1810 H. Keller, Switzerland, aquatint panorama Zurich hand col. 139 cm

This extremely rare stone lithograph with hand colour was issued in the Dutch series: Bloem en Fruit Studien published in 1836. 35 x 27.3 cm Fine...

A. Brouwer pinx. N. Strixner del. Village Surgeon (The Feeling) A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. 61 x 45 cm; Image: 29.3 x 26.3 cm Published c 1810 Stone lit...

Johannes Meyer (1655–1712) Physica. Natur=Wussenschaft [Neujahrsblatt, hrsg. von der Stadtbibliothek in Zürich] Broadside issued on New Year’s Days 1697. Measures: 29 x 3...

Gottfried Mind (1768-1814) OEUVRE DE GEOFROI MIND de Berne receuilli de différens Cabinets particuliers et publié par J.P. Lamy, Editeur d'Arts à Berne et Bâle. Livraison accompagnée d'une Notice historique er biographique du Peintre. Berne, Basle & Lausanne, 1816 (ca). Reissued in publisher’s cloth ca 1830. Oblong quarto. (31 x 24.2 cm). Stipple engraved title with vignette, pp. 8. Publisher’s cloth with gilt to upper board: ‘Collection de Fantaisies’ - Overall very good. Binding a touch rubbed, some light spotting to text and age toning to plates. Hand-colored aquatints (12). Playing children after Geofroi Mind, bound and mounted on cardboard. Each with blindstamp L.(Lamy) or JPL and with publisher's details in manuscript. Publisher’s engraved label to inner front board. Exceedingly rare collection using the aquatints and and text first issued in 1816 but with a new publishers binding. Gottfried Mind (1768 - 1814) was a talented Swiss artist and draftsman who specialized in children and animal motifs. Because of his successful cat drawings, he became known as Cat Raphael. Mind grew up in modest circumstances, was physically handicapped and mentally retarded. Even as a child, he attracted attention with his talent for drawing and carving. Around 1775-1780 he lived in Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's Neuhof educational and labour institution in Birr, where he showed talent in the field of fine arts, but was unable to learn to write or do arithmetic. After the Neuhof was closed in 1780, he was taken in by the family of the Bernese painter Sigmund Freudenberger...

Title: 1828 Aquatint Panorama of Greenwich with Iconic Windmill Description: This captivating antique print offers a stunning view of Greenwich, a historic district along the River ...

Title: 1855 Swiss Procession – Hans von Breitenlandenberg and the Zurich Banner Description: This impressive hand-colored lithograph, created by H. Jenny and lithographed by Kümm...

"London, E. Orme, (1813). Hand-Coloured Aquatint 'American Anecdote Wolves & Boy' by Dubourg, Merke & Howitt, from 'Foreign Field Sports'" Description: This detailed hand-coloured a...

1810 Hand-Coloured Engraving - Abyssinians Resting on a March, Ethiopia Description: This 1810 hand-coloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's "Bilderbuch für Kinder" ("Pict...