$250
Boats of the Friendly Isles, Tonga: Original 18th C. Engraving from Captain Cook
By William Hodges
Located in Alamo, CA
"Boats of the Friendly Isles" is an original 18th century engraving from a drawing by William Hodges (1744-1797), who was the artist who accompanies Captain Cook on his second voyage...
Engraving
$250
The Fleet of Tahiti displayed for Captain Cook: An Original 18th C. Engraving
By William Hodges
Located in Alamo, CA
"The Fleet of Otaheite, Assembled at Oparee" is an original 18th century engraving from a drawing by William Hodges (1744-1797), who was the artist who accompanies Captain Cook on hi...
Engraving
$1,375
Captain James Cook: 18th C. Portrait by William Hodges After Cook's 2nd Voyage
By William Hodges
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th Century copper plate engraved portrait of Captain James Cook as a young man. It was engraved by J. Basire after a painting by William Hodges, published in London by W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand in 1777 as the frontispiece to the official journal publication of Cook's 2nd voyage of discovery, "A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775". The journal was written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution, which was the ship used for the voyage and William Hodges, who was the artist on board the ship. This famous image has been used in many articles and tributes to Captain Cook, including a Norfolk Island stamp celebrating his many accomplishments. This engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Captain Cook is enclosed in an oval with the appearance of a stone border. Captain Cook is dressed in his naval dress uniform, with a topcoat over a lace shirt. The engraving is printed on watermarked laid, chain-linked paper. The sheet measures 11.5" high x 9" wide. There is some spotting, most prominently in the margins. The print is otherwise in excellent condition. Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator, surveyor and cartographer, who dramatically changed what was known about the world through his three voyages of discovery in the 1770's. Cook's achievements are too numerous to include here, but for example, Cook charted much of the Pacific Ocean and discovered many island groups, including the Hawaiian islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, in honor of the head of the British Admiralty and a patron of Cook's. Cook was the first European to explore the eastern coast of Australia, and he was the first to map the New Zealand coastline. He sailed farther south than any other explorer before him, disproving the belief that a huge land mass occupied the South Pole. He also explored the northwest coast of North America, including present day Alaska and adjacent portions of Russia. He proved that the Northwest Passage did not exist. Cook was an exceptional seaman, navigator and leader of men, which contributed to the success of his explorations, but also saved his ship and crew on many occasions when faced with challenges, such as storms in previously unexplored waters, like occurred in the Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia. He is also the first to require his crew to eat citrus fruit which markedly reduced the incidence of survey, which had led to large scale illness and death during earlier ocean voyages. As outstanding as Cook's skills were, they are even more impressive since they were self-taught. Having grown up the son of a farmhand in Northern England he had only four years of formal schooling. He taught himself astronomy, mathematics and other disciplines which were helpful when he continued his education, first in the merchant marine and then in the British Navy. Cook's adventurous career came to a sudden and unfortunate end in 1779, when he was killed in a confrontation with Hawaiian natives...
Engraving
$250
Family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand: Original 18th C. Engraving from Captain Cook
By William Hodges
Located in Alamo, CA
"A Family in Dusk Bay, New Zealand" is an original 18th century engraving from a drawing by William Hodges (1744-1797), who was the artist who accompanies Captain Cook on his second ...
Engraving
$350
H 8.5 in W 5.38 in
Männlicher Kopf von vorn, nach rechts gewandt (Male Head Facing Right)
By Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Männlicher Kopf von vorn, nach rechts gewandt (Male Head Facing Right)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönhe...
Woodcut, Engraving
$6,500
H 38.5 in W 28.5 in D 2 in
"Madame Georges Menier" Portrait, by Paul Cesar Helleu
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Hinsdale, IL
HELLEU, PAUL CÉSAR (1859 -1927) "MADAME GEORGES MENIER" Montesquiou XXI Drypoint in colors, c. 1900 Signed in pencil, lower right Printed on wove paper Full...
Drypoint
$300
H 8.5 in W 5.63 in
Männlicher Kopf im Profil (Male Head in Profile) /// German Expressionism Modern
By Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Männlicher Kopf im Profil (Male Head in Profile)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63" Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 4" x 3.38" Reference: Schapire No. 219, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
Engraving, Woodcut
$275
H 6.75 in W 5 in
SNOWSCAPE, RED BRICK COTTAGE Signed Wood Engraving, Country House Arched Window
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
SNOWSCAPE, RED BRICK COTTAGE is an original wood engraving by the American artist Bernard Brussel-Smith, hand printed in light blue, light red and black ink on Strathmore cream color...
Engraving
$58,000
H 25 in W 19 in D 1.5 in
Pierre Auguste-Renoir "Le Chapeau Épinglé"
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) Le Chapeau Épinglé, 1ère Planche (Delteil; Stella 6) Drypoint, 1894-95, on laid paper, with watermark MBM, an extr...
Drypoint
Feuille d'etudes Techniques: Neuf Tetes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 1934. With Picasso's ink stamped signature lower right, and numbered 29/50 in pencil lower left. Image 12.25 x 8.75 inches, full sheet 19.5 x 13...
Etching, Drypoint
Restaurant in Mott Street
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image depicts a restaurant on New York's Mott Street with ornamental iron work on the balconies. There are six figures in the scene in various stages of contrast. Mott Street is considered the unofficial Main Street of New York's Chinatown. Ella Fitzgerald sang it best: “And tell me what street compares with Mott Street in July? Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by.” CFW Mielatz was an early influence on the drypoints and etchings of Martin Lewis. This piece was created in 1906 and it is signed in pencil. It is part of the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art C.F.W. Mielatz American, 1860-1919 Born in Bredding, Germany in 1864, Mielatz emigrated to the United States as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter-etcher school of American Art. Around 1890 he started to produce prints of New York City and by the time of his death, the number totaled over ninety images. He was a master technician in the field of etching, reworking many of his plates to get the exact feeling he was seeking. Mielatz was a member of the New York Etching...
Drypoint, Etching
$450
H 21.26 in W 27.56 in
Plan of the Park, Garden and Plantations of Goodwood, 18th century engraving
By Colen Campbell
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plan of the Park, Garden and Plantations of Goodwood in Sussex the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond and Lenox &c Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring by Hendrik Hul...
Engraving
$75
H 10.24 in W 6.7 in
Isaac Newton, physicist, scientist, 19th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Isaac Newton' Steel-engraving. C1850. Facsimile signature below title. 80mm by 60mm (image) 260mm by 170mm (sheet) Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/27) was an English polymath acti...
Engraving
$350
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in
King Richard II /// Old Masters British Royal Family Portrait Engraving Art
By George Vertue
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Vertue (English, 1684-1756) Title: "King Richard II" Portfolio: The Heads of the Kings of England, Proper for Mr. Rapin's History *Issued unsigned, though signed by Ve...
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Foggy Night (the way home or a Stephen King setting)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #22 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Engraving, Mezzotint
$95
H 10.83 in W 8.08 in
Eliza Cook, English author and Chartist poet, antique portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eliza Cook' Steel-engraving after a photograph by John Watkins, 1872. Facsimile signature below the image. Eliza Cook (1818 - 1889) was an English author, Chartist poet and writer...
Engraving
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H 16.74 in W 22.64 in
India William Hodges 'A View of the Ravines at Etana' Early India Engraving
By William Hodges
Located in Norfolk, GB
William Hodges Plate 27 'A View of the Ravines at Etawa' Published 20th May 1787 by J Wells, 22 Charing Cross. Page size, 16.5” x 22.5”, image 11.25 x 18” Aquatint with soft gro...
Engraving
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H 16.74 in W 22.64 in
India William Hodges 'The East End of the Fort of Mongheer' India Engraving
By William Hodges
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aquatint with soft ground etching from the seminal publication, Selected Views in India, drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783, and Executed in Aquatint in 1786 -...
Engraving
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H 12.68 in W 18.98 in
William Hodges India 'A View of the Fort of Bidjegur' Early India Engraving
By William Hodges
Located in Norfolk, GB
William Hodges 'A View of the Fort of Bidjegur' Published May 29th 1786 by J.Wells No:22 Charing Cross Image size 32.2 x 48.2 cm Aquatint with soft ground etching from the seminal ...
Engraving