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Period: 1750s
Cardiaca (Motherwart) /// Botanical Botany Female Artist Antique Flowers Print
By Elizabeth Blackwell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Elizabeth Blackwell (Scottish, 1707-1758)
Title: "Cardiaca (Motherwart)" (Plate 171)
Portfolio: Herbarium Blackwellianum Emendatum et Auctum
Circa: 1750
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Johann Joseph Fleischmann and Christian de Launoy, Nuremberg, Germany
Reference: Arnold Aboretum page 86; BLNH I, page 169; Cleveland 444; Great Flower Books...
Category
1750s Rococo Still-life Prints
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Woman Spinner and a Shepherd with Flock /// Sheep Lady Antique Landscape Animal
By Francesco Londonio
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Francesco Londonio (Italian, 1723-1783)
Title: "Woman Spinner and a Shepherd with Flock"
*Signed and dated by Londonio in the plate (printed signature) upper right
Year: 1759 (first state of two)
Medium: Original Etching on blue wove handmade paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Likely the artist Londonio himself
Reference: Scola No. 13
Sheet size: 7.25" x 5.5"
Image size: 6.75" x 5.25"
Condition: Presently archivally tipped into a storage mat. Some light foxmarks to sheet. Minor crease across the two sheeps' heads. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
The plate number "12" printed upper right in margin. "Sammlung Hämmer (Hammer Collection)" inkstamp in green on verso lower center.
Biography:
Francesco Londonio (Milan, 1723 – Milan, 1783) was an Italian painter, engraver, and scenographer, active mainly in Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style. Londonio trained as a painter under Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battista Sassi in Milan, but traveled to Rome and Naples. He studied engraving with Benigno Bossi. He is best known for his paintings and ectchings of rustic and pastoral landscapes and subjects, with both animals and peasants playing a dominating role over the landscape. This focus on genre themes was popular among the wealthy patrons of the time, specially in Northern Italy; and artists such as the Brescian painters Ceruti and Cifrondi worked with such themes. In his engravings, he recalls Gaetano Zompini.
Londonio is also known for his scenography. An example, of this poorly conserved art form that still exists is a nativity scene on cut wooden shapes for the church of San Marco in Milan. The effect is a cheaper version of the naturalistic Sacri Monti scenes, which had been painted stucco statuary. It also can be seen as a cross between the holy scenes described above, and the theatrical set pieces, for example, those needed for the newly founded La Scala theater. The work at San Marco prompted Empress Maria Theresa of Austria...
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1750s Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Etching, Handmade Paper
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