Earl Waldegrave coat of arms
Located in Middletown, NY
London: c 1750. Steel engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (sheet) (142 x 162 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered handling wear, creasing and edge nic...
Engraving, Etching
Tears of Sensibility –Sympathy a Poem – Let's all be unhappy together. Wig Club
By Edward Charles Williams
Located in Middletown, NY
Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig club in distress etc. &c London: S.W. Fores, 1798. Etching on white wove paper, 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inche...
Handmade Paper, Etching
John Knox House in Edinburgh
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Fine Art Trade Guild, c1900. Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a deckle edge 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (290 x 208 mm); sheet 15 x 11 5/8 inches (380 x 294 mm), full...
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Temple of Bacchus
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 10 x 12 inches (254 x 306 mm), the full sheet. ...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Trajan's Column
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 10 x 12 inches (254 x 306 mm), the full sheet. ...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
A Sledge of Kamtschatka – An image of a relic from Captain Cook's third voyage
By John Webber
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Scatcherd & Whitaker, 1784. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 7 1/2 x 10 (190 x 255); sheet 16 1/4 x 22 (414 x 560 mm), full margins. In good cond...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching
Kingsgate, Winchester
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (205 x 246 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. One minor printing defect appearing as a slightly folded bottom ...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching
To Calais – after an illustration by Captain Frederick Marryat
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. 6 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (157 x 210 mm), full margins. Initialed in the plate by Cruikshank, a...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Watercolor
Hillside Town
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching in brownish black ink on J. Whatman watermarked cream laid paper. 7x12 1/4 inches (177 x 312 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 36/75 in pencil, lower margin. In...
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
The Enchanted Pool
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint printed in sepia ink on cream laid paper bearing an indiscernible watermark with linked spheres. 10 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (260 x 332 mm), unevenly trimmed yet ful...
Etching, Laid Paper, Drypoint
Temple of Vesta at Tivoli
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Way Home. A Winter Evening
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful, dark impression of a bucolic cow path. Etching with drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (174 x 248 mm), full margins. Uniform light brown discolorat...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Tomb of Cecilia Metella
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Arch of Septimus Severus
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Baths of Dioclesian (Diocletian)
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Temple of Vesta
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on watermarked J Whatman Turkey Mill 1843 paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inc...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Claudian Aquaduct (Porta Maggiore)
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Arch of Titus
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: printed for J. Taylor, 1844. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 10 x 12 inches (254 x 306 mm), the ...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor
A Peep at a Peer _ or the Guildford High Mettled Racer
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper laid down to archival cardstock, 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches ( 235 x 342 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. C...
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Etching
The Tomb of Hadrian
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (290 x 312 mm), full, bu...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Arch of Constantine
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Temple of Janus Quadrifons
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Coliseum (aerial view)
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Forum of Nerva
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Coliseum
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), the full...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Meaux Cathedral II
By John Marin
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette de Beaux Arts, 1907. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x 292 mm), narrow lefthand margin, with a full margin with a deckle edge on ...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Gresham College
By George Vertue
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a Garden of Holland or Maid of Dort Pro Patria watermark, 11 x 14 1/4 inches (278 x 361 mm), thread margins. Lettered with the title i...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Harwich
Located in Middletown, NY
Essex: c1899. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 7 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (190 x 310 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower margin. In very good condition w...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Ferry Inn, Bodinick, Fowey
By Theodore Roussel
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching in black ink on cream laid Japon paper, 9 1/16 × 7 1/16 inches (229 x 178 mm), full margins. With an ink stamp from the collection of E.A. Scollin, M.D., Springfield, IL, an...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
A portrait of Charles Etienne Bonnet
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas Holloway, 1794. Engraving on cream laid paper, 9 3/4 x 8 inches (246 x 201 mm), full margins. In good condition with some light discoloration throughout the sheet. As...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts. For the Year 1801
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Middletown, NY
An excellent example of Rowlandson's visual commentary on the challenges of changing fashion for those with a less than ideal physique. Rowlandson, Thomas (after George Murgatroyd W...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Temple of Fortuna Virilis
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full mar...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Temple of the Dea Tussis
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching with aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full mar...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
$175
'The Protestants Champion!!' (... Duke of Sussex, Son of King George III)
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
This portrait of King George the III's son was published in the same year that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in London. 'The Protestants Champion!!' (Prince Augustus Freder...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Union - Whom --- Has Join'd, Let No Man put Asunder!
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper. 6 3/4 X 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm), margins trimmed, image intact. Rubbing in the lower left image area...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
$1,250Sale Price|37% Off
Alington in Wiltshire (The First Swallow).
By Robin Tanner
Located in Plano, TX
Tanner was thus part of the etching revival in England.
Etching
The Scene In The Hospital Of S.Spirito in Rome by Thomas Holloway - 1810
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Roma, IT
Lavater's thought largely influenced Art in the late 18th and early 19th century, as in the case of Johann Fuseli and William Blake (who realized two etchings for Lavater's English e...
Etching
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, lithograph by F. L. Griggs
Located in London, GB
Later in life, he settled in Chipping Campden, where he dedicated himself to preserving traditional English architecture. His etchings remain celebrated for their poetic detail and c...
Lithograph
The Ashmolean and Balliol College, Oxford, lithograph by F. L. Griggs
Located in London, GB
Later in life, he settled in Chipping Campden, where he dedicated himself to preserving traditional English architecture. His etchings remain celebrated for their poetic detail and c...
Lithograph
$7,875Sale Price|25% Off
Chartres Cathedral
By William Lee Hankey
Located in Plano, TX
Lee-Hankey is notable for his paintings of French harbour scenes and Breton peasants, as well as paintings and etchings of English country life. He won a gold medal at the Barcelona ...
Crayon, Watercolor, Oil
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Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
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