Prints and Principles

Most of the recent posts give details about individual prints and earlier posts discuss some of the subtle principles guiding artists in making images meaningful and memorable. For prints that are unsold, click "Items still available for sale" below. All other prints are no longer available. My contact email is oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com and my Instagram username is @printsandprinciples. I have created a separate blog to show my own work: https://printsandprinciplesjamesbrown.blogspot.com

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Orazio Borgianni, “God Appears to Moses in a Pillar of Smoke”, 1615, after Raphael

Orazio Borgianni (aka Orazio Borgiani) (c.1578–1616)

“God Appears to Moses in a Pillar of Smoke” (aka “God Appearing to Moses in the Column of Clouds” [TIB title]), 1615 (inscribed in plate), plate 36 from the series of 52 etchings, “Paintings in the Loggia of Raphael” (aka “Schilderingen in de Loggia van Rafaël”), after Raphael’s (1483–1520) Loggia frescoes in the Vatican.

Etching on fine laid paper, trimmed around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 15.9 x 19.2 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower left) “36”; (within the image borderline at lower left) “1615/ [monogram of the artist]”.

TIB 38.36 (Walter L Strauss [ed.] 1979, “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 38, New York, Abaris Books, p. 362, cat. no. 36 [318]).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1890-0415-19; https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200163756.

Condition: a strong impression trimmed around the platemark laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this interesting etching executed in the last year of the artist’s life and based on the design of the legendary Raphael who had passed away only 95 years before this print was created, for AU$287 (approximately US$186.49, EUR 161.93 or GBP 137.63), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this rare Renaissance period print, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold