18th Century Mezzotint Titled "B. Franklin of Philadelphia"

An evocative hand colored lithograph by N. Currier (American 1813-1888), after a painting by A.F.Tait, titled "Arguing the Point", depicting a group of rural men engaged in an appare...

A framed architectural engraving of a wall in Pompeii titled "In Casa Pseudourbana Di Pompei piano superiore Parete corta dell'antistuf...

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...

An mid-19th century colored wood engraving titled "View of the New Jersey College at Princeton New Jersey" depicting Nassau Hall in what is now Princeton University. This lovely hand colored rendition shows several walking women and a man aboard a horse, the background dominated by historic Nassau Hall, the largest academic building in the United States at the time, completed in 1756. It was here in 1783 that George Washington received formal thanks from the U.S. Congress for his efforts during the Revolutionary War...

A large folio hand colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) titled "Camping Out Some of the Right Sort" published by Currier and Ives, New York, 1856. A charming and evocative composition depicting a group of mid-19th century men...

A well-executed portrait etching of famous Polish-British author Joseph Conrad by Arthur William North ( English Late 19th century). The etching is pencil signed lower right "Arthur ...

18th century George III set of six mezzotints depicting Lucretia, circa 1780, ‘Domestic Happiness’, ‘The Elopement’, ‘The Virtuous Parent’, ‘Dressing for Masquerade’, ‘The Tavern Door’, ‘The Fair Penitent’. Engraved by John Raphael Smith, (1751 – 1812) and painted by George Morland, (1763 – 1804). Engraved by John Raphael Smith, (1751 – 1812) was a British painter and mezzotinter, son of Thomas Smith of Derby, the landscape painter, and father of John Rubens Smith, a painter who emigrated to the United States. Smith became a London publisher from 1781, including among his clients the radical writer and artist William Blake. A prolific mentor of apprentices, he shared plates with at least thirty other London printers. In this group was J. M. W. Turner, Charles H. Hodges, William Ward, Thomas Girtin...

A fine late18th century coloured copper mezzotint engraving printed on original handmade wove paper, after the original painting by George Morland. The bottom far left margin referen...

A fine late18th century coloured copper mezzotint engraving printed on original handmade wove paper, after the original painting by George Morland. The bottom left margin references ...

Mezzotint after the 1699 self-portrait with the portrait of his wife, Margaretha van Rees, and their daughter Mariaby Adriaen van der Werff, now at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Hollan...

Small woodcut on vellum by Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828) England. This early vignette-sized print which his last work titled Waiting for Death is based upon and designed as a plea aga...

Each print is mounted in a cherrywood parcel-gilt frame, with a glazed reverse depicting the corresponding text sheet. L'Andaloux, Le Cheval d'Espagne, Plate I; Le Barbe, Le Che...