Albert Paul Guilmet’s etching, “Man Smoking a Pipe at a Window”, c.1873–76

Albert Paul Guilmet (1879–1922)

“Man Smoking a Pipe at a Window”, c.1873–76, plate 45, printed in Paris by Albert Marie Jérôme Quantin (1850–1930), possibly as a supplement to the art revue “Paris à l'Eau-Forte” (1873-76) (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%C3%A0_l%27eau-forte#Annexes).

Etching on fine cream laid paper.

Size: (sheet) 18.5 x 25.5 cm; (plate) 10.8 x 14.5 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (upper left) “45”; (upper left within window frame) “A Guilmet”; (below window frame) “Imp A Quantin”. Note that there are other inscriptions within the image, such as within the billowing smoke near the pipe and on the figure’s coat at right, but I am unable to decipher what is written.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with wide margins in an excellent condition with no tears, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this curiously interesting etching showing a figure smoking his pipe at a window—to my eyes this print references Adriaen van Ostade’s prints of figures at windows, for example, “The Smoker at the Window”, 1667? (https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6724.26/)—for the total cost of AU$223 (currently US$145.62/EUR135.17/GBP115.32 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this creatively inventive etching—note how the smoker’s right arm supporting the pipe is shown projecting far past the window frame and how the smoke billowing from the pipe to the left is pictorially echoed by the ivy vine spreading to the right—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Leonhard Beck’s woodcut, “Saint Tharsitia”, 1510, after Hans Burgkmair the Elder

Leonhard Beck (1475/80–1542)

“Saint Tharsitia”, 1510, plate 104 from the series of woodcuts after the designs of Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473–1531), “Images De Saints Et Saintes Issus De La Famille De L'Empereur Maximilien I. - En une Suite de cent dix neuf planches gravées en bois par differens graveurs d'après les dessins de Hans Burgmaier.” (see https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/book/images-de-saints-et-saintes-issus-de-la-famille-de-lempereur-maximilien-i), plate cut by the workshop of Nicolas Seemann ((fl.1510–1517), Hans Frank, Corneille Liefrink (1480–pre1545), Aléxis Lindt (fl. c1500–1525), Josse de Neghker (1485–c1544), Wolfgang Resch (c1480–c1537) and Hans Taberith (fl. c1510–1517) and Guilleaume Taberith, published in “Saints Connected with the House of Hapsburg: A General Account of the Ancestry of Emperor Maximilian I”.

This impression is from the later edition printed by Anna Alberti (fl.1794-1802) and published by Franz Xaver Stöckl (1763–1815) in Vienna in 1799 using the original woodblock (see Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett: http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=xd-2f-100-00103). The Annex Galleries advises that this edition “was printed in 1799 for the family of the Emperor Maximilian I by Chez La Veuve Alberti, the widow of the printer Ignaz Alberti and published by F.X. Stockl, Marchand D'Estamps in Vienna” (https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/17678).

Woodcut on fine laid paper (with watermark) with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 42 x 28.5 cm; (image borderline) 23.7 x 21cm.

Numbered above the image borderline: (right) “104”.

Regarding the shield shown on the right featuring a rampant lion, I may be very wrong, but to my eyes this particular lion seems to match the one featured in the coat-of-arms of The Ancient Kingdom of Neustria (see https://www.sovereign-order.uk/kingdom-of-neustria). For me, this makes sense, as the St Tharsitia was the granddaughter of the Frankish king, Clotaire I.

Condition: a richly inked and superbly printed impression with generously wide margins in a near pristine condition. Note that the fine white line showing on the left is possibly a crack in the printing plate as it may be seen in other Franz Xaver Stöckl impressions of this print.

I am selling this large and superb woodcut, printed from the original 1510 plate in the Franz Xaver Stöckl edition of 1799, for the total cost of AU$278 (currently US$181.08/EUR168.37/GBP144.26 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this startlingly fine woodcut showing St Tharsitia (aka St Tarsicia) (died c.600) addressing an emaciated man—possibly a plague victim based on his shroud-like covering—who has raised himself from a stretcher bed, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Louis Legrand’s etching with aquatint, drypoint and dot-roulette, “La Divine Parole”, 1894

Louis Legrand (aka Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand) (1863–1951)

“La Divine Parole” (The Divine Word), 1894, from (I understand) an edition of 100 impressions.

Etching with aquatint, drypoint and dot-roulette, printed in a brown ink on cream wove paper with small margins backed with a support sheet providing wider margins.

Size: (sheet) 25.5 x 16.3 cm; (plate) 22.1 x13. 6 cm; (image borderline) 21.7 x 13.1 cm.

Signed in the plate at lower right corner.

Condition: a strong impression with small margins (approx.1.5cm around the image) and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins.
Beyond minor toning around the edges, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this hauntingly beautiful image—possibly seeped in the dreamy vision of the Pre-Raphaelites—for AU$291 (currently US$18955/EUR175.86/GBP150.31 at the time of posting this print) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this very subtle and poetic etching (with aquatint, drypoint and dot-roulette), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Jost Amman’s woodcut, “Der Bader”, c.1568

Jost Amman (aka Jost Ammon) (1539–1591)

“Der Bader” (The Bather) (aka “The Bathhouse Proprietor” [TIB title]), c.1568, a woodcut illustration to Hans Sachs’ (1494–1576) “Eygentliche Beschreibung Aller Stände auff Erden” (Actual description of all classes on earth) (which this impression belongs) and to Hartman Schoppper’s (1542–after 1595) “Panoplia omnivm illiberalivm mechanicarvm ...” (aka “Book of Trades”; “A Panoply of all practical mechanical or sedentary trades which were ever devised by the ancients or by various men of our time, briefly and clearly set forth.”). Both publications were published in Frankfurt am Main in 1568 by Sigmund Feyerabend (aka Sigismund Feyrabend; Sigmund Feierabend) (1528-1590).

Woodcut on fine laid paper with letterpress text and full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 17.8 x 13 cm; (plate) 7.9 x 6 cm.

TIB 20.8.95 (Jane S Peters [ed.] 1985, “The Illustrated Bartsch: German Masters of the Sixteenth Century: Jost Amman: Woodcuts, continued”, vol. 20, Part 2, New York, Abaris Books, p. 691, cat. no. 8.95 [371]); New Hollstein 51.95.

See also the description of this print offered by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-0206-103-94.

Condition: a strong and well-printed early/lifetime impression (based on the impression showing no signs of wear to the printing plate) in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains for signs of handling.

I am selling this woodcut of outstanding quality showing a bathhouse attendant engaged in the rarely portrayed scene of cupping a man and a woman with two children being bathed, for AU$268 (currently US$174.62/EUR161.76/GBP138.26 at the time of posting this listing) including Express Mail postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this amazing German woodcut from the late Renaissance, 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

Simon Gribelin’s engraving, “Five Circular Ornaments and Four Crests”, c.1682

Simon Gribelin (1661–1733)

“Five Circular Ornaments and Four Crests”, c.1682 (?), engraving of the artist’s own design and published by the artist in London between 1697 and 1704 from the series, “A Book of Ornaments Useful to Jewellers, Watchmakers and all other artists”.

Note that the V&A holds an impression of this print with the plate numbered, “2”, from a series of eight plates (see https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1043338/a-book-of-ornaments-useful-print-simon-gribelin/) and the Rijksmuseum holds an impression with plate numbered, “8”, from a series of eleven plates (see http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.487280). The date of execution that I have proposed, c.1682, is based on different plate from what I assume to be the same series held by the British Museum from a series of seven plates: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Gg-6-2-6.

Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed slightly within the image and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 19.1 x 15.1 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower left corner) “[S.] Gribelin.in.et.Sculps.”

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

I am selling this rare and exceptionally fine engraving of designs for gold and silversmiths—interestingly, I understand (and I may be incorrect) that the four crest designs reference the Classical Greek elements: Fire, Air, Earth, & Water—for AU$288 (currently US$189.96/EUR174.50/GBP148.98 at the time of posting this print) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this masterwork of engraved designs that is seldom seen on the art market, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.