1847
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, generally known by the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques or J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist.
Grandville received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a painter of miniatures. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Paris, and soon afterward published a collection of lithographs entitled Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté. He followed this with Les Plaisirs de tout âge and La Sibylle des salons (1827); but the work which first established his fame was Les Métamorphoses du jour (1828–29), a series of seventy scenes in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to play a human comedy. These drawings are remarkable for the extraordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in animal facial features.
After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe. He also continued to issue various lithographic collections.
Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen analysis of character and marvelous inventive ingenuity, and his humor is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness.
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Planche 1 - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...
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Myrte - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper. Plate from the Series "Les Fleurs Animées". Single sheet with passepartout. "...Upon his first arrival on earth, Myrthe became incarnated in the person of a m...
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Frontispiece - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "At a crossing in the forest, where four roads unite, a number of flowers happened to meet - among which were seen the Cactus, the Peach-blossom, the Dahlia, the Sensitive-plant, the Fuchsia, the Periwinkle, and the Sweet-scented Pea." T. Delord. Les Fleurs animées...
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Pavot - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper. Plate from the Series "Les Fleurs Animées". Single sheet with passepartout. "...I was once the flower of sleep. But sleep no longer brings to man forgetfulnes...
Lithograph
Lin - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper. Plate from the Series "Les Fleurs Animées". Single sheet with passepartout. "...The flax is the flower of industry; it is the mother of sweet visions and good...
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Frontispiece - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow grows." T. Delord. Les Fleurs animées...
Lithograph
Set of Four Color Engravings from "Herbier de la France" by Pierre Bulliard
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pierre Bulliard (French, 1742-1793) Titles: "La Gratiole Officinale (Grace of God)" (Plate 130), "La Digitale Jaune (Yellow Foxglove)" (Plate 65), "La Renoncule Acre (Acre Bu...
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Elegant Garden Flower Engravings – Antique Botanical Prints, London 1828
Located in Langweer, NL
Pair of Hand-Colored Botanical Engravings of Garden Flowers, London 1828 Description: This beautifully preserved pair of early 19th-century botanical engravings exemplifies the arti...
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Antique Floral Engravings by B. Maund from The Botanic Garden 1836
Located in Langweer, NL
Pair of Botanical Engravings from The Botanic Garden by B. Maund, London c.1836 A refined pair of original hand-colored botanical engravings from *The Botanic Garden* by Benjamin Ma...
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Decorative Antique Print of Various Flowers, Seeds, Leaves and More, 1854
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Fleurs'. Print of various flowers. This print originates from 'Musée d'Histoire Naturelle' by M. Achille Comte. Artists and Engravers: Published by Gustave ...
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Botanical Flower Engravings from The Botanic Garden, London 1836
Located in Langweer, NL
Pair of Botanical Engravings from *The Botanic Garden* by B. Maund, London c.1836 A charming pair of original hand-colored botanical engravings from *The Botanic Garden* by Benjamin...
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The British Gromwells, Antique Natural History Plate by Anne Pratt, circa 1873
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate 143 of Anne Pratt's British flora, an original antique color plate printed for Frederick Warne and Co. of London, gives the four British gromwells, from the common gromwell of ...
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