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Our sister company, Fortuna Books and Prints has a large selection of original Greek and Roman antique prints from the 1700 and 1800's. Many of these prints are individually hand colored and are in museum collections in New York, Berlin, London, Naples and Athens.
Antique prints make excellent wall decor and are recommended by interior designers in many home and office projects. Original prints also have collectible value established by print dealers and auction houses. We do not sell inexpensive reproduction or Gilcee prints, which are copies and produced on ink jet printers.
Antique prints come with custom double ivory outer and black inner mats with optional gold hardwood frames.
To view and order prints, go to www.fortunabooksandprints.com.
Limited Editions of Antique Prints - Collection Examples
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Designs From Greek Vases In The British Museum, 1895
Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases of Greek Workmanship, 1800 -1803
Collection Of Etruscan, Greek And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet Of The Honble. Wm. Hamilton, 1
The prints show paintings on red-figure, ancient Greek vases. Such vases were produced from ca. 530 to ca. 330 B.C. in Greece and southern Italy. In the preface Murraywrites: 'To obtain adequate reproductions, it was necessary to transfer the photographs to process-blocks, and to print from them on a paper prepared with a terra-cotta colour resembling that of the vases.'
These prints are hand coloured engravings by Johann Wilhelm Tischbein. The examples were from Sir Hamilton's second collection of Greek vases. An avid antiquarian, Hamilton assembled one of the world's finest collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. This new-found enthusiasm found its expression in the style of neo-classicism and in the collections of antiquities, which were displayed in the stately homes of England.
The individual hand colored prints (often as large as 18 to 24 inches high or wide) are exceedingly rare. The bound book of prints is considered one of the most beautiful antiquarian books ever made. The illustrations were directly copied by Josiah Wedgwood and other pottery manufacturers, and fostered the Neoclassical taste for engraving adopted by John Flaxman and others.
Ancient Unedited Monuments. Painted Greek Vases. Statues, Busts, Bas-Reliefs, 1822 - 1826
Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield, 1819 - 1820
Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, 1809
The archaeologist James Millingen had excellent access to private collections and most of the important museums of Europe, including the British Museum. Millingen made public previously unpublished material in a series of prints, printed in black and red and finished by hand.
A fine series of copper engravings of classical Greek vases drawn and engraved by Henry Moses. Sir Henry Charles Englefield was a prominent writer and collector of antiquities and an active member of the Society of Antiquaries and the Dilettanti Society.
A magnificent collection of engraved plates featuring ancient Greek sculptures of mythological heads and tailpieces. The series of prints on large-paper was reserved for members of the Society of Dilletanti. The majority of the works illustrated were drawn from the collections of Richard Payne Knight and Charles Townley.