Pin Prick Watercolour

Sepolgro di Agreppina, Neapolitan Guoache, 1790’s Early guoache view of the sepulchre tomb complex of Agrippina along the coast outside Naples. The mother of Nero and wife of Emperor...

Franco Ruggiero (1910-1996), Mother Hen, 1940's. Vintage Italian farmhouse painting of hen in original gold frame with label on reverse from exhibition in Milan in 1945. Italy circa ...

Jacques Eugène Feyen (1815-1908) “Enfants Cueillant Les Fleurs.” Brilliant blue sky above French children in a field cutting flowers in gilt frame. Signed lower right, oil on board....

Pair framed antique engravings of ottoman personages. Set of 12 hand coloured antique engravings of 36 diverse personages of Ottoman and Oriental background spectacularly attired in ...

This beautiful piece emerged from the graphic compendium Costumes civils, militaires et religieux, du Mexique civil, work of the renowned Italian artist Claudio Linati (1 February 1790 – 11 December 1832), written in French and printed in Brussels in 1828. This original and signed watercolor is the outcome of Linati’s artistic values and expert lithographic technique. In words of the author “I have chosen the most elegant gears, as well as the most bizarre, like the one on this plate, which may contrast by its severity with the alluring of the more feathery costume of the palencanas. (…) The basket carried by the woman is carefully made of woven cane. For a better characterization of the country, this young native female carries an anona, known among the Spaniards as pineapple due to its similarities with the pinecone”. This plate is the sole image of the style composition prevailing in Costumes civils, militaires et religieux, du Mexique civil consisting in precise details of costume and material culture, as can be recognized in the representation where even though the female figure is placed in the foreground, the focus of the image falls into gear: a blue checkered shawl and skirt.

19th Century Dutch Folk art Painting of a Bear Trainer A naïve example of a mid-19th Century Dutch painting on paper. Depicting a bear being trained by a man to entertain passersby. The handwritten inscription suggests the bear trainer stands...

Antique watercolor view of a sailor with pet bird, circa 1800, a lovely detailed painting of a sailor seated in rough chair, tenderly spoon feeding a finch pe...

A monumental Australian aboriginal original hand colored lithograph on paper work of art, 19th century about 1847, Over line: South Australia Illustrated Title: The Aboriginal ...