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Antique prints: Environmentally Friendly Decor

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  Five Towns. Joaquin Macias [signed in pencil lower right.] [n.d., c.1940.] Etching, 225 x 250mm. 8¾ x 9¾". A rather bleak and oppressive scene of a vast industrial conurbation, with figures and multiple placards and hoardings advertising products and events in the foreground. Smoke belches from factory chimneys and five pottery kilns. The Latin American artist Joaquin Macias is known to have lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Nicaragua, and to have visited Chile in 1951. In a hand written note discovered with a group of his etchings, he mentions a period of "30 years residence" in Britain. He seems to have etched most of his plates in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. [Ref: 9946 ]   £350.00    Not only are antique prints aesthetically pleasing but they are often more environmentally friendly than buying new artwork: 1. Antiques Don’t Require New Resources The trees have already b

Happy New Year! Grosvenor Prints is back open!

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    Wishing a happy New Year to Grand Papa. Canot Pinx. R. Houston fecit. London Printed for John Bowles_ at No 13 _ in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1760.] Fine mezzotint, with small margins, very fine and rare image, 370 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". A pair of small children are presented to their grandfather. [Ref: 24485 ]   £390.00      Happy New Year! Grosvenor Prints is back open to our usual hours after a restful break.  Our next catalogue should be out Wednesday 2nd February.