Antique Engraving Plates

Description: Gold-plated silver toiletry box with engravings, suspension chain, mirror and utilities inside.

At the bottom of the sheet the plate is signed “Geo. Bickham Fecit”, indicating that the engraving was executed by Bickham himself.

Description: Silver chalice and plate with pearlescent and finely guilloche engraving.

Pair of Antique Camel Anatomy Engravings, Buffon Scientific Plates 1769 This refined pair of 18th-century camel anatomy engravings comes from the Dutch edition of Buffon’s celebrate...

This hot water or tea urn is composed of silver plate with a serpentine sided lid and body with stylized floral engraving.

Buffon Ruminant Anatomy Engravings Set of 4, Natural History Plates, 1775 A fascinating set of four eighteenth-century anatomical engravings illustrating the internal structure and ...

Italian Copper plate engraving of a famous classical statue of two men wrestling, plate XXIX from the Roman publication of 1704, Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne, by Domenico de...

British Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession 1985-52-3449; engraving with plate tone, plate 30.1 × 21.4 cm. The impression descended from the John S.

Antique Dragonfly Prints, Neuropteres Plates 3 & 6, Copper Engravings, ca.1800 This refined pair of antique natural history engravings depicts dragonflies and related Neuroptere...

Description: Wine jug with silver plate with engravings, reliefs on the handle and knob on the hinged lid.

Over 250 years old, the engravings remain visually fresh, with sharp detail and strong plate marks.

Set of 3 Antique Quadruped Anatomy Engravings, Buffon Scientific Plates 1769 This fascinating set of three 18th-century anatomical engravings comes from the rare Dutch edition of Bu...

PLATE 2 – INSECTEN LXXXV The companion engraving presents another fascinating selection of insects.

Solor Island View, Indonesian Harbor Engraving, French Voyage Plate c.1700 Description: This engraved view depicts the island of Solor in present-day eastern Indonesia, shown as a s...

Copper plate engraving of the Geranium by Pancrace Bessa, 1819.

Title: "Antique Fossil Engraving - Multivalves and Marine Fossils - Plate LXVII" Description: This antique engraving is a detailed illustration of various marine fossils and multi...

Antique print titled 'Dans van O-Tahiti'. Antique print depicting natives of Tahiti, dancing. Originates from 'Reizen Rondom de Waereld door James Cook (..)'. Artists and Eng...

Original hand colored copper plate engraving. Printed in Paris, circa 1875. Plate: XXV111 Title: Soyez sans inquiétude, Mousieur ; deux mois de traitement, et je vous renvoie votre...

Original hand colored copper plate engraving. Printed in Paris, circa 1875. Title: LII “Temps de canicule” 14.5/8” W x 11. 1/2”H matted.

Set of Three Double-Scene Biblical Engravings, Pieter Mortier, Amsterdam, ca.1700 This finely engraved biblical set consists of three early-18th-century copper engravings, each shee...

Bensley of Fleet Street Illustrated engraving plates throughout add visual interest to the poetry Includes the titular poems in part 1 & 2, The Two Sisters and To a Friend on his Mar...

Circa 1820-50 copper plate engraving "The Last Communion of Saint Jerome", Italian.

John Alfred Wheeler, British (1821 - 1903) - The Paddock, Year: 1894, Medium: Engraving, signed in the plate lower right, Image Size: 21.75 x 19.25 inches, Frame Size: 29 x 26.25...

Preparatory work for the large-format painting "The Battle of Taillebourg," 485 x 555 cm, housed at the Château de Versailles Museum, produced between 1835 and 1837. The engraving a...

Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz.

Offered together as a set of two original antique engravings. PLATE 1 – INSECTEN XXVI The first plate depicts two beautifully colored hawk or sphinx moths together with their cater...

Print by engraving on copper plate from the Panckoucke Encyclopédie méthodique, end of the 18th century, volume Marine Planches (more than 1,500 figures dealing with all subjects on ...

Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz.

Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz.

Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz.

Georg Ehret, who was supported financially by Trew, produced the designs for many of the plates. This engraving is presented in a gold ribbed museum frame with raised leaves in each...

James Basire (engraver) after W Davey (illustrator) Chimneypiece in the Bishop's Palace, Exeter 50x33cm (to plate mark) Engraving Published by the Society of Antiquaries 23rd April 1...

'Shooting - Plate II', engraving from George Stubb's famous set of four shooting engravings.

Havell also retouched Lizars' original efforts, adding aquatint to the engraving, and on those ten plates the Havell name appears alongside that of the Scottish engraver's.

These beautiful engravings are amongst the earliest examples of color printing from a single plate.

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol: the Smaller Plate is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1658 ca.

Comes from Curtis' monumental publication "The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed", (1787-1800's), which consists of 1,000's of hand-colored engravings. Printed from one...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely collectable suite of twelve original copper plate prints of Sepia of Amorini "Cherubs at Play" c...

Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz.

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup) flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first ...

Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: "Soldanella Alpina Alpine Soldanella" (Vol. 2, Plate 49) Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed Year: 1788 ...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful Black Frontiniac Wine Grape hand-colored aquatint engraving, plate XVII from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British bot...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America".

Comes from Nozeman's five volume "Nederlandsche Vogelen (Dutch Birds)", (1770-1829), which consists of 250 hand-colored engravings. Printed from one copper plate in one color: black.

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored engraving of an eagle is plate 215 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published between 1599 and 1648 in Bologna, Italy by Clem...

This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored engraving of an eagle is plate K2 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published between 1599 and 1648 in Bologna, Italy by Cleme...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

Comes from Hutchins' four volume "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset", (1861-1870) (Third edition), which consists of 125 engravings. Printed from one steel plate in...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated '1730' lower left.

These were then engraved on copper plates by master artists, resulting in the 367 beautiful and detailed engravings which comprise Besler's monumental florilegium Hortus Eystettensis...

This early original copper-plate engraving entitled "Attaque avec le Belier" from 'L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures' (Antiquity Explained and Represented in Diagrams),...