Antique Harps

Original Magazine Illustration for a magazine like Harper's, Vanity Fair, Life, Look, and Judge Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School.

In the lower left is a harp which represents Ireland. Surrounding the shield is the Garter circlet.

To the top of each column is a funerary urn, above the arch & introductory text are cannons with the flags of the Republic & cherubs playing a harp. This remarkable printed textile i...

A fine large 19th century French gilt bronze mantel clock modeled in form of a classical lady wearing a toga sitting amidst broken columns as she is looking up while holding an angel...

His preferred medium was watercolor, and he began his career as an illustrator working for Harpers Weekly, the Daily Graphic, and Leslie's Magazine.

It is cast with graduated foliate emblems, the circular foot has stylized egg and dart decoration. The brass harp is original, and so is the tapering bronze finial.

The small suzuribako exquisitely crafted in lacquer in the form of a traditional Japanese instrument called a koto, a thirteen stringed harp or zither. The flush fitting lid, inrobut...

The frames are made of scrolled bronze resembling a harp, bearing an aged patina. This candelabra is wired and is in good working order.

The perforated frame is decorated with leaf volutes, interspersed with vases of flowers and fruit and, in correspondence with the four supports, with harps. It rests on a band, alway...

Firms associated with Harper's Weekly employed some of the most accomplished engravers in America, capable of reproducing subtle tonal effects and complex compositions.

Hess worked as an illustrator for several lithography firms and did work for at least one article published in Harper’s Magazine in 1878. He exhibited for the first and only time at...

In 1878 he worked as a freelance pen-and-ink artist for such periodicals as Century or Harper’s with animal studies, still lifes and landscapes.

Her superb work was featured in many national magazines, such as Ladies' Home Journal, Collier's, Harper's, Scribner's, Good Housekeeping, and others- Work is elegantly framed

While a student, he became an illustrator for Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well known for his portraits, landscapes, rural scenes, and illustrations.

Later he worked for La Revue Illustrée, Harper's Magazine. Hemiplegic by the end of his life, he produced a few prints made with his left hand.

Once called "Fools Gold", it is mounted in graduated oval settings with "Irish harp" motif centerpiece. Pyrite is a fragile stone and was quite popular during the Victorian period.

Measurements: 35 3/4" H (including harp) x 6 1/8" W x 6 1/8" D Condition Report: Trace discoloration to the gilding, light wear through gilding in some areas, overall remaining a vi...

Three children playing musical instruments (violin, flute and angel harp), one cherub rows the swan shaped boat, and two other embracing while one of them holds a flower.

While a student, he became an illustrator for Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well known for his portraits, landscapes, rural scenes, and illustrations.

The exquisitely handcrafted period antique, circa 1820, having a unique gilt bronze lion's head and harp accented cornice atop two glazed doors with arched astragal moldings.

February, 1883. LITERATURE: HARPER'S WEEKLY, volume XXVII, no. 1373, April 14, 1883, p. 232 Nicely framed and ready to hang.

Georges Charles Coudray (Paris, 1883-1932) A Fine 19th century French Gilt and mid-brown Patina figure of an Orientalist Woman Playing Harp with Sphinx Head. Signed: Coudray AP wi...

About the Artist: Brought to New York City in 1850, William Keith was apprenticed to a wood engraver in 1856 working for "Harper's" magazine. In 1858 (or 1859) he visited California ...

A similar brooch from the period can be seen in the collection of Madeleine Albright, "Read My Pins", published by Harper Collins, 2009.

Theodore Davis was a staff artist at Harper's Weekly. Many of his drawings were published as wood engravings in Harper's Weekly.

The ovoid campana-shaped noire enameled urns, surmounted twin handles and gilt-bronze mounts of dancing maidens allegorical to the Empire reign, both raised on a square plinth surmou...

Diana Vreeland, a noted columnist and editor of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, was often seen with a David Webb black-and-white enamel zebra bangle.

Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935. New York: Harper and Row, 1981, pp. 262-265; Bessire, Mark H. and Mary Jo Peer.

Dubois The bronze depicting a beautiful woman playing the harp. Paul Dubois was born on the 18 July 1829 in Nogent-sur-Seine, France.

This one has a complete walnut frame, all the original bergere rattan is in place and undamaged, the sides and top back look like musical harps, this is a very good looking and well ...

Pottery and porcelain of All Times and Nations by Wm. Prime. NY: Harper and Bro., 1878. First edition hardcover. One of the first references on pottery and porcelain collecting.

Medium: Pencil, Charcoal and Orange Wash on Paper Signature: Signed "O'Neill" Upper Left Sight Size 24.00" x 19.50", Framed 35.00" x 29.00" Illustration for the poem "Baby's First C...

The sides are also decorated with reeding and each has a plain harp shaped handle. The interior displays original gilding and each has a crisp set of hallmarks on the side.

Held also designed sets for Broadway and wrote comic strips for the newspapers, but he is best known for sophisticated illustrations for some of the finest magazines of the day, incl...

Extra tall Pair French Opaline and Brass trim Lamps Rare size and highly unusual color.Think they photograph slightly darker than in person,slight difference in the brass fittings as...

The additional plaques show flowers in gilded borders, and a cherub playing a harp. The white enamel dial rests on a waisted clock plinth on each side of which is a gilded cherub pla...

His preferred medium was watercolor, and he began his career as an illustrator working for Harpers Weekly, the Daily Graphic, and Leslie's Magazine.

He built a steady career working for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, and Harper's Bazaar until he transitioned into Pulp magazines following the stock market crash.

While she is known now principally for her exclusive retail shop (regular advertisements were seen in House & Garden and Harpers magazines), her business was listed over the years in...

The backrest in the central section is crowned with a solid carving with a motif of flowers and a harp. Presented sofa is original, in very good condition.

As early as 1894, just a year and a half after Penfield began a series of monthly images for Harper's, his work was heralded by Publisher's Weekly: "The advertising poster has within...

Maybe realized in the first or in the second decade of the XX Century, this burin depicts a standing figure with a harp in the hand; symilar to a contemporary Orpheus, the figure is ...

The cylinder front centred by a gilt-bronze foliate framed oval decorated with floral marquetry and a harp and books representing lyric poetry. Flanked by twin-light gilt-bronze cand...

Jacob Erat the famous harp maker lived in the neighbourhood and moved to 23 Berners Street before his death in 1821.

This bird's name stems from its unique tail feathers, which, in the male, resemble a lyre or harp shape. These intricate plumes, combined with the bird's impressive vocal mimicry ski...

Dimensions: 27" tall including harp 18" tall to where bulb inserts 7" wide 7" deep.    

The frame is almost musical, its looks like a Biedermeier harp on the sides. Condition wise, there will be some age and use related patina marks here and there, there looks to be so...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Swedish circa 1800 hand painted green with angel playing a harp decoration hall cupboard or wardrobe A very good looking ...

Measurements: H 26” lamp with harp H lamp body only 11.5” x W 11” x D 7.25” Weight: 9 lbs.  

They have not been taken apart to be checked for a signature, however, there may be one underneath one of the bronze mounts. The harp and light height is adjustable. France, Circa: ...

Hercules in a niche around the side at right, below which a nymph plays harp and another seated beside her holds a book inscribed 'Gesta Eran Corum'.

Foliated scrolls, flowers, garlands, cornucopias and musical instruments such as a harp (Apollo Reference) the cherubs are underlined by pearls, scrolls of Acanthus Leaves and garlan...

Her superb work was featured in many national magazines, such as Ladies' Home Journal, Collier's, Harper's, Scribner's, Good Housekeeping, and others- Work is elegantly framed - Pub...

The instrument he embraces is a harp, an emblem of the minstrel's craft, with its strings and soundbox detailed in the lithograph.

On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting depicts "Orpheus and the Animals." The harp-playing Orpheus sits centrally in front of a tree whose trunk bifurcates above his he...

The baluster shaped stem rises to a capital decorated with lobing and each pull-off nozzle displays a rim decorated with gadrooning, shells and scrolls. The harp shaped handle displa...

Each door is decorated with a rectangular antique Greek frame, this frame shows in relief the figures of two women, which in keeping with the style of the cabinet are reminiscent of ...

In working order .Measures: 30 inches tall to top of harp- 14 1/2 inches tall from base to top of urn x 8 inches across base.

From there, she went on to study at the Boston Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Joseph DeCamp and Vesper George.Before she married Irving Price, Evans worked as a freelance...

The statue depicted is to be identified with that of Apollo Citaredo, distinguished by the harp and the mantel (fireplace). There are several Greek Roman sculptures depicting him wit...