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Humming Birds & Co. - Rare Book Illustrated by G. Cruikshank - 1835
By George Cruikshank
Located in Roma, IT
Humming Birds & Co. is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Cruikshank (London, 1792 - London, 1878) in 1835.
Published by Mc Lean, London.
Original First Edition.
Format: oblong 4°.
The book includes Eleven hand colored Etchings.
Mint conditions.
Humming birds & Co. is an original modern rare book engraved by George Cruikshank (London, 1792 - London, 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend di lui Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. For Charles Dickens, Cruikshank illustrated Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) and Oliver Twist...
Category
1830s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Matta.Entretiens... - Rare Book illustrated by Roberto Matta - 1987
By Roberto Matta
Located in Roma, IT
G. Ferrari, Matta. Entretiens Morphologiques. Notebook N°1, 1936-1944 , First Edition, Sistan, London 1987.
In this book, there is an original lithograph by Matta, hand-signed and n...
Category
1980s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Smoking - Collage by Sergio Barletta - 1975
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Smoking is an original Collage artwork. realized in 1975 by Italian Artist Sergio Barletta.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower center. Image Dimensions: 24.5 x 21 cm
In very goo...
Category
1970s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Dreaming - Original Collage by Sergio Barletta - 1975
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Dreaming is an original collage artwork applied on the cardboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1975. Hand-signed on the lower left and dated.
The state ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Sibilla - Original Rare book Illustrated by Giulio Aristide Sartorio - 1922
By Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Located in Roma, IT
Sibilla is an original couple of books engraved by Giulio Aristide Sartorio (Rome, 1860 - 1932) in 1922.
Original First Edition.
1333 numbered and signed copies.
Published by L'Eroica, Milan.
Format: in 4°. The dimensions of the book are indicative.
The book includes 230 pages with 219 etchings (70 of them are in full page).
Good conditions.
Giulio Aristide Sartorio (11 February 1860 – 3 October 1932) was an Italian painter and film director from Rome. Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He formed friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside. He won a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and met the Pre-Raphaelites in England in 1893. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in 1895 with the 1st International Exposition of Art of Venice, after which he taught at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1898. His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione...
Category
1920s Symbolist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Bordeaux - Original Etching on Paper by André Lothe - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bordeaux is an original etching on paper by Andre Lhote.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions except for worn margins.
The artwork represents the port of Bordeaux, the artwork is ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Aurelia - Rare Book Illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Aurelia is an original modern rare book written written by Gérard Labrunie (Paris, 1808 – Paris, 1855) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910.
Original First Edition.
Published by Georg Muller, München/Leipzig.
Format: Large 8°.
The book includes 146 pages with 57 drawings (several are full page drawings).
Binding by Paul Renner
Mint conditions.
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Category
1910s Symbolist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Fables - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated by William Blake - 1793
By William Blake
Located in Roma, IT
Fables is an original Modern Rare book engraved by Sir William Blake (London, 1757 - London, 1827) and written by John Gay (Barnstaple, 1685 – London, 1732) in 1793.
Full title: "Fa...
Category
1790s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Swallow Charlot - Rare Book by Roberto Crippa, Raffaele Carrieri - 1957
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 108 copies of which ten out of commerce. This copy includes 5 original lithographs by Roberto Crippa. This poem by Raffaele Carrieri, translated in English by Roberto Sane...
Category
1950s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Rare 19th Century Italian Micromosaic, the Capitoline Doves
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Beautiful 19th century Italian micromosaic. Also called minute mosaic or miniature mosaic or spun mosaic, it is a technique presented for the first time in Rome in 1775 in the worksh...
Category
1850s Italy - More Art
Materials
Mosaic
Letter by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Pecci Blunt - 1934
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Roma, IT
Thanksgiving letter from Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt.
Envelope included.
Category
1950s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Über alles die Liebe - Rare Book illustrated by George Grosz - 1930
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Über alles die Liebe is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin) in 1930.
Original First Edition.
Published by Bruno Cassirer, Berlin.
Format: in 4°.
The book includes 119 pages with Sixty full page reproductions of drawings.
Mint conditions.
George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin). By the war’s end in 1918, Grosz had developed an unmistakable graphic style that combined a highly expressive use of line with ferocious social caricature. Out of his wartime experiences and his observations of chaotic postwar Germany grew a series of drawings savagely attacking militarism, war profiteering, the gulf between rich and poor, social decadence, and Nazism. In drawing collections such as The Face of the Ruling Class (1921) and Ecce Homo (1922), Grosz depicts fat Junkers, greedy capitalists, smug bourgeoisie, drinkers, and lechers—as well as hollow-faced factory labourers, the poor, and the unemployed. At this time Grosz belonged to the Berlin Dada art movement, having befriended the German Dadaist brothers Wieland Herzfelde and John Heartfield...
Category
1930s Expressionist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Ade Witboi - Rare Book Illustrated by George Grosz - 1955
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Ade Witboi is an original modern rare book with illustrations by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin), published in 1955.
Original First Edition.
Published by Arani, Berlin Grunewald.
Format: in 4°.
The book includes XXII pages with 47 fullpage black and white drawings and 4 colored pages.
Mint conditions.
George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin). By the war’s end in 1918, Grosz had developed an unmistakable graphic style that combined a highly expressive use of line with ferocious social caricature. Out of his wartime experiences and his observations of chaotic postwar Germany grew a series of drawings savagely attacking militarism, war profiteering, the gulf between rich and poor, social decadence, and Nazism. In drawing collections such as The Face of the Ruling Class (1921) and Ecce Homo (1922), Grosz depicts fat Junkers, greedy capitalists, smug bourgeoisie, drinkers, and lechers—as well as hollow-faced factory labourers, the poor, and the unemployed. At this time Grosz belonged to the Berlin Dada art movement, having befriended the German Dadaist brothers Wieland Herzfelde and John Heartfield...
Category
1950s Expressionist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Offset
Alte Deutsche Schwanke - Rare Book Illustrated by Max Unold - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
Alte Deutsche Schwanke is an original modern rare book illustrated by Max Unold (Memmingen, 1885 - Munich, 1964) in 1914.
Original First Edition. Limited edition of 800 numbered cop...
Category
1910s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Untitled - Antonio Corpora - 1970s - Etching - Contemporary
By Antonio Corpora
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints. With an embossing stamp on the lower left margin. Excellent conditions.
Antonio Corpora (Tunis, 1909 - Rome, 2004) was an Italian art...
Category
1970s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Etching
Quiz. The Grand Master -Illustrated Book by Thomas Rowlandson - 1816
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
The English dance of death - The dance of life is an original pair of rare and fine books written by William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) and illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827) in 1816/1817.
Original First Edition.
Published by Ackermann, London.
Format: in 8°. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 3 volumes with 295 + 299 + 285 pages.
2 frontispieces and 96 handcolored etchings.
252 pages and 26 handcolored aquatints.
Good conditions.
Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827), he was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.
William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer. His early life was that of an adventurer, his later was passed chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax...
Category
1810s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Les Facheux - Rare Book - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Les Facheux is a ballet of Boris Kochno, inspired by Molière's comedy, with the choreography of Bronislava Nijinska, music by Georges Auric, costumes by Georges Braque.
First perfor...
Category
1920s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
War and Peace Movie - Manuscript by Gianna Manzini - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
War and Peace Movie - Manuscript is an Autograph Letter Signed by Gianna Manzini to Maria De Matteis.
Rome, June 2nd 1955. One page, double-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, except for minor aging signs.
The Italian writer and journalist, Gianna Manzini, writes this letter to the Italian talented costume designer, Maria De Matteis, to ask information about the promising "War and Peace" movie, that will be awarded by Oscar nominations for Best Director (King Vidor), Best Cinematography, Color (Jack Cardiff) and Best Costume Design, Color (Maria De Matteis). Gianna Manzini would write an article about one of the greatest film of all the times, that was about to be produced shortly!
Gianna Manzini (1896 – 1974)
The Italian writer, Gianna Manzini, is still today best-known for “Ritratto in piedi” that won the Campiello Prize in 1971. The 1940s and 1950s were a time of intense and personal literary activity and of investigation of international literature. Her works appeared in such periodicals as Campo di Marte, Letteratura, Oggi, La Fiera Letteraria, Milano-Sera, and Gazzetta del Popolo. Recognition for her writing grew with literary prizes awarded for Lettera all'editore (Premio Costume 1945), Valtzer del diavolo (Premio Soroptimist 1953), La Sparviera (Viareggio Prize 1956), Un'altra cosa (Premio Marzotto 1951), Allegro con disperazione (Premio Napoli 1968), and finally her last novel, Ritratto in piedi, was awarded the Premio Campiello in 1971.
War and Peace is a movie produced in 1956, based on the same-named epic historical drama by Toltsoy. Directed by King Vidor with a screenplay by Vidor, Bridget Boland, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Ivo Perilli, Mario Soldati, and Robert Westerby. The film, an Italian-American co-production released by Paramount Pictures, was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti...
Category
1950s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
$287 Sale Price
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Papiers II - Original Collage - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Papiers II is an original contemporary artwork realized in the XX Century.
Original collage on watermarked paper.
Excellent conditions.
Beautiful collage on paper depicting dif...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Laughter - Original Collage by Sergio Barletta - 1975
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Laughter is an original collage artwork applied on the cardboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1975. Hand-signed on the lower center and dated.
The state of preservation is very go...
Category
1970s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
De Humana Physiognomonia
Located in Roma, IT
De Humana Physiognomonia - Libri IIII
Original Title: Io: Bap-tistae Portae Neapolitani. De Hum. Physiognomonia. Libri IIII. Ad Aloysium Card. Estensem
Vici Aequensis, Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1586. Vol. In-4° / cm. 32x22
272 pp (typographic mystake for page 265 indicated as 272 an vice-versa)
Circulation: Rare First Edition
Format: In-4°
Pages: 272
Cover on ancient parchment, with title in ink (ancient calligraphy) on spine and “archivistic” decorations in leather and rope on same spine. Binding restored using original contemporary cover.
Frontispiece fully engraved with portrait of author within an imaginary composition; portrait of Cardinale d’Este, whom the work is dedicated to, follows with full page engraving.
Includes 85 engravings 4 of which full page, showing human physiognomies compared to animals’ in order to demonstrate the relationship between physical aspects and moral features.
Good and clean copy, in a nice state. Black stain on p. 97 and minor tear on p. 198. Some whitening on 3-4 pages which do no affect reading.
Rare first edition of a pillar of modern anthropology, and one of the most popular essays of Italian Renaissance, with important influence during the following 300 years.
First book to be printed in Vico Equense...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Autograph Letter by E. Prampolini - 1930s
By Enrico Prampolini
Located in Roma, IT
This is an Autograph Letter Signed by Enrico Prampolini to the Countess A.L. Pecci Blunt.
Paris, June 12th 1935. One page, double-sided. Excellent c...
Category
1930s Futurist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude - Original Collage by Sergio Barletta - 1975
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original collage artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1975.
Hand-signed on the lower center and dated. Image Dimensions: 21 x 7.5 cm
In very good conditions.
The art...
Category
1970s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Manifeste Technique de la Sculpture Futuriste - Original Manifesto - 1912
Located in Roma, IT
Manifeste technique de la sculpture futuriste. Edited in Milan, April 22, 1912, and printed in September of the same year. Written by Umberto Boccioni (Reggio Calabria, 1882– Chievo,...
Category
1910s Futurist Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
$402 Sale Price
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Modern Hiroshi Yasukawa Signed Abstract Painting
By Hiroshi Yasukawa
Located in Roma, IT
Important abstract painting by the great modern Japanese artist
Depicts in the purest abstract-minimalist style an irregular rectangular geometric shape.
The black and white chromati...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Italy - More Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,246 Sale Price
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"Signs of Memory" – Original Mixed Media on Canvas by Marilina Marchica 2019
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Signs of Memory" is a one-of-a-kind abstract artwork by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created in 2019. This mixed media painting on canvas (30 x 40 x 2 cm) explores the poetic re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Enamel
Letter from Bernard Fay to Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Original hand written letter from Bernard Fay to Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
Game Lover - Photo by Matteo Basilé - 2008
By Matteo Basilè
Located in Roma, IT
Game Lover is a contemporary artwork realized by Matteo Basilé in 2008
Mixed colored lithograph
Hand-signed on the lower right, Numbered on the lower left.
Edition of 221/260
Thi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
LARGE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MARBLE CAPITAL, 15th/16th Century
Located in Milan, IT
LARGE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MARBLE CAPITAL
Florence, 15th/16th Century
marble
38 x 47 x 47 cm
15 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
Category
16th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Marble
Ferdinand the Bull Production Cel and Courvoisier Background (Walt Disney, 1939)
Located in Roma, IT
Provenance: Walt Disney Productions
This is an original painting on celluloid, actually used in the Walt Disney Production of Ferdinand The Bull.
F...
Category
1930s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Oil
14th Century Italian Marble Mortar with Animals depicted on the sides
Located in Milan, IT
Unusual 14th Century Italian marble mortar with animals depicted on the sides
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italy - More Art
Materials
Marble
Salla Alla Muhammad An-Nabi - Arabic Calligraphy
Located in Roma, IT
Salla Alla Muhammad An-Nabi - Arabic Calligraphy is a beautiful and precious manuscript with Islamic Sacred Verses in an ancient calligraphy style.
One page, one-sided, in Arabic, ...
Category
18th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Ink
Sick of Sculpture - Autograph Letter by Arturo Martini - 1938
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi
Milan, January 25th 1938. One page, single-sided. on letterhead paper " Nuovo indirizzo -Via Jacopo della Quercia, 7,...
Category
1930s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer.
Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay.
Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150
Biography;
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Autograph Postcard Signed by Giuseppe Santomaso - 1955
By Giuseppe Santomaso
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Postcard Signed by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - 1990) to the Capogrossi family.
May, 11, 1955. Dated. In Italian
On the front, a colored reproduction of Capogrossi'...
Category
1950s Abstract Italy - More Art
Materials
Ink, Postcard
Autograph Letter by Arturo Martini - 1930s
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by Arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi
Milan, December 16th 1935 XII. One page, single-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, with minor aging signs.
This...
Category
1930s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Picasso Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Vintage Catalogue by P. Picasso - 1955
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Original Title: Picasso. Dessins en noir et en couleurs. 15 Décembre 1969-12 Janvier 1971.
Catalogue of Pablo Picasso's exhibition held at the Louise Leiris Gallery in Paris, from 1...
Category
1950s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
ABECEDA - Rare Book Illustrated by Karel Teige - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
ABECEDA is an original modern Rare Book written by Vítezslav Nezval (Prague, 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) and illustrated by Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) in 1926.
...
Category
1920s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper
"Lui ti vede" by Enzio Wenk, 2012 - Words on Black Canvas, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "He sees you".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Italy - More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hunter College's Benefit Evening - by Vittorio Ceroni Gonzaga - 1945
By Vittorio Ceroni Gonzaga
Located in Roma, IT
This lot, concerning the Hunter College's Benefit Evening, consists of three items written in Italian and English, in 1945, by Vittorio Ceroni Gonzaga,...
Category
1940s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Oriental Composition - Original Japanese Enamels Panel - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Floral Composition is an original artwork realized by Anonymous Japanese artist in the early 20th Century.
Colored enamels and painted gilded decorations.
Includes wooden ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Enamel
Merry Christmas Card by Nicolas Nabokov - 1954
By Nicolas Nabokov
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card Signed by Nicolas Nabokov to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt.
Paris, December 23rd 1954 . In 24°. In French. Excellent condition: As good as New.
A Mr. and Mrs. Nicols Nabokov Business card with autograph notes of thanks, attached ( on letterhead paper "American Academy in Rome". Original envelope included.
Collect or present this unique pieces of the Russian master.
Background:
During the Fifties, Nicolas Nabokov became General Secretaryof the newly formed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), backed by the CIA, and remained in the job for more than fifteen years, organizing music and cultural festivals, and was musical director of the American Academy in Rome (Villino Aurelia, Porta S. Pancrazio). Never forgot to write to the mentor and patron of art A.L. Pecci Blunt, with this touching postcard he reveals the "naissance du petit Alexandre".
Nicolas Nabokov (Russia 1903 –1978)
The Russian-born composer and cultural figure, was the first cousin of the talented writer of "Speaks Memory", Vladimir Nabokov...
Category
1950s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
$287 Sale Price
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Letters by Milena Barilli to the Countess Pecci Blunt - 1943/1937
Located in Roma, IT
Two letters from Milena Barilli to the Countess Pecci Blunt.
The first one is one piece, plus envelope included (dimensions 27 x 17 cm).
The other on...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Swiss French Imperial Neoclassic Mantel Clock 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Imperial Mantel Clock signed on the clock face “Renard suc(cursale) de Frissard, à Rouen”. It’s in gilded bronze and the mechanism is still worki...
Category
1820s Other Art Style Italy - More Art
Materials
Gold, Bronze
The English Dance of Death - The Dance of Life by Thomas Rowlandson - 1810s
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
The English dance of death - The dance of life is an original pair of rare and fine books written by William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) and illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827) in 1816/1817.
Original First Edition.
Published by Ackermann, London.
Format: in 8°. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 3 volumes with 295 + 299 + 285 pages.
2 frontispieces and 96 handcolored etchings.
252 pages and 26 handcolored aquatints.
Good conditions.
Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827), he was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.
William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer. His early life was that of an adventurer, his later was passed chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax...
Category
1810s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Roman master carver 17th century (II/II) Mirror Gold Italy Old master Wood Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pair of large oval-shaped baroque mirrors (II / II)
Roman master carver of the seventeenth century
Carved, lacquered and gilded wood
Antique mercury silvered glass mirror
92 x 76 cm.
(at the mirror 59 x 43 cm.)
We present this pair of prestigious oval-shaped mirrors (of which a second pair is also available, of excellent executive level, which interprets the period of the Italian Baroque in an exemplary way.
The works are in carved and gilded wood with a black lacquered background, richly decorated with a deep volute carving with particularly vigorous leaf motifs, coping and lateral ends embellished with cherub heads.
This type of boldly carved volute acanthus mirrors...
Category
17th Century Baroque Italy - More Art
Materials
Gold
Giovan Battista Piranesi in the Bicentenary of his Death - Offset Print - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in occasion of the exhibition of Piranesi's Etchings at Galleria Marino Rome.
The exhibition was held in occasion of Piranesi's bicentenary of the death (177...
Category
1970s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Offset
The Academy of Plato, tapestry
Located in Milan, IT
Small silk tapestry, with some applied inserts in painted canvas, corresponding to the faces and hands of the characters. The scene depicts Plato's Academy, with the philosopher sitt...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Italy - More Art
Materials
Tapestry
Vingt Jour chez Hitler - Correspondance by François Le Grix - 1921/1933
Located in Roma, IT
Vingt Jour chez Hitler is an interesting correspondance by François Le Grix, as director of La Revue Hebdomadaire, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt.
This lot is composed of...
Category
Early 20th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Letter by Silvano Bozzolini - 1958
By Silvano Bozzolini
Located in Roma, IT
In the letter the italian painter Silvano Bozzolini (1911-1998) writes about a project for an exhibition to his friend Nesto Jacometti.
Category
1950s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Antique Italian Terracotta Figure Of The Child Hercules, Rome, 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
After Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1585 - Roma,1654)
YOUNG HERCULES, Italy, 18th Century
terracotta
44 x 25 x 25 cm
17 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
This lovely sculpture represents the young Hercules, seated with his legs crossed, gently holding a bird with his right hand, raised in the air, while supporting his own weight with his left hand.
The artwork refers to the notorious Roman sculpture of the young Hercules killing the snakes sent by Hera, exhibited at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Academics have identified the young emperor Caracalla or, more recently, Annio Vero, son of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, in the portrait of the sculpture.
During the 16th Century there has been an increasing interest of patrons towards the theme of mythology and several acclaimed Italian sculptors worked on the creation of sculptures and depictions of Roman Gods.
Among them, the distinguished baroque artist Alessandro Algardi worked on the restoration of several ancient sculptures...
Category
18th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Terracotta
Royal Copenhagen Vase, 1909 – Politiken Danish Newspaper 25th Anniversary
Located in Firenze, IT
Royal Copenhagen Vase, 1909 – View of the Danish Newspaper Politiken Headquarters (1884–1909)
Rare hand-painted porcelain vase produced by Royal Copenhagen in 1909 to mark the 25th ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Italy - More Art
Materials
Porcelain
Baroque wax religious figurative bas-relief from the 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
Polychrome wax relief on chalkboard, 20 x 15 cm; with ebony and tortoiseshell frame, 28 x 23 cm
The scene depicts Mary Magdalene in the center, seated on a rock with a handkerchief i...
Category
Mid-18th Century Baroque Italy - More Art
Materials
Slate
ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE
Located in Milan, IT
ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE Italy, 19th Century
marble
22 x 29.5 cm
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in
Category
Early 19th Century Italy - More Art
Materials
Marble
Partitura di Joseph Beuys - 1971 - Joseph Beuys - Vintage Original Catalogue
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Roma, IT
Original Title: Partitura di Joseph Beuys: la rivoluzione siamo noi = A score by Joseph Beuys: we are the revolution.
Book-Interview by Achille Bonito Oliva.
In-4º, bilingual text ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Italy - More Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Limestone Relief With Saint Georges, France 15th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Relief with saint Georges
France, 15th Century
limestone 26 x 20 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in) without base
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italy - More Art
Materials
Limestone
Autographs by Enrico Paulucci - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
These are Two Autograph Letter Signed by Enrico Paulucci to Libero de Libero written in Italian, from 1937 to 1938, prefectly readable and in excellent conditions. Including original...
Category
1930s Modern Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
$460 Sale Price
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Le Dur Désir de Durer -Rare Book Illustrated by Marc Chagall - 1950
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Le Dur Désir de Durer is an original Modern Rare book and written by Paul Éluard (Saint-Denis, 1895 – Charenton-le-Pont, 1952) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Pa...
Category
1950s Italy - More Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"PaperLandscape" by Marilina Marchica – Original Collage on Papyrus and Antique
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
"PaperLandscape" by Marilina Marchica –
Original Collage on Papyrus and Antique Wallpaper,
One-of-a-Kind with Custom Handmade Frame
– 60x50 cm, 2025
Description:
PaperLandscape i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Italy - More Art
Materials
Handmade Paper
Guatemala. Maschera di Baila de la Conquista. Inizio XX secolo
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa maschera guatemalteca del inizio del XX secolo, scolpita in legno e utilizzata per la danza della Riconquista (Baila de la Conquista) , raffigura vividamente un uomo europeo, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Italy - More Art
Materials
Wood, Intaglio
$239 Sale Price
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