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Fruit Engraving

George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Fruit Cluster, PL XII
George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Fruit Cluster, PL XII

George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Fruit Cluster, PL XII

Located in Bristol, CT

furniture, often with floral decorations. Brookshaw also published supplementary drawing manuals on fruit

Category

Early 1800s Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving

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A Fruit Piece
A Fruit Piece

Jan Van HuysumA Fruit Piece, 1778-1781

Unavailable

H 35 in W 29.5 in

A Fruit Piece

By Jan Van Huysum

Located in Florham Park, NJ

JAN VAN HUYSUM (1689-1749) “A Fruit Piece.” (Shown) “A Flower Piece.” (Listed Separately) SOLD

Category

18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving, Watercolor

Anona (Pawpaw Fruit)
Anona (Pawpaw Fruit)

Anona (Pawpaw Fruit)

By Georg Dionysius Ehret

Located in Florham Park, NJ

. Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf. 100 plates. 19.5” x 13.5” Unframed. A

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving, Watercolor

Pistachio
Pistachio

Pistachio

By Johann Christoph Volkhamer

Located in Florham Park, NJ

bearing the name of each species were added in the final engravings. Generally the fruit was shown whole

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

Lauro (Laurel)
Lauro (Laurel)

Lauro (Laurel)

By Johann Christoph Volkhamer

Located in Florham Park, NJ

bearing the name of each species were added in the final engravings. Generally the fruit was shown whole

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

Apocynum (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Apocynum (Scarlet Pimpernel)

Apocynum (Scarlet Pimpernel)

By Johann Christoph Volkhamer

Located in Florham Park, NJ

bearing the name of each species were added in the final engravings. Generally the fruit was shown whole

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

The Pineapple Fruit.
The Pineapple Fruit.

Maria Sibylla MerianThe Pineapple Fruit., 1719

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H 20.95 in W 15.04 in D 1.78 in

The Pineapple Fruit.

By Maria Sibylla Merian

Located in London, London

[MERIAN, Maria Sibyl] The Pineapple Fruit. The Hague , Gosse, 1719. Engraving of a Pineapple by J

Category

1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Fruit defendu

Arthur Luiz PizaFruit defendu, 1972

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H 25.6 in W 19.69 in

Fruit defendu

By Arthur Luiz Piza

Located in Paris, FR

Engraving, 1972 Edition : 44/99 Publisher : L'Oeuvre Gravée Catalog : cat 165 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm

Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Engraving

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Spider Lily: An Original 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Spider Lily: An Original 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann

Spider Lily: An Original 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann

By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Located in Alamo, CA

This colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving finished with hand coloring by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Ephemerum Virginianu flore Purpureo, B. Ephemer...

Category

Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.

Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.

By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Located in Richmond, GB

From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame. So...

Category

Mid-18th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint

Johann Weinmann: set of 12 mezzotint engravings in decalcomania frames
Johann Weinmann: set of 12 mezzotint engravings in decalcomania frames

Johann Weinmann: set of 12 mezzotint engravings in decalcomania frames

Located in Richmond, GB

Price is for the set of 12 framed engravings. Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalco...

Category

18th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Mezzotint

Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.

Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.

By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Located in Richmond, GB

From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame. So...

Category

Mid-18th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint

Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6

Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6

Located in Richmond, GB

A group of mezzotint engravings of flowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-174...

Category

18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Mezzotint

Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames

Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames

Located in Richmond, GB

A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Joha...

Category

18th Century More Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Mezzotint

Flowering Spurge: 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Flowering Spurge: 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann

Flowering Spurge: 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann

By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Located in Alamo, CA

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Esula seu Tithyinalus Africanus SpinosusCera Effigie, B. Esula seu Ti...

Category

Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

Flowering Digitalis Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Flowering Digitalis Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann

Flowering Digitalis Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann

By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Located in Alamo, CA

This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Digitalis rubra floribus albis maculatis. Digitalis angustifolia flore fe...

Category

Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

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Fruit Engraving For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the fruit engraving you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many Abstract, Modern and Old Masters versions of these works for sale. Finding the perfect fruit engraving may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. On 1stDibs, the right fruit engraving is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes gray, brown, beige and black. There have been many interesting fruit engraving examples over the years, but those made by HL Duhamel Du Monceau, After Pierre Turpin, Arthur Luiz Piza, Georg Dionysius Ehret and Stephen Frederick Gooden are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in engraving, paint and watercolor. If space is limited, you can find a small fruit engraving measuring 8.27 high and 5.12 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 29.5 across to better suit those in the market for a large fruit engraving.

How Much is a Fruit Engraving?

A fruit engraving can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,850, while the lowest priced sells for $75 and the highest can go for as much as $24,000.

Finding the Right Prints And Multiples for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract 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.

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.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

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. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.