Auction 002 Antique prints and engravings
By Britannica auctions
Sep 21, 2024
Yore Mill, Leyburn DL8 3SR, UK

We are offering a huge selection of antique prints and engravings from 17th-20th centuries.


Subjects included are natural history, architecture & designs, caricatures & humour, classical (including Egyptology), religious & historical, famous buildings and views, maps, sporting events, royal and historical portraits.


We particularly feature ornithological prints by John Gould, Jacques Barraband, Conrad Susemihl, Beverly Morris, FN Martinet, Cornelius Nozeman, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, Prideaux J Selby, William Lewin, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Robert Gillmor and Edward Lear.


Other notable artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, Edward Donovan and HN Humphreys.


There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, Walter Fitch, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Jane E Giraud, Elizabeth Yeats and FP Nodder.


There are also maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu,


Other important artists and engravers featured are Thomas Chippendale, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Carracci, Samuel Meyrick, Gustav Dore, Duperrey, Delange, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Kyd, Baron Vivant Denon, Charles Motte, Capt. FL Norden, Joseph Strutt, William Nicholson, Charles Riviere, Tom Merry and Louis Haghe. 

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LOT 6783:

Rare engraving from school of Lodovico Carracci 1776


Start price:
$ 75
Estimated price :
$150 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 10% More details
Auction took place on Sep 21, 2024 at Britannica auctions
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Rare engraving from school of Lodovico Carracci 1776
This rare copper engraving is from Il Claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci e da altri Eccellenti Maestri usciti Dalla Sua Scuola descritto ed illustrato da Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti (The Cloister of San Michele in Bosco in Bologna de 'Olivetani Monks painted by the famous Lodovico Carracci and other excellent masters from his school described and illustrated by Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti). Published in Bologna 1776. The print is plate 29 from this work and is entitled Il monaco precipitato dai Demoni gi? dalla Fabbrica, e dal Santo scampato prodigiosamente - the monk precipitated by the Demons down from the workplace, and by the Saint who escaped. This print was drawn by Domenico Maria Fratta after Lionello Spada and engraved by Giovanni Fabbri. Size(cm): Page 38 x 26, Platemark 32 x 19
Condition: The print is in excellent condition but please inspect the image carefully as it is very accurate.