Georges Lopisgich, “Italianate Coastal Landscape”, 1901 (2nd impression)

Georges Lopisgich (also known as Antonio Georges Lopisgich) (1854–1913)

“Italianate Coastal Landscape” (descriptive title only) — a composition possibly inspired by Camille Corot (1796–1875), c.1901. This is a pencil-signed proof impression featuring a remarque image of a twig and flower with the artist’s monogram (located at left-of-centre in the lower margin), along with publication details (at the upper right edge).

Please note that this is the second impression of Lopisgich’s large etching I have showcased. The previous copy (without remarque or publication details) is still available: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2023/09/georges-lopisgichs-drypoint-italianate.html

Technical Details & Condition:

Drypoint on parchment printed in Paris and published in Paris, London, and New York by Manzi-Joyant (Michel Manzi, Maurice Joyant, and Jean Boussod). This is a richly inked and pencil-signed proof impression with wide margins. The impression features a remarque image of a botanical study, alongside the artist’s monogram.

Aside from the natural unevenness and minor wrinkling associated with sheep skin (parchment), as well as scattered spots in the margin, the large sheet remains in good condition. There are no tears, holes, folds, or significant stains within the image.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 54.5 x 65 cm
• Plate mark: Too soft for accurate measurement
• Image border: 44.1 x 56 cm

Plate Lettering:

• Above the image border at right: “Copyright 1901 by Manzi, Joyant & C^o., Publishers, Successors to Goupil & C^o., Paris, London, New York & Berlin_Printed in Paris”
• Within the image border at lower right: “[Artist’s signature] 1901”
• Below the image border (left of centre, with remarque): “[Artist’s monogram]”

Pencil-signed in the margin at lower right.

Price & Shipping:

AU$332 (approximately US$223.03 / €189.37 / £165.21), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this rare pencil-signed remarque-state drypoint printed on an extraordinarily large sheet of genuine parchment, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to send a PayPal invoice to ensure your purchase is straightforward and secure.

Léon-Germain Pelouse, “Le Hâvre de Carteret (Manche)”, 1878

Léon-Germain Pelouse (1838–1891)
“Le Hâvre de Carteret (Manche)” (also known as “View of the Harbour of Carteret”), 1878

Technical Details & Condition:
Etching with plate tone on cream laid paper with full margins as issued. Printed and published in Paris by the widow (veuve) of Alfred Cadart (active 1875–1882) as plate 23 from the volume, “L'Eau Forte en 1878” (Etching in 1878). This is a superb and near faultless impression that is richly inked and well-printed. The sheet is in near pristine condition, free from tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, or signs of handling.

Dimensions:
• Sheet: 28 x 38.8 cm
• Plate mark: 15.4 x 27.8 cm
• Image borderline: 13.6 x 26.6 cm

Plate Lettering:
• Above the image borderline at right: “23.”
• Within the image borderline at lower right: “[monogram]. Pelouse”
• Below the image borderline: (left) “I. G. Pelouse del. et sc.”; (centre) “LE HÂVRE DE CARTERET (Manche)”; (right) “V^veA.Cadart Edit.Imp. 56 B^ard Haussmann Paris.”

References:
• The British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0105-15-25
• The Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200753417

Price & Shipping:
AU$264 (approximately US$177.35 / €150.59 / £131.38), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this remarkable etching depicting stark and overcast conditions on the shoreline estuary at Barneville-Carteret in Normandy (France)—notably how the small figures and their reflections glinting on the wet sand contrast with the broad expanse of grey sky, giving the scene a poetic and evocative life—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to send a PayPal invoice to ensure your purchase is straightforward and secure.

Lambert Suavius, “St Philip”, c. 1545

Lambert Suavius (also known as Lambert Zutman, Lambert Zoetman, and Lambert Le Doux) (circa 1510–1567)
“St Philip” (aka “Apostle Philip”), circa 1545

Technical Details & Condition:
Engraving on fine laid paper, trimmed with a narrow margin around the plate mark and backed by a sheet of archival-quality washi paper for support, and to provide wide margins. This engraving is Plate 8 from the series of 14 plates, “Christ, the Apostles and St Paul.”

The Curator of the British Museum offers the following insights regarding the series in which this print features: “… from a series of fourteen plates showing Christ and the apostles and St Paul (Hollstein 9-22). Twelve of these plates are numbered 1–12; the plates with St Matthias and St Thomas are not” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-80).

The impression is strong and well-printed (near faultless). Aside from a replenished worm-hole, the sheet is in excellent condition—free from tears, folds, abrasions, or stains.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 20.2 x 9.5 cm
• Plate mark: 20 x 9.3 cm

Plate Lettering:

• Lower left: “SVAVIVS INVE”—abbreviation of “Sauvius invenit” (Suavius designed it)
• Lower right: “8”

References:

• Hollstein Dutch 16 (Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer & K.G. Boon [comp.], George S. Keyes [ed.], Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Louis Spirinx to M. Suys, 1984, vol. 28, Blaricum, Van Gendt, p. 172, cat. no. 16)
• The British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1925-1117-31
• The Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200260404

Price & Shipping:

AU$304 (approximately US$204 / €173.01 / £151), including worldwide express shipping.
Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this marvellous engraving—an artwork that, in my view, echoes the tradition of Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) through its low-horizon monumentality and classical references, as well as drawing from Giulio Campagnola (1482–1515) in its use of stippling to render light and shade—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to send a PayPal invoice to ensure your purchase is straightforward and secure.

This print has been sold

François Nicolas Chifflart, “Frontispiece: Illustration Nouvelle 1876”

François Nicolas Chifflart (1825–1901)
“Frontispiece: Illustration Nouvelle 1876”, 1876

Technical Details & Condition:
Etching on fine laid paper with generously wide margins as issued. This work was published in Paris by Veuve Cadart (active 1875–1882) as the title plate to the 1776 edition of the art periodical L’Illustration Nouvelle.

The impression is richly inked and well-printed (near faultless). The sheet is in near pristine condition, free from tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, or signs of handling.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 48.5 x 33 cm
• Plate mark: 23.9 x 16.1 cm
• Image border: 23.2 x 15.5 cm

Plate Lettering:

• Upper centre (featuring the reversed letter “N”): “Illustration/ Nouvelle / 1876”

References:

• IFF 15 (Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: CABANE–CICÉRI, 1949, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 4, p. 527, cat. no. 15 [see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5510949t/f549.item])
• Additionally, see the description of this print by the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/746106.
  (Note: The IFF/BN reference number provided by the MET (BN IV.527.17) is incorrect; the correct number is 15.)

Price & Shipping:
AU$271 (approximately US$181.84 / €153.98 / £134.40), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this dark, evocative, and undoubtedly allegorical etching — depicting a winged figure holding aloft a flaming torch illuminating the title of the collection of prints from which this frontispiece originates — please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com.

This image may symbolise the shipwreck of art and engraved illustration before the dawn of a new age of illustration (please forgive me if I am mistaken). I am happy to provide a secure PayPal invoice to make your purchase straightforward and secure.