1880s Prints and Multiples

Etching realized by Alphones Charles Masson after Théodule Ribot, in 1880s. Not signed, as issued. It depicts a young man in three-quarter view, dressed in period clothing with a b...

Medium: etching (after the painting). Etched by Charles Courtry after Constant Troyon. This impression on laid paper was printed by A. Salmon and published in Paris for "L'Art" in 18...

Medium: original etching. This bucolic landscape is located in what is now the borough of Queens in New York City. Printed on laid paper in 1880 and published by The American Art Rev...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Looks Slovenly', Mannerisms of a Kyoto Geisha from the Kansei Period from Thirty-Two Daily Scenes (風俗三十二相), 1888 Woodblock print Oban The image depicts a geisha...

Medium: etching (etched by Théophile Narcisse Chauvel after the Corot painting). This impression on japon paper was printed circa 1880 at the Francois Lienard atelier and published i...

Rare etching realized by Max Klinger in 1884. II state on 2. Image dimensions: 13.9x19 cm. Very good condition except for some diffused foxing in the margins. Ref. Singer, 284.

Etching realized by James Ensor, as part of the Series "Les Sept Péchées Capitaux", a set ot 8 etchings. Hand signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed also in the plate. Excellen...

A grouping of three engravings depicting classical Italian architectural features held in the National Museum of Naples, entitled "Bronze Hydria", "Marbre Naissance de Bacchus" and "...

Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito (The custody is as barbarous as the crime) is a black and White Etching after Francisco Goya, published in 1881-1886 . Good Conditions. Edit...

Classic "Spy" aka Sir Leslie Ward 1880 colour-portrait of Keith from Vanity Fair's Men of The Day folio this gent being No. 219. Print Sz: 13 3/8"H x 8 1/8"W Frame Sz: 20"H x 14"W ...

Assassinat is an original etching on the Japanese paper, realized by James Ensor in 1888, signed on the plate and dated, with the second signature on the reverse. In good conditions...

Medium: original etching. The artist Adolphe Martial Potemont was also known as A. P. Martial. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very sc...

Medium: etching (etched by Gustave Greux after the Corot painting). This impression on japon paper was printed circa 1880 at the Francois Lienard atelier and published in Paris by L'...

Maternal Delight III, or Mothers Joy III, (In Swedish Modersglädje III) by Anders Zorn depicting a young woman lovingly playing with her child. A small amusing detail is the small child face visible on the lower left side, just outside the oval. This is an extremely rare etching and is one of two or possibly three known in existence of a so called cancellation proof. A cancellation proof etching of the Maternal Delight III is in the Boston Public Library Collection, USA. Signed Zorn in the plate. When Zorn decided that the vey limited number of prints were all done he took his burin, (the steel cutting tool used in engraving also, back in history, called graver), and made cross hatched lines across the figures on the original plate, after which he made a couple of after proofs or cancellation proofs and the present etching is one of them. This gives the present work a special and interesting image of one of Zorns best and rarest etchings. Created in London 1883, the first year he made etchings. Etching 276 x 406mm Sheet circa 33,5 x 48cm Literature Asplund 6. Delteil. 5. Hjert & Hjert 6. Lidbeck 6. Unfortunately some reflexes in the photos. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. He was to become one of Swedens foremost artists ever. No technique was foreign to him, he worked equally well with watercolors, wash technique or oil painting. The etching technique also attracted this virtuoso and the etchings contributed greatly to his success. Between 1875 to 1880, Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he amazed his teachers with his talent. Members of the Stockholm Society approached him with commissions. In early 1881, Zorn met Emma Lamm, whose background was quite different from his. Emma Lamm was from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. She was interested in art and culture and, after a long engagement, they were married in 1885. During the 1880s Zorn traveled extensively, to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy, and the United States. In the 1890s when he was in Paris, he spent much time with Albert Edelfelt. He quickly became an international success and one of the most highly regarded painters of his era. In the beginning of Zorns career, it was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that gained him international acclaim, based principally upon his incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model, he came to portray many great people including three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. Zorn also depicted Swedish dignitaries, for example King Oscar II in 1898, King Gustaf V in 1909, Queen Sophia in 1909, Prince Eugen in 1891, fellow artist Carl Larsson in 1897 and August Strindberg in 1910. In the late 1880s, Zorn began working in the genre that is probably his hallmark for the general public, nude studies in the open air. Zorn had long been fascinated by the movements of water and the reflections of light on the water surface. Now Zorn chose to place a nude model by or in the water, with the aim of depicting people in nature. When Zorn started the art of etching, he developed a technique with Rembrandt as a model, where he built up the motif with bursts of lines. The first etching was created in London in 1883, the same year as our Maternal Delight. Axel Herman Hägg, then active in London, was Zorn's teacher in this special technique. Hägg was the person Zorn depicted in his first etching. Zorn quickly mastered the etching technique itself and a unanimous art expert was able to conclude early on that Rembrandt had now found his equal. At the age of 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. Zorn's reputation as an etcher spread across the world. Soon he could find his etchings in the major world metropolises in Europe and the USA. Zorn produced 289 different etchings, including portraits, genre studies and nude studies. The motifs on Anders Zorn's graphic sheets are most often based on his own paintings, as ours, which is based on a watercolor he made in 1882 on his first trip to Spain. Even during Zorn's lifetime, his etchings were considered to be artistically superior to his paintings. As a result, his graphics quickly became sought after on the international art market. He was compared to Rembrandt, who as mentioned earlier was Zorn's great role model in the art of etching. Zorn was able to combine the old technique with his personal form of impressionism and the temporary and everyday with the universal. On the printing plates, one can study his outstanding etching technique, his characteristic play with parallel lines drawn in different directions, with varying degrees of force and intensity. Zorn's art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State. Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Other museums holding major works by Zorn include the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Zorn Collections located in Mora and Garberg, Älvdalen, consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn. Shown there are extensive works of Zorn and his collected art. The Bellman Prize (Bellmanpriset) is a literature prize for "an outstanding Swedish poet", every year awarded by the Swedish Academy. The prize was established by Anders Zorn and his wife Emma in 1920. The motif: The present etching is based on a central and important work from Zorns first important trip to Spain, 1881-1882. After visiting Madrid and Seville, Zorn set off for Cádiz, tempted by the sea and the city’s women who were reputed to be the most beautiful in all of Spain. In Maternal Delight, also translated to Mothers Joy and Mothers Pride...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell Company. Plate size: 5 x...

Medium: original etching. Executed in 1883; this is a rich, dark impression on heavy cream wove paper, from the "Original Etchings by American Artists" portfolio, published in 1883 b...

Etching and drypoint after Vermeer's The Soldier and the Laughing Girl (c. 1657). Published in 1881 on "L'Art". Very Good condition. Ref. L’Art, 1881, p. 301 I.F.F. 23 H.Bré, 268

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression on on cream wove paper was printed in 1889. Plate size: 5 x 9 3/4 inches (125 x 250 mm). Signed and titled in the plate (not ha...

Medium: original etching. Executed in 1883; this is a rich, dark impression on heavy cream wove paper, from the "Original Etchings by American Artists" portfolio, published in 1883 b...

A Caza de Dientes is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition...

Original Ambassadeurs Les Cinq Demi-Vierges. Linen backed in B condition. It was folded at one time with the fold marks laid down during the linen backing process. There are som...

Medium: original etching. The full title is "An Italian Macaroni of the Eighteenth Century". A nice impression in reddish-brown ink on cream laid paper, published in 1887 by Frederic...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 4 1/2 x...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (197 x 1...

Everywhere Eyeballs Are Ablaze is an original lithograph on Chine collé, realized by Odilon Redon in 1888, plate 7 “Les tentations de St.Antoine”(1ère série), unique state, 1st edition printed...

Medium: original etching. This impression on cream laid paper is from the edition printed for "French Etchers", published in New York in 1884. Plate size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (158 x...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. Executed in 1885 and printed on thin china paper, this is an exceptionally rare state with the figure study of a child etched at the bottom lef...

Original stone lithograph poster: Droit D' Ainesse (The Birthright) Opera. Early stone lithograph that is archival linen backed and ready to frame. Not mint; but in very good condition. A girl this old is allowed to show her age. Original linen-backed early 1880's vintage opera poster...

Medium: etching (etched by Paul Rajon after Rembrandt). Printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 7 1/4 x 6 i...

Medium: original etching. This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1884 for the "French Etchers" portfolio, and published in New York. Image size: 9 x 11 3/4 inches (225 x ...

Medium: original etching. This impression on japon paper was printed in 1880 by Francois Lienard (before letters were added) and published in Paris for a deluxe edition of L'Art. Pla...

Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1883 and published in Boston by Estes and Lauriat. This composition is also called "July". Plate size: 4 1/4 x ...

A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance. Paris: Lemerre, 1880. Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Third state (of 4). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733). [Bourcard 112] A note regarding the provenance: J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...

This powerful and allegorical original 1889 poster by E. Conrad was created for the celebrated Exposition Universelle de Paris, marking a high point in 19th-century France’s embrace ...

Ni Mai ni Menos is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition.V...

Medium: etching (etched by Theophile Narcisse Chauvel after the Corot painting). This impression on laid paper was printed circa 1880 at the Francois Lienard atelier and published in...

Medium: original etching. Signed both in the plate and in pencil. Catalogue reference Schneiderman 202. Executed in 1881, and printed on laid paper with full margins. Plate size: 7 x...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Image size: 5 x 7 1/2 inches (125 x 190 m...

Medium: original etching. François Nicolas Augustin Feyen was known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin. This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1884 for the "French Etchers" portfoli...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

Love, Death and the Beyond is a original modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881. The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, publish...

The Story of Tamiya Bataro Color woodcut diptych, March 22, 1886 Signed and sealed by the artist (see photo) Yoshitoshi signature, Taiso seal Series: New selection of eastern brocad...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 8 1/2 x...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Rinder 28. Executed in 1889; this is a fine, dark impression on wove paper from "The Portfolio" edition, published in London by Seeley,...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance. Paris: Lemerre, 1880. Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Fourth state (of 5). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733). [Bourcard 113]. A note regarding the provenance: J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...

Amor, Tod und Jenseits, (Cupid, death and afterlife) is an original etching and aquatint on paper Chine collé, realized by Max Klinger in 1881, plate XII from “Intermezzi” Opus IV,...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Schneider 113. Executed in 1885; this is a fine, dark impression with full original margins on watermarked laid paper from "The Portfol...

Medium: original etching. Published in 1883 for a deluxe portfolio of American etchings, this is a fine, dark impression on wove paper. Size: 11 1/2 X 7 5/8 inches (plate); the full ...

Original Title: "Complaisance". Hand signed with red pencil. Artist's Proof. Reference: E.N.372  Rare and in very good condition.

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Victor Hugo, de Face (State 5), Year: 1885, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed in the plate, Edition: 60, Image Size: 8 x 6.25 inches, Size: 17...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 4 x 5 3/4 inches. Signed in t...

Whistler, James A. M. DRURY LANE RAGS. Way 21. lithograph, 1888. Edition of only 15. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, and also in the image. Printed on Japan paper. With Rosalind Birnie Philip's square-sha[ed collector's stamp, denoting a lifetime impression, lower left, verso. 6 x 6 1/2 inches (image), sheet: 12 x 8 inches (sheet) Framed to 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. A brownish spot or stain near the center of the sheet, which may have been on the sheet at the time of printing, given Whistler's inclination to utilize old papers...

Medium: original etching. This impression was printed in 1888 on cream laid paper and published by Estes and Lauriat. Image size: 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (200 x 300 mm). Signed in the ...

Duendecitos is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.  Ti...

Portrait De Ma Mere is a beautiful etching realized by the French painter, engraver, lithographer, and typographer Henri Charles Guérard after Wh...