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Old Masters Art

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
Que Locura - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Que Locura is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres ...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Archiginnasio della Sapienza - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Archiginnasio della Sapienza is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Chiesa di S.Maria in Vallicella - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa di S.Maria in Vallicella is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signe...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Cacciatori di Orléans (Orléans Hunters - Carabinieri) - Lithograph Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned and damaged in the higher and lower margins. Interesting colored lithograph which describes t...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art

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Lithograph

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Filippo de Grado - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo de Grado in the 18th century. Signed on the plate. Good cond...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Opera dei Pupi
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper stuck onwhite cardboard sheet, 1820 c.a. Representing people attending the typical Sicilian"Operadei Pupi". Excellent conditionsexcept a little sta...
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1820s Old Masters Art

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Watercolor

Ancient Roman Still Life - Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Still Life, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo De Grado in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the ...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Frescoes - Original Etching after N. Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief Frescoes, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized from a design by Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century. Signed on th...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Offers and Sacrifices to the Sun among the Floridians - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Offers and Sacrifices to the Sun, among the Floridians is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the hum...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good condit...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Rites of the Floridian Women - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Rites of the Floridian Women is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing ...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th Ce...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Scena d Armi In Vaticano - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Scena D'Armi In Vaticano is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appears at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. Not signed. T...
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1820s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Study of Six Heads - Etching by J.-J. Boissieu
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Six Heads is a beautiful black and white etching with drypoint interventions on paper, realized at the end of XVIII century by the French artist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon, 1736- 1810). Six study od heads ( four elder men, a middle-aged man at the center, and a woman with turbant) etched with a superb technique and an incredible draftsmanship are drawn to different scales and with different degrees of finish, have the dignity of six different portraits with the same passion and effort. Signed on plate on lower right margin “De Boissieu”. Inscription ( number plate) on higher-right corner "10". This old master’s original print with lifetime impressions, is in very good conditions, except for a usual yellowing of the paper above all on the edges and some signs of the time,do not affect the image. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon,1736 –1810) Jean-Jacques de Boissieu was a French artist studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon, but he was mostly self-taught. His first prints were realized between 1758–64. When he went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador and Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, he had the lifechanging encounter: he met Voltaire and he entered in the world of luminaries, he had the opportunity of realizing some plates for the Diderot-d’Alembert’s Encyclopèdie. Then he continued to produce prints in Lyon, Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside, as well as the French countryside around Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Drypoint, Etching

The Passengers - Original Etching by A. M. de Ghuy - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
The Passenger is an original artwork realized by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy in 1775. Original etching on paper. Titled on the lower margin at the center. The artwork is glued on ca...
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1770s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Sacrifices Among the Natives - Original Color Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Sacrifices among the natives - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VII, Plate XIV Image Dim: cm 25....
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Funeral Ceremonies of American natives of Guiana and Brasil - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Ceremonies of natives of Guiana- Funeral Ceremonies of Brasilian indigenouses Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXV Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Very Interesting Etchings ( two pictures in the same matrix), Hand-watercoloured, showing typical Funeral Cerimonies of American natives...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene Pen and black ink on paper Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
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1770s Old Masters Art

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Ink

Muertos Recogidos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Muertos recogidos is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres de la...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Measuring a Profile - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Measuring a Profile is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of M...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Le Repos Pendant la Fuitre en Egypte - Original Lithograph - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Repos Pendant la Fuitre en Egypte is an original Etching realized by an unknown French artist in 17th century. Late 18th century edition. Good condition except for a missing co...
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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

No Quiren - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
No quiren is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres de la Guerra" realized during the years of the Independence Spanish War, published in 1863 and representing the horrors and the despair of the War. Signature appears upside down in the lower right corner. Titled on the lower central margin "No Quiren" (Not Even Them). Numbered on the lower left corner. Etching N. 9. Very good conditions. A Napoleonic soldier...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Nadie se conoce - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Nadie se conoce is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799. Original etching on paper. The plate is part of the T...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Capital Letter A the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter A from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good condition, except for some...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Funeral Ceremonies among the Mexicans and Venezuelans - by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Funeral Ceremonies among the Mexicans and Venezuelans is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This orig...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Madonna della Scodella
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna della Scodella is an original drawing (black pencil, pen and ink on laid paper) by an exponent of the Italian school of the eighteenth century. In excellent conditions: almo...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Ink

Ancient Roman Statues - Etching - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized in the 18th century. Signed on the plate, on...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum- Original Etching By Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed is an original etching from the end of the 18th century realized by Vincenzo Campana. Signed on plate on the lower left. The etching belongs to th...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

The Holy Council - Original Color Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
The Holy Council - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.IX, Plate XLIII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; She...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Venditori e Mangiatori di Maccheroni - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on paper stuck on grey cardboard, 1820 c.a. Wonderful watercolour both for the drawing and for the fineness of the colours representing a typical Italian scene of ordina...
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1820s Old Masters Art

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Watercolor

Ancient Roman Statues - Etching by Francesco Cepparoli - 1700s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th century. Signed on the plate, on the...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Pegasus, Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pegasus, Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on t...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Japanese Wedding Ceremony - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Wedding Ceremony Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XLVII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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 the lowe...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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 the lowe...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Portrait After Raphael - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Raphael is an original artwork realized by Thomas Trotter (1756 - 1803). Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledg...
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1810s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Sujets d’histoire et de Mythologie - Original Etching by P.-L. Parizeau - 1771
By Philippe-Louis Parizeau
Located in Roma, IT
Sujets d’histoire et de Mythologie is an etching made by the French draftsman and engraver Philippe-Louis Parizeau (Paris, 1740 – 1801), also known for realizing the first prints au ...
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1770s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Oraty in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Marriage and Birth among the Incas - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Marriage and Birth among the Incas is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, represe...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Liber Veritatis - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 61 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Claud...
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1810s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Ceremonies in the Hudson Bay - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Joy in the Hudson Bay as they take a Difonto into a hut – Manner of accompanying him to the hut. Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LIII Image...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by G.Furlanetti - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by G.Furlanetti in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lower ri...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the l...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum- Original Etching By Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. Signed on the lower left on the plate V. campana. Good condition...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. Good condition....
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed- Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. Good condition...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

No Hay Quien lo Socorra - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
No hay quien lo socorra is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "L...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Early 19th Century Portrait "Countess Margaret Spencer"
Located in San Francisco, CA
JOHN HOPPNER R.A. (British, 1758–1810), "Countess Margaret Spencer," oil on canvas, canvas (relined): 36" x 28", overall (framed): 35" x 43". John Hoppner, R.A. plaque mounted cente...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Marinajo del Molo- Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on paper, 1820 c.a. Hand-titled "Marinajo del Molo" (Sailor of the pier), hand-signed on lower-left margin. Very good conditions. Including an ivory colored cardboard p...
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1820s Old Masters Art

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Watercolor

Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good condition, except for some st...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lower...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Horses Heads - Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Portrait of Johann Kepezky - Etching by Johann Jakob Haid - 1734
By Johann Jakob Haid
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the Painter Johann Kepezky is an original Etching and Mezzotint realized in 1734 by Johann Jakob Haid (Kleineislingen, 1704 - Augsburg, 1767). Signed and dated in the pl...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

The Great Burmese Feast: Sapan Giache - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
The Great Burmese Feast: Sapan Giache Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII, Plate XXVIII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Very Fi...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower r...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

The Sacrifice - Original Etching by F. Cecchini After A. Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Sagrifizio Trionfale” is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Francesco Cecchini (1790-1820), after Agostino Tofanelli (Lucca 177...
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1820s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lower...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. Good condition. Units of mea...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Capital Letter S - the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter S the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good condition, except for some stai...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous Artist in the 18th Century. S...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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