WORLD OF ANTIQUITY IN GRAPHICS. A set of 28 graphics from the first half of the 19th century, referring to the mythology, culture and history of the ancient world. They mostly depict paintings by famous European painters. English prints and publications predominate. Mostly intaglio cz.-b., various dimensions, some graphics in pas. -part., there are yellowing and brown spots, otherwise bdb condition.
A set of 28 19th-century engravings (mostly cz.-b., steel, st. bdb.) thematically relating to mythology, culture and history of the ancient world from the publisher I. Jones & Co.: Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London. The set includes: 1) Nicolas Poussin: A BACCHANALIAN DANCE (eng. S. S. Smith, sheet size: approx. 235x190mm), 2) Rubens: PEACE AND WAR ( eng.T. Garner, sheet size: approx. 220x170 mm), 3) Richard Wilson: NIOBE (eng. J. C. Varrallo, sheet size: approx. 190x215mm); II. Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane: 4) Cleopatra at Actium ( engraving byS. Smith, strip-part dimensions: approx. 300x240 mm), 5) Sabrina in the Hall of Nereus ( engraving byG. Presbury, strip-part dimensions: approx. 300x240 mm); III .Fisher, Son & Co., London: 6) Laurence de la Hire: LABAN CHERCHANT SES IDOLES (ryt. R. Staines, dimension with pas.-part: ca. 300x240 mm), 7) H. Melville: LES SACRIFICES DES HEBREUX (ryt. R. Staines, dimension with pas.-part: ca. 300x240 mm),; IV. A. H. Payne: 8) François Gérard: Belisarius (eng. A. H. Payne, sheet dimensions: ca. 170x220mm), 9) C. Lipsius: Im neuen Museum / The Egyptian Tombs. Die Egyptischen Grabmäler ( eng. W. French, damaged pas.-part., dimension with pas.-part.: approx. 318x260 mm), 10) Der Faun (ryt. A. H. Payne, sheet size: approx. 180x255 mm), 11) Paul Veronese: Juno & Apollo (ryt. A. H. Payne, sheet size: approx. 185x268mm), 12) Raphael: DIE AUSTREIBUNG DES HELIODOR / THE EXPULSION OF HELIODORUS (trace of flooding in lower left corner, ryt. A. H. Payne, sheet dimensions: ca. 323x230mm); V. James S. Virtue, London: 13) J. M. W. Turner: THE PARTING OF HERO AND LEANDER. FROM THE PICTURE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY (eng. S. Bradshaw, sheet size: ca. 315x230mm), 14) J. M. W. Turner: THE GODDESS OF DISCORD (eng. T. A. Prior, sheet size: ca. 360x265mm); VI. George Barrie, Philadelphia: 15) L. Alma-Tadema: PASTIME IN ANCIENT EGYPT (trace of flooding in lower left corner, eng. C. W. Sharpe, sheet dimensions: ca. 320x245mm); VII. Société des Beaux Arts: 16) A. Wiertz: SALON DE 1845 / UN COMBAT D'HOMERE (lettered by Lathog, sheet size: ca. 345x245mm); VIII. Verlag der Kunst-Anshalt des Oestr. Lloyd in Trieste: 17) Ant-Canova: Theseus besiegt den Kentaur Phereus (eng. A. Hanisch, sheet dimension: ca. 210x268mm); IX. Ackermann, London: 18) J. Martin: MARCUS CURTIUS (eng. H Le Keux, sheet size: approx. 260x205mm); X. John Major: 19) CLEOPATRA (ryt. W. H. Worthington, dimension with pas.-part: ca. 240x295mm); XI.Other publications: 20) SCULPTURE: ANTINOUS / LAOKOON and his SONS / APOLLINO... (sheet size: approx. 240x155 mm), 21) SCULPTURE GREEK: DISKOBOLOS OF MURON / WARRIOR OF HEGESIAS..., / Group of ZETHOS and AMPHON... (dim. sheet: approx. 155x240 mm), 22) SCULPTURE ITALIAN: PERSEUS BENVENUTO CELLINI / LORENZO / BACCIO BANDINELLI / STATUES IN THE MONUMENT LORENZO DUKE OF URBINO by Michelangelo (sheet size: approx. 240x155 mm), 23) SCULPTURE ITALIAN: MOCCHI / APOLLO & DAPHNE BERNINI / MERCURY GIOVANNI DA BOLOGNA (sheet size: approx. 240x155 mm), 24) ROTIFERA (sheet size: approx. 155x240 mm), 25) DELOS ( eng.W. Miller, sheet size: approx.128x98mm), 26) Der Senat in der Kurie versammelt (sheet size: approx. 130x195 mm), 27) M. Adamo: Coriolanus (ryt.Tob. Bauer, sheet size: approx. 205x275 mm),28) Heinrich Spiess: Julius Cesar (ryt. A. Krausse, sheet size: approx. 205x275mm).
