Mid-19th Century Art

Benares, India Artist: M.Sherlock (1897-1973) Medium: Etching Date: c 1920 Size Mounted: 53 x 37 cm Size Plate: 34.7 x 22 cm Marjorie Sherlock was part of a group of women artists ...

Chinese Famous Men - Costumes   is a Hand-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the pe...

Lithograph in colors with engraving on buff wove paper. Each of the two images measures 10 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (271 x 167 mm), with the sheet measuring 14 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches (360 x 5...

Etching on Chine collé mounted to cream wove paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (97 x 147 mm), full margins. With a pencil notation in the right margin on the recto (outside of image area),...

London: Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1839. Oil stick color lithograph on cream wove paper, 14 3/16 x 11 inches; (360 x 280 mm), full margins. Scattered light yellow spots of discolora...

Uses and Customs -Venus is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government,...

This 19th-century American School river landscape painting by an unknown artist embodies the essence of the era’s reverence for nature and the burgeoning national identity. These wor...

The French Trench is an artwork realized by Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) in the 1860s. Belongs to the series "Souvenir d'Italie - Expédition de Rome". Lithograph, signed and dated by...

This charming landscape by the artist Albert George Adams (fl. 1854-1887) depicts a serene valley vista with rolling hills and mountains stretching into the distance, while children ...

This delicate watercolour, possibly dated 1835 or 1845, depicts a couple walking arm in arm with their dog through a blossoming spring landscape. Rendered with soft detail and gentle...

Monuments of French Sculpture is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Good condition. Drawing in black and white. At the center of the artwork is the original title "Monum...

Paul René YARDIN (Active 1830s to 1850s) Oil on cardboard 32.5 x 41 cm (53 x 61 cm with frame) Signed lower left “Yardin” Exhibition label at the Salon des Artistes Français at the t...

In Cemetery is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1854. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

La Manege is a black and White etching realized by Alphonse Legros in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 26x37 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des Aquafo...

Family Portrait is an original pencil drawing realized by an artist of 19th century in 1853. Good condition, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (34x49 cm). Illegible signature.

"Suez, General View" is a 19th century folio sized tinted duo-tone lithograph, plate 124 from the "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" volume of David Roberts’ large folio edition, published in London by F. G. Moon in 1843. The lithographs were prepared by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) from paintings by Roberts. The resultant large folio editions of 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia' are considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century. The lithograph depicts the Suez city skyline on a peninsula with boats moored in the bay. Men, dressed in traditional Arab costumes, rest on a hillside In the foreground with their camels, weapons and presumably goods for sale and trade. This tinted lithograph, which is professionally framed in a decorative gold-colored wood frame with cream-colored double mats. The print is in excellent condition. There are four additional listings of David Roberts hand colored engravings of Egypt...

This is an original 19th century 1st octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Black Rat, Old and Young", No. 5, Plate XXIII, 23, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds...

Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape S...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. Title: Exotic...

A serene rural landscape depicting a majestic oak tree standing sentinel beside a still pond. The artist skilfully balances the composition, contrasting the solid presence of the tre...

The Kangaroos is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publi...

'Cricket Match' Tinted lithograph with hand-colouring after the picture by Rev Tatton Winter. 340mm by 430mm (sheet)

Prise De Constantine is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

Di que sirvé una taza? is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Lo...

Medium: original etching. Printed on chine-colle paper in Paris by Delatre and published by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in 1863. Image size: 4 x 7 1/2 inches (100 x 190 mm). Not signed.

Les Arabes signalent l'approche de l'armée française is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in the 1860s. Signed in the plate. Good condition

This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Calothorax Yarrelli", Yarrell's Wood-star Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts three green, white, grey, and a little blue colored hummingbirds amid green cactus plants with white and pink colored flowers. The hummingbirds are augmented by gum-arabic paint, which gives them an iridescent appearance in areas in which it is used. This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph is in excellent condition. The original descriptive text page from Gould's 19th century publication is included. There are several other unframed Gould hummingbird...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. ...

Army gets position is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition

In 1865 Marville was retained by the Historical Works Commission to make a record of a Paris about to be destroyed by major new town planning projects- LAMP POSTs chronicled/auctione...

The Keeper of the Castle is an original gouache realized by Celestine Nanteuil in 1860s. Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (27x22 cm). No signature on the paper, but pencil signature on the passpartout. Célestin François Nanteuil-Lebœuf, dit Célestin Nanteuil, born 11 July 1813 in Rome (Italy) and died 6 September 1873 in Bourron-Marlotte (Seine-et-Marne), is a French painter, engraver and illustrator linked to the romantic movement. He is one of the illustrators of the Furne edition of the works of Honoré de Balzac.

Petrus KREMER Antwerp, 1801 - Antwerp, 1888 Oil on wood panel 72 x 56.5 cm (85 x 72 cm with frame) Not signed Old stamp on the verso Beautiful carved an...

The Express Train published by Currier & Ives 152 Nassau Street New York City from the small folio shows a train traveling through the country side wit...

Fuite Des Arabes De Constantine is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

A charming mid 19th century oil by Henry Watson, after Henry Liverseege (1802-1832). The artwork depicts an encounter between a young boy and a local resident, as the boy attempts to...

Port Fanaraki is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Lett...

Greenock is an etching realized in 1845 by F. W. Topham. Signed on the plate. Titled on the lower center, from the series of "Ports of Great Britain" Good conditions with slight ...

Illustrious Italians of the 17th - 18th Century is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " Hi...

'At Smithfield Market' Tinted lithograph with white highlights by Thomas Sidney Cooper, from 'Thirty-Four Subjects of Cattle', published in 1837 by Thos. McLean, Ackermann and Tilt....

Holy Island Castle is an Engraving realized in 1845 by E.Finden. Signed on plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

The Board is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1836. 1st edition. Signed in the plate. Good condition

Explosion De La Mine is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

Trait of Humanity of Capitaine Peyronny is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

A Gathering by a Lake in the Roman Campagna Oil on canvas: 48 x 65 in. Framed: 58 x 74 in. Circa 1840 Samuel James Ainsley (1820-1874) was a British artist recognized especially fo...

Petits Contes à ma Sœur is a Lithograph on paper realized by Hégésippe Moreau in 1838. The artwork is in good condition with some foxing. Hégésippe Moreau (1810-1838) was a French ...

Petits Contes à ma Sœur is a Lithograph on paper realized by Hégésippe Moreau in 1838. The artwork is in good condition. Hégésippe Moreau (1810-1838) was a French lyric poet. The r...

Explosion De La Mine is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

Revue is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed on the plate. Good condition

Apoplexy of the Heart and Lungs is a lithograph hand colored by Ottavio Muzzi for the edition of Antoine Chazal, Human Anatomy, Printers Batelli and Ridolfi, 1843. The work belongs ...

Petits Contes à ma Sœur is a Lithograph on paper realized by Hégésippe Moreau in 1838. The artwork is in good condition. Hégésippe Moreau (1810-1838) was a French lyric poet. The r...

The Portrait is a drawing artwork realized by Émile Lévy (1826-1890) in 1866. Hand-signed Good condition.

Knights' Weapons is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of the...

Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...

British female artist, attributed to Margaret Sarah Carpenter, nee Geddes, painted this lovely 19th century portrait oil painting. Painted circa 1840 it is a three quarter length portrait of a two sisters in a landscape. The colours are still vibrant and the detail lovely. Carpenter mostly painted portraits in the manner of Thomas Lawrence and his influence can be seen here in the composition and detail. A lovely Victorian portrait oil painting by a female artist who was much sought after as a portraitist in London and she was also a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. When purchased this painting was of a single sitter. However when this stunning painting was professionally cleaned it revealed the second younger sister. Provenance. Christie's, London. 22 September 1978 Lot 50 as by D Allen...

We are offering a painting for sale by the Swedish artist Nils Andersson (1817–1865). This beautiful landscape showcases Andersson’s characteristic style of capturing Swedish nature ...

Period Venetian Signed Landscape Painting Beautiful and evocative painting in the splendid style of Federico Faruffini. The strong colour...

A luminous first state impression, Hamerton's "Portfolio" edition. Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (135 x 213 mm), wide margins. First state (of 5)...

Marche Sur Constantine is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed on the plate. Good condition with foxing.

London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. 6 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (157 x 210 mm), full margins. Initialed in the plate by Cruikshank, and bearing Frederick Marryat's anchor monniker. A well inked impression of this humorous print...

'Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead Road' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...