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    Félicien Rops. L’oliverade – Monaco; etching, 1876.

    "In the olive grove", etching on laid paper. Signed on the plate and inscribed "L'olivierade Monaco, 76" (sic.). Owner's stamp LvM on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 44 x 30.5 cm; Plate: 40 x 27 cm; Image: 35 x 24.5 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 323; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 323.

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  • Félicien Rops. Médecine expérimentale; etching, 1854.

    Sanguine print on toned China paper pasted on cream wove paper sheet, depicting a dressed-up man trying to copulate with a hanged sow. Inscription on top of the plate: "Ne faites pas aux truies ce que vous ne voudriez pas qu'on vous fit", and below: "Visection" (sic.). Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 26.8 x 20.6 cm; India paper: 21.5 x 16.2 cm; Image: 19.3 x 14.2 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 661; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 42.

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  • Félicien Rops. Un groom a tout faire; etching, n.d.

    Etching on laid paper, depicting a kneeling groom with his head between the spread legs of a bare-breasted woman in a veiled hat. Inscribed on plate: Un groom a tout faire. Owner's stamp LVM on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 24.4 x 15.8 cm; Image: 12 x 7.5 cm

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 662.

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  • Félicien Rops. Le dessous de cartes d’une partie de whist (Series: Les diaboliques – petites planches); soft-ground etching, 1886.

    Soft-ground etching on laid paper. Inscribed on plate: "Le dessous de cartes d'une partie de whist" [The underside of a game of whist]. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 26 x 20 cm; Image: 24 x 17.7 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 43; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 273.

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  • Félicien Rops. La Modernité; drypoint, 1883.

    Drypoint on wove paper, depicting a woman in a hat with a ribbon lettered "ACADEMIE", carrying in her hand a male head in spectacles on a plate. Monogrammed "FR 83", inscribed: LA MODERNITÉ. — Imp. Eudes.; in pencil on verso."L'ARTISTE" – OCT. 1886 | (PRUD'HOMME ONTHOOFD) E 332-V". Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 27.2 x 17.8 cm; Plate: 19.7 x 14 cm; Image: 18.5 x 13 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Rouir 767:5; Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 405; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 72.

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  • Félicien Rops. La vieille à l’aiguille; etching, 1876.

    Etching on wove paper, depicting an old woman trying to thread a needle. Signed in plate: "Felicien Rops, 76 Septembre". Owner's stamp LvM on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 51.9 x 35 cm; Plate: 27.5 x 21 cm; Image: 23.5 x 16 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 358; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 54.

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  • Félicien Rops. Pallas; etching and drypoint, 1874.

    Etching and drypoint on wove paper, depicting Athena with an awl on her helmet and holding a shield with Medusa head. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 38.7 x 26.5 cm; Plate: 31 x 18 cm; Image: 24.5 x 14.5 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 317; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 41.

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  • Félicien Rops. L’ariette; etching, n.d. (two prints).

    Two prints on laid paper, one in an earlier state, published under the name Niederkorn. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper (1): 31 x 22.3 cm; Paper (2): 46 x 33.8 cm; Plate: 31 x 22 cm; Image: 25.5 x 17.5 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 318; Rouir 954:3 and 954:5?.

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  • Félicien Rops. Hypocrisie; etching and drypoint, n.d.

    Etching and drypoint on wove paper, depicting a woman with a face mask on her buttocks. Monogrammed in the plate 'FR'. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Papaer: 22.2 x 18.5 cm; Plate: 17.5 x 13.3 cm; Image: 15.5 x 12 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 448; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 106; Rouir 648.

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  • Félicien Rops. L’enter’acte de Minerve; photogravure, n.d.

    Photogravure after a pastel drawing by F. Rops. Monogrammed in the plate 'FR'. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 26 x 20 cm; Plate: 25 x 18 cm; Image: 21 x 14.5 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 543; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 156.

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  • Félicien Rops. Aux Folies-Bergère; aquatint & drypoint, n.d.

    Aquatint finished by a drypoint on wove paper; printed by R. Taneur, depicting young woman in bar Folies Bergère in Paris. Signed in plate under image: "Félicien Rops | AUX FOLIES-BERGÈRE | L'Artiste. — Imp. R. Taneur.  Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 26.7 x 17.6 cm; Plate: 17.5 x 11.5 cm; Image: 13.5 x 8 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 125.

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  • Félicien Rops. Dans la Pusta; etching & drypoint, 1879.

    Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist under the plate; 2nd state. Pasted on a sheet of blue paper. Fragment of "La messe de Gnide". Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Blue paper: 32 x 27 cm; Laid paper: 30.7 x 22 cm; Image: 12.5 x 4 cm.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 364; Graphics irreverent and erotic (1968): 59; Rouir: 508.

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  • Félicien Rops. Mon bourgmestre & Le modèle; aquatint & etching, 1874.

    Two images printed on one sheet of van Gelder wove paper.  Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

    Dimensions: Paper: 46.7 x 31 cm; top Mon bourgmestre: 11 x 9 cm plate, 9 x 7.5 cm image; Bottom Le modèle: 13.5 x 8.5 cm plate, 10 x 7 cm image.

    Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 341 & 342; Rouir 425:4 & 517:7.

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  • Losing my seat. [Anonyme] A. Sharpshooter, 1829.

    Hand-coloured etching by an anonymous British artist, printed on May 26, 1829, in London. Description by British Museum (1868,0808.8988): "O'Connell, in wig and gown, walks to the left from the massive door of a small stone building, stooping, and holding his handkerchief to his right eye. He wails: 'O, my poor Seat! my poor Seat! my poor Seat! I'd have given any thing for a seat.' In the doorway (right) stands Peel, saying with wary blandness: 'What good can weeping do you Dan.—I'm sure I did as much as I could!!' Above the large knocker on the plank door is 'Knock & Ring'. There is a projecting bell, above a placard: 'NB. Jews or Proselytes desirous of Obtaining Seats in the House may Knock and Ring at this Door.' One corner of "the House", a small stone shed, is depicted. O'Connell is walking towards a strip of water, across which is a mountain, with a board pointing 'To — Clare'. Comment by BM: "Catholic Emancipation raised high hopes among Jews; the first Bill, after a petition from Jews in Liverpool, was introduced 15 Apr. 1830, but Jewish Emancipation did not become law till 1858." Inscription under the frame with title, "A. Sharpshooter fec", text within image and publication line: "Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street May 26 1829". Size: 37.5 x 26 cm.
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  • A table d’hote or French ordinary in Paris. Thomas Rowlandson, 1810.

    Hand-coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, printed on May 30, 1810, in London; № 20 from the series The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2. Description by Metropolitan Museum (59.533.978): "Guests of a dinner sit at a long narrow table in a magnificent room with an ornate ceiling. Two men and a young woman serve wine, one drawing a cork, the others spilling wine over the guests. Another waiter spills soup in an elderly guest's face. A woman and a little girl with a begging dog play tambourine and triangle at left." Inscribed in plate lower left: "Rowlandson Del."; bottom centre: "A TABLE DHOTE, OR FRENCH ORDINARY IN PARIS." Our copy is lacking the publication details: "Pub.d May 30. 1810 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside, London." and similar to the copy in Boston Public Library (18_03_000394). Dimensions: Sheet 27 x 40.5 cm; Image: 23.5 x 35 cm. Contributors: Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 – 1827) – artist. Thomas Tegg (British, 1776 – 1846) – publisher.
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  • COG.- or not ashamed of being in town in November! – INCOG or supposed to be in the country in August! George Cruikshank after M. Egerton, 1826.

    Description by British Museum (1865,1111.2128): "Two designs, side by side. [1] A dandy (probably a portrait), florid, whiskered, and bearded, steps jauntily from the pavement, hand extended, saying: Ah! my dear fellow — How are you? Devilish glad to see ye!— He holds a closed umbrella, ferrule erect, and wears a long tight-waisted coat to the heels, unbuttoned, tight pantaloons and spurred boots. In the middle distance, another dandy grasps the hand of a friend on horseback. Behind are houses with shop-fronts. A man raises his hat to a lady who curtseys. [2] The same dandy steps from the roadway onto the pavement, his handkerchief to his nose; he stoops, trying to conceal himself from a dandy cantering past in a cloud of dust, his eye-glass to his eye. He is without gloves, extraordinary for a dandy, and his trousers are strapped over pumps; he says: Con-found it! — Didn't expect to meet Him!! The street is otherwise empty; against the (large) houses are scaffolding and a tall ladder." Lettered with title, text within image including production details: 'Ego. delt / Etched by G. Ck / Pubd by J Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill August 18 1826'. Dimensions: Sheet: 25.5 x 36 cm, Image: 21.7 x 33.8 cm. Catalogue raisonné: A. M. Cohn (1924): № 1001, p. 262.: "A wretched plate. Difficult to believe G. C. had anything to do with it." — Bruton. Value.— £1.
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  • A bird’s-eye view of Paris, 1867.

    Lithography on paper by Charles Fichot (French, 1817 – 1903), published in a supplement to the Illustrated London News of July 6, 1867.

    The construction on the foreground is the International Exposition of 1867 (Exposition universelle d'art et d'industrie de 1867). Dimensions: Sheet: 130 x 58 cm; Image: 118 x 43 cm.
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  • Environs of Paris from Weekly Dispatch Atlas. — London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1863.

    Four maps 34 x 47.5 cm each. Include insets of Versailles, Fontainebleau, Saint Cloud and St. Germain en Laye. Lithograph by Edward Weller after a map drawn and engraved by John Dower. "These maps originally appeared in the Weekly Dispatch newspaper from 1856 to 1862. They were reissued between 1863 and 1867 by Cassell, Petter and Galpin and then published collectively as Cassell's Atlas. The plates were acquired by G.W. Bacon & Co., and reissued in 1876 under the title Bacon's New Quarto Atlas ... of the Counties of England, and many times since under various titles." [WorldCat]

    Dimensions: 34 x 47.5 cm each.

    Contributors: Weller, Edward (British, 1819 – 1884) – lithographer. Dower, John Crane (British, 1791 – 1847) – artist, engraver. Dower, John James (British, 1825 – 1901) – artist, engraver (son of John Crane Dower).

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