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Still-life Prints For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Lycoperdon Echinatum, Leuba antique mushroom fungi food chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-6 Lycoperdon Echinatum 7-11 Scleroderma Verrucosum' (Spiny puffball mushroom and Scaly earth ball)
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lith...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Clianthus puniceus (New Zealand), Benjamin Maund botanical engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Clianthus puniceus'
Original engraving with original hand-colouring, 1838.
Native plant of New Zealand.
From Benjamin Maund's 'The Botanist'. 1836-1...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Hyacinth & Calla Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyacinthus Comosus Spurius" (Hyacinth), "Hyacinthus Anglicus" (Blue Hyacinth), "Palma ...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Mineralien und Gesteine (Minerals and Rocks), German antique geology print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chromolithograph, circa 1895.
245mm by 300mm (sheet).
Central vertical fold as issued.
Category
Late 19th Century Art Deco Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
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...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Streptosolon, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Streptosolon Jamesoni 2. Leschenaultia Biloba Major'
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
Liliums, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Liliums'
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
Ferns - Platycerium Grande, antique fern botanical colour woodblock print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett after AF Lydon. From Edward J. Lowe’s 'Ferns: British and Exotic', 1867.
Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Odontoglossums, English antique flower orchid botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Odontoglossums'
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
Le Mais (Corn on the cob) in woven basket)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80.
Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...
Category
1890s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Marica Sabini, antique botanical blue 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
Flowers for Rockwork, English antique flower chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Flowers for Rockwork'
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lapagerias & Passiflora, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lapagerias and Passiflora'
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
"Amicua Melon" Hand Finished Color Engraving by George Brookshaw
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a colored aquatint and stipple engraving finished by hand entitled "Amicua Melon", drawn and engraved by George Brookshaw and published in London in 1812 as plate LXXII in hi...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Flowering Shrubs, English antique flower chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Flowering Shrubs'
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Citrus (Cedar Flower): 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 a Cedar Flower citrus fruit by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "Cedro di fiore e Sugo doppia (...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ericas and Epacrises, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ericas and Epacrises'
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
Laelias and Cattleyas, English antique flower orchid chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Laelias and Cattleyas'
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
Azaleas, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Azaleas'
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
Forced Shrubs, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Forced Shrubs'
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
Pyrethrums, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Pyrethrums'
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
Morchella Conica, Leuba antique mushroom fungi morel chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Morchella Conica'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BROOKSHAW. A Pair of Melons: White Seed'd Rock and Silver Rock Mellon
Located in London, GB
Pair of aquatints with stipple-engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, made for Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fru...
Category
1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
PRÉVOST. Print from a Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving
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: JF 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: CXLI, CXLII, CXIII & CXLIV.
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
Oil Lamp - Etching by Niccolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp is an Etching realized by Niccolò Vanni (1750-1770).
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original tit...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Blattpflanzen II (Leaf plants), German antique botanical plant chromolithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Blattpflanzen II'
(Leaf plants)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
245mm by 305mm (sheet).
Central vertical fold as issued.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yucca filamentosa - French botanical flower engraving by Bessa, c1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Yucca filamentosa' (Adam's Needle)
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring.
From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps &...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ornamentale Tatowierung (Ornamental Tattoo) Antique Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ornamentale Tatowierung'
(Ornamental Tattooing)
German chromolithograph. 1895.
240mm by 150mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Lily Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Cataputia Vulgaris, Parietaria Sylvestris, Nummularia", depicting flowering Spanish Nut, Yellow Turk's-cap Lily, Yellow Turk's...
Category
1640s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
White Hamburgh Grape: A Framed 19th C. Color Engraving by George Brookshaw
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 19th century colored aquatint and stipple engraving finished by hand entitled "White Hamburgh Grape", drawn and engraved by George Brookshaw and published in London in 1812 as plate 60 in his 'Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits'. It depicts a cluster of pale green grapes still on the vine. The vine and leaves are shown in attractive shades of green and brown. The plant lays on a brown textured background with shadows to impart 3-dimensionality. The scene is reminiscent of an engraving in an 18th century artistically stylized human anatomy atlas. There is a light brown title rectangle in the lower center which is blank, suggesting this may be a more rare preproduction proof. There are wide white margins.
This striking engraving is presented in a reddish brown decorative wood frame with a darker brown scroll-work outer trim and a gold-colored inner fillet and a thick light beige mat. The frame measures 26" high, 22" wide and 1.13" deep. It is glazed with UV conservation glass. There is a tiny spot in the lower margin on the left and another in the left margin. The print and frame are otherwise in excellent condition.
There is a second Brookshaw engraving that is framed in identical moulding, although a slightly different size and a different color mat. It depicts a Silver Rock Melon. The two prints would make a striking display pairing...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
"Lilium Persicum" Ehret 18th Century Hand Colored Botanical Engraving
By Georg Dionysius Ehret
Located in Alamo, CA
A beautiful and important 18th century hand colored copperplate engraving of lillies which was most likely designed by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) and engraved by Johann Michae...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Spear-leaved Helonias, Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Helonias bullata - Spear-leaved Helonias'
Native of Carolina, North America.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repos...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Agaricus Casareus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi botanical chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Agaricus Casareus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Still Life 2 - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Ceri in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions, aged with some folding.
The e...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Fringe-keeled Gompholobium, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Gompholobium Barbigerum - Fringe-keeled Gompholobium'
Botanical lithograph of a Western Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cymbidium Eburneum, antique orchid botanical lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cymbidium Eburneum – The Ivory Cymbidium'
Orchid lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
25cm by 15.5cm (sheet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Air Plant: A 19th Century Hand-colored Engraving by William Curtis
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Pendulous-flowered Bryophyllum", plate 1409, published in London in 1809 in William Curtis’s 'The Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed'. Bryophyllum pinnatum, also known as the air plant...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
POITEAU/ TURPIN. Traité des arbres fruitiers: A Set of Four Cherries.
Located in London, GB
A set of four stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand.
Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes it...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
Ubersichtskarte Des Mondes (Overview Map of the Moon), antique astronomy print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ubersichtskarte Des Mondes'
(Overview Map of the Moon)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
245mm by 305mm (sheet).
Central vertical fold as issued.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Silene Hookeri, native of California, antique botanical flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
145mm by 235mm (sheet)
Walter Hood Fitch was a Scottish...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Lyons' Chelone Botanical: A 19th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Curtis
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Chelone Major" (Flowering Lyons' Chelone plant), plate 1864, published in London in 1816 in Will...
Category
1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Passiflora Cinnabarina, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Passiflora Cinnabarina' (Passionflower)
Botanical lithograph of an Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1871, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Asparagus Plant: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving finished with hand coloring by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled a. Thyrsus asparagi. b. Asparagus, Asperge. c. Aspa...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Boletus Aurantiacus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Boletus Aurantiacus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific na...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dendrobium Albo-Sanguineum, antique orchid botanical lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Dendrobium Albo-Sanguineum – White and Sanguine Dendrobium'
Orchid lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
25c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Besler Red Roses, "Rosa ex rubro": A 17th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
"Rosa ex rubro nigricans"; a hand colored copper engraving from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This engraving is presented in a glossy silver and matte gold-colored wood frame with a green edge and an elaborate double cream-colored French mats with light mauve bands; each accented by a broad decorative marbleized green band. It is glazed with plexiglass. There is text offset and a very small crease in the left margin, but the print is otherwise in excellent condition. Provenance: W. Graham Arader Gallery...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
Located in Columbia, MO
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Agaricus Acris / Deliciosus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-4 Agaricus Acris 5-9 Agaricus Deliciosus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific nam...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Agaricus Alutaceus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi food chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-4 Agaricus Alutaceus 5-7 Agaricus Emeticus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific n...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Morchella Semi-Libera, Leuba antique mushroom fungi morel chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Morchella Semi-Libera' (Half-free Morel)
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name b...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nepenthes Villosa, antique botanical carnivorous pitcher plant lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Nepenthes Villosa Hook. fil.'
Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring of a carnivorous pitcher plant, native to Borneo. 1858.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fistulina Hepatica, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-3 Fistulina Hepatica 4-6 Boletus Chrysentheron'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientif...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boletus Pachypus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Boletus Pachypus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
George Brookshaw's Black Frontiniac Wine Grape Aquatint from "Pomona Brittanica"
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful Black Frontiniac Wine Grape hand-colored aquatint engraving, plate XVII from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a rich mottled background.
The print is presented in a gold and burgundy-colored wood frame and a light gray mat. The print is in very good condition.
Another Brookshaw engraving from his series of fruit illustrations is available on 1stdibs. It is framed and matted identically to this one. It can be viewed on our 1stdibs storefront by typing Timeless Intaglio...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Helvella Gigas / Infula, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-2 Helvella Gigas 3-5 Helvella Infula'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name be...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Primula Verticillata Var. Sinensis, antique botanical flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
235mm by 145mm (sheet)
Walter Hood Fitch was a Scottish botan...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
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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.