19th Century Figurative Prints

Beautiful Artist’s Proof, representing the myth of Narcissius and the nymph Eco, draw by "the Metamorphosis" by Publio Ovidio Nasone. This aquatint, by Ludovico Caracciolo (engraver...

Old Samurai is a Woodcut print realized in late 19 century after Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout (46x32 cm...

Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...

Quema La Casa is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.  ...

Here comes the bogey-man is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th ...

Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1840s Woodcut print Chuban format. From the series "Mitate Yakusha gojusan tsui no uchi" (Actors in front of ...

Uses and Customs - Ruins of the Temple of Cybele in Sardis is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the uni...

This magnificent woodcut print signed Toyokuni III represents a Ronin in the night, armed with a club, and was realized by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) in the mid 19th Century. The ...

Le Grand-turc is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866) in the mid-19th Century. F...

Kumasaka Chōhan to Ushiwakamaru is a Japanese Ukiyo-e print created between 1848 and 1854 by artist Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1864). The print is a Diptych, and is part of the...

Parisian is aLithograph realized by Gustave Dore in 1854. Good conditions except for some foxings. Hand-singed. The artwork is depicted in a well-balan...

Por Que Fue Sensible is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edit...

Self- Portrait is an etching on creamy-colored paper realized by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine artist in the Early 19th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted thr...

Ancient View of Brescia is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the half of the 19th Century. Original lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin. Pass...

Dédié a Madame Vve. Charlet is an original artwork realized by Hippolyte Bellangé in 1846. Original lithograph on paper. The title appear on the lo...

Circassian is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Hand colored. Good condition. At the center of the artwork is the original title "Circassien". The work is part of Suit...

Ancient View of Piraeus is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters:...

Kabuki Actor with Pine-Patterned Robe - Japanese Woodblock Print Finely detailed woodblock by Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825). A kabuki actor is standing on a wooden deck, wearing a robe with a pine-needle pattern. He is holding a sword and a staff. In the background, tree branches hang down from out of frame. Presented in a gold colored frame with a silk mat. Frame size: 20"H x 14.25"W Image size: 14"H x 8.5"W Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825) was born in Edo, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets...

Ancient View of Lago Maggiore is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper...

Herault de Timor is a hand colored lithograph realized by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Good condition. The artwork belongs to the Suite Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du...

Mont Blanc is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters: Mont Blanc, ...

Danseuse Javanaise is a hand colored lithographs realized by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Good condition. The artwork belongs to the Suite Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples...

Kabuki Scene is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork repr...

Veduta della Gran Caduta dell'Aniene in Tivoli Image dimensions: 63x46 cm. From the series “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an artist's proof of technical virtuosity with sh...

Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 176 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...

Pariesienne is an original artwork realized by Fernand Desmoulin in 1886. Etching on paper. Titled on the lower central margin; "Supplement de Paris-Noel" at the bottom; "L. Eudes ...

That certainly is being able to read (Esto si que es leer) is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after ...

Costumes of the 17th century is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the govern...

Bien Triada Esta is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition....

Pobrecitas is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.  Tit...

Uses and Customs - Consular Street in the Entrance of the City of Pompei is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peop...

Pozzolo Battle is a lithograph print on paper realized After Louis Martinet in the 1850s. Titled, signed on the plate. The artwork is in good conditions with aged margins and diffu...

Torquato Tasso's House is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century. The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes. Very good condition.

“Testa quasi colossale di Lucio Vero” (Almost colossal head of Lucio Vero) is a wonderful black and white etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837), after Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1754 - Venice, 1831), as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Teodoro Matteini del./ Pietro Fontana inc. Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXVI" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints representing a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman Empero Lucio Vero, is in excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper at the edges, some light signs of the time( some light thinning of paper along the margin do not affect the image) but with fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837) The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen...

This charming print depicts a Victorian family at prayer in a drawing room. The head of the household reads from the bible as the family pay close attention. Engraver and original ar...

Church of the Sorbonne in Paris is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Good condition. Drawing in black and white. At the center of the artwork is the original title "Chi...

The Actor Nakamura Shikan II is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1850. Original woodcut print chuban format, 1850. Signed Hirosada. Publisher: Kagawa. From the series "Kokon yujin ki" (Transcription on past and present heroes). The actor Nakamura Shikan II as Danshichi Kurobei in the play Natsumatsuri Naniwa kagami. Excellent impression, fresh in colour, with blindstamping (floral design), visible wood grain (grey kimono...

Vue de Mantes is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Pinet after a painting by Camille Corot in the middle of XIX century. This etching represents a natural landscape with some...

Artist: Migita Toshihide, Japanese (1862 - 1925) Title: Chinese Generals in Pyongyang Surrender to Japanese Year: 1892 Medium: Woodblock Triptych S...

A rural Genji is an original artwork realized in 1829-1842 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Illustrated book in two volumes. Book title "Nise Murasaki Inaka Jenji", 9th instalment....

Las Chinchillas is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition.V...

Map of Ancient Greece of Macedonia and Thrace is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Hand colored. Good condition. Bottom left is the original title "Carta della Grecia A...

Vampire Spectre is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...

L'enfant prodigue: en pays etranger (The Prodigal Son: In Foreign Climes) Etching, 1881 Unsigned (as usual for this state) From: L'enfant prodigue, (The Prodigal Son, five plates) Ed...

The Queen's Staircase is an original modern artwork realized in 1836 by the French artist François Alexandre Pernot (1793-1865). Original Lithograph on paper. The sheet is glued on ...

Actors is an original modern artwork realized in 1820-1830 by Utagawa Sadafusa. Woodcut Print Oban Dyptich Format. Arashi Kanjuro as Benkei, Ichikawa Komazo as Minamoto Yoshitsune ...

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), S. Anton Patenkirchen, 1895. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr....

Half-length portrait of the actor Nakamura Shikan is an original modern artwork realized by Masunao in 1847. Original Woodcut Print Chuban Format, 1847. From the series "Shukoku se...

Uses and Customs - Colonnade of the File Islands is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...

Ancient View of Verona is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower central margin...

Sumo Fighters is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19th century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork re...

Beautiful mid 19th century Japanese woodblock print of a samurai by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada) (Japanese, 1786-1864/5). This piece is from a series of "The 53 Stations of the To...

The Portrait is an Original lithograph on paper realized by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953) in 1909 ca. Signed in the plate. Good conditions. Included a Passepartout: 42 x 35 cm

Uses and Customs - Virgil's Tomb in Naples is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History...

Corfu is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters: Corfu. Drawn by T...

Uses and Customs - Underground Church of Saint Nicholas of Bari in Naples is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peo...

This beautiful woodcut print in the tradutional "oban" format is the work of the great Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). It represents the landscape from a high point o...

Kabukie - The Province of Rokuoku is an original artwork realized in 1862 by Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) Chuban. From the series "Dai Nippon rokuju of Rikuoku" (60 provinces of Glorious Japan), The Province of Rokuoku. Meeting of the two rivals in the forest at night, Tanigoro with sumo apron and fan with the national colours. Signed: Kunikazu. Good impression, backed, glued at corners, oxidation, centrefold, a little bit rubbed. Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) was a printmaker from Osaka. He had a famous teacher, the ukiyo-e artist Kunisada Utagawa...

Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1863. Woodcut print oban from a tryptich. Signed Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Izutsuya. Scene from the play "Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi". Yasugoro, the thief with the bat tattoo on his cheek, enters the oil merchant's house at night...

Uses and Customs - Various Religion Orders is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History...