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FEOLI. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino
By Vincenzo Feoli
Located in London, GB
Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa.
The Pio-Clementino museum, n...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
FEOLI. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino
By Vincenzo Feoli
Located in London, GB
Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa.
The Pio-Clementino museum, n...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
FEOLI. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino
By Vincenzo Feoli
Located in London, GB
Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa.
The Pio-Clementino museum, n...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
FEOLI. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino
By Vincenzo Feoli
Located in London, GB
Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa.
The Pio-Clementino museum, n...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
FEOLI. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino
By Vincenzo Feoli
Located in London, GB
Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Micenelli and Costa.
The Pio-Clementino museum, na...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
Chromolithograph of Quail
By Alexander Pope Jr.
Located in London, GB
Chromolithograph of Ducks, laid on to contemporary card (as published).
[Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878].
Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He’s kn...
Category
1870s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Pineapple with foliage.
By Maria Sibylla Merian
Located in London, GB
[MERIAN, Maria Sibyl].
Pineapple with foliage.
The Hague, Gosse, 1719.
Engraving of a Pineapple with foliage by J. Mulder, P. Sluyter and D. Stoopendaal after Merian, with later hand-colour, from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphasibus Insectorum Surinamensium. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 40cm by 53.2cm by 4.5cm.
Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.
Maria Sybilla, daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthias Merian, devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company...
Category
1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
A Group of Four engraved and hand-coloured Birds Nests.
By Cornelis Nozeman and Jan Christiaan Sepp
Located in London, GB
NOZEMAN, Cornelius and Jan Christian SEPP.
A Group of Four Birds Nests: NIDUS ARDEAE, Nycticoracis; NIDUS PLATALEA, Leucorodia; NIDUS ARDEAE STELLARIS and NIDUS PELECANI, Carbonis f...
Category
1770s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
La Voiture Th. Schneider, Car - 1912
Located in London, GB
GAMY and MONTAUT, Ernest.
La Voiture Th. Schneider, 1912 gagne à Dieppe Dinant et à la Sarthe vitesse et régularité / Magneto Bosch Corburateur Claudel Roues Riley.
Mabileau & Co., ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Stencil
Cycles Motos Alcyon.
Located in London, GB
GAMY and MONTAUT, Ernest.
Cycles Motos Alcyon.
[Paris: Mabileau & Co., c. 1914].
Hand-coloured pochoir print. Framed and glazed, overall size: 93.6cm x 49.2cm.
The Gamy-Montaut ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Stencil
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE SCHOOL].
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
19th century, c.1880.
Group of eight watercolour and gouache pith papers of Exotic Fruits, edged in turquoise silk ribbon and laid ...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor
POITEAU/ TURPIN. Traité des arbres fruitiers: A Set of Four Cherries.
Located in London, GB
A set of four stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand.
Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes it...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
BESLER. A Group of Four Peonies.
Located in London, GB
Four magnificent copper engraved plates with hand-colour from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field.
[Nuremberg and Eichstatt, 1640].
The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen.
The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler...
Category
1640s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Copper
Group of Four Mezzotint Hunting Plates.
By Johann Elias Ridinger
Located in London, GB
4 mezzotint engravings by and after Ridinger (c.55 x 43 cm.) with margins on all sides.
[Published: Augsburg, 1750].
A fine group showing 2 male and 2 female hunters along with the ...
Category
1750s Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Set of Four Gourds
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in London, GB
Set of 4 double-page mezzotint engravings, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Published: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, Regensburg, 1737].
An attractive collection of fine plates...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Illustration of Ballet Slippers
By Thomas Watson Greig
Located in London, GB
Chromolithographed illustration of a pair of Ballet Slippers, printed with gold and silver inks.
[Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1900].
Plate...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Group of Four Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century
By Thomas Greig Watson
Located in London, GB
A group of four chromolithographed illustrations of shoes, some printed with gold and silver inks.
[Published: David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1900].
Plates taken from a scarce first edi...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Groups of Nine Grotesque Masks
By Alò Giovannoli
Located in London, GB
4 Groups of 9 plates of Grotesque Masks.
[Published: Venanzio Monaldini, Rome, 1781].
Rare and strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks, after...
Category
1780s Gothic Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Engraving
A Group of Six Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century
By Thomas Greig Watson
Located in London, GB
A group of six chromolithographed illustrations of shoes, some printed with gold and silver inks.
[Published: David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1900].
Plates taken from a scarce first edit...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Group of Six Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century
By Thomas Greig Watson
Located in London, GB
A group of six chromolithographed illustrations of shoes, some printed with gold and silver inks.
[Published: David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1900].
Plates taken from a scarce first edit...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Automotive design for Alexis Kellner AG Berlin
By Herschu (Herbert Schultz)
Located in London, GB
Half-Limousine coachwork design for an Austro-Daimler.
Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbere...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
THORNTON. The Roses
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in London, GB
Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora.
[London 1799]
First state.
Thornton was a prolific medical author and Doctor of Medicine, practicing at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the Sexual system of Linnaeus.
In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle and others as painters; Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Earlom and John Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle.
These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton's announced intention was to make this work the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest possible prints. All these were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect.
This rare and celebrated plate of the Roses...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
THORNTON. Group of Carnations
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in London, GB
Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora.
[London 1799]
First state.
Thornton was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus.
In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
THORNTON. The Superb Lily.
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in London, GB
A magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
THORNTON. The Tulips.
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed.
London, 1...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
BUCHOZ. A Group of Four Tulips
Located in London, GB
A Group of 4 hand-coloured engraved plates of tulips, in matching silver leaf frames. Dimensions: 34.6cm by 48.5cm.
A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Collection des Fleurs de la Chine & de l'Europe, first published in 1776.
[Paris 1781]
The second half of the eighteenth century saw a boom in natural history publications in France fuelled by such works as Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. The accession of Louis XVI in 1774 was followed by a relaxation in the regulation of the book trade making it easier for authors to publish their own works. No other writer was to take such copious advantage of these two developments as Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807), a French physician, lawyer and naturalist. His works are characterised by the beauty of the illustrations, and their rarity owing to the small size of the print runs.
The final tulip plate...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Paper
GALLESIO. A Group of Six Grapes.
Located in London, GB
Six hand-coloured plates of Grapes, printed in colour and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 42.5 by 57.5cm. Pomona Italiana Ossia Trattato Degli Alberi Fruttiferi...
Category
1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
HERBST. A Group of Four Crustaceans
By Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
Located in London, GB
A Group of four hand-coloured engraved plates of Crabs by Schellenburg, P. Haas, Heidenreich and Ludwig Schmidt.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 36.4 x 53.8 cm.
Johann Friedric...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
