Prints and Portraits
380 items found
Mucha, A. M.
Documents décoratifs. Planches 21 et 22. [Female beauty in blue - posters for Art et Décoration Revue mensuelle d'Art moderne].
Paris, Librairie Central des Beaux Arts, 1901. Two plates. Folio (46.0 x 33.0 cm). Original prints in blue, on blue paper, mounted on white paper with printed number.
Read moreKnorr, G.
Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe Louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ...traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [Poissons - fish].
Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1779. Folio (54.5 x 38.0 cm). 13 pp.; nine very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plates.
Read moreStoopendaal, D.
Fireworks - Afbeelding van het vuurwerk in de Hofvijver in Den Haag afgestoken op 14 juni 1713 ter gelegenheid van het sluiten van de Vrede van Utrecht op 11 april. [Image of the fireworks in the Hofvijver in The Hague on June 14, 1713 on the occasion of the conclusion of the Treaty of Utrecht on April 11].
's-Gravenhage [The Hague], Anna Beeck, 1713. Broadsheet (47.5 x 54.3 cm). Engraving by D. Stoopendaal after a drawing by H. Pola.
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"Bear hunting".
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht (?), ca. 1750]. Six oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 20.0 x 16,0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, five cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a scene in a forest, with hunters chasing a bear. Preserved in an attractive 20th-century felt-covered wooden box with glass front and top (28 x 21 x 17.5 cm).
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Large original watercolour illustration of a 1920's luxury model.
[No place, no publisher, ca. 1925-1930]. Large, oblong sheet (61.6 x 22.7 cm) with watercolour (partly paint-brushed) illustration of a ca. 1925 luxury car; mounted on another contemporary card board (same size).
Read moreGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. and F. Cuvier
Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec les figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans. Marsupials.
Paris, A. Belin, 1819-1829. Large folio (approximately 53 x 35 cm). Five plates with explanatory text leaves. Not bound, as issued.
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