Old Master Prints

This is an original engraving by Raphael Sadeler (1560-1628) The title of this work is "S. Chvenegvndis Avgvsta" Created and printed in circa 1600. Printed on an early laid paper the image measures 9 3/4X7 1/2 inches. Thread margins on the edges, Identified in typeset upper and lower margins.

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.

This engraving by George Vertue of the Chief Justice, Sir Matthew Hale, measures 12 x 7 inches. Created in 1735 from an original painting by Michael Wright, it has inscribed on the lower margin "Michael Wright pinx.; From an Original painting in Guildhall, London; and George Vertue Sculp. 1735." Hale was a well-known and respected judge and jurist and his writings have been cited as recently as 1993.

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.

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.

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.

etching, 2 1/2x4 7/8, plate signed

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

Etching, image size 5 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches,1632

Engraving after Francesco Primaticcio, image size: 7 5/16 x 9 3/4 inches

Engraving and etching, image size 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, pub. 1677 in London, title page taken from "The Apostolici", a book on the lives of the Primitive fathers for the three first Ages of the Christian Church by the "Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty", William Cave.

Engraving after Gustave Dore (1832-1883), on newsprint backed with text, image size 9 11/16 x 7 11/16 in, sheet 10 x 7 7/8 in, Randall 14912, Fogg Museum provenance

Mezzotint, image size 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, after a painting by Franz Hals, 1732, printed by G. White, laid paper, collectors annotations on back, print is trimmed within the platemark and the bottom edge is uneven.

Engraving, after Raphael, from designs in the Vatican Loggia, image size: 5 1/4 x 7 inches, c. 1607