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Medium: Engraving
An Engraving from the Series
The Cries of London
: "Turnips
Carrots"
Located in Alamo, CA
A beautifully framed hand-colored engraving from the famous "Cries of London" series, depicting the lives and professions of the common people of 18th ...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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Mid-18th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
La Seine à Courbevoie
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 11 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches (295 x 460mm); sheet 16 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (425 x 570 mm), full margins. A superb proof printed in bistre brow...
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Early 20th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
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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Early 1800s Victorian Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Industry and Idleness Plate 3: The Idle
Prentice at Play In The Church Yard
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
William Hogarth was an English painter and engraver, the outstanding British artist of his period. During his childhood, his father, a schoolteacher, was imprisoned for debt, and this early experience of the seamy side of life left a deep mark on Hogarth (much of his output is concerned with the contrast between success and failure, and he depicted prisons in several works). He trained as an engraver of silver plate and by 1720 had set up his own business in London, doing various kinds of commercial work. In his spare time he studied painting, first at the St Martin's Lane Academy and later under Sir James Thornhill, whose daughter he married in 1729. By the early 1730s he had achieved some success as a painter of conversation pieces and at about the same time he invented the idea of using a sequence of anecdotal pictures ‘similar to representations on the stage’ to point a moral and satirize social abuses.
A set of 12 original engravings illustrating Industry and Idleness, after the drawings by William Hogarth, printed in 1833. The engravers are F Jordan, E Smith, C Armstrong, S Davenport, H Adlard, W H Worthington, H Fernell, A Duncan and F F Walker. The engravings, which are in excellent condition, would be mounted (matted) and ready to frame
Edward Smith (fl. 1823-49)
The landscape, figure, and portrait engraver Edward Smith may have been a native of Edinburgh but appears to have worked mostly in London. His earliest recorded plates...
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1830s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$185 Sale Price
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Chrysanthemum: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Chrysanthemum matricaria plants. It is entitled "A. Chrysanthemum Matricarice Folus Flore...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Mezzotint
HERCULES FIGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIULIO BONASONE (Italian 1500/10-1574)
HERCULES FiGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left 1531–76 (Bartsch XV.157.178; Massari 1983, no.230)
Engraving. Lettered in roundel held by putto at right: 'Iulio / Bonasone' Sheet 10 5/8 x 16 7/8 inches. Thread margins outside border line. A fair impression. Early annotations lower left verso, as well aa a collectors stamp: Lugt 2773 - A. Freiherr von...
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16th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Prickly Viper
s Bugloss Henry Andrews antique botanical flower Echium engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Echium Ferocissimum - Prickly Viper's Bugloss'
Native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Bot...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
A View of Kauai, Hawaii as Seen by Captain Cook: An Original 18th C. Engraving
By John Webber
Located in Alamo, CA
"An Inland View in Atooi, One of the Sandwich Islands (Kauai, Hawaii)" is an original 18th century engraving from a drawing by John Webber (1751-1793), who was the artist who accompa...
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1780s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Poesies de Mallarme
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: engraving (after the 1932 etching for Poésies de Mallarmé). Printed in 1933 on watermarked Montgolfier laid paper and published in Paris by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Size: ...
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1930s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Benjamin Franklin, 19th century American political portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Benjamin Franklin
Steel-engraving by WJ Edwards after Joseph Siffred Duplessis. C1860. . Vignette below image titled 'Declaration of Independence'.
When Franklin arrived in France ...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Old Master Royal Stallion Engraving by Crispin de Passe
Located in New York, NY
Crispin van de Passe The Younger (c. 1594-1670)
Untitled (Royal Stallion), c. 1620-1660
Engraving
Sight: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 18 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.
Inscribed in plate: Le Bonit...
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17th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Four 19th Century Hand Colored Engravings Depicting English Royal Residences
By Charles Wild
Located in Alamo, CA
Four hand colored etchings and aquatints depicting interiors within English royal residences, including "The Blue Velvet Room at Carlton House", "The Queen's Library at Frogmore", "T...
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1810s Academic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$1,248 Sale Price
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Owl - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
By Mario Avati
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009).
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in pencil. Ed...
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1960s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Mezzotint
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
A Drypoint etching on Wove...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Diptych
— Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm).
Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing.
Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green.
An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...
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1960s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Dei Praestitis Signumexaere
— 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Dei Praestitis Signumexaere' (God's Providence Signumexaere), engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. E...
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1730s Realist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Ciro Quintana Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed silkscreen 2016
Located in Miami, FL
Ciro Quintana (Cuba, 1965)
'Abstraccion de Vereda Tropical', 2016
silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g.
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 50
ID: QUI-301...
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2010s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Engraving, Screen
Set of Three Engravings from Nash
s "History of Worcestershire" /// Landscapes
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Treadway Russell Nash (English, 1724-1811)
Title: "A View of Pershore, from Pensham hill", "A View of Shipston upon Stour", and "Kidderminster"
Portfolio: Collections for the History of Worcestershire
Year: 1781-1782 (First edition)
Medium: Set of Three 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. 10.13" x 16.75"
Image size (each): approx. 7" x 11.88"
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 three 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". All three, "A View of Pershore, from Pensham hill", "A View of Shipston upon Stour", and "Kidderminster" have an unidentified watermark in the center of their sheets resembling "XV".
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
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Engraving, Laid Paper
Jardin biologique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Jardin biologique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Organic garden, Imaginations and Objects of the ...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$14,800 Sale Price
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"February Bouquet" from
The Twelve Months of Flowers
series by Robert Furber
By Robert Furber
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed hand-colored engraving entitled "February Bouquet" is from 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' by Henry Furber, published in London in 1730 by Robert Sayer and John King. Each of the twelve hand-colored engravings in the book were produced from paintings by Pieter Casteels (1684-1749) and engraved by Henry Fletcher (1710-1753). The book featured twelve detailed engravings of seasonal plants in bloom in the form of a bouquet. More than 400 different species of flowering plants were included with each plant numbered and accompanied by a list of the corresponding species names. Thirty-five species of flowers are depicted in this engraving in a bouquet sitting in an ornate attractive bowl. A few of the flowers lie loose on a table. The flower species are listed in a table in the lower portion of the plate, along with the month that these flowers are in bloom.
This colorful print is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a cream-colored double mat with a heather green inner mat. The frame measures 23.5" High, 19" wide and 1.63" deep. There are a few small frame abrasions, but the print is in very good condition.
Robert Furber...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
AMERICA
By John Speed
Located in Santa Monica, CA
IMPORTANT AMERICAN MAP - ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHOW CALIFORNIA as an ISLAND
JOHN SPEED (1552-1629)
AMERICA - With Those Known Parts In That Unknown Worlde (sic),
1626-(76)
(Burden 217 iv/iv) Engraving, uncolored. Engraved by Abraham Goos and
published by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell - 4th state of 4 in 1676
15 1/8 x 20 1/2” From “A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the
World”. Generally good condition. A repaired split in lower centerfold. This
is the most common version of this important map...
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1620s Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$4,080 Sale Price
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Winslow Homer 19th Century Woodcut Engraving "The Morning Walk"
Located in Alamo, CA
This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "The Morning Walk, Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue", was published in Harper's Weekly in the...
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1870s American Impressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Woodcut
$700 Sale Price
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The Duchess of St. Albans: A 17th C. Portrait After a Kneller Painting
By (After) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraved mezzotint portrait of the Duchess of St. Albans by John Smith, after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. It was published in London by John Boydell in 1694.
The Duchess of St. Albans (1642-1712) was a woman named Diana de Vere. She was born in 1642, the daughter of Aubrey de Vere, the 20th Earl of Oxford. In 1662, she married Charles Beauclerk, the illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mistress, Nell Gwyn. As a result of her marriage, Diana became the Duchess of St. Albans, and she and Charles had several children together. Diana was known for her beauty and charm, and she was a prominent figure in the court of King Charles II. Despite her husband's illegitimate birth, Diana was highly respected in the royal court and was known for her intelligence and wit. She was a patron of the arts and supported many artists and writers of the time. Diana lived through a tumultuous period of English history, including the Great Fire of London and the Glorious Revolution, which saw King James II replaced by William of Orange. She died in 1712 at the age of 70 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Descendants of Diana and her husband, who was an illegitimate son of King Charles II, include Diana, Princess of Wales and her son William, Duke of Cambridge.
An author wrote of her: "The line of Vere, so long renown’d in arms,
Concludes with luster in St. Albans’s charms;
Her conquering eyes have made their race complete,
It rose in valor, and in beauty set."
This striking mezzotint engraving depicts Diana, Duchess of St Albans in a three-quarter length pose, standing, wearing loose flowing dress and a wrap. She has a very serene, calm appearance as she is looking straight at the viewer. There is a landscape of trees in the background. The print is adhered in the corners to an archival backing, which is itself adhered in the upper corners to a larger backing. The print is trimmed to just beyond the plate mark. There are areas of discoloration in the margins and in the inscription area, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The sheet measures 14.5" high and 10" wide. This mezzotint is held by multiple museums and institutions, including The British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery London, The Fine Arts Museum of Boston, The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, The Yale Center for British Art, The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge and The National Galleries of Scotland. The original Kneller painting is part of the British Royal Collection Trust and hangs in the King's Private Dining Room at Hampton Court Palace.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) was a leading portrait painter of his time, particularly renowned for his depictions of the British aristocracy and royalty. He was born in Lübeck, Germany, and trained in Amsterdam under the painter Ferdinand Bol...
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Late 17th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
$2,220 Sale Price
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Auction
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
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1920s Expressionist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Roman Costumes: Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of 50 copperplate engravings featuring early 19th century costume scenes set in the Roman countryside. With characters dedicated to work, games, revelry, and various act...
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Early 19th Century Italian School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching
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...
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1950s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Woodcut
Abstract Composition Color Engraving
By Najar Barsoumian Hratchaya
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstract composition
color engraving pencil signed limited edition 10/60, actual size 22"X29"5 framed 31"x39" under glass.
Hratchaya Najar Barsoumian
Born in 1939 in Alep, Syria, N...
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1970s Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Engraving
READING BY LAMPLIGHT
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. READING BY LAMPLIGHT. Etching and drypoint, 1859. Glascow 37, W.25, K.32. Third state of three, with the revisions to the sitter's facial expression and the dar...
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1850s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Summer Maple
Located in New York, NY
A drypoint and aquatint by artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold.
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21st Century and Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
"A Mirage" signed etching / drypoint (trial proof)
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Seeber 194. This impression on japon paper is annotated "trial proof" and pencil-signed and titled in the margin, with Geo...
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1920s Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Low Country (South Carolina)
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
Pompelmus (Grapefruit): An Early 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Volckamer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of the anatomy of grapefruit by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "Pompelmus (Grapefruit), Der Herra Sitz und Burg...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Cattle, English antique animal engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cattle
Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879.
160mm by 245mm (sheet).
Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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...
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1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Journal D
Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 15 - Drypoint by Joan Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
This is an original drypoint realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right and numbered on the lower left. Edition of 75 prints. It represents an abstract s...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Two naval images depicting 17th century warships
Located in Middletown, NY
French School 20th century
Two naval images depicting 17th century warships flying various flags, including the Plantagenet Lions and St. George's Cross. (2)
c1950. Two engravings w...
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20th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
The Fighting Temeraire: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After J. M. W. Turner
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "The Fighting Temeraire" by James Tibbetts Willmore is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published by James S. Virtue & Co. in London between 1859-1875. It depicts the once mighty British warship the HMS Temeraire being towed away down the river Thames by a much smaller steamboat to a ship-breaking yard to be broken up for scrap. The Temeraire was first launched in 1798 and represented the pinnacle of British ship-building. 180-feet long, constructed of English oak and armed with 98 guns, she was one of the largest warships of the period. The Temeraire became a symbol of British pride and military power that endured throughout the 19th century. The man-of-war served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was among the last serving ships to have been at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It became one of the many older ships put out of service in the 1830s and 1840s. The once mighty and feared ship symbolizes a once magnificent, but now obsolete, technology. Turner seems to lament her inglorious final journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat.
The Turner painting was created in 1838 and is now held in the National Gallery in London. Willmore's engraving, created in 1859, captures the dramatic scene with great detail and skill. The image has become an iconic representation of the decline of Britain's naval power and the transition from sail to steam in the 19th century. The sunset in the background is symbolic of the sun going down on British naval power and tradition. The painting conveys profound and diverse themes that are central to the human experience: those of mortality and change, technology and progress, heroism and brutality. The painting demonstrates Turner’s skill as an artist. His ability to produce scenes of great beauty that are dramatic, but are also symbolic, stimulating both thoughtful analysis, as well as emotion. Turner's painting was voted by the British public in a 2005 BBC radio sponsored survey to be the British people's favorite painting of all time. In 2020 it was included on a new British banknote...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$540 Sale Price
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Portrait de Marguerite (Portrait of Marguerite)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Portrait de Marguerite (Portrait of Marguerite)
Drypoint etching with roulette from 1969.
The edition 142/145.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm.
Hand si...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fugue (Are these boats running away from the others)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
In Anne Dykmans' "Fugue", sailing vessels race across the seas. This impression is #65 of 75 and is signed, titled and dated by the artist.
Anne Dykmans (Belgian, b. 1952)
Anne Dykma...
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1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$90 Sale Price
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Salvador Dali "Untitled VII (Le Tricorne)"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Untitled VII (Le Tricorne)
Series: Le Tricorne (The Three-Pointed Hat)
Date: 1959
Medium: Wood engraving
Unframed Dimensions: 12.6" x 8.8"
Framed...
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1950s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$1,600 Sale Price
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Derain, Figure, Du cubisme (after)
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching, Engraving on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagn...
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1940s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Engraving
$1,436 Sale Price
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Icart, Composition, 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...
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1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Composition - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original print in etching and drypoint on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork created through conf...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$166 Sale Price
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Baroque 17th century German fountain design engraving print by Boeckler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
17th century German fountain design
Copper-line engraving, published in 1664 in Nuremberg. From 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' by George Andreas Beckley (...
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Mid-17th Century Baroque Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
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1920s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,750 Sale Price
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"Paysages" original drypoints
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This pair of drypoints was printed in Paris in 1917 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate sizes: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (89 x 58 mm) and...
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1910s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif
Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
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1990s Contemporary Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Fifth Avenue Bridge.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Fifth Avenue Bridge. 1928. Drypoint. McCarron 72. 9 7/8 x 12 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15). Edition of 108 recorded impressions. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper, with full margin...
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1920s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Flowering Feverfew Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Matricaria Flore Simplici, Matricaria Flore Pleno, depicting flowering Feverfew and Double-flowered Feverfew plants, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. The feverfew plant is also known as featherfew, featherfoil, or bachelor’s buttons...
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1640s Academic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
A Pair of Woodpeckers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of male and female woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Male de la Encenada, 2. Petit Pic des Moluques (Woodpeckers)"...
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1760s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
BESLER. A Group of Four Peonies.
Located in London, GB
Four magnificent copper engraved plates with hand-colour from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field.
[Nuremberg and Eichstatt, 1640].
The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen.
The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler...
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1640s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Copper
To-Ka-Con, A Sioux Chief: Hand-colored McKenney
Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall engraving of a Native American entitled "To-Ka-Con, A Sioux Chief", drawn ...
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1830s Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$1,260 Sale Price
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Flowering Pea Plant: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Lathyrus Major Peremis Richern B. Lathyrus Narbonensis Flore Albescen...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Gravure Panthere 2
By Paul Jouve
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Engraving after Paul Jouve
From the work of Terrasse in 1948
490 copies
Size etching: 23 x 18 cm
Frame: 45 x 49 cm
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2010s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Bambalina (Are ornaments, decorations mere backdrop for true Christmas story)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Souto named this image Bambalina (backstage). It is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela. He received a BFA from Herron Schoo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from Alternation, 1946
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Alternance (Alternation), originates from the 1946 edition published by Le Gerbier, P...
Category
1940s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$1,436 Sale Price
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A Standing Leap at a Gate
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
A Standing Leap at a Gate
Mezzotint with hand colouring
Image size 10 x 14 in
Framed size 16 1/2 x 20 in
James Seymour was an English artist renowned for h...
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18th Century Old Masters Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
The Gothic Spirit
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
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1920s American Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,500 Sale Price
28% Off
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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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