Search Results: Prints from Florilegius

Madame Adelaide Simonet in the character of Princess Ninette in Gaetan Vestris's Grand Ballet called "Ninette a la Cour," King's Theatre, 1781.

The Italian ballerina Adelaide de Camp married the dancer Louis Simonet and accompanied him to England in the 1770s.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, April 28, 1791.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Monsr. Vestris Junior in the ballet "Les Amans Surpris," 1781.

He wears a plumed hat, beribboned coat, breeches and stockings, and holds out a garland of flowers.

Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), illegitimate son of dancers Gaetan Vestris and Marie Allard, made his stage debut in 1772. He made his London debut in the serious ballet "Les Amans Surpris," dancing with Giovanna Baccelli, and astonished England "more by his agility than his grace."

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts in Bell's British Theatre, London, July 20, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning, slight crease within the plate mark, browning to page edges.

Plate 20. Enfans des environs de Rouen
Charming fashion copperplate of two girls from near Rouen in tall lace bonnets and their Sunday best.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to Paris.
"La Mésangère, who ran the Journal des Dames et des… Read More

Plate 22. Blanchisseuse de Linge fin a Rouen
Charming fashion copperplate of a fine-lace laundry-woman of Rouen in her Sunday Best.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to Paris.
"La Mésangère, who ran the Journal des Dames et des Modes in… Read More

Plate 24. Bouquetière sur la place de la Cathedrale a Rouen
Charming fashion copperplate of a flower seller in the square at Rouen Cathedral. She wears a tall lace bonnet, long red shawl, and holds a bouquet of flowers.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them… Read More

Signor Gaetan Vestris senior, 1729 – 1808, Italian-born ballet dancer and dancing master.

Depicted in the character of the Prince in the grand pantomime ballet called "Ninette a la Cour." In tall plumed hat, luxurious cape, doublet and hose.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts in Bell's British Theatre, London, April 9, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Signora Giovanna Baccelli in Louis Simonet's ballet "Les Amans Surpris."

The Italian ballerina danced the role at the King's Theatre, 1786.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, May 15, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Isaacson's puffleg or long-billed puff-leg hummingbird, Eriocnemis isaacsoni.Now classified as a hybrid species, Eriocnemis sp. x Helianthea sp.Fine handcoloured lithograph by John Gould and Henry Richter from John Gould's famous Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds, London, Volume IV, 1861. Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) was an English zoological illustrator who produced a large number of handcoloured lithographs of birds and mammals, mainly for the scientific books of the renowned English 19th century ornithologist John Gould. Gould was fascinated by hummingbirds and exhibited his extensive collection of 100s of these tiny birds in taxidermy cases at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The print (51cm x 34cm) is in very good condition, with very slight age toning overall, mounted in a cream-coloured French matt (71cm x 54cm).

Suite of 68 (of 69) copperplate engravings from the first edition of the Charles Jarvis (sic) translation, 1742. Irish portrait painter Charles Jervas (1675-1739) is probably best known for his translation of Cervantes' seminal picaresque novel which appeared after the death of both translator (Jervas) and artist (Vanderbank).Crisp impressions of John Vanderbank's spirited illustrations, engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, George Vertue and Bernard Baron.Includes both frontispieces -- the famous portrait of the author Miguel Cervantes by William Kent (signed in error G. Kent), engraved by George Vertue, and the allegorical frontispiece with Cervantes as Greek hero Hercules by John Vanderbank -- as well as 66 (of 67) book illustrations. Copperplates with artist's name, volume and page number at lower left, engraver's name and plate number at lower right.All plates in good condition with even age-toning throughout, slight wrinkling and creasing to paper, a few spots of foxing or staining, one plate No. 26… Read More

Rare print of Maori men with facial tattoos
Two heads of Maori men with tamoko or moko facial tattoos, New Zealand.
Vignette of Maori family with man holding a taiaha club, woman with carved club, and girl holding a fish.
Title "Homme: Race mongolique"
Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by de Saimon from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
In good condition with slight age-toning to top of print.

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More

Ornamental Tattoos from a German encyclopedia, 1885
African woman 1
Hitiri Te Paerata, Maori chief of Ngati Raukawa (1828-1909), New Zealand 2
King Tawhiao, the second king of the Maoris (1822-1894), New Zealand 3
body tattoos of a Caroline Islander in loincloth (New Guinea) 4
hand tattoo 5 and foot tattoo 6 of a Dayak (Borneo)
Japanese man with full-body irezumi wearing a fundoshi loincloth 7.
Negerin 1, Hautling Hiriti-Paevata (Newseeland) 2, Konig Tauhiao (Neuseeland) 3, Karolinen Insulaner 4, Hand 5 und Fuss 6 eines Dajak von Borneo, Japaner 7.
Single plate in very good condition, no age-toning or foxing.

Plate 8. Paris Lingere
A dressmaker and cloth merchant makes a delivery of several boxes and packages. She wears a lace bonnet, multiple lace ruff collars and wears a long blue satin dress.
One of a suite of elegant costumes of Parisian female workers and tradeswomen of the 1820s
It's likely that Lanté drew these women in the streets and stores of Paris as they went about their
According to Rene Colas, "This is one of the most interesting series drawn by Lanté."
Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was a French painter, a pupil of Vaudoyer, and exhibited at the Salons from 1824 to 1838. He was the most prolific artist for Pierre de la Mésangère's famous Journal des Dames et des Modes for which he drew 1,466 fashion plates in watercolor from 1814 to 1829, many engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. He also drew suites of regional and historical costume plates including Costumes of Caux 1827, Costumes of Hamburg 1827, Galerie des Femmes 1827, etc. All his books are very rare.
Print mounted on brown card,… Read More

Plate 12. Paris Bonne
A nanny or maid to a respectable family. She wears her hair up in a black net, red shawl, long green dress and white apron.
One of a suite of elegant costumes of Parisian female workers and tradeswomen of the 1820s
It's likely that Lanté drew these women in the streets and stores of Paris as they went about their
According to Rene Colas, "This is one of the most interesting series drawn by Lanté."
Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was a French painter, a pupil of Vaudoyer, and exhibited at the Salons from 1824 to 1838. He was the most prolific artist for Pierre de la Mésangère's famous Journal des Dames et des Modes for which he drew 1,466 fashion plates in watercolor from 1814 to 1829, many engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. He also drew suites of regional and historical costume plates including Costumes of Caux 1827, Costumes of Hamburg 1827, Galerie des Femmes 1827, etc. All his books are very rare.
Print mounted on blue card, print in very good condition with fine hand-colour.

Plate 20. Paris Marchande de Plaisir
An itinerant tradeswoman offering a paper cone full of sweet pastries known as plaisirs. She wears a lace bonnet, ruff collar, white spencer, scarlet apron and blue skirts.
One of a suite of elegant costumes of Parisian female workers and tradeswomen of the 1820s
It's likely that Lanté drew these women in the streets and stores of Paris as they went about their
According to Rene Colas, "This is one of the most interesting series drawn by Lanté."
Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was a French painter, a pupil of Vaudoyer, and exhibited at the Salons from 1824 to 1838. He was the most prolific artist for Pierre de la Mésangère's famous Journal des Dames et des Modes for which he drew 1,466 fashion plates in watercolor from 1814 to 1829, many engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. He also drew suites of regional and historical costume plates including Costumes of Caux 1827, Costumes of Hamburg 1827, Galerie des Femmes 1827, etc. All his books are very rare.
Print… Read More

Plate 1. Paris Petit Bourgeoise
A Parisienne of the new middle classes. She wears a lace bonnet, ruff collar, check shawl, long mustard coat and carries an umbrella.
One of a suite of elegant costumes of Parisian female workers and tradeswomen of the 1820s
It's likely that Lanté drew these women in the streets and stores of Paris as they went about their
According to Rene Colas, "This is one of the most interesting series drawn by Lanté."
Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was a French painter, a pupil of Vaudoyer, and exhibited at the Salons from 1824 to 1838. He was the most prolific artist for Pierre de la Mésangère's famous Journal des Dames et des Modes for which he drew 1,466 fashion plates in watercolor from 1814 to 1829, many engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. He also drew suites of regional and historical costume plates including Costumes of Caux 1827, Costumes of Hamburg 1827, Galerie des Femmes 1827, etc. All his books are very rare.
Print trimmed to the plate mark and mounted on green… Read More

Large dramatic print of a pair of red-breasted geese, Branta ruficollis (formerly Bernicla ruficollis).Fine handcoloured ornithological lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter and John Gould from Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, London, 1862-73.Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) was an English zoological illustrator who produced a large number of handcoloured lithographs of birds for English 19th century ornithologist John Gould.Large lithograph (34 x 52cm) mounted in a cream-coloured French matt (52cm x 74cm).

Black Sicklebill, Epimachus fastuosus (formerly great sickle-billed bird of paradise, Epimachus speciosus).Original hand-coloured lithograph by William Matthew Hart for Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds. London, 1891-1898.
One of the most beautiful bird illustrations ever produced from the last of the great ornithological books of the 19th century.
William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was a bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould from 1851. He began by making the patterns for the lithographic plates for Gould's monograph on Hummingbirds, as well as working on The Birds of Great Britain with Henry Constantine Richter. By 1870 Hart had become Gould's chief artist and lithographer. After Gould's death in 1881, Hart was employed by Richard Bowdler-Sharpe of the British Museum to complete Gould's work on the Birds of New Guinea and to produce illustrations for Sharpe's great work Monograph on the Birds of… Read More

Long-tailed flower-pecker, lemon-breasted berrypecker or mid-mountain berrypecker, Melanocharis longicauda. (Urocharis longicauda, Salvad.)Handcoloured lithograph by William Matthew Hart from John Gould's The Birds of New Guinea, London, 1875-88. William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was a bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould from 1851. He began by making the patterns for the lithographic plates for Gould's monograph on Hummingbirds, as well as working on The Birds of Great Britain with Henry Constantine Richter. By 1870 Hart had become Gould's chief artist and lithographer. After Gould's death in 1881, Hart was employed by Richard Bowdler-Sharpe of the British Museum to complete Gould's work on the Birds of New Guinea and to produce illustrations for Sharpe's great work Monograph on the Birds of Paradise.Large folio size lithograph (52cm x 34cm) mounted in a cream-coloured French matt (74cm x 54cm).

Plate 17. Costume dessiné a la foire de St. Gorgon près de Rouen.
Charming fashion copperplate of a woman in her Sunday Best attending the Fair at St. Gorgon near Rouen. She wears a tall bonnet trimmed with lace, long gloves and holds ridicule or drawstring bag.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned… Read More