Antique Print of Men Working at a Diamond-Cutting Machine in London, '1750'

Antique print titled 'The Gold & Silver Refiners at Work'. View of a workshop with three men at work, the one to left pouring liquid into a mould, the one at centre hammering a metal tool, the one to right pouring a substance into pots. This print originates from 'The Universal Magazine' published by J...

Antique print titled 'The Hand mill of Cologn stone'. Print of an hand mill. This print originates from 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'. Artists and Engravers:...

Aquatint of a cutler at work making a knife in Sheffield, Yorkshire. This print originates from 'The Costume of Yorkshire in 1814. A Series of 40 Facsimiles of Original Drawings, with descriptions in English and French'. Artists and Engravers: Published by Richard Jackson...

Antique print titled 'Mr Lyon's Steel Mill'. Print of a steel mill. This print originates from 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'. Artists...

William Hogarth was an English painter and engraver, the outstanding British artist of his period. During his childhood, his father, a schoolteacher, was imprisoned for debt, and this early experience of the seamy side of life left a deep mark on Hogarth (much of his output is concerned with the contrast between success and failure, and he depicted prisons in several works). He trained as an engraver of silver plate and by 1720 had set up his own business in London, doing various kinds of commercial work. In his spare time he studied painting, first at the St Martin's Lane Academy and later under Sir James Thornhill, whose daughter he married in 1729. By the early 1730s he had achieved some success as a painter of conversation pieces and at about the same time he invented the idea of using a sequence of anecdotal pictures ‘similar to representations on the stage’ to point a moral and satirize social abuses. A set of 12 original engravings illustrating Industry and Idleness, after the drawings by William Hogarth, printed in 1833. The engravers are F Jordan, E Smith, C Armstrong, S Davenport, H Adlard, W H Worthington, H Fernell, A Duncan and F F Walker. The engravings, which are in excellent condition, would be mounted (matted) and ready to frame Edward Smith (fl. 1823-49) The landscape, figure, and portrait engraver Edward Smith may have been a native of Edinburgh but appears to have worked mostly in London. His earliest recorded plates...

Beautiful 18th century antique etching print with in walnut briar frame. Was etching by Alessandro Mochetti (1760 - 1812) was an Italian engrave...

Surgical Treatments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750. Etching on paper. The work bel...

A Harlot's Progress is an etching print realized after William Hogarth in 1732 Signature on the plate on the lower right. Good conditions, with some foxing. A Harlot's Progress" i...