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Angel and Saturn, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Angel and Saturn
Year: 2001
Edition: 452/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 3.5 x 3 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscript...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$571 Sale Price
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Christ Church, Oxford 18th century engraving by John Dadley after Edward Dayes
Located in London, GB
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1790s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Thorsby House in the County of Nottingham /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Title: "Thorsby House in the County of Nottingham" (Vol. 1, Plate 91)
Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Contain...
Category
1710s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Marc Chagall, Gathering of the Peasants, Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Attroupement des paysans (Gathering of the Peasants), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall, Collision on the Road, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Collision en chemin (Collision on the Road), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fort...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall, The Coachman Feeds the Horses, from Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Le cocher donne a manger aux chevaux (The Coachman Feeds the Horses), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, L...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Appearance of the Policemen, Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Apparition des policiers (Appearance of the Policemen), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall, Playing Cards, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Les cartes a jouer (Playing Cards), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes origin...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
The Second Army Bombarding, Ukiyo-E Wooblock by Watanabe Nobukazu
By Watanabe Nobukazu
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Watanabe Nobukazu, Japanese (1872 - 1944)
Title: The Second Army Bombarding and Occupying Port Arthur
Year: 1894
Medium: Woodblock Triptych...
Category
1890s Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Marc Chagall, The Painters, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Les peintres (The Painters), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes originales de...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Nozdriov, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Nozdriov (Nozdriov), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes originales de Marc Ch...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Meal in the Inn, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Repas dans le traktir (Meal in the Inn), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes o...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, The Inn House, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La maison du traktir (The Inn House), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes orig...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,996 Sale Price
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Powis House in Ormond Street London /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Title: "Powis House in Ormond Street London" (Vol. 1, Plate 42)
Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Containing th...
Category
1710s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Christ Church Meadows, Oxford lithograph by Edwin La Dell
Located in London, GB
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Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Georges Rouault, Black Pierrot, from Divertissement, 1943
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Pierrot Noir (Black Pierrot), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition publis...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Jesus College, Cambridge engraving by David Loggan
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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1690s Realist Landscape Prints
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Engraving
Venice Beach Lifeguard Hut, Vibrant Landscape Artwork, Contemporary Beach Print
Located in Deddington, GB
The bright colours of the rainbow coloured Lifeguard hut seem a perfect fit for the Venice Beach lifestyle. I love the contrast of the hut's colours against the lightness of the sand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Metal
Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1675 engraving by David Loggan
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
St John
s College, Oxford 1675 engraving by David Loggan
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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1670s Realist Landscape Prints
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Engraving
David Loggan: All Souls College, Oxford 1675 engraving
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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David Loggan (1634-1692)
All Souls College...
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1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
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
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,463 Sale Price
24% Off
Gild the Lily II
By Carlos Rolón
Located in New York, NY
GILD THE LILY II
Year: 2017
Medium: Archival pigment inks on Crane, Museo Max, 365 gsm fine art paper
Size: 46 x 35 inches (117 x 89 cm)
Edition: 30
Price: $2,875
Also available in a suite of 2
Carlos Rolón...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Barbara Latham 1950s Modernist Linocut “Saturday Morning, Taos Plaza”
By Barbara Latham
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant celebration of Taos life and culture, Saturday Morning (Market, Taos Plaza, New Mexico) is a striking 1950s modernist linocut print by acclaimed New Mexico artist Barbara L...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
The Departure of the Argonaut Francesco Clemente (bound book) Alberto Savinio
Located in New York, NY
The Departure of the Argonaut (1918) is the travelogue and wartime diary of Alberto Savinio, one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century Italian arts and letters. Clemente's acco...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kenneth Miller Adams “House in the Sun” 1950 Southwestern Modernist Lithograph
Located in Denver, CO
House in the Sun is an original 1950 black-and-white lithograph by celebrated New Mexico modernist Kenneth Miller Adams, a distinguished member of the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies....
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hal Woolf: Christ of the Andes - vintage poster c. 1930s Argentina Chile border
By Hal Woolf
Located in London, GB
Hal Woolf
Christ of the Andes
Original Vintage Poster
76x50cm
Printed by the David Allen Printing Co (London) Ltd., Wandsworth, SW18
Published by the League of Nations Union, 15 Cros...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brussels Theatrical Centrepiece, Bright Impressionist Print, Art of Belgium
Located in Deddington, GB
Cities 4 – Brussels’ Theatrical Centrepiece by Susan Brown.
Hand signed by the artist
“Walking through La Grand Place in Brussels, is taking a journey t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée, Paper
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS Signed Lithograph, Black Farmer Lowcountry Geechee Gullah
Located in Union City, NJ
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the renowned American artist JONATHAN...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Buy Victory Bonds" vintage poster, F. D. Roosevelt
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Victory Loan vintage poster. “In the Strength of Great Hope we must shoulder our common load” .. Buy Victory Bonds. Linen backed in very fin...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
$503 Sale Price
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"Green Farming" Japanese Landscape Woodblock Print
Located in Austin, TX
Japanese woodblock print (etching) of a landscape by Toshi Yoshida
11" x 15" - Page Size
17 x 21.25 - Frame Size
Category
20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Wadham College, Oxford 1675 engraving by David Loggan
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Wadham College, Oxford (1675)
Engraving
32 x 41 cm
Loggan's view of Wadham from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'.
Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University.
The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College).
Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views.
Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers.
The Dutchman...
Category
1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
A Little Ledge, Vicky Oldfield, Still Life Print, Collagraph Print, Flower Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield
A Little Ledge
Original Collagraph Print
Image size: H 25cm x W 17cm
Sheet Size: H 36cm x W 26cm x D 0.1cm
Framed Size: H 43cm x W 33cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
The Quorn Hunt, Holy Vale hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966)
The Quorn Hu...
Category
1930s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany" c.1930 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kas...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tiendelitas
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “TIENDECITAS” in 1967. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “21/50” in pencil. The printed image size 15 x 23.13 inches (38 x 58.8 cm) and paper size 20.75 x 29 3/8 inches (53 x 74.5 cm). Printed in an edition of 50. Stamped on verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez."
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Georges Braque, The Chariot, from Carnets intimes, 1955 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled Le Char (The Chariot), from Carnets intimes (Private Sketchbooks), Verve, Vol. VIII, No. 31–32, originates from the...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
Oxford Christ Church and Carfax 18th century engraving by John Donowell
Located in London, GB
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1750s Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Chaim Soutine, Still Life with Turkey, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Chaim Soutine (1893–1943), titled Nature morte a la dinde (Still Life with Turkey), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966, originates from the edition published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, on October 20, 1966. The work conveys the heightened emotional tension and expressive force characteristic of Soutines painterly vision, capturing in lithographic form the dynamic structure and psychological intensity that define his mature still lifes.
Executed as a lithograph on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 20 x 26 inches. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the technical mastery of the Mourlot atelier.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Chaim Soutine (1899–1943)
Title: Nature morte a la dinde (Still Life with Turkey), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy
Medium: Lithograph on velin d'Arches paper
Dimensions: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1966
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966
Notes:
Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, the first of a series dedicated to Mr. Pierre Levys collection, was printed in DL examples on Arches velin. Printing was finished on October 20, 1966 by Mourlot for lithographs of the canvases of Soutine, and by Fequet and Baudier for Waldemar Georges unpublished text. Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1966.
About the Publication:
Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, published in 1966 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, is the first album in the important series devoted to the Pierre Levy collection, one of the most significant private collections of twentieth century French painting. Conceived as a scholarly and visual record, the album was designed to present key works by Chaim Soutine in lithographic form at a time when renewed international interest in the artist was expanding. Created in collaboration with Mourlot Freres, the foremost lithographic atelier in France, the publication reflects the printers commitment to translating Soutines canvases into richly tonal lithographs that preserve the emotional intensity and structural drama of the originals. Issued in a single edition on Arches velin, the album stands as an essential document of postwar art publishing, illuminating the historical partnership between artist, collector, and master printer, and contributing to the larger historiography of modern French Expressionism and museum quality print albums of the mid twentieth century.
About the Artist:
Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) was a Belarus born French Expressionist painter whose explosive brushwork, emotionally charged distortions, and uncompromising commitment to depicting the psychological intensity of human experience have secured his place as one of the most vital and transformative figures in twentieth century art, creating his legacy within the same revolutionary modernist environment defined by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray; after leaving his impoverished childhood in Smilavichy and arriving in Paris in 1913, Soutine immersed himself in the School of Paris circle at La Ruche—an incubator of international avant garde talent—where he developed formative friendships with Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Jules Pascin, and other pioneering artists whose daring approaches inspired him to push color, gesture, and form into new emotional territories. His portraits of cooks, choirboys, servants, and village residents; his tempestuous landscapes of Cagnes, Chartres, and Ceret; and his deeply visceral still lifes—most famously his monumental depictions of slaughtered carcasses—reveal a singular ability to transform ordinary subjects into raw, pulsing, almost metaphysical dramas, building on the influence of Rembrandt, Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco while departing radically from academic restraint. His paintings vibrate with psychological tension, their twisted perspectives, molten colors, and trembling outlines capturing an inner world marked by anxiety, longing, resilience, and profound empathy. Soutines originality profoundly shaped the evolution of modern painting: Francis Bacon cited him as one of his greatest influences, Willem de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionists admired his gestural ferocity, and later artists—including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, and Adrian Ghenie...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier:
William W. Peabody
Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA
December 18th, 1864
Aged 18 years
The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds.
13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork
23 x 19 inches, frame
Published before 1864
Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y."
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded 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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
On the Kedgwick
By Frank Benson
Located in New York, NY
Frank Benson created the etching "On the Kedgwick" in 1923, in an edition of 150. This impression is the second state of four. There are five known impressions of the second state. It is signed in pencil and inscribed "B-1" and "1 or 5" at the lower left paper edge (pencil). The image size 7 13/16 x 11 7/8" (19.9 x 30.2 cm) and sheet size 15 3/8 x 11 1/2" )29.3 x 39 cm). It is listed in the Frank W. Benson catalogue raisonne by Paff #222.
FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951)
Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition, Vers un monde volage, Marcel Gromaire
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Éditions Marcel Seheur, Paris; printed by Atelier d'art Paul Haasen, Paris, Septembe...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,436 Sale Price
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Cottage in the Forest of Arden /// British Victorian Landscape Cottage Etching
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jacob George Strutt (English, 1784-1867)
Title: "Cottage in the Forest of Arden"
Portfolio: Deliciae Sylvarum or Grand and Romantic Forest Scenery in England and Scotland
Year: 1829
Medium: Original Etching on chine appliqué on heavy wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Jacob George Strutt, London, UK
Sheet size: 14.07" x 21.13"
Image size: 9.63" x 13.82"
Condition: Minor soiling and discoloration in margins. Light areas of waterstaining about sheet mainly in margins. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
There is an example of this work within the permanent collection of the British Museum, London, UK and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Biography:
Jacob George Strutt (4 August 1784 – 1867) was a British portrait and landscape painter and engraver in the manner of John Constable. He was the husband of the writer Elizabeth Strutt, and father of the painter, traveller and archaeologist Arthur John Strutt...
Category
1820s Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Countryside - Etching by Giovanni Gromo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized by Giovanni Gromo in 1980s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Not numbered,
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
"Edward King Polo Scene"
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic polo scene drawn on stone featuring six ponies on the field drawn on stone & signed by Edward King (LL)
Print Sz: 10 3/4"H x 18 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 18"H x 25 3/8"W
Category
1920s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Switzerland horses by Hugo Wetli original vintage poster Swiss Jura Alps
By Hugo Wetli
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters, many of which are from Switzerland, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or sen...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Springtime in the Valley of the Bievre" by Henri Roussean
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Aaron Ashley Inc., 1945.
Printed in USA.
Good Condition
22.5 x 20 in.
Category
20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Phalanx
By John Ross
Located in New York, NY
This collagraph was created circa 1973. It is signed, titled and inscribed "1/75" in pencil. The paper size is 22 x 30 1/2" with the printed image 18 7/8 x 27 3/4.&q...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
$1,500
Max, Abstract Flowers, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Abstract Flowers
Year: 1999
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper
Size: 36 x 24 inches
Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as is...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$432 Sale Price
20% Off
Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Untitled, from The Varende, 1944 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (1840–1917), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio La Varende, Rodin (La Varende, Rodin), originates from the 1944 ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
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Christ
s College, Cambridge David Loggan 1690 engraving
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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Category
1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Great St Mary
s, University of Cambridge David Loggan 1690 engraving
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Cambridge (1690)
Engraving
38 x 47 cm
Loggan's view of Great St Mary's from the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'.
Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University.
The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College...
Category
1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, La Pianiste et le Chanteur, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.75 x 5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vo...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
William Williams engraving of Christ Church - College at Oxford c.1732
Located in London, GB
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William Williams...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
L’Hiver a Paris ou La Neige a Paris
Located in New York, NY
Felix Buhot (1847-1898), L’Hiver a Paris ou La Neige a Paris, 1879, etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette. [signed and dated in the plate Felix Buhot Par...
Category
1870s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Coin de Rue Dans Soho
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1947), Coin de Rue Dans Soho, woodcut, 1909, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (15/15) [also initials in the plate]. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 64...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Theodoor Galle Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Jesus Nailed to the Cross
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and search for 'Collaert' - or message us as they may not all have been uploaded yet.
Theodoor Galle (1571 – 1633) after Maerten de Vos (1532 - 1603)
Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
46. Et postquam venerunt in locum qui voctur Caluarie, ibi crucifixerunt eum. Luc. 23.
From Vita, Passio, et Resurrectio Iesu Christi first published 1598, this a later edition published by Joannes Galle (1600-1676)
17.5x22cm
From the Gospel of Luke, chapter 3 "When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there."
Theodoor Galle was the son of Philip Galle...
Category
17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving





