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Period: Late 19th Century
Soirée d'été (Summer Evening)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Soirée d'été (Summer Evening) Etching & drypoint, 1881 Signed and dated in the plate lower left corner Edition: c. 100 in both states; plate canceled Tissot's lover, Irish divorcee ...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Ford - Etching by Adolfo Bignami - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in plate lower left. Stamped title. Published by Lovera. Good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

19th century black and white etching industrial landscape boat riverbank trees
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Bateau a Conflans/Le Paysagiste au Bateau" or "The Boat at Conflans/Landscape with Boat" is an original etching by Charles Francois Daubigny...
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Barbizon School Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Colors And Cheers w/ Harvard/ Yale/ Princeton Pennants" 1898
Located in Bristol, CT
Vintage sheet for the musical score, Black Cupid's Birthday: March- Two Step by Seneca G. Lewis Published 1898 w/ 3 Ivy League School Pennants Image Sz...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Magazine Paper

Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Student and Teacher" and "Jaufre in Nature" are two sides of one double-sided original lithograph by Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations were pages 13 & 14 of "Il...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Descente du Saint Esprit sur les Apôtres-Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Portrait de Cardinal - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Marquis Antoine Jules de...- Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Peintre Jean De Vale et... - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Saint Augustin - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Christ en Croix - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Danae - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait d'Antoine van Dyck et d'Endym - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Portrait d'Homme - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ronde d'Anges - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Femme de Philippe Le Roy Seigneur.. - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Peintre Gerard Seghers - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait de Charles 1er d'Angleterre...- Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portraits de Constantin Huigen et de...- Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Jeune Prince Ruprecht - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait du Duc de Richmond - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition. 
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Enfans de Charles 1er - Etching by Felix-Augustin Milius - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Félix Milius d'après Van Dyck in 1872. Very good condition.
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Un Charron (The Wheelwright)
Located in New York, NY
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), Un Charron (The Wheelwright), etching, c. 1890, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Bliss 267. In good condition, printed on a cream laid paper with...
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Realist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Lithograph after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl. 15 3/4" x 12" art 23" x 19 1/4" frame Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
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Academic Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Black and White

Superb Paradisornis Rudolphi Bird lithographed by the ornithologists Gould
Located in Milan, IT
This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...
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Naturalistic Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gould & Richter Thrush Warbler Lithograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Gould: 1804-1881. British ornithologist who was the British equivalent of Audobon. He produced these incredible books of The Birds of Great Britain and The Birds of Australia am...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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THE LITTLE COURT - CLOTH FAIR
Located in Portland, ME
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...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Les Trappistes - Etching by Auguste Lancon - 1883
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint realized by Auguste Lançon (1836-1887) in 1883. Published by A. Quantin, Paris, in an edition of 250 copies. This Series depicts scenes from the daily life of T...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The New Steamship Cephalonia, of the Cunard Line" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a large sailing steamship. There is a significant stain in the artwork in the upper center. 12" x 16 3/4" art 21" x 26" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Other Art Style Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Trio of Framed “Harper’s Weekly” ship prints
Located in Spokane, WA
Measures 9.75 x 14.5 inches sight 19.25 x 24 inches framed Framed “Harper’s Weekly” ship prints, 1870s. Each matted and framed under glass with custom burl wood veneer moldings. #1...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Newsprint

Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Growing Melancholy" and "Jealousy" are two sides of one double-sided original lithograph by Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations ...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

PIERROT PORTANT SON DEJEUNER and PIERROT TROUBLE DANS SON REPAST
By Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Located in Portland, ME
Decamps, Alexandre (French 1803-1860) After. PIERROT PORTANT SON DEJEUNER and PIERROT TROUBLE DANS SON REPAST. Two etchings by Leenhof after paintings by Descamps. Each 11 5/8 x 8 in...
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Realist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

A Lancashire River.
Located in Storrs, CT
Schneiderman 203.viii. 10 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 13 7/8 x 17 7/8). Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 27. A 1-inch printing fold in the left-hand side of the image, and ...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Windsor
Located in Storrs, CT
Schneiderman catalog 186 state .xii. 13 1/4 X 17 1/2 (sheet 18 5/8 x 25 5/8). Edition of 50 in this state, published by the Fine Art Society. A fine impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Toning in the image, otherwise good condition. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 22 x 28-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Born in 1818, Sir Francis Seymour Haden was an etcher, collector and surgeon. He studied at the Derby School, Christ’s Hospital and University College in London. He also studied at the medical schools of the Sorbonne in Paris and at Grenoble. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1842 and he was made a fellow in 1857. He was an honorary surgeon to the Department of Science and Art from 1851 to 1867 and in 1847 he settled into a private practice. Haden was a vice-president of the obstetrical society of London and one of the founders of the Royal Hospital for Incurables in 1850. He was the first President of the Royal Society of Painter-Echers. In 1858, Haden encouraged James McNeil Whistler to work from nature and consequently, Whistler dedicated his first set of etchings entitled “French Set”, to Haden. The etchings were printed by Auguste Delâtre in Paris and marketed, with some help from Haden, in London. In 1859 Whistler settled in London and often visited Haden’s Sloane Street home. Whistler executed a number of paintings and etchings of domestic scenes within Haden’s home, among them “Reading By Lamplight...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Le Cénacle by Victor Mignot, Art Nouveau Commedia dell'Arte lithograph, 1897
Located in Chicago, IL
Elegantly-dressed society women observe silhouettes of Commedia dell’Arte characters Pierrot, Columbine, and Harlequin at the shadow play theater Le Cénacle. In a manner reminiscent...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Chinese Generals in Pyongyang Surrender to Japanese by Migita Toshihide
By Migita Toshihide
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Migita Toshihide, Japanese (1862 - 1925) Title: Chinese Generals in Pyongyang Surrender to Japanese Year: 1892 Medium: Woodblock Triptych S...
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Other Art Style Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Man with Turban - Lithograph by Fredrich Neff - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Man with Turban is a lithograph print on paper realized in 1881 by Fredrich Neff ( 1851- 1894). Monogrammed on the lower F.N. and dated. Written "Exspectat, danse unvenerit. (thomo...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le baron Möise, mendiant, 1898
Located in Torino, IT
HENRY DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Albi 1864 - Malromé 1901 Le baron Möise, mendiant, 1898 Original lithograph on stone monogram in plate (mm 175x142) Wittrock bibliography: 190 From the se...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

DEJEUNER
Located in Portland, ME
Besnard, Albert. DEJEUNER. D.50. Etching and Drypoint, 1886. Edition of 100. 12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches, 315 x 243 mm., with small margins (probably trimmed). Signed in pencil and ann...
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Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Baigneuse vue de dos
Located in Barbizon, FR
Etching , fifth state , numbered 14/50, signed with stamp used for the edition of 50 by Lucien Pissarro on 1920.
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Marche a la Volaille, a Gisors, " Original figurative Etching signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Marche a la Volaille, a Gisors" is an original etching by Camille Pissarro. It depicts a dense crowd in black and white. This is edition 34/43 from Loys Delteil 98, 2nd State. 14" ...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Century Magazine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
After Edward Henry Potthast The Century Magazine Chromolithograph, July 7, 1896 Printed by W.B. Orcutt Co., NY Note: This image won an honorable mention in a poster contest sponsored...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Champs-Elysee
Located in New York, NY
1898. Five color lithograph. Proof on Chine Volant from Five color lithograph. Proof on china paper from the "Pan IV edition". 14 1/2 x 11". Framed Ref: The Color Revolution; Cate ...
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Pointillist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #98: "Poetry" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
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Vienna Secession Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Street, Chelsea - 1880s etching by Whistler follower Theodore Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA (1847-1926) The Street, Chelsea Embankment Etching, signed in the plate, signed on the artist’s tab, trimmed to the platemark by the artist, framed 15...
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Realist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Rialto
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this etching and drypoint, printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper. Second state (of 3). Edition of approximately 30. Signed w...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Canards Sauvages - Etching by Jules Herau - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Canards Sauvages is a black and White etching realized by Jules Herau in the Late 19th Century.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 32x24 Very good impression. Realized by Cadart fo...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Louis XI A Peronne - Etching by Allard Cambray - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Louis XI A Peronne is a black and White etching realized by Allard Cambray in the Late 19th Century.  Titled in the lower Image Size:31x23 Very good impression. Realized by Cadar...
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Modern Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

19th century etching black and white seascape print figure waves rocks signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fisherman's Catch" is a signed (in pencil lower right and in plate lower left) etching by James Fagan. It depicts a fisherman walking on a beach in black and white. It is signed...
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American Realist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Little Mast
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Little Mast, etching, drypoint and burnishing, 1879-80, signed in pencil with the early shaded butterfly lower left and annotated “imp”. References: G...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Paysanne Donnant a Manger a un Enfant
Located in New York, NY
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Paysanne Donnant a Manger a un Enfant, etching on zinc, 1874, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed lower left “No 1 – 1er etat”, also titled in p...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Epoxy Resin

Women's Edition Buffalo Courier by Alice Russell Glenny, Art Nouveau lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Alice Russell Glenny’s Women's Edition Buffalo Courier, 1897 lithograph on Japon paper produced with a plate of metallic gold ink. While this poster w...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Une Niit d'avril a Ceos
Located in New York, NY
Une Niit d'avril a Ceos, theatre program for a production with sets by Maurice Denis with advertisement for La Revue blanche, 1894. Lithograph. Ref:...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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