Antique Harps

While he went about setting up a painting studio, he fulfilled illustration commissions for the publications Scribner's, Century, and Harper's. He exhibited watercolors and oil paint...

Sébastien Érard (1752 - 1831) was a French instrument maker of German birth, who specialized in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and ...

Dramatic eagle head carving in shape of harp form the base of this Neoclassical console table from Sweden.

Accompanied by a copy of the original Harper's Weekly.

Fully restored and calibrated by Julian Gibbard, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, with documentation.

Height measurement below includes harp. Fully electrified for U.S. use.  

Fine floor lamp, having a tubular shaft of patinated bronze, with polished brass collars and fittings, incorporating a reeded, hour-glass-form harp, raised on splayed legs. Stock ID...

Wood engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in Harper's Magazine December 28, 1861. 13 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches, 340 x 515 mm.

Circa 1860s Measures: 30.5 height x 9 in diameter (height includes harp).

is an original wood engraving from Harper’s Weekly June 13, 1874 in very good condition.

Both figures are modelled ‘contrapposto’ so as to convey a natural & dramatic sense of rhythmic movement, with the male figure shown playing a hand drum being held aloft, and the...

Each has been mounted onto a circular bronze base with fine molded detail as well as four dramatically styled feet, with a pine cone motif halfway between each foot for an added deli...

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...

Giltwood case with swag decoration, turned finials, surmounted by a harp with starburst decoration below the dial.

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...

Shows; a: Ivory chopsticks; b: coins; c: Tjenella (slippers); d: Chinese violin; e: bow; f, g: Garinding (Jew's harp made of bamboo); h: Chinese playing cards. This print originates ...

“Isn't it quite as if we were left, survivors of the flood” Story illustration: “The Understudy”, author: Johnson Morton, Harper’s Monthly, August 1917;

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

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

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...

Tiffany Studios bronze desk lamp with original iridescent shade, scrolled bulbous harp, and resting on circular fluted base with the original five ball feet.

Marked with the symbol of Ireland and the harp fineness symbol. The makers first initial is J but the other initial is undetermined.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

A fine and Large French Art Deco patinated and gilt bronze seven-light figural wall sconce, the impressive harp-shaped frame with the light-arms in the form of lilies, crowned with a...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

Clifford Ashley, famed author of "Ashley's Book of Knots" and many others, sailed on her in 1904 for six weeks to obtain first-hand experience for a Harper’s Monthly Magazine article...

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...