Browse Listings in Prints / Drawings
Prudentia.
Fine copper engraving by Marco Sadeler entitiled "Prudentia". From a painting by Jacopo Zucchi. The Sadeler family were the largest, and probably the most succ...
Place & Date: Venice, c1640
Selling price: $79
Sold in 2014
Veue et Perspective du Parterre du Palais d'Orleans.
Delecate copper engraving of the grounds around Orleans Palace. It demonstrates the symmetry of the gardens.Gabriel Perelle (1604 - 1677)was a French draftsman and printm...
Place & Date: Paris , 1640
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
A colored man on horseback.
Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) originated from Florence and was later active as a graphic artist in Paris. He produced a wide variety of prints, with all kinds of subjec...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $147
Sold in 2021
The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick Baron of Leeze etc Lord High Admiral of England One of his Majesties most honourable private Councell & his Majesties Lieutenant of Norfolk & Essex etc
The inscription: 'The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick Baron of Leeze etc Lord High Admiral of England One of his Majesties most honourable private Councell &...
Place & Date: London, 1642
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2014
Depiction of a cook in his kitchen.
From a series of months after designs of Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688). Theodor (Dirck) Matham (Haarlem 1605-1676 Amstedam) was a Dutch engraver. Joachim von Sandrart ...
Place & Date: 1645
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2021
Lima Romana Piorum In Hortis.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $200
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Lumia da Gallicia.
Johann Christopher Volckhamer was a wealthy Germany merchant with an orangerie where he grew exotic citrus fruits. His resources enabled him to engage a talented team of...
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1646
Selling price: $325
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Malum Citreum Vulgare Belluatum.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Aurantium Striatum.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $150
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Limon Citratus Primae Notae Laevior.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $200
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Peretta Sive Spatafora Duplex.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $150
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Lima Eadem Rotunda.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $200
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Limon ponzinus chalcedonius.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Selling price: $200
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Den Grooten Figuer-Bibel. Dat is een afbeeldingh en levendighe vertooningh, van alle de voornaemste historien, leeringen en ghelijckenissen der gantscher Heyliger Schrift, in schoone copere figueren by malkander vergadert en in order ghestelt. . .
This fine Dutch Print Bible includes a total of 502 pages with copper engraved prints ; including five engraved titles, 3 folding maps (the Middle East, the Persian Gulf,...
Place & Date: Alkmaar, Simon Cornelisz, 1646
Selling price: $8300
Sold in 2018
Decepta Mulier a serpente tulit de fructu illius, et comedit, deditg.uiro suo . . . (Plate 6)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Eve, tempted by the serpent, offering Adam th...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Adduxit eam ad Adam, dixitg Adam hocnunc os ex ossibusmeis . . . (Plate 5)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God, Adam and Eve.From the first Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $40
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Eiecitg Adam et collocauitante paradisium uouptatis cherubim . . . (Plate 7)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating an angel casting Adam and Eve out of the para...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
In principio creauit Deus coelum et terram: Dixitg congregetur aguae, et germinet terra. . . . (Plate 1)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God creating earth.From the first Parisian ed...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Diuisit lucem a tenebris, appellauitg lucem diem é tenebras noctem. . . . (Plate 2)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God creating earth.From the first Parisian ed...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $50
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Fecit duo luminaria magna, et posuit in firmamento, ut lucerent super terram. . . . (Plate 3)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God creating earth.From the first Parisian ed...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $50
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Creaduit omnem animam uiuentem, secundum speciem suam. . . . (Plate 4)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating God creating earth.From the first Parisian ed...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Arcam sibi fecit Noë ex mandato Domini ad effugiendam pluuiam sup terram . . . (Plate 9)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the construction of Noah's Arc.From the f...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Stetit David Super goliath praecidito caput eius et consurgentes viri israel persecuti sunt philisthaeos ( Plate 42)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating David over Goliath about to cut his head.From...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Ad Testem, in Iudicio, Naturam vocavit Sapientiss. Salomon et vera Mater Filium dimidiari non est passa. ( Plate 46)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the judgment of Solomon.From the first Parisi...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Angelus Tobiam liberat ne deuoretur a pisce Tob.6.
Illustration of the history of Tobias. engraving number 4.The angel saving Tobias from being devored by the whale.
Place & Date: Southern Netherlands c.1650
Selling price: $50
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Four woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer.
Christ before Caiphas (Bartsch 29). The mocking of Christ (Bartsch 30). Christ before Pilate (Bartsch 31). The scourging of Christ (Bartsch 33). All woodcuts on paper
Place & Date: Germany , probably ca. 1650
Selling price: $200
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Mercury guarding the horses of Apollo.
Etching of a wooded landscape with Mercury guarding the horses of Apollo. Signed in the plate "H:Swanevelt fecit Rome", edited and sold by Pierre Mariette in Pa...
Place & Date: Rome ca. 1650
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2008
[Interior of a church)
This is the only print made by Cornelis(?) Hoecgeest. Immerzeel eponymously list his family name "G. Hoekgeest" or "Hoeckgeest". (See also Brulliot, N...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1650
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Marchant Juif. (33)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Medecin Juif (21).
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a Jewish doctor from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Tu...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Symplegades.
The Argo passing between the cliffs called Symplegades Mythological subjects, engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert, after Pierre Brebiette and published by Pierre Mariette and ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2014
Prométhée.
Mythological scene with Prometheus lying on a rock, his legs and arms tied down while an eagle picks his liver, by Cornelis Bloemaert, after Jean Varin Published by Pierr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2014
Classis Hispanica celeberrima, quae anno celeberrimo. MDLXXXVIII. inter Galliam Brittaniamque venit. & perijt.
Scene of the great sea battle in 1588 between Calais and Dover. Filled with fighting sailing ships, some already sinking with survivors being rescued.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1650
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2015
Eight woodcut printed coats of arms.
Eight wood cut printed coats of arms in very fine contemporary coloring. On verso and decorated oval with name. Including, Henry de Lenoncourt, Antoine Levy, Charles Robe...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2018
'Peacocks'.
A copper engraving. Print showing peacocks in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
'Lions'.
A copper engraving. Print showing lions in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
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'Crab and lobster'.
A copper engraving. Print showing 2 lovely crustaceans.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
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Philippi Brietii S. J. Ventorum Tabula. Secundum Veterem & Novam dispositionem et nomenclaturam.
A very decorative, early engraving of a wind-rose. It is divided into five categories. The First is the "Divisio & Nomina Ventorum Apud Nautas..." (i.e., th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2021
The adventures of Diana with Endormye, and Venus with Adonis.
v.Swanevelt drew, sculped and edited the engraving.
Place & Date: The Netherlands 1654
Selling price: $100
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Order of St. Benedict (The Benedictine Tree).
A fine religious print featuring St. Benedict by Wenseslaus Hollar (signed by him in print). Published in 1655. It features a tree with St. Benedict with a crozier in his...
Place & Date: London, 1655
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
L. Colivri / Pie Griesche.
A very fine and decorative representation of two birds, with flowers and insects. In the style of DeBry, but here by François Langlois, French (1589-1647).
Place & Date: Paris, c.1655
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Combat between John de Astley and Peter de Masse.
Combat between John de Astley & Peter de Masse" which took place in 1438 from 'The Antiquities of Warwickshire' by William Dugdale. 1656.“Of the Patshull bran...
Place & Date: London, 1656
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2013
Draco hipes apteros in Agro Bononiensi. . . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing four dragons, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt of 1650-53 illust...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Utilis Piscis serram ad instar Picis habens. Delphinus prior, Delphin. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a narwhale and four dolphins, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Grijphus, Grijps, Hippopotanus. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a griffin and two sorts of hippopotamus, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Temple Parochialis s fidis (Faithful of the Parish).
Antique etching published in "History of St. Paul's" by William Dugale in 1658. It was illustrated and etched by the famous Old Master, Wenceslaus Hollar. This...
Place & Date: London, 1658
Selling price: $44
Sold in 2013
Rome and soldiers.
Engraving by Pietro (di) Santo Bartoli, showing a frieze with Roman soldiers. After a drawing by Julio Romano. Iacintus Paribenius Pistorien formis Romae.
Place & Date: Rome, c.1660
Selling price: $35
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Tabula IV sequitur Farnesiana Posticus.
Ornamental representation of the Vatican in Rome after Petrus Aqulia.
Place & Date: Rome, 1660
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
(Three plates showing tigers, leopards, lion, etc, etc.)
Two pages from the first and only but very important Dutch edition of this curious and comprehensive zoological work, richly illustrated with excellent copper engravings,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $96
Sold in 2017
Figura admirandi meteori.
Two Dutch ships observe a "marvelous meteor" during their voyage. The witnesses said "the object moved slowly in the sky above them and seemed to be made o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
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[Two Bible Leaves.]
Two hand colored copper engravings by Matthaus Merian, the younger,the Swiss engraver from the De Bry family. They are from an unidentified German bible from 1665.
Place & Date: Frankfürt, 1665
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2014
Ibraim Pascia Visiragha di Giannizzari. (Portrait of Ibrahim Pasha)
Fine, decorative and very scarce copper engraved portrait of Ibrahim Pasha, Pargali Ibrahim Pasha (1493 or 1494–1536), also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha (the "West...
Place & Date: Vienna, Gio. Battista Hacque, 1670
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2010
Hercules killing the Hydra.
Hercules killing the Hydra - Hercule tuant m'hydre - From a series of prints with as subject : The Labuors of Hercules. printmaker: Gilles Rousselet (Signed on print show...
Place & Date: 1620-1670
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2021
Abbildung der Statt und Revier von Rochester, Chetham...
Two views of the Dutch raid on the Medway in June 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, published in Merian's monumental Theatrum Europaeum. The scenes are drawn in gr...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1670
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Froidcourt.
A very nice view of a castle. On the foreground, a horse and a rider are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Como...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2008
Tenna, Pars XII, Tab. 79.
A fine, scarce, large, copperplate engraving of South Asia flora. From the very important book on Indian botanicals by Drakenstein. The name of the flower is repeated in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1678
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2023
Cafri - Conda , Pars XII, Tab. 70.
A fine, scarce, large, copperplate engraving of South Asia flora. From the very important book on Indian botanicals by Drakenstein. The name of the flower is repeated in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1678
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Codagen , Pars 10, Tab. 46.
A fine, scarce, large, copperplate engraving of South Asia flora. From the very important book on Indian botanicals by Drakenstein. The name of the flower is repeated in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1678
Selling price: $37
Sold in 2018
Prospectus Turris Babylonicae ex praescripto R. Adm. Patris Athanasy Kircheri Soc. Jesu.
A rare and large print showing the tower of Babylon. From Kircher's famous and rare "Turris Babel" published in 1679. The last of his books to be published duri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
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[Hercules]
Engraving showing Hercules, resting on club, with the skin of the lion of Nemesis.Signed in lefthand bottom GMF
Place & Date: 1650-1680
Selling price: $126
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(Shipping - Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With on verso an explanation of the various parts of the vessel. (Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire).From ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
Vaisseau.
Miniature view of a vessel, showing its various corposants. With key list on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Tabacs.
A charming print illustrating Tabacco cultivation and preparation in the Caribbean. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text editi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
Vaisseaux de l'Asie et de l'Afrique.
Miniature view of various forms of sailing ships from these two continents. From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706),...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1684
Selling price: $40
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Palmiers.
A fine 17th century depiction of a palm, coconut and a fig tree plantation .From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Das grosse Segel. . .
Maritime scene of a vessel with its key: J-M by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France und...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Tocht naer Nova Zemla in den Jaere MDXCVI.
Showing Dutchmen hunting a walrus in Magdalenefjorden (Norway) from a small sailing boat, other walruses at right, two large sailing vessels in the right background, whal...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679-1684
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Aqua Acetosa Extra Urbem, Penes Portam Populi.
Pleasing copperplate print of a baroque Roman fountain by Giovanni Falda from the book "Le Fontaine di Roma", published by Froberger for Sandrart in 1685.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1685
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
Alius Sons Praedictae Villae a Frescada.
Fine hand-colored engraving of a very fancy fountain at the Villa Frescada in Rome. It features 18 people and two dogs visiting the fountain. Giovanni Battista Falda (...
Place & Date: Rome, 1685
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2015
(Two engravings) The Gentleman's Recreation.
Two copper engraved, hand-colored prints from Richard Blome's "The Gentleman's Recreation".
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
The body of heraldry.
Very attractive and decorative page with 208 shields / coat of arms! Published in "The Gentleman's Recreation" by Richard Blome.
Place & Date: London, c1686
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
The Bass Island: Soland Goose; Heron; Sea Gull; Wild Duck; Curlew.
The Bass Island etching by Francis Barlow and engraved by Francis Place is from a work dedicated to Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale in 1686. On lined paper with ...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2017
Agriculture, or Husbandry.
Very attractive and decorative page about growing trees, planting herbs, etc. With coat of arms, agricultural tools, and workers. Published in "The Gentleman's Recre...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1686
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2015
Musick.
From full title, The Gentleman’s Recreations: In Three Parts. The Full Part contains A Short and Easie Introduction to all the Liberal Arts and Sciences, &c. The Se...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Dialectick or Logick.
An attractive and decorative page. Decorated with symbols and figures. Published in "The Gentleman's Recreation" by Englishman Richard Blome.
Place & Date: London, ca 1686
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
The British Way of Fighting.
A late 17th century engraving by the Flemish engraver Michael Vandergucht. Seven scenes, The British Way of Fighting, An Ancient Britain, Boadicea, A Druid, A Britain, A ...
Place & Date: London, 1688
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Het lande van syn Hoogh in Engelant.
William of Orange landing at Torbay; letters A-P within composition indicating different scenes. 1689. Lettered in Dutch in banderol in top center: "Het lande van sy...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Agamemnon offering his daughter Iphegenia, in honour of the goddess Diana.
De Lairesse drew and cut the plate. Edited by Nicolaas Visscher.
Place & Date: The Netherlands 1650-1690
Selling price: $100
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Landscape.
A wooded landscape with a river and fishermen, a castle in the background.Rijsbrack was a pupil of Philips Immenraet in 1672. Was master in Antwerp in 1673, he left for L...
Place & Date: Antwerp ca. 1690
Selling price: $100
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The Icthyography or Platform of Sedbergh School & Masters House, as it is designed to be built.
This large copper engraved print showed the front elevation, plan & interior view of the proposed school building. It was published & sold by Joseph Smith in Lond...
Place & Date: London, 1690
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014