Romantic gift guide!
Valentine's Day? A special someone's birthday? Paper anniversary?
Here are a few ideas on what to get your romantic interest:
Symbolic of your love
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured lithograph. Border 400 x 280mm (15¾ x 11"), on backing sheet.
A pair of birds of paradise with long tails in a landscape.
[Ref: 51308] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by W. Baillie. n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple, 240 x 180mm. 9½ x 7".
Decorative stipple by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 12273] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Vinegar Valentine
Does your paramour have a wicked sense of humour? Then they might get a kick out of these mean Valentines:
[Vinegar Valentine.] Although a Lion you appear, [/] You're more than half an Ass I hear.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼").
A
cruel Victorian valentine, poking fun at a man shown with a cigar and a
cane. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting;
some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to
their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 43808] £30.00
(£36.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 225 x 130mm (9 x 5"). Creasing.
A cruel Victorian valentine poking fun at a large woman. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 43806] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)
Beauty personified
Your love is the most beautiful person in the world so you could show them how gorgeous they are with prints of beauty personified:
The Power of Beauty. Vain is you powr, all efforts vain will
prove. The Power of Beauty sways the God Love. To the Countess of
Harrington. The Print from the Original Drawing by G.B.Cipriani, is with
ye greatest respect Dedicated by Her Ladyships most Humble Serv.t W
Palmer.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. Le Grand, Sculp.t.
A
Paris chez Mme. Breton, Mde. d'Estampes, au Pavillon, Jardin du Palais
Royal, et rue du Chantre, Maison du Chandellier. [n.d. c.1780]
Stipple, printed in colours. 197 x 192mm (7¾" x 7½").
[Ref: 8481] £420.00
Herself the Fairest Flower. From a Picture in the Possession of Abraham Caldecott Esq.r
Painted by S. Woodforde, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Wm. Ward
A.R.A. Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & the Duke of York.
London, Published March 12. 1815, T. Macdonald 39 Fleet Street.
Rare mezzotint. 349 x 252mm (13¾ x 10"). Cut; crease and rubbing, repairs.
A woman leaning on a window ledge with flowers growing around it.
CS: 105. Frankau: 156.
[Ref: 31154] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
For the lesbian couple
A print of the iconic Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby.
From a Drawing by LADY LEIGHTON carefully taken from life. Drawn of Stone by R. J. LANE, A.R.A.
Printed by J. Graf. Proof.
Lithograph on chine colle. 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Laid on album paper. Mark in the cheek of Lady Butler. Very light foxing on the backing paper.
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known affectionately and famously as 'the Ladies of Llangollen', seated at a table in their library, with their cat similarly seated in the foreground. The ladies moved to Llangollen, North Wales, and moved into Plas Newydd with their servant Mary Caryll in order to avoid the inevatibility of unwanted forced marriages back in their home County Kilkenny. Their home became an epicentre for eccentric contemporaries and they eventually became a popular attraction. All three ladies are buried together in Llangollen.
[Ref: 56423] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Flowers
They say that you can never go wrong with flowers!
[Forget-me-nots.]
Hall Thorpe [pencil signature].
Published by Hall Thorpe, London. Copyright U.S.A. 1922.
Coloured woodblock, signed in pencil. 272 x 229mm (10¾ x 9"), with large margins.
John
Hall Thorpe (1874-1947), the Australian-born artist, who learnt the art
of colour woodblock printing in the early 1890's while still living in
Sydney. In 1902 he moved to London and soon became one of the foremost
exhibitors at the Colour Woodcut Society, formed in 1920, and by 1930
his woodcuts were sold worldwide.
[Ref: 34778] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Carle delin. Duruisseau Sc. Bonnet direx.
A Paris, Chez Bonnet, rue St Jacques, au coin de celle de la Parcheminerie [n.d., c.1780].
Crayon-manner etching, printed in red and green, fantastic piece of colour printing. Sheet 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A fine example of colour printing, with the colour printed from two plates, with no hand retouching. The publisher, Louis Marin Bonnet, was the inventor of crayon manner. He operated from the above address between 1776 and 1789. The engraver, L. F. Duruisseau, also engraved for Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
See Dunthorne 211 for a print probably from the same series. Collection J. Herold.
[Ref: 54911] £390.00
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