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Featured Pieces
Jan Six by Pierre François Basan, after Rembrandt
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin laid paper laid down to mid-weight Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 7 9/16 inches (244 x 190 mm), narrow to thread margins. Lettered below the image in the lower right margin wit...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Handmade Paper
Organ Grinder and Beggar – French School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching and aquatint in sepia on cream wove paper, 10 x 8 inches (254 x 201 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower left. Minor toning with evidence of very minor moistur...
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Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Environs de Fontainebleau
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper, 9 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (243 x 322 mm), full margins with thr...
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Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching
Ceiling plan of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Robert Wilkinson, 1816.
Copperplate engraving on buff wove paper with hand coloring in watercolor, 10 7/8 x 13 /4 inches (275 x 336 mm), full margins. In good condition with some sc...
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Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Mughal School, 19th century Empress Nur Jahan hunting an Indian Gazelle.
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1890. Pencil and black ink on cream laid paper with a border drawn in light blue ink, 6 x 5 1/8 inches (153 x 130 mm). Scattered light surface soiling and multiple soft horizontal folds.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
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17th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jangahir on a pleasure boat with his harem a
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir depicted with his harem attendees aboard a pleasure cruise, the water filled with lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold ...
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18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Tiger Hunt
Located in Middletown, NY
An unusual horizontal composition with extensive marginalia.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (140 x 298 mm...
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18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
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18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 17th century – Emperor Jahangir reclining in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light...
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18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
Category
18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
Category
18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
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