European Garden Spider Anatomy: Variations, Silk Spinnerets, and Mandibles, 1805

Title : "Web Designs of the European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)" Description : This fascinating hand-colored copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch’s *Bilder...

Title: "Detailed Study of the Housefly: Anatomy Under the Microscope, Bertuch, 1805" Description This fascinating hand-colored copperplate engraving presents an intricate, magnified view of the housefly (Musca domestica) as seen through a microscope. The engraving provides a meticulous exploration of its anatomy, including: - **Figure 1**: Actual size of the housefly, offering a point of comparison to the magnified details. - **Figure 2**: A detailed underside view of the head and body, showcasing the complex structure of the fly's thorax and appendages. - **Figure 3**: A close examination of the segmented abdomen, highlighting the unique pattern and intricate venation. - **Figure 4**: The leg of the housefly, emphasizing the fine bristles and jointed segments adapted for movement and sensory functions. - **Figure 5**: A striking visualization of the compound eye, illustrating the hexagonal structure of the ommatidia, responsible for the fly's wide field of vision. Published in 1805 as part of Friedrich Johann Bertuch’s "Bilderbuch für Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), this engraving bridges...

Handcolored 1805 Engraving of European Birds from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch für Kinder" This stunning handcolored copperplate engraving from 1805 features six European bird species in...

Antique print titled 'Migale de Quoy, Soytode thoracique'. Original old print of the Mygale quoyi (black tunnelweb spider) and Scytodes thoracica (spitting spider). This print origin...

Great image of bullfighting Copper-plate engraving Published 1805 Unframed.

John Pass (British, 1793-1832) A pair of hand-colored engravings after the paintings by Johann Lebrecht Reinhold, c. 1805 The Griffard Eagle, and the Boatman. The Noisy Eagle, and t...

Variation silkscreen by Kumi Sugaï 1978. Printed by Ryoichi Ishida printing company who also printed for Andy Warhol. Signed and numbered 237/250 in pencil by the artist. This print was sold by Satani Gallery in Tokyo in 1978 or 1979.  Colors may slightly vary due to photographic lighting sources or your monitor settings. The Art measures 18.0 x 18.0 cm. With frame 43 x 35.5 x 2.5 cm. Price includes frame. The Art will be shipped insured overseas in a custom made wooden case. Transport to the US, Euro 275, is case included. Kumi Sugaï, one of the most internationally acclaimed Japanese painters of the twentieth century. Colors may slightly vary due to photographic lighting sources or your monitor settings. KUMI SUGAÏ, JAPAN (1919 - 1996) Kumi Sugaï was a painter, sculptor and print maker born in 1919 in Kobe, Japan. Sugaï first experimented with oil painting at age nine and became a student at the Osaka School of Fine Arts in 1933 when he was fourteen. He met with the Gutai Art Association founder, Jiro Yoshihara which had a huge impact on his further artistic development and experimentalism. He was part of the first generation of 20th-century Japanese artists to become acquainted with Western painting techniques (under the instructions of Yoshihara), but he also explored both typography and Japanese calligraphy, important in his subsequent work. Sugaï left art school prematurely to work in commercial advertising for Hankyu electric rail company from 1937 to 1945. These formative years of practicing Western and traditional Japanese mediums gave a dual foundation to his future work. He dedicated himself to painting and moved to Paris in 1952, enrolling at the Académie de la grand chaumière, being one of the first generation of the post-war Japanese artists to join the international avant-garde art scene. Sugai was immediately noticed in Paris for his delicate touch and use of abstract gestures resembling primitive forms. He had his first solo show at Galerie Craven in 1954. In 1955 he made his first work in edition (Diable Rouge, a lithograph) and decided that from now on print work (lithographs, etchings and later silkscreens) was going to be an important part of his oeuvre. One of the reasons was to make his work more accessible. Between 1955 and 1996 Sugaï produced a little under 400 works in edition. Considered part of the École de Paris (School of Paris) and the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) movements, in 1962 he began to move from calligraphic, mainly monochromatic, organic motifs to more hard-edge geometric forms painted with clear colors. This aesthetic was more often than not influenced by speeding the curves of the freeways surrounding Paris in his beloved Porsche. He was possessed with speed and in a lot of his work we find abstracted roads (The S shape) details of roadsigns, parkings and in general an abstract visual language inspired by what he would see through his window moving at great speed. City and rural Landscapes transformed into simple colored compositions. Sugaï found great joy in the act of repetition and some iconic shapes have been appearing in his work throughout his whole career, first loosely and soft in his early etchings, paintings and lithographs, later hard edged and straight in his silkscreens. Sugai died in Kobe in 1996. His artworks were shown in numerous exhibitions around the world and most of his paintings are in the collections of well-known museums (Such as MOMA, the Guggenheim and Centre Pompidou) and important collectors. Vintage Objects...

Victorian "Bird" Spider print mounted on a lovely faux marble paper ground showing large spider attacking a trapped bird. Black painted wood frame. Some p...