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Period: 18th Century
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French Neoclassical Design Engraving for Braziers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, 'Nouvelle Iconologie Historique' in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Thisbe and Pyramus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical Myth engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Nicolas de Launay after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Thisbe, finding the dead body of Pyramus, throws herself on a sword.
Fro...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, mezzotint portrait print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733) was a Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. His best known scientific works are his paleontological 'Lithographia Helvetica' (1726) and his 'Physica Sacra...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Esper Antique 18th century Butterfly engraving with original hand-colouring
By JC Bock
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of butterflies. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die Schmetterlinge in Abbild...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
William Chambers Georgian Architecture - Chimney Pieces
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Foudrinier (1698-1758) after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), 1794.
Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was a renown 18th century British architect. He traveled to China, France and Italy before establishing an architectural practice in London. He became Architect of the King's Works and worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, making fanciful garden buildings...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Esper Antique 18th century Moth engraving with original hand-colouring
By LG Klinger (engraver)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of a moth, caterpillars and chrysalis. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die S...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Queen Mary, Queen of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Marie'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Van der vaart.
Mary II (1662-1694) reigned as Queen of England, Scotland, a...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Jupiter sends Iris to Hector. 18th century Classical Greek myth engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
"The two Armies being engaged by break of day, Jupiter sends Iris to bid Hector retire from the Fight, and not return till Agamemnon's wounds had obliged him, to withdraw from the Fi...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Theseus and Achelous, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Massard after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Theseus returns from the Calydonian hunt and is met by the river god Achelous.
From...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Rococo design for a gate, German mid 18th century etching
By Joseph Baumann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750.
Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756).
Similar works ar...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching
1.ere Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1.ere Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard'
French copper-line engraving by Nee after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illustrated', ...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Durham. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Durham'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland', published by G...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
George II Sterling Silver Coffee Pot Likely by William Skeen
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A fine George II sterling silver coffee pot with a wooden handle, floral repousse details and a crest with rubbed maker's mark likely for William Skeen. The coffee pot is very much i...
Category
18th Century British George II Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Lesser White Throat, bird and nest engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with water...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Esper Antique 18th century Moth engraving with original hand-colouring
By LG Klinger (engraver)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of a moth, caterpillars and chrysalis. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die S...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Side Board, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Side Board'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These engravings are the only evidence of Hepplewhite's style ...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
View at Ifley, near Oxford, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'View at Ifley, near Oxford'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Grand Cricket Match at Lord's Ground, Marylebone, sport engraving, 1793
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Title : 'Grand Cricket Match, played in Lord's Ground Mary-le-bone, on June 20th and following day between the Earl's of Winchelsea and darnley for 1000 Guineas.'
Publication line ...
Category
1790s Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Le Compliment & Les Bouquets, pair French aquatints by Debucourt , 1787 and 1788
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Compliment ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille' (The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family) and it's pair 'Les Bouquets...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Australia
Materials
Aquatint
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Antirrhinum Orontium - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Antirrhinum Orontium'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The first botanical series to u...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Bolet Parasite' & 'Le Bolet Poivre'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Theophrastus, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
''Teofrasto' (Theophrastus)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomarede after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an Ancient Greek marble...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Duff House, Bamffshire, Scotland. Cordinier C18th landscape engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
‘Duff House, the Seat of the Earl of Fife, in Bamffshire’
Engraving by P Mazell After C Cordiner,
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sco...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Queen's Gate, at Caernarfon, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Queen's Gate, at Caernarvon'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) and William Angus after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
A Pair of Oil Paintings on Copper, Bolognese School, 18th Century
By Annibale Carracci
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Oil Paintings on Copper, Bolognese School, 18th Century
XVII century, in the style of Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), Circa 1660-1680's.
Provenance: Formerly with Cesare de...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Australia
Materials
Copper
Conway, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Conway'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland'...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Side Board, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Side Board'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These engravings are the only evidence of Hepplewhite's style ...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Ivy Bridge near Plymouth, Devon. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ivy Bridge near Plymouth'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Irelan...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
George II, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
By Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George II'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue de la Ville et du Lac de Geneve, Switzerland, copper-line engraving, c1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French copper-line engraving depicting the Town and Lake of Geneva, Switzerland.
Claude-Louis Chatelet was a distinguished French painter, draftsman an...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Peach varieties, fruit engraving with later hand-colouring, circa 1770
By HL Duhamel Du Monceau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Peaches, Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring, from Duhamel du Monceau’s 'Traité des Arbres Fruitiers', circa 1770.
Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was one of outstanding ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
German folk dancing, set of six engravings, circa 1720
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A series of six German engravings of couples dancing. Published by Josef Friderick Leopold in Bavaria.
260mm by 165mm (platemark)
Category
Early 18th Century Romantic Australia
Materials
Etching
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Piedfu'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
New Staines Bridge, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'New Staines Bridge'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aquat...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Chertsey Bridge, Surrey, Thames, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chertsey Bridge, Surrey'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Dressing Glasses, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Dressing Glasses'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These engravings are the o...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Glutineux'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Bolet Bisannuel' & 'Le Bolet Coriace'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue d'un pont sur le Tesin dans le Mont St Gothard, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue d'un pont sur le Tesin, dans le Mont St Gothard'
French copper-line engraving by Maillet after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland ...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine St...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newsted Priory, Nottinghamshire'
Engraving by W Walker And W Angus After Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sc...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
The New Bridge, On The River Dee, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The New Bridge, On The River Dee, Near Chirk Castle'
Engraving by Peter Mazell After Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Newstead in Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newstead in Nottinghamshire, the Seat of Lord Byron'
Engraving by Thomas Malton after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views i...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Tower at Luton, Bedfordshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Remains of the Tower at Luton, Bedfordshire'
Engraving by MA Rooker after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, S...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
French 18th century bucolic scene, soft ground etching, style of Boucher, c1770,
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fine soft ground etching printed in a orange / red ink on laid paper. A French etching in the manner of Boucher. A shepherd and shepherdess rest by water among sheep, goats a donkey ...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Australia
Materials
Etching
Rare Antique Statue of a Chinese Child Performing Tai Chi
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare Japanese antique statue of a Chinese child performing Tai chi capturing the pose in motion. Middle Edo period, circa 1750. Made from polychrome on carved ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Cypress
XVIIIc Antique Venetian Silver Candle Sticks c1770's, by Domenego Bertoli "D.B."
Located in MELBOURNE, AU
Finds such as these Venetian Silver Candlesticks are incredibly rare, that truly deserve a museum display.
It’s a fascinating piece of the XVIII century history,
originating f...
Category
1770s Italian Antique Australia
Materials
Silver
A Spanish Gilt and Polychrome Frame, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Spanish Gilt and Polychrome Frame, 18th Century
The finely carved green painted rectangular frame applied with gilt acanthus scroll moulding.
Home decor, Interior design and colle...
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Australia
Materials
Wood
Maniere de Coller Les Bois Droits, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Maniere de Coller Les Bois Droit et Les Paneaux Cintree en Plan'
French copper-line engraving by Michelinot after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Maniere de Determiner La Hauteur, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Maniere de Determiner La Hauteur Des Lambris Dappuis'
French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
From Roub...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Construction des Parclauses, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Construction des Parclauses et Le Profil des Museaux'
French copper-line engraving by Milsan after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
From Roubo's...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
