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

Circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Beata Beatrix”, c.1891, after Rossetti

Unidentified printmaker from the circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

“Beata Beatrix”—portrait of Elizabeth Siddal as Beatrice Portinari who was the great love of the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), and inspired his love poem “La Commedia” (1321) about the soul's ascent from Inferno to Purgatory to Paradise (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG150584) after Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting, “Beata Beatrix” (c. 1864–70), in the Tate Britain (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-beata-beatrix-n01279). A rare proof state impression with a remarque of the head of Dante below the image at right and before lettering with publication details.

Engraving on heavy buff-coloured wove paper, proof state before lettering with remarque at lower right and wide margins backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 47.8 x 36 cm; (plate) 37.5 x 30.3 cm; (image borderline) 30.7 x 23.8 cm.

Condition: a strong and near faultless impression with generously wide margins. Beyond a small 7 mm closed tear in the upper margin and a few scattered minor marks, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no holes or significant stains and has been laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this exceptionally rare proof state impression before lettering with publication details and still retaining the printer’s remarque showing the head of the poet Dante in profile facing right, for AU$298 (approximately US$194.21, EUR 170.05 or GBP 144.03), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this astoundingly beautiful engraving portraying Elizabeth Siddal in a state of spiritual transcendence in the role of Beatrice Portinari about to die—note the haloed dove (Holy Spirt) carrying the opium flower (laudanum) with which Portinari will take her life, the sundial making the time of her passing and, in the distance, the Ponte Vecchio where Dante’s love poem involving Portinari is set—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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David Young Cameron, “Isles, Loch Maree”, 1923

David Young Cameron (aka Sir David Young Cameron RA RSA RE) (1865–1945)—one of the leading practitioners of the Etching Revival

“Isles, Loch Maree” (as titled in pencil by the artist in margin) (aka “Isles of Loch Maree”), 1923.

Drypoint and etching with plate tone on laid paper watermarked (crown, horn in shield and lettered “GR” [see WA Churchill p. CCLVIII]), with small margins around the platemark, pencil-signed by the artist and signed in the plate.

Size: (sheet) 21.4 x 36.8 cm; (plate/image borderline) 17.4 x 35.2 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower right) “D. Y. Cameron.”; inscribed in pencil with the artist’s signature below the image borderline at right.

Sate iv (of v)

Rinder 469 (Frank Rinder 1912 [sup.1932], “D.Y. Cameron”, Glasgow, Jackson, Wylie & Company, cat. no. 469.IV).

In the catalogue raisonné of Cameron’s etchings, Frank Rinder (1932) advises that the edition size of this print is “about 50 impressions” (p. 289). Based on the richness of the drypoint burr and the clarity of details portrayed in the left foreground, I believe that this is an early impression—compare this impression with the reproduced copy of the same state offered by Rinder (1932), p. 288 (see https://archive.org/details/dycameronillustr00rind/page/288/mode/2up]).

Condition: a richly inked, strong and near faultless impression in a pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this drypoint and etching of great elegance and vision showing strips of islands in the world heritage protected Loch Maree in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, for AU$628 (approximately US$408.35, EUR 258.24 or GBP 302.87), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this rare drypoint by key artist in the Etching Revival—an important movement in printmaking where the influence of Rembrandt reached its zenith with such attributes (as seen here) with the use of plate tone, retroussage and expressive line, but ended six years after the execution of this print (1923) with the Wall Street crash (1929) when the market for collecting of pints came to an abrupt close—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Karel Dujardin, “Two Horses”, 1652 (3rd copy)

Karel Dujardin (aka Carel Dujardin; Carel du Jardin; Karel du Jardin; Bokkebaart) (1626 –1678)

“Two Horses” (TIB title) (aka “Les Deux Chevaux”), 1652.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 15.5 x 14 cm; (image borderline) 15.1 x 13.5 cm.

Inscribed within the image: (upper left) "K. D. I. fe"; (lower right corner) “4”.

State iii (of iii) with the addition of the plate number (“4”).

TIB 1.4 (Leonard J. Slatkes [ed.] 1978, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Netherlandish Artists”, vol. 1, New York, Abaris Books, p. 174, cat. no. 4); Hollstein 4 (FWH Hollstein 1951, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Douffet–Floris”, vol. 6, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger, p. 29, cat. no. 4).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-818; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399291; https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200127254.

Condition. A strong and well-printed impression with a small margin around the image borderline and laid upon a generously wide archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. Beyond a faint mark on the signature at upper left, the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this superb etching of horses—note how the artist is able to portray not only the surface texture/hair of the horses, but also the intricacies of the horses’ musculature and the critical points where bones come close to the skin— for AU$289 (approximately US$188.22, EUR 164.77 or GBP 138.84), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this marvellous study of horses by one of the great draughtsmen of the 1600s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.