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Le Marché Aux Puces
Paris: Chalcographie Louvre, c 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 7 x 11 inches (175 x 278 mm) full margins. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lower center margin. Moderate mat tone, minor scattered light foxing, striated moderate toning from a non-archival cardboard mount on the..... More
Matinee Avenue De Clichy
Paris: Chalcographie Louvre, c 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lower center margin. Moderate mat tone, uniform moderate toning from a non-archival..... More
Saint Mary Le Strand
London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited, 1880. Etching with engraving on buff wove paper, 8 12 x 6 inches (215 x 150 mm), full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. In very good condition with an unrecognizable ink stamp in purple on the verso. An attractive etched Victorian image..... More
The Senate House, Cambridge, from The Portfolio
London: Seeley & Co., 1880. Etching and engraving on watermarked WBW Portfolio cream laid paper, 10 1/8 x 7 inches (255 x 175 mm), full margins. Minor mat tone and with the tip of the lower right corner missing, otherwise in very good condition. From The Portfolio, vol. 11, edited..... More
Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire: Chapel of the Nine Altars, from The Portfolio
London: Seeley & Co., 1882. Etching and engraving on watermarked WBW Portfolio cream laid paper, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (260 x 190 mm), full margins. Minor mat tone, and moisture staining at the top corner-tips (well outside of image area), scattered minor adhesive residue in the lower sheet..... More
Court wrestlers of the Sultan of Turkey-dressed for outdoors, resting and fighting.
1577. Engraving on hand made laid paper, 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (268 x 174 mm), full magins. Examination under a black light reveals repairs to the left, top & bottom sheet edges, as well as the removal of an inscription in ink which once appeared in the top-right..... More
En Provence; la Maison d'Orléans (Valognes)
1840. Etching in brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches (135 x 87 mm), partially trimmed lower sheet edge. With the artist's moniker in the image, upper left, and the artist's "owl" ink stamp in red ink, partially trimmed, in the lower center margin..... More
Frontispiece for Le Graveurs du XIX Siècle, by Henri Béraldi
Paris: J & A Lamercier, 1885. Etching with aquaint on Arches laid paper with a partial watermark, 7 x 4 5/8 inches (176 x 118 mm), full margins. Seventh state (of 7), after the removal of the remarques in the border. In excellent condition with an inscription in pencil in..... More
Joseph Hill, the Bell-Ringer (with a stand for his bells), from Costume of the Lower Orders of London.
London: Baldwin & Craddock, 1820. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and collage on cream wove paper, 7 x 5 3/4 inches (187 x 145 m), margins significantly trimmed. Publishing information has been trimmed out of the bottom margin. Scattered foxing; adhered to grayish wove paper. Thomas Lord Busby’s 1820..... More
Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles
Paris: Melchior Tavernier, c 1620. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed..... More
Ponte della Trinità
1902. Etching and drypoint on tissue-thin cream laid paper, 6 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (167 x 205 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower right margin, and inscribed "Ponte Trinità, Florence" in pencil the lower left margin. Non-archival paper tape tabs at the top right and left..... More
Almshouses, St. Cross
Glasgow: Walton's Compleat Angler, 1902. Etching on heavy Japan paper, 3 7/16 x 5 15/16 inches (80 x 149 mm), full margins. Initialed in pencil, lower left margin. Scattered significant foxing throughout image area, surface soiling, framing marks in pencil, printing smudges and adhesive residue, all on recto. Verso has..... More
Old Houses, Byres Road, Partick
Glasgow: Regality Club, 1894. Etching on cream laid paper with a poppy watermark, 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (115 x 148 mm) full margins. Notations in the margins recto, well outside of image area. Scattered very minor light brown foxing in the right-side sheet quadant, virtually invisible on recto..... More
The Smithy
1896. Etching and drypoint on cream laid Japan paper, 8 x 10 inches (202 x 253 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Third state (of 3). A dark and inky impression with rich burr, and with all the fine lines printing clearly. Minor handling wear, and..... More
Young man looking down to right, from Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdresses
c 1640. Etching on tissue thin laid paper. 4 3/8 x 3 1/16 inches (110 x 78 mm), trimmed at plate mark. A very good, well inked impression. Only known state. Adhered at all four corners to archival wove paper. Minor discoloration at lower right and left corners from adhesive..... More
The Mountstuart Coat of Arms
London: T. Spilsbury & Son, 1790. Engraving on light-weight wove paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (950 x 145 mm), full margins at top and sides of sheet, lower portion of sheet trimmed. In fair condition with a yellow bow-shaped discoloration in the lower left sheet corner, as well..... More
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
1923. Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Third state (of 3). Laid down to non archival board with mat tone, and scattered adhesive..... More
La Marchande des Quatre-Saisons
1900. Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (297 x 347 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and numbered 32/40, lower margin. Minor mat tone and several small losses in the left sheet edge, and one small loss at the top left sheet edge..... More
The Hospital, Santa Cruz, Toledo
The Print Club of Albany, 1938. Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on watermarked BFK Rives cream wove paper, 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 inches (240 x 193 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and numbered 79/100. Generally in good condition with scattered light point of foxing (unobtrusive)..... More
Salvator Rosa et les Brigands; Croquis d'une Plaque; L'Art adoucit même les plus féroces
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865. Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (316 x 240 mm), full margins. In very good condition with some minor toning at the extreme edges of the support sheet, as well as a dog-eared..... More
Hercule Gaulois, ou L’Éloquence
c 1729. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in beige and olive with etching and aquatint on cream laid paper, 11 1/8 x 10 inches (281 x 252 mm) (plate), full margins with the text printing clearly below in olive ink. In very good condition with no visible defects other..... More
The South East Prospect of Westminster Bridge
1747. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring on cream laid paper with the Arms of France watermark (a crown in shield topped by a fleur-de-lys and the letters GR), 22 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (576 x 400 mm), wide to full margins. Multiple vertical and horizontal creases from folding..... More