Robert Cooper Wall Decorations

Print size: 15 inches by 10 inches. Lord Hamiltons Ancient Vases. Number 94. Johann Tischbein, Naples , Italy. The scene depicts a scene from Greek Mythology, specifically one of the...

Presented is a Proclamation of Emancipation wood engraving by W. Roberts. The engraving was published in 1864, just one year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Proclamation.  W. Roberts was the artist and engraver and Corydon Alexis Alvord was the printer. The engraving was published by R. A Dimmick, in New York, 1864. The text of the Proclamation is set in a variety of typefaces, which is encased in a pictorial border. The border is decorated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven other vignettes, including the horrors of slavery at left, the bombardment of Fort Sumter at bottom, and scenes from a prosperous and united nation at right.  On September 22, 1862, five days after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states.  No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1, 1863 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation...

Wonderful print Chromolithograph Published by Connoisseur circa 1900 Unframed.

Presented is a rare stipple engraving of “Liberty. In the form of the Goddess of Youth giving Support to the Bald Eagle.” This engraving was drawn, engraved, and published by Edward ...

This evocative 18th-century engraving titled "Sir Walter Raleigh Beheaded in Old Palace Yard" illustrates the somber and historical execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most celebrated figures of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras...

Antique Portrait Sir Francis Drake – Tallis Engraving, c.1850 A highly decorative and finely engraved mid-19th century portrait of Sir Francis Drake, the legendary English naval com...

Stipple engraving of "SHAKSPEARE. / Measure For Measure / ACT V, SCENE I." England, 1796 by Thomas Kirk (English painter and printmaker, 1765-1797) and John Boydell (1720-1804) & Jos...

Antique Portrait of Sir Thomas More – Holbein, Bartolozzi Stipple Engraving, 1793 This refined late 18th-century stipple engraving depicts Sir Thomas ...

Benjamin Maund, Ten Copperplate Engravings, Judy Cormier Gilt Frames, 19th c. One of several spectacular groupings of engravings fresh from a Bronxvill...

A Rare Set of Four Regency Putti Stipple Engravings Published by Rudolph Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London Engraved by Anthony Cardon after designs by Richard Cosway ...

Small Portrait Engraving of Sir Hugh Myddelton after 1632 Portrait, ca.1750 This richly detailed antique portrait engraving depicts Sir Hugh Myddelton, the celebrated Welsh engineer...

Set of Three Neo-Classical Panoramic Stipple Engravings A formidable set of late 18th-century stipple engravings in the Neoclassical "Etruscan" or "Hamilton". Distinguished by their ...