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Art Subject: Animal
Hybrid Creature - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hybrid Creature is etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009). Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in p...
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1960s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Mezzotint

Barred Owl
Located in Columbia, MO
John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in France, where he first took interest in birds and drawing. He came to the U.S. at age 18, and made ma...
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1840s Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Poster Olympic Games Moscow Sponsored by Coca Cola - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Moscow 1980, sponsored by Coca Cola. Offset print. 58 x 43 cm ; no frame 50 x 35 cm. Good conditions
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Offset

Loris Paresseux - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Loris Paresseux is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

How to Eat an Elephant, Copper-Plate Etching, Animal Print
Located in Deddington, GB
How To Eat An Elephant is an original etching by Will Taylor. It explores animal images and mathematics, including the integral of volumes. Each impression is marked on the reverse w...
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2010s Abstract Animal Prints

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Copper

Slender-Billed Cockatoo, Bird Chromolithograph, circa 1885
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour woodblock, finished by hand, by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) after Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). From WT Greene's 'Parrots In Captivity'. Alexander Francis Lydon was a...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Aus Albanien
Located in Roma, IT
Aus Albanien ("From Albania") is an original artwork realized by Ferdinand Andri in 1916. Lithograph on yellow plate. Printed by k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei Wien / Albert Berger...
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1910s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Nixon + Spiro - Zero, Extremely rare 1968 political poster offset lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist Nixon + Spiro - Zero, 1968 Extremely rare vintage 1960s Offset lithograph poster 28 × 22 inches Publisher Published by Joe A. Kennedy; printed by Provo Press Unframed,...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Lemur - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Lemur is an artwork realized in 1972 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original etching on cardboard. Good conditions. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). S...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bewick's Swan - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Bewick's Swan is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870....
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Barn Owl Study 10
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s land in the United Kingdom as far as I can remember. I have heard them calling to...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Portrait of a Raven #10/20" (2024) By Kate Breakey, Limited Edition Print
Located in Denver, CO
"Portrait of a Raven #10/20" (2024) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that depicts a raven. This piece was hand colored using pencil and pastel. About the...
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2010s Animal Prints

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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment

Braque, Le Char de Médée, Œdipe roi de Sophocle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches pur chiffon spécialement fabriqués paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Œdipe ...
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1980s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Bearded Tree Swift Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a remarkable hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Dendrochelidon Mystaceus" (Bearded Tree-Swift) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", publi...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Rough-legged Buzzard: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by J. Gould & Edward Lear
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Archibuteo Lagopus" (Rough-Legged Buzzard) by John Gould and Edward Lear, from Gould's "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Rough-Legged Buzzard perched on a branch of a tree looking to the left. This beautiful framed Gould hand-colored lithograph is presented in a gold-colored wood frame and cream-colored French mat, embellished by a gold-colored fillet. The frame measures 33" high, 25.5" wide and 1.25" thick. It is in excellent condition There are several other unframed Gould bird lithographs available on our 1stdibs and InCollect storefronts. Two or more of these striking lithographs would make an attractive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of a set depending on the number. These additional Gould hummingbirds may be viewed by typing Timeless Intaglio in the 1stdibs or InCollect search field to be taken to our storefront. John Gould (1804-1881]) was an English ornithologist and artist. He, like his American contemporary John James Audubon, published a number of books on birds in the mid 19th century, illustrated by hand-colored lithographs. His wife and fellow artist, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear and Henry Constantine Richter produced lithographs for his various publications. He has been considered the father of bird study in Australia and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. Charles Darwin referenced Gould’s work in his book, "On the Origin of Species" and Gould named a bird after Darwin; "Darwin's finches". Gould began his career in London as a taxidermist, but in 1827 became the first curator and conservator at the museum of the Zoological Society of London. In this position naturalists brought him collections of birds from all over the world. He began creating drawings and eventually hand-colored lithographs with his wife and Edward Lear, which were the basis for his first publications. Darwin brought him specimens from the Galapagos Islands, including 12 species of finches which had never been described. In 1838, Gould and his wife travelled to Australia and their work led to the seven volume publication of “The Birds of Australia”. Gould had a fascination for hummingbirds and collected specimens of 320 varieties before ever seeing a live hummingbird on a trip to the United States in 1857. He eventually published “A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds". Other large publications include: "The Birds of Europe"," A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans”, “A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands”, “A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America”, “The Birds of Asia”, “The Birds of Great Britain” and "The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia". John Gould (1804-1881) was a British ornithologist and illustrator who is best known for his monumental work, "The Birds of Europe," published between 1832 and 1837. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, and began working as a taxidermist and natural history dealer in London in the 1820s. In 1827, Gould was appointed the first curator and preserver of birds at the Zoological Society of London, where he began to build his collection of specimens and began to study the birds of the world. He published his first monograph, "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains," in 1831, which included 80 plates of Himalayan birds. Gould continued to publish numerous volumes on the birds of the world throughout his life, including "The Birds of Australia" (1840-1848) and "The Birds of Great Britain" (1862-1873). His works were highly regarded for their accuracy and detail, and he was one of the most prominent ornithologists of his time. In addition to his work as an ornithologist, Gould was also a successful businessman, and he used his profits to fund expeditions and to support the scientific community. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843, and he was awarded the Royal Medal...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Sheep Portfolio 7, Conceptual Pop Art Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Sheep Portfolio 7 Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint and Etching, signed in pencil Edition Size: 65, AP 5 Size: 33.5 x 31 in. (85...
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1980s Conceptual Landscape Prints

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Screen

A Burro Train, New Mexico
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "A Burro Train, New Mexico" 1880 is an original etching on Laid paper by noted British/American artist Peter Moran, 1841-1914. It is signed in the plate as issue. The plate mark (Image) size is 9.15 x 6.5 inches, framed size is 14.75 x 18.75 inches. It is framed in a wooden silver frame, with light grey matting. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age. I like to mention that example of this particular etching is held in the following museums, including, The Toledo Museum Of Art, Toledo, The British Museum, London and The Smithsonian Museum Of Art, Washington D.C. It was also illustrated in American Art Review, volume #2 1881, page 163. About the artist: The younger brother of Thomas Moran, Peter Moran was a painter-etcher best known for his Romantic sensibility and landscape compositions incorporating animals. The Moran family immigrated to the United States from England in 1844, when Peter was three. He began his artistic career as an apprentice to a lithographic firm and eventually studied painting with his brothers Edward and Thomas. He was influenced by the animal paintings of Rosa Bonheur and Constant Troyon and visited England in 1863 to see those of Edwin Landseer. Moran took up etching in 1874, using that medium to record genre scenes that he observed while traveling in New Mexico and Arizona in 1881 on an ethnographic expedition to study Pueblo Indian culture. He later returned to the Southwest in 1890 as an artist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1882, Moran joined Henry R. Poore, an artist friend, on a visit to Taos Pueblo where the two were given a room and spent a week watching the activities associated with the harvest. Poore recounted the details of their travels in an article titled "A Harvest with the Taos Indians...
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Late 19th Century American Realist Animal Prints

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Etching

Original Vintage Poster for Australia - The Great Barrier Reef by Eileen Mayo
By Eileen Mayo
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This original vintage travel poster, titled "Australia – The Great Barrier Reef," was created in 1956 by Eileen Mayo for the Australian National Travel Association. It is one of the most celebrated examples of mid-century Australian travel advertising, brilliantly capturing the wonder and biodiversity of the world’s largest coral reef system. The composition features a richly stylized underwater scene, teeming with fish, coral, and marine flora rendered in bold, naturalistic colors. Mayo’s intricate detailing and balanced composition invite viewers into a magical aquatic world—simultaneously educational and awe-inspiring. Eileen Mayo (1906–1994) was a British-born artist, designer, and printmaker who later became a major artistic voice in both New Zealand and Australia. Trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and later under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, Mayo's career spanned book illustration, painting, tapestry, and poster design. She was especially known for her scientific accuracy combined with a strong design sense—a rare combination that made her work particularly well-suited to natural subjects and public commissions. After emigrating to Australia in the early 1950s, Mayo quickly became an integral figure in the Australian art world. She designed postage stamps, illustrated educational materials, and worked closely with government agencies on visual campaigns, including those promoting tourism and environmental awareness. Her work is characterized by a deep respect for nature, clarity of form, and a graceful merging of art and science. This poster exemplifies Mayo’s talent for transforming biological detail into captivating visual storytelling. Her sensitivity to nature and compositional discipline make this one of the finest Australian travel posters...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Michael Knigin, Golden Eagle, 1979, lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Michael Knigin, an extremely skilled draftsman, rides a fine line between realism and surrealism. Here he has conceived of an elegant and emotional eagle, a national symbol. In stark...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Barn Owl XIV
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s land in the United Kingdom as far as I can remember. I have heard them calling to...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Donkey - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
The Donkey is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630). Not signed. In excellent conditions. Including...
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Early 17th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Night Heron Birds: A 19th C. Folio-sized Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Nycticorax Griseus" (Night-Heron) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Great White Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Hawk Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Discours D'oiseaux #2, humorous etching of owls in discussion by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One of 9 humorous portraits of birds engaged in conversation by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. In her works, birds and animals provide an allegor...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

Chicken Family - Lithograph by W. French - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Chicken Family is an original print realized by William French (1815 ca.-1898) in the late 19th century. Black and white lithograph. Original Title: ...
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Late 19th Century Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Spermophilus - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Spermophilus is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Field Work - Original Lithograph by L.T. Foujita - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20 x 15.2 cm. Field Work is a superb color lithograph on paper, from the volume composed by 16 illustrations by leonard tsuguharu Foujita, "Propos d'un intoxiqué ,...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Norfolk Broads with Ink, Print by Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
The Norfolk Broads [2022] This print was created as a commission for the Norfolk Broads Authority to feature on the cover of their 2022 Guide. I was asked to create a print that showcases the rare species that are indigenous to the Norfolk Broads. The print features the flowers Hemp Agrimony, Yellow Pond Lily, Branched Burr Reed and Milk Parsley. The caterpillar of the Swallowtail Butterfly can be seen on the Milk Parsley and the Norfolk Hawker dragonfly is perched on the reed. A garden Tiger moth is in flight and a Red Admiral...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Prints

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Ink

Ostrich - Original Lithograph by Georges Bastia - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ostrich is an original lithograph artwork on paper realized by Georges Bastia (1904-1980)in the 1950s. Signed on the lower right. Good Conditions.
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Fox Hound, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...
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1930s Art Deco Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Wild Goose - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Wild Goose is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stut...
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

19th century color lithograph landscape figures horseback house scene trees sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present print is one of several examples produced for Nathaniel Currier by his longtime collaborator Frances F. "Fanny" Palmer. Harry T. Peters wrote of her: "There is no more interesting and appealing character among the group of artists who worked for Currier & Ives than Fanny Palmer. In an age when women, well-bred women in particular, did not generally work for a living Fanny Palmer for years did exacting, full-time work in order to support a large and dependent family ... Her work ... had great charm, homeliness, and a conscientious attention to detail." One of a series of four prints showing American country life in different seasons, the image presents the viewer with a picturesque view of a successful American farm. In the foreground, a gentleman rides a horse with a young boy before a respectable Italianate country house. Two women and a young girl pick flowers in the garden and several farm workers attend to their duties. Beyond are other homes and a city on the coast. 16.63 x 23.75 inches, artwork 28.13 x 33.38 inches, frame Entitled bottom center "American Country Life - May Morning" Signed in the stone, lower left "F.F. Palmer, Del." Signed in the stone, lower right "Lith. by N. Currier" Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y." Inscribed bottom center "New York, Published by N. Currier 152 Nassau Street" Framed to conservation standards using silk-lined 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass with a gold gilded liner, all housed in a stained wood moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

I've Got Your Lipstick
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition of 125 Numbered on the reverse Excellent. Minor soft creasing in bottom left and right of print. AllRightsReserved Ltd The seller can only provide the specific e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Screen

Golden Eagle II, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Golden Eagle II, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s la...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Black horse. Figurative Surrealist print, Vibrant colors, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with an animal which is a black horse with wings made out ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Giraffe's Paris Tea Time
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: I love sitting in cafes and everyone knows Paris is the most elegant ...
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2010s Animal Prints

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Plexiglass

Morning Star, landscape, skyscape, mother wolf, cubs, wildlife, gold, blue print
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Morning Star" by Alexis Kandra is a limited edition signed and numbered giclée print on Moab paper based on an original oil painting with metallic gold foil and gold leaf pen. Edition total of 5, signed and numbered by the artist Alexis Kandra. The image features a beautiful wildlife painting of a mother wolf...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Bird of Prey: A 16th/17th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Aldrovandi
Located in Alamo, CA
This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored woodcut engraving of a bird of prey is plate 219 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published ...
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Early 17th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Engraving

The Lion - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Lion is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published ...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Oiseaux, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Razorbill Auk, French antique natural history sea bird art illustration print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)
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1930s Art Deco Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Study of Two Classical Greek Horse Heads and a Modern Horse
Located in Kansas City, MO
Luis Jimenez Study of Two Classical Greek Horse Heads and a Modern Horse Year: 1994 2 Color Lithograph Edition: 28 Paper: Rives BFK, White Paper Size: 29.5 x 41 inches Image Size: 16 x 33 inches (irregular) Signed and numbered by hand COA provided --------------- Luis Alfonso Jiménez...
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1990s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Jack Russell Terriers by Alexander Pope
By Alexander Pope
Located in Paonia, CO
An original chromolithograph from the Celebrated Dogs of America by Alexander Pope Jr. and published by S.E. Casino, Boston,1882. This compositio...
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1880s Other Art Style Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Bird of Prey: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a parrot bird entitled "La Bondree (Bird of Prey)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 420 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in association wi...
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1760s Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Engraving

Etude de Tigre - Lithograph by Antoine-Louis Barye - Early 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fine print with sheet in perfect conditions, on vélin blanc fort, belonging to the Bertauts Edition. Perfect and vivid impression. Full margins. Ref. Delteil 2. Prov. Collection Hen...
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Early 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others, Bird lithograph with hand-colouring, 1928
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and L...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Le Phoque - Etching by Pierre Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Phoque is an etching realized by Pierre Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". ...
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1770s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

A peacock. Figurative Surrealist print, Vibrant colors, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print depicting a violin with head of a peacock insted of a viol...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Circa 1950 original poster by Otto Nielsen Scandinavian Airlines System Far East
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1950 original poster, created by the celebrated artist Otto Nielsen for Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), exemplifies the elegance and exotic allure of mid-century trave...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Fallen Rider - Etching by Max Klinger - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Fallen Rider  is a modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881. The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroef...
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1880s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Etching

"Sculptures Polychromes" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Fernand Leger created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The lithograph offered here was printed by Mourlot in 1959, reproducing the Leger poster...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Riding - Original Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Riding is an original print realized by an Anonymous artists of the 19th Century. Mixed colored lithograph. Good conditions except for some prepared rips. This lithograph represen...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Heart Spotted Woodpeckers: A 19th C. Gould Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Hemicircus Cordatus" (Heart Spotted Woodpecker) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Asia", published in London in 1...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Lizards - Original handsigned etching / 90ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Mikio WATANABE (1954-) Lizards , 2003 Original etching (Mezzotint) Signed and dated in pencil Numbered / 90 ex On vellum 57 x 35 cm (c. 22.4 x 13.7 inch) Excellent condition
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Early 2000s Modern Animal Prints

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Mezzotint, Etching

Ayant Couru à Chantilly - Etching by Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Ayant Couru à Chantilly is an artwork realized by Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the init...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Vrouw met duif - Cobra, 20th century, Lithograph, Figurative Print, EA
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Guillaume Corneille Lithograph 70 x 50 cm Epreuve d'artiste op 10 exemplaren EA 6/10 Corneille was one of the founders and one of the most important representatives of the Cobra move...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paloma, Framed Folk Art Lithograph by Juan Garcia Ripolles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - ) Title: Paloma Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: PA XXVII/XXX Image Size: 17 x 22 inches Frame Size...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Hamster - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Hamster is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Pochard - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Pochard is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. ...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Horse Art Prints, Giraffe Art Prints and Other Unique Animal Wall Art

Shopping for animal prints to spruce up a nursery, living room, bedroom or some other corner of your home?

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative printsabstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home. And animal prints depict the beauty and power of nature in an elegant way that can complement any room. Interacting with animals has long captured the imagination and has been interpreted in diverse artistic media.

Some of the oldest works of art have included animals, such as a cave painting found in Indonesia dating back more than 45,500 years that shows a wild pig in red ocher pigment. Animals have continued to appear in every era and style of art, from realism to Pop art and everything in between.

Some prints and animal paintings portray animals in their natural habitat, highlighting the majesty of wild creatures roaming the plains, forests and jungles. You might find unique animal prints that feature deer, tigers, wild mustangs, giraffes and other wildlife. Others focus on domestic animals such as dogs — pay a visit to the Museum of the Dog if you don’t believe us — as well as cats and how they interact with the world and their owners.

Picking the right animal painting or animal print for a room — as well as knowing how to arrange your new wall art — can take time. But, in the end, it will tastefully reflect your interests and passions. While an expansive landscape painting helps open up a small space, for example, hanging a horse print in a den shows a love for equine culture and can invite compelling conversation.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. 

There is animal art to fit every collection on 1stDibs. Explore a wide selection of animal prints in a range of styles to match any home or office.

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