Mario Avati

NATURE MORT AUX ALLUMETTES

1959

Avati, Mario. UN OEUF ET DES COQUES. mMezzotint in colors. 10 3/4 x 13 3/8 inches; 274 x 340 mm. One of 16 artist's proofs aside from the regular edition. Numbered, titled, and signe...

Yokoi, Tomoe (Japanese, born 1942). APPLES IN A BASKET. Color mezzotint. a Hors de Commerce copy aside from an edition of unknown size. Signed in penci...

Jaques, Bertha (American, 1863-1941) THORNAPPLE. Drypoint, 1924. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil. 12 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (plate), 15 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (sheet). Printed on t...

Cheffetz, Asa. UNTITLED - DECANTER AND TWO GLASSES. Not in Springfield. Wood engraving, undated, but likely 1935-1945. Signed in pencil. 7 x 6 1/8 inches (image) plus margins. A tiny...

Dine, Jim (American, born 1935). YELLOW CALLA LILLIES. D'Oench and Feinberg 19. Etching, soft-ground, drypoint, photogravure and electric tools, with hand-coloring, 1978. Edition of ...

Lozowick, Louis. Amer., (1892-1973), STILL LIFE NO.2 (STILL LIFE WITH APPLES), Lithograph, 1929, Ed. C. 50. Flint 36, 10 5/16 x 13 3/16, 262 x ...

Edition of 25, signed, numbered AGNIESZKA LECH-BIŃCZYCKA Graduated from University of Rzeszów in a field of Artistic Education with specialisation in g...

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 ...

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...

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,...

This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 2. Mauze, Baradis-feigen", p...

This is a beautiful original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Calla Lily, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Arum Aethiopicum ...