Firks, Henry

Snow & Co, (1849) 1880 - Reps 340 - chromolitho 32,5x80,5 cm

Excellent condition.

San Francisco, looking from Rincon pont towards telegraph hills, showing the port city and the trading post. 42 ships in the harbour!!! Only four stores and only one hotel. Firks was the first to show San Francisco after the goldrush started in 1848. This is the VII edition of the same print.

Reps: all editions are rare.

Garneray, Ambroise-Louis

Aguatint, contemporary hand coloured

Paris , chez Hocquart, c. 1833

Garneray, son of the painter Jean Francios, joined the French navy in 1796, was captured by the English in 1806. He spent the next 8 years in UK prisons. After his release he became a professional painter, like his father. In 1833 he became director of a museum in Rouen, France, and one of the pioneers of the aquatint technology. A peintre official de la Marine he completed views of most known French harbours and also 40 views of foreign harbours. Ours is one of them.

The image of Havana is finely detailed and a flawless example

Bortoli Antonio

Mount Athos, Greece

Copper plate engraving

One sheet of paper: 57x82 cm: image 40x75; text 12x75 cm

Paper watermarks: B Gentile; Double headed Eagle 85x70mm and a shield with a quarter moon with a face (?) inside, 85x70 mm. Distance chainlines 36 mm

Condition: no restorations. Slightly irregular inking especially of the text

Here is an intricate engraving of the Eastern Orthodox Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, printed in 1792 in Venice by Antonio Bortoli. Colloquially known as the 'Holy Mountain,' Mount Athos and Vatopedi specifically have been important religious sites for centuries and Vatopedi remains a home for ascetic monks, ancient religious relics, ornate architecture, intricate frescoes, and an important ...