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Period: 19th Century
The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
54: Petromyzon fluviatilis, Lampern, or Lesser Lamprey
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching
A Showman with Hawk and Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - 1881
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Roma, IT
A Showman with hawk and monkey is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gava...
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Forge
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Forge
Drypoint, 1861
Signed in the plate lower right (see photo)
Published as part of the Thames Set, 1871
Printed between 1894 and 1896 when the plate was canceled. This impress...
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Impressionist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Portrait of Gentleman - Original Etching by James Neagle - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Gentleman is an original artwork realized by James Neagle for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Das Troizker Sergiuskloster - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Das Troizker Sergiuskloster is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lowe...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
17: Squalus squatina, Angel Shark
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Color, Etching
19th century lithograph landscape battle scene military figurative print
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Battle of Monmouth June 28, 1778" is an original lithograph by Kurz & Allison. It depicts a battle in the American Revolutionary War.
12 1/4" x 18" art
21 1/4" x 27" frame
Kurz &...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Snowy Owl
Located in Columbia, MO
John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in France, where he first took interest in birds and drawing. He came to the U.S. at age 18, and made ma...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Royal Navy - Original Lithograph by Antonio Zezon - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Royal Navy (Armata del mare) is a lithograph by Antonio Zezon.
Interesting colored lithograph which describes the Army of the Sea with the Royal Co...
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
General View Asouan & The Island of Elephantine
Located in London, GB
Subscription and first edition lithographs in stock
Full plate: 196
Presented in a acid free mount
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Victorian 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wedding Procession - Original Etching by Jean Vandekerkhove - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding Procession is an original etching of paper realized by Jean Vandekerkhove in 1860 ca.
Good conditions except for some folding and stains.
Signed on the plate on the lower r...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Moulins sur la Schie" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression is from the rare 1897 portfolio "Art et Nature" by Leon Roger-Miles, published in Paris by Boudet in an edition of 525. Printed in blue-g...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
L’Hiver a Paris ou La Neige a Paris
Located in New York, NY
Felix Buhot (1847-1898), L’Hiver a Paris ou La Neige a Paris, 1879, etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette. [signed and dated in the plate Felix Buhot Par...
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Squirrels - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Squirrels is a color lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Good conditions. This print reproduces four squillers indicated with the alphabet letters...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Trois Tetes de Chevaux, 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) - Trois Tetes de Chevaux, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 6 x 8.5 in. (15.24 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Am...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
A Hunting Scene - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Hunting Scene is a color lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Good conditions, except for usual signs of aging.
The artwork shows a hunting scene involving three animals indicated with the alphabet letters...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Stargard - Original Lithograph Mid 19° Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stargard is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, printed by von Led Kempner and published by von Schaffstein and C. Koln, Rhein.
This modern artwork representing a view of the Po...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Charges du Jour - Original Lithograph After H. Daumier - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 11.5 x 21.5 cm.
Charges du Jour is an original color lithograph, realized in 1860 by Honoré Daumier (1808-1879).
This was the cover of the print suit "Album des C...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge etching by Alfred Blundell
Located in London, GB
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Zorn and His Wife
By Anders Zorn
Located in Storrs, CT
Zorn and His Wife. 1890. Etching. Hjert and Hjert catalog 31 state ii. 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 (sheet 23 1/2 x 18). Edition 40-50. A fine impression on simili-Japan paper. Signed in pencil.
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait of Earl Russell - Lithograph by William Holl - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Earl Russell is an artwork realized by William Holl (1807-1871), from a Photograph by Mayall.
Lithograph, printed in 1872 by Milliam Mackenzie, London.
Good condition.
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Au coin du feu - Original b/w Etching by Armand Queyroy - End of 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Au coin du feu is a beautiful original etching realized by Armand Queyroy (1830 -1893), printed on ivory colored paper by Delatre, Paris.
This is an original print signed on plate o...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
IN THE BOWERY
Located in Portland, ME
Mielatz, Charles. IN THE BOWERY. Etching, 1891. Edition size not known. Signed and dated in the plate. 9 7/8 x 7 inches. In excellent condition. Mielatz, taught etching at the Nation...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Toujours les Merveilles du Diamant Magnéti - Lithograph by Honoré Daumier - 1859
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Daumier in 1859.
Belongs to the Series "Actualités".
Ref. Delteil 3228
Very good condition.
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Avanzi di un Gran Salone nel piano terra della Villa di Mecenate in Tivoli
Located in Roma, IT
Like G.B.Piranesi, Rossini, well know as the “Piranesi’s heir”, trained as an architect and his etchings have the same tendency to emphasize the massive structure of the Ancient Rome...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures floral
Located in Milwaukee, WI
From: Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli "Ilsee and Jaufre" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs from "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," ...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Flight into Egypt, Photogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Bredius, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - The Flight into Egypt, Year: of Original:1627 Printed in: 1906, Medium: Photogravure, Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
L’île Lacroix, à Rouen
Located in New York, NY
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), L’île Lacroix, à Rouen, etching, aquatint, maniere grise, drypoint, burnishing, c. 1887. Signed and numbered (No. 1) in pencil lower left, annotated 1...
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Impressionist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
"Pinnated Grouse", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Pinnated Grouse", No. 60, Pl. 296, from Audubon's "Birds of A...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures floral
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dream Weavers" and "Soul of the Land" are two sides of a double-sided lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations were created for "Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli" and are the rare proofs before the text. These artworks were for pages 31 and 32.
8" x 6 1/4" art
19 1/4" x 17 1/8" frame
Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in the small town of Ivancice, Monrovia. Though it is rumored that Mucha was drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn’t until after he finished high school that he came to realize that living people were responsible for the art that he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter. He was soon sent off to Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julian. On January 1, 1985, he presented his own new style to the citizens of Paris. Spurning the bright colors and the more square-like shape of the more popular poster artists, the design was a sensation. Art Nouveau can...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Texan Lynx": An Original Audubon 19th Century Hand-Colored Quadruped Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Texan Lynx", No. 19, Plate XCII, 92, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America", printed and colored by J.T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia from 1849-1854. The lithograph depicts a Texan Lynx laying on the ground with hills in the background.
This antique hand colored Audubon quadruped lithograph is presented with the original descriptive text pages 293-296 from Audubon's 19th century publication. The print is in excellent condition, including the striking hand coloring.
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, once stabbing a disgruntled investor in self-defense. However, his obsession with birds and art motivated him to persist in his goal of documenting every bird in America via his watercolor paintings and publishing his works for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were purchased in rather small numbers by the wealthy. To reach a larger audience, Audubon, with the help of his sons and J. T. Bowen, published a smaller octavo sized lithograph version, which were much more affordable.
With the success of his bird projects, Audubon then turned his attention to four-legged animals. He explored the Missouri River in 1843 sketching the four-legged animals he encountered in their natural setting. His expedition covered some of the same regions recently explored by Lewis and Clark, traveling from present day Alaska to Mexico. Audubon realized that this was an opportunity to document these animals in the still relatively pristine American wilderness, before man encroached on their environment.
Between 1845 and 1848, Audubon and his sons John Woodhouse Audubon and Victor Gifford Audubon produced a set of elephant folio sized lithographs that were primarily engraved and hand colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. The publication, which included text descriptions of the animals was published 3 years before Audubon died. As with the birds, this was followed by a three-volume set of 155 octavo-sized plates entitled “The Quadrupeds of North America” completed and published by Audubon’s sons, John, Jr. and Victor.
Audubon prints continue to be popular and a wise investment. The double elephant folio set...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Paysage du Berri - Etching by Charles-François Daubigny - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paysage du Berri is an original black and white etching on paper, realized by Charles-François Daubigny.
At the bottom left margin the printed inscription: "DAUBIGNY" pinx; bottom c...
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Barbizon School 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
L'Obelisco di Villa Celimontana, Rome - Etching by D. Amici - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
L'Obelisco di Villa Celimontana, Rome is an etching artwork realized in 1839 by the Italian artist Domenico Amici (1808-1877).
Signed on plate on the lower right margin.
Good co...
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Modern 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Modern Art
Located in New York, NY
Dow, Arthur Wesley. Modern Art, 1896. Color lithograph. Plate from Maitre de L’affiches.
Arthur Wesley Dow, ( American painter, printmaker, photographer,...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Utagawa Kunisada -- A Woman Diver Combing Her Hair 美人合 春曙
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Title: Diving Woman Combing Her Hair, 「美人合 春曙」髪をとく美人
from the series Spring Dawn: A Contest of Beauties (Haru no akebono, bijin awase)
Utagawa Kun...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
"His Own Doctor" original etching
By Thomas Waterman Wood
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Published in 1883 for a deluxe portfolio of American etchings, this is a fine, dark impression on wove paper. Size: 11 1/2 X 7 5/8 inches (plate); the full ...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS.
By Jean Baptiste Corot
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1876 - 1875)
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS. 1854 (1921) (Delteil 42)
Cliché-verre on thin vellum. Signed in plate at bottom. 8 1/4 x 6 5/16” (sheet size)....
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Photographic Paper, Etching
Seamen Killing a Polar Bear, aquatint engraving field sport hunting print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Seamen Killing a Polar Bear'
Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) and Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822) after Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field S...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Hiroshige Utagawa Cherry-blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill (Asukayama)
Located in Torino, IT
HIROSHIGE UTAGAWA I, Edo 1797 - 1858
Cherry-blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill (Asukayama hanami no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
Nishiki-e. Color woodcut, sign...
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Old Masters 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Harper's March (Plate 20)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Harper's March (Plate 20) is an 1886 lithograph of Edward Penfield's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix by Jules Chéret and included in the famed collection of Belle Époque posters...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
Set of Two Mezzotint Engravings from Constable's "English Landscape Scenery"
By John Constable
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) John Constable (English, 1776-1837)
Title: "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" (Plate 13) and "Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk" (Plate 40)
Portfolio: English Landscape S...
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Victorian 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
The Bluestocking’s Husband
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-79), The Bluestocking’s Husband, plate 46 from the series Moeurs Conjugales, published in 1842 in Le Charivari, and in the Album Moeurs Conjugales in 1843; an im...
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Grand Celebrites of France
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Les Grandes Celebrites de la France, lithograph, 1939, plate 2 from the series Les Saltimbanques, from La Caricature Provisoire (also published later in Le Charivari, 1843). Reference: Daumier Register 620, second state (of 5). With lettering, and the initials (in the plate lower left). Printed on a wove paper. In good condition (formerly folded across the middle, now flattened) , 11 1/2 x 8 7/8, the sheet 13 1/8 x 10 inches.
A very good impression.
An impression of Les Grande Celebrites de la France was shown in the Metropolitan Museum's show Seurat's Circus Sideshow...
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
G Cooper: Oriel College, Oxford watercolour
Located in London, GB
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G. Cooper
Oriel College...
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Mr. Neil Haig Polo Player" c1898 Vanity Fair Print
Located in Bristol, CT
Print Sz: 14 1/2"H x 9 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 22 1/8"H x 17"W
Neil Wolseley Haig (1868-1926), Polo player and soldier
('Men of the Day. No. 720.')
by George Algernon Fothergill
chromoli...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper
"Young Girl With Hat, " Victorian Portrait Etching signed Frederick M. Spiegle
By Frederick M. Spiegle
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Young Girl With Hat" is a classical Victorian portrait etching. It is signed in graphite in the lower right by the artist, F.M. Spiegle. It depicts a Victorian girl with curly hair ...
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American Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Paper
Portrait de Guillaumin (with the hanged man)
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Hinsdale, IL
CEZANNE, PAUL
(1841 - 1906)
Portrait de Guillaumin (with the hanged man)
Cherpin 2, c. 1873
Etching
Only State known, 1000 copies
As published in Die Impressionisten, Duret...
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Impressionist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Iceland or Gyr Falcon: An Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare first edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Iceland or Gyr Falcon", No. 4, Plate 19 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, pr...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Prairie Wolf": An Original Audubon 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Prairie Wolf", No. 15, Plate LXXI, 71 from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America". It was drawn...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
19th century color engraving indigenous figures feathers text full body face
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Moqui Dancers, Moqui Pipe, Navajo Cradle & Headdress" is a hand-colored engraving by Seth Eastman. It depicts encyclopedic depictions of Native American...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Principal Court of the Convent of St. Catherine
Located in London, GB
First Edition lithograph
Full plate: 120
Presented in a acid free mount
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Victorian 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Pont-Neuf" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1899-2. Published in Paris in 1899 for Gazette des Beaux-Arts. This is a fine impression on laid paper printed by L...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Les Glaneuses" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. Etched by C. Bertaut after Jean-Francois Millet and published in 1890 in an edition of 200. This is a nice impression printed on a japon-style paper. The image measu...
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19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Femme qui se Lave - La Toilett - Lithograph after H. de Toulouse-Lautrec - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Femme qui se Lave - La Toiletteis a color lithograph realized by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in 1896.
cm. 58 x 45,5; matted.
Monogrammed in the plate.
Good conditions.
This specim...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
Old Violinist - Late 19th Century Figurative Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed late 19th century chromo-lithograph portrait of a violinist street musician by John George Brown (British, 1831-1913). Many of Brown’s paintings were reproduced in lithography (Chromo-lithograpy), as is the case with the one offered here. Presented in a rustic antique Oak wood frame with giltwood fillet. Image, 15.63"H x 10.63"W.
John George Brown was a British citizen and an American painter born in Durham, England. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at the age of fourteen, in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852, and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 ad 1853. After moving to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861. Brown was the Academy’s vice-president from 1899 to 1904.
Around 1855, he worked for the owner of the Brooklyn Glass Company, and later he married the daughter of his employer. His father-in-law encouraged his artistic abilities, supporting him financially, letting Brown pursue painting full-time. In 1866, he became one of the charter members of the Water-Color Society, of which he was president from 1887 to 1904. Brown became famous for his depictions of street urchins found of the streets of New York (bootblacks, street musicians, posy sellers, newsboys, etc.).
Brown’s art is best characterized as British genre painting...
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Realist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
"The Gaiety Girl" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series
By Dudley Hardy
Located in Hinsdale, IL
HARDY, DUDLEY
(1867 – 1922)
"A Gaiety Girl"
Original lithograph from “Les Maitres de L’Affiche” series
Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
Bearing MDL stamp lower right, from issue #...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Courtesans at Yoshiwara Edomachi - Figurative Japanese Woodblock Print on Paper
By Utagawa Yoshiiku
Located in Soquel, CA
Courtesan at Yoshiwara Edomachi - Figurative Japanese Woodblock Print on Paper
Full color woodcut print of two women in elaborate gowns by Utagawa Yoshiiku (Ochiai Yoshiiku) (Japanese, 1833-1904). Two women are dressed in colorful robes with crossed arms. They are underneath a plum blossom tree in bloom, at night. In the background there is a building with many rooms. Valuable polychrome woodblock print of vertical large oban (大判) format made by Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾), the famous artist also known as Ochiai Yoshiiku (落合芳幾), and depicting the courtesan Shizuka (しづか), of the house of pleasure Matsumotoro (松本楼), together with her young kamuro (禿) assistant. The couple is escorted by a kanabohiki (金棒引き) watchman holding a lantern and a metal rod with rings to make noise and alert the crowd.
The work, produced in August 1869 by the publisher Tsunajima Kamekichi (綱島亀吉), is taken from the “Twelve Months of Yoshiwara” (よし原十二ヶ月のうち), an elegant series of prints dedicated to the famous red light district of Edo (江戸), and is paired with the “month of leaves” Hazuki (葉月), that is August.
Ochiai Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833-1904) was an ukiyo-e artist from the end of the Edo Period to the Meiji Period. He has created works which are essential to the history of ukiyo-e, such as“Twenty-eight Famous Murders with Verse”, a series of chimidoro-e (bloody paintings) which Yoshiiku and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi collaborated together, and “Shimbun (newspaper) Nishiki-e” that illustrated Meiji news articles with ukiyo-e.
Born the son of teahouse proprietor Asakusa Tamichi in 1833, Yoshiiku became a student of ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi toward the end of the 1840s. His earliest known work dates to 1852 when he provided the backgrounds to some actor prints by his master.
Yoshiiku's earliest works were portraits of actors (yakusha-e), beauties (bijin-ga), and warriors (musha-e). He later followed Kuniyoshi into making satirical and humorous pieces, and became the leading name in the field after Kuniyosh's death in 1861. He illustrated the Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
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Impressionist 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
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Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt’s ‘Wild Raspberries’ Cookbook Is an Artful, Fanciful Delight
This set of recipes and original prints might not make you a better chef. But it will make you smile.
Art Brings the Drama in These Intriguing 1stDibs 50 Spaces
The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.
Welcome (Back) to the Wild, Wonderful World of Walasse Ting
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
Shapero Modern’s Director Tells Us All about 20th-Century Prints
Tabitha Philpott-Kent knows a lot of art multiples. Here, the London gallery director talks about what makes printmaking so fabulous.
Yoshitomo Nara Puts a Punk Rock Twist on the Traditional Prints of His Ancestors
The forever-rebellious Japanese artist craftily defaces famous Edo Period woodblock prints with “In the Floating World.”