This detailed engraving of the French writer and historian, Charles Jean Francois Henault, was done in 1744 by Jean-Guillaune Moitte after Augustin Saint-Aubin. It measures 16 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches.
Engraving after Joshua Reynolds, published 1796, image size 13 x 10 3/4 inches, framed
Engraving after Drouais. 1776. Randall 4545. Image size 13 15/16 x 9 1/2 in, sheet 14 3/8 x 9 9/16 in.
This is an original engraving by Pierre Lombart after the painting by Flemish Baroque artist Anthony Van Dyck. Image size 13 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches, published in Paris 1660, on an early laid type paper with thread margins, framed.
This softground etching by Samuel Prout measures 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches and is plate initialed on the lower left. Published in 1814 by T. Palser, London.
Conte engraving by Roubillac, printed by Le Clere. "Roubillac Sculp" in the lower right. Print measures 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 on chine colle. This engraving is very rare!
This illustrative page from "The Great Mirror of Folly", 1720, was a volume of text with 76 engraved plates, documenting the international joint-stock scandal instigated by John Law. This great "Theater of Folly", representing the origin, progress, and downfall of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, is a collection of engraved plates with caricatures of the schemes of John Law and the Mississippi Company that lured clients to invest in establishing colonies in Louisiana and Canada with fatal results. Text below the image is in Dutch. An English description of the content of the book comes with this image.
Engraving after Van Eyck, image size 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in, sheet 13 7/16 x 9 7/8 in, Randall 9629, Fogg Museum provenance
This etching attributed to Nicolaes Berchem measures 10 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches. Berchem was a well-known Dutch painter and etcher who created many pastoral landscapes often with biblical themes.
This rare engraving by John Sartain, after Da Cortona, measures 17 x 11 3/8 inches on heavy weight laid type paper. Part of a fresco painted by Da Cortona in the Duomo at Orvieto Cathedral in Italy. Published in London by William Young Ottley in May of 1825. Plate number at top right.
Etching, image size 10 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches, c.1760, printed by Berghem.
Engraving after De Cany, image size 15 1/8 x 12 in, plate size 17 3/16 x 12 1/2 in
Mezzotint, image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches, plate size 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, c.1730, after the painting by Thomas Hudson. Inscribed "T.Hudson pinx" l.l., "I. Faber fecit" l.r.
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