Early 19th Century Figurative Prints

Scena D'Armi In Vaticano is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appears at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. Not signed. T...

Processione a San Pietro is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. Not signed. Th...

Landscape is an original etching and aquatint on paper realized by Claudio di Lorena. Signed on the plate, on the lower left. plate no. 183, lower on the right, edition "L. Caraccio...

Knight is an original woodcut print realized by Amadore Porcella . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Passepartout dimension: ...

Image dimensions: 33.7 x 48.6 cm. “Ara con tripode” (Ara with tripod) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Vincenzo Feoli, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Vincenzo Feoli incise in Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXVIII" 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. Original Title: Ara con Tripode di quindecemviri, e la corona...

La Liberté is an original colored etching realized by an anonymous artist. Titled on the lower center "La Liberté". The State of preservation is excellent. Sheet dimension: 29x20.5 ...

Simulacro Di Diana is an original print realized by Giovanni Folo After Agostino Tofanelli. Original etching on copper. Hand-colored on black ink backgr...

Image dimensions: 16 x 10.5 cm. Adieu! is an original watercolored print realized in the first quarter of the 19th century by the French artist Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755 – 18...

Elle le boude is a hand-watercolored etching on paper realized in 1801 by the French artist Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832). This is an original illustration (plate n. 46) pu...

The Torn Dress is an original watercolored print realized in the first quarter of the 19th century. The artwork is the plate n. 18 from a suite of 52 plate...

Image dimensions: 26.2 x 34 cm. Il Gran Diavolo Distributore dell'Oro (The Great Devil Distributor of Gold) is a beautiful hand-watercolored etching, realized by an anonymous Italia...

Simulacro Di Diana is an original print realized by Giovanni Folo After Agostino Tofanelli. Original etching on copper. Hand-colored on black ink background. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Giovanni Foto (as printed on plate on lower right). Original title: Simulacro Di Diana detto volgarmente la ZIngarella Included frame: 60 x 50 cm From "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 in Rome, 1821. It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique monuments or statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill. Remarkable contemporary artists like Luigi Cunego, Gio. Batta Leonetti, Pietro Bettelini, Gio. Brunetti, Giovanni Ottaviani, Angelo Campanella, Pietro Fontana contributed. Drawings are, above all, by Agostino Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis, Teodoro Matteini. Giovanni Folo Veneto (Bassano, 1764 – Rome 1836) Giovanni Folo Veneto was an Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period, active in Italy. He studied with Giulio Golini and G.B. Mengardi in Venice. In 1781 he moved to Rome to study with Giovanni Volpato, but later he followed the style of the Volpato's pupil, Raffaello Morghen...

Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 145 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Clau...

Ciociare, vicino a Subiaco; passato Tivoli is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom of the artwork, inside the matrix, and just...

Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819, Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 28x39. Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...

Plate 23 – From Liber Veritatis Aquatint on Copper, Imag. Dim: cm 33x47.5, Dim: cm 21x27, Beautiful Artist’s Proof, representing a shepherd with his herd pastouring at the shore o...

The Courtesan is an original print realized between in the beginning of XIX century by Keisai Eisen This is a mixed colored xylograph. Include passeparto...

Il Corso is a beautiful etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The work, which presents a remarkable quality of strokes and brilliant ...

“Testa quasi colossale di Marco Aurelio” (Almost colossal head of Marco Aurelio) is a beautiful black and white burin 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 delineò./ Pietro Fontana incise a bollino Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXV" 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 shows a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman philosopher and writer and one of the "good Roman Emperor" (according to Edward Gibbon) Marco Aurelio, represented in neoclassical style and with the traditional iconography with a thick hair and a long beard. In excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper on the lower margin and some light signs of the time with an imperceptible weaving of the paper on the lower right corner, this wonderful burin preserved his 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...

“Amore che scherzo, Statua” (Joking Eros, Statue) is a wonderful black and white etching on paper, realized by the artist Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Gio Brunetti da Ravenna inc. Roma 1795”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher right corner “Tav. XXIX” 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 collection, an Eros statue caressing a sparrow, is in excellent conditions with some light signs of the time (some little whormholes on the left margin beyond the marginal line of the matrix) 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 found and made 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...

Jean-Jean is a fine black and white lithograph, realized by Horace Vernet (1789-1863). This beautiful original print, representing a soldier playing the flute, is in very good condi...

Lithograph d'aprés Beccafumi is an original artwork realized by the French artist Louise Bouteillier in the first half of the XIX Century. Tirér du Cabinet de Vivant Denon...

Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except a lightly damaged in right margins, and normal brown paper in margins. Interesting colored lithograph which de...

BARBIER, George Le Bonheur du Jour ou les Graces à la Mode, texte et dessins par George Barbier. Chez Meyniel, Paris, 1924. Group of six lithographs, hand-...

Drawn and published by Dighton Art Sz: 10.75"H x 7.75"W Frame Sz: 15.8"H x 12.75"W Custom framed in Oyster Bay, N.Y. w/ French hand colour mat London: 1806. Robert Dighton (1752-1...

Tambien esto / So is this (Disasters of War, plate 43, Harris 163, Delteil 162). Original etching, burnished aquatint, and burnisher, c. 1808-1814. The clergy are running; their floc...