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George Cruikshank’s Table Book is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Cruikshank (London, 1792 - London, 1878) and written by Various Authors in 1845. Published by Punch Office, London. Original First Edition. Format: in 8°. The book includes 284 pages with Twelve full page Etchings (hundred in text half page). Mint conditions. George Cruikshank (London, 1792 - London, 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend di lui Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. For Charles Dickens, Cruikshank illustrated Sketches by Boz...

a wonderful antique pokerwork/pyrography panel by I W Wells, an American artist who flourished between 1845 - 1880. He was active in Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, yet most of his work is conserved in the Pinto Collection, which is part of the Birmingham Museums Trust in the UK. A portrait of Tennyson by Wells is in the Virginia State...

Les Etoiles (suivi de l’Astronomie des Dames) is an original modern rare book written by Joseph Méry and Le Comte Foelix and illustrated by Jean Jeacques G...

Le Diable Boiteux is an original modern rare book written by René Le Sage (Sarzeau, 1668 – Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1747) and illustrated by Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852) in 1840. Original First Edition. Published by Bourdin éditeur, Paris. Format: large 8°. The book includes 380 pages with several in text and full page illustrations. Mint conditions. Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852). Johannot was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. His historical paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1831. He became an illustrator much prized for his elegance, his diversity, and the lively character of his drawings, which were converted to engravings either by himself or by such artists as Jacques Adrien Lavieille, Émile Montigneul, and Alfred Revel. He was praised by Théophile Gautier.

Les Fleurs Animées is an original modern rare book engraved by Jean Jeacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1847) and written by Taxile De...

Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine is an original modern rare book written by Nick Old and engraved by Jean Jeacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 –...

Elegant colour menswear advert c1843 image on board depicting three Parisien boulevardiers for a gentleman's clothier Board Sz: 30 1/4"H x 20 1/2"W

Un Autre Monde is an original modern rare book written by Taxile Delord (Avignon, 1815 - Paris, 1877) and illustrated by Jean Jeacques Grandville...

Voyage où il vous plaira is an original modern rare book written by P.J. Stahl and Alfred De Musset and illustrated by Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852) in 1843. Original First Edition. Published by Hetzel, Paris. Format: large 8°. The book includes 170 pages with hundreds of illustrations (63 of them are full page woodcuts). Mint conditions. Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852). Johannot was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. His historical paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1831. He became an illustrator much prized for his elegance, his diversity, and the lively character of his drawings, which were converted to engravings either by himself or by such artists as Jacques Adrien Lavieille, Émile Montigneul, and Alfred Revel. He was praised by Théophile Gautier.

Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques is an original modern rare book written by Louis Reybaud (Marseille, 1799 – Paris, 1879) and...

Il Cuciniere Italiano Moderno - modern Italian or the friend of greedy stewards and convalescents is the title of a cookbook, printed in Livorno by the Fratelli Vignozzi e Nipote in ...

Florian traduit par Grandville is an original modern rare book illustrated by Jean Jeacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1847) in 1849. Original First Edition. Published by Pa...

Physiologie du Flaneur is an original modern rare book illustrated by Honoré Daumier (1808, Marseille, France — died February 11, 1879, Valmondois) and published in 1841. Published ...

An unusually fine and delicate, mid-19th American figural needlepoint showing an idyllic view of frontier life with a young girl reaching up on tiptoes towards a grape-laden vine on ...

Polichinel ex-roi des Marionnettes devenu philosophe is an original modern rare book illustrated by Alcide-Joseph Lorentz (1813-1891) in 1848. Original Edition. Published by Willer...

Original high profile wax cameo of William Shakespeare. Unsigned. Composed of natural and colored wax. Condition is very good. Most likely of British origin. Original shadow box fra...

Envelope Sz: 4 3/4"H x 4"W Frame Sz: 11 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W w/ leaf gilt frame

Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865) Mary Ann, 1846 Oil on canvas, 19 x 27 ¼ in., actual; 27 1/4" H x 35 1/2" W, framed. Signed, dated lower left: F. H. Lane 1846 Fitz Henry Lane was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a descendent of a family of fishermen that had resided on Cape Ann since 1623. Even with a lifelong handicap, Lane taught himself how to draw and paint and spent countless hours honing his technique. By the age of twenty-eight, he was hired to apprentice at Pendelton’s Lithography, the most important printmaking firm in Boston. Here he was exposed to other American and European artists, including British marine specialist Robert Salmon. Lane soon enjoyed success as both a painter and printmaker. By the 1840s his sale of oil paintings increased, which in turn diminished the need to rely on income from his lithographs. In 1841, Lane first exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum an oil painting entitled Scene at Sea, and in March 1842 he exhibited Ships in a Gale at the Apollo Association in New York City. By 1847,Lane’s reputation was firmly established, and he moved back to Gloucester permanently, except for trips to New York, Maine, Maryland, and possibly Puerto Rico. His highly refined images of Gloucester Harbor and its environs were celebrated for their minute detail and crisp delineations of form. During the late 1850s Lane simplified his works, painting thinly and eliminating detail in order to focus on effects of light and create a tranquil mood. Lane was more radical in his coastal scenes, from which, during the 1850s, he successively purged genre and topographical elements, so much so that, together with Martin Johnson Heade, he may well be considered the true avant-garde of American mid-century landscape painting. Lane’s mature work greatly influenced the second generation of Hudson River School artists such as John F. Kensett, Frederic E. Church, and Heade, who were forming their own luminist styles around the same time. Lane exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design in 1859 and at galleries in Boston, Gloucester, and Albany. His work is found in esteemed private collections and major museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art, Madrid. The Cape Ann Historical Association and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have large collections of Lane’s work. The packet ship Mary Ann was built by Waterman and Ewell at Medford, Massachusetts, for Andrews T. Hall and Albert H. Brown of Boston. She was re-registered in 1856, her new owners being William Perkins and Israel Whitney. She was wrecked in 1861 at the mouth of the Bassein River, Burma, while bound there from Colombo, Ceylon. Provenance: Baron Hottinguer, Zurich, Switzerland; Christie's, New York, 18 May 2004, lot 20, Daniel Pollack...