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Colored Antique Print of various Water Plants including Coral in Southeast Asia
By F. Valentijn
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Verscheyde Walvisch-tanden - Zwarte Acarbahaar (..)'. This print depicts various water plants including coral native to South East A...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
London 1744 Published Watercolour Antique Map of East Africa by Eman Bowen
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this New and Accurate Map of Nubia & Abissinia, together with all the Kingdoms Tributary Thereto, and bordering upon them published in 1744 by Emanuel Bowen
This is a decorative antique engraved map of East Africa...
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English George III Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Set of 2 Colored Antique Prints of Various Fishes and Crustaceans
By F. Valentijn
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of two antique prints of various fishes and crustaceans. These print originate from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn.
François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 –...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Original Robert Dodd 1748-1816 Copper Plate Print of Partridge Shooting
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this Robert Dodd 1748-1816 copper plate print published by The British Sportsman 1792 titled Partridge hunting
...
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English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of Dido's Death, a fantastic Dutch Burlesque
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Didoos Dood - La Mort de Didon'. Dido's death; the queen lying on a pyre, dressed in peasant clothes. A fantastic Dutch Burlesque. From a series of thirty-one unnumbered plates after Cornelis Troost. The series was begun in 1754 with three prints by Punt and Tanjé; between 1757 and 1764 twenty-nine plates...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Set of 4 Colored Antique Prints of Various Fishes and Crustaceans
By F. Valentijn
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of four antique prints of various fishes and crustaceans. These print originate from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn.
François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Bible Print Jesus Heals All Diseases, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from ‘Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, naer de laetste Roomsche keure der gemeine Latijnsche overzettinge, in neder...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Set of 3 Colored Antique Prints of various Fishes and Crustaceans
By F. Valentijn
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of three antique prints of various fishes and crustaceans. These print originate from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn.
François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 –...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of Huis Ter Noot, The Hague in The Netherlands
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 't Huis Ter Noot'. View on the Huis ter Noot in The Hague (Huis ter Noot in Bezuidenhout, Den Haag). In the foreground, men and women walking and conversing. The...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Set of 8 Colored Antique Prints of Various Fishes and Crustaceans
By F. Valentijn
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of eight antique prints of various fishes and crustaceans. These print originate from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn.
François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of the Tomb of Gerrit van Assendelft and Beatrix van Dalem
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Graf-Tombe van Heere Gerrit van Assendelft (..)'. Tomb of Gerrit van Assendelft and Beatrix van Dalem in the Van Assendelft Chapel in the Grote- or Sint-Jacobsk...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
18th Century Italian Neo Classical Villa of Maecenas Black and White Engraving
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1770, the large monochromatic etching is...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Armorial Elegy of 1600: A Heraldic Memorial, 1730
Located in Langweer, NL
Tomb of Gerard van Randenrode van der Aa, Pieter van Cuyck, 1730 - 1736
Antique print titled 'Hier leit begraven de weledele Joncheer Gerard van Randenrode (..)'. Coat of arms of Ra...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. V' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate V: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows medical instruments relating to surgery of the esophagus. This print originates from 'Encyclopédi...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of Dabul 'now Dabhol' India
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Vue de Dabul'. View of Dabhol, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India. This print originates from 'Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de tout...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Rare Hand-Colored Antique Engraving of Flora Lying on a Bed Surrounded by Angels
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Flora'. It shows Flora lying on a bed between the trees. Two angels scatter flowers over her. Around her putti, satyrs and women who collect flowers...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
18th Century George Edwards Engravings of a Woodpecker
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Edwards engravings of a bird,
Woodpecker, Picus Bengalensis,
#82,
1745
A George Edwards hand-colored engraving of a Woodpecker in a d...
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English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
18th Century Italian Plaque "Secundum Joannedi"
Located in Pomona, CA
18th-Century wall plaque "Secundum Joannebi".
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Italian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Wood
18th Century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
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Dutch Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Delft, Faience
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. XI' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XI: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows surgical / medical instruments relating to the surgery of the waist. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie (..)' by D. Diderot. ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Bible Print the Final Judgement by J. Luyken, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from ‘Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, naer de laetste Roomsche keure der gemeine Latijnsche overzettinge, in neder...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Set of Two 18th Century Spanish Hand Painted Glazed Ceramic Patterned Tiles
Located in Marbella, ES
Antique set of two 19th century Spanish hand painted glazed ceramic patterned tiles with white frame
Dimension do not include frame.
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Spanish Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Ceramic
Antique Wooden Friezes also for Wall Lamps
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/5834 - Pair of thin antique wooden friezes with golden berries. It's not easy to find these antique friezes because they are always broken or w...
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Italian Beaux Arts Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Fruitwood
Antique Bible Print of Pilate and Jesus by J. Luyken, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from ‘Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, naer de laetste Roomsche keure der gemeine Latijnsche overzettinge, in neder...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Very Fine Circa 1750 French School Study of Architectural Capriccio in Pencil
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite circa 1750 French school chalk on paper sketch of a Architectural Capriccio.
A beautiful example of the French school, the piece ...
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French George II Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Wooden Antique Garland Overdoor or Headboard
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare wooden antique garland from the beautiful Val Gardena, authentic '700 period - May be an overdoor , over mirror or over a padded headboard.
M/1523.
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Italian Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Fruitwood
Set of 2 Antique Prints with Designs for the Palace at Whitehall by Campbell
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of two antique prints titled 'The Section of the Royal Pallace at White Hall (..)'. Original antique prints with designs for the Palace of Whitehall at Westminster, Middlesex. These prints originate from 'Vitruvius Britannicus...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Copper Engraving of a Kangaroo in Australia, 1744
Located in Langweer, NL
The title 'Quadrupede Nomme Kanguroo, Trouve sur la Cote de la N'le Hollande' refers to an uncolored engraving depicting a Kangaroo, originally found and described during Captain Cook's first voyage, later rendered by George Stubbs in the English account. This French version offers a portrayal of the Kangaroo encountered on the coast of New Holland (Australia) during that expedition.
The Kangaroo illustration, an integral part of the narrative from Cook's exploration, became renowned due to its significance in the documentation of newly discovered fauna. George Stubbs, a celebrated artist, interpreted and immortalized this image in the English account of Cook's voyage.
This uncolored engraving presents a historical representation of the Kangaroo, an iconic symbol of Australia's unique wildlife, as observed and documented during a pivotal period of exploration. The illustration stands as a testament to the scientific curiosity and documentation prevalent during early voyages of discovery, contributing to the understanding and documentation of the natural world in the 18th century.
The print is in good condition, considering its age, but does have a few slightly visible vertical creases and some soiling. Nevertheless a very representable print of a few hunderd years old (1744).
Description:
This engraving is based on the first illustration of a “Kangaroo” an Australian species, drawn by George Stubbs from a specimen collected at Endeavour River in 1770 by James Cook’s crew while the Endeavour was being careened and issued in the official accounts of the voyage of the Endeavour. This iconic image captured the public’s imagination for over sixty years and was the first depiction of any Australian animal in western art. Confusion exists as to the original species described, based on the specimens brought back by Cook and the subsequent painting by Stubbs. This situation arose in the comparisons of drawings and photographs which are the only records of the lost original specimens, with Parkinson’s sketch made on 23rd June 1770 at Endeavour River and the later Stubbs painting...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
18th Century Playing Cards by David Weege, 1758
Located in Delft, NL
18th Century Playing Cards by David Weege, 1758
27 pieces of copper engraved playing cards, framed behind glass, made by David Weege
27 pi...
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Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Glass, Paper
Very Fine circa 1750 French School Study of a Classical Landscape Graphite & Pen
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite circa 1750 French school chalk on paper sketch of a classical landscape in charcoal and pen
A beautiful example of the French sch...
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French George II Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Five Unusual Delft Blue and White Plates, circa 1750
Located in New York, NY
Factory mark of De Porceleyne Bijl Factory. Each painted with scenes of peasants drinking or dancing in a village setting.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Delft
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. II' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate II: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows surgical instruments, bandages, dressings etc. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie (..)' by D. Diderot. Published, circa 1760.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Copper Engraving of Cluster Mallow and Malva Sylvestris Flowers, 1737
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique botany print titled 'Malva Crispa, Malva Mauritana'. Copper engraving of cluster mallow and malva sylvestris. This print originates from 'Phytanthoza Iconographia' by J.W. We...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of the City of Nanking 'China' by J. Van Schley, circa 1750
Located in Langweer, NL
This engraving is based on the sketches of Johan Niehof and published in Antonine de Prevost d' Exile's Histoire generale des voyages.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Bible Print Bartimaeus the Blind by J. Luyken, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from ‘Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, naer de laetste Roomsche keure der gemeine Latijnsche overzettinge, in neder...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Mid-18th Century Italian Silver Book Binding
Located in New York, NY
An 18th century Italian silver book binding. An impressively designed, this book binding is formed by two, nearly identical covers, each embossed w...
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Italian Classical Roman Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Silver
Original Old Antique Print Showing the True Euphorbium, 1737
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print, titled: 'Euphorbium verum Antiquorum' - This original old antique print shows the true euphorbium. Source unknown, to be determined.
The True Euphorbium; Euphorbium verum Antiquorum
London: John Nourse, 1737.
Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. In very good condition.
Illustration of the true Euphorbium; plate 339 from "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes.The cactus-like perennial plant is indigenous to Morocco.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist but untrained in botany. She collaborated with her botanist husband while he was in debtor's prison and with the curator of the Chelsea Physick Garden where the plants were under cultivation. She engraved the copper printing plates...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
18th-century Johann Weinmann Engravings of Grapes, Set of Four
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes,
Set of Four,
Circa 1740
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes, each engraved by Seuter (S to the lower ri...
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German Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Ancient Rare Italian Cartagloria
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/6813 - This is an authentic antique "cartagloria", always sought after by collectors, here with a small mirror , probably placed some years ago in place of prayers.
It's very beaut...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Fruitwood
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. XVII' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XVII: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows the medical procedure called trepanning and surgical instruments used for trepanning or ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Botany Print of Hydrastis Canadensis, '1759'
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique botany print titled 'Waneria'. Hand colored engraving of the Hydrastis Canadensis, also known as goldenseal, orangeroot or yellow puccoon...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Old Original Map of Pozzuoli Near Naples in the Campania Region, Italy, ca.1740
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Hic Jacent Puteolorum Bajarum (..)'. Old map of the region of Pozzuoli showing the topographic and architectural features of interest. Pozzuoli is a city and comu...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Print of Water Nymph Clytia, Daughter of Oceanus, Turning into a Sunflower, 1733
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Clytie changée en Tournesol (..)'.
This print depicts Clytia turning into a sunflower. Clytia (or Clytie) was a water nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Original Antique Hand-Colored Engraving of Barberries 'Dutch: Zuurbessen', 1758
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print of Barberries (Dutch: Zuurbessen). Originates from 'Pomologia' by J. H. Knoop.
Artists and Engravers: Published by Johann Hermann Knoop (c.1700-1769).
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Original Antique Engraving of a Alligator, Shark and Fish, ca.1750
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Espece de Crocodile, nomme Alligator Celui ci est Jeune qui fut tire vivant a Londres au mois d'Octobre 1739’. (Species of Crocodile, called Alligator. This you...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. XV' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XV: 'Chirurgie.' (Surgery). This plate shows surgical instruments used in surgery of the female abdomen. This print originates from 'En...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Original Handcolored Antique Engraving of the Medlar, 1758
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print of the medlar. Originates from 'Pomologia' by J. H. Knoop.
Artists and Engravers: Published by Johann Hermann Knoop (c.1700-1769).
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Optical View Depicting a Scene with Fireworks, Subtitled in Four Languages, 1765
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Pyrotechnicae repraesentationis splendidissimae typus'.
Optical view depicting a scene with fireworks (probably on the occasion of the coronation of the Ger...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Bird Print of a Peacock by Manetti, 'circa 1770'
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique bird print titled 'Pavone della China maschio - Pavo Sinensis mas'. Beautiful copper engraving of a peacock. This print originates from 'Storia naturale degli Uccelli' by Sav...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Medical Print 'Pl. XXIII' by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XXIII: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows surgical instruments / medical devices like a syringe, tweezer. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie (..)' by D. Diderot. Pu...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of Pope Adrian VI by Houbraken '1727'
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Hadrianus VI Papa Ultrajecti Natus (..)'.
Original antique print of Pope Adrian VI, sitting in a chair.
Pope Adrian VI (Latin: Hadrianus VI; Dutch: Adrianus/Adriaan VI), born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutchman to become pope, he was the last non-Italian pope until Polish John Paul II 455 years later.
Born in the Episcopal principality of Utrecht, Adrian studied at the University of Leuven in the Low Countries, where he rose to the position of professor of theology, also serving as rector (the equivalent of vice-chancellor). In 1507, he became the tutor...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Original Antique Print of a New Way of Dressing or Schooling of Horses, ca.1740
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique horse print titled 'Parade du trot pour La Main Gauche'.
Antique print depicting the schooling of horses. This print originates from 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' by W. Cavendish.
Artists and Engravers: Engraved by T. van Kessel.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print Showing an Ice Skating Scene to Illustrate Psalm 147, in Year 1731
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Quis sustinebit Domini frigus (..).
This original antique print shows an ice skating scene to illustrate psalm 147: Who can withstand the cold? Originates from 'Physica Sacra...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Copper Engraving of Spike Speedwell and Various Other Plants, 1745
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique botany print titled 'Veronica Spicata minor (..)'.
Copper engraving of spike speedwell and various other plants. This print originates from 'Phytanthoza Iconographia' by ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Rare Antique Print of the Schooling of Horses in the Early 18th Century, ca.1740
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique horse print titled 'La Vraije Methode (..)'.
Antique print depicting the schooling of horses. This print originates from 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Che...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
Antique Print of Siam and Various Vessels by Van Schley 'c.1750'
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Vue de Siam et divers Balons - Gezigt van Siam en verscheide Balons'. View of Siam (Thailand) and various vessels. This print originates from the Dutch edition ...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
French 18th Century Bed Warmer with Coat of Arm Symbols
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An 18th century French bed warmer in copper with wooden handle. With the hammered decoration of a noble family own coat-of-arms. The last is showing ...
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French Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Copper
Genuine Antique Print of an Orrery, a mechanical model of the Solar System, 1747
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'The Four Wheel'd Orrery'. Copper engraving of an orrery. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. This print originates from 'A dissertation upon the phaenomena of the harvest Moon; also, The description and use of a new four-wheel'd orrery, and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round on her own axis' by James Ferguson.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Art
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Paper
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