1822 Rullmann del, Engelmann lith, Souvenir of Swiss Lithographers Artists Paris

Landmark stone lithograph. Measures: 41.5 cm. Extremely rare. 1816 antique hand colored stone lithograph by Carl Joseph Brodtmann from his extremely rare series: From the scarce large format issue of 1816: 42, 5 x 32, 5 cm. Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche  Lindau, Brodtmann [1816]. Here in hand colour. Measures: 37.5 x 47.5 cm. Superb plate from this famed ‘incunabula of lithography’.  Reference Winkler 105. Brodtmann is considered a pioneer in the art of lithography employing techniques for "texture" that are quite similar to that of an aquatint. He produced his lithographs in the post-Linnaean "'Age of Enlightenment" as books illustrations and sets of natural history prints, as Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche, with the more expensive sets being hand coloured. Natural history specimens...

Landmark stone lithograph on fine Ziegler watermarked paper. Extremely rare. Antique hand colored stone lithograph by Carl Joseph Brodtmann from his extremely rare series: Naturhi...

Fine folio including early and finely executed portraits of Renaissance artists by Joachim von Sandrart. Included are portraits of: Antonio da Correggio; Rosso Fiorentino; Gianfrancesco Penni; Polidoro da Caravaggio...

Fine folio including early and finely executed portraits of Renaissance artists by Joachim von Sandrart. Included are portraits of: Mino da Fiesole; Giuliano da Sangallo; Domenico Puligo; Andrea da Fiesole, and Properzia de' Rossi. The latter is of particular historical significance in that Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490 Bologna – 1530 Bologna) was a ground-breaking female Italian Renaissance sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists. According to Vasari, she taught herself to carve by working with peach-stones. At the end of her life, she was sought out by the Pope Clement VII, who unfortunately found her dead. Sometimes referred to as the “German Vasari,” Joachim von Sandrart, born in Frankfurt, trained first as a printmaker, notably in Nuremberg, and in Prague with Aegidius Sadeler. He then studied painting from 1625 on, originally in the studio of Gerrit van Honthorst...

Antique print titled 'Environs de Nice. Piémont'. Original antique print of the region of Nice, France. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Lithographed by En...

Published in Philadelphia for the “Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas” by Henry Carey and Issac Lea, the map depicts Mississippi as it existed in 1822...

1855 Hand-Colored Lithograph of the Solothurn Cavalry Procession – A Swiss Heritage Print This striking hand-colored lithograph, published in 1855, is part of the Fest Album comme...

Antique map titled 'South America'. Map of South America with attractive topography, surrounded on three sides by text on the history, geography, and economy of the continent. Sh...