Robert Cooper Prints

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...

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...

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 ...

Lot of 6 late 19th century black and white engravings, plates extracted from the book The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer published by Virtue & Company, London. Includes several hunting ...

Sir Walter Raleigh Frees Five Indian Kings – Drake Voyages Engraving 1770 This evocative eighteenth-century engraving illustrates a dramatic episode from the early age of exploratio...

This 16th century French engraving illustrates an episode in the Trojan War – although the actual one illustrated is in question. According to recent scholarship, it depicts the corp...

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 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...

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

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...

Napoleon I Portrait, Emperor of France, Stipple Engraving c.1805–1820 This striking portrait engraving depicts Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French and King of Italy, one o...