Isaac Robert Cruikshank

"Quadrilles-Practising At Home" by Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Print Sz: 8 3/4"H x 12 7/8"W Frame Sz: 14 3/4"H x 18 1/2"W Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank (English, 1789-1856)

Print Sz: 5"H x 7 5/8"W Frame Sz: 11 1/4"H x 13 1/2"W Property from the Estate of Paula Peyraud

Print Sz: 10"H x 14 1/2"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 20"W Artist: Fores, S.W. The people are striving to see Queen Charlotte, who visited Bath to take the waters in November 1817. The Duke ...

Property from the Estate of Mary S.B. Braga Art Sz: 8"H x 5 7/8"W Frame Sz: 13"H x 10 3/4"W

Daily life scene is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge a...

This is a framed colored engraving entitled "Scene _ Country Fair" by George Hunt, published in London in 1825. It depicts a gathering of people at an early 19th century county fair, presumably in England. A majority of the crowd are turned away, watching a performance on a stage in the background. In the foreground a man is in conversation with a couple. The man wears a top hat and the woman is holding a baby. They are dressed in the typical attire of the middle class at that time. The engraving is presented in a brown wood frame and a double mat, with a cream-colored outer mat and a light cranberry...

London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (120 x 165 mm), full margins. Printed by Thomas McLean. Light, small c...

Antique print titled 'Run Neighbours Run - St Al_ns is Quadrilling It'. In this print, the Duchess of St Albans dances a quadrille (a dance performed by four couples) with an unidentified naval officer, whose dancing steps resemble those of the hornpipe, a dance popular among sailors. The other three couples of the quadrille stand around them, looking on. All of the figures are fashionably dressed, with the Duchess' clothing being particularly extravagant. Harriot Mellon, Duchess of St Albans, was a former actress who married the elderly banker Thomas Coutts in 1815. After Coutts' death, she remarried to the Duke of St Albans in 1827, causing a scandal due to his being 23 years younger than she. Mellon, the richest woman in Britain after her husband's death, was a philathropist and patron of the arts, but was a controversial figure in fashionable society due to her humble origins. Satirical prints...