Old Masters Prints and Multiples

Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except some stains in lower margin, slightly damaged in the right margin (three minor cracks) and normal brown paper ...

Al Conde Palatino is an original etching realized by Francisco Goya and published in 1799. Original etching on wove paper. This beautiful Etching belongs to the Third Edition of th...

Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned in the right lower margins, very little stain in lower margin. Interesting colored lithograph ...

Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), Virgin and Child with the Pear, engraving, 1520. Initials monogram and date in the plate. References: Bartsch 18, Pauli, Hollstein 19. First state (of two). In good condition, on old laid paper with thread margins on three sides, trimmed on the platemark bottom right and bottom, and archival mounting. h: 4.5 x w: 3 in / h: 11.4 x w: 7.6 cm A very good impression of this rarity. Hollstein indicates that earlier impressions, such as this one, do not have a scratch above the head of the Virgin. Beham was one of the Northern Renaissance Little Masters, so called because of their eminence in producing small-scale engravings such as the Virgin and Child with a Pear. Beham was born in Nuremberg in 1500, and may have trained under Durer, though his training is no more certain than that of his younger brother Barthel. He made his first engraving in 1518, and later became known for producing woodcuts as well. Beham’s Madonna with the Pear has a similar composition but in reverse to Durer’s engraving...

Title : Altra veduta del medesimo in prospettiva, fra una lampada e un piccolo vaso in bronzo Artist proof, with a good contrast and sharp details, printed on antique laid paper, lar...

"Mythological Scene--Satyr & Goat Herder" is an etching by Italian artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. It depicts a satyr lounging on the left and an approaching goat herder on th...

"Man Looking Through a Window" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a figure leaning through a window. Publisher: Pearce #37. 3 1/8" x 3" art 14 3/4" x 13 1/...

Enea Vico (1523-1567 engraving, Two Trophies With a Breast Plate and a Ram’s Head, 1550, Bartsch 447, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, before numbers. Goo...

Agostino Carracci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1557 - 1602) - Portrait du Titien, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 13.25 x 9.5 in. (33.66 x 24.13 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Descri...

Francesco Primaticcio, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1504 - 1570) - Les Deux Femmes Romaines, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 5 in. (20.96 x 12.7 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, ...

Master of the Housebook, After by Amand Durand, German - Les Trois Morts et les Trois Vifs, Year: 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.5 x 7.75 in. (11.43 x 19.69 cm), Printer: Aman...

Jacopo de' Barbari, After by Amand Durand, French (1831 - 1905) - The Holy Family, 1509, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 6.75 x 8 in. (17.15 x 20.32 cm...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La philosophie, d'apres Raphael, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 6.25 in. (20.32 x 15.88 cm), Prin...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Facade aux Cariatide, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: 13 x 9.5 in. (33.02 x 24.13 cm)...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Peste, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 10 in. (20.96 x 25.4 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Desc...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - L'homme portant la base d'une colonne, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 4.5 in. (20.96 x 11.43 c...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vierge a la longue cuisse, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 16.5 x 11 in. (41.91 x 27.94 cm), Printe...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vierge assise sur les Nues II, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm), Printe...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Joseph et la femme de Putiphar, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 9 x 10 in. (22.86 x 25.4...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Saint Paul prechant a Athenes, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11.25 x 14 in. (28.58 x 35.56 cm), Prin...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Notre Dame a l'escalier, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.75 x 13.75 in. (24.77 x 34.93 cm), Printer:...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Temperance, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 5.5 x 3 in. (13.97 x 7.62 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, D...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Le jugement de Paris, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12.25 x 17.5 in. (31.12 x 44.45 cm), Printer: Am...

Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La descente de croix, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 16.75 x 11.5 in. (42.55 x 29.21 cm), Printer: Am...

"The Singer" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a performer and onlookers. Publisher: Pearce #50. 4" x 3" art 16 1/2" x 13 1/2" frame Cornelis Pietersz Be...

"The Pipe Smoker" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a man sitting at a table with his pipe. Publisher: Pearce #38. 3 1/2" x 3 1/4" art 13 5/8" x 11 3/4" f...

"Country Inn by the Pond" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. It depicts a cozy building surrounded by trees and vegetation and next to a pond. 3" x 5 1/4" art 16" x 18 1/...

Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8). This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Signed in pencil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shere Mill Pond, No. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. Dean. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon. Biography: Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher. He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842. In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895). Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. The relationship and project did not last. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880. Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon." An early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. "Sub Tegmine" was etched in Greenwich Park in 1859; and "Early Morning--Richmond", full of the poetry and freshness of the hour, was done, according to Haden, actually at sunrise. One of the rarest and most beautiful of his plates is "A By-Road in Tipperary"; "Combe Bottom" is another; and "Shere Mill Pond" (both the small study and the larger plate), "Sunset in Ireland," "Penton Hook," "Grim Spain" and "Evening Fishing, Longparish," are also notable examples of his genius. A catalogue of his works was begun by Sir William Drake and completed by Harrington in 1880. During later years Haden began to practise the sister art...

Edition of 9. Signature label. Framed work. A prominent French architectural photographer, Jean-Christophe Ballot’s body of work concerns itself with space: be it cities with urb...

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN 1606 Leiden Amsterdam 1669 Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave 1639 drypoint and etching; 109 x 78 mm Bartsch 109, White/Boon only s...

Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by Jan van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570-1624/25 Rotterdam)

Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by James Van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570 - 1624/25 Rotterdam)

Rembrandt van Rijn (1696-1669), La circoncision dans l’étable, 1654 Etching on watermarked paper. Beautiful artist’s proof, signed and dated in plate higher-left : “Rembrandt 1654”...

Jacques Callot (1592-1635), Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre, etchings, 1633, the complete set of 18. Lieure 1339-56, the frontispiece third state (of 3), th...