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Still-life Prints For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year: 1796-1829 (First-third seri...
Category
1790s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
4 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: No.1:I; No. 2:1; II & III.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Orchids" Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Lycaste Skinneri" by Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Clematis, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Clematis'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Conservatory Roses, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Conservatory Roses'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rosa Semperflorens Minima Miss Lawrence's Rose /// English Botanical Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: "Rosa Semperflorens Minima Miss Lawrence's Rose" (Vol. 42, Plate 1762)
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Display...
Category
1810s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
Exacum and Ixoras, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Exacum and Ixoras'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Red Geranium: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Red Geraniums which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Geranium Anemones folio Af...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Masdevallias, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Masdevallias'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Betel Nut Palm: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Betel Nut Palm plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Fagus Fau Buch,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Agaricus Vaginatus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Agaricus Vaginatus' (grisette or the grisette amanita)
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the sci...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
3 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Three plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: XLVIII; XLIX & L.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
Located in Columbia, MO
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Columnar-chived Ixia, Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ixia Columnaris - Columnar-chived Ixia'
Native of Cape of Good Hope.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
18th C. Piranesi Fireplace Designs based on Ancient Architectural Styles
Located in Alamo, CA
These two Giovanni Battista Piranesi 18th century etchings of fireplace designs on one sheet is plate 6 from his publication 'Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento Apologetico in defesa dell'Architettura Egizia, e Toscana, opera del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Flowering Narcissus Lily: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Red Narcissus Lily plant, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Narcissus In...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
Category
1710s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Prickly Viper's Bugloss Henry Andrews antique botanical flower Echium engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Echium Ferocissimum - Prickly Viper's Bugloss'
Native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Bot...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Zinnea violacea coccinea, antique botanical red flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lily-leaved Ophrys. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ophrys lilifolia - Lily-leaved Ophrys'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied by the o...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Apocynum androsamifolium - French botanical flower engraving by Bessa, c1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Apocynum androsamifolium' (Fly-trap dogbane or spreading dogbane)
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring.
From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis A...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cactus & Rose of Jericho Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Melocactos" (Turk's Cap Cactus or Mother-in-law's Cushion), "Rosa Hiericontea aperta" (Rose of Jericho Unfolded), "Rosa Hie...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
A 19th Century Curtis Hand-colored Engraving of a Flowering Clerodendrum Plant
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Clerodendrum Macrophyllum" (Broad-Leaved Clerodendrum), plate 2356, published in London in 1824 ...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria. Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cineraria Aurita - Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria'
Native of the Canary Islands.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Re...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Purslane-leaved Aizoon. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Aizoon Canariense - Purslane-leaved Aizoon'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied by ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Salvia cana (Woolly Sage) /// Botanical Botany Flowers Plants Science Art Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nathaniel Wallich (Danish, 1786-1854)
Title: "Salvia cana (Woolly Sage)" (Plate 116)
Portfolio: Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants
Year: 1830-1832
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: 254
Printer: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., London, UK
Publisher: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, London, UK
Reference: Nissen BBI No. 2099; Pritzel No. 9957; Stafleu-Cowan No. 16583; Dunthorne No. 326
Sheet size: 21.13" x 14.25"
Condition: Some scattered tiny handling creases to sheet. Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography by Maltese artist...
Category
1830s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Banana Plants: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line double page engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 1. Musa,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Calothamnus Villosa, 19th century Australian native botanical engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Calothamnus Villosa - Villous Calothamnus'
Original engraving with original hand-colouring by S Watts After M Hart, 1827.
Native plant of Australia.
...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Cotton Plant: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Panicum sanguinale, from "Flora Londinensis..."
Located in Houston, TX
Antique hand colored engraving of grass or Panicum Sanguinale by W.Curtis, circa 1820. Artwork was intended to be actual size of specimen.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a w...
Category
1820s Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Ipomopsis Elegans, antique botanical red flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hand-colored 1834 Joseph Paxton Botanical Engraving of Yellow Trumpet Flowers
By Joseph Paxton
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of yellow trumpet flowers from Sir Joseph Paxton's (1803-1865) "Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants", published in 1834. This engravi...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam) /// Antique Botanical Flowers Plant Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nathaniel Wallich (Danish, 1786-1854)
Title: "Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam)" (Plate 193)
Portfolio: Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants
Year: 1830-1832
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: 254
Printer: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., London, UK
Publisher: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, London, UK
Reference: Nissen BBI No. 2099; Pritzel No. 9957; Stafleu-Cowan No. 16583; Dunthorne No. 326
Sheet size: 21.13" x 14.13"
Condition: Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography by Maltese artist...
Category
1830s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Orchids: Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Laelia Anceps" by J. Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Laelia Anceps Williamsii" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Album...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Calcochortus luteus, antique botanical yellow flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Houseleek Plant: A 19th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Curtis
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Sempervivum Glutinosum" (Clammy Houseleek), plate 1963, published in London in 1818 in William C...
Category
1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
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...
Category
1740s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Morchella Lutescens, Leuba antique mushroom morel fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-4 Morchella Lutescens 5-7 Morchella Abietina'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Acer & Carduus - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Acarna Theophrasti' and 'Acer Campestre minus'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The fi...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
THORNTON. The Roses
Located in London, GB
Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora.
[London 1799]
First state.
Thornton was a prolific medical author and Doctor of Medicine, practicing at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the Sexual system of Linnaeus.
In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle and others as painters; Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Earlom and John Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle.
These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton's announced intention was to make this work the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest possible prints. All these were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect.
This rare and celebrated plate of the Roses...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Antirrhinum Orontium - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Antirrhinum Orontium'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The first botanical series to u...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sweet-scented Lachenalia. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lachenalia Fragrant - Sweet-scented Lachenalia'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Round-leaved Pellaea, antique fern botanical plant lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, after Walter Hood Fitch.
310mm by 250mm (sheet)
Walter Hood Fitch was one of the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fever Nut Plant "Ban Caretti": A 17th Century Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraving of a fever or bonduc nut plant entitled "Ban Caretti" by Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 20 from his 'Hortus Indi...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Architectural Frieze: An 18th C. Piranesi Etching
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed original 18th century etching is entitled "Fregio antico di marmo con Ippogrifi, nel cortile del palazzo della Valle" (Ancient Marble Frieze with Hippogriffs in the Courtyard of The Palace of the Valley). The etching is by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published in Rome in 1778. It is from Piranesi's monumental work "Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, Ed Ornamenti Antichi", (Vases, candelabra, grave stones...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Lemons "La parte interiore": An Early 18th C. Volckamer Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of the anatomy of lemons by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "La parte interiore del Cedro di fio e Sugo doppio" ...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cape Atragene, Henry Andrews antique botanical pink flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Atragene Capensis - Cape Atragene'
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Burtonia Villosa, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Burtonia Villosa - Villous Burtonia'
Botanical lithograph of a Western Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1848, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
235mm by 145m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gladiolus Carneus - Henry Andrews antique botanical pink flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Gladiolus Carneus - Flesh-coloured Gladiolus'
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, Africa.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botani...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Katu-Belluren": A 17th Century Botanical Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraving of a vine spinach plant entitled "Katu-Belluren" by Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 46 from his 'Hortus Indicus M...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Orchids: Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Trichosma Suavis" by J. Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Trichosma Suavis" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 114 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Album, Compri...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Moonlight Glade (small private burial ground in New England)
By William Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Moonlight Glade", a small intimate etching of a New England graveyard, is a remembrance of the artist's roots. There is a quiet reverent calm to this moonlit scene,.
William Woodward, born in Seekonk, Massachusetts, received his art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He taught at the Rhode Island School of Design while still a student there.
At the behest of William Preston...
Category
1890s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Soldanella Alpina Alpine Soldanella /// English Botanical Flower Engraving Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: "Soldanella Alpina Alpine Soldanella" (Vol. 2, Plate 49)
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year: 1788 ...
Category
1780s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Hardy Phloxes, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Hardy Phloxes'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Groups of Nine Grotesque Masks
By Alò Giovannoli
Located in London, GB
4 Groups of 9 plates of Grotesque Masks.
[Published: Venanzio Monaldini, Rome, 1781].
Rare and strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks, after...
Category
1780s Gothic Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Engraving
Pineapple with foliage.
Located in London, GB
[MERIAN, Maria Sibyl].
Pineapple with foliage.
The Hague, Gosse, 1719.
Engraving of a Pineapple with foliage by J. Mulder, P. Sluyter and D. Stoopendaal after Merian, with later hand-colour, from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphasibus Insectorum Surinamensium. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 40cm by 53.2cm by 4.5cm.
Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.
Maria Sybilla, daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthias Merian, devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company...
Category
1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Iris /// Antique Natural History Botany Botanical Flower Art Science Garden
By Pierre Corneille Van Geel
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pierre Corneille Van Geel (Flemish, 1796-1838)
Title: "Iris"
Portfolio: Sertum Botanicum
Year: 1828 (first edition)
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper
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Category
1820s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Still-Life Prints and Other Still-Life Wall Art for Sale on 1stDibs
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, original still-life prints and other still-life wall art can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, popular still-life prints often feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these still-life paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers that were the subject of their work.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting and printmaking, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
Still-life art enthusiasts and collectors of Warhol prints have lots of reasons to love the cultural icon — when Warhol brought the image of a Campbell’s soup can out of the supermarket and into the studio, in 1961, he secured his legacy as a radical contemporary artist. After Warhol painted the soup cans, he realized that he could more readily achieve the mass-produced aesthetic he was seeking with silkscreens, also called screen-prints, and he began experimenting with silkscreening on canvas. He used the technique to print paintings of Coke bottles and dollar bills (both in 1962), as well as his treasured Brillo box sculptures (1964).
When shopping for a still-life print, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, the collection of still-life prints and other still-life wall art includes works by Jonas Wood, Alex Katz, Nina Tsoriti and many more.