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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Holy Family with Two Saints, after Parmigianino
By Antonio Da Trento
Located in Middletown, NY
Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Anthony van Dyck, Engraving Ernest de Mansfeld, c. 1654, Portrait, Iconographie
Located in Greven, DE
A wonderfully detailed and charismatic portrait, this exquisite work illustrates the technical mastery and artistic vision of Van Dyck. Ernest de Mansfeld's stately yet approachable expression reflects Van Dyck's refined ability to comfort and relax his subjects, resulting in a realistic and acute portrait. Ernest de Mansfeld was a German military commander during the early years of the Thirty Years War. Donning his armor and an ornate, lace collar, de Mansfeld appears as a strong commander. Without a hint of a smile, he calmly gazes out, the definition of cool and collected. Van Dyck accurately captures the sense that de Mansfeld is a man who takes his job seriously, a man worthy of commanding an army in battle.
This portrait is a Mauquoy-Hendrickx State II (of II), engraved by Robertus van Voerst in collaboration with Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1559 - London, 1641) as part of his Iconographie series of engraved portraits of famous people...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
Il Giocolare - Etching by Giovanni Volpato - 1765 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and burin on paper.
Image dimension: 37.8x29
On the lower margin from left to right under the composition "Fran. co Maggiotto inv." and then "Gio. Volpato Sculp. appo Nic. ...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
"Earl Sandwich Refusing to Leave His Ship": An 18th Century Etching/Engraving
By Robert Smirke
Located in Alamo, CA
An 18th century etching and engraving entitled "Earl Sandwich Refusing to Leave His Ship While on Fire in the Battle of Sole Bay" by William Byrne (1743-1805), after a painting by Robert Smirke (1753-1845). It was published in London in 1798.
The print is presented in a cream-colored mat. The mat measures 17.13" in height and 13" in width. The print is in excellent condition.
Edward Montagu, the 1st Earl of Sandwich...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Holbein Hand-colored Portrait of Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury for Henry VIII
By (After) Hans Holbein The Younger
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed hand colored stipple engraving and etching portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry VII and his son King Henry VIII was created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815) after a drawing and a painting by Hans Holbein (1497-1543), who was Henry VIII's court painter. The print was published in London by John Chamberlaine in 1795. The print was created utilizing stipple engraving and etching techniques by the Italian artist Francesco Bartolozzi, who was employed as the royal engraver by King George III of England. The publisher, John Chamberlaine, was Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals. The inscription beneath the portrait reads" "In His Majesty's Collection", "Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R A Historical Engraver to His Majesty'' in the lower right, and ''From an original drawing by Hans Holbien'' in the lower left. The original painting by Holbein is displayed at Lambeth Castle and the original drawing is in the art collection at Windsor Castle. The engraving is held by many museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
This portrait depicts Archbishop William Warham facing to his right, wearing a black cap covering his ears and fur trimmed clerical robes. The print is presented in a decorative gold-colored wood frame with a blue-grey fabric mat. The frame measures 26.5" x 20.13" x 1". The print is in excellent condition.
William Warham (1450-1532) was the last of the pre-Reformation archbishops of Canterbury, serving under King Henry VII and then under King Henry VIII. He was a quiet, unassuming intellectual whose career ended with a strong and brave stance against the divorce of King Henry VIII and the king's resultant withdrawal of England from the Catholic church and his draconian actions against the clergy. As Lord Chancellor...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
J Haid, Martin Van Meytens, Engraving, Portrait Count Ferdinand Plettenberg
Located in Greven, DE
Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767), engraver
Johann Stenglin (1715-1770), engraver
Martin van Meytens (1695-1770), inventor
Ferdinand Count of Plettenber...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
James Basire after Guercino - Framed 18th Century Etching, Study of Janus
Located in Corsham, GB
Original etching. 'Janus' the Roman Two-Faced God of Duality Beginnings and Endings. Signed in plate. Well presented in a white card mount and gilt-effect frame. On paper.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of a Man after Raphael - Etching by Nicholas Dupuis - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Raphael is an etching realized by N. Dupuis Junior in 1755.
Good conditions.
Signed in plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was re...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
A Promenade to a Rout on a fair Evening
By Isaac Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Allen & West, 1797.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (213 x 270 mm), wide margins. Scattered toning, mat tone, and dog-e...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Portrait of an infamous thief
By Abraham Bosse
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating image of a well-known theif robbing a merchant of goods held atop her head.
Paris: circa 1670.
Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (17...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Profile of an Oriental Man - Etching - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Profile of an oriental man is an artwork realized in 17th Century, after HARMENSZ VAN RIJN REMBRANDT, (1606 Leiden - 1669 Amsterdam)
Etching on paper. 13 x 12 cm.
Slightly stained, heavily trimmed.
The motif shows reminiscences of similar motifs of Rembrandt, as well as of Salomon Koninck...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
A Chinese Watchman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
The Resurrection
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and beautiful 18th century bible illustration by a female artist.
Engraving on cream laid paper with a "V" shaped watermark, 8 x 4 5/8 inch...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
John Flamsteed, astronomer, 18th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Flamsteed'
Copper-line engraving by Joseph Baker after T Gibson. 1790.
John Flamsteed FRS (1646 - 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued ov...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Italian Painter’s Portrait Engravings on Laid Paper on Canvas in Ebonized Frames
Located in Firenze, IT
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...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Laid Paper, Engraving
Venetian School: Neoclassical banquet scene with angels and putti.
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish black ink on dark cream, handmade, laid paper, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (208 x 260 mm). Uniform age tone with several scattered, unobtrusive spots of brown discoloration, consistent with age. Right top corner loss, evenly trimmed, paper tape remnants at top left corner, recto. Collector's stamp in blue ink ("PRB"), lower left corner, recto. On the verso is a neoclassical graphite and brown ink study of a procession showing a woman being carried in a birthing sedan chair. The woman is being carried backwards, with putti, and horn players, leading her up an embankment, across a river. In her wake we see a crowned man...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Portrait of Carlos de Colonna, Marques de la Espinar
By Paulus Pontius
Located in Middletown, NY
(after Anthonie Van Dyck) Engraving on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (234 x 161 mm), full margins. Water stain throughout bottom, diagonal creases in the area of the bottom right corner, paper tape along top edge on recto. A very well inked impression.
__________Flemish painter and engraver Paulus Pontius was born in Antwerp in 1603, and it was in this city that his full life would unfold. At the young age of 13, he was apprenticed to the still life painter Osias Beert, and subsequently to Lucas Vosterman, who was heavily associated with the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. Vosterman trained Pontius in the skill of engraving, which he took to immediately, finding he had great skill at recreating paintings. Pontius was able to capture the minutiae of light and shadow found on the canvas, and mastered the ability to accurately render the subtleties of brushwork in this alternate media. His success as an engraver cemented his role in the workshop of Rubens, and in 1624, when Vosterman found himself at odds with Rubens, and left Antwerp for England, Pontius assumed his role as foremost engraver in the workshop. It was in this year that Pontius took up lodgings in Rubens's home, and continued to live there until 1631, when courtship and marriage (the first of three) brought him away. After the death of Rubens in 1640, Pontius embarked on a very successful career engraving reproductions of master works by artists including Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter van Avont, Abraham van Diepenbeeck...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Madonna and Donor (an Ecclesiastic)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction from a collection of drawings by Flemish and Dutch masters of the XV-XVII Centuries preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna, Austria. Published by Campbell Dodgs...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Old man with a long beard and cap - After Rembrandt, copy
By Ferdinand Bol
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 x 2 1/4 inches (76 x 57 mm), margins. In very good condition with some minor losses at the extreme lower right corner. Pencil inscriptions on the ver...
Category
Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper
A Chinese Nobleman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Ben Alexander - Etching by Erich Heckel - 1927
By Erich Heckel
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on laid paper realized by Heckel in 1927.
Signed and dated in pencil lower right.
Hand numbered 11/20 lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Private Col...
Category
Expressionist 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
18th Century Engraved Portrait of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
A superb 18th century engraved portrait of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, Plate 82 in "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain", written by...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Study of a Head
Located in Middletown, NY
By Wenceslaus Hollar, after Jan Van Bylert (Biler)
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/16 x 2 3/4 inches (87 x 70 mm), thread margins. Lacking the inscription in the plate; "Felix Bil...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Saint Paul, from the series of Standing Saints
By Lucas van Leyden
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper laid down to wove paper, 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (109 x 68), trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered discoloration and uniform age tone, all consistent wit...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig
Located in Middletown, NY
Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig club in distress etc. &c
London: S.W. Fores, 1798. Etching on white wove paper, 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inche...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing (Hawaii) from Captain Cooks travels engra
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of the Sandwich Islands Dancing (Hawaii) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was the official artist for the third voyage of Captain James Cook (1728-1779). The purpose of this voyage was to discover the Northwest Passage and to explore the Pacific Ocean north of the Equator. These engravings were published in 1784-85 by G. Nichol and Thomas Cadell of London in the four large format atlas, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Captain Cook was an extraordinary explorer known for discovering and mapping unknown territory and for his many contributions to the scientific world. These original engravings from Webber’s drawings and paintings are only a glimpse into this great man’s historical contributions that make him one of the greatest explorers of all times.
This image shows a Hawaiian dancer...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hercule Gaulois, ou L’Éloquence
By Charles-Nicolas II Cochin
Located in Middletown, NY
A classical chiaroscuro woodcut after Raphael executed by Charles Nicolas Cochin Père (1688-1754) & Vincent Le Sueur (1668-1743) . Printed from two bloc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
Court wrestlers of the Sultan of Turkey-dressed for outdoors, resting and fighti
Located in Middletown, NY
Bruyn, Abraham de (after). Court wrestlers of the Sultan of Turkey-dressed for outdoors, resting and fighting. 1577. Engraving on hand made laid paper, 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (268 x 1...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
Viscount Thomas Belasise: 17th Century Hand-colored Portrait by Robert White
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving by Robert White (1645-1703) after a painting by Abraham Blooteling (or Bloteling) (1634–1690) entitled "The Effigies of the Right honorable: Thomas B...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Anatomy Studies - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Studies is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Signed in the plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The...
Category
Surrealist 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
The Spectacle Seller
By Adriaen Jansz van Ostade
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 4 x 3 3/8 inches (102 x 86 mm), 1/4 inch margins. Signed in the plate, lower left corner. The 3rd state (of 6), after the rounding of the pl...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Vincent de Paul Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century portrait engraving of Saint Vincent de Paul by Gerard Edelinck (1640-1707) after a painting by Simon Francois (1606-1671), published in Charles Perrault's 'Les Hommes Illustres' in Paris in 1696. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) was a French Catholic...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cainus fratri necem molitur (Cain kills his brother), Plate I Battles from Old T
Located in Middletown, NY
Rome: Nicolas van Aelst, 1613.
Engraving on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark, 8 x 11 1/4 inches (203 x 282 mm), thread margins. Scattered expert repairs including minor pu...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century portrait engraving of Jean-Baptiste Racine by Gerard Edelinck (1640-1707), published in Charles Perrault's 'Les Hommes Illustres' in Paris in 1696. Jean Racine (1639-1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille. Racine's works were primarily tragedies. He wrote Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for young readers. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury. The American poet Robert Lowell described his style as a "diamond-edge" and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's works often displayed his psychological insight, the passion of his characters, and the stark reality of his plots and stage descriptions. In 1672, he was elected to the Académie Française, and two years later he achieved the title of "treasurer of France", and later the honorary title of an "ordinary gentleman of the king" to King Louis XIV, and subsequently a secretary of the king .
This beautiful engraved portrait is printed on chain-linked, laid paper with wide margins. The sheet measures 17.13" high by 10.75" wide. There is a small spot in the lower margin and a few tiny faint spots in the margins, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The original descriptive text pages, 81 & 82, are included.
Provenance: This engraving was owned by Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Baron Harberton and the Viscount Harberton (1723-1798). He was an Irish politician, who represented County Kildare in the Irish House...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Carolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck
Located in Middletown, NY
An exalted portrait of fellow Flemish engraver and publisher Karel van Mallery.
Lucas Vorsterman the Elder (after Anthony van Dyck).
Carolus de Mallery, from Icones Principum Viror...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
N. Lambert Seigneur de Thorigny: 17th C. Engraved Portrait After Largillière
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraving entitled "Messire Nicolas Lambert Seigneur de Thorigny, Conseiller du Roy" by Pierre Drevet after a painting by Noicolas de Largillière, published in Paris in 1698. This portrait depicts a three-quarter length view of Nicolas Lambert de Thorigny, who is dressed in elaborate robes and collar of a wealthy Parisian nobleman of the time. He is seated directed to the left and looking directly at the viewer. He is holding an inscribed note in his right hand. A magnificent billowing curtain is in the background. Lambert's coat of arms is shown in the center of the lower inscription area. In the inscription area is lettered with title, production detail: "Nic. Largilliere pinxit" and "Petr. Drevet sculpsit", and publication detail: "Se vend a Paris chez Drevet rüe du Foin au coin du College de Maître Gervais".
Nicolas Lambert, Seigneur de Thorigny (1600-1664), was a French nobleman and military commander who lived in the 17th century. He served in the French army during the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that took place from 1618 to 1648 and involved many European powers. Lambert fought in several battles during the war and rose to the rank of colonel. After the war, Lambert returned to France and became involved in politics. He served as a member of the Estates General, a legislative body that advised the king, and as a governor of several provinces. He was a counsellor and confidant of King Louis XIV. He had the title of Président de la Chambre des Comptes. He also became a member of the French Academy of Sciences, a prestigious institution that promotes scientific research and scholarship. Lambert was known for his military expertise, his intelligence, and his commitment to public service. He iInherited the Hôtel Lambert in Paris from his brother Jean Baptiste in 1644 and hired some of the most prominent artists of the time, including Charles Le Brun to decorate and furnish the building.
This beautiful old master engraving was created with impressive detailed technique. It is printed on laid, chain-linked paper. The sheet measures 18.5" high and 13.38" wide. The sheet is adhered to an archival backing paper at the top. There is a faint horizontal center fold and mild discoloration in the inscription area and in the upper margin on the right, with mild wrinkling here. The print is otherwise in very good condition, considering its age. This engraving is so rare, that no comparable prints could be identified for sale online. It is currently only listed in museum collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Museum, The Louvre, The Riksmuseum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum at the U. of Cambridge, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard Art Museums, The Finnish National Museum, The Philadelphia Museum. It is shown in the Metropolitan Museum's Cataloque of French paintings entitled: "French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in 2018, page 36. The page is included in the photos.
Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) was a French portrait painter who achieved great success and acclaim during the late Baroque and Rococo periods. He was born in Paris and trained under the painter Antoine Goubeau. He studied in Antwerp and London before returning to France. While in England he was a favorite painter of King Charles II and King James II of England...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Elizabeth Duchess of Hamilton - Etching by W. Hamilton - Late 1700
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful portrait of Elizabeth Duchess of Hamilton, in very good conditions.
Prov.
Ederheimer Gallery N.Y.
Private Collection, Italy
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles
By Ludolf Ludwig Businck
Located in Middletown, NY
Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed through raking light. Trimmed at or near the margin. Archivally sound small repaired corner tear, upper right, with a very minor (1/4 inch) vertical edge split in the center top margin, above the figure's head. All condition issues are consistent with age, and present an exceptionally good example of this truly remarkable work. With the collector's stamp of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, last King of Poland (1797-1854), Dresden, on the right corner, recto (Lugt 971). This work likely appeared in a well-known posthumous sale of Friedrich August II's private collection, which was handled by C.G. Boerner, and took place in Leipzig, on May 7-9, 1928, presumably this print was presented as lot 1551.
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Ludolph Busïnck was born at Hann, Germany around 1590. By about 1620 he was actively working as a printmaker in Paris, collaborating with publisher and celebrated cartographer Melchoir Tavernier. Busïnck may have studied printmaking in the Netherlands, evidenced by the influence of Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius we see in the bold woodcuts he produced in France. Busïnck was the first printmaker to create chiaroscuro woodcuts in France, a technique originated by German artist Hans Burgkmair...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of Marquard Freher, aged forty-nine
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on hand made laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (210 x 148 mm), thread margins. An approximately 1-inch vertical repaired tear extends into the image area at the top center ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
The Courtesan Midorigi
By Chokosai Eisho
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Eisho zu
From the series: "Contest of Beauties in the Pleasure District" (Kakuchi bijin-kurabe)
Format: Oban
Publisher: Yamaguchi ya Chusuke
The courtesan Midorigi of the Wakamatsu ya bordello depicted against a decorated ground, holding an ornamental sculpture of an ox.
Eisho Chokosai was a pupil of Eisho Hosoda, and is also known as Eisho Hosoda.
Reference: Richard Lane...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Mago of Carthage, Roman bust, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Magone Cartaginese' (Magone of Carthage)
Copper-line engraving by Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from 'Musei Capitolini', a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
Mago I, also known as Magon, was the king of the Ancient Carthage...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
To Drink in Excess
By Cornelis Visscher
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, full margins. Trimmed at the plate mark. Scattered light caramel colored areas of discoloration in the sheet corners, light skinning on the verso at the ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Elderly Shepherd Leaning on a Staff (after Parmigianino)
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder after a work by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Printed on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream lai...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully
By (After) Frans Pourbus the Younger
Located in Middletown, NY
A portrait of Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, the Ambassador from Henry IV of France to James I of England; by Gerard Edelinck, after Franz Pourbus the Younger
Etching on fine ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Shepard Fairey Ian Curtis "Heart And Soul" Silkscreen Print Contemporary Street
Located in Draper, UT
Original Illustration based on photograph by Kevin Cummins. Signed by Shepard Fairey and Kevin Cummins. A portion of the proceeds went to CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably).
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Category
Contemporary 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Louis XI, Roi de France
By Jean Morin
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching, engraving and stippling on cream laid paper with an indiscernible watermark in the sheet center, 11 15/16 x 8 3/16 inches (302 x 207 mm), trimmed at the plate mark. A very g...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
Peasant with a Crooked Back
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on on laid paper, adhered along left sheet edge to archival wove paper. A rich inking impression in very good condition. From the Picart Edition of 1710.
- Ex-collection Fer...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Hieronymus Schurstab (1st state)
By Hans Lautensack
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching
195 x 295 mm.; 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Exhibited:
Old Master Prints & Drawings: 1450 - 1850, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, December 1999: no. 21.
Reference:
Hollstein 68 I/II
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
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Etching
Diogenes the Cynic, Greek philosopher. C18th Grand Tour Roman bust engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Diogene Cinico'
Copper-line engraving by Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768).
From 'Musei Capitolini' a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
240mm by 170mm (platemark)
420mm by 270mm (sheet)
Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Lion and Star (Lieure 38)
References:
Lieure No. 505
Notes:
An early impression of the only state of this major work.
According to Lieure (Jacques Callot: Catalogue de l...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
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Etching
Portrait of Arnaldo da Brescia - Lithograph by Alberto Maso Gilli - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Arnaldo da Brescia Portrait is an original artwork realized by Alberto Maso Gilli in 19th Century
Black and white lithograph o...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Holy Family
By Fra Bonaventura Bisi
Located in Chicago, IL
The Holy Family, 1634
Etching after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 - 1540 Casal Maggiore)
305 x 230 mm.; 12 x 9 inches
References:
Nagler Monogrammisten II...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
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Etching
Euripides, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euripide Poeta Tragico' (Euripides, Tragic Poet)
Copper-line engraving by Nicola Billy after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Amelia Elisabetha, mid 17th century Flemish portrait engraving, 1651
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish portrait engraving, dated 1651, of Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602–1651), who was Landgravine consort and Regent of Hesse-Kassel. From a series of portraits of the Dignitaries at the Peace of Münster (Pacis Antesignani sive Icones legatorum).
Lettered in open letters around portraits: 'PVR ET LOYAL'. Lettered in cartouche below portrait: 'Amelia Elisabetha / ... / ... Nomine P.T. Regens.' and "Anselmus van Hulle...
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Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lady Stanhope, English mezzotint portrait print after Sir Joshua Reynolds, c1780
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Honourable Lady Stanhope'
Anne Hussey (Delaval), Lady Stanhope (died 1811) was the wife of Sir William Stanhope of Whig Park.
James Watson (c1739-...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint, Engraving
Johannes Wesselius Portrait: An 18th Century Engraving/Etching by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved and etched portrait of Johannes Wesselius by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Jan Maurits Quinkhard. It depicts a half-height image of Wesselius...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
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Engraving, Etching
Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roy de Perse, 1742 (Nader Shah), portrait engraving, 1742
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French 18th century engraving, published in Paris, of the Emperor of Persia, Tahmasp Quli Khan (c.1688-1747), also known as Nader Shah.
150mm by 100mm (platemark)
170mm by 120mm (sh...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Rare Framed Mezzotint after Brompton
By Edward Fisher
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a large framed very rare hand-colored copperplate mezzotint engraved portrait of William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham by Edward Fisher, published in London in 1779 after a painting by Richard Brompton. Pitt is depicted attired in a flowing regal appearing cape, standing in an ornate room with his left hand outstretched over a serious of manuscripts and scrolls that are laying on a table or desk to his left. The table is covered by a beautiful oriental carpet. The manuscripts include the Magna Carta, a map of the colonies, including Long Island and Staten Island, and papers entitled "A Plan for the Reconciliation between Great Britain and the Colonies", "A Motion Made in 1775 for the Recall of Troops from Boston", "A Provisional Act for Settling the Troubles in America Offered to the House of Lords in 1775", and "It is doing Nothing to repeal a few Scraps of Paper or Pieces of Parchment called Acts of Parliament. But our Business is to repeal the Ill-Will and the Animosity unfortunately now subsisting between Great Britain and North America". This engraving is held by the British Museum and the British Royal Collection Trust.
This large framed mezzotint engraving is presented in a brown wood frame with gold-colored beaded inner and outer trim, and a cream-colored French mat. The frame measures 31.63" high by 26.63" wide by 0.75" deep. There are three short tears along the right edge and mild creasing in the left upper, left lower and right lower corners. It is otherwise in very good condition.
William Pitt (1708-1778) was a member of the British parliament from 1735 to 1761 and prime minister from 1766 to 1768. Pitt was an advocate for the American colonies leading up to the War of Independence. He called for an amiable relationship between Great Britain and the colonies and opposed the Stamp Act and military action in America. He advocated for a withdrawal of English troops from Boston in 1775 and the settling of troubles in America, as two of his manuscripts on the table outline. Pitt's colleague, Lord Shelburne (later the Marquess of Lansdowne) shared his sympathies and after Pitt's death, signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1782.
The American city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is named for William Pitt, the Elder. The name originated when the conflict between the British and French over territorial claims in the Northeast were settled in 1758. General John Forbes and his British army, supported by the American colonial troops, expelled the French from Fort Duquesne (which had been constructed by the French in 1754). Forbes re-named the site for William Pitt the Elder, who at the time was a British statesman. The earliest known reference to the new name, Pittsburgh, is in a letter sent from General John Forbes to Pitt, dated November 27, 1758. Pitt's son, William Pitt, the Younger, like his father, also served as British Prime Minister.
Edward Fisher (1730-1785) was born in Ireland in 1730. He was originally a hatter, but learned engraving in London. He became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, and exhibited there fourteen times between 1761 and 1776. He engraved more than sixty portraits. In addition to this portrait of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, after Richard Brompton he engraved several portraits after Brompton, including George, Earl of Albemarle, as well as engraved portraits after paintings by Joshua Reynolds, including the Shakespearean actor David Garrick, Hugh, Earl of Northumberland, and Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland and Laurence Sterne, and Hope Nursing Love, as well as Robert Brown, after Mason Chamberlin, Colley Cibber, after Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Christian VII of Denmark, after Nathaniel Dance, Simon, Earl Harcourt, after Hunter, Roger Long, after Benjamin Wilson...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Prints
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Mezzotint
