Antique Copperplate Engraving of Ruins of the Temple of Hermopolis, 1820

Antique print titled 'Vue d'un Temple Chinois'. View of a Chinese temple. This is an optical print, also called 'vue optique' or 'vue d'optique', which were made to be viewed through a Zograscope, or other devices of convex lens...

"The Graceful Sentinel: The Crane" Description: This beautifully hand-colored copperplate engraving from the closing years of the 18th century is a part of the celebrated series by ...

Antique print titled 'Temple of Vesta'. Large aquatint of the Temple of Vesta. The Temple of Vesta is an ancient edifice in Rome, Italy, located in the...

Antique print titled 'Vue des Ruines du Temple de Jupiter Tonnant, a Rome'. Original antique optical print of the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans...

Antique print titled 'Temple of Jupiter Stator'. Large aquatint of the Temple of Jupiter Stator. The Temple of Jupiter Stator was a sanctuary on the slope of the Capitoline Hill. In ...

Antique print titled 'Plan des Environs et de l'Enceinte du Temple d'Ablaikit'. Copper engraving of the Temple of Ablaykit. Ablaykit (also Ablayket), more correctly Ablayin Qiyid (""...

Copperplate engraving of the nativity printed on hand laid paper. The piece has an incredible level of fine detail for the diminutive size of the work. ...

Antique hand colored riverscape / landscape copperplate engraving based on a painting by Jacob Maurer and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier - A View of Westminster Bridge from Lambeth, published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowe’s Survey of London. BIO: Paul Fourdrinier sometimes referred to as Peter or Pierre Fourdrinier, was an 18th Century engraver in England. Paul Fourdrinier, engraver and printseller, was born on 20 December 1698 in Groningen in the Netherlands, the son of Jacques Fourdrinier and his wife, Jeanne Theroude, Huguenot refugees from Dieppe, Normandy. He was a pupil of Bernard Picart at Amsterdam for six years, and came to England in 1720. He was employed in engraving portraits and book illustrations. He also engraved two works by Peter Monamy, marine paintings displayed in Vauxhall Gardens. The engravings were published in 1743, but may have been executed earlier. Starting in 1742 Fourdrinier produced a series of books consisting of numerous folding charts showing "The Succession of Colonels to all his Majesties Land Forces from their Rise to 1742", as well as many other details of British military and naval personnel. The 2004 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography makes it clear that in the 19th century edition of the Dictionary of National Biography this engraver's works and career were assigned to two individuals, Peter (or Pierre) and Paul Fourdrinier. Peter/Pierre is now seen to be a fictitious individual resulting from an accidental misnaming of Paul. Paul Fourdrinier is mentioned as the engraver of some of the works listed above, and he has been identified with the Paul Fourdrinier who was of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, married to Susanna Grolleau, and who died in January or February 1758. The couple had at least five children, including a son Henry Fourdrinier, whose daughter, or granddaughter, Jemima Fourdrinier was the mother of Cardinal John Henry Newman...

Hand-colored copperplate engraving depicting an interesting old view of Copenhagen seen from Frederiksberg Castle Gardens, approximate. 1790-1800. Framed in a mahogany frame from sam...

Part of the masterwork of Dutch theologian, explorer, and missionary Arnoldus Mantanus De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from 1671, this theatrical scene of the Port of Lima displays a bustling Harbour full of masted ships. One of the richest cities of the New World, Lima became the capital of the largest colonial viceroyalty of the Spanish crown...

Hand colored in delicate detail, framed and matted original late 18th century engravings, two with labels visible: “Phalarope de Siberie” and “Pie varié de la Caroline.” Martinet (17...

We present you a copperplate engraving depicting a galloping horse with a rider. This piece of art is signed by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), a German painter, graphic designer...