19th Century European

This 1886 etching by Frank Palou measures 5 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches and is pencil signed. Main image is flanked by scenes of daily life. Published by Leggatt in 1886.

Mezzotint by John Young(Engraver in Mezzotint to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales) after the painting by George Watson, image size 19 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, sheet size 22 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches, 1810. The full title reads, "Sergeant Major Patrick Gould, Royal Reg. Edin. Volunteers (Blue) 1794. Published by P. Carol Printseller, South Hanover Street, Edinburgh.

Engraving, image size 6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches, c. 1875, lettered below the image, "Dessine et Grave par Paul Girardet" and titled "Route du St. Gothard, Canton d'Uri."

Etching, image size 5 1/2 x 11 inches, pencil signed l.r. "W. Douglas Macleod".

This is a very richly inked original etching by French artist Albert Besnard. The image size is 11 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches, published in 1887 in an edition of fewer than 100 impressions, cat: Coppier- 63, pencil signed. Besnard studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and for the beginning of his artistic career concentrated on a very academic style of painting and composition, before adopting a more impressionistic approach of portraying light and color; later he went to England to study portraiture with Thomas Gainesborough and Joshua Reynolds.

Etching, image size 11 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, after a fresco by Sir Frederick Leighton, 1881, "Published London April 1, 1881 by The British and Foreign Artist Association" u.r., and "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1881 by Knoedler and Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington" u.l., printed l.l. "Painted by Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A." and "Etched by A. Gilbert" l.r., publishers blindstamp l.r. and "The Arts of War" l.r.

Etching, image size 4 x 5 7/8 inches, plate signed l.r. "L.A.W.".

Wood engraving after the painting by Adriaan Van Ostade, image size 6 x 5 1/4 inches, 1893, plate signed and dated.

19th century etching, French, "Planche LXXI" on upper margin, printed on heavy weight paper, c. 1877.

Etching after Greuze, image size 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches oval, 1883, plate signed