Decorative Prints

Lancaster Map 1857, with a cartouche of Collegiate Church Manchester in the top right. Image size: 35.5 cm high x 22.5 cm.

Mevagissey Cornwall, hand coloured aquatint, Drawn and engraved by, William Daniell, published by W. Daniell, Russell Place, London in 1825. Plate Size: 22.6cm high x 33.3cm.

Staffordshire Map, circa 1840, hand coloured, drawn and engraved for Lewis Topographical Dictionary. Image Size: 23.5cm high x 17.5cm.

The Team, Fores’s Stable Scenes, hand coloured aquatint, 1875. Image Size: 20cm high x 30.5cm.

The Roadster – Surefoot, saddled horse drawn from life by Ben Herring, hand coloured lithograph circa 1880. Image size: 17.5cm high x 25cm.

The Queen’s Palace, Buckingham Palace viewed from Green Park, with a couple picnicking in the foreground and others around the lake. Hand coloured Lithograph published 1836. Image size: 36.5cm high x 26.5cm.

The Menai Bridge, lithograph by W. Crane Chester, circa 1850. Image size: 17.5cm high x 25.5cm.

View of Greenwich London, lithograph published 1835. Image size: 38.5cm high x 27.5cm.

The Southwest View of Alton Castle, in the County of Stafford, copper engraving, engraved and published by S & N Buck in 1731. Plate size: 19.5cm high x 38cm.

A View Taken near Battersea Church, Looking towards Chelsea along the river Thames. Hand coloured copper engraving, engraved and published by J. Boydell in 1752.  Plate size: 26.5cm high x 43cm.

A Front View of the Earl of Harrington’s House at Petersham in Surry. Hand coloured copper engraving, published by Laurie and Whittle in 1794. Image size: 23cm high x 28.5cm.

Birds, Hand coloured lithograph by John Gould (1804-1881) and H. C. Richter for Gould's Birds of Great Britain. Image size: 25cm high x 35cm.

Paul Wood (1897-1964) original, signed, etching and aquatint published in New York by the Paris Etching Society, circa 1935. Paul Wood studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts and at the Art Students League in New York. During his career he became well known for his watercolours and etchings of animals, mostly those of various breeds of dogs. In the 1930's his etchings were published by the Paris Etching Society and exhibited in the United States and France. Plate size: 17cm high x 22cm.

Flowers, copper engraving on lined paper circa 1800. Plate size: 34.5cm high x 22cm.

Berries, fruit hand coloured mezzotint, published by J.W. Winemann (1683 – 1741). Plate size: 33cm high x 22cm.

Town market scene with children playing and selling, circa 1850, by Le Blond, published in London. Image size: 13cm high x 17cm.

Portrait of a young girl with her steaming food on a chair. Baxter print laid on embossed card, published 1852. Image size: 14cm high by 10cm.

Britannia Bridge Wales, Baxter print laid on embossed card, Published circa 1850. Image size: 6cm high by 9.5cm.

Soldiers Farewell, Baxter print laid on embossed card, Published 1855. Image size: 11cm high by 15cm.

Bachelor of Laws, hand coloured copper plate engraving, published 1813 for R. Ackermans History of Oxford. Image size: 28cm high x 21cm.

Libyan Sibyl; facing front, seated, with a turban on head, holding a book open with her left hand, resting her right elbow on a closed book on a table; the book lettered with "Sibilla Libia"; after Guercino.  One of a number of prints engraved after drawings by Guercino and other masters in the Royal Collection, chiefly by Bartolozzi. They were re-published in folio by Boydell in the 1790s. This etching appeared in Boydells' 'Eighty-two prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi & c. from the original drawings of Guercino, in the collection of his Majesty'. Image size: 31cm high x 27cm.

Lady Diana Beauclerk's two daughters were Elizabeth (c.1765-1793), later countess of Pembroke, and Mary (1766-1851), later Countess Jenison Walworth. Etched an published by F. Bartolozzi in 1780. Image size: 26cm high x 28cm.

Lluvia de Toros (Pluie de Taureaux), Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828). Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper, Francois Liénard, Impression, printed in 1877 and published in Paris by L'Art. Plate size: 24.5 cm high x 35.5 cm.

Aquatint published by Dean and Son Threadneedle street, London circa 1825 after James Pollard (1792-1867). Image size: 26cm high x 35cm.

View of Lichfield featuring Cathedral, hand coloured copper engraving by Michael Burghers (1647/8 – 1727). Plate size: 25.5cm high x 43cm.

The Britannia Tubular and Menai Suspension Bridges, hand coloured lithograph, published by H. Humphreys circa 1850. Image size 19cm high x 28cm

Subduing, Shoeing, the Cavison and Millar number 4, printed (circa 1780) and sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. The engraving shows the early stages of horse training. Image size: 15.5cm high x 26cm. 

West Front of Lichfield Cathedral, drawn and engraved by Charles Wild in 1813. Aquatinted by Matthew Dubourgh. Illustration to Wild's 'An Illustration of the Architecture of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield' (1813). Etching and aquatint. Image size: 30.5cm high x 25.5cm.

Scottish Street Musicians, central pipe player with a fiddle/violin player each side, hand coloured lithograph circa 1860. Image size: 15cm high x 23cm.

Peg – Top; Three children playing with a spinning top, after Francis Wheatley (1747-1801), Printmaker: Delatree, Circa 1795, Stipple engraving. Plate size: 19cm high x 18cm.

The family of Prince Eugene praying at his Tomb, hand coloured engraving, circa 1825. Image size: 19cm high x 26.5cm. 

Mother and children outside their cottage door with cat and bird cage. Signed L. Dupont, Stipple engraving coloured in the ink, printed 1920. Image size: 28.5cm high x 22.5cm. 

The engraving depicts a bacchanal of putti after Marcantonio Franceschini (1648-1729). After Angelica Kauffman engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. Stipple engraving Image size: 11.5cm high x 30cm. 

Image of two girls. Stipple engraving coloured in the ink, signed L. Dupont, published 1923. Image size: 25cm high x 25cm.

Thomas Bewick (1753 – 1828). Wood-engraving, produced 1799, signed in ink T. Bewick del and sculpt. From a series of four engravings of Pidcock's wild beasts. Image size: 15 cm high x 19 cm.

Two men playing chess, etching circa 1910. Plate size: 30.5cm high x 25cm.

Admission Ticket, published 29th May 1784 (printed). Subscriber's ticket for a Handel Centenary Commemoration held in Westminster Abbey in 1784. A central ovoid design, featuring a woman and cherub next to Handel's tomb, framed with foliage and a banner. Etching and stipple engraving. Designed by Robert Smirke (1752-1845). Engraved by Francis Haward (1759-1797). England. 1784. The Commemoration, marking the 25th anniversary of the composer’s death, was a series of concerts of Handel’s music during which two performances of Messiah took place. ED Mackerness described the Handel Commemoration as “the single most important event in the history of English music” (A Social History of English Music, London 1964). Messiah was given its first performance in O’Neal’s Music Hall, Fishamble Street, Dublin in 1742. Plate size: 25.5 cm high x 19 cm.

Portrait of Napoleon on the Bellerophon, engraving after Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, illustration to 'The Art Journal', circa 1815-1848,    Print made by J Roberts and printed by, Day & Co Production. Image size: 23.5cm high x 19.5cm.

Pantheon Masquerade by Thomas Rowlandson, and by Auguste Charles Pugin, aquatinted by John Bluck, published by Rudolph Ackermann, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 1 March 1809. Image size: 19.5cm high x 26cm.

Paul Wood (1897-1964) original, signed, etching and aquatint published in New York by the Paris Etching Society, circa 1935. Paul Wood studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts and at the Art Students League in New York. During his career he became well known for his watercolours and etchings of animals, mostly those of various breeds of dogs. In the 1930's his etchings were published by the Paris Etching Society and exhibited in the United States and France. Plate size: 17cm high x 22cm.

Kenilworth Warwickshire, hand coloured lithograph, 1849. Image size: 24cm high x 34cm.

Maiden Voyage, After Myles Birket Foster (1825 – 1899), chromolithograph circa 1900, showing four children gathered round a pond by a tree, launching toy sailing boats, with cottages and figures in the background. Image size: 24cm high x 35cm.

Bartholomew Fair by Thomas Rowlandson, and by Auguste Charles Pugin, aquatinted by John Bluck, published by Rudolph Ackermann, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 1 February 1808. Image size: 19cm high x 26cm.

A group of Geisha girls looking out from behind a fence with others playing musical instruments in the background. Japanese wood cut, 19th century. Image size: 37cm high x 23.5cm.

A single Geisha girl. Japanese wood cut, 19th century. Image size: 36cm high x 23.5cm.

Charging samurai warrior on horseback. Japanese wood cut, 19th century, poor condition. Image size: 36cm high x 24.5cm.

A Game of Chess. Signed etching printed in New York in 1898, after an 1858 painting by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). Image size: 30cm high x 36cm.

Die Pfeifende Ente mit Rotem Schnabel; the whistling duck with a red beak. Hand coloured engraving after George Edwards (1694 – 1773), engraved by Johann Michael Seligmann (1720–1762). Plate size: 26.5cm high x 20cm.

Pelargonium Optimum (foster), hand coloured floral engraving, printed in 1852. Image size: 20.5cm x 13cm.