"La Pleine Vendange", French Grape Harvest-Hand Watercolored

"O for Ostler" from "An Alphabet" by William Nicholson from the first edition published by William Heinemann, London, 1898. Original lithograph from the colored woodblock. "Ostler, o...

Vanity Fair “Spy Cricketeers-Men of the Day” # 543, Andrew Ernest Stoddart, “A Big Hitter”, chromolithograph by Jehu Junior, published July 09, 1892. ...

This hand-colored engraving is based on Raphael's "The Hours of the Day and the Night". Created in Paris, circa 1805 with a black background and red border. There are twelve in the o...

"Catton's English Peerage" a copper engraved, hand colored heraldic coat of arms drawn by Charles Catton and engraved by Francis Chesham. The mo...

Antique print of a woman harvesting grapes. Source unknown, to be determined.

This hand-colored woodcut engraving is from "La France Illustrée" by **V.-A. Malte-Brun, a well-known geographical and historical series that focused on various regions and colonies ...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Beautiful and meticulously detailed etching with sober wooden frame; the paper work, "La Gloire de la France", was made by the famous French engraver Simon Thomassin (Troyes 1665-Paris 1733) in 1724, he made the drawing inspired by an elaborate and particular sculpture, made for the gardens of Versailles, between 1681 and 1683 by Pierre Mazeline (1632-1708) important French neoclassical artist; In the inventory of the Garden in 1706-1708, the statuary group is described as follows: "A figure representing Glory seated on a cloud placed on a celestial globe, surrounded by trophies of arms, with the right arm half raised, holding a laurel wreath, and, with the left, a pyramid. The names of the two artists are imprinted on the print itself. Pierre Mazeline was a very prolific and refined sculptor of recognized talent, he is also the author of other statues in the gardens of Versailles as the "Apollo of Belvedere and "Europe"; he also executed the equestrian statue of Louis XIV...

This hand-colored woodcut engraving, titled "Rade de Taïti" (Tahiti Harbor), is from "La France Illustrée" by V.-A. Malte-Brun, similar to the previous print. It depicts a scene in t...