Thomas Landseer, “Hand and Wrist of ‘Duncan’”, 1817, after Benjamin Robert Haydon

Thomas Landseer (1795–1880)

“Hand and Wrist of ‘Duncan’”, 1817, from a series of seven soft-ground etchings after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), published in 1817 by Thomas Landseer in “Haydon's drawing-book”. See this etching and another plate showing two hands described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-420-420-. Although I may be wrong, the subject possibly relates to Hadon’s studies for “The Murder of Duncan – Macbeth Stabbing Duncan” (see https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28274).

Soft-ground etching on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 17.8 x 30.5 cm; (plate) 15.2 x 28 cm; (chine collé) 15 x 28 cm.

Lettered in plate along the lower edge: (left) “DUNCAN/ B. R. Haydon. del^t.”; (centre) “Pub. May 1. 1817 by T. Landseer 33 Foley Str: London.”; (right) “T. Landseer Sc^t”.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed around the platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond slightly dusty margins to the original sheet, the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, holes, folds, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this simply magnificent and exceptionally rare study of a hand executed as a soft-ground etching for the total cost of AU$251 (approximately US$163.97, EUR 139.91 or GBP 119.48), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this very fine hand study, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Albert Meyeringh, “Landscape with a Mule Driver at a Fountain”, c.1695

Albert Meyeringh (aka Aelbert Meyeringh) (1645–1714)

“Landscape with a Mule Driver at a Fountain” (TIB title) (aka “L’ânier près de la Fontaine”), c.1695, plate 4 from a series of twenty-seven etchings showing classical landscapes.

Etching on fine laid paper with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 25.7 x 21.4 cm; (plate) 24.6 x 20.9 cm; (image borderline) 23.7 x 19.9 cm.

Inscribed in plate below the image borderline: (left) “A: Meyeringh Inv:– et fec:”.

TIB 7.4 (Otto Naumann [ed.] 1978, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Netherlandish Artists”, vol. 7, New York, Abaris Books, p. 172, cat. no. 4 [359]), Hollstein 4.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Landscape with a man leaning over the basin of a large stone fountain at right, his mule grazing beneath tall trees at left, a figure with two mules on the bank of a river behind; on the further bank, trees and buildings at the foot of rocky hills; from a series of twenty-seven prints showing classical landscapes” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-2325 [BM inv. no. Sheepshanks.2325]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with a small margin around the image borderline and laid upon a generously wide archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. Beyond a printer’s crease in the upper right, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this interesting etching following the 17^th century tradition of alluding to a classical past—the ancient water fountain and the classically-dressed figures—and possibly the vanitas theme of life’s transience, for AU$294 (approximately US$192.62, EUR 164.65 or GBP 140.28), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this strong impression of a rare etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Orazio Borgianni, “God Appears to Moses in a Pillar of Smoke”, 1615, after Raphael

Orazio Borgianni (aka Orazio Borgiani) (c.1578–1616)

“God Appears to Moses in a Pillar of Smoke” (aka “God Appearing to Moses in the Column of Clouds” [TIB title]), 1615 (inscribed in plate), plate 36 from the series of 52 etchings, “Paintings in the Loggia of Raphael” (aka “Schilderingen in de Loggia van Rafaël”), after Raphael’s (1483–1520) Loggia frescoes in the Vatican.

Etching on fine laid paper, trimmed around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 15.9 x 19.2 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower left) “36”; (within the image borderline at lower left) “1615/ [monogram of the artist]”.

TIB 38.36 (Walter L Strauss [ed.] 1979, “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 38, New York, Abaris Books, p. 362, cat. no. 36 [318]).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1890-0415-19; https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200163756.

Condition: a strong impression trimmed around the platemark laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this interesting etching executed in the last year of the artist’s life and based on the design of the legendary Raphael who had passed away only 95 years before this print was created, for AU$287 (approximately US$186.49, EUR 161.93 or GBP 137.63), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this rare Renaissance period print, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Beata Beatrix”, c.1891, after Rossetti

Unidentified printmaker from the circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

“Beata Beatrix”—portrait of Elizabeth Siddal as Beatrice Portinari who was the great love of the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), and inspired his love poem “La Commedia” (1321) about the soul's ascent from Inferno to Purgatory to Paradise (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG150584) after Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting, “Beata Beatrix” (c. 1864–70), in the Tate Britain (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-beata-beatrix-n01279). A rare proof state impression with a remarque of the head of Dante below the image at right and before lettering with publication details.

Engraving on heavy buff-coloured wove paper, proof state before lettering with remarque at lower right and wide margins backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 47.8 x 36 cm; (plate) 37.5 x 30.3 cm; (image borderline) 30.7 x 23.8 cm.

Condition: a strong and near faultless impression with generously wide margins. Beyond a small 7 mm closed tear in the upper margin and a few scattered minor marks, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no holes or significant stains and has been laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this exceptionally rare proof state impression before lettering with publication details and still retaining the printer’s remarque showing the head of the poet Dante in profile facing right, for AU$298 (approximately US$194.21, EUR 170.05 or GBP 144.03), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this astoundingly beautiful engraving portraying Elizabeth Siddal in a state of spiritual transcendence in the role of Beatrice Portinari about to die—note the haloed dove (Holy Spirt) carrying the opium flower (laudanum) with which Portinari will take her life, the sundial making the time of her passing and, in the distance, the Ponte Vecchio where Dante’s love poem involving Portinari is set—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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