Old Masters Prints and Multiples
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Venus et l
Amour I, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Venus et l'Amour I, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.75 x 3.25 in. (12.07 x 8.26 cm), Printer: Amand ...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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homme et la femme aux boules, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - L'homme et la femme aux boules, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x 10.16 cm), Printer:...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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The West Prospect of the Cathedral of York /// "Britannia Illustrata" Engraving
By Johannes Kip
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Johannes "Jan" Kip (Dutch, 1652/3-1722)
Title: "The West Prospect of the Cathedral of York" (Vol. 3, Plate 31)
Portfolio: Britannia Illustrata / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne
Year: 1715-1724 (Third edition)
Medium: Original Engraving and Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Joseph Smith, London, UK
Publisher: Joseph Smith, London, UK
Reference: "London Illustrated 1604-1850" - Adams No. 22; Crace No. 201; Brunet IV No. 114; Lowndes No. 1277; Lewine page 263-264
Sheet size: 19.25" x 24.19"
Image size: 16.75" x 22.5"
Condition: With centerfold as issued. Some light toning and foxing mainly in margins, and some light edgewear. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Ross-on-Wye, UK. Engraved by Dutch artist Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/3-1722) after a drawing by Dutch artist Leonard Knyff or Leendert Knijff (1650-1722). Comes from Kip's six volume (including Supplement and 'Atlas Anglois') "Britannia Illustrata" / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne", (1724-1728) (Third edition), which consists of 394 engravings and etchings. Printed in one color from one copper plate: black.
Biography:
Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam - 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. Together with Leonard Knyff, he made a speciality of engraved views of English country houses.
Kip was a pupil of Bastiaen Stopendaal (1636–1707), from 1668 to 1670, before setting up on his own; his earliest dated engravings are from 1672. In April 1680, at the age of 27, he married Elisabeth Breda in Amsterdam. After producing works for the court of William of Orange in Amsterdam, Kip followed William and Mary to London and settled in St. John Street in Farringdon, where he conducted a thriving printselling business. He also worked for various London publishers producing engravings after such artists as Francis Barlow (c. 1626–1704) and Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700), largely for book illustrations. He made several engraved plates for Awnsham & John Churchill's "A Collection of Voyages & Travels" (first published 1704). He signed the African scenes in volume V of the 1732 edition as "J. Kip".
His most important works were the large fold-out folio illustrations for "Britannia Illustrata", 1708; for the 65 folio plates he engraved for the antiquary Sir Robert Atkyns, "The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire", 1712 (1st edition); and for "Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne ou description exacte des palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne", 1715, an extended reprint in collaboration with other artists.
The linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff made a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in detail from the bird's-eye view, a pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was "Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates", London (1707, published in the winter of 1708–9). The volume is among the most important English topographical publications of the 18th century. Architecture is rendered with care, and the settings of parterres and radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths, gates and toolsheds are illustrated in detail. The images are staffed with figures and horses, coaches pulling into forecourts, water...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Portrait d
Erasme, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Albrecht Durer, After by Amand Durand, German (1471 - 1528) - Portrait d'Erasme, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 10.5 x 8 in. (26.67 x 20.32 cm), Printer: A...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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The Little Trellis - Etching by Jacques Callot - Mid-17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper printed after Jacques Callot in the mid-17th Century.
Image dimension: 8.1x16.4 cm.; Matted dimension: 40x60 cm.
Signed in plate lower right: Callot in et fe cu...
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1660s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Composant les dessins pour l
apocalypse de Saint Jean, Etching by Jean Duvet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Duvet, After by Amand Durand, French (1485 - 1562) - Composant les dessins pour l'apocalypse de Saint Jean, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 10.5 x 7 in. (26.67 x 17.78 cm), Printe...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La Lampe Polonoise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Lampe Polonoise
Aquatint, 1771
Signed and dated in the plate lower left
Condition: Yellowing to the sheet
Image size: 6 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Reference: Hedou 147 ii/II
Provenance: C...
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1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Dessin pour un Eventail, Heliogravure by Agostino Carracci
By Agostino Carracci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Agostino Carracci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1557 - 1602) - Dessin pour un Eventail, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 15.5 x 10.5 in. (39.37 x 26.67 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, D...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Sacrifice a Priape, Heliogravure by Jacopo de
Barbari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacopo de' Barbari, After by Amand Durand, Italian/Belgian (1450 - 1516) - Sacrifice a Priape, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.25 x 6.75 in. (23.5 x 17.15 cm), Printer: Amand Durand...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Cleopatre, Old Masters Heliogravure Etching by Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Cleopatre, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.75 x 7 in. (12.07 x 17.78 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Des...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Venus Accroupie, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Venus Accroupie, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.25 x 6 in. (23.5 x 15.24 cm), Printer: Amand Durand...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins) /// Old Masters Raphael
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, 1493-1527)
Title: "Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins)"
*Monogram signed by Dente in the plate (printed signature) lower left
Circa: 1515-1520 (second state of three)
Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Antonio Salamanca, Rome, Italy
Reference: Bartsch XIV, page 244, No. 324; Passavant VI, page 69, No. 32; Le Blanc, II, page 111, No. 16; Imolesi Pozzi pages 71-72, 113, No. 10
Framing: Recently beautifully framed, the sheet is museum mounted, floated over a 100% cotton rag mat in a modern gold moulding and Museum glass
Framed size: 16.88" x 13.07"
Sheet size: 10.63" x 6.94"
Condition: Thread margins. A strong impression in excellent condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Périgueux, France. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above". The engraver's monogram "SR" lower left. Published by Antonio Salamanca (1478-1562) in Rome, Italy with his address printed lower right: "Ant. Sal. Exc.". No watermark found. This engraving is after a drawing by Italian artist Raphael aka Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520).
"This engraving by Marco Dente is after a design by Raphael, now lost, used by Giulio Romano for his fresco on the south wall of the Stufetta of cardinal Bibbiena - a small room in the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican, that originally served as a washroom for the cardinal. The engraving differs from the fresco in some details, such as the cityscape in the background and the two winds above, which may indicate that these elements were present in Raphael's drawing. " - Christie's, London
Biography:
Marco Dente da Ravenna (1493–1527), usually just called Marco Dente, was an Italian engraver born in Ravenna in the latter part of the 15th Century. He was a prominent figure within the circle of printmakers around Marcantonio Raimondi...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Thorsby House in the County of Nottingham /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Title: "Thorsby House in the County of Nottingham" (Vol. 1, Plate 91)
Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Contain...
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1710s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Powis House in Ormond Street London /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Title: "Powis House in Ormond Street London" (Vol. 1, Plate 42)
Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Containing th...
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1710s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Cassia corymbosa (Argentine senna) /// Pancrace Bessa Flower Plant Botanical Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Pancrace Bessa (French, 1772-1846)
Title: "Cassia corymbosa (Argentine senna)" (T.6. No. 32)
Portfolio: Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l'on Cultive en France en Pl...
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Early 1800s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
Self Portrait, Old Masters Heliogravure Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Self Portrait, Medium: Heliogravure, Image Size: 5.5 x 5 inches, Frame Size: 22 x 19.25 inches, Printer: William French
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest sheep figures sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et Bergere Conversant)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolita...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527 - 1598)
AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO, 1587 (1603) (Van Den Broecke 11, Burden 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg 69)
Engraving. A very good, well printed...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Tree, Exhibiting the Various Congregations of the Benedictine Order /// Hollar
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sir William Dugdale (English, 1605-1686)
Title: "Tree, Exhibiting the Various Congregations of the Benedictine Order"
Portfolio: Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbie...
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1810s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Dominus Nicolaus Vander Borcht /// Anthony van Dyck Full Length Portrait Flemish
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Anthony van Dyck (Dutch, 1599-1641)
Title: "Dominus Nicolaus Vander Borcht"
Year: 1703 (first or second state of three)
Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper
Limi...
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Early 1700s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
Letter E - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter E is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Porto Vecchio, Corsica
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Israël Henriet, c1680.
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream laid paper matrix, 3 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches (78 x 180 mm), the full sheet with thread marg...
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17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving
Lantana aculeata (Common Lantana) /// Pancrace Bessa Flower Plant Botanical Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Pancrace Bessa (French, 1772-1846)
Title: "Lantana aculeata (Common Lantana)" (T.6. No. 38)
Portfolio: Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l'on Cultive en France en Ple...
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Early 1800s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
Royal Hospital att Greenwich to the River /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729)
Title: "Royal Hospital att Greenwich to the River" (Vol. 1, Plates 86, 87)
Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Co...
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1710s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio, Etching
Corvus, Cornix (Hooded Crow) /// Dutch Ornithology Bird Animal Engraving Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Cornelius Nozeman (Dutch, 1720-1786)
Title: "Corvus, Cornix (Hooded Crow)" (Plate 106)
Portfolio: Nederlandsche Vogelen (Dutch Birds)
Year: 1770-1829
Medium: Original Hand-Co...
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1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson /// Equestrian Horse Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Cavendish (English, 1593-1676)
Title: "Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson" (Plate 17, Page 76)
Portfolio: Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser ...
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1730s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
Hermes, Ancient Roman Statue- Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hermes, Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on ...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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17th century etching black and white figurative landscape trees buildings
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Conversation Outside Castle" is an original etching by Jan Frans van Bloemen. It depicts a number of figures just outside the majestic walls of a castle. These groups of figures are engaged in their own conversations.
9" x 6 3/4" art
21 5/8" x 19 3/8" frame
Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views (vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the aesthetic of the classical landscape tradition.
Van Bloemen predominantly painted classical landscapes, taking his inspiration from the Roman Campagna. His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His paintings are exquisitely imbued with that "difficult-to-define pastoral ambience" which helped to make him such a great painter in the eyes of his contemporaries. The technique and subjects of the work of Jan Frans van Bloemen are also related to painters such as Jan Asselijn...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Naked Woman on a Mound by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 Dutch
Naked Woman on a Mound
Etching on paper
Etched by Rembrandt
New Hollstein 88, second state of II; Bartsch, Hollstein 198; Hind 43
One of the gr...
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17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Etching by Giambattista Tiepolo - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
This etching on laid paper is the 13th plate of the series of 27 entitled Idee pittoresche sopra la fugga in Egitto di Giesù, Maria e Gioseppe executed by Giambattista Tiepolo and pu...
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1780s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Man With Lamp - Etching by L. Boily - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man With Lamp from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Ludovico Boily in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding.
The...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Putorius
Pseudo Phalangium (The Pole-Cat) (Skunk) /// Mark Catesby Animal Art
By Mark Catesby
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Mark Catesby (English, 1638-1749)
Title: "Putorius & Pseudo Phalangium (The Pole-Cat) (Skunk)" (Plate/Tab 62)
Portfolio: Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Isl...
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1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching, Intaglio
Axiom - Etching by Francesco Mazzoni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Axiom is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Mazzoni in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate. Included a Passepartout: 45 x 30.5 cm
Francesco Mazzoni ( 1738-1989).
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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18th century landscape etching pastoral nature scene detailed ink trees
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Near Tottenham Midd." is an original etching by John Thomas Smith at the top right of the image, reading "Drawn & Etch'd by J. T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London & Envi...
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1790s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Etching
Portrait of Jacob Cats, poet – engraved by Michiel Nöel Natalis
Located in Middletown, NY
Amsterdam: Francois Halma, circa 1700.
Engraving on laid paper, 13 x 7 3/4 inches (350 x 197 mm); sheet 15 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (400 x 248 mm), full margins. In very good condition wi...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
Chiesa e Monastero di S. Maria dei Sette -Etching by G. Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa e Monastero di S. Maria dei Sette is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good c...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens
Located in New York, NY
Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677), Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens, 1649, with text and signatures as described below. Ref...
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1640s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Portrait After Raphael - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Raphael is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowled...
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1810s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait of Julius Caesar - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Julius Caesar is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Know...
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1810s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
17th century etching black and white seascape scene boat waves ocean clouds sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Tempete" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This is Claude's earliest dated etching (1630). The work depicts a storm-tossed sea with ships on the verge of ...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Avanzi di un Gran Salone nel piano terra della Villa di Mecenate in Tivoli
Located in Roma, IT
Like G.B.Piranesi, Rossini, well know as the “Piranesi’s heir”, trained as an architect and his etchings have the same tendency to emphasize the massive structure of the Ancient Rome...
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1820s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Carcere ascura
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carcere ascura
Etching, 1743
Signed in the plate bottom left corner
From: Prima Parte, 1743
Second edition: 1750-1778
Watermark: R 37-39
A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s
This image foretells Piranesi's famous set, Carceri (Prisons) which is his next creative effort.
Condition: Horizontal crease midway in the sheet associated with the manufacture of the paper.
Visible watermark verso
Small printer crease in the bottom right below the caption plate.
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Reference: Robison 3 iii/VI
Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive
"Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
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1740s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Liber Veritatis - Plate 189 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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1810s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
The Last Supper, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), trimmed at the platemark. A fine impression with a Coat of Arms watermark. Second state, after the addition of the Frederick de Witt...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
"Four Women in National Costumes, " Etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Four Women in National Costumes" is a set of four original etchings by Wenceslaus Von Prachna Hollar.
3 5/8" x 2 3/8" each print
19 1/8" x 18 1/2" frame
Wenceslaus Von Prachna Ho...
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17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
18th century landscape etching pastoral house nature scene detailed ink trees
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Near Mill Hill, Gravesend" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. It depicts a cottage and farmstead with a few small figures. The piece is titled on ...
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1790s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
17th century etching black and white figurative landscape cityscape buildings
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Figures Outside the Monastery" is an original etching by Jan Frans van Bloemen. It depicts people on the path to a church.
7" x 10 1/4" art
19 1/4" x 22 5/8" frame
Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views (vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the aesthetic of the classical landscape tradition.
Van Bloemen predominantly painted classical landscapes, taking his inspiration from the Roman Campagna. His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His paintings are exquisitely imbued with that "difficult-to-define pastoral ambience" which helped to make him such a great painter in the eyes of his contemporaries. The technique and subjects of the work of Jan Frans van Bloemen are also related to painters such as Jan Asselijn, Thomas Wyck...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
View of Mausoleo of Cecilia Metella - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1773
Located in Roma, IT
View of Mausoleo of Cecilia Metella is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1773.
Precoius roman edition. Complete title on the lower ma...
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1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
A Drunken Night Cap
By Jan van der Bruggen
Located in New York, NY
(After) JAN VAN DER BRUGGEN (Brussels c1649 1690 Paris), A Drunken Night Cap, Wine is a Mocker, mezzotint, c. 1720, with artist's name Mieris lower left in t...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
20th century color lithograph figurative landscape print sepia sketch signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nicolas Poussin, Homage" is an original color lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition numb...
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1970s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Letter N - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter N is an Etching hand watercolored realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in 18th century.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
17th century etching black and white figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Singer" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a performer and onlookers. Publisher: Pearce #50.
4" x 3" art
16 1/2" x 13 1/2" frame
Cornelis Pietersz Be...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Persia
Afghanistan: A Framed Hand-colored 17th Century Map by John Cary
By John Cary
Located in Alamo, CA
This colorful and detailed early 18th century copperplate map by John Cary entitled "A New Map of Persia from the Latest Authorities" was published in London in 1801. It depicts Persia, the region of modern day Afghanistan, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Aral, the Persian Gulf...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$940 Sale Price
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The Praying - Etching after Rembrandt - 19th Century
By D
Après Rembrandt
Located in Roma, IT
The Praying is an etching on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition of ...
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19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
18th C. Portrait of Edward Stanley from Henry VIII
s Court after Holbein Drawing
By Hans Holbein
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved portrait of "Edward Stanley" created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815), after a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497- 1543) in the 16th century. Holbein was the official artist in the court of King Henry VIII. Bartolozzi used both etching and stipple engraving techniques to create the work which was published by John Chamberlaine in London in 1793 in "The Book of Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty".
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
A Hebrew nomadic camp – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on light weight laid paper with an small indiscernible, alphabetic watermark, 9 x 7 1/2 (230 x 188 mm); sheet 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (284 x 215 mm), wide margins. In very go...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Abolboda; Elodea (Waterweeds); Lepidosperma (Hoary Rapier-Sedge) /// Botanical
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Abolboda; Elodea (Waterweeds); Lepidosperma (Hoary Rapier-Sedge)" (Triandrie Monogynie, Plate 905)
Portfoli...
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1740s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Fishermen resting by a riverbank
Located in Middletown, NY
Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm), the full sheet, full margins. In very good condition with some minor, light sta...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Letter N - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter N is an Etching hand watercolored realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in 18th century.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue) /// Botanical Botany Plants Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 648)
Portfolio: Histoire Na...
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1740s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
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