Academic Prints and Multiples
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
VOLTO DI DONNA - Stampa riproduzione Emilio Greco, anni 70
By Emilio Greco
Located in Napoli, IT
Stampa riprodizione del disegno " Volto di Ragazza" realizzato dal disegnatore Emilio Greco.Firmato in basso a destra.
Scultore italiano (Catania 1913 - Roma 1995). Trasferitosi a Ro...
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1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Henry Robert Robertson, Ave Maria, Etching
By Henry Robert Robertson
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine late 19th-century etching by British artist Henry Robert Robertson (1839-1921) depicts a couple worshipping a shrine to the Virgin Mary at sea. The original painting was ex...
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
“Scene in Union Square, New York on a March Day
Located in Southampton, NY
Original wood engraving on paper. Taken from Harper’s Weekly, April 7, 1860. Signed “Homer” in the plate. Condition is good. Slight staining lower left. Very slight tear to the l...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Engraving
Original "Your Country's Call, Enlist Now" 1915 vintage British poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Your Country's Call. Isn't this Worth Fighting For? Enlist Now. Original WW1 poster, archival linen-backed vintage military poster.
Linen-backed and ...
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1910s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
“Haughton in the County of Nottingham” (Near Newark Upon Trent)
By Johannes Kip
Located in Southampton, NY
An original hand colored engraving by Johannes 'Jan' Kip (1653-1722) of Haughton in the County of Nottinghamshire, one of the seats of Prince John Duke of ...
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Early 1700s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Chrysanthemum Yellow B
Located in Florham Park, NJ
100 Chrysanthemums
Keika Hasegawa
Kyoto, Japan
Meji Era (ca. 1895)
Japanese Woodblock
Printed in Color with some
Touching by Hand
Keika Hasegawa was active from 1893-1905. His most famous work is 100 Chrysanthemums, a glorious celebration of Japan’s most famous flower. As the Imperial Seal...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Chartres La Mort de la Viegre X111”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original photo mechanical print handcolored throughout by the French artist, Lucy Garnot. Signed and titled bottom. Circa 1900. Condition is very go...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Photogravure
“Placidas and the Stag”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original photo mechanical print handcolored throughout by the French artist, Lucy Garnot. Signed left bottom. Circa 1900. Condition is very good. T...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Photogravure
Dante & Virgilus - Etching, (Ed. Goupil, 1897)
Located in Paris, FR
ARTISTE: after Auguste RODIN
TITLE : Dante & Virgilus
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravure after the original drawing
SIGNATURE : Unsigned
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 13 x 10"
INFOR...
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1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
“La Femme aux Figues”
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Southampton, NY
Original etching and lavis in black ink on Arches watermarked crème laid paper by Paul Gauguin. Titled: “La Femme aux Figues” (The Woman with Figs). This impression is from the 3rd s...
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1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Etching
Chrysanthemum Yellow A
Located in Florham Park, NJ
100 Chrysanthemums
Keika Hasegawa
Kyoto, Japan
Meji Era (ca. 1895)
Japanese Woodblock
Printed in Color with some
Touching by Hand
Keika Hasegawa was active from 1893-1905. His most famous work is 100 Chrysanthemums, a glorious celebration of Japan’s most famous flower. As the Imperial Seal...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Duke of Wellington
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Duke of Wellington by Vladislav Khristenko
Size of the image - 25 x 15 cm
Size of the list - 34 x 22.5 cm
Size in frame - 42 x 32 cm
Etching and aquatint on paper
#15 from edition ...
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2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint, Paper
Tender Innocence print on canvas
Located in Sempach, LU
High quality print on canvas.
Made from original oil painting "Tender Innence". Originally created by artist Maria Matveyeva in 2016 year.
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2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
#61. Aloe Africana
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN WILHELM WEINMANN.
Phytanthoza Iconographia….
Published by Raisbonae.
Regensburg, 1735-47.
Engraved by J.J. Haid, J.E. Ridinger, B. Seuter and G.D. Ehret.
Hand-colored mezzotin...
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Mid-18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Gold Leaf
Flowering Iris & Other Botanicals: Framed 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "I. Spatula foetida - II. Caucalis Dodonei - III. Cruciata", depicting three flowering plants, including an Iris, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored botanical engraving is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a French mat...
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Mid-17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Lizard Le Scinque Reptile Animal
Located in Florham Park, NJ
George-Louis Leclerec, Comte de Buffon.
HistoireNaturell, Generale et Particuliere avec la Description du Cabiner du Roi.
Paris, 1749
Drawings by Jacques E. DeSeve.
Engravings with l...
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1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Engraving
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony " Etching, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is an original etching by Fernand Cormon. This piece has the artist's stamp. The piece is signed in pencil by the artis...
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1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Paper, Ink, Laid Paper
Balmoral - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Balmoral Castle, British
By Charles (Prince of Wales)
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Balmoral by His Majesty King Charles III (formerly known as HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with the artworks of HRH The Prince of Wales for over 25 years. Anna Hunter, gallery owner, wrote a handwritten letter to the Prince asking him if he would consider making signed lithographs from his beautiful watercolours which could
be sold in aid of his charities. The gallery subsequently worked with the Prince for over 10 years publishing some 18 different editions and raising over £4million for the Prince’s Charitable Foundation.
Lithographs were made from the Prince’s original watercolours under the guidance of Stanley Jones – a celebrated printmaker who had previously worked with Henry Moore for 30 years, and with Elizabeth Frink, David Hockney and others. Each one is hand-signed.
“…One thing I have discovered in the course of my painting efforts is that Balmoral Castle...
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1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Locomotive a Vapeur, Typoe 141 P" vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: LOCOMOTIVE A VAPEUR. Type 141 P.
Artist: A. Bouvry and Albert Brenert Horizontal railway poster that has been archival linen backed, ready to frame. Very go...
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1940s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Hunting Leopard
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a Hunting Leopard
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Leopard-cat
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a leopard-cat
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Birth of Venus
By (After) Sandro Botticelli
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century coloured engraving of The Birth of Venus by
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Le Puy En Velay, SNCF vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Admiring the Original "Le Puy En - Velay" Vintage Poster The exquisite vintage poster for the old city of Le Puy En - Velay has inspired many art aficionados. ...
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1940s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Adirondac Grape
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century coloured engraving, Adirondac Grape
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Catacombs
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, 1822 Paris Catacombs
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Whimbrel
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nuthatch Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Clouded Leopard
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a Clouded leopard
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
John II, Count of Hainaut Holland & Zeeland (1247-1304)
Located in Sydney, NSW
18th Century (c1740) etching/engraving , John II, Count of Hainaut Holland & Zeeland (1247-1304)
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
leopard
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a Leopard
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pratincole Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of a Snow Bunting
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lion
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a lion
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Goldcrest Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Goldcrest Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nuthatch Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nuthatch Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Reptiles
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of reptiles
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nutcracker
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nutcracker Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Talpa Comune
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, Talpa Comune
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
A Thames Barbell
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, 1885 A Thames Barbell
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
May Day
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century hand coloured engraving
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La Morgue
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, 1822 Paris, La Morgue
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The United States
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, The United States (Vanity Fair), under the pseudonym of Ape
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Giorgio De Chirico ( 1888 – 1978 ) – Autoritratto – hand-signed lithograph –1970
Located in Varese, IT
Original color lithograph , edited in 1970
limited edition
signed in pencil in lower right corner and numbered as: 72/110
paper size: 70 x 53,5 cm
framed size: 93,5 x 77 cm ( origina...
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1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
“Bank Notes”
Located in Southampton, NY
James Gillray (13 August 1756 – 1 June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Description:
Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is a yokel no longer bewildered. He stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right) wears a high cocked hat...
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1790s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Archival Paper
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
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Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Original Marines World War 1 poster. E-E-E-YAH-YIP Go over with U. S. Marines
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War One: Go Over With U.S. Marines. E-E-E-YAH-YIP. This charging leather neck holds his Springfield high. The cropped design was influenced by candid photography, ...
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1910s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Innamorati
By Emilio Greco
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Innamorati (eng. Lovers). Original drypoint, 1982. Edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Emilio Greco is one of the greatest sculptors, engraver and medalist of modern time. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures of the human figure. The sculptures and figures in graphics, primarily female nudes and portraits, tended to be refined, with elongated forms in the Italian...
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1980s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
“Returning Home”
By Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen
Located in Southampton, NY
Original etching on Ingres laid paper (watermarked, see last photograph) attributed to the hand of the well known Dutch artist, Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen. No visible signature. Sheet size 9.25 by 12 inches. Sight size 7 by 9 inches. Under glass. Circa 1875. Condition is excellent. Professionally matted and framed in a walnut colored frame with gold leaf edge. Overall framed measurements are 12.75 by 14.5 inches. Gallery label verso. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Biography:
Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen (1813-1883) was a landscape painter and etcher. Rijkelijkhuysen spent most of his life working in the vicinity of his birthplace Utrecht. Inspired by the polders on the one hand and the Utrechtse Heuvelrug on the other, he mainly painted and etched water...
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1870s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Etching
“Les Revers de la Fortune”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original stipple engraving with colors titled “Les Revers de la Fortune” (Reversal of Fortune) by the well known French engraver, Louis Marin Bonnet...
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1780s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving
“Paris-London”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nice original hand colored copper plate etching (aquatint) by the Hungarian born artist, Marianne L. Almasy. Depicts London with its double buses in the foreground and scenes o...
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1980s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Etching
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
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Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Portrait of woman by Gustave François - Engraving 44x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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Mid-20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Greek Architecture Blueprint of Ancient Amphitheatre Cyanotype Print, Watercolor
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Ancient Roman Amphitheater
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 50
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints...
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2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Photographic Film, Woodcut, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Lithog...
George Sidney Hunt After Edwin Long RA, In the Wilderness, Engraving
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century mixed-method engraving by George Sidney Hunt (1856-1917) after Edwin Long RA (1829-1891) is one in a series of three depicting the Old Testament story of Jephthah. Here, we see Jephthah’s daughter contemplating her fate during a two-month sojourn in the wilderness.
The heart-rending story of Jephthah captured Victorian minds and inspired artist Edwin Long to produce three exhibition pieces, which are now held at the Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum. Prior to a fearsome battle with the Ammonites, Jephthah, a leader in Isreal, committed a vow to God that he’d make a sacrifice if his armies were triumphant.
“whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering...
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Engraving
Original Concours de L'Art a L'Ecole vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
l 'Art l'Ecole (3 Children in Garden). Original French vintage poster.
Artist: G Rochette. Concours de L'art a L'Ecole, 1931. Archival linen b...
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1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Paul & Vigier, Set Of Four Examples Of French Room Decoration, Heliogravures
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This stylish set of four early 20th-century French heliogravures depict various combinations of bedroom furniture from the period. They were published by Paul & Vigier and provide an interesting glimpse into the fashionable world of Parisian interiors.
Framed and glazed.
Established in 2017, Brave Fine...
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Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Photogravure, Paper
“On the Seine, Paris”
By Hans Figura
Located in Southampton, NY
Original aquatint etching of working river barges on the Seine in Paris, France. A horse drawn cart is seen loading or unloading product. Circa 1900. Si...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Aquatint
Flowering Iris Plants: A Basilius Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Iris latifolia violaceo colore maior; Iris latifolia vulgaris coerulea; Iris latifolia maior variegata (Tall Bearded Garden Iris and Flag Iris) plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored engraving is printed on thick laid chain-linked paper. There is latin text on the verso. There is pinpoint hole in the periphery on the right and another on the left. There is a very faint vertically oriented crease on the right, related to the process of drying the paper during its production, which is common with original Besler engravings...
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Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
“Evening”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed etching on archival paper by the well known American artist, Morris Henry Hobbs. Circa 1935. Condition is excellent. Signed in the lower right margin by the a...
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1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
“Morning”
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint original etching on archival paper by the well known American artist, Morris Henry Hobbs. Circa 1935. Signed in pencil by the artist bottom right margin. Titled “Morning” ...
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1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Drypoint
Academic prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Owen Jones, Paul Jones b.1921, John James Audubon, and Basilius Besler. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Engraving and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Academic prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $26,100, while the average work sells for $650.
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