After George Bouverie Goddard Hunting Engraving

Wood snipe hunting engraving. Antique c. 1790 French engraving of G. Moreland wood snipe hunt “Chase Aux Becassines” engraved by C. Catton in antiq...

Presented is a handsome engraved portrait of George Washington by artist H. B. Hall. This engraving was published in New York, in a limited edition of 125 impressions. The engraving is based on a painting by William Birch Gilbert Stuart, a small miniature in enamel, completed in 1796. Birch painted Washington from life in his office in Philadelphia, by the request of I. G. Van Staphorst, Esqr. of Amsterdam. In the small portrait, Washington is depicted in a head and shoulders pose, facing right. He wears a dark coat and vest and a white shirt and ruffled cravat. The father of our country, George Washington was the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first United States president...

This antique engraving is an illustration from the monumental work of the "Encyclopédie Méthodique" published by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in 1793. The plate is dedicated to "Chass...

Antique print titled 'Nymphe de la Chasse'. Old print of a sculpture of Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden), Paris. It shows a hunting nymph. Source unknown, to be determined. ...

Beautiful etching on wove paper with a watermark, BFK Rives, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1900. Title: "ALMA MATER" engraved by Georges-Henri Lavalley (1868-1902), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1890 in intaglio, and dated 1899, after the painting by Madame Virginie DEMONT-BRETON (1859-1935). The etching and plate are in perfect condition, with only a few minor cuts along the lower, fringed edge of the sheet. Dimensions: "ALMA MATER" engraving: Sheet: 458 x 330 mm - Engraving: 243 x 170 mm - Engraving plate: 290 x 210 cm Engraved signature H.G. Lavalley below the engraving Engraved signature Virginie Demont Breton in the engraving, lower left & Blank stamp signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the engraving, lower left. Virginie Demont Breton, born in 1859, was the daughter of Jules Breton (1827-1906) and the niece of Émile Breton, both renowned painters. Her maternal grandfather was the Flemish painter and medievalist Félix de Vigne. She married the landscape painter Adrien Demont in 1880. In 1883, she received a gold medal at the Amsterdam World's Fair, and later at the World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900. The Société Française des Amis des Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

This antique engraving is an illustration from the monumental work of the "Encyclopédie Méthodique" published by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in 1793. The image is an antique plate il...

Harefield Harriers, 'The Meet At The Hare And Hounds'. A fine print by Cecil Aldin from The Harefield Harriers, The Meet At The Hare And Hounds. This early humorous fox hunting chrom...

A pair of Rouault wood engravings, signed/dated in the matrix. Plate size: 11.75 x 7.75. Framed: 21 x 15.

African Wildlife and Hunting Scene – Antique German Engraving, c.1840 Description: This striking antique engraving titled “Afrika” depicts a vivid tripartite composition portraying African wildlife and traditional hunting scenes. At the top are three finely engraved and partially hand-colored animals: a red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) on the left, a zebra in the centre, and an African wild dog...

The Rocky Mountains, Western Frontier Landscape – Antique American Engraving, 1873 This refined 19th-century engraving titled The Rocky Mountains presents a serene yet expansive vie...