"Vestigi del Settizonio di Seuero Imperatore, detto la Scola di Vergilio in Romany" part 2 of his Roman sequence. 23 x 30 cm. £250 c 1660

Gabriel Perelle, (1604 - 1677)An eminent French designer and engraver, Gabriel Perelle received instructions in painting, etching and engraving from Daniel Rabel. His first published etchings bear the date of 1635. For the following thirty years Perelle created a large number of superbly crafted etchings of landscapes and views. Gabriel Perelle's last etchings date from around 1665. After that time he was commissioned by the King of France to draw maps and military plans.

Although he engraved designs after the work of other masters, such as, Poussin, Paul Bril, Asselyn and Silvestre, most of Perelle's graphic oeuvre (including this original example) was both designed and engraved by his hand. And interestingly, even with his topographical views, Perelle frequently embellished his compositions with imaginary ruins and other objects. Thus Perelle's etched views are also Utopian landscapes of the mind.

William J Allingham after George Morland

Pair of stipple engravings with contemporary hand colourand pencil signature; published by by G J Howell 26 Museum street london, 1912. Printed to an odd paper type; £75 pair unmounted clean no fading as stored in a folio and never yet framed; some creasing . . needs an oval mount

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The Cascade,in the Gallery at Houghton uncoloured engraving after the painting by Gaspar Poussin engraved by FRANÇOIS VIVARES, (1709-1780) £135 some age toning. Published 1785 by John Boydell, London** As this item is framed it would need to go to the USA minus glass

One of the earliest and most influential landscape engravers was Francois Vivares. Vivares was born in France and raised in Geneva, but at the age of eighteen established himself in London. He exhibited regularly with the Incorporated Society of Artists and was highly regarded for his meticulous technique and bold style. Vivares is considered the father of English landscape engraving, his fine work inspiring generations of English engravers. Like Smith of Derby, Vivares was instrumental in introducing the concept of the "picturesque landscape" into English art. His magnificent engravings captured the golden age of the English countryside, before it was forever changed by the factories and mills of the Industrial Revolution. This magnificent print is a wonderful example of Vivares' unique style.

Gaspard Poussin; real name Gaspard Dughet (b.1615 d.1675). An Italian-French landscape painter. Dughet was a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, the French painter who married his sister. Dughet trained in Poussin's studio between 1630-5. The dates of Dughet's work, with the exception of his frescoes on the History of the Carmelite Order, are not verified and chronologies of his development as a painter are based on stylistic commentary.

Lorenzo Ghiberti / The Creation & Fall of man Proof c 1800 after the original artwork by N N in 1799 from the Broze in the Baptistry at Florence

Tommaso Piroli (1752-1824) was the much esteemed Roman engraver and publisher, whose tremendous graphic oeuvre has yet to be fully documented. These early reproductions of Italian Renaissance wall-paintings bear witness to his considerable influence as an art publisher. Image sized 36 x 38 cm + 2 cm borders . Mucky mark to the right edge otherwise good condition and clean

 

Could be :-Pietro Fontana. (1762-1837) . Francesco Mazzola, surnamed Il Parmigianino engraving by Fontana after the original by Parmigianino a mid/later eighteenth century copy entitled to the top edge stanza IV and No.32 CONDITION :-About 2 cm margins to the image . Image size 28 x 21 cm £45

Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italian, 1781-1835)

Now largely forgotten, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835) was one of Ottocento Italy's most popular draftsmen. Living and working primarily in Rome, Pinelli studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, where he was supported financially by the nephew of Pope Benedict XIV.[i] Largely eschewing painting in favor of the more immediate and intimate medium of drawing, Pinelli associated himself with the vedutisti, who painted Roman views primarily for a foreign market of tourists and Italophiles.[ii] Perhaps due to his largely touristical customer base, Pinelli's drawings of Roman life focus on everyday bucolic happenings. He is quick to include indicators of real sites and real people and nearly all of his drawings were done from life. Colour-printed stipple engraving by A. Zaffonato (engraver) , finished by hand Rome c. 1800 £95 needs glass

CONDITION :- Close Cut Stipple engraving c 1780 but may be earlier again one for the shabby chic or restorer with a large blob in the sky 36 x 31 cm £20

stipple Engraving by Wm Craig dated 1807 £25 44 x 30 cm

William Marshall Craig (floruit 1788-1828) was the most celebrated miniature-painter of his day. Author of An Essay on the Study of Nature in Drawing Landscape in 1793. . Through his considerable skill he became drawing-master to Princess Charlotte of Wales, miniature-painter to the Duke and Duchess of York, and painter in watercolours to the queen. In addition to exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy he became one of the principal engravers for a large "Scripture Illustrated" published in 1806.CONDITION :-Mucky, small edge tears worth a wash and a mount