1816 Gottfried Mind, Juvenalia, Children at Play, 12 Aquatints Hand Colo

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...

Landmark stone lithograph of large size and issued in the ‘Incunabula’ period of stone lithography prior to 1820. Print on fine Ziegler paper. Extremely rare. Hand colored ston...

Landmark stone lithograph of large size and issued in the ‘Incunabula’ period of stone lithography prior to 1820. Print on fine Ziegler paper. Extremely rare. Hand colored stone li...

Thomas Williamson (1758-1817) and Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) Tiger Hunt From: Oriental Field Sports being a complete, detailed, and accurate descriptio...

Designed and engraved by William Daniell for his work “Interesting Selections from Animated Nature.” Published by Cadell & Davies, London. Aquatint...

Designed and engraved by William Daniell for his work “Interesting Selections from Animated Nature.” Published by Cadell & Davies, London. Aquatint...

Framed late 19th century hand colored engraving depicting "The Children's Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre" by Francis Wilfred Lawson, extracted from The Graphic, 1871. A bea...

Antique print titled 'Blindekuh'. Old lithograph of a group of children playing a blindfold game. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1860.

A vintage Norman Rockwell framed print of children playing marbles. Recently procured from Frank Lloyd Wright's DeRhodes House. Measures: 11.5"W ...

Presenting a lovely 19C Aquatint Engraving of the Quay at Waterford in Waterford city in Ireland. This engraving has been hand embellished with aquatint color(s) and is from Ireland circa 1820-40. It features a scene of the Quay or Port of Waterford from circa 1820. We are basing this upon the attire of the figures in the engraving and the tall ships. It features Reginald’s Tower (still located at the Waterford Quay to this day). Georgian Quay buildings, a number of moored tall ships and row boats, barrels, horses and carts, women and British soldiers. The engraving was professionally reframed and matted in Dallas in the 1980’s and the rear of the frame says that it was “Museum Mounted and Matted”. The frame has a lovely Grecian pattern around the front. If you are Irish...

Retro 'Pool Tables' wooden sign, handpainted with yellow bubble lettering.

Original Japanese woodblock print by Katsukawa Shunsen (Shunko II) (1762- circa 1830): five karako (Chinese boys) in traditional garments at play in a snow covered garden, making an ...