Dominique Vivant Denon's etching, "Two Lions and a Lioness”, c1795

Dominique Vivant Denon (aka Vivant De Non; Vivant Denon; Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon) (1747–1825)

“Two Lions and a Lioness” (Deux lions et une lionne), c1795 (my attribution of this date is based on the time period that the printer/publisher of the lettered edition, NC Aubourg, was active), after the painting of the same composition by Martin Ferdinand Quadal (1736–1808).

Etching with pale plate tone on heavy wove paper.

Size: (sheet) 42.2 x 58.7 cm; (plate) 33.2 x 46.7 cm; (image borderline) 30.5 x 41.7 cm

Numbered on plate above the image borderline: (right) “42.”

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (along the lower edge at right) “M F Quabal […?] V Denon Sul[p]t”.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Quadal pinx:”; (right) “Denon Sculp:”

Lifetime impression before lettering for publication with the address of NC Aubourg.

TIB 12101.290 (Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 1985, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Dominique Vivant Dennon: French Masters of the Nineteenth Century”, vol. 121, Part 1, New York, Abaris Books, p, 231); IFF 223 (Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, 1930).

The British Museum offers a description of this print: (https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1511767&partId=1&searchText=denon+Quadal&page=1)

Condition: a superb, richly inked and faultless impression with wide margins in near pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling).

I am selling this large, exceptionally rare and very beautiful etching for the total cost of AU$300 (currently US$214.30/EUR187.71/GBP160.92 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this near faultless impression exemplifying Denon’s magical ability to invest his portrayed subjects with the spirit of life, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Ernst Friedrich von Liphart’s frontispiece etching, “Venus”, 1881

Ernst Friedrich von Liphart (1847–1932)

“Venus”, 1881, frontispiece to the journal containing 32 etchings, “L’Illustration Nouvelle”, Part 2, 13^th yr., 13^th vol., 1881, published in France by Veuve A. Cadart for the Société des peintres-graveurs Français.

Etching on buff-coloured laid paper backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 38.6 x 26.3 cm; (plate) 28.1 x 20 cm.

Inscribed on plate on banner: “L’ILLUSTRATION NOUVELLE / 1881 / XIII.me ANNÉE"

Proof impression before lettering for publication.

Reference: Martin Hardie 1903. “Catalogue of Prints”, cat. National Art Library (Great Britain), South Kensington, Wyman and Sons, p. 132, item 27759.F.I.

Note: this publication is available online or for free downloading from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/catalogueprints01hardgoog/page/n132

Condition: crisp and faultless impression. There is unevenness of colour/tone on the left margin otherwise the sheet is in excellent condition and laid upon a support sheet of millennium quality washi paper

I am selling this showpiece etching executed for the influential French Society of Painters and Etchers to herald the advance of etching against what the Society members perceived to be the demise of engraving in the 19^th century, for AU$188 (currently US$134.85/EUR118.29/GBP101.24 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this symbolically rich revision of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, showing the goddess standing afloat on a small shell, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Richard Earlom’s mezzotint, “A Fruit Piece”, 1776

Richard Earlom (aka Henry Birche) (1743–1822)

“A Fruit Piece”, 1776, from the series, “Houghton Gallery”, after the intermediary drawing by Joseph Farington (1747–1821) after the painting by Michelangelo di Campidoglio (aka Michelangelo di Pace) (1610–1670), published by John Boydell (1719–1804) in 1776.

Mezzotint with stipple and etching on laid paper.                         

Size: (sheet) 37.3 x 41.7 cm; (plate) 30.5 x 35.2 cm; (image borderline) 26.5 x 35 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) M. Angelo Campidoglio Pinxit. / Joseph Farington delint.”; (centre with text broken by the coat of arms, “FARI QUÆ SENTIAT”) John Boydel excudit 1776 / A FRUIT PIECE. / In the Marble Parlour at Houghton. / size of the Picture […] in Length. / Published Septr. 30th. 1776 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London."; (right) “Richd. Earlom Scupsit.”

Lifetime impression of the published state by Boydell (1776).

Wessely 1886 148 (Joseph Eduard Wessely 1886, “Richard Earlom: Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter”, Hamburg, Haendcke & Lehmkuhl); Rubinstein 1991 41 (Gregory M Rubinstein 1991, “Richard Earlom (1743–1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery”, “Print Quarterly”, Vol VIII, London).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“A basket on a stone step, grapes on the vine, apples, figs and other fruit spilling from it and lying on the ground, a lizard in the foreground at right, the base of a pyramid in the background at right; coat of arms at bottom”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1623851&partId=1&searchText=earlom+a+fruit+piece&page=1)

Condition: superb early impression showing very few signs of wear to the printing plate. The sheet is in excellent condition for its considerable age and has generous margins and a collector’s ink stamp verso.

I am selling this exceptionally rare still life masterwork of mezzotint, showing the full spectrum of tones from sparkling whites, translucent soft greys to the darkest of velvety blacks, for AU$556 (currently US$397.80/EUR350.06/GBP301.53 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this stunningly beautiful still life seldom seen on the art market, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy

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Pierre-Quentin Chedel’s etching, “River Landscape with Rhinoceros”, c1744, after François Boucher

Pierre-Quentin Chedel (aka Quentin Pierre Chedel) (1705–1763)

“River landscape with rhinoceros, camels, lion and two figures on a distant cliff” (descriptive title only), c1744, after the design by François Boucher (1703–1770) and later published in 1780 as an illustration (plate 94) to Jean-François de La Harpe’s (1739–1803) “Abrégé de l'Histoire générale des voyages, contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile & de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré; les mœurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts & sciences, commerce, manufactures, enrichie de cartes géographiques & de figures” ([transl.] A summary of the general history of voyages, containing what is most remarkable, most useful, and most reliable in the countries where travellers have entered; the manners of the inhabitants, the religion, the uses, arts & sciences, trade, manufactures, enriched of maps & figures).

I suspect that this impression is from an earlier edition to the published edition of 1780 as there is no sign of the gate-fold crease (but I could be wrong about this).

Etching on laid paper trimmed with small margins near the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 15.9 x 18.4 cm; (image borderline) 15.3 x 17.8 cm

Inscribed on plate below the image borderline: (left) “BOUCHER INV.”; (right) “CHEDEL. Sc.”

Condition: crisp and well printed impression trimmed close to the image borderline and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The sheet is in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing).

I am selling this exceptionally rare etching featuring an unusual assortment of wild animals set in a fir tree landscape, for AU$194 (currently US$139.18/EUR122.46/GBP106.30 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this simply amazing etching of a rhinoceros watched by two men, three camels and a lion, while the rhinoceros looks back in what I imagine would be jaw-dropping bewilderment with seeing so many of its mates all in the same place, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving, “The Lion Hunt”, c1519

Marcantonio Raimondi (1470/1482–1527/1534)

“The Lion Hunt”, c1519 (1510–27), published by Antonio Salamanca (1478–1562), after Baldassare Peruzzi (aka Baldassare Siena) (1481–1536), after a bas-relief on an ancient sarcophagus.

The curator of the British Museum offers the following insights about the designs that this engraving references:

“After Peruzzi's drawing now at Chatsworth inspired by an antique sarcophagus with scenes of a lion hunt now part of the decoration of the Casino Rospigliosi in Rome and according to Vasari, was located in the sixteenth century in the atrium of Old St. Peters” (BM no. H,3.480).

Engraving on laid paper trimmed within the image borderline (largely on the left and with loss of the lettered text below the image borderline) with numerous restorations and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 23.1 x 35.1 cm

TIB 27(14).422(317) (Konrad Oberhuber [ed.] 1978, “The Illustrated Bartsch: The Works of Marcantonio Raimondi and of His School”, vol. 27, New York, Abaris Books, p. 110); Bober & Rubinstein 1987 199a; Delaborde 1888 222.193; Le Blanc 1854-89 266; Passavant 1860-64 VI.39.247; Bartsch XIV.317.422

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“A lion hunt with nine male and female armed figures, two of which are on horseback; a fallen stag at centre and a small dog at right”

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1437619&partId=1&searchText=lion+hunt&page=1

See also the description offered by the Rijksmuseum:

(Google transl.) “Soldiers or hunters on horseback and save on foot for attack of lions. A deer is killed and lies at the feet of a woman dressed in armour. Below the performance is a Latin inscription that refers to the origin of this performance.”

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.345630

Condition: crisp impression but in poor condition with many restorations. The sheet has been trimmed significantly on the right side and within the borderline on the other sides with loss of the lettered text and has been laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this exceptionally rare but very damaged (now restored) engraving executed within a few years of Leonardo completing his “Mona Lisa” (La Gioconda) and well before Michelangelo even started on his “Last Judgement”, for AU$487 (currently US$347.24/EUR306.68/GBP265.69 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this masterwork by Raimondi that is seldom seen on the art market, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Jacob Matham’s engraving, “The Adoration of the Shepherds”, c1597

Jacob Matham (1571–1631)

“The Adoration of the Shepherds”, c1597, after a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert (aka Abraham Bloemaart) (1564–1651) in the Maida and George Abrams collection (see https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/212362) and published by Jacques Razet (fl.1589–1609) in Haarlem.

Engraving on laid paper trimmed with thread margins around the image borderline (with loss of the text box) and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 20.2 x 29.1 cm; (image borderline) 19.9 x 28.9 cm

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower edge at centre): "Abrahamus Blommaert Inuentor, / Matham sculp".

State ii (of ii)

TIB 4(3).67(148) (Walter L Strauss [ed.] 1980, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Netherlandish Artists”, vol. 4, New York, Abaris Books, p. 57); Roethlisberger 1993 48 (Marcel Roethlisberger 1993, “Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints”, 2 vols, Doornspijk, Davaco); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 18.II (Jacob Matham); Hollstein 34; Bartsch III.148.67

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Adoration of the shepherds; in a barn the shepherds gather around the manger and the Virgin lifts up the sheet to give a clearer view; an incongruous large classical column at right; after Bloemaert”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1479783&partId=1&searchText=matham+adoration+of+the+shepherds&page=1)

See also the description of this print at the Rijksmuseum:

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.150515

Condition: crisp, richly inked and near faultless impression trimmed with fine margins around the image borderline laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The upper right corner has a small area of replenished loss—virtually invisible—and there are a few brown dots otherwise the sheet is in excellent condition for the considerable age of the print.

I am selling this exceptionally beautifully executed and elegant engraving exemplifying the period style of Mannerism of the late 16th century, for AU$423 in total (currently US$300.92/EUR265.47/GBP231.57 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this magnificent and very rare engraving capturing Bloemaert’s love of statuesque figures with alarmingly long arms and legs, and making theatrically meaningful hand gestures, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold