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Framed late 19th century hand colored engraving depicting "The Children's Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre" by Francis Wilfred Lawson, extracted from The Graphic, 1871. A bea...

Pair of antique nautical / maritime hand colored engravings depicting “The Launch of the H.M.S. Royal Albert” from the Woolwich Dockyard and “The Launch of the Paramatta,” from the I...

Aeschynanthus longiflorus & Lilium testaceum, circa 1849 by Samuel Holden. Each lithograph is hand colored and set in a green mat beneath glass. The frame is made from wood with bl...

Antique hand colored engraving depicting “A Man Overboard! - New System of Lowering and Detaching Ships Boats” from The Illustrated London News, by Frederick James Smyth. Circa 1860...

Pair of antique hand colored boat / ship / Galleon engravings depicting “The Arsenal at Naples – From a Drawing by S. Read” and “Her Majesty the Queen Leaving Greenhithe in the Royal...

Late 19th century hand colored nautical engraving depicting military "Preparations at Cherbourg for the Departure of the Reinforcements for Mexico" extracted from The Illustrated Lon...

Antique print titled 'Interior of the late Theatre Royal Drury Lane (..)'. Old print of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as it was between 1794 and 1809 showing the tiers of boxes stage left and the chandelier-lit auditorium with a small party of visitors standing in one of the boxes, as if being shown around. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initially known as "Theatre Royal in Bridges Street", the theatre's proprietors hired prominent actors who performed at the theatre on a regular basis, including Nell Gwyn...

Antique print titled 'New Covent Garden Theatre'. Old print depicting the Theatre Royal (or Royal Opera House), Covent Garden. Published in Acker...

Antique print titled 'Delphi'. View of Delphi, both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in th...

Antique print titled 'Syracus'. View of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Originates from 'Meyers Universum'. Artists and Engravers: Joseph Meyer (May 9, 1796 - June 27, 1856) was a Germa...

Antique print titled 'Lugo'. View of Lugo, Spain. Originates from 'Meyers Universum'. Artists and Engravers: Joseph Meyer (May 9, 1796 - June 27, 1856) was a German industrialist ...

Antique print titled 'Melbourne, the Botanic Gardens'. Old print of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia. This print originates from 'The Aust...