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Period: Mid-18th Century
Pair of Hand-Colored Pelican Engravings
Located in New York, NY
The Merican Pelican and The Pelican from George Edwards "A Natural History of Birds, Most of which have not been figured or described and others very little known..." published in Lo...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Capital Letter - Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good...
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Study of an architectural devotional with a Sacred Heart and three Putti
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on light cream laid paper, 8 x 5 1/2 inches (200 x 138 mm), 1/8-inch margins. Minor repairs, including expertly repaired lower right corner, and minor light in-painting at l...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Etching
18th-century celestial - Andromeda Perseus Triangulum
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Andromeda Perseus Triangulum
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star atlas ...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
Phinée - Etching by Bernard Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Phineus.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression and sharp details, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, pu...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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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 Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
Marriage and Birth among the Incas - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Marriage and Birth among the Incas is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, represe...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Purple Martin Bien Ed. J.J. Audubon rare hand colored chromolithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Two adult Purple Martins are feeding their two fledglings at the nest. This chromolithograph is from The Birds of America by John James Audubon and is ...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero,
Etching, 1756
Signed in the plate (see photo)
From: Le Antichità Roma...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Hand Coloured 18th Century Copper engraving from "Small Riding School" No 26
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engraving of an equestrian subject by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in a fine gilt wood fra...
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Rococo Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Ink
Euphorbia (Spurge) /// Antique Botanical Botany Plants Engraving Buffon Science
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Euphorbia (Spurge)" (Dodecandrie, Trigynie, Plate 411)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle
Year: 1749-1789
Medium...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Southwark Cathedral engraving c. 1753 for Stow's Survey of London
Located in London, GB
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Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Map of Oxfordshire coloured 18th century engraving by Thomas Kitchin
Located in London, GB
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
18th-century celestial - Aquila Sagitta.Vulpecula & Anser Delphinus
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Aquila Sagitta.Vulpecula & Anser Delphinus
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by ...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Gouache
18th-century celestial - Eridanus Orion Lepus
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Eridanus Orion Lepus
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
A fine star chart from the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star atlas publish...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
Ostrich, Porcupine and Hedgehog Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper
$875 Sale Price
27% Off
18th Century Native Floridians Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 18th century etching of native Floridians probably used for a book. Very good condition for its age. Etching measures 7 1/2 inches high by 5 3/4 inches wide. The beautiful custom...
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Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Group of Four Mezzotint Hunting Plates.
Located in London, GB
4 mezzotint engravings by and after Ridinger (c.55 x 43 cm.) with margins on all sides.
[Published: Augsburg, 1750].
A fine group showing 2 male and 2 female hunters along with the ...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Set of Four Gourds
Located in London, GB
Set of 4 double-page mezzotint engravings, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Published: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, Regensburg, 1737].
An attractive collection of fine plates...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Europa Regnorum Provinciarum: 18th Century Hand-colored Map of Europe by Lotter
By Tobias Conrad Lotter
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraved map entitled "Europa Regnorum Provinciarum Regionum" created by the German cartographer Tobias Conrad Lotter. It was publish...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
John Boydell 1751 engraving A South Prospect of the City of Oxford
Located in London, GB
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Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Départ Pour La Pêche (Maison de Campagne des Environs de Naples) /// Old Masters
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jean Daullé (French, 1703-1763)
Title: "Départ Pour La Pêche (Maison de Campagne des Environs de Naples)"
Circa: 1740
Medium: Original Engraving on watermarked laid paper
Lim...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
Ceremonies of a Floridian King - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Ceremonies of a Floridian King is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representi...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards /// Bird Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Edwards (English, 1694-1773)
Title: "Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards"
Portfolio: A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals / Gleanings Of Natural History
Year: 1743-1764
Medium: Set of Two Original Hand-Colored Engravings on watermarked laid and wove papers
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: C. Rickaby, London, UK
Publisher: William Gardiner and Messrs. Robinson, London, UK
Reference: Mullens and Swann page 194-195; Anker No. 124-126; Fine Bird Books page 93; Lisney page 128-144; Nissen IVB No. 286-288; Zimmer page 192-198
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.25" x 9"
Image size (each): approx. 8.63" x 7.38"
Condition: "90" has faint offsetting to sheet. "308" has one foxmark center right. They are both otherwise in excellent condition with strong colors
Notes:
Comes from Edwards seven volume portfolio "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals" / "Gleanings Of Natural History" (1743-1764), which consists of 362 hand-colored engravings. "90" is on laid paper with a "fleur-de-lis" watermark at center left edge. "308" is on wove paper with no watermark. The last image of the cover title sheets is for reference/provenance; it is not included.
Biography:
George Edwards FRS (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology". Edwards was born at West Ham...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Mimufops (Mimusops); Ibricaria (Shingle Oak) /// Botanical Botany Plants Buffon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Mimufops (Mimusops); Ibricaria (Shingle Oak)" (Octandreie, Monogynie, Plate 300)
Portfolio: Histoire Nature...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Ancient View of Paris - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748.
Very good condition except for some minor foxing.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue) /// Botanical Botany Plants Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 648)
Portfolio: Histoire Na...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
The Great Gentleman's Ride - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
The Great Gentleman's Ride is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representing an...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Temple of Peace - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Temple of Peace is an original black and white etching realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Good conditions except for the trace of being fold at the middle.
Sheet dimention:42 x 56
The...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Bacchus' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original by Giovan...
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Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Johann Weinmann : Mezzotint engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Baccharis (Baccharises); Chrysocoma (Golden Bitter Bush) /// Botanical Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Baccharis (Baccharises); Chrysocoma (Golden Bitter Bush)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 698)
Portfolio: His...
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Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
A still life of flowers in a vase
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A still life of flowers in a vase
27324-LU2595214540452
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Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lacquer, Color
Johann Weinmann : Mezzotint engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Two Hand Coloured 18th Century Engravings from "Small Riding School" No 26 & 32
Located in Cotignac, FR
Two Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engravings of equestrian subjects by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in fine gilt wood fr...
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Rococo Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Ink
Johann Weinmann : Mezzotint engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Old Church - Original Etching by F.E. Weirotter - Half of 1700
Located in Roma, IT
Old Church is an original artwork realized by Franz Edmund Weirotter in the first half of the XVIII Century.
Original Etching on paper. Passepartout included (cm 37 x 55).
Signed...
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Johann Weinmann : Mezzotint engravings in decalcomania frames.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is for each framed print (nine available).
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Countryside - Etching by Pierre-François Laurent - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is an etching realized by Pierre-François Laurent in 18th Century.
Good conditions.
Signed on plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
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Baroque Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Rovine del Tempio de' Castori nella città di Cora - Etching by G. B. Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 40.6x56.8.
Belongs to the Collection "Antiquities of Cori, described and etched by Giovambat Piranesi", and printed in 1764.
Beautiful first roman edition/1st state ...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
VEDUTA del SEPOLCRO della Famiglia PLAUZIA per la strada che Conduce da Roma....
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Italian 1720-1778)
VEDUTA del SEPOLCRO della Famiglia PLAUZIA per la strada che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugan...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ceremonies in the Hudson Bay - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Joy in the Hudson Bay as they take a Difonto into a hut – Manner of accompanying him to the hut.
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LIII
Image...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Landscape - Etching by Pierre Quentin Chedel - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an etching realized by Pierre Quentin Chedel in 1755.
Good conditions.
Signed on Plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was realized f...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Wedding among the Indians of Panama - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Wedding among the Indians of Panama; Relatives and friends tilling the couple's soil is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver G...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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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 Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon
Located in Middletown, NY
An image that originally appeared in an astrological calendar for the year 1766.
Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1766. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in...
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Edo Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Four 18th Century Optical views of Paris etc.; "Vue des Rives de la Seine ....
Located in Middletown, NY
Four 18th Century Optical views
"Vue des Rives de la Seine prise du Pont Neuf à Paris"
"Vue de la Place de l'Hôtel de Ville et du Phare à Calais"
"Vue de Paris prise du Port de la Co...
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French School Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
The Harvest, Cherubs Disporting with a Goat, Fine Framed 18th Century Engraving
By Jean Jacques Lagrenée the Younger
Located in Cotignac, FR
Fine 18th century engraving by French artist Jean-Jacques Lagrenée. Presented with hand cut mount and gilt filet in fine wood and gilt 'ribbon and reed' frame.
Very charming renditi...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Printer's Ink
Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1762
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino is an original etching realized by G. B. Piranesi in 1762.
Image Dimensions: 43 x 63 cm
Very good condition.
Ref. Ficacci., p.442
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Siberia as Explored by Behring: Original 18th Century Hand-colored Map by Bowen
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored map entitled "An Exact Chart of all the Countries through which Capt. Behring Travelled from Tobolski, Capital of Siberia to the Country...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Vue de Boston, American Realist Hand colored engraving by Franz Xavier Habermann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Xavier Habermann, German (1721 - 1796) - Vue de Boston, Year: circa 1750, Medium: Hand colored engraving on laid paper, Image Size: 9.75 x 15.5 inches, Size: 13 x 17.5 in. (3...
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American Realist Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Part of the City of Paris from the Rue Saint-Germain-de... - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748.
Very good condition except for some minor foxing.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Draught of a Galley /// Old Masters Ship Boat Seascape Construction Diagram Art
By William Henry Toms
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Henry Toms (English, c.1700-1765)
Title: "Draught of a Galley" (Plate 13, Vol. III, page 131)
Portfolio: La Spectacle de la Nature
Year: 1737
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown, London, UK
Publisher: Humphreys, London, UK
Framing: Recently framed in a Regency style gold moulding with 100% cotton rag matting and 99% UV protective Museum Glass. The frame is an antique frame we've reused, originally built by Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
Framed size: 10.25" x 10.25"
Sheet size (irregular margins): 6.63" x 8.25"
Image size: 4.75" x 6.75"
Condition: In excellent condition with strong colors and good margins
Rare
Notes:
Comes from the 1737 volume edition of Noël-Antoine Pluche's "La Spectacle de la Nature", translated from the original French by Humphreys as "Nature Displayed". With two soft vertical folds within paper as issued. Various dealer reference numbers and an old price pencil inscribed in margins and on verso.
Biography:
William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings. Among his works were the plates for Robert West's "Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London" (1736–1739). In 1741, he worked with Thomas Badeslade on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. Among Toms's apprentices was the engraver and publisher John Boydell. W. H. Toms lived in Masham Street, London, and was the father of the painter Peter Toms. Toms died in 1765.
Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) , known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest...
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Baroque Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Camera sepolcrale
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Camera sepolcrale
Etching 1743
Signed in the 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
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Reference: Robison 20 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 Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Hand Coloured 18th Century Copper engraving from "Small Riding School" No 32
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engraving of an equestrian subject by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in a fine gilt wood fra...
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Rococo Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Ink
William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty": A Set of Two Framed 18th C. Engravings
Located in Alamo, CA
The two plates in this set were created utilizing both engraving and etching techniques by William Hogarth in 1753, originally as illustrations of his book on aesthetics, entitled "Analysis of Beauty". Due to their popularity, these plates were later published separately. The publication line in the lower right reads: "Designed, Engraved, and Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th 1753, according to Act of Parliament." Hogarth's original copper plates were refurbished where needed by James Heath and engravings were republished in London in 1822 by Braddock, Cradock & Joy. This was the last time Hogarth's copper plates were used for printing. Most were melted during World War I for the construction of bombs.
These large folio sized "Analysis of Beauty" engravings are presented in antiqued gold-colored frames with double mats; the outer silk mats are light brown-colored and the inner mats are dark brown. Each frame measures 27.38" x 31.25" x 1.13". There is one tiny spot in the right margin of plate 1 and another in the lower margin; the latter could be from the printing process. The prints are otherwise in excellent condition.
The "Analysis of Beauty" series is in the collection of many major museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Museum, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The first engraving (Plate 1) depicts a courtyard of statues which is filled with some of the most famous works of classical sculpture. The most important sculptures are surrounded by less impressive works. The Medicean Venus (#13) is in the center with a statue of Julius Caesar (#19) to the right, elevated on a pulley with a short, overdressed Brutus stands over the falling Caesar. The Apollo Belvedere (#12) is next. A judge stands to the right with his foot on a cherub (#16). Another crying cherub holds a gallows and wipes his tears with the judge's robe.
A sphinx (#21) and the drunken Silenus (#107) are below the Venus. Michaelangelo's torso (#54) and a statue of Antonius (#6) are seen in the foreground. The Farnese Hercules (#3) and a bust of another Hercules (#4) under two statuettes of Isis are also included in the scene.
The key to these objects is included in the form of a serpentine line winding around a cone (#26), Hogarth's "Line of Beauty". For Hogarth the winding line is an essential element of beauty in art. Hogarth's theory of beauty is communicated in this plate.
Plate 2 is thought to represent the Wanstead Assembly, with the Earl of Tynley and his household. It is an adaptation of a scene in the Happy Marriage series, which complements Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Maria Viene Aiutata da un Angelo - Etching by G.D. Tiepolo - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
Maria viene aiutata da un Angelo is an original Artwork realized by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804) in 1753.
Original Black and white etching and burin on paper.
This is the 18th plate of a series of 24 engravings by Giandomenico Tiepolo for Carlo Filippo, Prince of Greinffenklau, in which the same theme, that of the Flight into Egypt, is represented in a new and original way for each sheet.
The series entitled "Pictorial Ideas on the Flight into Egypt of Jesus, Mary and Joseph" and published in 1753 in Würzburg is considered the etching masterpiece of the old master Giandomenico Tiepolo.
Dimensions: 185 x 240 mm.
Wonderful etching in excellent impression, very fresh and bright, in a vibrant black ink.
Very good conditions.
Reference: D.V. no. 18; R. no. 84; Proutè no. 180, 1977.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804). Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker, mastering the art of etching. He is well known wolrdwide as he assited his father in Wurzburg (Germany), he made stairwell fresco in Vicenza (Italy) and at the Palace of Charles III in Madrid (Spain). La Via Crucis is among the earliest works engraved by Giandomenico Tiepolo, just about twenty years old, where he translates into etchings the namesake series of paintings realised for the oratory...
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Modern Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Veduta degli Avanzi sopra terra dell'antico Ustrino - Etching by G. B. Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 40x60.
Veduta degli Avanzi sopra terra dell’antico Ustrino (View of the visible remains of the ancient crematorium) is a wonderful black and white etching on thick...
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Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
BATHOS / Tail PIece
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
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