Victorian Art

'The Century Atlas. North Carolina' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'The Century Atlas. New Jersey' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.

'The Century Atlas. Indiana.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.

'The Century Atlas. Washington' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'The Century Atlas. Ohio, Northern Part' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'The Century Atlas. South Dakota.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm ...

'The Century Atlas. Minnesota.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.

'The Century Atlas. Nebraska.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

Punting on the River English School, early 1900's period oil on board, framed in antique gilt frame framed: 18.5 x 24.5 inches board: 16 x 22.5 inches provenance: private collection,...

Artist: John Gould (English, 1804-1881) Title: "Aegiothus Linaria (Common Redpoll)" (Vol. 3, Plate 51) Portfolio: The Birds of Great Britain Year: 1862-1873 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper Limited edition: approx. 750 Printer: Walter or Walter & Cohn, London, UK Publisher: Taylor and Francis, John Gould, London, UK Sheet size: 21.63" x 14.75" Image size: 13.75" x 10.5" Reference: Sauer No. 23; Ayer/Zimmer page 261; Wood page 365; Nissen No. IVB 372; Sitwell page 78 Condition: Faint UV stain to sheet. Remnants of mounting tape from previous framing on verso. Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography and hand-coloring by John Gould and English artist Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902). Comes from Gould's five volume "The Birds of Great Britain", (1862-1873) (First edition), which consists of 367 hand-colored lithographs. Other contributing lithographers were German artist Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Irish artist William Hart (1830-1908). "The Birds of Great Britain" is recognized as Gould's greatest work. Gold gilded edges as issued. The common redpoll or mealy redpoll is a species of bird in the finch family. It breeds somewhat further south than the Arctic redpoll, also in habitats with thickets or shrubs. Biography: John Gould FRS (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist and bird artist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates that he produced with the assistance of his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. He has been considered the father of bird study in Australia and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, "On the Origin of Species".

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "American Anhinga - Snake Bird" (Plate 420, No. 84) Portfolio: The Birds of America (First Royal Octavo Edition) Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper Limited edition: approx. 1,200 Printer: John T. Bowen, Philadelphia, PA Publisher: John James Audubon and J.B. Chevalier, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA Sheet size: 10" x 6.69" Image size: 6.63" x 4.63" Reference: Ayer/Zimmer page 22; Bennett page 5; McGill/Wood page 208; Nissen No. IVB 51; Reese No. 34; Sabin No. 2364; Tyler App. I Condition: Minor toning to sheet and some faint discoloration in margins. Old glue staining along right binding edge as normal. It is otherwise in very good condition with strong colors Notes: Provenance: private collection - Cleveland, OH. Lithography and hand-coloring by American artist John T. Bowen (1801-c.1856). Comes from Audubon's famous seven volume portfolio "The Birds of America", (1840-1844) (First Royal Octavo Edition), which consists of 500 hand-colored lithographs. The preceding 1836 Havell edition of this work has a different title: "Black-bellied Darter", (Plate: CCCXVI - 396, No. 64). Based on a drawing inscribed "New Orleans 1822 - redrawn ... 1836". This conspicuous bird had various names including "water turkey" and "Bec à Lancette". The Anhinga, sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from a'ñinga in the Brazilian Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird". To make 'The Birds of America' more affordable and widely available, in 1839 John James Audubon began the first octavo edition, a smaller version of the folio which was printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse, and then drawn onto lithographic stones. These miniatures exhibit a remarkable amount of attention to quality and detail, as well as a meticulous fidelity to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the Havell edition, John James Audubon’s first...

'Basilica di Santa Croce-in-Gerusalemme, ed avanzi del Tempio detto di Venere e Cupido' Tinted lithograph by Eugene Cicero after Felix Benoist (1813-1881...

'St Margarets (Entrance Front) Seat of the Earl of Cassillis'. St Margarets was a Regency house in Isleworth, Middlesex. Published by Rudolf Ackermann ...

'Rockbear House, Seat of Thos Porter Esq'. Rockbear House was originally built c. 1760-70 and owned by Sir John Duntze, the wealthy Exeter woollen merchant and banker. About 1820 t...

'Dendrolaugus Goodfellowi Goodfellowi' Tree kangaroo native of New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions ...

'Dendrolaugus Dorianus Dorianus' Tree kangaroo native of New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the...

'Dendrolagus ursinus (Type of D. Leucogenys Matschie)'' Tree kangaroo native of New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published ...

'Dendrolaugus Dorianus Dorianus' Tree kangaroo native to New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of th...

'Dendrolaugus Dorianus ab. loc. Aureus' Tree kangaroo native to New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transaction...

William Duffield British, (1816-1863) Still Life of Fruit & a Vase Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1850 Image size: 13.5 inches x 18.5 inches Size including frame: 18.5 inches x 23.5 inches A wonderful still life painting of fruit and a vase by William Duffield. An array of fruit including grapes, peaches and a Melon are depicted grouped together on a table. Nestled behind them can be seen a grey crackle glazed ring handled vase...

Leopard Seal - chromolithograph from an English natural history series. 135mm by 200mm (image) 165mm by 255mm (sheet)

'a sculptor' Vanity Fair portrait of Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. He was a connoisseur and collector. He practised as a sculpto...

'Popular Astronomy' Vanity Fair portrait of Irish astronomer Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913). In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathema...

A landscape scene with three mountains A. Buker (German, 19th Century) oil on canvas, unframed 14 x 19 inches the painting is in overall good and sound condition with a few surface s...

Ludwig Hermann German, (1812-1881) A Bustling Harbour Town Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1863 Image size: 26 inches x 36.5 inches Size including frame: 35.25 inches x 45.75 inches A wonderful continental townscape scene of a bustling harbour by Ludwig Hermann. The Medieval architecture is reminiscent of North Germany and the Baltic sea area with its busy trading ports. Figures can be seen chatting to traders as ships sail around the harbour. Ludwig Hermann or Herman was born Elias Ludwig Julius Herrmann at Greifswald, Germany in 1812 to Wilhelm and Sophie Herrmann. Although little is recorded about his early life and education, he is known to have left his home in 1831 at the age of 19, to pursue an artistic career in Berlin. There he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts where he studied under Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Hermann started exhibiting at the Berlin Academy exhibitions in 1836. A year later in 1837, he travelled to Paris to study under Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). By 1841 he had returned to Berlin where he married Caroline Wilhelmine ‘Auguste’ Dupont on 16 October, 1841. From his base in Berlin he travelled around Europe painting views of France...

'India (Southern Sheet)', antique lithographic map by Keith Johnston. Inset maps of 'Bombay Island & Town', 'Madras & Environs', and 'South-Eastern Provinces of India'. Central vertical fold as issued. 495mm by 625mm (sheet) Alexander Keith...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

Chromolithograph, 1878. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior designers with st...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

'Le Mouton de Barbarie' Copper-line engraving, circa 1765 From Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi" which was published in Paris. Jacques E. De Seve...

'Les Arts Décoratifs - Etoffe Francaise' Depicts fabric from the 16th century. From 'Les Arts Decoratifs a toutes les epoques', printed by Lemercier & Cie, Paris. 300mm by 200mm (...

'Carte du Bresil' Engraving with original outline colouring, circa 1860, by Alexandre Vuillemin, published in Paris. 31cm by 41cm (sheet) 21.5cm by 31.5cm (image)

'The White Horse' Attributed to Thomas J. Purchas (1855-1930) oil painting on board, framed inscribed verso framed: 14 x 8.5 inches board: 12 x 7 inches provenance: private collectio...

The Scottish Highlands Charles M.C Kinley (British antique) signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 26 inches canvas: 16 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, Engl...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the bro...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the bro...

'a good soldier'. Vanity Fair portrait of Lt.General George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, who was born in 1826. He joined the Grenadier Guards at 1...

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902) was one of only a handful of leading late-nineteenth century French Sculptors, whose reputation was perhaps second only to his contemporaries, Henri Chap...

'Gypoictinia Decepta - Northern Buzzard' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Australia...

'Pterodroma Brevirostris (Kerguelen Pulmar)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and L...

'Eudyptes Schlegeli (Royal or Macaroni Penguin)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Catharacta Maccormicki (South Polar Skua)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Pterodroma Brevirostris (Kerguelen Pulmar)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Phoebetria Fusca (Sooty Albartross)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

The Post Office deliver Colin Impey (20th Century), British signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 2018 canvas: 16 x 20.5 the painting is in overall very good and sound condition

'Jacques and the Wounded Stag, Scene from 'As you like it'' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. ...

'A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk' 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...

Leonard Braund was a bowler for Somerset and England. Tayler was an English artist who was a member of the Royal Academy of Painters. He was a cricketer himself, and in 1905 he made...

Walter Lees was a bowler for Surrey and England. Tayler was an English artist who was a member of the Royal Academy of Painters. He was a cricketer himsel...

Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish wicketkeeper for Middlesex and England. Tayler was an English artist who was a member of the Royal Academy of Painters. He was a cricketer himself, a...

'Bobby' Vanity Fair cricket portrait of Robert Abel. Abel was a right hand batsman and bowler for Surrey and England. 390mm by 265mm (image)

'The Lobster' Vanity Fair cricket portrait of Digby Jephson. Jephson was an all-rounder for Surrey who is best remembered for his lob bowling, a style he cultivated after employing...

'H Searle, Professional Champion Sculler of the World'. Vanity Fair rowing portrait of Henry Searle (1866-1889), an Australian sculler who raced in...

French botanical flower engraving, 1818. Colour-printed stipple engraving by J Lambert after Pierre Turpin (1775-1840) From Francois Pierre Chaumeton's 'Flore Medicale' which portrayed a variety of flowers, trees and herbs which could be used for treating illnesses. The engravings were produced during the great period of French colour printing using the stipple-engraving process pioneered by the great botanical artist Pierre-Jospeh Redoute. The artist is the celebrated Pierre Jean Francois Turpin...

Artist: William Young Ottley (English, 1771-1836) Title: "A Youth at His Devotions" Portfolio: The Italian School of Design: Being a Series of Fac-Similes of Original Drawings, By th...

Beautiful pair of life-sized, hand cast, left and right, English, terracotta poodles from the East Hampton Estate of legendary socialite, publicist, and sister of Jackie Kennedy, Lee...

William Henry Hunt 1790 - 1864 Bird's Nest Oil on canvas Image size: 11½ x 8⅜ inches William Henry Hunt was a painter and watercolourist of fruit and flowers, landscapes and rust...