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
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire, January by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been ...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ponte Gianniculense (Italy)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ROMA (Italy)
A. Aquaroni.
Engraving. Modern Hand-Color.
Rome, 1750.
Ever wonder what pre-dated the postcard? By the mid-eighteenth century, travel and exploration had become a...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Casa de Crescenzo (Italy)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ROMA (Italy)
A. Aquaroni.
Engraving. Modern Hand-Color.
Rome, Italy 1750.
Ever wonder what pre-dated the postcard? By the mid-eighteenth century, travel and exploration had be...
Category
1750s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Ananas Corona Multiplici
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN WILHELM WEINMANN. (1683-1741)
Phytanthoza Iconographia….
Published by Raisbonae.
Regensburg, 1735-47.
Engraved by J.J. Haid, J.E. Ridinger, B. Seuter and G.D. Ehret.
Hand...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Vanda Sanderiana
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Iris
By Walter Crane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FLORA’S FEAST
A Masque of Flowers
Walter Crane, Illustrator
Cassell & Co., Publisher
Color Lithograph
London, 1889
Born in Liverpool, 15 August 1845, Walter Crane first studied art in his father Thomas’ studio. After both moving to London and losing his father, Crane obtained an apprenticeship as William Linton’s engraving shop. This position exposed the young Crane to political reform which would become a major influence on his future work.
As in illustrator, Crane became part of an influential group of political and religious radical movements. A supporter of the Liberal Party, Crane was outspoken in his support of the Communard’s attempt to overthrow the French government in 1871. It is seemingly ironic that at this time that Crane’s reputation as an illustrator of children’s books began to blossom. Within a decade Crane would join his life-long friend William Morris’s Arts and Crafts...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Oreo Trochilus Leucopleurus (Hummingbird)
By John Gould
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN GOULD
A Monograph of the Trochilidae,
or Family of Humming-birds.
Drawn and lithographed by John Gould,
Elizabeth Gould, H.C. Ritcher, and W. Hart.
Richard Bowler Sharp supplement 1880-87.
Published by John Gould.
Printed by Hullmandel and Watson.
London, 1849-61.
Lithographs with original hand-color.
Excepting the supplement, most with gold leaf illumination.
418 plates.
John Gould was the most prolific ornithologist and recorder of birds in England during the 19th century. Born a gardener's son, he was raised on the royal estate at Windsor. He became a gardener at Ripley Castle, where he learned the art of taxidermy, a skill so useful in his future career. In 1827, N.A. Vigors required a taxidermist for the newly formed Zoological Society of London; the job came to Gould who moved to London and married Elizabeth Coxen. She was to become a skilled collaborator, both as draughtsman and as supervisor in the lithographic shop. It was Elizabeth who was responsible for transferring the drawings made by Gould, from the specimens sent to him from all over the world, onto lithographic stone.
Unable to find a publisher, Gould resolved to publish his works himself. Illustrating over 3000 species of birds and animals and producing over forty folio volumes, Gould's works became great financial successes. He realized a considerable fortune.
The most well known prints are from his outstanding monograph on hummingbirds. They are unequaled in the history of ornithology. The brilliant coloring is highlighted with gold and a transparent luster creating metallic hues, a technique which has never been successfully reproduced. The birds appear in charming groups of twos and threes surrounded by realistic foliage. Each bird is drawn to scale and is anatomically correct to the smallest detail.
References: John Gould’s Hummingbirds...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Atlas Coelestis Harmonia (Celestial Atlas)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ANDREAS CELLARIUS. (1596-1665)
HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA.
(Celestial Atlas of Harmony).
Published by Gerad Valk and Pieter Schenck.
Amsterdam, 1708.
...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
XIV. Etruscan Urn
Located in Florham Park, NJ
...Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities....
Hamilton, Sir William. 1730 – 1803.
Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton.
4 vols. Naples, 1766-7.
D’Hancarvills, sculpt.
Aquatint Engravings in Black and Terra Cotta Inks.
Finishing in Original Hand-Color.
In 1764, Sir William Hamilton arrived in Naples to take up his new appointment as British Envoy Extraordinary to the Bourbon Court of King Ferdinand IV. At the time of his arrival, Italy was still a largely untapped field of archaeological discovery and there was ample opportunity for the private individual to amass a collection or 'cabinet' of classical antiquities at relatively little expense. The sites of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, although now under Royal control, were still being only haphazardly excavated and were openly vandalized. Hamilton himself complained of the fact, but also seems to have taken advantage of it.
Hamilton's first collection was in fact acquired by the British Museum in 1772 where it formed the foundation of the now great collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. This was the first major collection of Greek vases (or, as they were then known, Etruscan) to reach England's shores. "To Hamilton belongs the merit of being the first to appreciate with warmth the severe beauty of their shapes, colouring and drawing, the mingled simplicity and feeling of the designs figured upon them; and it was he who recognized the value of these unpretentious vessels for forming and ennobling modern art-taste". (Adolph Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge 1882, p. 110)
Hamilton found a worthy ally in Josiah Wedgwood who was setting up a new factory appropriately called "Etruria". Opened in June of 1769, Wedgwood was to use Hamilton's models again and again in his pottery with many designs taken directly from the engravings. Etruscan antiquities...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Amygdalus. (Almond)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL (1707-1758)
A Curious Herbal containing Five Hundred Cuts,
of the most useful Plants,
which are now used in the practice of Physick.
London, 1739.
Copper en...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Lizard Le Chalcide
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...
Category
1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
The Shire Stallion
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of the Horse
Samuel Sidney (1813 – 1883)
London, 1873
Cassell Petter & Galpin
Chromolithography
Man’s fascination with the horse has spanned many centuries. Admire...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wensleydale - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Yorkshire, British Landscape, Dales
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Wensleydale by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associat...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
L'Etoile du Berger
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Cougars
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
John Bachman
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Published by V.G. Audubon
Lithograph with Original Hand-Coloring
New York 1849, 1851, 1854, 1870. Royal O...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
"The Toilette of Venus"
Located in Houston, TX
Etching done after Francois Boucher's "The Toilette of Venus." He is a 18th century artist who worked with a lot of naturalistic mythology themes. The engraving is from a book page w...
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Wall Flowers
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN PARKINSON (1567-1650).
Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris.
Published by Thrale.
London, 1629.
Woodcuts by Christopher Switzer.
Later hand color.
110 woodcuts.
"...a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English are will permit to be noursed up...".
Parkinson's work is among the most famous English gardening books...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Un Planete et ses Satellites
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lizard Le Dore
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...
Category
1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Toulouse Geese
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Beans
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Elder (1593-1650)
Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen.
Frankfurt, 1646.
Engraving with Later Hand-Color.
400 Plates. Image Size 4.5” x 5.25” Unframed.
...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Alphabet Letter "S", Saint, Religious
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
"Marriage of St. Margaret and King Malcolm, " Original Etching by A. Runciman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Marriage of Saint Margaret and King Malcolm" is an etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman. There is an engraved signature with the artist's monogram followed by "pinxit et fecit," indicating that Runciman both designed the original drawing and likely executed the etching on the metal plate. On the left, a young woman with a halo in fine dress stoops slightly and gathers her skirts as she leans over to accept the ring that the man on the right is reaching to place upon her finger. He is also young, dressed finely, and wearing a crown. Between them, a church official with a pointed hat and a long flowing beard recites the appropriate prayers for the occasion, while onlookers crowd in the background. The tiled floor demonstrates the use of one-point perspective, and the church appears to be in the Gothic style.
Art size: 8 3/4" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 26 1/2" x 22 3/8"
Alexander Runciman (Edinburgh 15 August 1736 – 4 October 1785 Edinburgh) was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter.
He was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the Foulis Academy, Glasgow, and from 1750 to 1762 he was apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, later becoming a partner in the Norie family firm. He also worked as a stage painter for the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh.
In 1767, he went to Rome, where he spent five years. His brother John accompanied him, but died in Naples in the winter of 1768–69. During Runciman's stay in Italy he became acquainted with other artists such as Henry Fuseli and the sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel...
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1770s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Wensleydale from Moorcock - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Yorkshire, Landscape
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Wensleydale from Moorcock by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Lim...
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1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Alphabet Letter "T"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Pl. VII Pterocles (Sandgrouse)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN ANDREAS NAUMANN (1744-1826)
JOHANN FREDERICH NAUMANN (1780-1857)
NATURGESCHICHTE DER VOGEL MITTELEUROPAS
WITH PLATES BY:
Keulemans, Kleinschmidt, Geisler, Von Riesenthal,
De Maes and Goering
GERMANY, 180
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY
Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780 - 1857) was a German scientist and editor. Highly regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe, Naumann has often been referred to as the ‘Father of Ornithology”. His presentation shows the birds in their natural settings. Naumann employed renowned bird artists of his time such as. Keulemans, Kleinschmidt, Geisler, Von Riesenthal, De Maes and Goering. The resulting tome included over 400 plates. So popular was this work that it enjoyed a second printing less than 20 years later. Its relevancy was undisputed.
Naturgeschicte der Land- Und Wasser- Vogel Des Nordlichen Deutschlands un Angranaender Lander, Naumann the elder’s work, was first published in 1795-1817. Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas, or Natural History of Central European Birds, was and published in various formats between 1797 and 1817. Buchanan and Fisher describe this later second edition as the ". . . most scholarly and complete ornithological text book of its time (perhaps of any time)."
Reference: Fine Bird Books (1700-1900). Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
J.J. Grandville
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Paeonia polyanthos maior flore (Peony)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
BASIL BESLER (1561 – 1629).
Hortus Eystettensis.
Konrad Bauer. Altdorf, 1613, 1640, 1713 – 50.
Copper plate engravings with modern hand-color
374 plates....
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1710s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"The Presidents of the US, " Original Handcolored Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presidents of the U.S." is an original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It features the first eleven presidents of the United States.
14" x 10" art
23" x 19 1/8" frame
Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to William S. and John Pendleton of Boston who had set up the first lithographic establishment in America. His apprenticeship served him well as he went on to be the largest publisher of lithographs. Mr. Maurer described Nat Currier as being very gentlemanly and liberal. As is evident to the success of the firm of Currier & Ives he was very devoted to his business.
Nat Currier had many friends including Horace Greely and P.T. Barnum. He was well known for his sense of humor and Harry T. Peters tells one story about P. T. Barnum. "Currier had heard that one day his friend, the great showman, had rushed into the barber shop of the old Park Hotel, at Beekman and Nassau Streets, to get a shave. Barnum had hurried up to Tom Higginson, the barber, and said, 'Tom, I'm in a hurry.' 'Sorry for it,' said Tom, 'but it's that gentleman's turn next.' 'That gentleman' was an unshaven irshman waiting for a ten-cent shave. Barnum turned to him and said, 'My friend, if you will let me have your turn, I'll pay for what you have done.' The gentleman consented, and, as Barnum found out later, had a full job done - absolutely everything the house had. The check was for a dollar and sixty cents. When Currier heard this story he found the very Irishman and had him pose. The result was the famous cartoon, "The Man that Gave Barnum 'His Turn.'"
Nathaniel was married twice; his first wife was Miss Eliza West of Boston. He had one son with Eliza, Edward West Currier. In 1847 he married Miss Laura Ormsbee of Vermont. Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter...
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1840s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Alphabet Letter "P"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed in Colours. Hand-Painted Gold Highlights.
To produce a study for an historic illumination of antiphonals, the Arundel Society selected each of the alphabet letters from chorale books created in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Devotional pieces, the chorale music was greatly appreciated by Christians throughout the world. Often it was sung as responsive music where the choir would be divided into two parts thus creating a harmony which reinforced the Christian religious doctrine.
As illustrious as the music, the key letters that headed each piece would take their own place in the art world. Many initials would be specifically devoted to prominent men and woman of both religious and cultural importance. For example, the “F” was devoted to Fra Angelico, an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Gold
Polish Chickens: White-Crested Black. Golden-Spangled. Silver Spangled.
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
10....
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Pl. IX Manege (Horsemanship)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Denis Diderot (1713-1784
Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1713-1783)
Recueil de Planches, Sur les Sciences,
les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Mechaniques,
avec Leur Explication.
Francois...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Crocus
By Walter Crane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FLORA’S FEAST
A Masque of Flowers
Walter Crane, Illustrator
Cassell & Co., Publisher
Color Lithograph
London, 1889
Born in Liverpool, 15 August 1845, Walter Crane first studied art in his father Thomas’ studio. After both moving to London and losing his father, Crane obtained an apprenticeship as William Linton’s engraving shop. This position exposed the young Crane to political reform which would become a major influence on his future work.
As in illustrator, Crane became part of an influential group of political and religious radical movements. A supporter of the Liberal Party, Crane was outspoken in his support of the Communard’s attempt to overthrow the French government in 1871. It is seemingly ironic that at this time that Crane’s reputation as an illustrator of children’s books began to blossom. Within a decade Crane would join his life-long friend William Morris’s Arts and Crafts...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Alphabet Letter "K" Religious Saint
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "F"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
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1860s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
German Shepard
By Diana Thorne
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Diana Thorne’s Dogs: An Album of Drawings.
Diana Thorne.
Julian Messner, Inc.
New York, 1944.
24 Drawings in Lithography.
“In drawing them,” she writes, “I have tried to ma...
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1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Common Buzzard
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Birds of America
Octavo Edition
Philadelphia, 1839
New York 1856-71
Lithographs. Original Hand-Color.
6.5” x 10.25” Unframed
Born in Haiti, John James LaForest A...
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1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Tempio di Romolo, e Remo
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ROMA
A. Aquaroni.
Engraving. Modern Hand-Color.
Rome, 1750.
Ever wonder what pre-dated the postcard? By the mid-eighteenth century, travel and exploration had become a we...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Les Nebuleuses
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
#65. Aloe Ferox
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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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare, " Original Color Lithograph by J. J. Audubon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. This artwork features two gray hares in a muted, cool-colored landscape.
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" art...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Tete de Veau Naturel
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Kimono Design Men - Brown and Blue
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock Prints
Celebrated as mu...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Anemones
By Walter Crane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FLORA’S FEAST
A Masque of Flowers
Walter Crane, Illustrator
Cassell & Co., Publisher
Color Lithograph
London, 1889
Born in Liverpool, 15 August 1845, Walter Crane first studied art in his father Thomas’ studio. After both moving to London and losing his father, Crane obtained an apprenticeship as William Linton’s engraving shop. This position exposed the young Crane to political reform which would become a major influence on his future work.
As in illustrator, Crane became part of an influential group of political and religious radical movements. A supporter of the Liberal Party, Crane was outspoken in his support of the Communard’s attempt to overthrow the French government in 1871. It is seemingly ironic that at this time that Crane’s reputation as an illustrator of children’s books began to blossom. Within a decade Crane would join his life-long friend William Morris’s Arts and Crafts...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Holly
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN WILHELM WEINMANN. (1683-1741)
Phytanthoza Iconographia….
Published by Raisbonae.
Regensburg, 1735-47.
Engraved by J.J. Haid, J.E. Ridinger, B. Seuter and G.D. Ehret.
Hand...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Plate 856. Pitcairnia Latifolis. (Bromeliad)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM CURTIS.
The Botanical Magazine.
Engravings with original hand-color.
9.5” x 5.75” Unframed.
London, 1787.
The long rich story of The Botanical Magazine, which was...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Plate IX. Palissade. (Butterfly)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN (1647-1717)
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium…
(Insects of Surinam)
Amsterdam, 1705
Hand-colored engravings.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, then a free i...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Magnolia Parviflora
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva
Henry G. Moon (1857-1905)
London, 1903
Chromolithography.
They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Walnut
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MATTHAUS MERIAN, the Elder (1593-1650)
Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen.
Frankfurt, 1646.
Engraving with Later Hand-Color.
400 Plates. Image Size 4.5” x 5.25” Unframed.
...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Thye Countess Montijo
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of the Horse
Samuel Sidney
London, 1873
Cassell Petter & Galpin
Chromolithography
10.75” x 8.25”
Man’s fascination with the horse has spanned many centuries. Admir...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Chrysanthemums
By Walter Crane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FLORA’S FEAST
A Masque of Flowers
Walter Crane, Illustrator
Cassell & Co., Publisher
Color Lithograph
London, 1889
Born in Liverpool, 15 August 1845, Walter Crane first studied art in his father Thomas’ studio. After both moving to London and losing his father, Crane obtained an apprenticeship as William Linton’s engraving shop. This position exposed the young Crane to political reform which would become a major influence on his future work.
As in illustrator, Crane became part of an influential group of political and religious radical movements. A supporter of the Liberal Party, Crane was outspoken in his support of the Communard’s attempt to overthrow the French government in 1871. It is seemingly ironic that at this time that Crane’s reputation as an illustrator of children’s books began to blossom. Within a decade Crane would join his life-long friend William Morris’s Arts and Crafts...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wood Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Piper Indicum. Spanish Pepper.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL (1707-1758)
A Curious Herbal containing Five Hundred Cuts,
of the most useful Plants,
which are now used in the practice of Physick.
London, 1739.
Copper en...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Trotting Away
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of the Horse
Samuel Sidney (1813 – 1883)
London, 1873
Cassell Petter & Galpin
Chromolithography
10.75” x 8.25”
Man’s fascination with the horse has spanned many ce...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Venice, View of the Grand Canal - Original etching and watercolor, 1831
Located in Paris, FR
Dionisio MORETTI
View of the Grand Canal, 1831
Original etching
Finely enhanced by hand with watercolor
On vellum 26 x 41 cm (c. 10.2 x 16 inch)
...
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1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Redhead (Duck)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Red Men's Kimono Design
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock P...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
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