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Still Life with Eggs - Original handsigned etching - Limited / 150

Mily POSSOZ The table MEDIUM : Etching SIGNATURE : Handsigned LIMITED : 30 copies PAPER : Rives vellum SIZE : 15 x 11" INFORMATIONS : Bears the blind stamp of the editor "Marc...

Bernard BUFFET Microscope, 1959 Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 100 copies On vellum BFK Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 11 x 14.9 inch) REFRENCES : Catalogue raisonne Berna...

Salvador Dali Making Dinner, 1975 Original etching Signed in pencil Limited to 100 copies (Here numbered 52) On Arches vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : - Cata...

Georges BRAQUE Still Life with Glass and Pipe, 1959 Original etching with aquatint Printed signature in the plate Numbered / 350 On vellum 30 x ...

Jean Émile LABOUREUR The Harbor Cafe, 1921 Original etching Signed in pencil by the artist Numbered on / 50 copies On vellum 32.5 x 39.5 cm (c. ...

Mily POSSOZ Flowers MEDIUM : Etching SIGNATURE : Handsigned LIMITED : 35 copies PAPER : Rives vellum SIZE : 20 x 15" INFORMATIONS : Bears the blind stamp of the editor "Marcel Guio...

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...

Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed. London, 1...

A 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...

Chinese Lanterns by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, w...

Sevillian Bowl by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, wh...