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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
Caput Phaenicopteri & Keratophyton (Flamingo Head with Coral)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MARK CATESBY. (1682(83)-1749). The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Drawn by Mark Catesby and G.D. Ehret. Etched by MarkCatesby. Original Hand-Colorin...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Watercolor

Tudor Rose
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST. M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt. Lithographs with Later Hand-Color. Berlin, 1870. 13” x 19” Unframed. A fine German work, the illustrations a...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Collie
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

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Lithograph

Gemaltes Ornament. (Etruscan Vase Design),
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST. M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt. Chromolithograph. Berlin, 1870. 13” x 19” Unframed. A fine German work by, the illustrations are of classical and neo-classical decorative designs. The acanthus leaf, Greco-Roman busts, mythical animals and ornamental relief show the preferred style of architectural ornament over the centuries and from country to country. A trick of the lithographer was to use the occasional solid ground to give better dimension to the plate. Measuring 19” x 13”, many designs include a scale to show actual size. Only two of the 72 illustrations were printed in full color, another pair in sepia tones, and six in burnt orange and black to show typical Etruscan designs. Several have toned backgrounds. It has been the fashion to apply hand coloring to black and white engravings and lithographs for centuries. The superb condition can be attributed to the individual paper guards placed between each plate. Many of the pieces illustrated are in museums; i.e. a Greek painted portrait medallion is preserved in the Classical Museum...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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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

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Gold Leaf

Astronomie des Dames
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

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Gold Leaf

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

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Engraving

Cherries. Plate IX.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823). Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits…. Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke. London, 1812. Aquatint and stipple engravings...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Watercolor

Aylesbury Ducks
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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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Kimono Design Men - Brown and Blue
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

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Woodcut

Gemaltes Ornament. (Etruscan Vase Design)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST. M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt. Lithographs with Later Hand-Color. Berlin, 1870. 13” x 19” Unframed. A fine German work by, the illustration...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

#42. Aloe Mucronato
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

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Gold Leaf

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

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Engraving

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

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Engraving

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

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Engraving, Watercolor

Transport: Litter with 18 Men
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu Meiji 33 (1900) Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi The Japanese litters and palanquins are much more than a practical vehicle...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Blue and White Kimonos
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...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Woodcut

Triptych of Pears.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
RUDOLF GOETHE HERMAN DENGENKOLB, REINHARD MERTENS Aepfel und Birnen Walter Muller, Illustrator Berlin, 1849 Chromolithograph Fascination with fruits, vegetables and spices ...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bradypus (Three-toed Sloth)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN WILKES (1750-1810) Encyclopedia Londinensis after Reinhold and Edwards London, 1801-1828 Copper Plate Engraving Original Hand-Color 9” x11” Unframed At its best, the z...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Watercolor

Bernicla rufficollis... (Red Breasted Goose)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN GOULD (1804-1881) Birds of Great Britain Drawn and lithographed by John Gould, Elizabeth Gould, H.C. Richter, W. Hart, Dr. Sharpe, and...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pears LXXXII
Located in Florham Park, NJ
This piece would pair well with Brookshaw's "Peaches XXVI" which is also listed. GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823). Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits…. En...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Watercolor

Little Chief Hare. (Rock Rabbit)
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 1854. Royal Octavo Edition ...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Watercolor

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...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Transport with 5 People and 2 Parasols
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu Meiji 33 (1900) Woodcut with Original Hand-Coloring Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi The Japanese litters and palanquins a...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Toulouse Geese
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

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Lithograph

Samurai: Looking On
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Samurai Warriors Meji 33 ( 1900) Woodblocks Original Hand-Color Woodblock printing flowered in the Edo Period in Japan, mid to late 19th century, and is still considered an art...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

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

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Lithograph

Chrysanthemums
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

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Lithograph

White Headed Eagle - Young (Bald Eagle)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. Birds of America Amsterdam Edition. Johnson Reprint Company, New York. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Netherlands G. Schut & Zonen watermark. 1971-73 Edition of ...
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1970s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Floral Kimono in Red and Green (Front and Back)
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

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ABS, Woodcut

Bamboo
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Kono Bairei (1844 – 1895) One Hundred Flowering Plants. Japan, 1901. (Posthumous.) Woodblock Print. 15 x 11. Okura Magobei, Publisher. The enthusiasm for nature prints transcends the centuries. “One Hundred Flowering Plants” is a mid-nineteenth century work illustrating varieties of flowers and plants in naturalistic styles. Traditional woodblock printing enhances the beauty of each work. The artist must carve different woodblocks for every color he wishes to transfer to paper. In this style of printing it is imperative that the register of each woodblock be exact as they must match perfectly to create an image without blurring. In addition to his illustrated flower books...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Screen: 12 Images of Chickens in Reclaimed Barnwood
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 10.7...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Italia mit Corsica Sardinia und Sicilla
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Italia mit…Corsica, Sardinia und Sicilia. Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova, complectens Claidii Prolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1542. En...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Crocus
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

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Lithograph

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...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Watercolor

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

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Gold Leaf

Psyche. Sultan. Dark Brahma Pullet & Cockerel. (Chickens)
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

Anona (Pawpaw Fruit)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONYSISUS EHRET (1708-1770). Plantae Selectae.... Text by Dr. Christoph Trew. Drawn by Georg Dionysisus Ehret. Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid. Nure...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Watercolor

German Shepard
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

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Lithograph

Dorking Chickens: Silver-Grey Hen. Rose-Combed Cock. Single Combed Hen.
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

Canvasback 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 was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Monarda (aka Bee Balm, Bergamot)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770). Plantae Selectae.... Text by Dr. Christoph Trew. Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret. Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid. Nure...
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

Plate XLV. Ungulata. American Buffalo
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHNSON’S HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF NATURE Craig Hugh, Editor Henry J. Johnson, Publisher New York, 1880 64 Chromolithographs “…full & interesting descr...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pears LXXXII
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823). Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits…. Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke. London, 1812. Aquatint and stipple engravings...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Si...

#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

Buffle Head 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 was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Plate 91. Apples.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823). Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits…. Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke. London, 1812. Aquatint and stipple engravings...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Cala Lily
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Kono Bairei (1844 – 1895) One Hundred Flowering Plants. Japan, 1901. (Posthumous.) Woodblock Print. 15 x 11. Okura Magobei, Publisher. The enthusiasm for nature prints transcends the centuries. “One Hundred Flowering Plants” is a mid-nineteenth century work illustrating varieties of flowers and plants in naturalistic styles. Traditional woodblock printing enhances the beauty of each work. The artist must carve different woodblocks for every color he wishes to transfer to paper. In this style of printing it is imperative that the register of each woodblock be exact as they must match perfectly to create an image without blurring. In addition to his illustrated flower books...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Shire Mare
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

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Lithograph

Kimono: Woman in Orange
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

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Woodcut

Lapageria Rosea (Chilean Bellflower)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Paul Jones. (1921-1997) Flora Superba. London, 1971. Edition of 406. Flora Magnifica. London, 1976. Edition of 506. Lithographs. The portraits of flowers by Paul Jones ...
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1970s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bergen, Hudson, and Essex
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909) Bien Atlas of New Jersey. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Chromolithography. New York, 1883 - 1889 17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size. A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America. From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association. Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation. Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work. For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Dendrobium X Ainsworth (Orchid)
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

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Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Silk

Red-headed Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. BIRDS OF AMERICA from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia. Published b...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Archival Tape, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper

Typus Aspectuum.... (Astrological Planetary Aspects)
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

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Engraving, Watercolor

Monmouth Shore
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909) Bien Atlas of New Jersey. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Chromolithography. New York, 1883 - 1889 34” x 25” Paper Size. A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America. From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association. Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation. Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work. For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vicinity of Flemington
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909) Bien Atlas of New Jersey. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Chromolithography. New York, 1883 - 1889 17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size. A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America. From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association. Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation. Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work. For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Apocynum (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN CHRISTOPH VOLCKAMER (1662-1744). Nurnbergische Hesperides, Oder Grunliche Beschreibung der Elden Citronat, Citronen,und Pomerantzen Fruchte. Drawn by Decker and Volckamer....
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

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