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Collection · 33 prints

The Staircase

Always leading somewhere you cannot see

The Staircase: paintings, prints, illustrations and photographs in which stairs or steps are a main feature.

Works include John Singer Sargent's Staircase in Capri (1878), Edgar Degas's The Dance Class (with a Spiral Staircase), Léon Spilliaert's L'escalier, crépuscule jaune, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etching The Round Tower and John William Waterhouse's Diogenes and A Roman Offering. Gustave Doré's engravings (Dante's Golden Ladder, fairy tales, The Raven) form the largest group, with fairy tale illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Contemporary photographs by Marcus Lenk and Pablo Meilán Campagnale are also included.

The selection is built around composition: in each work the steps lead the eye up, down or into the picture.

These works suit stairwells, landings and hallways, where the subject repeats the architecture around it. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

Impromptu in G-flat — Franz Schubert
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Léon Spilliaert — Vertigo | Symbolist Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
The Round Tower by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Stairways and bridges spiral through a vast prison tower
John Singer Sargent — Staircase in Capri | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
L'escalier, crépuscule jaune by Léon Spilliaert — Green steps and a red embankment under a deep yellow sky
The Dance Class (with a Spiral Staircase) by Edgar Degas — Dancers stretch and rest beside a spiral stair, one in a scarlet shawl
Gustave Doré — Street of the Old Lantern (Death of Gérard de Nerval) | Lithograph Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Paradiso, Canto XXI: The Golden Ladder | Dante Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Donkey Skin: The Princess on the Palace Steps | Fairy Tale Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
The Opera 'Messalina' at Bordeaux by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Messalina in a scarlet gown descends a stair lined with extras
Misery upon Misery by Marcel Roux — A cloaked woman glances back on a stone stairway
Bauhaus — Ausstellung 1923 | Original Bauhaus Exhibition Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Alexandra Exter — Maquettes de Théâtre 13 | Constructivist Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Odessa — A red flag frames a grand harbor staircase
Hiroshi Yoshida — Toshogu Shrine | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
Hiroshi Yoshida — Yomeimon | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
Kawase Hasui — Lingering Snow at Sanno: Vintage | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock Print: Chuson Temple at Night | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
Stories from the Arabian Nights: Aladdin in the Cave by Edmund Dulac — A boy climbs pale stone steps through an enchanted jewelled garden
The Sleeping Beauty (Princess on the Tower Stair) by Arthur Rackham — A crowned princess climbs toward a spinning wheel in a black castle
Diogenes by John William Waterhouse — Three young women gather on temple steps above a philosopher in a jar
Hiroshi Yoshida — Ghat in Benares, India | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
The Haunted House: I Saw a Flash of Light, Large and Pale by Odilon Redon — A dark empty room with a stair and a faint pale glow
Gustave Doré — Darkness there, and nothing more | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
A Roman Offering by John William Waterhouse — A young Roman woman lays flowers at a shrine set in a rose-pink wall
Albert Bierstadt — Landscape | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Puss in Boots by Arthur Rackham — A booted cat hauls on an iron ring at a harbour gateway
A Souk in Cairo by Charles Wilda — Snake charmers and water carriers gather in a Cairo street
Pneu Russian American by Leonetto Cappiello — A grinning red imp leaps above a spinning tyre in a wide split
Marcus Lenk - Light and Shadow VIII - 9ArtPrints
Porto Venere - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Ecce Homo | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
An Orange Garden by John William Waterhouse — Women gather oranges on stone steps in a whitewashed garden
Gustave Doré — Tom Thumb: At the Ogre's Door | Fairy Tale Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints