‎Estampes‎

‎Prints, Fortuna‎

‎Boho Mermaid‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36919906 ISBN : 1097816729 9781097816729

‎Elliott, TJ.; Engravings by Gillian Tyler T. J.‎

‎A Medieval Bestiary‎

‎Boston: Godine 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Limited edition this no. 368 of 900 copies 1971 hardcover with red and white cloth boards in dust jacket and original slipcase quarto unpaginated illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of rubbing to boards binding tight text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with toning to spine and edges. Slipcase VG with rubbing and mild shelfwear. Godine hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : B38137

‎Eiler, April; Prints by Sandra Beard‎

‎Seven Waiters Brought the Water‎

‎Palo Alto CA: Line Dance 1993. Limited edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Eiler! Limited edition this no. 82 of 200 copies 1993 paperback with tied binding octavo 23pp. illustrated in b&w. Book fine binding tight text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Line Dance paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : C000024156

‎Prints Golden Ratio‎

‎Pi Love You: Graph Notebook Funny Math Humor Fibonacci Pi Golden Ratio Quad Ruled 5 Squares Per Inch Notebooks For Students‎

‎Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. Independently published paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1077032943 ISBN : 1077032943 9781077032941

‎Whitfield Christopher. Engravings by John O'Connor‎

‎TOGETHER AND ALONE. Two Short Novels. signed by author and artist‎

‎London: The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition of 100 bound in 1/4 white morocco with this being number 44 1945. SIGNED by O'Connor and Whitfield on colophon. Stamp "Bound by S & S London" inside front cover Sangorski & Sutcliffe were binders to Cockerel Press. A Very Good copy. 8vo. 109 pp. bound in 1/4 white morocco and marbled cloth with title in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Very minor soiling to morocco with slight rubbing at base of spine. Text is unmarked engravings are clean and bright. A beautiful book. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 35382

‎[Red Howler Press] Zundenfel, Dieter | engravings by David Moyer‎

‎Father's Fathers. Six Poems with Six Wood Engravings‎

‎Lebanon PA: Red Howler Press 1989. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 20 pp. plates. Limited edition numbered 22 of 50 copies signed by Zundenfel and Moyer on the colophon. As issued in Japanese stab-sewn stiff papers wrapper with blind-stamped title on the front cover; 6 striking prints were engraved on end grain maple blocks and printed on Kitakata Japanese paper. Each engraving is additionally signed by Moyer and numbered 22/75. A bright copy without wear. Uncommon and delightful. Red Howler Press unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7372

‎[Yellow Barn Press] Symons, Julian | engravings by John DePol‎

‎Oscar Wilde: A Problem of Biography‎

‎Council Bluffs IA: Yellow Barn Press 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 6 27 3 pp. frontis illus. Limited edition number 176 of 200 copies. Backed in red cloth with pastepaper over boards. A fresh copy with very faint rubbed spots to the fore-edge of the front board; clean throughout. A beautiful production with a frontispiece and three in-text engravings by DePol. Yellow Barn Press unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6177

‎Botany; Prints‎

‎Portraits of the Founding Fathers of Botanical Study‎

‎1850. Very good condition. An archive of 27 portraits of the founding fathers of botany including Dodoens Leeuwenhoek Grew Hill Aldrovandi Smith Desfontaines Palisot Gessner Everard Bonnet Banks Buffon Gray Evelyn Linnaeus Cuvier Klein Clusius and Agassiz.<br /> <br /> 1. Rembert Dodoens born Rembert Van Joenckema 1517 – 1585 was a Flemish physician and botanist. Rembert Dodoens Rembertus Dodonaeus was one of the great botanists of the 16th century who pursued a knowledge of plants in their own right not simply for medicinal uses. Contemporary copper engraving 4 7/8 x 7" on 7 3/8 x 10 1/2".<br /> <br /> 2. Antonius Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 Dutch "Father of Microbiology" with botanical importance who worked with William III of Orange and his wife Mary II of England and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7 1/8".<br /> <br /> 3. Nehemiah Grew 1641 – 1712 was an English plant anatomist and physiologist known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Copper engraving 5 3/4 x 9 1/4".<br /> <br /> 4. John Hill ca. 1714 – 1775 was an English author and botanist who contributed to contemporary periodicals including the botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System'. Copper engraving 8 7/8 x 11 1/4" on 9 5/8 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 5. Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 – 1605 was an Italian naturalist professor of botany and one of the founders of the Bologna's botanical garden one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon considered Aldrovandi the father of natural history studies. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8".<br /> <br /> 6. Sir James Edward Smith 1759 – 1828 was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society 5 x 7" on 8 7/8 x 11 5/8".<br /> <br /> 7. Rene Louiche Desfontaines 1750 – 1833 was a French botanist who studied medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier at the Jardin des Plantes 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 8. Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel 1776 – 1854 was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology 9 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 9. Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot Baron de Beauvois 1752 - 1820 Paris was a French naturalist who was trained as a botanist and published an important paper on American entomology 9 x 12".<br /> <br /> 10. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 – 1836 was a French botanist notably the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; his system remains largely in use today 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". <br /> <br /> 11. Conrad Gessner 1516 – 1565 was a Swiss physician and naturalist regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography zoology and botany. Gessner was working on a major botanical text at the time of his early death from the plague 3 5/8 x 5 1/8" on 6 1/8 x 7 7/8".<br /> <br /> 12. Michael Rotenbeck 1569 - 1623 physician and collector of botanical works. Copper engraving 7 5/8 x 4 3/4" on 13 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 13. Dr. Giles Everard or Gilles Everaerts 16th century; active in 1580s Dutch physician who wrote works on the beneficial medicinal effects of tobacco smoking. Copper engraving 4 7/8 x 6" on 8 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 14. Charles Bonnet 1720 – 1793 Naturalist and philosophical writer. He coined the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. 8 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 15. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopediste. Buffon was the director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon published 36 quarto volumes of his 'Histoire Naturelle' during his lifetime. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". 4 1/2 x 6 3/8" on 9 x 11 1/2".<br /> <br /> 16. Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet GCB PRS 1743 – 1820 English naturalist botanist and patron of the natural sciences. 7 x 10 3/8".<br /> <br /> 17. Asa Gray 1810 – 1888 is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was significant as an explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was convinced that a genetic connection existed between all members of a species. He was opposed to the idea of hybridization within one generation and believed evolution was guided by a Creator. 6 x 8 5/8".<br /> <br /> 18. John Evelyn 1620 - 1706 author and botanist noted for his knowledge of trees. Evelyn's treatise Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees 1664 was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for the English navy. 8 x 10".<br /> <br /> 19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 Carl von Linne was a Swedish botanist physician and zoologist who formalized binomial nomenclature the modern system of naming organisms. 6 images: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 6 x 8 1/2" 4 7/8 x 8 5 1/2 x 9" 7 x 10 1/2" 6 1/4 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 20. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Baron Cuvier 1769 – 1832 known as Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. 4 images: 5 x 8 1/4" 6 3/4 x 9 7/8" 6 x 9" 7 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 21. Jacob Theodor Klein 1685 – 1759 was a German jurist historian botanist zoologist mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. 9 x 14 5/8" on 9 1/2 x 15 1/2".<br /> <br /> 22. Charles de l'Ecluse L'Escluse or Carolus Clusius 1526 – 1609 was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8".<br /> <br /> 23. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807 – 1873 was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 24. John Lindley 1799 - 1865 English botanist and orchidologist whose orchid collection was housed at Kew's herbarium noted for his 'Theory and Practice of Horticulture'.<br /> <br /> 25. Joseph Decaise 1807 - 1882 French botanist and agronomist. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 26. Louis Van Houtte 1810 -1876. Belgian horticulturist. Published the "Journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe". 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 27. Georg Eberhard Rumphius Rumpf 1627 - 1702 Batavian botanist best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina Indonesia. 9 1/2 x 14".<br /> <br /> The portraits mainly steel engraved some lithographic mostly 4to. All in very good condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24734

‎Coloring Prints‎

‎Heart Mandala Coloring Book 2: For Stressed Adults Stress Relief Valentine Mandala Coloring Book for Adults Gift 50 coloring Pages‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : A9798703728239 ISBN : 9798703728233 9798703728

‎C & J Goodfriend Drawings & Prints‎

‎Prints and Drawings of Musical Interest Catalog Number 5‎

‎New York NY: C & J Goodfriend Drawings & Prints. Very Good. N.D. Paperback. No edition date or printing stated. Likely 1st and mid-2000s. Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . C & J Goodfriend Drawings & Prints paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : HVD-31134-OS-0

‎St. Augustine And Simon Brett (Wood Engravings) And Justin Lovell And J. Enoch Powell And J. G. Pilkington‎

‎St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo Confessions‎

‎The Folio Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Folio Society. Hardcover. Import; No slipcover included. No writing or major blemishes. Light foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . The Folio Society hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : TOB217-32095-A-0.50

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London: William Miller 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white horizontal engraving shows eight dancing figures including both men and women many of whom are playing a variety of musical instruments The figures on the far right and left carry torches. One winged figure places a garland on the head of a central flute player. The image is bordered in a decorated rectangular frame and is labeled P1.34 Image roughly 5.5 x 3.25 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 11.5 by 9 now presented in a slate gray mounting board behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> William Miller unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29159

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white engraving shows a winged figure holding a shield in his right hand and a bucket in his left with cloak draped in front. The background is composed of several delicately and elaborately decorated circles within a square border. Image roughly 3.5 x 3.5 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 11.5 by 9 now presented in a coral mounting boards behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29149

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London: William Miller 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white rectangular engraving on a horizontal page shows a female figure robed and playing a flute facing toward a male bearded figure holding torches in each of his hands and wearing leaves in his hair. The image is bordered in a decorated rectangular frame and is labeled P1.8 Image roughly 3.5 x 2.5 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 9 by 9 now presented in a slate gray mounting board behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> William Miller unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29161

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London: William Miller 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white engraving shows a single seated winged figure holding an open box and horizontal open umbrella. The image is bordered in a decorated circular frame and is labeled P1.1 Image roughly 4.25 x 4.25 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 11.5 by 9 now presented in a black mounting board behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> William Miller unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29154

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London: William Miller 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white engraving on a horizontal page shows a single standing bearded male figure holding a staff in one hand and a branch in the other in front of a square block on the floor. The image is bordered in a decorated square frame and is labeled P1.4 Image roughly 3.75 x 3.5 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 9 by 9 now presented in a slate gray mounting board behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> William Miller unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29160

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S OUTLINES FROM THE FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS UPON THE Greek Roman AND ETRUSCAN VASES‎

‎London: William Miller 1804. A single plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Kirk. The black and white engraving shows a male standing figure who is carrying a scepter and wearing a hat facing a female figure who is dressed in a flowing robe who is gesturing toward him. The image is bordered in a decorated upright rectangular frame and is labeled P1.9 Image roughly 3 x 3.5 inches printed on a single sheet measuring 11.5 by 9 now presented in a black mounting board behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> William Miller unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29156

‎Henry Howe; Tinted Engravings [Illustrator]‎

‎Life and death on the ocean : a collection of extraordinary adventures in the form of personal narratives illustrating life on board of merchant vessels and of ships of war ; combined with thrilling relations of experience and suffering by war fire famine and shipwreck‎

‎Cincinnati : Henry Howe 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1860 printing. Bound in publisher's full stamped calf. Spine stamped with shipwrecked sailor adrift beckoning a frigate. 624 pages 7 leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Front color plate page torn with loss another fold out color plate also torn with loss. Preliminaries and 439-442 p. sprung. Signed by Adam Ramble 1862. Later signature of Maria Jane Ramble. Hinges cracked. Cincinnati : Henry Howe hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1911220030

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Hand-Coloured Aquatint Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities.‎

‎Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint printed as a black background over terracotta with highlighting in light gray/white. The image shows three figures one a warrior draped in animal skins carries a club stands before another figure with a thin staff who stands next to a flaming brazier. A third figure with a shorter staff walks way from the scene. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring larger than 18" x 12" the image approximately 12" X 7.75" now very handsomely presented in cream mounting approximately 24 by 18 inches with ornate gilt framework design around the leaf glazed and now under archival glass in a very attractive frame of gilded red wood and black enamel. In all a very impressive display. Very fine and in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29450

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Hand-Coloured Aquatint Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities.‎

‎Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a bacchanal scene-- a youth in peplos reclines on an ornate couch he holds a large bowl in his left hand his right gestures toward a kylix above--all within a Greek-key tondo. Above him there are three dancing satyrs. This is a nicely detailed image on a black background coloured in shades of brown tan terracotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 15" the image approximately 8.25" X 10". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26550

‎Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]‎

‎An Original Hand-Coloured Aquatint Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities.‎

‎Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a seated muscular long-haired man he holds the head of a dwarf or murdered reveler in his left hand his right hand holds a spear. In front of this man there stands a satyr holding a spear and wine bucket. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan brown terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 13" the image approximately 11.25" X 11.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26548

‎Steve Prints‎

‎The Comprehensive North Carolina Drivers Handbook: A Study and Practice Manual on Getting your Driver's License and Learners Permit‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9798326581860 ISBN : 979832658186x 9798326581

‎Jacob Prints‎

‎Catholic Catechism for Beginners: A clear and easy guide to the Catholic faith‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9798884614314 ISBN : 9798884614312 9798884614

‎Prints, Karen‎

‎I Love Kamala Harris: Democratic Party Elections Blank Lined Note Book‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1690989599.G ISBN : 1690989599 9781690989592

‎TAIPING REBELLION ANTIQUE PRINTS‎

‎The Civil War in China. H.M.S. "Hermes" in the Yang-Tze-Kiang River. caption title‎

‎London.: Illustrated London News. November 5.1853. Eight engravings the two largest 12 and 13.5 x 23 cms complete descriptive text running oveleaf on two consecutive newspaper leaves the leaves spotted with a few small edge tears but in very good condition. Detailed coverage of the visit of the British vessel H.M.S. Hermes at the time of the Taiping rebellion by a sailor on board. The lengthy commentary includes excerpts of his diary notes and the engravings are after sketches by him. The two main engravings are of "Nankin Chiefs and insurgents" and "H.M.S. Hermes shelling the heights of Chin-Kiang-Foo". <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . Illustrated London News unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 179541