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Period: 19th Century
Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church /// History of Dorset English Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Hutchins (English, 1698-1773)
Title: "Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church" (Plate 15)
Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset
Year: 1861-1870...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Buisson (The Bush); Chalcographie du Louvre, vol. IV, plate 109
Located in Middletown, NY
Chalcographie du Musee du Louvre, 1855.
Etching on cream wove paper, 17 5/16 x 19 3/16 inches (439 x 488 mm); sheet 17 3/4 x 20 1/8 inches (451 x 519 mm), full margins. Scattered ma...
Category
French School 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
"Traveller Near a Wood" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: B53 iii/iii. Published in London in 1868 for the rare first volume of P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". This impression on laid p...
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19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Euphorbia, German antique botanical plant chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euphorbiaceen'
(Euphorbia)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thames Warehouses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER (American 1834–1903 London)
THAMES WAREHOUSES, 1859 (K 38 ii/ii; Glascow 46 iv/v; Mansfield 37)
Etching and drypoint on fine thin laid paper. Plate: 3 × 8 i...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Church of the Holy Sepulchre: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
"Stone of Unction, Church of the Holy Sepulchre" is a framed 19th century hand-colored lithograph by David Roberts from the large folio edition of his monumental 6 volume publication...
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Holy Tree of Metereah, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "The Holy Tree of Metereah" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in L...
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake
Located in Plano, TX
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake. 1889. Etching, aquatint and burnishing. Goodrich 104. 14 1/4 x 20 5/8; sheet 18 1/2 x 24 1/2. Edition unknown but quite possibl...
Category
American Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$40,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Minaret El Rhamree in Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Minaret of the Mosque El Rhamree" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, publish...
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Twin Rocks of Capri; I Faraglioni a Capri
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Gebbie & Husson Co., 1879
Héliogravure and engraving on cream wove paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (258 x 310 mm), full margins. In good condition with some very minor margina...
Category
English School 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Photogravure
Hiver - Etching by Félix Bracquemond - 1865 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper
Sheet size: approx. 65 × 50 cm
Signed in plate lower left: F. Bracquemond
Published by Cadart
Luquet, Éditeurs, 79 Rue Richelieu, Paris
With the blinds...
Category
Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Deluge - JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(after) JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
THE DELUGE, 1828. Mezzotint, Engraved by I. P. Quilly after a painting by J. M.W. Turner R.A.. Image ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Scolopaceous Courlan: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Scolopaceous Courlan", No. 63, Plate 312 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, printed...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
White Eye-browed Partridges: Hand-colored Folio-sized Bird Lithograph by Gould
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Dendrortyx Leucophrys" (White Eye-browed Partridges) by John Gould, published in his monograph 'A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America' in London between 1844-1850. Reportedly only 250 copies were printed. The print depicts two partridges, one standing and the other lying apparently on sand, surrounded by high grass. A landscape of plants and possibly water is seen in the background.
This beautiful hand-colored lithograph is presented in a double cream-colored mat. There is one tiny spot in the left lower corner, faint spots in the right upper print and mild toning about the periphery which is covered by the mat. It is otherwise in excellent condition. It is accompanied by the original text page.
John Gould (1841-1881) was an English contemporary of the American John James Audubon. Gould published his first illustrated book on birds in 1831 entitled "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains", followed by "Ramphastidae" and "Birds of Europe". He then extended the scope of his travels and research to include Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, drawing birds in their natural habitat. Artists, such as his wife Elizabeth Gould, Henry Richter and Edward Lear, transferred his drawings to hand printed and hand colored stone lithographs, which are known for their beauty, detail and accuracy.
As well as an exceptional and prolific artist, Gould was an outstanding scientific naturalist. In approximately 50 years he created approximately 3,000 lithographs of birds...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vachère au Bord de l
Eau
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903)
VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii)
Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper
Very...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,463 Sale Price
24% Off
Magdalen Hall. Oxford University. Antique C19th engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Magdalen Hall'
Engraving by John Le Keux after Frederick Mackenzie, 1837. From James Ingram's 'Memorials of Oxford'.
135mm by 175mm (platemark)
200mm ...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Male Whooping Crane: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored 1st octavo edition lithograph entitled "Whooping Crane, Male, adult", No. 63, Plate 313 from Audubon...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Night Heron Birds: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Yellow Crowned Night Heron, 1. Adult Male Spring Plumage, 2. Young in October", No. 73, Plate 364 from Audubo...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1870 View of Proposed Brooklyn Bridge and New York City
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed engraving entitled "Birds-eye View of the Southern End of New York and Brooklyn, Showing the Projected Suspension-Bridge Over the East River, From the Western Terminus in Printing-House Square, New York" by Theodore R. Davis (1840–1894) was published as a supplement of Harper's Weekly, November 19, 1870.
The print is presented in a maple frame and a double mat. The frame measures 23.5" high, 29" wide and 0.75" deep. There is a vertical center fold and additional vertical lines, where wood engraving blocks were joined for the printing process. It is in excellent condition.
This framed image depicting New York in 1870 was a centerfold for the November 19, 1870 issue of Harper's Weekly. It includes the site and eventual appearance of the East River New York-Brooklyn Bridge; the name later shortened to the Brooklyn Bridge. The print was issued eleven months after the start of construction of the bridge on January 2, 1870, which would take another 12.5 years to complete. When this view was drawn, work on the bridge was all below ground, constructing the supports for the bridge’s towers. Labels in the upper portion of the print identify locations in the background including "Light Ship...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
American Crow 1858 Chromolithograph by J.J. Audubon Plate, Julius Bien Edition
Located in Paonia, CO
American Crow by J.J. Audubon from his Birds of America folio shows an adult male crow in a Black Walnut bush with a nest of a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird in a branch below the crow. This original chromolithograph plate no. 226 is in good condition with a repairable water mark in the image on the left side as can be seen in the photos.
The ” Birds of America” by John James...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Wolf, Hand-Colored Print From The Early 1800s by Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch
Located in Stockholm, SE
Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch (1770-1811) Sweden
Title: A Wolf
hand-coloured print
early 1800s
print dimensions approx 4.33 x 7.08 inches (11 x 18 cm)
frame 11.81 x 15.74 inches (30 ...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Petra, The Upper or Eastern Valley: 19th C. Hand-colored Roberts Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored lithograph entitled "Petra, Shewing the Upper or Eastern End of the Valley" by David Roberts, from his Egypt, The Holy Land and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in London by F. G. Moon in 1842. The lithographs were prepared by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) from drawings and paintings by Roberts. The resultant large folio editions of 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia' are considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century.
This is one of Roberts' most famous and collectible works. The scene captures a view of the magnificent ruins of Petra in what is Jordan today, as it appeared on March 8, 1839, on the day of Roberts' visit. Multiple Arab men are approaching Petra; some on foot and others riding camels. They are dressed in their colorful local costumes. Roberts' signature and hand written date are reproduced in the plate on the left.
This hand-colored lithograph is printed on wove paper with wide margins. There is some loss of color in the text in the title and a faint dark curvilinear area in the upper right. The print is otherwise in very good condition. It is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a tan mat. It is glazed with UV protected conservation glass. All framing materials used are archival museum quality. The frame measures 23.5" high and 30.5" wide.
There are two additional iconic David Roberts hand-colored lithographs for sale on 1stdibs that are matted and framed in identical styles, although slightly different sizes. They are scenes of Approach of Simoon, Desert of Gizeh and the Citadel of Cairo. They can be viewed by typing their reference #'s, LU1173211955452 and LU1173211970142, into the 1stdibs search field or typing Timeless Intaglio in the search field and tapping on the drop down name to be taken to our storefront. Two or all three of these pieces would make for a striking display grouping. A discount is available for the purchase of multiple pieces.
David Roberts (1796-1864) was a Scottish painter who specialized in landscapes, architectural subjects, and scenes from the Middle East and Europe. Born in Edinburgh, Roberts began his career at age ten as an apprentice to a house painter and eventually became a scene painter for theater companies in Edinburgh and London. In the 1820s, J. M. W. Turner recognized his artistic talent and encouraged him to become a full-time artist. He began to focus on painting landscapes and architecture. In 1838 he traveled to Egypt and soon after to the Holy Land, concluding in Jerusalem. Roberts' travels in the Middle East had a profound impact on his art, and he produced a series of highly detailed and realistic paintings and sketches of the region's famous ruins and other landmarks, including the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, the Temple of Abu Simbel...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Illustrations From The Book of Job - "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven"
Located in Soquel, CA
"Illustrations of the Book of Job" Engraving "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven...And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power"
Engraving, third printing...
Category
Symbolist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
$3,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Kiyomi Barrier
Seiken Temple Near Okitsu- Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Kiyomi Barrier & Seiken Temple Near Okitsu - Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Woodblock print of boats in a harbor by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). Originally publish...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Uses and Customs - Boxers - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Boxers 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 governmen...
Category
Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Egypt. Early 19th century engraving, 1820
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue des Deux Colosses. Thebes, Memnonium'
Elephant folio engraving, by Baltard after Dutetre, from 'Description de l'Egypte', published after Napoleon's expedition to colonize Egyp...
Category
Other Art Style 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Rome /// Joseph Mallord William Turner City River Landscape Engraving
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Joseph William Mallord Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Title: "Ancient Rome"
Portfolio: The Turner Gallery: A Series of Sixty Engravings From The Principal Works of Josep...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Way Home. A Winter Evening
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful, dark impression of a bucolic cow path.
Etching with drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (174 x 248 mm), full margins. Uniform light brown discolorat...
Category
English School 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Quadra, Vancouver Island, Canada, North America, mid 19th century lithograph.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Villagio indiano nell' Isola Quadra-Voncuver / Interno di Una capanna di Vakosei'
(Indian Village on Quadra Island, Vancouver / Interior of a Vakosei hut)
Italian lithograph, c184...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Great Hall at Karnak, Luxor, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Great Hall at Karnac, Thebes" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the larg...
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Principal Mosque Boulak, Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Principal Mosque at Boulak" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in ...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo, with an Arab Funeral" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large foli...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Minaret of a Mosque in Siout, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Minaret of the Principal Mosque in Siout, Upper Egypt" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large f...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mosque of Ayed Bey, Suez, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Mosque of Ayed Bey, in the Desert of Suez" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tombs of Caliphs
the Citadel, Cairo: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Tomb of the Caliphs, Cairo - The Citadel in the Distance" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the larg...
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Lake of Terni" by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; lithograph
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. His prolific works simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition a...
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Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Road to Nablous, West Bank: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
"Entrance to Nablous, The Holy Land (West Bank)" is a framed 19th century hand-colored lithograph by David Roberts from the large folio edition of his monumental 6 volume publication...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922) - Framed Etching, Boats on a Dutch River
Located in Corsham, GB
Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922), original etching. Boats on a Dutch river with horse-drawn carriage running alongside. Signed in pencil to the lower right. Well-presented in a smart ...
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19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
La Montée - Etching by Christian Johannes Nieuwenhuys - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La Montée is an artwork realized by Christian Johannes Nieuwenhuys in the 1870s.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of...
Category
Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Bald Eagle Bird: A 1st Edition 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 1st edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "White-headed Sea Eagle or Bald Eagle", No. 3, Plate 14 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithogra...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
George
s Dock, LIverpool.
Located in Plano, TX
1890. Etching. Hardie 245. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 10 1/8). Two hinge stains in the top sheet edges; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
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George's Dock was located on the River Mersey, England, within the Port of Liverpool. It was connected to Canning Dock to the south and George's Basin to the north. The dock, which opened in 1771, was designed and built by Henry Berry and expanded by John Foster, Sr.
In 1899 the dock and the adjoining George's Basin were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head...
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Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
La Cava (The Cave) - Etching by Francesco Mochetti - 1843
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 14.7 x 19.8 cm.
La Cava is an original black and white etching on paper, printed in 1843 as a plate of the print suite "90 Views of the citi...
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Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
"Skating on Ladies
Pond Central Park": Winslow Homer 19th C. Woodcut Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste."
Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Orchids: Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Laelia Anceps" by J. Fitch
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Laelia Anceps Williamsii" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Album...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lake Constance ; The Oberstadt at Bregenz with Lake Constance (the Bodensee) Bey
Located in Middletown, NY
Lake Constance
c 1850.
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted on thin card stock, 10 x 12 1/2 inches (255 x 320 mm), wide margins. Adhesive residue aro...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS.
By Jean Baptiste Corot
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1876 - 1875)
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS. 1854 (1921) (Delteil 42)
Cliché-verre on thin vellum. Signed in plate at bottom. 8 1/4 x 6 5/16” (sheet size)....
Category
Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper, Etching
"Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara" Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese Landscape, Ukiyo-e
Located in New York, NY
Utagawa Hiroshige
Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara, circa 1857
Woodblock print
11 x 7 inches
Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, havin...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
19th century color lithograph landscape figures horseback house scene trees sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present print is one of several examples produced for Nathaniel Currier by his longtime collaborator Frances F. "Fanny" Palmer. Harry T. Peters wrote of her: "There is no more interesting and appealing character among the group of artists who worked for Currier & Ives than Fanny Palmer. In an age when women, well-bred women in particular, did not generally work for a living Fanny Palmer for years did exacting, full-time work in order to support a large and dependent family ... Her work ... had great charm, homeliness, and a conscientious attention to detail."
One of a series of four prints showing American country life in different seasons, the image presents the viewer with a picturesque view of a successful American farm. In the foreground, a gentleman rides a horse with a young boy before a respectable Italianate country house. Two women and a young girl pick flowers in the garden and several farm workers attend to their duties. Beyond are other homes and a city on the coast.
16.63 x 23.75 inches, artwork
28.13 x 33.38 inches, frame
Entitled bottom center "American Country Life - May Morning"
Signed in the stone, lower left "F.F. Palmer, Del."
Signed in the stone, lower right "Lith. by N. Currier"
Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y."
Inscribed bottom center "New York, Published by N. Currier 152 Nassau Street"
Framed to conservation standards using silk-lined 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass with a gold gilded liner, all housed in a stained wood moulding.
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Romantic 19th Century Landscape Prints
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Watercolor, Lithograph
Red-throated Diver: Original 1st Octavo Ed. Hand-colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare and extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Red-throated Diver", No. 96, Plate 478, from...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vesuvius, Naples, Italy. Volcano, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1815
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Vesuvius, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1815.
From Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic collection of I...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Le Lac" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. Etched by Felix Bracquemond after Corot. This impression on chine-collé paper was printed in Paris by Taneur and published as plate 27 for the Les chefs-d’œuvre port...
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19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Golden Eagle: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Golden Eagle", No. 3, Plate 12 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, printed and colored by JT Bowe...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fête du Jubilé de la Reine à Bedford Park, Londres
Located in New York, NY
A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression of this very scarce lithograph by Camille Pissarro and George W. Thornley. Printed in light brown on Chine appliqué. The deluxe edition o...
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Impressionist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Interior of the Temple Abu Simbel, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Interior of the Temple of Aboo Simbel" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, pu...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Loseley House, The Seat of James More Molyneux Esq. /// English Landscape Surrey
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Owen Manning (English, 1721-1801)
Title: "Loseley House, The Seat of James More Molyneux Esq."
Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey
Year: 1804-1814 ...
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Victorian 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
David Roberts
Entrance to the Caves: A 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
"Entrance To The Caves Of Beni Hasan" is a 19th century half-folio sized tinted duo-tone lithograph from the "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" volume of David R...
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Realist 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Christian Church of St. George": A Framed 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This duotone tinted lithograph with additional hand-coloring is entitled "Christian Church of St. George, at Lud Ancient, Lydda". It was drawn by Davi...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Great North Diver Bird: Original 19th C. 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Great North Diver or Loon", No. 96, Plate 476, from...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Takanawa no Kihan - Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1843-1847
Located in Roma, IT
Takanawa no kihan is a modern artwork realized between 1843 and 1847 after Utagawa Hiroshige.
Ukiyo-e color woodblock print from the Touto hakkei (The Eight Famous Views of the Capital of the East) series.
Mounted under passepartout.
The artwork depicts the port of Takanawa, a suburb of Minato in southern Tokyo, and is one of the very rare sheets by Utagawa Ando Hiroshige...
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Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pancratius - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Pancratius 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 government, of the laws,...
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Modern 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph





