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Prints For Sale
Style: Neoclassical
Style: Late Victorian
Architectural Etching, La Sculpture & La Peinture
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Architectural print Total of 6 available 2 horizontal & 4 vertical prints Dimensions: Frame: 16” W x 20.25” H x 1” D Etching: 9.5” W x 13.75” H.
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Wood, Paper

Italian 19th Century Big Size Florence Architectural Hand-Coloured Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
A rare extra-large print, printed on engraving paper with an antique star press and watercoloured by hand representing an antique capital. The capital'...
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1840s Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

17th Century Pen and Ink Architectural Drawing Signed Bartolomeo Pedrelli
Located in New York, NY
17th Century Italian Architectural Drawing of a Palazzo which has been done with pen and ink with a grey wash. Signed on reverse by Bart...
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17th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

19th C., Vanity Fair Framed Chromolithographs of Gentlemen Ex. Christie's, 12
Located in Morristown, NJ
[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair twelve chromolithographs, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Eight are by Spy, two are by Ape, one by "T" and one by Lib. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Titles comprise: "Accrington", June 11, 1892, "Newcastle Upon Tyne" July 18, 1893, "A New Peer", October 5, 1878, "South Bucks", June 4, 1896, "South Kensington", September 2, 1897, "Lord Salisbury's Manners", July 13, 1893, "The Blister", August 4, 1888, "A Postmaster General", April 30, 1892, "Sir James Miller", September 6, 1890, "Sol", October 28, 1897, "A Young Man" September 11, 1875, and "A Naturalist", September 9, 1882. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

3 Antique Neoclassical Renaissance H Hal Kramer Chicago Campiglia Engravings 6"
By Giovanni Domenico Campiglia
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of 3 late 19th-early 20th century neoclassical engravings after the work of Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Prints feature women / children / puttis / cherub figures in classical Ro...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Al Kaufman Framed Original Signed & Numbered Etching with COA 75/300
Located in San Diego, CA
Original 1970's etching by Listed artist Al Kaufman , framed in glass and oak with COA signed an numbered Sandalwood title.
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20th Century American American Classical Prints

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Glass, Oak, Paper

John Stobart (English, B. 1929) Portsmouth Merchants Row NH Signed Print
Located in Bridgeport, CT
"John Stobart (British b. 1929) paintings and limited edition prints are collected around the world and seen by visitors of the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts and the Portland Museu...
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20th Century American Classical Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

John Stobart (English, B. 1929), Independence, Ltd. Ed. Signed
Located in Bridgeport, CT
"John Stobart (British b. 1929) paintings and limited edition prints are collected around the world and seen by visitors of the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts and the Portland Museum in Maine. He is well known maritime artist known for images of ports and vessels as they were in the great era of sail and stream". INDEPENDENCE, Wayne City Landing, Start of the Santa Fe Trail...
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20th Century American Classical Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Set of 3 Framed Apple Study Lithographs, early 20th Century
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Set of 3 Apple Study Lithographs, early 20th Century. Hand-colored studies of apple varieties. Professionally framed and matted.
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Puerto Rico 1910 Original Antique Map Of The Island In A Period Wood Frame
Located in Miami, FL
An antique framed map of Puerto Rico. Very nice antique map of Puerto Rico printed in a folio of two pages. This map was printed in thin pa...
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Early 1900s Puerto Rican American Classical Antique Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Mid-late 19th Century Hand-Colored Lithograph of the "Magpie"
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-late 19th century hand-colored lithograph of the "Magpie". It is from the Rev. F.O. Morris' "History of British Birds" published by Groombridge and Sons in London Sight: 7" x 4.3...
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Mid-19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

"Hoylake - Punch Bowl Hole" by James Michael Brown, Antique Golf Print, 1911
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a photogravure by James Michael Brown entitled "Hoylake-Punch Bowl Hole." The print depicts a 1910 foursomes match on the course, annotated in the bottom border "Mr. John Graham, Jnr., Mr. C.E. Dick, Mr. John Ball Amateur Champion, 1910, Mr. H.H. Hilton." The photogravure was published in the Life Association of Scotland calendar for that year. James Michael Brown (1853-1947) was an accomplished Scottish water-colorist, famous for his golfing scenes of British and Scottish courses, competitions, and players. Brown often had famous golfers of the time sit for him during competitions and he used these studies to help him later reproduce accurate likenesses of the players in his paintings. A keen golfer himself, Brown was a founder member of Mortonhall Golf Club in Edinburgh, where he was introduced to fellow member Dr. J. Turnbull Smith, the manager of the Life Association of Scotland. The Life Association of Scotland was established in Edinburgh, in 1838. It later formed the Insurance and Banking Golf Club, which then became the Duddingston Golf Club. In 1898, to mark the opening of the extended Club House, Smith commissioned Brown to paint a scene from an exhibition golf match at the Club. Brown's painting was then printed as the centerpiece of the 1899 Life Association of Scotland calendar. Although expensive to commission and publish, The Life Association of Scotland board justified the expense of the calendar by stating, “it must surely be the aim and desire of a Life Assurance Association to prolong the lives of those who take out policies with them and what sport is there that can compare with golf as a cure for all the ills that flesh is heir to…” The calendar was a great marketing and advertising success. As a result, Brown was then commissioned to paint an annual golfing picture for the club. Prints were made of the originals and issued in the calendar for each year. Brown painted 26 paintings for the Life Association and these all adorned the walls of the Edinburgh head office for many years. The paintings portray not only Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister at Walton Heath, but also a host of famous golfing personalities like Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, James Braid...
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1910s Scottish Late Victorian Vintage Prints

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Paper

18th C. Italian Architectural Engravings of Rosettes by CarloAntonini Set of 4
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of 4 18th-C. Italian Architectural Engravings of Rosettes by Carlo Antonioni  Carlo Antonini (Italian, 1740–1821) Four antique hand-colored engravings of architectural rosettes ...
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18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Portrait of Queen Victoria, Framed Lithograph
Located in Savannah, GA
A rare lithograph of a portrait of Queen Victoria in her later years, entitled “Her Majesty the Queen" in nice lemon gold period frame. Sight: 17 ½ by 21 ½ Frame: 23 ½ by 27 ¾
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Giltwood, Paper

French Neoclassic Engraving, Vue de La Caverne du Dragon, early 19th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
The hand colored engraving by Descourtis depicting a true cave in the Orange region of France with curious admirers with a dog and a soldier, in a period walnut and ebonized frame
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Early 1800s French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Walnut

Late 19th century "Bluebellied Roller" Chromolithograph by John Gerrard Keuleman
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century "Bluebellied Roller" chromolithograph by John Gerrard Keulemans, published London. Coracias cynogaster. Keulemans, Dutch, 1842-1912. Published by M&N Hanhart, Londo...
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

"New York at Night" print signed D. Braun, circa 1979
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"New York at Night" print pencil signed D. Braun, 15 of 100 circa 1979 overall size 21"x17" image size 18" x 13.5" unframed - one small rip along edge Great image of New York City...
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1970s American American Classical Vintage Prints

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Paper

Set of TWO Framed Prints of Citrus Fruit Study from originals of 1886, New
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
These are a set of TWO digitally remastered prints of Citrus Fruit studies, hand coloured and framed, originally from American water colours from Circa 18...
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2010s British American Classical Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Italian Contemporary Print of Ancient Profile with Mirror and Gold Wood Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
One of two etching printed ancient profile print with gold leaf background hand-gilded and enhanced with a square frame made of mirrors and gilded with gouache and burnished with a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Gold Leaf

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Vase Print in Villa Lante G.B Piranesi 1 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Extra large Roman marble vase on a porphyry pedestal printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umber highlights, and matte bla...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

French Engraving of an Eagle from the Description de l'Egypte, J. Ces. Savigny
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Engraving of the Eastern Imperial Eagle from the Description de l'Egypte. J. Ces. Savigny, 1809-1813. The large stipple engraving depic...
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Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Printed Antique Roman Emperor Bust " Settimio Severo"
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Beautiful reproduction of the most famous illustration made by Giovanni Battista Leonetti ("Giov Batta Leonetti incise Roma") depicting the bust of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus. This extra large print...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Printed Antique Roman Emperor Bust "Nerone"
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Beautiful reproduction of the most famous illustration made by Pietro Fontana ("Pietro Fontana incise Roma") depicting the bust of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus. This extra la...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Paper

Italian Contemporary Print of Ancient Profile with Mirror and Gold Wood Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
One of two etching printed ancient profile print with gold leaf background hand-gilded and enhanced with a square frame made of mirrors and gilded with gouache and burnished with a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Gold Leaf

"A Difficult Bunker" by Douglas Adams, Photogravure, Circa 1894
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a handsome photogravure of "A Difficult Bunker" by sporting artist Douglas Adams. "A Difficult Bunker" is one in a famous trio of three paintings depicting the links at ...
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1890s English Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Paper

Arthur Coppedge African American Offset Print
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Wonderful offset print of an African American woman. 1970's style. Dedicated and Autographed by the artist Arthur Coppedge. Curbside to NYC/Philly $400
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Mid-20th Century American American Classical Prints

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Paper

Italian Contemporary Print of Neoclassical Profile with Round Black Wooden Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
One of two beautiful rinascimental woman profile print with black background, framed by a delicate taupe passpartout and a round black frame. Each print is entirely printed in Ital...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Italian Contemporary Print of Neoclassical Profile with Round Black Wooden Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
One of two beautiful neoclasssical woman profile print with black background, framed by a delicate taupe passpartout and a round black frame. Each print is entirely printed in Ital...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Early Nineteenth Century Colored Etching of a Wall in Pompeii
Located in San Francisco, CA
A framed architectural engraving of a wall in Pompeii titled "In Casa Pseudourbana Di Pompei piano superiore Parete corta dell'antistuf...
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Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

WINSLOW HOMER American Art Lithograph Print, Flower Garden and Bungalow Bermuda
By Winslow Homer
Located in Chicago, IL
Striking original color lithograph print on paper of Winslow Homer's (1836 - 1910) original watercolor painting titled "Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda" in clear bold primary col...
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1940s American American Classical Vintage Prints

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Paper

Collection of Four Hand-Colored Bird Engravings by François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Houston, TX
Collection of four hand-colored bird engravings by François Nicolas Martinet (1725-1804), taken from the ten volume ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux,’ by Georges-Louis Leclerc, compte...
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Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paint, Paper

Original Antique Print of The Greek Goddess, Hebe. Dated 1833
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful image of Hebe Fine steel engraving. Published by Fisher. Dated 1833 Unframed.
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1830s English Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Engraving by Jackson Beardy signed Canada 20th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Engraving byJackson Beardywtih it's in Gilt wood. Blue, Black and orange Color. Name Communication, Dated 1975.
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20th Century Italian American Classical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Mirror Frame With English Chromolithographic Prints With Flowers
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. The ...
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Early 20th Century British Late Victorian Prints

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Mirror, Wood, Paper

1802 Edward Donovan Print from "Lepidoptera: Papilio Marula, Judith Libythea, Eu
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1802 Edward Donovan print from "Lepidoptera: Papilio Marula, Judith Libythea, Eucharis Genutia", printed in London. Hand colored. Neoclassical gilt style frame, scuffed but charming....
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Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Print of Nantucket Daydreams, by Henry S. Wyer, Nantucket, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Print of Nantucket Daydreams, by Henry S. Wyer, Nantucket, circa 1900, a period print depicting a gentleman in overstuffed wing chair by the hearth, a copy of Nantucket's "Inquirer and Mirror" open on lap, smoking a cigar and leaning back lost in thought: in the curls of smoke are simple sketches of many iconic Nantucket landmarks and views. Flanking the fireplace in place of tiles are a series of miniature copies of eight of H.S. Wyer's photographs. This is one of the rarest of antique Nantucket prints...
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Early 1900s American Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Paper

1803 Edward Donovan Print from "Lepidoptera: Papilio Nero, Gnida & Hiarba"
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1803 Edward Donovan print from "Lepidoptera: Papilio Nero, Gnida & Hiarba", printed in London. Hand colored. Neoclassical gilt style frame, scuffed but ...
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Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Antique English Mansions Vase Print 5 of 5
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Very original reproductions of decorative vases from important English mansions, printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Antique English Mansions Vase Print 2 of 5
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Very original reproductions of decorative vases from important English mansions, printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Antique English Mansions Vase Print 4 of 5
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Very original reproductions of decorative vases from important English mansions, printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Antique English Mansions Vase Print 1 of 5
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Very original reproductions of decorative vases from important English mansions, printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Antique English Mansions Vase Print 3 of 5
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Very original reproductions of decorative vases from important English mansions, printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Engraving in Color Hunting Scenes with Animals signed Boris Riabouchine 20th
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is an engraving, in colors. With a Beautiful frame in wood. Representing an Scene of Hunting with Animals.
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20th Century French American Classical Prints

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Wood, Paper

1760's French Engraving Interior of Cathedral De Dorth
Located in Seguin, TX
"Vue Interieure de la Cathedrale de Dorth," a hand-colored engraving of the interior of the cathedral in Dorth, near Wiesbaden. Published by Daumont, Paris, 1760. Image, 15.5"L x 11"...
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1760s French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Original Piranesi Framed Engraving of a Monument in the Form of a Cornucopia
Located in San Francisco, CA
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778) Engraving on wove paper depicting an ancient Roman funeral monument in the form of a cornucopia from the Via...
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Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Framed 18th Century Neoclassical Style Portrait Engravings, Set of 4
Located in Elkhart, IN
A lovely set of four 18th century style portrait engravings with allegorical scenes presented in giltwood frames under glass with very fine hand-colored matting. The engravings were ...
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Late 20th Century American Neoclassical Prints

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Pair of Framed Neoclassical Engravings, Late 18th Early 19th century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Pair of framed neoclassical engravings, after works painted by Jean Jacques François Le Barbier (1738 - 1826) and engraved by Jean-Jacques Avril (1744-1831), dated 1789 for the paint...
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Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Wood, Paper

Rothermel “The United States Senate, A.D. 1850” Henry Clay Compromise Engraving
Located in Savannah, GA
Peter F. Rothermel (American, 1817-1895) A steel engraving depicting the United States Senate and Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850. Published in Philadelphia in 1855 by John M. Butl...
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Mid-19th Century American American Classical Antique Prints

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Paper

Contemporary Italian Hand Coloured Vase Print in Villa Lante G.B Piranesi 2 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Extra large Roman marble vase on a porphyry pedestal printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umber highlights, and matte bla...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Wood, Paper

Engraving by Herbert Lespinasse signed USA 20th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Engraving by Herbert Lespinasse, wtih it's in Gilt wood. Herbert Lespinasse was the only American deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp dur...
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20th Century Italian American Classical Prints

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Paper, Wood

Giovanni Battista piranesi large copper plate etching.
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a Giovanni Battista Piranesi copper Etching. Giovanni made these copper plates in the 1770s and these etchings are a restrike from Rome using those copper plates. This etchin...
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1990s Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Paper

Giovanni battista piranesi large copper plate etching
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a Giovanni Battista piranesi copper etching. Giovanni did these copper plates in the 1770s and these prints are a restrike from Rome using those copper plates. This etching o...
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1990s Italian Neoclassical Prints

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Paper

Grand Tour Engravings of Germanicus and Sextus-Pompeius by Pierre Bouillon
Located in London, GB
A pair of exquisite and rare etchings of ancient sculptures by Pierre Bouillon (1776-1831), from his book Musée des antiques, published in Paris between 1811-1827. The two plates, ti...
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Early 19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

1810c Medicine, Surgeon, N. Strixner after A. Brouwer, incunabula of lithography
Located in Norwich, GB
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...
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1810s German Neoclassical Antique Prints

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Paper

Frank Lemon, Signed WWII Offset Lithograph - Dauntless Aircraft Flying to Midway
By Frank Lemon
Located in Morristown, NJ
American 1945, a striking offset lithograph of "Dauntlesses" flying on their way to the Battle of Midway during the second World War." Below the illustration is an inscription reading "A few against many, Dauntlesses from far-off carriers race to the Battle of Midway, June 1942", signed in ink "Frank Lemon...
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1940s North American American Classical Vintage Prints

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Glass, Paper

Milton Avery "Sleeping Baby" Drypoint Etching 1933
Located in New York, NY
Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965) "Sleeping Baby (Study of March Avery)", 1933, drypoint etching on paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, numbe...
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Early 20th Century American Classical Prints

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Set of 6 Antique Botanical Fruit Lithographs by Walter Müller
By Birnen Walter Muller
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A set of 6 antique botanical fruit lithographs by Walter Muller. "Lith Ansi v Walter Muller Gera" lower right. "Nach der Natur van Muller Gera lowe...
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Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

S. A. Kilbourne "Game Fishes of the United States" 6 Framed Chromolithographs
Located in Morristown, NJ
After Samuel A. Kilbourne (American, 1836-1881), "Game Fishes of the United States", uniformly matted and framed under glass. Clockwise from upper left, The Mackerel, The Spanish M...
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1970s American American Classical Vintage Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paper

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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