Rare Engraving of NY Celebrations by the Moors Muslims in Bengal, India, 1708

Antique print titled 'Diversche Feesten van de Moren - Als die van het Nieuwe Jaar'. Copper engraving of various (Moorish) celebrations in the Bengal Kingdom, present day India and B...

Antique print titled 'Rijke schenkagien worden de vorst door sijn heeren en Grooten op Nieuw-jaers-dag vereert.' View of the gifts presented to the King of Bengal, at Agra, the Capital of the Bengal Kingdom in January 1664. This very scarse attractive original old antique print / plate / etching / engraving originates from: 'Wouter Schoutens, Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien ...' (Wouter Schoutens travels into the East Indies), 2nd. edition, published by Andries van Damme, Amsterdam, 1708. Artists and Engravers: Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) joined the Dutch VOC...

Antique print titled 'Trouw-Houwelyks-Ceremonien by de Mooren gebruykelijk'. Copper engraving of a wedding ceremony in the Bengal Kingdom, present day India and Bangladesh. This prin...

Antique print titled 'Overblyfsels eener oude Sterkten - Overblyfsels van oude vremde Gebouwen - Overblyfsels van oude vremde Gebouwen'. View of various ruins in Jaron, India. This p...

Antique print titled 'Le Bairam ou la Paque des Mahometans'. Old print of the Bairam celebration, the Easter of the Muslims. Originates from 'Ceremonies et coutumes Religieuses.....

Antique print titled 'De Heer Nawasichan Gouverneur van Ragimahal'. Old print of the lord Nawasichan, governor of Rajmahal. Text on verso. This print originates from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn. Artists and Engravers: François Valentijn (1666-1727), a missionary, worked at Amboina from 1684 to 1694 and 1705 to 1713 and travelled extensively in the VOC's lands. Condition: Good, general age-related toning and some foxing. Please study image carefully. Date: 1726 Overall size: 21 x 33.5 cm. Image size: 17.5 x 14 cm. Antique prints have long been appreciated for both their aesthetic and investment value. They were the product of engraved, etched or lithographed plates. These plates were handmade out of wood or metal, which required an incredible level of skill, patience and craftsmanship. Whether you have a house with Victorian furniture or more contemporary decor an old engraving...

Engraving by Louis de Surgis de Surugue after a painting by Jacques Dumont dit Le Romain. It is part of a series of 16 engravings illustrating "Le Rom...

Super image of Lord Willingdon Originally a plate from Punch or The London Charivari Published 1934 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual image.

Antique engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe, by Saverio Manetti Circa 1776 A fine hand colored engraving of a Tuscan Magpie by the Italian artist Saverio Manetti. Manetti drew his work predominantly from real specimens. The work was one of the largest ornithology undertakings to that point in time. Dimensions: 25 inches high x 22 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches deep. (frame); (63.5cm high x 55.88cm). 18 x 14 in. (sheet) Reference: Wikipedia Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi. Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century. He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings. The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange...

Pair of 1819 engravings by Rossini of Roman Temple of Vesta.

These two works commemorate the great English pastime of gentlemen hunt parties and social gatherings surrounding the land and its produce to those who own it. This very nice pair of...

A fine 19th Century engraving print by Auguste Brouet housed in a period gilt wood frame. This fine print was issued by the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Measures: 1" Deep x 19" Wide x 19" High Auguste Brouet (1872–1941) was a French etcher and book illustrator. Auguste Brouet was born and raised in a poor family in the popular north-east quarters of Paris and in Les Lilas, in the near suburbs. While apprenticed to a lithographer, he struggled for artistic education through the evening drawing classes of Eugène Quignolot (1858-1918), also briefly attending Gustave Moreau's atelier. Starting from around 1895 he would make a living by working for fashionable artists and also crafting reproductive etchings in color, in the workshop of Eugène Delâtre...