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Iris Kaempferi: No. 91 CHO-HIYEN
Located in London, GB
Iris Kaempferi: No. 91 CHO-HIYEN
Tokyo, Yoshinoen-Garden, circa 1910.
Hand-coloured woodblock print on handmade rice paper, numbered and captioned at top, outlined in ink. Framed in...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper
Iris Kaempferi: No. 58 SHU-FU-RAKU
Located in London, GB
Iris Kaempferi: No. 58 SHU-FU-RAKU
Tokyo, Yoshinoen-Garden, circa 1910.
Hand-coloured woodblock print on handmade rice paper, numbered and captioned at top, outlined in ink. Framed...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Wood, Watercolor, Rice Paper
Iris Kaempferi: No.36 YEDO-JIMAN
Located in London, GB
Iris Kaempferi: No. 36 YEDO-JIMAN
Tokyo, Yoshinoen-Garden, circa 1910.
Hand-coloured woodblock print on handmade rice paper, numbered and captioned at top, outlined in ink. Framed ...
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1910s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Wood, Watercolor, Rice Paper
Iris Kaempferi: No.10 AKASHI-NO-UE
Located in London, GB
Iris Kaempferi: No. 10 AKASHI-NO-UE
Tokyo, Yoshinoen-Garden, circa 1910.
Hand-coloured woodblock print on handmade rice paper, numbered and captioned at top, outlined in ink. Fram...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Wood, Watercolor, Rice Paper
A Group of Six Pears.
By Pierre Jean François Turpin
Located in London, GB
POITEAU, A. and P. TURPIN.
Traité des arbres fruitiers: A Group of six Pears.
H. Perronneau for T. Delachausée, Paris, 1807-1835.
A group of six stipple-engraved plates printed in c...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
POITEAU/TURPIN. Traité des arbres fruitiers: A Set of Four Apples
By POITEAU, A. and P. TURPIN.
Located in London, GB
POITEAU, A. and P. TURPIN.
Traité des arbres fruitiers: A Set of Four Apples
H. Perronneau for T. Delachausée, Paris, 1807-1835.
A set of Four Apples, fine stipple-engrave...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Watercolor
BROOKSHAW. A Pair of Melons: White Seed'd Rock and Silver Rock Mellon
By George Brookshaw
Located in London, GB
Pair of aquatints with stipple-engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, made for Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fru...
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1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 63.3 by 47.2 cm.
[Paris 1805].
Prevost came from a lo...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prevost's "Collection des Fleurs et Fruits...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
PRÉVOST. Print from a Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris. 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-Louis himself first exhibited at the Salon when only fourteen years of age, showing paintings of bouquets, a vase of flowers and other small botanical studies. Immediately he was commissioned by Monsieur Roussel to paint the flowers in the wealthy landowner's garden.
The result was a 12-volume work of gouache studies, entitled "Hortus Cellensis", and was at once acquired by the Paris Natural History Library.
Prévost's "Collection des Fleurs et Fruits...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
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...
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1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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1640s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Copper
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
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