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[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Aux buttes Chaumont.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Aux buttes Chaumont.", by CHERET, J. Plate 141, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" c...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
Porte de Harlem (Heemstede/Haarlem)
Showing the Haarlemmer Poort (gate) in Heemstede near Haarlem. Likely published by Mondhard, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St.Marti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Le Curieux.
A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
(Shipping)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
A view of Amsterdam taken from the Old Rampart.
So-called optical print of Amsterdam, published by Jean Mondhare after a print by Laurie and Wtitle. With captions in English and French above and belowIn the eighteenth ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1760
Rowntree's Elect Cocoa.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°168. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
La Dépêche Grand Format.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°140. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
La Curiosite punie, aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie.
A charming and delightful hand colored etching in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century from "Musee Grotesque No. 20" : La Curiosite punie, ave...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]
An aboriginal campfire, near the ruins of an old wooden fence, and a dead tree, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824