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Prints For Sale
Style: Georgian
Style: Napoleon III
Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Coffee-House Quarrel, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, at Tulip Hall, 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Syntax & the Bees 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Counterpart, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Harvest Home, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Purchasing a Blind Horse, 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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George Edwards Set of Twelve Parrot Engravings with Chinoiserie Frames
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Edwards Set of Twelve Parrot Engravings with chinoiserie Frames,
Natural History of Birds,
Engraved by Georg Dionysius Ehret,
Mid-18th cent...
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Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Syntax Loses His Wig, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Card Party, 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print after Thomas Rowlandson, Star Gazing. 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, at Free Masons Hall, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820.
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Pat in the Pond, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Syntax and the Gypsies, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Noble Hunting Party, 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Superannuated Fox Hunter, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Skimmington Riders, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, in the Glass-House, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Garden Trio, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, the Bookseller, 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1813
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the “Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1813
Unframed.
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1810s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Syntax Setting off. 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, dated 1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, the Artist's Room, 1821
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax"
Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson.
Published by Ackermann, 1821
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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1816 Turtles, Brodtmann, Imp. Folio, Incunabula of Lithography
Located in Norwich, GB
Das Dreyzehige Faulthier. Bradypus tridactylus.
The pale-throated sloth, occasionally known as the ai, is a species of three-toed sloth that inhabits tropical rainforests in north...
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1810s Swiss Georgian Antique Prints
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1816 Sloth, Brodtmann, Imp. Folio, Incunabula of Lithography
Located in Norwich, GB
Das Dreyzehige Faulthier. Bradypus tridactylus.
The pale-throated sloth, occasionally known as the ai, is a species of three-toed sloth that inhabits tropical rainforests in northern South America. It is similar in appearance to, and often confused with, the brown-throated sloth, which has a much wider distribution.
Landmark stone lithograph on fine Ziegler watermarked paper.
Extremely rare
1816 antique hand colored stone lithograph by Carl Joseph Brodtmann from his extremely rare series:
Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche
Lindau, Brodtmann [1816].
Here in fine original hand colour.
Measures : 42.5 x 32.5 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...
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1810s Swiss Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print of Armour / Helmets, Circa 1820
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of helmets
Copper-plate engraving
Published C.1820
Unframed.
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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F. Zuccarelli, Italianate Pastoral Scene, Large Impressive Engraving
Located in Norwich, GB
An impressive large format engraving of an Italianate scene after Francesco Zuccarelli RA (1702-1788) engraved by François Vivares (1709-1780).
Very much of the late Baroque or Ro...
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1750s Italian George II Antique Prints
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Print, Hand-Colored, Copperplate, Engraved, Custom House, William Maitland
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
In original condition. Page 624, 'The History of London from its Foundation by the Romans to the Present Time', by William Maitland, published in 1739...
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1730s British George II Antique Prints
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Print, English George II, Hand-Colored, Copperplate, Engraved, Bow Church, 1739
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
In original condition. Page 452, 'The History of London from its Foundation by the Romans to the Present Time', by William Maitland, published in 1739...
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1730s British George II Antique Prints
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Print, Handcolored, Copperplate, Engraved, London Bridge, William Maitland, 1739
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
In original condition. Page 33, 'The History of London from its Foundation by the Romans to the Present Time', by William Maitland, published in 1739....
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18th Century British George II Antique Prints
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Regnier, Bettanier, Morlon, French Color Lithographs With Period Gold Leaf Frame
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Parti...
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Prints
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Wood, Paper
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds,
Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,...
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1780s French Georgian Antique Prints
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New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries, 1763
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 18th century map of the North American seaboard.
Entitled "A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries 1763".
By the Cartographer/Engraver - John Spil...
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Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
1780 Floral Spring Bouquet, Louis Tessier, Folio, Tulip, Poeny, Hand Coloured
Located in Norwich, GB
Floral Bouquet engraved after Louis Tessier for "Livre de Corbeilles et Vases de Fleurs"
Engraved by Jean-Jacques Avril
Spring Bouquet with Ranunculus and Tulip.
Measures: 36.4 x 27.7 cm
"Avril l'aine, Sculp", in text, lower right; "L. Tessier, del" lower right.
The six plates for "Livre de Corbeilles et Vases de Fleurs" (A Book of Baskets and Vases of Flowers) were engraved by J.J. Avril after paintings by Louis Tessier. The plates were hand colored and the coloring varies from impression to impression.
This impression is a beautiful example of Tessier's eye for design, with his elegant use of space and the vivid color combinations by Avril. Despite the formality of the still life, the fun, haphazard arrangement of these fantastic flowers makes for a charming yet highly stylized image.
Jean Jaacques Avril (the elder) was born in Paris in 1744 and studied architecture but became a student of engraver Jan Georges...
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Late 18th Century French Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Set of 4 Original Antique Prints of Monkeys, circa 1790
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great images of monkeys
Copper-plate engraving
Published C.1790
Unframed.
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1790s English Georgian Antique Prints
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1825 Hand-Colored Aquatint Engraving by T. Sutherland "South Sea Whale Fishery"
By William John Huggins
Located in Morristown, NJ
A hand-colored aquatint engraving dated January 1, 1825 and engraved by T. Sutherland, London. Titled "South Sea Whale Fishery", after a painting by Will...
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1820s English George IV Antique Prints
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Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paper
Antique Engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe by Saverio Manetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe,
by Saverio Manetti
Circa 1776
A fine hand colored engraving of a Tuscan Magpie by the Italian artist Saverio Manetti. Manetti drew his work predominantly from real specimens. The work was one of the largest ornithology undertakings to that point in time.
Dimensions: 25 inches high x 22 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches deep. (frame); (63.5cm high x 55.88cm). 18 x 14 in. (sheet)
Reference: Wikipedia
Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi.
Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century.
He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings.
The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange...
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1770s Italian Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Fr. Wheatley, Cries of London, Fruit Seller, Large Folio Stipple Engraving
By Francis Wheatley
Located in Norwich, GB
Antonie Cardon (Brussels 1772 – London 1813) after Francis Wheatley RA (1747 – 28 June 1801)
Cries of London: Round and Sound Five pence a Pound Duk...
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1790s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print of An Egret After William Daniell, Dated 1812
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of an egret
Drawn and engraved by William Daniell
Aquatint engraving on fine Japan paper
Published by Cadell & Davies 1812
Unfr...
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1810s English Georgian Antique Prints
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"The Death of General Wolfe", Etching after Benjamin West, laid on vellum
Located in Norwich, GB
Etching on laid paper laid down on vellum, around 1789.
Etching after Benjamin West's 1770 painting "The Death of General Wolfe" commemorating the Bat...
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1780s Canadian Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Set of 5 Original Antique Prints After William Hogarth, "Marriage A La Mode"
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful set of Hogarth prints
This is the " Marriage A La Mode " series typical of the satirical/political artwork of Hogarth
Copper-plate e...
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Mistaken Notion, Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson.
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour.
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Love And Wind. Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Bit of Blood, Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson.
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour.
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808.
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Sutherland, Capture of La Guerrière in 1809, maritime aquatint
By Sutherland
Located in Norwich, GB
Whitcombe, Thomas, artist; Sutherland, Thomas, engraver
Capture of La Furieuse, August 6th. 1809
Grey toned aquatint.
Engraved by T. Sutherland for The Naval Chronology of Great B...
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1810s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Make Least of Him, Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson.
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour.
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808.
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, The Tumbler. Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Daisy Cutter. Dated 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Set of 10 Original Antique Prints After Hogarth, Political, Satirical
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful set of Hogarth prints
Typical of the satirical/political almost surrealist artwork of Hogarth
Copper-plate engravings by Thomas Cook
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Pair of Original Antique Prints After William Hogarth, "Military Figures", 1807
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful Hogarth prints
Blackwell's Military Figures
Copper-plate engravings by Thomas Cook
Published by Longman, Hirst, Rees & Orme, 1807-1808
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Giovanni Battista Cavalieri 'D.1597', Rare Dance of Death, Ars Moriendi
Located in Norwich, GB
This extremely rare engraving was produced by Cavalieri as an extraneous allegorical unnumbered plate in the second edition of Cirgignani’s Ecclesiae militantis triumphi; sive, Deo a...
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16th Century Italian Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Tricks Upon Travellers, 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson.
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour.
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808.
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, Way to Stop Your Horse, 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson.
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour.
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Thomas Holloway, Unusual Folio Engraving of Young Children
Located in Norwich, GB
Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827
Holloway was apprenticed to a seal engraver named Stent at a young age. He went on to study engraving at the Royal Academy beginning in 1773. He became...
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1790s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print After Thomas Rowlandson, How To Lose Your Way. 1808
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image by Thomas Rowlandson
Copper-plate engraving with original hand colour
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1808
Unframed.
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Paper
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann Print of Roses with Decoupage Frame
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann print of roses with decoupage frame,
Engraved by Johann Jacob Haid,
From Phytanthoza Iconographia,
Circa 1737-1745
The ...
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Mid-18th Century German Georgian Antique Prints
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Original Antique Print of Papyrus Grass, Circa 1790
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of papyrus grass
Copper-plate engraving
Published C.1790
Unframed.
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1790s English Georgian Antique Prints
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William Miller, the Life Boat, Shipwreck, Folio Aquatint with Hand Colour
By William D. Miller
Located in Norwich, GB
Sea rescuers heading in a row boat to save sailors from ships in a storm.
Hand colored engraving on paper of sailors in a long boat rowing against h...
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Rowlandson, satire, ars moriendi, dance of death, aquatint, Bring out your Dead!
Located in Norwich, GB
On with your dead: & I’ll contrive to hurry this old Fool alive.
Original Aquatint & Etching plate with original hand colour.
Full margins and only very minor marginal wear.
Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1815.
Thomas Rowlandson: Along with Hogarth, Gillray and Cruikshank, Thomas Rowlandson is at the uppermost peak of English satirical art. Amongst these masters, however, Rowlandson was the most gifted artist and his compositions always seemed the closest to the truth for he often lived the dissipated style of life he so memorably satirized. Along with Hogarth, Gillray and Cruikshank, Thomas Rowlandson is at the uppermost peak of English satirical art. Amongst these masters, however, Rowlandson was the most gifted artist and his compositions always seemed the closest to the truth for he often lived the dissipated style of life he so memorably satirized. After studying in both Paris and London, Thomas Rowlandson began his career as a portrait painter. By 1782, however, he devoted himself almost exclusively to his first love; caricature and satirical art. After receiving a large inheritance, Thomas Rowlandson quickly gambled it away. After losing his fortune at a thirty-six hour card game he is known to have exclaimed, "I've played the fool, but (holding up his pencils) here is my resource."
Working with such British publishers as Flores and Thomas Tegg, Thomas Rowlandson designed many memorable satires. His greatest work, however, lay ahead in the early nineteenth century when he collaborated with the famous London publisher, Rudolph Ackermann, to produce some of the finest satirical series in the history of art. These included The Microcosm of London (1808), the Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812) and The English Dance of Death...
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1810s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Antique and Vintage Prints for Wall Decor
Prints are works of art produced in multiple editions. Though several copies of a specific artwork can exist, collectors consider antique and vintage prints originals when they have been manually created by the artist or are “impressions” that are part of the artist’s intent for the work.
Modern artists use a range of printmaking techniques to produce different types of prints such as relief, intaglio and planographic. Relief prints are created by cutting away a printing surface to leave only a design. Ink or paint is applied to the raised parts of the surface, and it is used to stamp or press the design onto paper or another surface. Relief prints include woodcuts, linocuts and engravings.
Intaglio prints are the opposite of relief prints in that they are incised into the printing surface. The artist cuts the design into a block, plate or other material and then coats it with ink before wiping off the surface and transferring the design to paper through tremendous pressure. Intaglio prints have plate marks showing the impression of the original block or plate as it was pressed onto the paper.
Artists create planographic prints by drawing a design on a stone or metal plate using a grease crayon. The plate is washed with water, then ink is spread over the plate and it adheres to the grease markings. The image is then stamped on paper to make prints.
All of these printmaking methods have an intricate process, although each can usually transfer only one color of ink. Artists use separate plates or blocks for multiple colors, and together these create one finished work of art.
Find prints ranging from the 18th- and 19th-century bird illustrations by J.C. Sepp to mid-century modern prints, as well as numerous other antique and vintage prints at 1stDibs. Browse the collection today and read about how to arrange wall art in your space.
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