James Smillie Figurative Prints

Presse Ludovico Mirri Mercante d’Quadri incontro al Palazzo Bernini a Roma No.46 is from a series of original engravings published by Lodovico Mirri in the late 18th century and engr...

Mrs. Hezekiah Brown Image: 19.0 x 11.2 cm Mount: 31.8 x 23.0 cm Wood engraving 1932 One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...

Contemporary artist Peter Milton created this etching and engraving entitled "Interiors VI: Soundings" in 1989. The printed image size is 29 7/8 x 23 13/16 and paper size is 36 x 29 inches. This impression is signed, dated, and titled in pencil and inscribed “93/175” – the 93 impression of 175. “I do love to draw. I feel that I am being granted membership in the Brotherhood of Merlin, conjuring forth some apparition. As a drawing develops, I sense a vague presence coming more and more into focus, something in a white fog emerging and becoming increasingly palpable.” – P. Milton, “The primacy of touch. The Drawings of Peter Milton” “Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul." – T. L. Johnson and A. Shafer Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute...

French Village is an original artwork realized by Eugène Corneau between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. The monogram of the artist is present on the lower left...

Trees is an lithograph on paper realized by an unknown artist in the 20th Century. The artwork is in good condition.

Boat is a Contemporary artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century by Robert Naly (1900 - 1983). Mezzotint print. Hand-signed. Numbered, edition of 50 prints. Good conditio...

Newcastle - Upon - Tyne is an engraving realized in 1845 by E. Finden. Signed in plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

Hull is an engraving on paper realized by W.Finden in 1838. The artwork is in good condition. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.

Image dimensions: 17 x 23 cm. Allé sous bois is an original artwork realized by Paulette Humbert during the 1980s. hand-signed on the lower right by Paulette Humbert. Artist's pro...

Composition in Red is an original print in etching and drypoint on white paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork created...

Etching Héliogravure and drypoint. Signed with artist's monogram. Hand titled. Second state.  Good condition. Ref. Rouir 905; Exteens 411. 

Sunderland is an engraving realized in 1845 by E. Finden. Signed in plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.