Herman van Swanevelt Art

"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...

Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 133.v/xi. 7 3/4 x 16 3/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 17 1/2). A rich impression with plate tone printed in black/brown in on antique cream wove paper. Signed in pencil. In this state, according to Schneiderman (p. 273):"With additional etched work: an extra balk of timber has been added to the balk in the right foreground (the tip of which is approx. 135 mm. from the right plate mark and 35 mm. from the bottom); the barges made darker, and there are drypoint touches in the water in front of the stern. The extreme left line of the hoist of the wrecking barge is complete. The faint lines in the area of the sail of the passing ship just to the right of the mizzenmast of the Agamemnon have also disappeared." The etching, one of Haden's largest, was too large to publish in The Portfolio. Subsequently the plate was proved by Haden and printed by the foremost plate printer of the day, Frederick Goulding, and was issued by the artist himself through Colnaghi’s – with immense success. Keppel claimed that the print sold 10,000 copies, though around 500 seems more likely.' Breaking up of the Agamemnon...

Johannes Sadeler I (Flemish, ∗ 1550 in Brussels, Belgium – † 1600 Venice, Italy) Jonah thrown to the Whale (First Sheet) Engraved by Sadeler after an image created by Theodor Berna...

Supplicium sceleri Fraenum (Les Supplices) is an original Etching realized by Jacques Callot in 1624/34. Lettered with name of etcher (bottom right), title and four columns of French verses: 'Voy, lecteur, comme la Justice... Des effectz de la forfaicture'. Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (40x60 cm). Jacques Callot (1592 – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print...

Ruins of an Ancient Tomb is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1762. Image dimensions: 41.5x56 cm Very precoius and rare lifetime spec...

Le Repos Pendant la Fuitre en Egypte is an original Lithograph realized by an unknown artist of Italian School in 17th Century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. No signature.

The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...

The landscape is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs t...

Ancient View of Loeven is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg in the Late 16th Century, as part of the famous Series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (Atlas of...

Interno della Basilica della Fortuna Prenestina Image dimensions: 40x53 cm. From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)”, published in Rome, 1826 an artist's proof w...

The Temple of Glory is an original etching artwork realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Good conditions. The artwork represents the artificial Fire Machine and the temple of glory, with the ...

English Title: "Noble Pleasant Building" Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework designed and built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (1776) by Giuseppe Pal...