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Medium: Engraving
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
1860s Victorian Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Notre-Dame Cathedral from the Seine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 x 8 3/4 inches (177 x 223 mm); sheet 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (267 x 300 mm), full margins. Signed V. E. Chapel and numbered 62/250 in penc...
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Early 20th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Set of Four Engravings from Nash
s "History of Worcestershire" /// Landscape Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Treadway Russell Nash (English, 1724-1811)
Title: "A View of Stourbridge", "A View of Upton upon Severn, from Ryal Hill", "Bewdley", and "Tenbury"
Portfolio: Collections for the History of Worcestershire
Year: 1781-1782 (First edition)
Medium: Set of Four Original Engravings on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: John Nichols, London, UK
Publisher: T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, London, UK; Fletcher, Oxford, UK; and Lewis, Worcester, UK
Reference: Upcott III, page 1330
Sheet size (each): approx. 10" x 16.5"
Image size (each): approx. 6.88" x 11.75"
Condition: A few light handling creases. Have been professionally stored away for decades. They are all strong impressions in excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. All four works were engraved by English artist Thomas Sanders (Active: Mid-Late 18th Century) after drawings by himself. Comes from Nash's two volume "Collections for the History of Worcestershire", (1781-1782) (First edition), which consists of 75 engravings. Each work is printed from one copper plate in one color: black. There was a (Second edition) "with Additions" bound in with Volume II of this portfolio published by John White in 1799. And, both the First and Second editions of "Collections for the History of Worcestershire" are based off Thomas Sanders' 1779-1781 "Perspective Views of the Market Towns within the County of Worcester". Both "A View of Stourbridge" and "A View of Upton upon Severn, from Ryal Hill" have unidentified fleur-de-lis watermarks in the center of their sheets. "Bewdley" has an unidentified watermark in the center of its sheet resembling "XV" and "Tenbury" has no watermark.
Biography:
Treadway Russell Nash (24 June 1724 – 26 January 1811) was an English clergyman, now known as an early historian of Worcestershire and the author of Collections for the History of Worcestershire, an important source document for Worcestershire county histories. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Treadway Russell Nash was born on 24 June 1724 born at Clerkenleap, in Kempsey, Worcestershire. His family were from Ombersley. They had lands there and at Claines, and had later bought lands in the Reformation around St Peter's, Droitwich. He was related to James Nash and John Nash, both MPs for Worcester. His father Richard, a grandson of Sir Rowland Berkeley, died in 1740, and Richard's eldest son in 1757. As a result, Treadway Russell Nash inherited the Russells' Strensham estates from his brother, as well as the Nash estates, and took both names.
He was educated from the age of twelve at King's School, Worcester, and became a scholar at Worcester College, Oxford aged fifteen. In March 1749, he accompanied his brother on a trip to the continent, to aid Richard's health. They visited Paris for about six weeks, before spending the summer "on the banks of the Loire". They then visited "Bourdeaux, Thoulouse, Montpelier, Marseilles, Leghorn, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Venice, Padua, Verona, Milan, Lyons, and again Paris"; such expeditions are often known as the Grand Tour.
On his return in late summer 1751, Nash took up a post as Vicar of Eynsham through his friend and future brother-in-law, John Martin. He also had an income as a tutor at Oxford. He took his Doctor of Divinity degree and left Oxford, having "gone out grand compounder", following the death of his brother. He also left his benefice at Eynsham in 1757. While at Oxford he had proposed a road from there to Witney (now the A40 and B4022), and also stood for Parliament. Nash married Margaret Martin...
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1780s Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet).
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Storrs, CT
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet). c. 1889-1890. Drypoint. Breeskin, 134.v. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 15 3/4 x 9 7/8). A rich impression with burr and plate...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Drypoint
$12,000 Sale Price
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Apollo, plate 11 from the series of The Gods in Niches
Located in Middletown, NY
by Jacopo Caraglio (after Rosso Fiorentino)
Rome: Carlo Losi, 1526. Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches, 215 x 110 mm), thread margins. In very good condition with a...
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17th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Hidden Cities III: Continuum, by Peter Milton
By Peter Milton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Peter Milton’s Hidden Cities: Continuum transforms the grandeur of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele into a layered meditation on architecture, memory, and the passage of time. The Gall...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Sator - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint with roulette on Japanese paper from the Series "Faust" (Walpurgis Night).
Image dimension 32x24 cm.
Hand signed in pencil
Artist proof. Blindstamp "Dali", ou...
Category
1960s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
$1,069 Sale Price
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THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SEATED BY A TREE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SEATED BY A TREE 1513 (Bartsch 35; Meder 34 c-d, Hollstein 34)
Engraving a generally good impression. Trimmed slightly into the i...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Tourelle, Rue de la Tixéranderie démolie en 1851
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on watermarked Hudelist laid paper, 9 5/8 x 5 inches (245 x 129mm) full margins. Second state (of five) after lettering. A superb condition with a pencil inscrip...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
New York Skyline
By Louis H. Ruyl
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Portfolio of 11 drypoint etchings with roulette from 1969.
The edition 142/145.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm.
Hand signed.
...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Allée des Verges (Penis Alley)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Allée des Verges (Penis Alley)
Etching from 1969.
125/145 on Japan paper.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Graphik Europa An...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
L
atelier de Cannes (first state)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - L'atelier de Cannes (The Cannes Studio)
Lithograph from 1956.
The edition of 275.
Dated in the plate at the upper left: “7.4.56”.
Dimensions of work: ...
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20th Century Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Manhattan Old and New
— Vintage New York Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Manhattan Old and New', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 81. Signed, titled, and numbered '81/100' in pencil. Titled and annotated '30.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.
The subject of the print is the lower Manhattan cityscape just before the Depression.
Image size 8 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (222 x 173 mm); sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints.
Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist.
Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne...
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1920s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Baroque 17th century German fountain design engraving print by Boeckler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baroque 17th century German fountain design
Copper-line engraving, published in 1664 in Nuremberg. From 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' by George Andreas B...
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Mid-17th Century Baroque Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$22,800 Sale Price
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The Deluge
from
The Temple of the Muses
— 18th Century Engraving
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
Category
1730s Baroque Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Liquid atomizer anti-shade, ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
Lafitte
s Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
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...
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1850s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Argentinean signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 27x19 in. n9
Located in Miami, FL
Justo Barboza (Argentina, 1938)
'17 huellas', 1995
silkscreen on paper Guarro Geler
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: BAR1437-009-025
Hand-signed by author
Category
20th Century Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Screen
Mizuhiki
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100.
Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$82 Sale Price
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"Battle Horse I" 2019 Original Signed Engraving Etching 30x47 in Mexican Art
Located in Miami, FL
Miguel Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1956)
'Caballo de Batalla I', 2019
Engraving on paper Intaglio 300 g.
29.8 x 47.3 in. (75.5 x 120 cm.)
Edition of 30
ID: CAM-101
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Man Ray
Le Mannequin
aquatint engraving - 1975
By Man Ray
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Man Ray
'Le Mannequin'
Aquatint/Engraving
1975
Edition: From the rare limited edition of 150
Size: 50x35 CM.
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Published by Cleto Polcina E...
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
$2,999 Sale Price
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1947 original engraving by Marcel Duchamp - Coffee Mill
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare 1947 original engraving, Coffee Mill, by Marcel Duchamp is a profound example of his conceptual approach to mechanical imagery and Dada aesthetics. Signed by the artist and...
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1940s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Christmas print with hand coloring in oil stick, Signed, Framed, hand colored
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
The Christmas Print (Burg, 26), 2001
Drypoint, direct gravure, etching over offset lithograph with hand coloring by artist in oil stick, on T.H. Saunders paper, the full she...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil Crayon, Drypoint, Etching, Offset
Manhattan Mountains
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
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20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Chepstow Castle ( on a limestone cliff above the River Wye in Wales)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The magnificent printed works of the Yorkshire artist, Percival Gaskell have only been fully rediscovered in recent years. Percival Gaskell rose to prominence whilst working together with Sir Frank Short in the engraving school at the Royal College of Art in London during the first two decades of the 20th century. A true painter-printmaker, Percival Gaskell developed a sensitivity to atmospheric tone which is displayed in an air of timeless beauty throughout his printed works.
(sheet 24 x 20 1/2). A fine impression with tone printed in warm brown/black ink on chine appliqué mounted on white wove paper, and a backing board. Signed in pencil. Superb signed proof impression printed in warm-brownish-black ink. One of Gaskell's best large scale mezzotints.
The speed with which William the Conqueror committed to the creation of a castle at Chepstow is testament to its strategic importance. There is no evidence for a settlement there of any size before the Norman invasion of Wales, although it is possible that the castle site itself may have previously been a prehistoric or early...
Category
1940s English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
$296 Sale Price
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"Mother" 2004 original signed engraving etching limited edition print Cuban art
Located in Miami, FL
Eduardo ¨Choco¨ Roca Salazar (Cuba, 1949)
'Mother II ', 2004
dry point on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g.
19.3 x 15.4 in. (49 x 39 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: CHO-112_1
Hand-sign...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Engraving, Etching
The Plaza, Sunset Glow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Plaza, Sunset Glow', drypoint, c. 1920s, edition not stated. Signed in pencil and initialed in the plate, lower right. Titled 'The Plaza, Sunset' and annotated 'no. 165' in ink, in the bottom left sheet corner. A superb, luminous impression in dark brown ink, with selectively wiped plate tone; on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/4 inches). Pale tape stains on the top sheet edge, recto, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A view across 'The Pond' in New York City's Central Park, toward Grand Army Plaza...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Oxyacantha rosea superba, antique botanical pink flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Alexandria, Egypt, copper-line engraving by Cornelius de Bruyn , 1690
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Alexandria'
A view of Pompey's Pillar with Alexandria in the background. Cornelis de Bruijn was a Dutch artist and traveler. He is best known for his drawings of the ruins of Perse...
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Late 17th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Prickles and Hairs - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is impression #12 from an edition of 45
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed the black ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$75 Sale Price
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Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre..
Located in Storrs, CT
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre. (En regardant les Watteau de Louvre). c. 1895. Drypoint printed in 2 colors - black and sepia. 11 3/4 x 15 7/8. Goncourt 3, d...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Color
$6,500 Sale Price
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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
Late 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Photogravure
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper, #20/150
Black and white etching by Darien Payne (American, b. 1951). This piece is a meticulously detailed depiction of ...
Category
1990s Photorealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Pierre Auguste Renoir, "Mère et Enfant , " rare drypoint
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Mère et Enfant, 1896
Drypoint in brown and green
From a very rare edition of 100 impressions on cream-toned Van Gelder laid paper
Reference: Delteil #10
Printed...
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Late 18th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Salvador Dalí(1904–1989)- “Femme a la Chaussure” and “La Femme tentant un voile"
Located in Varese, IT
This lot comprises multiple hand-watercolored drypoint etchings on extremely fine Japanese paper, all edited in 1969.
Each piece is part of a limited edition of 145 copies, water-col...
Category
1960s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Xisco Mensua Spanish artist 1995 original signed framed engraving print n8
By Xisco Mensua
Located in Miami, FL
Xisco Mensua (Spain, 1960)
Untitled from Portfolio "Junio - Julio", 1995
engraving on paper
12.6 x 9.5 in. (32 x 24 cm.)
Edition of 6
Frame 16x20 in.
ID: MEN1253-008
Hand-signed by a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving
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
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
1980s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$138 Sale Price
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Chicago Skyline
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
George II, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George II'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Riders at Sundown
— Mid-Century Southwest Regionalism
By Gene Kloss
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Riders at Sundown', aquatint and drypoint, edition 75, 1953, Kloss 451. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Artist's Proof' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmospheric impression, in ...
Category
1950s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Planetary And Scatologic Vision
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Planetary and Scatologic Vision
Year: 1974
Medium: Engraving with embossing and color lithograph
Edition: Numbered...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Baignoire à tornade liquide (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Baignoire à tornade liquide (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Liquid tornado bathtub, Imaginations a...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Drypoint, Screen
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Mrs. Hezekiah Brown
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Mrs. Hezekiah Brown
Image: 19.0 x 11.2 cm
Mount: 31.8 x 23.0 cm
Wood engraving
1932
One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Wood, Engraving
$87 Sale Price
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Come Here and I
ll show you something, original, contemporary art, animal, print
Located in Deddington, GB
Come Here and I'll show you something beautiful is a limited edition drypoint etching finished with oil pastel by artist and printmaker, Kate Boxer.
The work is soft purple pastel c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolored Etching
Antique Birds, from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Di...
Category
17th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
wood engraving for Mille Nuits
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...
Category
1950s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Italian Boat at Sunrise
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era.
Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Dali Vertical Portrait de Calderon engraving
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Work of the Spanish artist SALVADOR DALI.
Engraving of the series LA VIDA ES SUEÑO.
Printed signature and date, as issued
Catalog. OFFICIAL CATALOG GRAPHYC WORKS BY ALBERT FIELD Page...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt
Located in Storrs, CT
Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed o...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$16,000 Sale Price
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Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
A Man of Mangea 1784 final voyage of Captain Cook by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Mangea is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was the official a...
Category
1780s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Confident
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$206 Sale Price
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Nelson Dominguez "Personajes del circo" 2001 signed original engraving 30x22in
Located in Miami, FL
Nelson Dominguez (Cuba, 1947)
'Personajes del circo', 2001
engraving on paper Deponte 300 g.
29.2 x 22.1 in. (74 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 40
ID: DOM-103
Unframed
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Pair of Hand-colored Romantic French Engravings after Francois Boucher
By (After) Francois Boucher
Located in Alamo, CA
A pair of French classical romantic prints original created in the 18th century by Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797) after paintings by Francois Boucher (1703-1770), utilizing ...
Category
18th Century Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
La Boullie (The Porridge), Old Masters Drypoint Etching by Jean Francois Millet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Etching printed in brownish black on light tan Chine collé, 1861. Image measures 6 x 5 inches, displayed in a 15.5 x 12.5 inch frame. Etched signature and date lower left. A very goo...
Category
1860s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio
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Art is a smart investment if the print-collecting bug has bitten you. But maybe you’re merely looking to bring art into your home — if so, engravings and other types of fine art prints can help enhance your space while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.
An engraving is a print made by incising lines into a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin. After the image is drawn, the plate is inked, wiped clean, and then firmly pressed to paper so the ink remaining in the incised grooves is transferred. Considerable force is required to mark the metal, so the lines made by engraving tend to be stronger than those made through etching, and characterized by gentle tapering. Light and shade have to be created through cross-hatching since the technique is line-based.
Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Francisco Goya are among the Old Masters admired for their engravings, but postwar and contemporary artists have made the most of the technique as well.
Vija Celmins, for example, engraved wood to create her series of ocean surfaces, while Louise Bourgeois, who spoke about the symbolic power of engraving to convert aggression into something useful, revisited the medium throughout her long career. For Jasper Johns, recognized as one of the most innovative, masterful print artists of all time, printmaking was ideal for exploring the ideas of repetition, seriality, patterning, semiotics, order and symbolism that intrigued him. His crosshatch prints (and paintings, for that matter) are a wonderful reference to the engraving process but also a brilliant conceptual update of Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, which Johns subverted again and again.
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