Victorian Prints

Circa 1870's engraving titled "Highland Music" by Sir Edwin Landseer, engraved by Henry S. Beckwith, published by London, Virtue & Co, Ltd. Shows a Scottish man seated in a cottage, ...

Mid-late 19th century hand-colored lithograph of the "Magpie". It is from the Rev. F.O. Morris' "History of British Birds" published by Groombridge and Sons in London Sight: 7" x 4.3...

Circa 1870 hand colored botanical print from the Curtis' Botanical Magazine. Published by Vincent Brooks, plate 5186. Gilt frame with Greek key & beaded borders; nicely matted with g...

Wendell Macy Chromolithograph of Nantucket Town and Harbor, circa 1881, a colored stone lithograph of Nantucket town with Brant point jutting out into the harbor, the Creeks marsh and dunes in the foreground, as seen from the vantage of Monomoy shore, signed by Wendell Macy (1845 - 1913). A lovely sepia and pastel toned summer evening view, this is one of the most iconic images of 19th Century Nantucket...

A set of 6 antique botanical fruit lithographs by Walter Muller. "Lith Ansi v Walter Muller Gera" lower right. "Nach der Natur van Muller Gera lowe...

A rare and wonderful set of portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa delineated from life in their native haunts by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris and drawn on stone by Frank Howard and framed 1840. All in very good condition. The Book these came out of made £12400 when sold 12th June 2019 Lot 68. From one of the rarest of all books dealing with African big game and sport, this monumental presentation depicts wild game of southern Africa as encountered and studied by Harris. The tinted lithographs highlighted in colour by hand are especially lovely, each of the illustrations is also enlivened by scenic backgrounds of the habitat. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the “Cape Colonists” of the particular species pictured in each print. Howard, Frank (1805?–1866), painter, son of Henry Howard...