La Mort de la Vierge (B99), Heliogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn

1878 (of original 1639)

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vierge au berceau, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 10.5 x 7 in. (26.67 x 17.78 cm), Printer: Amand ...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Sainte Famille, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12 x 8.5 in. (30.48 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Amand Dur...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Lucrece, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.75 x 5.25 in. (22.23 x 13.34 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, De...

Agostino Carracci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1557 - 1602) - Portrait du Titien, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 13.25 x 9.5 in. (33.66 x 24.13 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Descri...

Etching from the series titled "A Harlots Progress" by William Hogarth. The series consists of six paintings and engravings. The story is about a woman named M. Hackabout who arrived in London and started working as a prostitute. The third plate is of her getting arrest for her choice in profession. The series is a satirical story that emphasizes the dangers of being a prostitute and the health risks that come from it. In 18th century engraving, the detail of the black mole on women and men's face is a symbol of the deadly venereal disease, syphilis. In this plate, Hackabout has already contracted the disease and that is why the black dot is visible on her forehead as well as her madam's. In 1828, William Innell Clement published Harlot's Progress in columns on a single page of his newspaper Bell's Life in London #330. The detail with the cross seen in earlier reproductions of the engraving. Dimensions without Frame: H 14.5 in x W 16.5 in. Artist Biography: William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known to be his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A...

Full Title: Piazza di Palestrina costruita sulle rovine del famoso Tempio della Fortuna Prenestina Image dimensions: 41 x 52 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di R...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1696-1669), La circoncision dans l’étable, 1654 Etching on watermarked paper. Beautiful artist’s proof, signed and dated in plate higher-left : “Rembrandt 1654”...

Interno della Basilica della Fortuna Prenestina Image dimensions: 40x53 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)”, published in Rome, 1826 an artist's proof w...