Ornamental and Grotesque Art

Etchings and sketches featuring grotesque figures, decorative motifs, and intricate artistic details from various historical eras.

Study for Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town. (Salvador Dali; Figueras 1904-1989 Figueras; 1935; India Ink und Pencil)

Etching by Christoph Jamnitzer from 1610 depicting grotesque figures and ornamental motifs, showing decorative composition and artistic detail.

Karikatural Koppen, 1871 Six pasted sketches with caricatures of men and women. Presumably Tavrate sent it to Canta. On the Verso side of the sketches at the top left and at the bottom left also studies of men's heads. Page 42 Verso from a sketchbook and album with 59 magazines. paper. ink pen head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). head (human). adult man. adult woman

Study for Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town. (Salvador Dali; Figueras 1904-1989 Figueras; 1935; India Ink und Pencil)

Bliżej Kultury Stanisławski, Jan (1860 1907)

Bound Print, Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters; Designed by Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672-1742); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); Published by Chez Huquier; France; etching and engraving on paper

Print, Designs for Firearms Ornament; Print Maker: de La Collombe (French, active 1702 - 1739); Published by Gilles Demarteau (Belgian, active in France, 1722 - 1776); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Print (France)

Twee Sierhelmen, Honoré Blanc, After Jean Bernard Honoré Turreau, 1718 - 1725 print On the left a helmet with rocaille ornaments, putti with trumpets, a male sphinx with a club, a cartouche, masks and a trumpet with a flag. On the right a helmet with rocaille ornaments, a putto, masks, cartouches and a sphinx. Aix en Provence paper etching / engraving helmet

Print (France)

Three Friezes and Ornamen, Michel? Pourchet, 1805, Desflorennes, Lithograph Support: white wove paper, France, France, ca. 1825, ornament, Print, Print

Selection of grotesque faces. Prints. 1696. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Decoration and ornament, Faces

Various Ornamental Designs 19th century Anonymous, German, 19th century German. Various Ornamental Designs 335775

Divers Couronnemens de Panneaux de Menuiserie, François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper, Germany, 1745, ornament, Print, Print

Print, Designs for the Letters S, T, U, V; Designed by Jean Baptiste Piauger (French, active 1760s); Written by Jean Henry Prosper Pouget; Published by Nicolas-Martin Tilliard (French, 1723 - 1773); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Print (France)

Heinicke, Samuel .

Drawing, Design for a Pair of Trophies; Jean-Charles Delafosse (French, 1734-1791); France; pen and black ink, brush and wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper. (bordered in brush and black, blue watercolor on three sides); 33.2 x 25.5 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Primer card, table 2; Biks (Flow. CA 1780-1820), Marcinowski, Antoni (Vilnius; Drukarnia; 1817-1862), Tyszkiewicz, Konstanty (1806-1868); around 1800 (1795-00-00-1805-00-00);

Leaf motifs and braid work, Jean Baptiste Echantillon, 1785 print Six vertical strips of embroidery with leaf motifs and braid. Lyon paper etching embroidery (ornamentation)

Mythologische in Historische Scenes, Cécile Beauvallet, 1820 Ornament print with different mythological and historical scenes. Part (6th CAH. N. 5) of the Prentalbum with two series of a total of 138 ornament prints by Beauvallet and Normand, 'Fragmens d'Ortuens Dans Le Style Antique'. paper etching ornaments ~ art. Daedalus makes the wings while Icarus looks on Egypt

Print

Reproduction of three prints of jewelry by Daniel Mignot, Anonymous, After Daniel Mignot, After C. Mortier & J. Covens & Son, c. 1875 - in or before 1880 photomechanical print Antwerpafter design by: Amsterdam paper photolithography ornaments, jewels

Copper engraving and etching depicting a Henkel can, created by Virgil Solis the Elder between 1529 and 1562.

Twee Arabesken; 8th notebook; New collection of arabesques, clean to the decoration of Apartemen. Twee Arabesken Met Kransen, Sfinxen in Vazen.

Sheet from a primer, chart 2. Tyszkiewicz, Konstanty (1806-1868), merchant employer, Marcinowski, Antoni (Wilno ; drukarnia ; 1817-1862), printing house, Biks (fl. ca 1780-1820), graphic artist

An etching by Stefano della Bella from 1649 depicting allegorical medallions, showing symbolic imagery and emblematic designs.

Copper engraving by René Boyvin, created between 1540 and 1600, depicting theatrical masks used in Renaissance performances, showing stylized expressions and classical design.

On the left a trophy with mathematical books, a globe and measuring instruments. On the right a trophy with painter's attributes such as a palette, a canvas, a book and a sketch, Mathematics and imitation Mathematics, Imitatio., draughtsman: anonymous, 1700 - 1800, paper, brush, pen, h 366 mm × w 230 mm

Copper engraving and etching by Richard Saint-Non depicting scenes from a picturesque journey through the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, created in 1781.

Six trophies with various attributes including a turban, weapons, armor, a lyre, a torch, a quiver of arrows, a cage and grapes, Trophies with armor, weapons and lyre V Cahier De Troph, print maker: anonymous, intermediary draughtsman: Pierre Ranson, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johann Martin Will, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Paris, publisher: Augsburg, 1746 - 1806, paper, etching, h 294 mm × w 206 mm

Zes Mascarons, 1866 print Mascarons van Chimaeren. At the top left: 1re partie, at the top right: A. N ° 28., bottom left: 124. Liège paper

"Copper engraving and etching by Richard Saint-Non depicting a picturesque journey through the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, showing landscapes, architecture, towns, harbors, mountains, and coastal scenes in 1781."

Plate Four from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries ca. 1730 De Lacollombe This print is a prime example of French designs for the decoration of firearms in the late rococo style, which set the fashion for luxury arms across Europe at the time. It was created by an enigmatic engraver known only as De Lacollombe and comes from a series of prints that was added to after his death and then published by his better-known pupil Gilles Demarteau (1722-1776) in about 1749. Individual motifs taken from them can be seen on guns made throughout the eighteenth century in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.. Plate Four from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries. French, Paris. ca. 1730. Engraving. Paris. De Lacollombe (French, Paris, active ca. 1702-ca. 1736). Works on Paper-Engravings

Etching by Stefano della Bella depicting allegorical medallions and emblems, created in 1649.

Bound Volume, Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament; William Delacour (French, 1741 - 1767); Engraved by François Vivares (French, 1709 - 1782); France; engravings on white laid paper, bound in half-calf and marbled boards; Open: 41.4 x 48.1 x 11.7 cm (16 5/16 x 18 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Trophy with musical instruments and hunting trophy, anonymous, After Jean Antoine Watteau, 1704 - 1762 print On the left a trophy with sheet music and musical instruments such as a violin and a lute. On the right a hunting trophy with guns, a hunting horn, a bag and shot game. Boven B right numbered. Print is part of an album with a series of six trophies. Augsburg paper etching trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament. musical instruments; group of musical instruments. hunting trophies

Four decorations with faces, 1704 - 1737 print Four rocaille decorations with faces and garlands, with line drawings. The decoration below has the face of a man with a beard in the middle, the other three decorations have a women's face in the middle. paper etching / engraving 'Leaf and bandelwerk' ~ ornament. face

Paintings on a wall. Chichén Itzá. Stephens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852. Illustrations, Prints. 1843. Rare Book Division. Yucatán (Mexico : State) , Description and travel, Chichen Itza Site (Mexico), Architectural elements

Five Vignetten leaf, Willem Bilderdijk, 1766 - 1785 print Five vignettes leaf: landscape with farm and water well, landscape with soldier and horse, basket with flowers and winch on pedestal, burning torch and ring with an unwritten band and flowers and on the last vignette a corn sheaf with musical instrument. Netherlands paper etching farm or solitary house in landscape. private soldier. flowers ~ ornament. lyre, cithara, psaltery. sheaf. torch. vignette

Print, Clef en console et tête; Designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils (French, 1736 - 1782); Print Maker: Jean Pelletier (French, born ca. 1736); Published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Charles Le Pere (French, active 18th century), Pierre-Michel Avaulez (French, active 1772 - d. 1774); France; engraving on off white laid paper

Sailing ships and figures in a rowing boat. Leaf 36 Recto from a sketchbook with 55 sheets.

Suit of armour of the time of King James or Charles I. Quilted and stuffed, strengthened with jacked leather and covered with cinnamon coloured silk. Headpiece 1,2,6, breastplate 3, tasset skirt 4, and arm covering 5. Copperplate engraving by J. Hamilton from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.

Academic Architects Berlin (AAVB), travel sketches (04.1896): Issue 5: Details from the Strasbourg Cathedral (Italian trip April 1896). Print on paper, 37.7 x 28.5 cm (including scan edges) Akademischer Architektenverein Berlin (AAVB) : Reiseskizzen

Trophies with Fuik and Baskets, Etienne Fessard, After Jean Charles Delafosse, 1771 print On the left a trophy with a vase, an ax, a trap and a bucket with a net and eels. On the right a trophy with nets, baskets and axes. Paris paper etching / engraving trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament. fishing (sports)

Reproduction of a print of two masks by Frans Huys, Anonymous, After Frans Huys, After Christoffel Plantijn, c. 1875 - in or before 1880 photomechanical print Antwerp paper photolithography mask

Reproduction of four prints with jewelry by Theodor de Bry, Anonymous, After Theodor de Bry, after C. Mortier & J. Covens & Son, c. 1875 - in or before 1880 photomechanical print Antwerpafter design by: Amsterdam paper photolithography ornaments, jewels

Portraits of Johannes Oecolampadius and Philipp Melanchthon, 1819 - 1849 Page 29 Verso from a sketchbook with 52 sheets. paper. pencil historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)

Nine ornaments with putti and mercury, c. 1866 - c. 1900 drawing At the top left, a putto plays on a winch, Mercury is shown next to him. tracing paper. pencil drawing

Paris, Daumont, Jean-François, Delafosse, Jean Charles, AA Trophies, L'hydographie, La Poesie, Hydrography and poetry, verso - stamped, On the left a trophy with attributes belonging to hydrography such as a globe, measuring instruments, a map and an image of a ship. On the right a trophy with a book, musical instruments, a mask, a laurel wreath and a plumed helmet., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 332 mm, width 232 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1745 - 1755, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, French, 1734 - 1791-10-11, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, French - 1775, publisher

Copper engraving by René Boyvin, created between 1540 and 1600, showing a series of masks with varied expressions, illustrating theatrical and cultural elements of Renaissance art.

Sixteen Designs for Consoles, Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702-1786, Pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; verso: pen and ink, graphite, Vertical rectangle with sixteen designs for consoles. All but one of the sketches with wash. The consoles are protruding from a frieze. Two are with masks, most with escutcheons, one with a tablet, three with motifs of architectural ornament. Verso: A tree, and in front of it the upper part of a column standing obliquely above a base, with a plummet hanging from its top. Above, a sketch probably showing how to measure the angle of the oblique angle and in graphite, an upright oblong drawn into the oblique column., Rome, Italy, 1720-30, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Rookwood Pottery, George Gibson, American, b. England, 1820-1896, Pen and ink, brush and black and brown watercolor, grey gouache, graphite on illustration board, Groups of pottery arranged on four shelves, along the top of the page and to the left., USA, 1886, graphic design, Drawing, Drawing

Trophies with riders attributes, anonymous, after Pierre Ranson, in or after 1772 - 1806 print Six trophies with riders attributes such as whips, buckets, saddles, brackets, boots and brooms. after drawing by: Parispublisher: Augsburg paper etching trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament. riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman

Deformation that an object undergoes when something is viewed with the left or right eye, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1679 print Numbered at the top right: 49. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / letterpress printing .

Sheet with five vignettes: Landscape with farmhouse and well, landscape with soldier and horse, basket with flowers and lyre on pedestal, burning torch and ring with unpainted band and flowers and on the last vignette a sheaf of corn with musical instrument., Sheet with five vignettes, print maker: Willem Bilderdijk, , Netherlands, 1766 - 1785, paper, etching, h 131 mm × w 136 mm

Six trophies with flares and agricultural attributes including buckets, rakes, shovels, a scythe, a watering can, a sickle and a ladder, Trophies with flares and agricultural attributes V Cahier De Troph, print maker: anonymous, intermediary draughtsman: Pierre Ranson, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johann Martin Will, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Paris, publisher: Augsburg, 1746 - 1806, paper, etching, h 289 mm × w 207 mm

The eye: twenty-four figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.G. Zinn and A. Haller, 1798.

Portraits of Jan van Leiden and Ulrich Zwingli. Leaf 30 Verso from a sketchbook with 52 sheets.

Seven hunting pockets, Wencslaus Hollar, 1646 - 1647 print Antwerp paper etching hunting accoutrement. hunting horn

Six trophies with attributes belonging to forging such as pliers, hammers, a chain ball, an anvil, cannons, spears, weapons, a bellows, measuring instruments, a shield and a helmet, Trophies with attributes belonging to forging Ier Cahier de Troph, print maker: Pierre Gabriel Berthault, intermediary draughtsman: Pierre Ranson, publisher: Charles Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Paris, 1772 - 1779, paper, etching, h 320 mm × w 212 mm

Print, Ornamental Vase Design; Designed by Edmé Bouchardon (French, active Rome and France, 1698 - 1762); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); Published by Chez Huquier; France; etching on paper

Trophies with weapons, anonymous, After Jean Antoine Watteau, 1704 - 1762 print Two trophies with shields and weapons such as arrows, arches, sabers, a arrow sleeve and a torch. Boven B right numbered. Augsburg paper etching trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament. weapons

Touches; Tokare. Sense touches. PRENT Numbered 5 in a booklet with sign examples around personifications about the five senses.

Board I: Jeweler goldsmith. Louis Jacques Goussier, draftsman. Edition under the direction of Denis Diderot and Jean The Rond of Alembert. After 1770. Encyclopedia or dictionary of science, arts and trades by a society of members of letters. IV volume of planks. Oroff�s and jewelers. Plate I: goldsmith and jeweler. Engraving.

Front view of Gothic building details and leaf studies by Alfred Castelliz, executed on medium-strong paper with pencil and black pen in 1890.

Collage of cut out prints, anonymous, c. 1870 collage. print Collage of cut out prints. Part of an album with 32 sheets, covered on both sides with cut out prints, probably from 19th-century times. paper

Etching and copper engraving from 1600-1650 showing detailed studies of human arms and heads, illustrating anatomical observation and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century engraving techniques.

Door piece flanked by two children, Pierre Firens, After Federico Zuccaro, 1613 - 1657 print In the middle of the top is a animal skull, a mascaron floats in the middle. paper engraving

Bas-reliefs and miscellaneous sculptures (chiefly bronze); contained in the British Museum.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Bronze sculpture, Ancient

Collage of cut out prints, anonymous, c. 1870 collage. print Collage of cut out prints. Part of an album with 32 sheets, covered on both sides with cut out prints, probably from 19th-century times. paper

Set of sketches. (Title registered (letter))

Print (France)

Image of six double coats of arms, not filled in.

Male Term With Fruit garlands, Anonymous, After Hugues Samin, 1572 print Numbered at the top right: 55. According to the explanation on page 56, this is the composite order. Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm). Herm: pillar with the head of Mercury, patron of travellers. herms (garden ornaments)

Vase with two mermon and two swans, Benigno Bossi, After Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, 1764 Vase on high ribbed foot. On either side of the abdomen a mermaid that hugs a swan. The vase is on a wall. No. 25 from series of 31. print is part of an album. Printed recto at the top right: 25. paper etching vase ~ ornament. merman - AA - mermaid, siren. water-birds: swan

Print made by Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804-1872, British, Alfred Crowquill's Christmas, undated. Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper.

Two different types of stocks: the above confines the hands and feet of the culprit standing upright; the model below confines the hands and feet while the culprit is seated. Chalk lithograph by R. Bridgens.

Sculptures from the western pediment of the Parthenon. (British Museum.). Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Marble sculpture, Greek, Parthenon (Athens, Greece), Elgin marbles

Copper engraving by René Boyvin from 1540-1600 depicting a series of masks, showing facial features, expressions, and ornamental details.

Wagenwiel.The wheel is next to a container with water and plants. Leaf 6 Recto from a sketchbook with 73 sheets.

Schmalz Otto (1861-1906), travel sketches from Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain (May 23, 1893): Palermo: Bronzener Aries from the Museo Naionale (view, side view). Pencil on paper, 30.6 x 42.4 cm (including scan edges) Schmalz Otto (1861-1906): Reiseskizzen aus Österreich, Deutschland, Italien und Spanien

Etching by Jacques Callot from 1636 titled 'The Pictures of the Year', depicting seasonal events, figures, and activities arranged in a visual sequence.

Six trophies with various attributes including musical instruments, a kite and rackets, an armillary, a flare, a bow and quiver of arrows, Various trophies IIe Cahier de Troph, print maker: Pierre Gabriel Berthault, intermediary draughtsman: Pierre Ranson, publisher: Charles Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Paris, 1772 - 1779, paper, etching, h 253 mm × w 190 mm

Objects in stone and baked clay.. Layard, Austen Henry, Sir (1817-1894). Prints, Illustrations. 1849. General Research Division. Sphinxes, Sculpture , Assyria, Calah (Extinct city)

Vignetted with life and strokes ..

Encyclopedia or dictionary reasoning science, arts and trades Denis Diderot and Jean The Rond of Alembert. "The encyclopedia or dictionary reasoned science, arts and trades by a society of visuals", 1771 -Recueil of planks on science, liberal arts and their explanation - Volume V / Planche 1: Engraving in size- Sweet ". Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.

Design for a large Vase representing 'Earth', Plate 3 from: 'Neu inventierte Vasi auf die neueste manier' Printed ca. 1750-56 Jacob Gottlieb Thelot Ornament print with a design for a monumental vase, decorated with rocaille ornaments and 2 putti, one of which is sitting on the vase with a garland of flowers. The vase is meant to represent the element 'Earth'. This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.. Design for a large Vase representing 'Earth', Plate 3 from: 'Neu inventierte Vasi auf die neueste manier'. After Carl Pier (German, active Augsburg, ca. 1750). Printed ca. 1750-56. Etching. Martin Engelbrecht (German, Augsburg 1684-1756 Augsburg). Jacob Gottlieb Thelot (German, Augsburg 1708-1760 Augsburg)

Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744-1818, British, 3 Characters, 4 Caricaturas, 1807. Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Collage of cut out prints, anonymous, c. 1870 collage. print Collage of cut out prints. Part of an album with 32 sheets, covered on both sides with cut out prints, probably from 19th-century times. paper

Nine men's heads with exotic main coverings; Later edition of Ein Frembds und Wunderbares Kunstbüchlin (...). In the middle a man is seen with the tires on his back from behind. Sheet from series of 56 () Sheets.

Six chairs and three crutches, Anonymous, After Crispijn van de Passe (II), 1642 print A folding chair is shown in the top left and in the middle. At the bottom right is a high chair. Amsterdam paper engraving baby-chair. chair

Coats of arms of religious ranks, helms, coronets of nobility. Arms of the Abbe Prothonotaire, Abbaye Seculiere, Abbesse de St Antoine, Prieur. Helms of a king, prince, marquis, count, baron, gentleman, bastard. Oriflame and ensign, navale, muralle, pallisade and civique coronets. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Blason ou Art Heraldique, the heraldry section from Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond dAlemberts Encyclopedie, published by Brisson, David, Le Breton and Durand, Paris, 1763.

Repairs to sloops. Draughtsman: Hendrik Abraham Klinkhamer. Dating: 1820 - 1872. Measurements: h 111 mm × w 182 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Famous criminals!

Seven Feet, Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1820 - 1826 print The feet are depicted in different positions. At the bottom right, a left and right foot are depicted together. This print is part of a cover with fourteen prints. Amsterdam paper foot

Copperplate Engraving, from Encyclopédie 1762-1777 France. Etching, with engraving and stipple, on cream laid paper . A. J. Defehrt

Accessories, David (possibly), 1922 Zes Modieuze Sluiers. Sketch No. III verso uit gazette du Bon tone 1922, No. 10. Uitleg over of Sluiers op Pagina "Description and explanation of inset boards and sketch pages. paper letterpress printing fashion plates. veil (+ women's clothes)

Reproduction of a print of two masks by Frans Huys, Anonymous, After Frans Huys, After Christoffel Plantijn, c. 1875 - in or before 1880 photomechanical print Antwerp paper photolithography mask

Comic sculptures in the Royal Monastery in Amarapura, Burma, Myanmar. Southeast Asia. Drawing by Lancelot. Travel to the kingdom of Ava, 1855 by Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889) Le Tour du Monde 1860

At top, a naval battle between three Bireme warships manned by armed soldiers. One more boat is sinking in flames next to rocks. On the island stands a Sacellum or temple with a statue of Neptune, and a warrior with helmet, shield and pike. The vignette below shows various types of fish, octopus and lobster. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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