After Edward Detmold

'Black Leghorn Chick', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919

1919

'Yellow-Hammer' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century...

'A Canine Aesculapius' From the Picture by JC Dollman, Exhibited in the Dudley Gallery. English 19th century fold-out wood-engraving, 1878, from 'The Graphic'. John Charles Dollma...

'Skylark' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century illustrator...

'Chaffinch' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century illustrator...

'Torch Light Fishing in N America' Colour aquatint by Merke after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel...

'Jay' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century illustrator...

After William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764) Royal Sports PIT TICKET • Engraving by William Dent (British), active from 1783 to 1793 • Inscribed bottom right: Dent sculp • Plate ca. 7.6 x 9.1cm • Image ca. 6.3 x 7.9 cm • Sheet ca. 23.5 x 15 cm Fantastic imagery full of detail and symbolism – For example discover the cast shadow of the dept collector with his truncheon, looming over the winner, whose fast gained riches are being stolen by a thief as we watch. This well know subject was originally created by the famous British artist William Hogarth and then reproduced over time by many contemporary artists as prints of various formats and as paintings. Here we have a rendition engraved by William Dent, who was active from 1783 to 1793 and signed his work in the plate bottom right. I think this impression would date to the late 18th or then to the very early 19th Century. I was told, that these small prints, served as entry tickets to cock fights in Georgian England...

François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731 - c. 1800) Le Pigeon Ramier de Madacascar (The Wood Pigeon of Madagascar) • 18th century hand colored Copper Plate engraving • Plate No. 192 from : L' Histoir e des oiseaux, peints dans leurs aspects apparents et sensibles, published in 1790 (“The History of the Birds, painted in their appearing and sensitive aspects“) • Glased & ebonized hardwood frame contemporary to the engraving, ca. 43 x 33 cm Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery. A rare pigeon print...

A large print of John Gould & Henry Constantine Richter of Temminck's Tragopan from his published book " Birds of Asia ". John Gould was influenced by James Audubon paintings of bi...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal first octavo edition lithograph entitled "Golden-winged Woodpecker, 1. Male, 2. Female2", No. 55...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Rocky Mountain Goat", No. 26, Plate CXXVIII, 128 from Audubon...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "The Cougar, Female and Young", No. 20, Plate XCVII, 97 from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North Ameri...