Woodblock prints from “Kogei Shinzu” (New Designs for the Applied Arts), created by Tanaka Yohu and published by Yamada in 1892. Many of these depict designs for kimonos. From one folio but being sold as separate prints.
Category: Print
Landscapes of America by Dutch-born American painter and etcher Cornelis Botke. Living from 1887 to 1954, he studied at the School for Applied Design in Haarlem, Holland, and the Chicago Art Institute. Husband of American artist Jessie Arms Botke.
Images from M. Digby Watt’s “The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. From various folios issued between 1851 and 1853. Collections of the New York Public Library.
Hotel décor from the old days in Paris. Doesn’t look that way anymore but you can always dream of Sarah Bernhardt stopping by for tea. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields).
More pochoir prints from the folio “Viñetas decorativas según el gusto del día. 30 láminas iluminadas a mano.” By Enrique Gillet, it was published by A. Morance of Paris in 1922.
Porchoir prints by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhaïl Larionov. Taken from the folio “L’Art Décoratif Théatrical Moderne”, published in Paris in 1921. Part of an auction at Sotheby’s, all of these images being from the same lot. Natalia Goncharova did design work for the Ballets Russes.
Prints by Belgian artist Octavia Campotosto, daughter of painter Henry Campotosto, subject of yesterday’s post. Not finding much else about Octavia in terms of biographical detail except that she visited Italy and showed her pictures from 1871 to 1874 at the Royal Academy, flourishing from 1871 to 1892.
via https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1930-1201-16
Many thanks to Jonathan Bohman, @BohmanArt on Twitter, who saw my post of yesterday and told me about the first image and the artist. Only finding the two prints, the other being in the British Museum.
An Americas that isn’t coming back, plates from “Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique” which was published in 1816 and written by Alexander von Humboldt. Published in Paris.
Pochoir prints from Eugène Grasset’s 1896 portfolio “La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales sous la Direction.” Make your hallway look like heaven.
“Solomon’s Seal.” Plate 34, page 65. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/planteetsesappl00Gras/page/n65/mode/1up
Pictures of the firmament above us, taken from Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s pastels that were turned into plates for his 1882 work “The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings.” Beautiful. Published by Scribner’s in New York.
