Domenicus Custos

Ioannes Baptista Montanus Veronensis patricius.

circa 1600

These beautiful Italian 18th Centruy engravings on laid paper feature the portrait of two famous Italian painters: Veronese and Guido Reni. They were engraved by Pier Antonio Pazzi a...

A scarce mezzotint engraved by James Watson published in May,1778. Proof before title; the image has maintained is rich dark tonality. John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-1794) was a politician, lawyer and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Born in Gortroe, County Cork in 1724, he graduated from Trinity College in 1744, and swiftly built up a good practice at the Bar. From 1760 until his death he represented Cork in Parliament. Promotion to the post of Prime Serjeant followed in 1761 and on most issues he supported the Government, and acquired several lucrative offices. His appointment as Provost of Trinity as a married layman who had not been a Fellow was a continued source of friction as the Fellows resented the imposition of what they perceived as a career politician with no pretensions to scholarship. He was sympathetic to Catholic Emancipation...

Mezzotint engraved by John Young, January 1820, from a drawing by George Antoine Kernan. Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 – 26 September ...

HELLEU, PAUL CÉSAR (1859 -1927) "Fillette Assise de Profil àGauche (Mlle. P) (Profile of a Seated Girl to the left) Drypoint in colors, c. 1895 Signed in pe...

HELLEU, PAUL CÉSAR (1859 -1927) "MADAME GEORGES MENIER" Montesquiou XXI Drypoint in colors, c. 1900 Signed in pencil, lower right Printed on wove paper Full...

HELLEU, PAUL CÉSAR (1859 - 1927) "La Dame a la Toque" (Lady in Fur Hat) Drypoint printed in colors on pale cream wove paper, c. 1906 Signed in black crayo...