Old Masters

Bernard Picart (1673 – 1733) was a French artist and engraver. Most of his works were book-illustrations, including the Bible and Ovid. Hercules; red calk and charcoal signed in ink on two sheets of buff paper in a swept frame. Frames size: 68cm high x 43cm.

J.W.M. Turner Liber Studiorum: The seashore; a vessel unloading barrels onto carts drawn by horses on the right; men loading pack-horses on the beach on the left; a castle and two other vessels in the distance. Mezzotint and etching, foxed; Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner; Engraved by Charles Turner in 1807.  Plate size: 21cm high x 29cm.

J.W.M. Turner Liber Studiorum: A classical landscape with a river and a bridge with eight arches in the middle distance; in the foreground, several trees and three classical figures, one playing a pipe. Mezzotint and etching with aquatint, published 1808; Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner; Engraved by Charles Turner.  Plate size: 21cm high x 29cm.

Windmill and Lock taken from turners painting Grand Junction Canal at Southall Mill. J.W.M. Turner Liber Studiorum: Mezzotint and etching with aquatint, published 1811, inscribed; From a Picture in the Possession of I.M.W.Turner R.A. ; Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner; Engraved by Charles Turner. Plate size: 21cm high x 29cm.

Etching and mezzotint made for the Liber Veritatis, inscribed: From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire no. 16; after Claude Lorrain, aquatint made by Richard  Earlom, published by John Boydell in 1774. Plate size: 21cm high x 26cm.

After Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1664), Engraving, 18th century, inscribed (translation in brackets not on the print):- Dedie a S.E.M. le Marquis de Chauvelin Ambassadeur de France a Turin, (Dedicated to H.E. the Marquis de Chauvelin Ambassador of France to Turin); D’apres le Tableau de Benedetto Castiglione haut de onze pounces et large d’unpied neuf pounces qui est dans le Cabinet de S.E.M. le Bailli de Breteuil Ambassadeur de Mate a Rome, (According to the Benedetto Castiglione painting, eleven inches high and nine feet wide, which is in the Cabinet of H.E.M. the Bailli de Breteuil Ambassador of Malta to Rome). Plate size: 24.8cm high x 36.5cm.

St Francis of Assisi. After: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) Etching on laid paper, made by: Charlotte Anne Mackenzie Wellesley, circa, 1832-1845. Plate size: 86mm high x 63mm.  

Portrait Adriaen van Stalbemt (1580-1662), After: Sir Anthony Van Dyck; Engraved by Paulus Pontius (1603 - 1658) published (c. 1645) from the Iconography (Icones Principum...) series, by Martin van den Enden, Antwerp. Plate size: 24.3cm high x 17.3cm.

After David Teniers the Younger: A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. 1st state before lettering, Engraved by Thomas Major (1720-1799) in 1747. Image size: 31.8cm high x 47cm.

Mezzotint produced in 1772 by Thomas Burke,  after Angelica Kauffman, Published by William Wynne Ryland. Illustration of a scene from Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's 'Messiah'. Plate size:  55cm high x 35.5cm.

Christ carrying the cross; forced on by a soldier at right and three others in left background; St Veronica crying and holding the sudarium at left; group of six figures half-length; after Peter Paul Rubens. Engraving made by: Coenraad Lauwers. Production date 1645-1685. Plate size: 45.5cm high x 45.5cm high x 31.5cm.

Dominic received from Peter and Paul to preach Sacri Praedicatorvm Ordinis Origo.  St. Dominic kneels on the ground, before a gate, being visited by Peter and Paul who hand him a Bible and a walking stick and order St. Dominic to preach. Printmade by Aegidius Sadeler, circa, 1611 – 1629; after a painting by Joseph Heintz. Plate size: 53.5cm high x 39cm.

The Fight Between the Lean and Fat c.1610-1620; A carnival-esque battle between 'Fat' and 'Lean', a representation of the fight between gluttony (sin) and sobriety (virtue). Published by Boetius Adamsz Bolswert (c.1580-1633), engrave by his brother Schelte a Bolswert (1586–1659). The verses in Latin and Dutch along the bottom were written by Johannes Semmius and relate to the night of which the Carnival begins, the battlefield of the gluttonous and the sober, and how virtue and sin are always mutual enemies. The print here is in poor condition and has a piece missing from the right. Image size: 27cm high x 39.5cm.

St. Anthony's Dike broke twice in the St. Peter’s flood of March 5, 1651 with the floods pouring through. Etching after Willem Schellincks (1627 - 1678). Engraved 1651, by Pieter Nolpe (1613/14 - 1652/53). Overall size: 51cm high x 40.5cm.

Engraving figure by Gilles Rousselet (1614–1686) and etching background by Abraham Bosse (1602/04–1676), After Claude Vignon (1593–1670), Published in 1647 by Pierre Mariette (1596–1657). Image size: 32cm high x 21cm

Copper engraving on laid paper watermarked 1822 by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 -1815) after Nicolas Poussin (1594 -1665). Plate size: 18.4cm high x 26cm.

The Woman Taken in Adultery: Inscribed below image; Drawn by Mr Hufsey from the Original Picture of Agostino Carraci in the Zampieri Palace in Bologna and presented by him to the Earl of Northumberland in the year 1737. Now in His Majesty's Collection. Etched and engraved in brown ink; Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 – 1815), after Agostino Carracci, Published by John Boydell in 1764. Image size: 31cm high x 39cm.

An etching by Paolo Fidanza (1731 –  1785), of the head of Andrea Navagero (1483-1529), a detail from Raphael's 'Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano' (1516) now in the Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome. Published in 'Recueil de têtes choisies de personnages illustres dans les lettres et dans les armes éxactement dessinées et gravées de la grandeur des originaux par Paul Fidanza', Rome 1785, 1. The painting - now universally accepted as Raphael's original - has long been regarded as a high quality copy of the original, formerly thought to have gone lost. The legend below image credits Raphael with the design of the composition, and identifies the sitter as the law professor Bartolo da Sassoferrato (1313-57). Plate size: 42.5cm high x 30cm.

The image celebrates the British victories in America at the conclusion of the French & Indian (Seven Years) War, there are figures of Roman gods around a globe (that  shows the north eastern Coast of America and the Caribbean) pointing to North America, watched by George III in Roman dress. An allegorical image of America at the top, with a map of North America immediately behind the winged angel. When George III came to the throne in 1760 he inherited Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War. An angel in the centre foreground holds a list of the British actions in 1761, engraved by J.Miller in Oxford in 1763. Overall size: 37.5cm high x 46cm.

Agostino Veneziano ("Venetian Agostino"), whose real name was Agostino de' Musi (c. 1490 – c. 1540), was an important and prolific Italian engraver of the Renaissance. This etching on watermarked lined paper monogrammed in the plate is possibly of the god Sol riding chariot in the heavens above a city with man in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers in one hand and a water jug in the other. Overall Size: 18.7cm high x 14cm.

Etching by Pietro Aquila (1630 – 1692) who was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period. Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with Christ child and Saint John the Baptist. Image size: 14.8cm tall x 11.7cm.

Christ standing, holding the cross, his wound exposed, city-scape in the background, circa 1585; Engraving from the Series: The Twelve Apostles, Print made by: Antonius Wierix (1555/1559-1604), After: Maarten de Vos   (1532-1603), Published by: Gerard de Jode   (1516/17-1591). Overall size: 20.2 cm high x 13.7cm.

Etching of the Holy Family with St Anne and St John the Baptist; beyond is a room with two chairs and a fireplace; St John clutches the legs of a lamb and kneels before the Christ child. Circa 1569. Print made by: Cornelis Cort (1533 – 1578) After: Taddeo Zuccaro ? (1529-1566)   Published by: Antoine Lafréry (1512-1577). Overall size: 23.9 cm high x 19cm.

The Virgin holding Christ as a child, Saint Anne kneeling in front of her, a city beyond; after Durer; Print made by Aegidius Sadeler II; Date: 1585 – 1627). Aegidius Sadeler II (circa 1570 – 1629) also known as: Sadeler, Aegidius; Sadeler, Gillis; Sadler, Gillis; Sadeler, Egidius; Sadeler, Aegedius. A Flemish painter and engraver. Framed Size: 34.5cm high x 28.5cm.

Jupiter Jouissant De Leda (Leda and the Swan) etching in aquatint. Published, circa 1777, by Prestel after Giulio Romano (1499 – 1546). In Germany the most interesting etchers in aquatint in the 18th century were Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739 – 1808) and his wife Maria Catharina Prestel (1747 – 1794). Framed size: 67cm high x 57cm.

J.W.M. Turner Liber Studiorum: Four boys playing on the sea-shore sailing toy-boats; behind them three boats, one drawn up on shore to the left, another being pushed up on shore to the right. Mezzotint and etching with aquatint, published 1811, Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner; Engraved by William Say. Plate size: 21cm high x 29cm.

J.W.M. Turner Liber Studiorum: Mezzotint and etching with aquatint, published 1816, inscribed, Inverary Castle and Town Scotland. Drawing in the possession of the Duke of Argyle. Description: Loch Fyne breaking against the shor, with two stunted pines and several figures and boats, one being dragged off the shore; in the distance on the right, a tall ship; the far shore is lined by mountains and Inverary Castle and town. Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner; Engraved by Charles Turner. Plate size: 21cm high x 29cm.

Francesco Piranesi (1758/59 –1810) was an Italian engraver, etcher and architect. Vedute di Roma; Rome Bibliotech edition, small tear to lower left. Plate size:21cm high x 45cm. 

Caught in the Act printed 1825 engraved by James Pollard (1797-1867) mezzotint of a cat that has caught a rat that has eaten the bread. Large margins; Image size: 36cm high x 44.5cm.

Copper plate engravings; 'S. Eustathius and S. Odoardus' - showing Saint Eustachius/Eustace and Saint Odoardus. After one of the frescoes Domenico Zampieri (1581 –1641) painted for the Abbey of Grottaferrata (near Rome). Engraved by Antonio Capellan (circa 1740 – 1793) Published by N. Vanni in 1762. Overall size of each print: 37cm high x 14cm.

A Standard Bearer; A bearded man with chin-length hair, shown half-length facing front, wearing a breastplate, holding a standard in his right hand, glancing away to right. Mezzotint engraved by J. Young after J Hoppner, published by John Harris (c.1740-1811) in 1788. Poor condition, Plate size: 38cm high x 27.5cm.

Bacchanals and Satyrs Dancing to Love; Children satyr dancing with maenad children along to music played by a satyr (on the pan- flute) and accompanied by a maenad on the tambourine. A Maenad is a female follower of the Greek god of wine. Printmaker: Michiel Mosijn, designed by Cornelis Holstein, Published by Cornelis Danckerts (1603 – 1656). Plate size: 23.8cm high x 26.2cm.

Isaac blessing Jacob (Genesis 27); a young shepherd boy bowing before an old man, who sits at a table on which is a decorated pot, plate and knife, and points upwards, taking the boy's hand, while an old woman looks on, leaning in from right; after Ribera; Mezzotint  scratched letter proof. The second state describes the subject as Isaac blessing Jacob, and refers to the painting in the collection of the Earl of Chesterfield to whom the print is dedicated. The painting is not mentioned in the catalogue raisonné of Ribera's works by Nicola Spinosa; but the print is after a painting (with the composition in reverse) attributed to Giovanni Battista  Langetti in the Art Gallery of Ontario, or one very similar to it. Print made by: Charles Phillips (fl. 1750s-1787) After: Giovanni Battista Langetti (1635-1676), Published by John Boydell (1719-1804) in 1767. Overall size: 51cm high x 41cm.

Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right; after Rembrandt. Mezzotint with etching made by Richard Earlom, after Rembrandt, published by: John Boydell in 1771. Image size: 44.5cm high x 35.5cm.

The wedding of the Virgin Mary and Joseph; interior of a classical building with the holy union of Mary and Joseph, a priest in the act of placing the marriage ring upon the finger of Mary, onlookers beyond, three putti holding flowers above the couple's heads; after Peter Paul Rubens. Engraving made by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert (c. 1586-1659). Image size: 44.5cm high x 34cm.

Saint Paul Primus Eremita et Saint Antonius Abbas: Saint Paul the Hermit and Saint Anthony Abbot both seated, conversing in a landscape, after Pietro Antonio Novelli (1729–1804), Produced by Francesco Novelli (1764–1836) circa. 1784–1836, Engraving image size: 30cm high x 20.5cm.

Saint Paul Primus Eremita et Saint Antonius Abbas: Saint Paul the Hermit kneeling and Saint Anthony Abbot conversing in a landscape, after Pietro Antonio Novelli (1729–1804), Produced by Francesco Novelli (1764–1836) circa. 1784–1836, Engraving image size: 30cm high x 20.5cm.

View of Rome, etching by Jacques Callot (c. 1592 – 1635). He was a baroque printmaker and draftsman and is an important person in the development of the old master print. In a period frame inscribed ‘J. CALLOT’. Framed size: 14.8cm high x 39.5cm.

Engraving figure by Gilles Rousselet (1614–1686) and etching background by Abraham Bosse (1602/04–1676), After Claude Vignon (1593–1670), Published in 1647 by Pierre Mariette (1596–1657). Image size: 32cm high x 21.5cm.

Engraving figure by Gilles Rousselet (1614–1686) and etching background by Abraham Bosse (1602/04–1676), After Claude Vignon (1593–1670), Published in 1647 by Pierre Mariette (1596–1657). Image size: 32.5cm high x 21.5cm.

The Raising of Lazarus; Christ at the right blesses Lazarus who is pulled out the tomb, two women are in the foreground; a crowd of men and women are in the background; after Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 – 1594). Etching by Guglielmo Cortese (1628-1679), Published by: Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-1691) in Rome circa 1650-1691. Lettered at bottom left 'Iacobus Tintorettus Inventor' and 'Gio. Iacomo Rossi formis Romae alla Pace'. Image size: 33cm high x 38.5cm.

St. John the Baptist Sending His Two Disciples to Christ, Painted in the Church of Andrea della Valle, Rome. Print made in 1765, by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 – 1815), after Domenichino (1581-1641). Plate size: 30cm high x 41.5cm.

A woman seated, wearing spectacles picking fleas from a boy's head, next to a donkey and cat.  Etching by Jan Giovanni Miel (1599 - 1664) Painter and etcher, active in Italy. Pupil of Gerhard Seghers; in Rome 1636-1658; in Turin 1658-1664 as court painter of Charles Emmanuel; pupil of Andrea Sacchi. Image size: 14cm high x 21cm.

Moonlight mezzotint by Captain William Baillie (Killbride, 1723 – 1810, London) often known as "Captain William Baillie" was an Irish printmaker, after Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), Cattle on a Riverbank by Moonlight, Published September 1773. Plate size:28cm tall x 35.5cm.

A bearded old man wearing spectacles and a fur hat, shown half-length seated to left at a table counting gold coins, with a bag under his left hand and an inkpot by the coins. Mezzotint print laid on card, made by Andreas Van der Myn (1714 - 1768), after Heroman van der Mijn   (1684 - 1741), published by John Bowles (1701-1779) circa 1760s.  Plate size: 35cm high x 25cm. 

Lady playing a harpsichord with a man wearing spectacles singing and a boy, a violin, bag pips, horn and trumpet are hanging from the wall behind. Corners cut from image laid on card. Image size: 16cm high x 13cm.

Allegory of Justice depicting a street scene with a shepherd giving a sheet of paper to a judge at left, who rejects it, from Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..., plate 11 (A series of 13 Pictures of Justice by Joachim Wtewael'). The print maker Willem Isaacsz van Swanenburg (1580 – 1612), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver. After Joachim Wtewael (1566 – 1638) Published by Christoffel van Sichem I (1546 – 1624) in 1605.  Image size: 25.5 cm tall x 17.4cm.

St Paul standing, holding a sword in his right hand and open book in the left, his conversion in the background. circa 1585; Engraving from the Series: The Twelve Apostles, Print made by: Antonius Wierix (1555/1559-1604), After: Maarten de Vos   (1532-1603), Published by: Gerard de Jode   (1516/17-1591). Overall size: 20 cm high x 13.7cm.