19th C. American - A Framed Set of 13 Hand Colored Alphabet Woodcut Prints A-M

[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair chromolithograph, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...

Ruth Cobb (American, 1914-2008), "The Whole World Loves the Lover", signed lower right, titled and signed verso, gallery label, matted and framed under glass. Ruth Cobb, studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and was an active member of the Boston and Provincetown modern art scene in the 1950s and 1960s. She was active in the American Watercolor Society, the New England Watercolor...

Collection of 19th Century American and European Lithographs & Engravings Featuring Native American Subjects A compelling group of four framed 19th-century prints, including two fin...

Antique German architecture print on heavy paper showing an illustration of a portion of a ceiling painting in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 16th centur...

Fantastic 18th Century Antique Hand-Colored Engravings depicting Greek Mythological scenes. This set of artwork is from J.B. Wicar. These matted and gold gilt...

Lot of 10 late 19th century chromolithograph prints, colored plates taken from a folio book published by Firmin Didot et Cie, Paris France. Plates each come with the facing page of d...

By Johannes Van den Aveelen and engraved by Holmice. Six views of Swedish royal residences. Hand colored engravings. Framed and matted.

English Framed Print 19th Century "A New Collections of English Coins" Measures: 55cm x 68cm Very good condition.