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Butterlies, Metamorphosis of Insects, Large Folio, L'Admiral, Hand Coloured
Located in Norwich, GB
flying insects. Scientifically they were a great advance over all that went before, including the
Category
Antique 1740s Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
H 14.38 in W 10.32 in D 0.04 in
Klee, Insects, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by the Museum of
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
1657 Matthaus Merian, Dromedary Camels, Fine Folio in Hand Color
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Norwich, GB
Fine folio engraving in hand color.
This rare antique engraving was published in the series
Category
Antique 1650s German Baroque Prints
Materials
Paper
1657 Matthaus Merian, Woodpeckers Picus, Birds, Fine Folio in Hand Color
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Norwich, GB
Fine folio engraving in hand color.
This rare antique engraving was published in the series
Category
Antique 1650s German Baroque Prints
Materials
Paper
H 14.89 in W 8.67 in D 0.04 in
Trumpeter Swan, Adult: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
turned back, looking towards a yellow insect floating next to it. Dark clouds are seen in the background
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Golden Eagle" by William Goodall, Watercolor and Ink Drawing, Early 19th Cent.
By William Goodall
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
lived in Buckinghamshire, in southeast England. He produced several folio illustrations of animals
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
H 17.88 in W 13 in D 1 in
"Ring Tail Eagle" by William Goodall, Watercolor & Ink Drawing, Early 19th Cent.
By William Goodall
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
England. He produced several folio illustrations of animals, birds, and insects, all exact yet colorful
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
H 17.75 in W 13 in D 1 in
Black-billed Cuckoo: An Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
insect. The male appears to be in flight in front of magnolia leaves on the right, perhaps after the same
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
By Maria Sibylla Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Leningrad Watercolors Facsimile
By (After) Maria Sybilla Merian
Located in New York, NY
, German and Russian. Large Folios, text bound in half vellum, plate volume in vellum backed portfolio
Category
Late 17th Century More Art
Materials
Paper
"American Oyster Catcher": An Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By After John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
, to force out the insects; and in one instance I saw an individual run from the water to the dry sand
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Honey Buzzard Bird: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Pernis
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cyclamen (White)
By Abraham Munting
Located in Florham Park, NJ
, Germany, 1696
Publishers: Pieter vander Aa and Francois Halma
Folio, 15 ¼ “ x 10 ¼ “
Large Paper Copy
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Cyclamen (Purple)
By Abraham Munting
Located in Florham Park, NJ
, Germany, 1696
Publishers: Pieter vander Aa and Francois Halma
Folio, 15 ¼ “ x 10 ¼ “
Large Paper Copy
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Early 20th Century British illustration of a hornbill bird by Edward Detmold
By Edward Julius Detmold
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
host of pen & ink drawings. This proved so popular that in 2006 The Folio Society of London published a
Category
20th Century Art Deco Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
H 6.42 in W 6.23 in D 1.97 in
Ballet und Pantomime "Columbine", plate #20.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Die Negerfürstin" (The Negro Princess), plate #11.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Der Paradiesvogel" (Bird of Paradise) plate #1.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Der bose Zauberer" (The Evil Wizard), plate #6.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Groteske", plate #22.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Tschaikiun II", plate #17.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Grille" (Cricket), plate #13.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Primula Vera", plate #7.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Bingha", plate #8.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Maskerade", plate #9.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Walzer", plate #21.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Tschaikiun I", print #3.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Der Tanzende Gott" (The Dancing God), plate #14.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Die Nacht" (The Night), plate #2.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
H 20.25 in W 15.25 in
Ballet und Pantomime "Scherzo I", plate #4.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Orientalische Tänzerin" (Oriental Dancer), plate #18.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Der Vogelfanger" (The Bird Catcher), plate #19.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Harlekin", plate #10.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Spukgestalt" (Ghostly Figure), plate #12.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Scherzo II", plate #15.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
19th C Frenc Old Master Drawing Watercolor Nicolas Huet II Bird
Located in Gouda, NL
vellum - studies of mammals, reptiles, birds, insects and sea life - for the library of the Museum
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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H 19.14 in W 13.47 in
Flinders Rose with insects by Merian - Handcoloured engraving - 18th century
By Maria Sibylla Merian
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
Subject: Very rare decorative insect/botanical print with gorgeous hand colouring. Plate: CLXXXIV
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Twentieth-Century Earth-Toned Naturalistic Print of Various Insects
Located in Houston, TX
naturalistic rendering of five different insect species. Stamped and signed "EA Seguy" and the bottom left
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Pigment
H 33.25 in W 27.63 in D 0.63 in
Twentieth-Century Earth-Toned Naturalistic Print of Various Insects
Located in Houston, TX
naturalistic rendering of five different insect species. Stamped and signed "EA Seguy" and the bottom left
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Pigment
H 33.25 in W 27.63 in D 0.63 in
Twentieth-Century Earth-Toned Naturalistic Pochoir Print of Various Insects
Located in Houston, TX
naturalistic rendering of insects namely: a snakeweed grasshopper, an American grasshopper, an Aularch, a
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Pigment
H 33.25 in W 27.63 in D 0.63 in
Bouquets et Frondaisons.
By Eugene Alain Seguy
Located in New York, NY
motifs. Folio, 455 x 330 mm, loose as issued in publisher's illustrated cloth-backed portfolio with grey
Category
1920s More Art
Materials
Paper
1657 Matthaus Merian, Parrots [Psitticus], Fine Folio in Hand Color
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Norwich, GB
Fine folio engraving in hand color.
This rare antique engraving was published in the series
Category
Antique 1650s German Baroque Prints
Materials
Paper
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Sora Rail Bird Family: An Octavo Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
insect on a leaf of a plant behind the family.
This original octavo edition hand-colored Audubon
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Audubon's Birds of America Roger Tory Peterson the Audubon Society Baby Ele
By John James Audubon
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Audubon' s Birds of America. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio. large heavy 56 pounds book
Category
Late 20th Century American American Classical Books
Materials
Paper
H 15.25 in W 12 in D 3 in
Early 20th Century British illustration of a blackbird in song by Detmold
By Edward Julius Detmold
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
host of pen & ink drawings. This proved so popular that in 2006 The Folio Society of London published a
Category
20th Century Art Deco Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
H 6.23 in W 4.73 in D 1.97 in
Ballet und Pantomime "Der Gute Zauberer" (The Good Wizard), plate #5.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Puderquaste" (Powder Puff), plate #16.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Snow Bunting
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
" engraved by Robert Havell in 1834 on double elephant folio paper, possessing the J. Whatman
Category
1830s Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Engraving
E.A. Seguy "Insectes" Folio Set of Eight Plates (Pochoirs in Color)
Located in New York, NY
20 display four designs incorporating insect-inspired patterns.
Also included in the folio is a
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Prints
Pieter Withoos Watercolor of Aloe Africana
Located in New York, NY
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Aloe Africana folio Triangulo
Longissimo et Angustissimo
Floribus Libris fostidis H: Acad
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Dutch Drawings
Five Regency Period Framed and Hand-Coloured Stipple Botanical Engravings
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
The decorative group of five framed and hand coloured folio stipple engravings with etching on wove
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Regency Prints
Materials
Paper
H 21.25 in W 15.75 in D 0.19 in
'Insectes' by E.A. Seguy
By E. A. Séguy
Located in New York, NY
'Insectes' by E.A. Seguy (1877-1945), Paris
Published by Edition Ducharte et Van Buggenhoudt
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Books
Materials
Paper
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Find a variety of folio insects available on 1stDibs. Today, if you’re looking for Old Masters editions of these works and are unable to find the perfect match for your home, our selection also includes Old Masters. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add folio insects that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of white, beige, gray, green and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Walter Schnackenberg, John James Audubon, Edward Julius Detmold, Abraham Munting and Maria Sybilla Merian produced especially popular works that are worth a look. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paper, engraving and lithograph — can elevate any room of your home.
How Much are Folio Insects?
Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — folio insects in our inventory begin at $175 and can go as high as $17,500, while the average can fetch as much as $4,200.
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