Academic Prints and Multiples
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
"The Presidents of the US, " Original Handcolored Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presidents of the U.S." is an original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It features the first eleven presidents of the United States.
14" x 10" art
23" x 19 1/8" frame
Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to William S. and John Pendleton of Boston who had set up the first lithographic establishment in America. His apprenticeship served him well as he went on to be the largest publisher of lithographs. Mr. Maurer described Nat Currier as being very gentlemanly and liberal. As is evident to the success of the firm of Currier & Ives he was very devoted to his business.
Nat Currier had many friends including Horace Greely and P.T. Barnum. He was well known for his sense of humor and Harry T. Peters tells one story about P. T. Barnum. "Currier had heard that one day his friend, the great showman, had rushed into the barber shop of the old Park Hotel, at Beekman and Nassau Streets, to get a shave. Barnum had hurried up to Tom Higginson, the barber, and said, 'Tom, I'm in a hurry.' 'Sorry for it,' said Tom, 'but it's that gentleman's turn next.' 'That gentleman' was an unshaven irshman waiting for a ten-cent shave. Barnum turned to him and said, 'My friend, if you will let me have your turn, I'll pay for what you have done.' The gentleman consented, and, as Barnum found out later, had a full job done - absolutely everything the house had. The check was for a dollar and sixty cents. When Currier heard this story he found the very Irishman and had him pose. The result was the famous cartoon, "The Man that Gave Barnum 'His Turn.'"
Nathaniel was married twice; his first wife was Miss Eliza West of Boston. He had one son with Eliza, Edward West Currier. In 1847 he married Miss Laura Ormsbee of Vermont. Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter...
Category
1840s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Fruit & Flowers, " Original Hand-colored Lithograph signed by Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fruit & Flowers" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It features a still life with grapes, roses, and other botanical objects. The colors are muted blues and yellows. The artist signed the piece in plate lower left.
11 3/4" x 8 1/2" art
22 1/8" x 18" frame
Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to William S. and John Pendleton of Boston who had set up the first lithographic establishment in America. His apprenticeship served him well as he went on to be the largest publisher of lithographs. Mr. Maurer described Nat Currier as being very gentlemanly and liberal. As is evident to the success of the firm of Currier & Ives he was very devoted to his business.
Nat Currier had many friends including Horace Greely and P.T. Barnum. He was well known for his sense of humor and Harry T. Peters tells one story about P. T. Barnum. "Currier had heard that one day his friend, the great showman, had rushed into the barber shop of the old Park Hotel, at Beekman and Nassau Streets, to get a shave. Barnum had hurried up to Tom Higginson, the barber, and said, 'Tom, I'm in a hurry.' 'Sorry for it,' said Tom, 'but it's that gentleman's turn next.' 'That gentleman' was an unshaven irshman waiting for a ten-cent shave. Barnum turned to him and said, 'My friend, if you will let me have your turn, I'll pay for what you have done.' The gentleman consented, and, as Barnum found out later, had a full job done - absolutely everything the house had. The check was for a dollar and sixty cents. When Currier heard this story he found the very Irishman and had him pose. The result was the famous cartoon, "The Man that Gave Barnum 'His Turn.'"
Nathaniel was married twice; his first wife was Miss Eliza West of Boston. He had one son with Eliza, Edward West Currier. In 1847 he married Miss Laura Ormsbee of Vermont. Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter...
Category
1840s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lizard Le Scinque Reptile Animal
Located in Florham Park, NJ
George-Louis Leclerec, Comte de Buffon.
HistoireNaturell, Generale et Particuliere avec la Description du Cabiner du Roi.
Paris, 1749
Drawings by Jacques E. DeSeve.
Engravings with l...
Category
1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Horse and Woman Gold Leaf Screen Print by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Horse and Woman
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x...
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Frieze 1
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST. M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt. Lithographs with Later Hand-Color. Berlin, 1870. 13” x 19” Unframed.
See images for similar works by Groupius. All images are priced individually.
A fine German work, the illustrations are of classical and neo-classical decorative designs in architecture. The acanthus leaf, Greco-Roman busts, mythical animals and ornamental relief show the preferred style of architectural ornament over the centuries and from country to country. A trick of the lithographer was to use the occasional solid ground to give better dimension to the plate. Measuring 19” x 13”, many designs include a scale to show actual size. Only two of the 72 illustrations were printed in full color, another pair in sepia tones, and six in burnt orange and black to show typical Etruscan designs. Several have toned backgrounds. It has been the fashion to apply hand coloring to black and white engravings and lithographs for centuries. The superb condition can be attributed to the individual paper guards placed between each plate. Many of the pieces illustrated are in museums; i.e. a Greek painted portrait medallion is preserved in the Classical Museum...
Category
1870s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Horse 12 images Cassell 3 Panel Screen Wood
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of the Horse
Samuel Sidney (1813 – 1883)
London, 1873
Cassell Petter & Galpin
Chromolithography
Man’s fascination with the horse has spanned many centuries. Admired for ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Cormar Attacking a Spirit on the Waters, " Neo-classical Etching by A. Runciman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cormar Attacking a Spirit on the Waters" is an etching by eighteenth-century Scottish artist Alexander Runciman, signed on the lower edge of the etching, "ARunciman inv. & fecit," i...
Category
1770s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper, Ink
Screen. Asortment of Animals.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHNSON’S HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF NATURE
Craig Hugh, Editor
Henry J. Johnson, Publisher
New York, 1880
64 Chromolithographs
7” x 10” Unframed
“…full ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lizard Le Dore
Located in Florham Park, NJ
George-Louis Leclerec, Comte de Buffon.
HistoireNaturell, Generale et Particuliere avec la Description du Cabiner du Roi.
Paris, 1749
Drawings by Jacques E. DeSeve.
Engravings with l...
Category
1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Chrysanthemum (Copper #5)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
100 Chrysanthemums
Keika Hasegawa
Kyoto, Japan
Meji Era (ca. 1895)
Japanese Woodblock
Printed in Color with some
Touching by Hand
Paper Size:
8.25” x 12.25”
8.25” x 24.5”
...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Oxcart with 5 Men and 1 Ox
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu
Meiji 33 (1900)
Woodblock with Original Hand-Coloring
Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke
Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi
The Japanese litters and palanquins...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Meriana (Bugle Lily)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Snow Goose
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
from Drawings Made in the United States
and Their Territories.
Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia.
Published b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
"Kish-Ke-Kosh-A Fox Brave (Sauk-Fox)" Hand-colored Lithograph by McKenney & Hall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Kish-Ke-Kosh, A Fox Brave (Sauk-Fox)" is an original hand-colored lithograph by McKenney & Hall. This piece features a Native American man. Reference: Page 200 of The North American Indian Portfolios in the Library of Congress.
13 1/4" x 9 3/4" art
27 1/4" x 22 3/8" frame
American lithograph publishers. Most well-known for "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," a collection of 125 images that included biographical sketches and anecdotes of principal chiefs. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Gemaltes Ornament. (Etruscan Vase Design),
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST.
M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt.
Chromolithograph.
Berlin, 1870.
13” x 19” Unframed.
A fine German work by, the illustrations are of classical and neo-classical decorative designs. The acanthus leaf, Greco-Roman busts, mythical animals and ornamental relief show the preferred style of architectural ornament over the centuries and from country to country. A trick of the lithographer was to use the occasional solid ground to give better dimension to the plate. Measuring 19” x 13”, many designs include a scale to show actual size. Only two of the 72 illustrations were printed in full color, another pair in sepia tones, and six in burnt orange and black to show typical Etruscan designs. Several have toned backgrounds. It has been the fashion to apply hand coloring to black and white engravings and lithographs for centuries. The superb condition can be attributed to the individual paper guards placed between each plate.
Many of the pieces illustrated are in museums; i.e. a Greek painted portrait medallion is preserved in the Classical Museum in Vienna (Plate 35) and the carved stone pedestal supports for a Roman table...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Initial Letters "I" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Urtica (Nettle)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Le Petit Cirque Prinder, " Original Etching signd by Auguste Brouet
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Petit Cirque Prinder" is an original etching by Auguste Brouet. This piece depicts a variety of circus performers surrounded by small children. The artist signed the piece in the...
Category
1910s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pencil, Etching
Squash
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Elder (1593-1650)
Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen.
Frankfurt, 1646.
Engraving with Later Hand-Color.
Matthew Merian was one of the most prolifica...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Book, John Rylands Library, Manchester - Contemporary Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in 1987 in John Rylands Library, Manchester and was part of Richard Heeps iconic series 'Ordinary Places', which was his first colour collection. The exhibition was show...
Category
1980s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Initial Letters "X" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Guanabanus (Guabana or Soursop Fruit)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hawk
By Kono Bairei
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Kono Bairei (1844 – 1895)
Kacho-ga. (Birds and Flowers)
Japan, c1880
Woodblock Print.
15 x 11.
Okura Magobei, Publisher.
The enthusiasm for nature prints transcends the centuries. “One Hundred Flowers” is a mid-nineteenth century work illustrating varieties of flowers in naturalistic styles. Traditional woodblock printing enhances the beauty of each work. The artist must carve different woodblocks for every color he wishes to transfer to paper. In this style of printing it is imperative that the register of each woodblock be exact as they must match perfectly to create an image without blurring.
In addition to his illustrated flower books...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Alphabet Letter "P"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed in Colours. Hand-Painted Gold Highlights.
To produce a study for an historic illumination of antiphonals, the Arundel Society selected each of the alphabet letters from chorale books created in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Devotional pieces, the chorale music was greatly appreciated by Christians throughout the world. Often it was sung as responsive music where the choir would be divided into two parts thus creating a harmony which reinforced the Christian religious doctrine.
As illustrious as the music, the key letters that headed each piece would take their own place in the art world. Many initials would be specifically devoted to prominent men and woman of both religious and cultural importance. For example, the “F” was devoted to Fra Angelico, an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Triptych of Pears
Located in Florham Park, NJ
RUDOLF GOETHE
HERMAN DENGENKOLB, REINHARD MERTENS
Aepfel und Birnen
Walter Muller, Illustrator
Berlin, 1849
Chromolithograph
Fascination with fruits, vegetables and spices ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare, " Original Color Lithograph by J. J. Audubon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. This artwork features two gray hares in a muted, cool-colored landscape.
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Initial Letters "Q" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavor by Owen Jones. Teaching Applied Arts at the South Kensington School of Design, Jones honed his skills at transforming historical design into contemporary brilliance. Never imitating or duplicating, he remained true to the times and the materials available. Like his fellow artists, architects, painters and poets, he was on the cusp of change. In Jones’ lifetime a new aesthetic would develop. By the centuries’ end it would become an era with a heighten sense of nature coupled with design. The phrase ‘Art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Initial Letters "Y" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavor by Owen Jones. Teaching Applied Arts at the South Kensington School of Design, Jones honed his skills at transforming historical design into contemporary brilliance. Never imitating or duplicating, he remained true to the times and the materials available. Like his fellow artists, architects, painters and poets, he was on the cusp of change. In Jones’ lifetime a new aesthetic would develop. By the centuries’ end it would become an era with a heighten sense of nature coupled with design. The phrase ‘Art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
White Grapes.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
This piece would pair well with Maria Sibylla Merian's "Purple Grapes" which is also listed.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN (1647-1717)
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium…
(Insects of S...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Plexiglass, R...
Alphabet Letter "K" Religious Saint
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Walnut
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Elder (1593-1650)
Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen.
Frankfurt, 1646.
Engraving with Later Hand-Color.
400 Plates. Image Size 4.5” x 5.25” Unframed.
...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Alphabet Letter "S", Saint, Religious
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
The Shire Stallion
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of the Horse
Samuel Sidney (1813 – 1883)
London, 1873
Cassell Petter & Galpin
Chromolithography
Man’s fascination with the horse has spanned many centuries. Admire...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Heliocarpus (Tree, Malvales)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Carrying Fruit Gold Leaf Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Carrying Fruit
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 47 x 20.5 in. (119.38 x 52.07 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Astronomie des Dames
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Alphabet Letter "T"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Men on the Mountain
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FUGAKU HYAKKEI
Views of Mt. Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Woodblock Print
1834-5 Edo period
It signifies the long history and the aspirations of the race; it is a token ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Louis I of France as a Roman Emperor, in profile to the right
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Louis I of France as a Roman Emperor, in profile to the right
Chiaroscuro woodcut, 1631-1633
Unsigned (as usual)
After a drawing by Hubert Goltzius (1526-1583)...
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17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
ABS, Woodcut
Dendrobium x Ainsworth (Orchid Botanical Flower)
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has remained...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Rosa Nevada (Rose)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Paul Jones. (1921-1997)
Flora Superba.
London, 1971. Edition of 406.
Flora Magnifica.
London, 1976. Edition of 506.
Lithographs.
The portraits of flowers by Paul Jones are quit...
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Common Buzzard
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Birds of America
Octavo Edition
Philadelphia, 1839
New York 1856-71
Lithographs. Original Hand-Color.
6.5” x 10.25” Unframed
Born in Haiti, John James LaForest A...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Alphabet Letter "F"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Root Vegetables (Carrot, Turnip, Radish, Parsnip, etc.)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN PARKINSON (1567-1650).
Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris.
Published by Thrale.
London, 1629.
Woodcuts by Christopher Switzer.
Later hand color.
110 woodcuts.
"...a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English are will permit to be noursed up...".
Parkinson's work is among the most famous English gardening books...
Category
1620s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
CCXLIV. Red Lily
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY (1561-1623)
Florilegium Novum.
Oppenhiem, 1611.
Hand-coloured engravings.
Inspired by Vallet, Besler and Van de Pass, DeBry's Florilegium Novum remains o...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire, January by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been ...
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Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Doberman Pinscher
By Diana Thorne
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Diana Thorne’s Dogs: An Album of Drawings.
Diana Thorne.
Julian Messner, Inc.
New York, 1944.
24 Drawings in Lithography.
“In drawing them,” she writes, “I have tried to ma...
Category
1940s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Attlets de Racines
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Piazza de San Giacomo (Italy)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ROMA (Italy)
A. Aquaroni.
Engraving. Modern Hand-Color.
Rome, Italy 1750.
Ever wonder what pre-dated the postcard? By the mid-eighteenth century, travel and exploration had be...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Venice, View of the Grand Canal - Original etching and watercolor, 1831
Located in Paris, FR
Dionisio MORETTI
View of the Grand Canal, 1831
Original etching
Finely enhanced by hand with watercolor
On vellum 26 x 41 cm (c. 10.2 x 16 inch)
...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Acquedotto de Sisto Quinta. (Italy)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ROMA (Italy)
A. Aquaroni.
Engraving. Modern Hand-Color.
Rome, Italy 1750.
Ever wonder what pre-dated the postcard? By the mid-eighteenth century, travel and exploration had be...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Initial Letters: "O"
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Rouen Ducks
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ananas Corona Multiplici
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN WILHELM WEINMANN. (1683-1741)
Phytanthoza Iconographia….
Published by Raisbonae.
Regensburg, 1735-47.
Engraved by J.J. Haid, J.E. Ridinger, B. Seuter and G.D. Ehret.
Hand...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Chaud Froid de Poulet a la Celee
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wensleydale - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Yorkshire, British Landscape, Dales
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Wensleydale by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associat...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Academic prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Owen Jones, Paul Jones b.1921, John James Audubon, and Basilius Besler. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Engraving and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Academic prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $26,100, while the average work sells for $650.
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