1870s Wall Decorations

Title: Haunting Elegance – 19th-Century Gothic Lithograph of Ghostly Apparitions This evocative lithograph captures a mesmerizing Gothic scene filled with mystery and supernatural...

French Majolica Strawberries Platter signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870. Very rare color.

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Bernier. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, publi...

The Pont des Arts, also known as the "Bridge of the Arts", is a historic pedestrian bridge in Paris that spans the River Seine. It connects the Institut de France on the left bank wi...

Antique costume print including many different costumes including costumes of Hungary, Holland and others. This print originates from 'Blätter für Kostümkunde. Historische und Volks-...

Vibrant Victorian Butterfly Lithographs: Delicate Portraits by Frederic C. Moore This remarkable pair of lithographs, created by Frederic C. Moo...

Nice larger size antique 19th century cherub themed interior architectural decoration, in original charcoal /black paint; attractive and suitable to be used as a wall bracket (see im...

Andrea Paladio was a Venetian architect of the 16th century who is still a reference today engraving representing an architectural work of the 16th century coming from a set publishe...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Georges-Eugène Haussmann. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the ar...

19th Century Framed Oil Painting on Canvas "Standing Guard" signed G. Dewyse is a superlative example of the genre, depicting farm animals and livestock as nobility. In this scene, ...

Late 19thC Swiss oil painting of the Chateau de Chillon on Lake Geneva.

This print is an engraving of the Interior View of St. Paul's Cathedral, executed by J. C. Griffiths, an active 19th-century engraver known for his detailed architectural depictions....

Wonderful image of cupid Fine steel engraving after E.Sirani Published C.1870 Unframed. The measurement given is the paper size

Wonderful image of The Death of Major Peirson In the Battle of Jersey Fine steel engraving Published by Blackie circa 1870 The measurement is the pa...

Great map of The Pacific Ocean From the celebrated Royal Illustrated Atlas Lithograph by Swanston. Original color. Published by Fullarton,...

Pair of majestic French 19th century carved 23k giltwood mythological Griffin sculptures. Expertly carved. These impressive one of kind griffin sculptures (or statues) were architect...

Here’s a description of each of the flowers depicted in these original antique prints: 1. Hexacentris (Mysore Trumpetvine): - Appearance: This plant is renowned for its large, tr...

Enchanting Victorian Butterfly Lithographs: Vivid Portraits of Rare Species by Frederic C. Moore These enchanting butterfly lithographs by Frede...

Mixed Populations of Southern Yunnan – A Plate from the French Exploration of Indochina (1866–1868) This vibrant lithograph, part of the monumental '...

Portrait of a woman painted in oil on canvas from the impressionist period. This pictorial movement appeared in 1860 in opposition to academic art and aimed at representing the ephem...

Circa 1870s painting "S. Georgio Maggiore & the Dogano" by Jane Vivian in gilt frame. Title inscribed on canvas en verso. Signed J. Vivian lower right, British, flourished 1869-1890....

Great image of The Battle of Naseby Fine steel engraving after G.Cattermole Published by Mackenzie C.1870 Unframed. The size given is the paper size

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

You are viewing a gorgeous English oil painting version of “Rejected Addresses 1876” originally by Charles Sillem Lidderdale Piece comes in the ornate gilt frame Brushwork incredibly...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring the imperial heir, Napoléon Eugène, the Prince Imperial. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colo...

Lao and Burmese Peoples – Lithograph from French Indochina Exploration (1873) This lithograph, part of Francis Garnier’s *Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine,* depicts Laotians and B...

Title: Alpine Botanical Lithograph of Arabis Blepharophylla and Saxifraga Ambigua, 1874 Description: This elegant botanical lithograph, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons in ...

Title: Alpine Botanical Lithograph Pair of Anomatheca and Saxifrage, 1874 Description: This charming pair of botanical lithographs, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons in Lond...

Title: Alpine Botanical Lithograph Pair of Iris and Pyrenean Dead-nettle, 1874 Description: This exceptional pair of botanical lithographs, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons...

Title: Alpine Botanical Lithograph Pair of Arctic Bramble and Spring Gentian Description: This exquisite pair of botanical lithographs, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons in ...

Title: Alpine Botanical Lithograph Pair of Wintergreen and Primrose, 1874 Description: This exquisite pair of botanical lithographs, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons in Lon...

Title: Alpine Botanical Print of Rock Soapwort and Nodding Bellflower, 1874 Description: This charming botanical lithograph, published in 1874 by George Bell and Sons in London, bea...

Wilson Hall, Melbourne University – Gothic Revival Landmark, 1879 This hand-colored wood engraving, published in The Illustrated London News on May 31, 1879, showcases the origina...

The two prints depict vibrant and distinctively shaped flowers, rendered with the meticulous detail characteristic of chromolithography from the 19th century. Here’s a description of...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Newerkerque. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, p...

Title: Rare 1873 Engraving of the Market in Luang Prabang by Louis Delaporte Description: This exquisite engraving, titled "Marché de Luang Prabang," captures the vibrant daily li...

The plant depicted in the print on offer is Azalea mollis 'Glabrior', a variety of the Rhododendron species. Its common English name is the Smooth Azalea. This particular variety is ...

Title: *Our Artist in the United States – VIII. Pittsburg* Published in *The Graphic*, December 2, 1876. This hand-colored engraving was published in The Graphic on December 2, 1...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale - Musée des Empaillés" is another satirical caricature from the series by the artist Hadol. This print, numbered 30, continues to depict vari...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Marguerite Bélenger. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist ...

Nineteenth century 1870 George Eldridge chart titled "Chart Of The Vineyard Sound And Nantucket Shoals", surveyed by George Eldridge hydrographer...

Title: "Photograph of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Late 19th Century" This photograph shows the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, one of the world’s oldest...

A charming watercolor on paper of a barnyard scene with a family of chickens painted and signed lower right A.F. Tate 1871. The back of the piece has la...

Victorian Butterfly Wonders: Stunning Hand-Colored Lithographs by Frederic C. Moore and J. Nugent Fitch Description: This exquisite collection of lithographs from 1878 features the...

Majestic Victorian Butterfly Illustrations: Rare and Detailed Portraits by Frederic C. Moore This collection features beautiful 19th-century butterfly lithographs by Frederic C. Moo...

Very rare small Majolica Palissy wall platter signed Auguste de Chauvigne dated 1829. Auguste de Chauvigne ( 1829-1904) Ceramist in Tours ( Center of France ) inspired by the Faien...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Devienne. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, publ...

The image is a colored chromolithograph of the Hibiscus coccineus, commonly known as the American Scarlet Rosemallow, from the work 'The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States...

The two prints are from Louis Van Houtte's "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe" and illustrate two different species: 1. Sophronitis coccinea: - Latin Name: Sophronitis ...

The engravings presented here are exquisite botanical illustrations from the 'Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles', an authoritative work published in Brussels in 1845 und...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Frossard. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, publ...

The botanical print depicts Dircaea blashii (sometimes labeled as Dircaea or Dirca), a unique flowering plant known for its distinctive, red, tube-shaped flowers which are grouped in...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, also known as Persigny. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored l...

Antique map titled 'Neue Aufnahmen in Nord-Australien'. Old map of Northern Australia showing the 'new routes' of the exploration of Ringwood and McMinn. Covers as far east as pa...

This is an antique Japanese lithograph depicting a Buddhist monk or a high-ranking religious figure, seated in traditional robes. The monk is dress...

Majolica strawberries plate signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870.

Antique print, titled: 'Tyrol. Weinhuter von Meran.' This original antique print shows the costumes of Italy/Austria; South Tyrol, a vineyard keeper fr...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Conneau. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, publi...

Great image of The Battle of Hopton Heath Fine steel engraving after G.Cattermole Published by Mackenzie C.1870 Unframed. The size given is the paper size

La Ménagerie Impériale: Le Musée des Empaillés 1. **Le Boa** (Prétention - Servilité) 2. **Le Rat d'Église** (Dévotion - Hypocrisie) 3. **Le Hibou** (Sagesse - Prudence) 4. **La Pie...