Old Masters Figurative Prints
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Transformations - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Transformations is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representing the "fifth an...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Palamonis et Pachomii - Etching After Raphael Sadeler - 1660 ca.
By Raphael Sadeler the Elder
Located in Roma, IT
Palamonis et Pachomii is a beautiful hand-watercolor etching realized by the Flemish artist Raphael Sadeler (Anvers, Antwerpen 1560 - Munich between 1628 and 1632), after a drawing b...
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1660s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Egyptian Figure - Etching Hand Colored by L. Pizzi After A. Tofanelli
Located in Roma, IT
“Idolo Egizio” - Image Dim: cm 48 x 33, Dim: cm 59 x 44.
Precious Etching on copper: Hand-colored subject on black ink bottom. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Luigi ...
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1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Japanese Funeral Procession - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Funeral Procession
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XLVIII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - by G. Pivati 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - Inca offering a liquor vase
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXVII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Moscovian Christening - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Moscovian Christening
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXXIX
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Wonderful Etchings, Ha...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Nuptial Ceremony and Birth among the Mexicans - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Nuptial Ceremony and Birth among the Mexicans
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII, Plate LXVII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Cannonieri di Mare (Sea Gunner) - Lithograph Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except some stains in lower margin, slightly damaged in the right margin (three minor cracks) and normal brown paper ...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Tithon, from "Le Temple des Muses" by B. Picart
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Tithonus.
Beautiful plate with very fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Œnée, from "Le Temple des Muses" by B. Picart
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Œnée, "the king of Calydon, having neglected Diana in a sacrifice, is punished for his impiety" as the capture reports.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Leucothoé et Apollon, from "Le Temple des Muses"
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing "Leucothoe seduced by Apollo in the shape of Eurynome", as the capture reports.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Il tempio di Nettuno - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1760
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "The Temple of Neptune”
Image dimensions: 38.3x53.2 cm.
Very Fine Proof, showing an architectural apparatus for firework built by Paolo Posi in occasion of the Chinea Feast in 1760.
Signed on plate lower-right margin. Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture.
In Good condition, with a light abrasion higher-left corner and some little foxing in margins.
Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p. 137, n. 69
Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Magnifico Arco con il Simulacro di Ercole Tebano - by Giuseppe Vasi - 1767
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Magnificent Arc with the Ercole Tebano’s Simulacrum”
Image dimensions: 39.9x54.6 cm.
Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cavaliere Pa...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Villa antica con scena di Giostra - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1774
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Antique Villa with a Scene of Joust "
Beautiful Proof, showing the second complex apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th J...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Campidoglio Festivamente Ornato - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Capitol Festively Decorated"
Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cav. e Arch.” Paolo Posi, drown by “Giuse. Palazzi”, engraved by “Cava. Giusep. Vasi”. This wonderful Etching represents the Capitol festively decorated in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1775). Signed on plate lower margin.
Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture. In Very Good condition.
Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p.155, n. 97.
Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Edificio con Loggiato per l
estrazione del Lotto - by Giuseppe Vasi - 1776
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 51x38.4 cm.
Beautiful Artist's Proof, representing the apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1776) by Paolo Posi. ...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Testa Quasi Colossale di Marco Aurelio - Etching by P. Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
“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...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Amore Scherza - Original Etching by G. B. da Ravenna after Bernardino Nocchi
Located in Roma, IT
“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...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Gran Grue Della Baia d
Hudson - Etching by Andrea Scacciati The Younger
By Andrea Scacciati
Located in Roma, IT
Gran Grue Della Baia d'Hudson is a beautiful black and white etching on laid paper realized by the Italian artist, Andrea Scacciati. Title engraved on the higher margin, inscription ...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Al Conde Palatino - Origina Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Al Conde Palatino is an original etching realized by Francisco Goya and published in 1799.
Original etching on wove paper.
This beautiful Etching belongs to the Third Edition of th...
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1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Battaglione Real Navi
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Guardie del Reale Palazzo
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned in the right lower margins, very little stain in lower margin.
Interesting colored lithograph ...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Kermesse - Original Etching by Cornelis Dusart - 1686
Located in Roma, IT
Signed and dated on the left lower margin of the plate: “Corn. Dusart fe. 1685”. On Netherlandish watermarked paper. Very good conditions.
Bartsch n.16. Beautiful etching describes a scene of ordinary peasant’s life.
Passepartout included : 47.5 x 56 cm
Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem, 1660 - 1704), Netherlandish painter and engraver, apprentice of Adriaen van Ostade, he was accepted by the Corporation of Saint Luca...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Near Mrs. Teshmakers, Edmonton
original etching by John Thomas Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...
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1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Paper, Etching
Veduta in Prospettiva d
un Antico Vaso Cinerario di Marmo
Located in Roma, IT
The same urn, in perspective
Beautiful artist proof, printed on antique laid paper, large margins, showing a precious urn. Etching with good contrasts and sharp details, signed on pl...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Young Hostess
Located in New York, NY
Cornelis Bega (active 1631/32-64), The Young Hostess, c. 1660-64, etching. Reference: Hollstein, Bartsch 33, third state (of 5). With the address of J. Covens and C Mortier bottom left - before the address was removed (in the fourth state) and the artist’s signature was added (in the fifth state). In excellent condition, printed in black/grey ink on an old laid paper, with a 3/16 inch margin outside the plate mark all around, archival matting.
Provenance: Ex collection Graff (with stamp verso, Lugt 1092a), LRV (with stamp verso, Lugt 1761), an unidentified collector’s stamp verso, and Dr. Karl Herveg (his stamp verso, Lugt 3974).
A very good impression, with the guidelines of the address strongly visible.
Dr. Karl Herweg was a noted collector of 17th Century Dutch prints...
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1660s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
17th century etching black and white dramatic window figure scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man Looking Through a Window" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a figure leaning through a window. Publisher: Pearce #37.
3 1/8" x 3" art
14 3/4" x 13 1/...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
17th century etching black and white mother and child figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mother & Child" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a mother and her child. Publisher: Pearce #51.
3" x 3" art
13 3/4" x 11 3/4" frame
Cornelis Pietersz B...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
La circoncision dans l
étable - Original Etching by Rembrandt - 1654
Located in Roma, IT
Rembrandt van Rijn (1696-1669), La circoncision dans l’étable, 1654
Etching on watermarked paper.
Beautiful artist’s proof, signed and dated in plate higher-left : “Rembrandt 1654”...
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1650s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre, etchings, 1633, the complete set of 18. Lieure 1339-56, the frontispiece third state (of 3), th...
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1630s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
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