Charles"Snaffles" Johnson Payne Furniture

Oil painting on canvas from 20th century. Italian painting signed lower right. Picture depicting a lake view of a good pictorial quality. Silvered and gilded wooden frame with fabric...

We present you this illustration printed from a book with depictions of old crafts – tanning in this case. The graphic is closed in passe-portout and a wooden frame with a glass. ...

French painting from the mid 20th century. Framework oil on canvas (glued on a board), depicting a pleasant view of the lake with sailboats of good pictorial quality. Painting of exc...

Dutch painting of the 20th Century. Work in Impressionist style oil on canvas depicting View of cathedral of good pictorial hand. Highly detailed painting with pleasant color use, of...

Large "Fixé sous verre", painting under glass representing a port scene in China in the background, with boats with different flags, rowers, all life on the water Very good condit...

Wilhelm and Ferdinand von Wright belonged to a Swedish-Finnish noble family in the 17th century. Together with their brother Magnus von Wright these ornithologists, scientists, natur...

A beautiful, hand-painted oil on canvas depicting river scene in Spring. The background is a gorgeous blush color, with the mountain rocks in rust oran...

Set of ten original antique prints of military costumes. It shows military costumes of Germany and Hungary. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1900.

Set of five antique prints depicting various farm animals. These prints originate from 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'. Published 1875-1879.

Signed antique Asian watercolor on silk landscape painting showing a small waterfall over a creek, topped with a tree and a woman carrying a b...

This print is from 'The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by A Series of Engravings. From Drawings made on the Spot. Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency the Minister of the Ottoman Porte to his Britannic Majesty.' London, Published by Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket, (1818). Folio. One of 29 fine handcoloured aquatint plates . Very light offsetting from plates. The original accompanying text of this print is as follows: 'The name of Arnauts is given to those troops, which are raised in Macedonia, the Morea, and the provinces bordering upon Sclavonia, and are commanded by officers from their respective provinces. These troops are hardy and vigorous, being inured from their infancy to laborious pursuits; they feel a pride in tracing their descent from the Spartans, and endeavour to imitate the martial fierceness and manners of their forefathers; they endure, without murmuring, the most fatiguing marches; but in other respects are undisdiplined: they are also slovenly and much addicted to gaming and plundering: they possess but little command of their passions, as private disputes frequently terminate in the assassination of one of the parties. These troops are, however, excellent marksmen, as well as very active in the field; they are usually formed into corps of infantry, a thousand strong, under command of an officer, styled Bin Bachi, although there are some who are mounted, and several corps were so employed during the campaign in Egypt. The arms of an Arnaut soldier consist of a pair of pistols...

Untitled print of various wild cats and bats. Dutch subtitles ‘1 Babi Roesa, 2 Sivet Kat, 3 Ambonse Vledermuis, 4 Vliegende Kat’. A civet is a small, lean, mostly nocturnal mamma...