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Period: 18th Century
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
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Academic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Porculine Opossum (Bandicoot), Australia, engraving, 1795
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Porculine Opossum' (Bandicoot)
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. Circa 1795, by Richard Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
155mm by 125mm (platemark)
225mm by...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Carcere ascura
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carcere ascura
Etching, 1743
Signed in the plate bottom left corner
From: Prima Parte, 1743
Second edition: 1750-1778
Watermark: R 37-39
A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s
This image foretells Piranesi's famous set, Carceri (Prisons) which is his next creative effort.
Condition: Horizontal crease midway in the sheet associated with the manufacture of the paper.
Visible watermark verso
Small printer crease in the bottom right below the caption plate.
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Reference: Robison 3 iii/VI
Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive
"Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Silvery Marmoset Amazon Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mico. Buff, Simia Argentata. Linn", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste Audebert...
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18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Medlar Tree: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Mespilus Aronia Azarolie B. Mespilus Vulgaris Neflier". It is plate 7...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
18th Century Catesby Hand-colored Bird & Plant Engraving "The Crested Titmous"
By Mark Catesby
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copperplate engraving of a bird and plants by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) entitled "The Crested Titmous" from "The Natural History of Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Bahama Islands", published in 1731. It depicts a small Crested Titmous bird, facing left, perched on the stem of a plant with clusters of mauve colored star-like flowers.
This original Catesby hand-colored engraving, on laid paper with a large central Fleur-de-Lys watermark, is presented in a cream color French mat. The mat measures 20" x 15.5" and the sheet measures 18.75" x 14.75".
Mark Catesby was born in England to a prosperous family, but he traveled to America, first to visit his sister and her husband in 1712. From 1712 to 1719 he explored America observing its birds and plants, taking notes, creating drawings and collecting specimens. He returned to England with this material and created more detailed drawings. His next visit to America 1722-1726 allowed for more detailed research. Upon his return to England he created his monumental and beautiful work "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands", which was published in London in two folio volumes of 11 parts each consisting of 20 plates...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Johann Weinmann: set of 12 mezzotint engravings in decalcomania frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is for the set of 12 framed engravings.
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made pa...
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18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Vaso Antico della Galleria Farnese - Etching by G.B. Piranesi - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Original 18th century etching realized by Giovan Battista Piranesi.
Representation of the vase in the centre, description below "Ancient marble vase...
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Modern 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Veduta del Porto di Ripa Grande - View of the Port of Ripa Grande - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
G. B. Piranesi, Veduta del Porto di Ripa Grande (View of the port of Ripa Grande)
Etching, Burin and Drypoint on fine watermarked paper (with lily watermarked). Signed on plate lower-right: “G.B. Piranesi Architetto fec.”.
2nd State/ VI (Hind 27)
Image Dim: cm 38.2 x 61.5, Dim: 53.3 x 77.3.
Good conditions, with some normal fold of paper at the center
From one of the most important series of etchings by G.B. Piranesi, ”Views of Rome drawn and etched by Giambattista Piranesi...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Brown Pelican: An Original Audubon 1st Edition Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare and extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Brown Pelican, Young First Winter", No. 85, Plate 424, fr...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Caernarfon Castle, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Caernarvon Castle'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, ...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
14. Sponge crab, Calappid, Lophozozymus octodentatus
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
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Realist 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pigment
Earl Waldegrave coat of arms
Located in Middletown, NY
London: c 1750. Steel engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (sheet) (142 x 162 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered handling wear, creasing and edge nic...
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English School 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Artemis Goddess - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Artemis Goddess from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
White-throated Capuchin Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Sai a gorge blanche. Variete A. Buff. Simia capucina. v.a.", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste Audebert...
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18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Burning Bush: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Gas Plants or Burning Bush and Fraxinella, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitle...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Antiche urne cinerarie e lampade
Located in Roma, IT
From the Piranesi's series “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX” (1778). Antiche urne cinerarie e lampade" is an artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, large margins, representing antique marble cinerary urns - “found into antique graves...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$1,624 Sale Price
25% Off
Queen's Gate, at Caernarfon, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Queen's Gate, at Caernarvon'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) and William Angus after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select ...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Cream-coloured Plover, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Soldiers On Horses - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers On Horses is a print realized by the French School of 18th Century.
Etching, with coeval hand watercolor on paper.
Applied on a Passepartout...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$208 Sale Price
24% Off
Durham. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Durham'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland', published by G...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Adoration of the Shepherds
By Peter Paul Rubens
Located in New York, NY
Adoration of the Shepherds after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), engraved by Pierre-Franois Basan (French, 1723-1797), engraving, c. 1750, in black on ivory laid paper, 282 x 200 mm., with small margins. In very good condition.
A fine proof impression, before letters. A draft printing of letters is visible, lower left, below image: “P P Rubens inv.”; lower right: “F. Basan excudit”.
Basan’s engraving after Rubens may be modeled after another engraving of the Adoration after Rubens by Theodor Galle (1571-1633), which appeared as an illustration to the 1618 reprint of 1616 edition of “Missale Romanum...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
The Temple of Asclepius with the Chariot - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
The architect is Paolo Posi, and the image is engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.
The title: Prospetto della prima machina de fuochi d'artifizio, rappresentante il Tempio di Esculapio figl...
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Modern 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Ni asi la Distingue - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
"Ni asi la Distingue" is an original aquatint realized by Francisco Goya in 1799, from Los Caprichos series, Plate 7, first edition.
Rare and in ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year: 1796-1829 (First-third seri...
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Victorian 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
Player - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Player from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding due to the t...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$433 Sale Price
25% Off
French 18th century bucolic scene, soft ground etching, style of Boucher, c1770,
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fine soft ground etching printed in a orange / red ink on laid paper. A French etching in the manner of Boucher. A shepherd and shepherdess rest by water among sheep, goats a donkey ...
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Romantic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
View of Arona
By Dominique Vivant
Located in Middletown, NY
Denon, Baron Dominique Vivant. View of Arona.
Paris: 1788.
Etching on light cream wove paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (140 x 215 mm), full margins. Some...
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French School 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper
A Falkland Island Quail: An 18th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a Falkland Island Quail ("Caille des Isles Malouines") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 222 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
New Staines Bridge, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'New Staines Bridge'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aquat...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Piranesi, Hand Coloured Period Engraving, Vue d'un Superb Palais de Rome
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine hand coloured 18th Century engraving after the original by Piranesi (Rome 1743), published by Danisy, Paris. Presented in period gold leaf frame, under glass.
Piranesi was born in Venice, in the parish of S. Moisè where he was baptised. His father was a stonemason. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin literature and ancient Greco-Roman civilization, and later he was apprenticed under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was a leading architect in Magistrato delle Acque, the state organization responsible for engineering and restoring historical buildings.
From 1740, he had an opportunity to work in Rome as a draughtsman for Marco Foscarini, the Venetian ambassador of the new Pope Benedict XIV. He resided in the Palazzo Venezia and studied under Giuseppe Vasi, who introduced him to the art of etching and engraving of the city and its monuments. Giuseppe Vasi found Piranesi's talent was much greater than that of a mere engraver. According to Legrand, Vasi told Piranesi that "you are too much of a painter, my friend, to be an engraver."
After his studies with Vasi, he collaborated with pupils of the French Academy in Rome to produce a series of vedute (views) of the city; his first work was Prima parte di Architettura e Prospettive (1743), followed in 1745 by Varie Vedute di Roma Antica e Moderna.
From 1743 to 1747, he was mainly in Venice where, according to some sources, he often visited Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a leading artist in Venice. It was Tiepolo who expanded the restrictive conventions of reproductive, topographical and antiquarian engravings. He then returned to Rome, where he opened a workshop in Via del Corso. In 1748–1774, he created an important series of vedute of the city which established his fame. In the meantime Piranesi devoted himself to the measurement of many of the ancient buildings: this led to the publication of Le Antichità Romane de' tempo della prima Repubblica e dei primi imperatori ("Roman Antiquities of the Time of the First Republic...
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Baroque 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ancient Roman Architecture: Framed Original 18th C. Etching by G. Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
"A sua Eccellenza il Signor Henry Hope Cav. Scozzese Amatore delle Belle Arti from "Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, Ed Ornamenti Antichi", (Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ancient ornaments) is an etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published in 1778. It depicts stone caryatids...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Terence, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Terenzio' (Terence)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomared after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) w...
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Renaissance 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
18th C. Portrait of Edward Stanley from Henry VIII's Court after Holbein Drawing
By Hans Holbein
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved portrait of "Edward Stanley" created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815), after a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497- 1543) in the 16th century. Holbein was the official artist in the court of King Henry VIII. Bartolozzi used both etching and stipple engraving techniques to create the work which was published by John Chamberlaine in London in 1793 in "The Book of Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty".
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54) (Los Caprichos Series)
Located in London, GB
Francisco Jose Goya Y Lucientes
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54)
(Los Caprichos Series)
1799
Etching with aquatint
31.5 x 20.5 cms (12.4 x 8.1 ins)
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18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Flowering Henbane : A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyosciamus albus and Hyosciamus vulgaris" (Henbane) plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensi...
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Academic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet A from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The plan of St. Martin's Church, St. Martin in the Fields
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Society of Antiqauries London, 1744. Engraving on buff wove paper with a large heraldic watermark with Strasbourg lily with a crown and shied and the letters LVG, 9 1/2 x 14 ...
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English School 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
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Victorian 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Les Adieux d'Hector d'Andromaque - Etching by Jean Moyreau - 18th Century
By Jean Moyreau
Located in Roma, IT
Les Adieux d'Hector d'Andromaque is an etching realized by Jean Moyreau in the 18th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well balanced condit...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Rococo design for a gate, German mid 18th century etching
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750.
Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756).
Similar works ar...
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Rococo 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
18th-century celestial - Hydra Crater Corvus Sextans Virgo
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Hydra Crater Corvus Sextans Virgo
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star a...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet A, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century.
G...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
THORNTON. The Tulips.
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed.
London, 1...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newsted Priory, Nottinghamshire'
Engraving by W Walker And W Angus After Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sc...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
London Bridge, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'London Bridge'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
In Honour of the Sun God - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
In honour of the Sun God is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representing the...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Benjamin West, history painter, portrait, soft ground etching, 1809
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Benj. West RA'
Soft ground etching by William Daniell RA (1769-1837) after George Dance the Younger (1741-1825), 1809.
Benjamin West PRA (1738 – 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence...
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English School 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Jewish Bride, Fig B 341, Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - The Jewish Bride, Fig B 341, Year: of Original: 1635, Medium: Etching, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), P...
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18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Galleria grande di Statue
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Galleria grande di Statue
Etching, 1743
Signed lower left corner of the plate
From: Prima Parte, 1743
Second edition: 1750-1778
Watermark: R 37-39
A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Reference: Robison 2 iii/V
Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive
"Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Canada Goose: an Original 1st Edition Hand Colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This original first edition hand-colored lithograph entitled "Canada Goose" was produced by J. T. Bowen after a drawing by John James Audubon. It was published in Audubon's first octavo edition of Birds of America in Philadelphia in 1840. It depicts two Canada geese, a male and a female.
This Audubon bird lithograph is in excellent condition other than tiny foci (1-2 mm) of discoloration at the edge of the upper margin of the sheet and some wrinkling along the left edge related to the book binding. The print is otherwise in very good condition. The original descriptive text from Audubon's publication is included with the purchase of this beautiful and striking lithograph. The sheet measures 10.13' x 6.75".
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a naturalist and artist. He was initially unsuccessful financially prior to the publication of his famous work “The Birds of America”, spending time in debtor’s prison...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Wedding and Divorce among the Canadians - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding and Divorce among the Canadians
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII , Plate LII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Very fine Etching, Hand-watercoloured, showing the nuptial ceremony and the divorse among the Canadian indigenouses...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
North East View of Pembroke, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'North East View of Pembroke'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) and William Angus after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select ...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Pisces - Etching by Charles De la Haye - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pisces is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Charles De la Haye after Andrea Stech, in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower.
Good...
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Modern 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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Map of the Russian Empire: An Original 18th Century Hand-colored Map by E. Bowen
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored map entitled "A New & Accurate Map of The Whole Russian Empire, As Contain'd Both In Europe and Asia, Drawn from Authentic Journals, Sur...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Bearded man in turban and fur
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (120 x 95 mm), wide margins. Scattered light surface soiling, unevenly trimmed wide margins, all consistent with age. Likely printed...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
George I, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George I'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George I (1660-1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire...
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Renaissance 18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Euripides, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euripide Poeta Tragico' (Euripides, Tragic Poet)
Copper-line engraving by Nicola Billy after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico...
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Renaissance 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
North and South America: An 18th Century Hand-colored Map by Johann Homann
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 18th century hand-colored copperplate map of North and South America entitled "Totius Americae Septentrionalis Et Meridionalis Novissima Repraesentatio" was created by Johann Baptist Homann and published in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1710 and 1731. The map details cities, forts, mountains, forests and lakes, as well as districts. There is a decorative cartouche in the lower left which depicts a volcano, scenes representing the people in their native costumes, as well as animals and plants of the Americas. A village is seen in the background on the left. A second smaller decorative cartouche in the upper right includes text and a series of allegorical figures. A large portion if the north central and western portions of North America is left without detail, because the region was largely unexplored at the time this map was created. The map also shows "Terra Esonis Incognita", representing a mythical continuous land bridge from North America to Asia, a northwest passage. The map preceded the French and...
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Old Masters 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Acer & Carduus - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Acarna Theophrasti' and 'Acer Campestre minus'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The fi...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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