he entered the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin as a mathematician-calculator, and became its director in 1888. He developed it in the following years and brought it up. to its present importance. Around 1900 he began to collect prints of which he now has a very large cabinet; as elders especially Schongauer, Dürer and Rembrandt, then Lucas de Leyde, Hirschvogel, van Dijck, Ostade and the French portrait painters. As modern it is necessary to point out, among the Germans »Greiner, Klinger, Leibl, Liebermann, Menzel, Stauffer-Bern; among the French, Corot, Daumier, Degas, Forain, Lepère, Manet, Meryon, Toulouse-Lautrec; among the English, Bone, Dodd, Goff, Haden, Strang; then an important work by Whistler and Goya and leaves by Rops and Zorn. Also has beautiful paintings. Lugt 1956: During the 1914-1918 war, the collectort had his collection transported to Switzerland and, when the war was over, he decided, quite reluctantly, to sell it. In the spring of 1922 the sale was concluded in Zurich with the merchants Gust. Mayer, of Colnaghi & C ° of London, and Mr. A. MacDonald, then a partner of Harlow & C ° of New York, who bought the set at a price corresponding roughly to the total prices paid by Gerstenberg. This was a large sum, because he had acquired several of his finest pieces in the big sales between 1900 and 1914 against the big enthusiasts of the time such as Morgan, Gutmann, Rothschild etc. It was Gaiser, of the firm H. G. Gutekunst in Stuttgart, who had generally carried out his orders in the sales. MacDonald believed he had a buyer for the set in America, but when the collection arrived there those hopes were dashed by a change in economic conditions. He then sold the parts separately. We will get an idea of ​​the importance of this collection by the following enumeration of the most beautiful pieces: among the Dürer, the Adam and Eve (from the Buccleuch and Hubert collections), the Saint-Eustache, the Mélancolie (from the collection Behaim, Dumesnil and Scholtz), the Knight of Death (from the Barnard and Hubert collections) and the Life of the Virgin series (from the St. Aubin collection); Dürer's work was almost complete. Quite remarkable was the Rembrandts' series, in which we note the Piece aux cent florins, sur Japon (collection Weber and Hubert), the Three Crosses, 1st state and 2nd state (collection Artaria and Hubert), the Little Tomb ( coll. John Wilson) and another proof on Japan, Death of the Virgin in Irstate (Josi coll.), St. Jerome, B. 103, unstead (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hawkins coll.), the St. François (coll. Theobald); the series of portraits by Rembrandt was superb: Rembrandt himself drawing, B. 22, Ir état (from the Worlidge, Brit. Mus., Dighton and Theobald collections) and the same in the second state on Japan (Morrison collection), all the states of Clement de Jonghe, Jan Asselijn, Irtat (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hubert coll.), old Haaring, 2nd state (same sources) and the young, 2nd state in Japan (Brodhurst and Lanna collection) , the Lutma in 1st state on japan (Josi, Aylesford, Baccleuch and Hubert collection) and a superb 2nd state (from the Firmin-Didot and Hubert collections), the Six in 3rd state (Ploos van Amstel collection); in landscapes: the three Trees (coll. Theobald), the three Chaumières (coll. Morgan and Lesecq des Tournelles), the Landscape with the tower, Ir état (coll. Aylesford, Holford and Hubert), the Campagne du peseur d ' gold, on Japan (Barnard, Holford and Theobald collection) and a State of Landscape with the drinking cow, on Japan (Theobald collection). Then a series of 51 Schongauer, including several of the first order, 8 of Hirschvogel, the portraits by van Dijck himself in first states (except D. 10 and 15, the most beautiful of the collection Theobald), beautiful series by Claude and van Ostade. The purchase included neither the important modern prints that Gerstenberg owned, nor his beautiful prints by Goya, nor a few drawings by the latter and Rembrandt. Gerstenberg was an enthusiastic collector who passionately loved his collection. When in 1922 the buyers announced their decision to acquire his old prints at the agreed price, he could not contain his tears. He later consoled himself by developing his series of watercolors and drawings of the French school of the nineteenth century, and he managed to own a magnificent set of Delacroix, Daumier, Degas, Monet and, in general, the Impressionists. . We do not know, at the present time, what happened to this part of his collection, but it is feared that part of it was lost or destroyed in the offices of the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin or in its property in Silesia during the Russian invasion in 1945. The Toulouse-Lautrec which had been evacuated to Denmark were sold out of court after the war from 1939 to 1945. Gertstenberg died ,very old in 1935. The mark reproduced by us in L.2785 has rarely been used, but the origin of the prints is more easily recognized by the initial M, followed by a number (see L.1840c...

Cassatt, Mary. BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1. Breeskin 64. Soft-grpund etching and aquatint, c. 1882. State 2 (of 3) with the light tone added, and the profile still indistinct. Si...

This exceptional 1886 calendar, created by the celebrated Art Nouveau master Eugène Grasset for the renowned Parisian department store Au Bon Marché, is a sublime blend of commercial...

Image dimensions: 31.5 x 18.8 cm. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is a beautiful chromolithograph on paper, realized by the illustrator Spy for Vanity Fair newspaper, issue of October 26th 1889, and published by Vincent Brooks, day and Son. This is the authentic print, representing a portrait of the President of the New York central Road and Hudson River railroad , Mr. Depew, (1834-1928). Signed on plate on lower right margin with the artist name of Spy. This original print is referred to as "Spy Cartoons...

Hasta La Muerte is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition. ...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1888 and published by The New York Etching Club. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (215 x 140 mm). Signed in the plate, not by hand. Condition: t...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (130 x 166 mm). Signed in the plate, not by hand. Condition: there is soiling in the margins and an old library...

Bust of Franz Liszt with autograph of Moses Jacob Ezekiel is a photographic albumen print applied on cardboard. Moses Jacob Ezekiel's signature and dedica...

Medium: etching (etched by Leopold Flameng after the Sir John Gilbert painting). This impression on laid paper was printed in 1882 for the "A Group of ...

Medium: original etching. Printed on laid paper and published in 1881 by the American Art Review. Plate size: 5 7/8 x 10 inches. Signed in the plate (not by hand). Condition: trimme...

Duendecitos is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.  Ti...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (157 x 1...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Schneider 113. Executed in 1885; this is a fine, dark impression with full original margins on watermarked laid paper from "The Portfol...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Arches laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 4 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (...

Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...

Quien lo creyera! is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition...

Medium: original etching. This impression was published in Boston in 1887 by Estes and Lauriat for the "Nature and Art" portfolio and is printed on cream laid paper. Size: 4 3/4 x 6 ...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1888 and published by The New York Etching Club. Image size: 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches (145 x 90 mm). Signed in the plate, not hand-signed. Condition...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1881 and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (150 x 220 mm). Sheet size: 8 x 11 3/8 inches (204 x 288 mm). Signed in...

Medium: photogravure (after the watercolor). Samuel Palmer had always admired the work of John Milton, and executed a suite of watercolors which were made into photo-engravings for "...

"Eden Theatre - Spectacle Varie" artist: Jules Cheret . Size: 28 x 23. Year: 1880. Archival linen backed in pretty good condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithog...

An original chromolithograph from the Celebrated Dogs of America by Alexander Pope Jr. and published by S.E. Casino, Boston,1882. This compositio...

Que Sacrificio is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition.Ve...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Henri Becque, Year: 1885, Medium: Etching on Arches, initialed 'AR' in pencil lower right, Image Size: 5.75 x 7.5 inches, Size: 16.5 x 23 in. ...

Winter is an original Chromolithography realized by an anonymous artist in 1885. Good condition except for a repaired folding line at the middle. The art is depicted through soft s...

Classic "Spy" aka Sir Leslie Ward 1880 colour-portrait of Keith from Vanity Fair's Men of The Day folio this gent being No. 219. Print Sz: 13 3/8"H x 8 1/8"W Frame Sz: 20"H x 14"W ...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Antonin Proust (State Six), Year: 1884-1888, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 4.5 x 3 inches, Size: 14.25 x 10.75 in. (36.2 x 27.31 cm), Reference:...

L'Assomoir is an original artwork realized by Marcellin Desboutin in 1886. Original etching on paper before Letter. The artwork is from the cachet "British and Foreign Artists Asso...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

Bien Triada Esta is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition....

Beautiful proof on vergé crème, signed by the artist in pencil. Full margins. Ex-coll. H.H. Benedict (Lugt 1298). Ref. Cat. Harrington 221; Schneiderman 208.

Garibaldi is an original lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in 1980 ca. In good condition. Passpartout: 50 x 35 The artwork represents general Garibaldi. the artwork is de...

Las Rinde el Sueno is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Editio...

Medium: original etching. This is a rich, dark impression on wove paper, printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate ...