Dance Fresco - Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
By Nicola Billy
Located in Roma, IT
Dance Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding due to th...
Etching
Oil Lamp - Etching by Giacomo Casanova - 18th Century
By Giacomo Casanova
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Iacomino e Casanova in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding. The ...
Etching
Oil Lamp - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
By Nicola Vanni
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Iacomino e Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding. ...
Etching
Oil Lamp - Etching by Giuseppe Aloja - 18th Century
By Giuseppe Aloja
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giuseppe Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding. The etchi...
Etching
Palmo Romano - Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
By Vincenzo Campana
Located in Roma, IT
Palmo Romano from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century. Monograms on the plate. Fair conditions due to t...
Etching
Temple Ruins - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
By Nicola Vanni
Located in Roma, IT
Temple Ruins from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni e G. Pignatori in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some f...
Etching
Halcyon is desperate at the sight of Ceyx's... - Etching - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper. Titled at bottom center. At bottom sides: "R. Wilson dip. - E. Ragona inc.". After a painting by Richard Wilson. Published in Bassano by Remondini. Good condition.
Etching
$278
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
By Francesco Cepparoli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The etchin...
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Francesco Cepparoli - 18th Century
By Francesco Cepparoli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The etchin...
Etching
Campidoglio Festivamente Ornato - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1775
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Capitol Festively Decorated" Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cav. e Arch.” Paolo Posi, drown by “Giuse. Palazzi”, engraved by “Cava...
Etching
Animal Anatomy Studies - Etching by Buvée d’Amérique - 1771
By Buvée d’Amérique
Located in Roma, IT
Tome VIII – Plate XIII, p. 108, from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Copper engraving. Paris, 1771. Sheet size: approx. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. A finely engraved comp...
Etching
Sanos y Enfermos - Original Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Sanos y enfermos is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desa...
Etching, Aquatint
Anatomy and Skeletons - Etching by Jacques de Sève - 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
Tome X – Plate LIV, p. 348 from Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, Paris 1771. Copper engraving. Paris, 18th century. Sheet size: approx. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. An important com...
Etching
Anatomy and Skeletons - Etching by Jacques de Sève - 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
Tome X – Plate LVII, p. 362, from Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière., Paris 1771. Copper engraving. Paris, 18th century. Sheet size: approx. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. A refined ana...
Etching
Anatomy and Skeletons - Etching by Jacques de Sève - 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
Tome X – Plate LVI, p. 362, from Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, Paris 1771. Copper engraving. Paris, 18th century. Sheet size: approx. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. A finely engrav...
Etching
Muertos Recogidos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Muertos recogidos is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Des...
Etching, Aquatint
Sphinx - Ancient Roman Art - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sphinx - Ancient Roman Art, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Anonymous Artist in the 18th century. Monogrammed on the plate....
Etching
Ancient Roman Still Life - Original Etching - 18th Century
By Vincenzo Aloja
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Still Life, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 18th century. Good condition. The etc...
Etching
Hippogriffs - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
By Vincenzo Aloja
Located in Roma, IT
Hippogriffs from Antiquities of Herculaneum is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lower right Good condition. ...
Etching
Bathsheba Receiving David's Letter - Etching after Adriaen Collae - 17th Century
By Adriaen Collaert
Located in Roma, IT
Replacing the textual narrative with a visual one, the work includes over 450 Old and New Testament prints, most of which are accompanied by a brief Latin distich.
Etching
The Industrious Prentice - Etching by William Hogarth - 1747
By William Hogarth
Located in Roma, IT
The Industrious Prentice - Lord Mayor of London is an original etching print realized by William Hogarth in 1747 Signature on the plate on the lower right, with the description on t...
Etching
Hermes God And Nymph - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
By Filippo Morghen
Located in Roma, IT
Hermes God And Nymph from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some foldin...
Etching
Sphinx - Ancient Roman Frescoes - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sphinx - Ancient Roman Frescoes, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Anonymous Artist in the 18th century. Monogrammed on the p...
Etching
View of Rome - Original Etching on Paper - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in 1960. Hand-signed and dated and title on the lower in pencil, the signature is illegible. Good condi...
Etching
Lips Portrait - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Roma, IT
Lips Portrait is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", Lond...
Etching
$440
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching by Roccus Pozzi - 18th Century
By Roccus Pozzi
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum is an etching on paper folded in four part realized by Roccus Pozzi in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding and foxin...
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Monogrammed on the plate. Good conditions ...
Etching
Extraña devoción! - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Extrana Devocion is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desa...
Etching, Aquatint
Oil Lamp With Bird - Etching by Marcantonio Iacomino - 18th Century
By Marcantonio Iacomino
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp With Bird from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Marcantonio Iacomino in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some fox...
Etching
Decoration With Fruits - Etching by Luigi Aloja - 18th Century
By Luigi Aloja
Located in Roma, IT
Decoration With Fruits is an Etching realized by Luigi Aloja (1783-1837). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità...
Etching
(After) Rembrandt van Rijn 'Christ seated disputing with the doctors' etching
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
After Rembrandt Van Rijn Christ seated disputing with the doctors Signed and dated ‘Rembrandt F.1654 (in the plate) Etching 3.5/8 x 5.5/8 in. (9.3 x 14.5 cm.) Literature: B.Holl.64;...
Etching
Glaucus and Scylla - Etching after Salvator Rosa - 18th Century
By Salvator Rosa
Located in Roma, IT
This etching, representing Glaucus and Scylla, is an 18th century copy after Salvator Rosa (ca. 1661). Signed lower right “S.Rosa” The state of preservation is very good. Foxings d...
Etching
Dream of Aeneas - Etching after Salvator Rosa - 18th Century
By Salvator Rosa
Located in Roma, IT
This etching, representing The Dream of Aeneas, is an 18th century proof after Salvator Rosa (ca. 1663). Signed lower left “S.Rosa” The state of preservation is good. Some foxings ...
Etching
Comparative Anatomical Plate – Male.. - Etching by Antoine Defehrt - 1771
By Antoine Defehrt
Located in Roma, IT
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière Tom. XI, Pl. XV, p. 276 Paris, 1771 Copperplate engraving on laid paper Approx. 24.5 × 19.5 cm A finely detailed anatomical engraving il...
Etching
Anatomical Plate – Digestive System - Etching by Antoine Defehrt - 1771
By Antoine Defehrt
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Tom. XI, Pl. XIII, p. 276 Paris, 1771 Copperplate engraving on laid paper Sheet size: approx. 24.5 x 19.5 cm A fine...
Etching
Comparative Anatomical Study–Pathological... - Etching by Antoine Defehrt - 1771
By Antoine Defehrt
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Tom. XI, Pl. XXIII, p. 276. Paris, 1771 Copperplate engraving on laid paper Approx. 24.5 × 19.5 cm A detailed anato...
Etching
Comparative Anatomical Plate – Interior... - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
By Jacques Baron
Located in Roma, IT
Table from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Tom. XI, Pl. XVI, p. 276 Paris, 1771 Copperplate engraving on laid paper. A finely engraved anatomical study depict...
Etching
Anatomical Plate – Digestive System - Etching by Antoine Defehrt - 1771
By Antoine Defehrt
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Tom. XI, Pl. XI, p. 276 Paris, 1771 Copperplate engraving on laid paper Approx. 24.5 × 19.5 cm A finely executed co...
Etching
Bat Skeleton (Chiroptera) - Etching by Jacques de Sève - 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
From: Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1771 Tom. VIII, Plate XIII (Pl. XIII, p. 154) Copperplate engraving on laid paper with visible chain lin...
Etching
Anatomical Studies - Humain Brain - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
By Jacques Baron
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Tom. III – Pl. II, p. 234 This copperplate engraving presents a detailed anatomical study of the human brain and its principal internal struc...
Etching
Anatomical Studies - Humain Brain - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
By Jacques Baron
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Tome III – Pl. 10, p. 234 This copperplate engraving presents a systematic anatomical study of the human brain through multiple cranial secti...
Etching
Correccion - Etching and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1868
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Correccion is an original artwork realized by Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799. Etching on wove paper. This artwork belongs to the Third Edition published in...
Etching, Aquatint
Le Grand Danois - Etching by Jacques de Sève - 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, 1767–1771 – Tom. V, Pl. XXVI (p. 300): Le Grand Danois Copper engraving depicting Le Grand Danois (Great Dane) standing in profile before an architectura...
Etching
$2,500
Composant les dessins pour l'apocalypse de Saint Jean, Etching by Jean Duvet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Duvet, After by Amand Durand, French (1485 - 1562) - Composant les dessins pour l'apocalypse de Saint Jean, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 10.5 x 7 in. (26.67 x 17.78 cm), Printe...
Etching
$464
The Little Trellis - Etching by Jacques Callot - Mid-17th Century
By Jacques Callot
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper printed after Jacques Callot in the mid-17th Century. Image dimension: 8.1x16.4 cm.; Matted dimension: 40x60 cm. Signed in plate lower right: Callot in et fe cu...
Etching
$534
Pompeian Styles Wall Painting - Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
By Nicola Billy
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Styles Wall Painting from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and aged. ...
Etching
Ornamental Pompeian Style Fresco - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo- 18th Century
By Nicola Fiorillo
Located in Roma, IT
Ornamental Pompeian Style Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and ...
Etching
The Reading Lady - Etching by Francesco Cepparoli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Reading Lady from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The etching be...
Etching
Correccion - Etching and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1868
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Correccion is an original artwork realized by Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799. Etching on wove paper. This artwork belongs to the Third Edition published in...
Etching, Aquatint
Head of Donkey - Etching after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper, within a ruled border. A finely executed etching after Nicolaes Berchem depicting the head of a donkey in profile, rendered with remarkable sensitivity to texture ...
Etching
$4,407
Obelisco Egizio (Egyptian Obelisk) - Etching by G. B. Piranesi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
The Sicilian engraver and vedutist Giuseppe Vasi taught Piranesi the etching technique, transferring his passion for graphic art to the Venetian old master.
Etching
$209
Animaux Spermatiques – Microscopic Studies - Etching by Jacques de Sève- 1771
By Jacques de Seve
Located in Roma, IT
Planche I, p. 180. From Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière. Paris, 1771. Etching and engraving on laid paper. Sheet size: 24.5 × 19.5 cm. A finely engraved scientific pla...
Etching
$1,700
"Forest Glen, " Etching Landscape initialed in Plate by John Thomas Smith
By John Thomas Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Forest Glen" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. The piece was initialed in plate. It depicts a small inlet to a lush forest. 3 5/8" x 3 1/2" art 12 7/8" x 12 3/4" frame ...
Etching
Disparate Claro Etching, Aquatint, Goya, Circa 1875, Unframed
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Disparate claro - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 15 from of the second edition of th...
Aquatint, Etching
Disparate Volante Original Etching, Aquatint, Circa 1875, Unframed
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Disparate volante - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 5 from of the second edition of ...
Aquatint, Etching
Disparate Matrimonial Etching, Aquatint, Goya, Circa 1875, Unframed
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Disparate matrimonial - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 7 from of the second edition ...
Aquatint, Etching
Disparate General Etching, Aquatint, Goya, Circa 1875, Unframed
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Disparate General- from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 9 from of the second edition of th...
Aquatint, Etching
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
Find a collection of Old Masters prints, paintings, drawings and watercolors and other art on 1stDibs.
Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.
Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.
Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.
Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.
Explore an impressive collection of figurative art prints for sale on 1stDibs and read about how to arrange your wall art.