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![[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]](/uploads/cache/24000-500x500.jpg)
[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]
Fine print made by Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570) and published by Antonio Lafreri. Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them, and a small dog bites one on the ...
Date: Venice, 1550
Selling price: $750
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Niche in the form of a cartouche.
A lavishly decorated etching by the famous brother's Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, after Cornelis II de Vriendt or better known as Cornelis FLORIS (1514 - 1572 or 1575)...
Date: Antwerp, 1556
Selling price: $500
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Patientia (Patience)
Engraving after a design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. From the series "The Seven Virtues".Published in Antwerp by Hieronym...
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1557
Selling price: $30250
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View of a farm with a large barn.
The Van Doetecum brothers were active as engravers in the second half of the 16th. Century. They made many prints for the Antwerp market. They later worked in Haarlem. R...
Date: 1559-1561
Selling price: $350
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Astrologia-allegory of Astrology
After the design by Frans Floris, published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp. Cornelis Cort (1533-1578) was a renowned Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He was known as Cornel...
Date: 1565
Selling price: $205
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Two genii holding a coat of arms.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Date: 1527-ca. 1575
Selling price: $300
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Sic hastile vagis errantes montibus apres - culpide, vel flamma rumpit precordia plumbum.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1577
Selling price: $200
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The apostle St. Andrew.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Date: ca. 1510/1580
Selling price: $230
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Men's Bathhouse.
Albrecht Dürer made this large-scale woodcut, shortly after his first trip to Italy (1494–95), he exploited the traditional setting of an outdoor bathhouse to demonstr...
Date: Nüremberg, ca. 1496 but c.1580
Selling price: $600
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Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
America, sive Bresilia. . .
Allegorical print of the continent of America. Engraved by Jan Sadeler (1550-1601) after Theodor Bernard, dated 1581. Rare print and one of the earliest representations o...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $400
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![Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37](/uploads/cache/47691-500x500.jpg)
Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph is taken out of the pit and sold by his brothers to a group of Ishmaelites. From ther...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
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![Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43](/uploads/cache/47692-500x500.jpg)
Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph receives his brothers and Benjamin.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
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![Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]](/uploads/cache/48558-500x500.jpg)
Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. A blind Isaac is blessing Jacob.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum hist...
- $300 / ≈ €276
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Sic capiunt Ibices iaculo, sic cuspide ferri, / Vel canibus, duro aut flammantis turbinis ictu.
A fine early illustration of capturing a mountain goat hunt. In the left foreground, a group of hunters rest, three dead mountain goats lying beside them; to the right, a...
- $300 / ≈ €276
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Geometrica.
Geometrica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600), after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One fo the seven liberal arts.
Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
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Rhetorica.
Rhetorica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600),after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One of the seven liberal arts.
Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
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Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
- $750 / ≈ €690
Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
QUONIAM TUUM EST REGNUM ET POTENTIA ET GLORIA IN SECULA AMEN
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.Adoration of the Trinity. In the centre of the sun, the Hebrew name of the LORD, Yahweh, and around...
Date: Amstserdam, ca 1600
A set of four landscapes with the story of the Good Samaritan.
After designs by Paul Bril (1554-1626). Raphael Sadeler (1584-1632) was a Flemish engraver, part of the very active Sadeler family. Paul Bril (1554-1626) was a landscape ...
Date: ca. 1610
Selling price: $275
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![Rosa lutea flore simplici [Austrian Brier]; Rosa Cinnamomea [Cinnamon Rose]; Rosa rubra præcox flore simplici [Wild Alpine Rose]; Rosa præcox spinosa flore albo [Burnet Rose]](/uploads/cache/besler_rose_01-500x500.jpg)
Rosa lutea flore simplici [Austrian Brier]; Rosa Cinnamomea [Cinnamon Rose]; Rosa rubra præcox flore simplici [Wild Alpine Rose]; Rosa præcox spinosa flore albo [Burnet Rose]
Besler was a botanist who managed the gardens of Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany. The roses from Besler belong to the most sought after print depicting flowers. Note ...
Date: Eichstatt, 1613
Emblem, Vulcan with winds.
Crispijn van de Passe(1589-1637), Vulcan with four winds, "Adversis clarius ardet" from Rollenhaegen "Selectorum emblematum" , 1613-1614. In perfect c...
Date: 1613-1614
Selling price: $140
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Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, ...
Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein.. .Finely executed engraving by Matthäus Merian, taken from &quo...
Date: Hulsen, Stuttgart, 1616
Selling price: $90
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Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein.. .
Finely executed engraving by Matthäus Merian, taken from "Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein. ...
Date: Hulsen, Stuttgart, 1616
Selling price: $50
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A village fair.
By an anonymous engraver after a design by Jan van de Velde. Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641) came from the southern Netherlands as a fugitive around 1600 to the Netherlan...
Date: 1623
Selling price: $275
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The denial of the apostle Peter.
Willem Outgerz. Akersloot (active ca. 1624-1634) worked in Haarlem. Pieter Molijn (1595-1661) was a pupil of Esaias van de Velde. He was the tutor of many dutch painters ...
Date: Haarlem, 1626
Selling price: $300
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Wasserfall rechts von einem Felsentor.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting two draughtsmen drawing a waterfall next to a natural arch, the draughtsmen at left, from a series of nin...
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $175
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Landschaft mit Wasserfall rechts eines Felsblocks.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a landscape with a waterfall to the right of a boulder, from a series of nine landscapes. Isaak Major, bo...
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $175
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Felsenlandschaft mit kleinem Hang und einem Was.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a rocky landscape with a small slope, from a series of nine landscapes. Isaak Major, born around 1576 in ...
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $100
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Naturlandschaft mit Wasserfällen und einem Haus in der Ferne mit vier Männern.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a nature landscape with waterfalls and a house in the distance, with four men. Large print edited by Jere...
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $120
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Blick auf einen Fluss mit einem natürlichen bogen links.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a view of a River with a Natural Arch at Left. Large print edited by Jeremius Wolf in Augsburg. Signed in...
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $100
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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife depicts a story from the Bible, wherein Potiphar's Wife attempts to seduce Joseph. This etching is signed and dated "Rembrandt f. 1634&quo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $3300
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A colored man on horseback.
Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) originated from Florence and was later active as a graphic artist in Paris. He produced a wide variety of prints, with all kinds of subjec...
Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $147
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ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Date: Paris, ca. 1642
Depiction of a cook in his kitchen.
From a series of months after designs of Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688). Theodor (Dirck) Matham (Haarlem 1605-1676 Amstedam) was a Dutch engraver. Joachim von Sandrart ...
Date: 1645
Selling price: $115
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Stetit David Super goliath praecidito caput eius et consurgentes viri israel persecuti sunt philisthaeos ( Plate 42)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating David over Goliath about to cut his head.From...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Ad Testem, in Iudicio, Naturam vocavit Sapientiss. Salomon et vera Mater Filium dimidiari non est passa. ( Plate 46)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the judgment of Solomon.From the first Parisi...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Decepta Mulier a serpente tulit de fructu illius, et comedit, deditg.uiro suo . . . (Plate 6)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Eve, tempted by the serpent, offering Adam th...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $45
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Adduxit eam ad Adam, dixitg Adam hocnunc os ex ossibusmeis . . . (Plate 5)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God, Adam and Eve.From the first Parisian...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $40
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Eiecitg Adam et collocauitante paradisium uouptatis cherubim . . . (Plate 7)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating an angel casting Adam and Eve out of the para...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $20
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Creaduit omnem animam uiuentem, secundum speciem suam. . . . (Plate 4)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God creating earth.From the first Parisian ed...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Arcam sibi fecit Noë ex mandato Domini ad effugiendam pluuiam sup terram . . . (Plate 9)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the construction of Noah's Arc.From the f...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
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Cataractae coeli apertoe funt: Et aguae proealuerunt super terram comfumptag Est omnis caro . . . (Plate 10)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the moment when God said to Noah "Go...
- $50 / ≈ €46
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
L. Colivri / Pie Griesche.
A very fine and decorative representation of two birds, with flowers and insects. In the style of DeBry, but here by François Langlois, French (1589-1647).
Date: Paris, c.1655
Selling price: $50
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Hercules killing the Hydra.
Hercules killing the Hydra - Hercule tuant m'hydre - From a series of prints with as subject : The Labuors of Hercules. printmaker: Gilles Rousselet (Signed on print show...
Date: 1620-1670
Selling price: $145
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Monsters
Very decorative, large page from the rare Specula physico-mathematico-historica, superbly illustrated compendium of mathematics and natural history by Zahn, a member of t...
Date: Nuremberg, 1696
Radish with Human Form, Goat atop a Plant, Twisted Carrots, Man merged with Tree
This large, very decorative print is from Johann Zahn's Specula physico - mathematico - historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum in qua mundi mirabilis oeconomia, ...
Date: Nuremberg, 1696
Cruelty Towards the Seven Brethren.
An interesting copper engraving by Bernard Picart. It features different forms of torture including boiling and tooth extraction. It was engraved by Pool.Bernard Picart (...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1705
Selling price: $18
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Annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night
Title in Dutch: Verkondiging aan de herders. De Engel verkondigt de Geboorte J.C. aan de Herders (title mentioned on the object). The title is also given in French. A ...
Date: AMSTERDAM, 1708
Roasting the Meat.
Copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's 'Physica Sacra', published in Augsburg in 1731.Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the founder of paleobotany...
Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $30
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Man From Baalshalisha Delivering Bread.
Scarce hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's 'Physica Sacra' published in Augsburg in 1731.Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is the founder of ...
Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $20
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The Lions Came To Eat Them.
Scarce hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra, published in Augsburg in 1731. Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the t...
Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $50
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Elisha Got Up From His Grave.
Copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra, published in Augsburg in 1731. Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the the founder of paleobo...
Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $30
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L'art de dessiner, par Jean Cousin, excellent peintre François.
Complete title: "L’art de dessiner, par Jean Cousin, revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d’aprés l’antique, avec leurs mesures & proportions...
Date: Paris, François Chereau, 1750
Selling price: $450
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Veduta di una parte di Firenze presa fuori della Porta a S.Niccolo presso al Fiume Arno.
Lively view of one of the entrance gates of Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by B.Sgrilli. From "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principa...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta di Lung'Arno e del Ponte a S. Trinita presa dal Terrazzo de' SS.ri Rucellai.
Lively view of St. Trinita bridge in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Johann Sebastian Muller. From "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle p...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta del Ponte a S. Trinita, della Chiesa di S. Trinita e della colonna inalzata da Cosimo I.
Lively street scene with the S.Trinita bridge in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Johan Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748). From "Scelta ...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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Veduta della Badia Fiorentina, e del Palazzo del Potestà presa dalla Piazza della Chiesa de' PP. dell'Oratorio.
Lively street scene with the palaces of the Major of Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Vincenco Francesschini. From "Scelta di XXIV...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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Veduta degli Ufizi, o sia Curia Fiorentina presa dalla Loggia presso Arno.
Lively scene showing Uffizi Gallery in central Florence, one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) an...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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Veduta della Metropolitana Fiorentina, e del Battistero di S. Gio. con la Processione del Corpus Domini.
Lively scene showing the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in central Florence, showing a procession on the square and the Battistero of San Giovanni to the right. After ...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $700
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Veduta della Chiesa e Piazza di S. Maria Novella con la festa della Corsa de' Cocchi.
Lively scene showing the square di Santa Maria Novella in central Florence, showing a horse racing scene in the center. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and eng...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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Veduta del Palazzo Vecchio del P.D. della Loggia e della Piazza con la Festa degli Omaggi nella solennità di S. Gio. Battista protettore della Città.
Lively scene showing the central square of Florence, showing a horse parade in the center. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Carlo Gregori (1719-...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $800
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Veduta della Chiesa, e Piazza di S. Croce con la festa del Calcio fatta l'anno 1738 alla Real presenza de' Regnanti Sovrani.
Lively scene showing the Piazza Santa Croce, one of the main squares of the center of Florence. To the right the Santa Croce church before it was rebuild in 1863.After Gi...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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(Title page) Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze. . .
Title page from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze" Engraved by Johan Gottfried Seutter after a...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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TO S,,r George Pocock KNIGHT of the BATH and Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty’s Fleet, on the EXPEDITION against the Havannah in 1762, / This PERSPECTIVE VIEW of the Harbour, with the LAND to the West, the MORO CASTLE to
A large, rare view of the British fleet entering the harbor of Havana to take possession of the town, 16 August 1762. Seven Years War (1756-63). Engraved after paintings ...
Date: London, 1766
Selling price: $650
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The four seasons.
Morin remains an unknown engraver, Ignatius Fougeron worked around 1760-70 in London and Paul Angier (1725-1757) worked in London too. David Teniers the Younger (1610-169...
Date: London, ca. 1770
Selling price: $175
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S. Rocco incarcerato Quadro ditutta Perfezione dipinto . . .
Rare etching depicting Saint Rocco imprisoned. Etched and aquatint by Vincenzio Vangelisti (Italian, Florence 1728–1798 Milan) after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbie...
- $150 / ≈ €138
Date: Venice, 1778
Cruel Methods by which Mr Nicholas Burton an Englishman was Tortured in the Inquisitorial Prison at cadiz in Spain . . .
Early 18th century engraving. Engraved for the Rev Dr Wright's Modernised and Improved Edition of Fox's original Book of Martyr's. Inscription: London, Published by Alexa...
Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $50
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Venerunt pastores.
Copper engraving, showing the birth of Christ. With decorative borders. Title page to the New Testament, edited by Spanoghe in Antwerp 1785.
Date: Antwerp 1785
Selling price: $20
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Lewis VII, King of France Before Beckett's Tomb.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $14
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Shephard Boy & Six Cameos.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $16
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The Double Humbug or the Devils Imp Praying for Peace - Thomas Rowlandson
After a design by Thomas Rowlandson, published in London by Rudolph Ackermann (active 1794–1829).
Date: London January 1, 1814
The Sleeping Congregation.
Inscription: in plate below image, lower left: 'Invented Engraved & Published October 25: 1736 by W-m Hogarth Pursuant to an Act of Parliament / One shilling"; i...
Date: London, 1822
Selling price: $120
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