Zhantiques

VICTORIAN PRINTS Continued

NB - All the picture frames on the last page are computer-generated! The prints have been covered with cellophane and this is reflected in some of the images. If you are interested in any of these, please get in touch and I can email larger versions of the images. Suffice to say the prints themselves are far superior to the reduced images shown here.

Whitby

This a mounted reproduction of a charming watercolour by Fred Burgess, depicting a view of Whitby showing the harbour and Whitby Abbey in the background. It is taken from the 'British Printer' 1896. Brief technical details of the printing process are also underneath the print. Picture size including the mount is size is approx 29cms x 22.5 cms.

Price £12

Polly

This is a charming print from a chalk drawing by Esther or Ernest Borough Johnson - it isn't clear which although some research suggests that the initials belong to Esther rather than Ernest. It was drawn in 1893 and this reproduction appeared in the 'British Printer' 1894. It measures 28 cms x 22 cms and is mounted.

Price £12

Advert for Winsor & Newton

This is a most unusual, fascinating and historical advertisement for Winsor and Newton printing inks from 1895. It is remarkable on more than one count. The birds and the hazel branch they are perching on, are exquisitely drawn by H Giacomelli and wood engraved ( I think) by Huyot. Both signatures appear on the images. Giacomelli was a well-known bird artist of the period and Huyot engraved many of his drawings on wood. Huyot died in 1885 so I do not know how this picture came to be used for an advert in 1895. It's possible that it's an earlier advert for their more well known artist colours being re-run for their printing inks.
What makes it fascinating, the artistry apart, is that it announces an innovation in the supply of printing inks. Instead of the more usual tins, the inks are now in collapsible tubes which had been in use for some time for their artists colours. The metal tube was invented in 1841 and Winsor and Newton at once saw its potential as a container for their high quality water colour paints. They invented the screw cap for metal tubes so that they could be opened again and again and leave the contents in good condition. A wonderful piece of trivia too! You can think about this next time you clean your teeth!!!!
It is appeared in 'The British Printer' magazine for 1895 and is possibly unique because out of several volumes that I acquired from 1895 onwards, this is the only Winsor & Newton advert there is.
If you would like a larger version of the image, please feel free to request one. The reduced copy here doesn’t really show it properly.
This is a quality print printed on heavy art paper. Page size is approx 24cms x 18


Price £10

Title page for a souvenir book for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

A good example of Victorian graphic art. This is a proposal for a souvenir book of photographs for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897. Small adverts on the back.
Printed on quality art paper.

The print is unmounted and measure 27.5 cms x 21 cms.

Price £5

Off Sheerness

A charming study of sailing boats on a windy day off Sheerness. The artist is uncertain - the signature in the corner being the apparently the name of the company that created this reproduction. The caption tells us that it was 'Reproduced in five printings by Hare & Co's photochromotype process.'
It appeared in the 'British Printer' 1895.
It is mounted and measures 25.5cms x 20cms.

Price £12

Cinderella

This is striking facsimile of an original Drury Lane poster. It appeared in the 'British Printer' 1895. It is mounted and measures 26 cms x 20.5 cms


Price £12

The Model's Rest by Percy Harland Fisher

This is a most charming print of a painting by Percy Harland Fisher who lived from 1867-1944. The painting is called 'The model's rest' and depicts a young girl warming her hands in front of a stove, being kept company by her dog and cat. According to the acknowledgement under the picture it appeared in a Victorian children's magazine called 'Little Folks'
According to information I found on the Modern Journals Project website, Fisher was born at Dulwich and educated at Dulwich College. He was a member of the Pastel Society and exhibited with them in 1918, Ezra Pound charging him with "a yearn for tinted photography," by which he meant "just the emotional values, and just the aesthetic intensity of the tinted photos shown in the window of any tinting photographer. I do not refer disparagingly to an accurate transcription of natural objects"
Judging by other info I found one of his more well-known pictures is called 'Sisters'
This print appeared in 'The British Printer' magazine for 1896.

Price £10

Cover from a volume of Cassell's Family Magazine

A cheerful cover print of this Victorian publication. Henry William Lowe (Hal) Hurst was a painter and etcher of genre subjects and portraits. From 1896, Hurst exhibited at the Royal Academy and throughout Great Britain. Hurst was a founder member of the Royal Society of Miniatures in 1896 and was its Vice-President 1896-1913.
This print is mounted and measures 28cms x 22.5 cms

Price £12

The Prodigal Son by a Chinese artist

Unusual cartoon telling the story of the Prodigal Son. It comes from 'The British Printer' for 1897. It has been engraved and printed on quality art paper. There is a wealth of technical detail underneath the pictures. It is reproduced by kind permission of Dr. Wilson, M.B., C.M.. Medical Missionary China. The blocks for the pictures have been engraved by Edmund Evans, Racquet Court, Fleet St., London E.C. Diamond Art Paper supplied by R.T. Tanner & Co., Salisbury Square, E.C. and it was printed with fine letterpress Inks from Shackell, Edwards & Co, Ltd. 5 Red Lion passage, Fleet St. What a history!
It measures 27cm by 21 cms

Price £10

Pre-Raphaelite painting by Schuster

This is a print of a wonderful Pre-Raphaelite style painting by Carl ( as signed) or Karl Schuster. It depicts a young red-haired lady with flowing locks and Greek style dress picking what appear to be peonies in a semi-wild garden.
I have managed to put together the following brief biography of him from information gleaned elsewhere on the internet.
Karl Maria Schuster (1871 - 1953) was a renowned Viennese artist. His main works were primarily of figures, interiors and landscapes. He studied under Julius Berger , Leopold Carl Mueller, J.M. Trenkwald and Sigmund I´Allemand . The artist travelled widely to study - Egypt, America, Holland , Belgium , Switzerland , Germany and the South of France. In WWI he worked as a military painter. From 1928 to 1940 he lived in Carithia. In 1929 he was awarded with Silver Medal of the Vienna Art Union "Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler ". In 1946 he received the Golden Laurel of the Viennese House of Artists– the Weiner Künstlerhaus , which he had been a member of since1903. The Gallery Makow in Klagenfurt organized a grand memorial exhibition of his work in 1971.

The print is from 'The British Printer' magazine for 1898. Brief technical details are given beneath the picture.
If you would like a larger version of the image, please feel free to request one.
This is a quality print printed on heavy art paper. Page size is approx 27.5 cms x 18 cms.


Price: £10

Portrait of Vesta Tilley 1901

Although not named, I can be fairly certain from research on the internet that this a portrait of Vesta Tilley (1864-1952) - a successful and popular music hall artiste and male impersonator in Victorian times. Most other pictures I have found of Vesta Tilley always show her smoking - I'm sure that was something not considered very ladylike at the time!

This is also by way of an advertsiement for Winstone's Inks as all the deatil of the colours used in the print are listed underneath. No clue as to the artist - only that it is 'Copyright'!


27cms x 21cms £10

Vesta Tilley 1895 - reproduced from a photograph

Glamour print of Vesta Tilley 1895
This print is taken from a photograph by Mr. Alfred Ellis who had premises in Baker St, London and was active 1884-1899. A collection of his photos are held in the National Portrait Gallery. Although not named, I can be fairly certain from research on the internet that this is also a portrait of Vesta Tilley . This portrait was probably considered quite 'raunchy' at the time!

Reproduced from a half-tone block by Carl Hentschel & Co.

24cms x 19cms £7

Bird's eye view of Chicago by George R. Lawrence

An interesting example of early aerial photography. This picture was taken by George R Lawrence, a Chicago photographer who pioneered aerial photography using giant tripods and later balloons. He took photos of the Chicago stockyards and maybe this view was taken on the same occasion - a somewhat smoky Chicago. The photo was engraved by the Binner Engraving Co. in Chicago
It is taken from 'The British Printer' magazine for 1901. If you would like a larger version of the image, please feel free to request one.
This is a quality print printed on heavy art paper. Page size is approx 27.5cms x 21 cms.


Price: £10

Poster for a children's charity trip to Skegness

Another charming example of poster work from the 'British Printer' 1898. This is for a charity called the 'Children's Fresh Air Fund' and was obviously set up to enable children from socially deprived areas, have some fun in the open air. I have found numerous references to this charity elsewhere on the Internet. It seems to have been prominent in Toronto, Canada.

The print is unmounted and measure 27.5 cms x 21 cms.

Price £5

Fantasy arrangement of biscuits from Huntley & Palmers

An unusual print, possibly used as an advertisement for Huntley & Palmers biscuits reproduced in the 'British Printer, 1898. Some are still around today!

This is a high quality print on heavy art paper.
It is unmounted and measures 27.5cms x 21 cms.

Price £10

Diagram of primary colours

A scientific diagram from 1893 showing the colour formation of primary colours, secondary and tertiary colours. Printed on Smith & McLaurin's paper as per the advert on this page! Full details of same below the diagram.

It measures 27cm by 21 cms

Price SOLD

Print depicting the prismatic solar spectrum

Another scientific diagram, this time from 1896. It shows the colours of the spectrum and the spectrum of sodium and lastly how colour combinations are used to produce white light. Details of all the printing inks used are below the diagram.

It is unmounted and measures 27.5cms x 21 cms.

Price £10

OTHER PRINTS AVAILABLE
The sizes are similar to the ones above.

Small poster for a musical evening in Aberystwyth

1896 £5

Lovely black and white photo of a young black boy.
Suspect the title is not politically correct these days!!

1895 £10

Advert for Ward's Bulbs, Market Harborough

1897 £7.50

Design for the Norwich Union Centenary History booklet

1897 £5

Drawing of a ptarmigan and wild cat from 'Thorburn's Birds' pub'd by Longmans and also a drawing of pheasants from the 'Fur and Feather' series.

1896 £10 for the two

Advert for the Arthur Cox Illustrating Co., Birmingham

1898 £5

Mount Grace Hall or Mount Grace Priory as it is today, Yorkshire

1898 £5