Home decor ideas by room!
Space on your walls and aren't sure what to fill it with; find some ideas below!
Toilet/Loo/Lavatory
It is best not to keep prints in a very steamy bathroom as they may get damaged but framed in a toilet and they should be fine.
I think water themed items work very well here such as nymphs, people bathing, boats and sea life.
Or very fresh green botanical prints.
Tho.s Harper pinx.t. [J.P. Quilley sculp.t]
[London, Published Feb.y 20, 1830, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket.]
Mezzotint printed in colour, sheet 210 x 180mm (8¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image and artist's name, losing text.
One of a number of prints after Thomas Harper (1817-43, fl.), portrait and miniature painter, in which women are combined with flowers, comets, eclipses, etc.
For other similar prints after Harper see refs. 38818 and 21580.
[Ref: 42464] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Kitchen
This person has some artwork of a cat in their kitchen, how cute! However I personally think a still life is a good addition to a kitchen. Although framed you should probably keep prints away from fire, water or grease.
[Still-life banquet piece]
I Beckett ex [illegible traces of effaced inscription, lower right]
Mezzotint, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. 19th century impression on wove paper.
Crabs and prawns on a platter on a covered table; grapes, peaches, an open melon, plums and a lemon behind; silver tobacco jar upper left. Mezzotint by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate.
State ii/ii (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database).
[Ref: 40220] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Printed area (at most) 515 x 640mm (20¼ x 25¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00
[Set of four fruit prints, presented within separately-printed rococco borders.]
[Fruit after Johann Wilhelm Weinmann.]
[Regensburg: Hieronymus Lentz, 1737-1745.]
Four very decorative engravings, printed in colours and hand-finished, trimmed with horticultural-themed etched borders pasted over. Total printed area 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Some spotting, worm holes in margins, two plates with fruits named in old ink mss.
Four fine fruit prints in a unique presentation, within identical, near-contemporary extra borders designed for such usage. The same design is printed on the reverse of the sheet. The fruit come from volumes three and four of Weinmann's 'Phytanthoza iconographia', a work famous for the quality of its colour printing.
[Ref: 52949] £1,200.00
Dining Room/Breakfast Room
Scenes of eating, drinking and general merriment would give this room a certain warmth.
[The Satyr and the Peasant.] Iste frigus & ardorem [...]
J. Jordaens, pinxit. Vosterman scul:
Cum Privilegÿs Reg: [n.d., c.1621.]
Engraving. 415 x 405mm (16¼ x 15¾). Thread margins, repairs to left platemark.
A
satyr chastises a peasant for blowing on his food, after he had blown
on his hands to keep them warm. The satyr says ''I can no longer
consider you as a friend, a fellow who with the same breath blows hot
and cold". One of several paintings by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)
based on one of Æsop's fables. According to the BM the original painting
is in the Kunstmuseum in Göteborg, with another version in the Musées
Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
BM 1873,1213.588.
[Ref: 57441] £320.00
L'Amour en Ribote [The Drunken Cupid; in image, to banner cartouche upper left.]
['peint par Eisen Père - Gravé par L. Halbou.]
[A Paris chés Basan Graveur n.d., c.1760.]
Rare engraving, proof before letters, sheet 455 x 335mm. 18 x 13¼". Trimmed to plate.
This
scene was painted with a companion "Les dragons de Vénus". Three
figures framed by a carved masonry or wooden border. A latter-day cupid,
a portly young male with bow and quiver of arrows over his shoulder
perched on the lintel, talks to two young ladies, earnestly entreating
them for more wine from the bottle that one lady holds. This cupid seems
already somewhat inebriated, and the woman holds the bottle away from
his outstretched hand, while he holds up an empty glass in his left
hand. A potted vine laden with grapes grows against the left side of the
frame, while an arrow pierces a heart lower right. Painted by
François Eisen, engraved by Louis Michel Halbou and published by Pierre
François Basan, this appears to be a rare engraving: according to their
website catalogue the Bibliothèque nationale de France hold only a
photomechanical reproduction of this image.
See La BNF: FRBNF40914125.
[Ref: 17714] £480.00
Living Room/Drawing Room
The Great Wall of China.
Jabez Vale, 44, Hanover Street, Liverpool. [n.d., c.1860.]
Scarce Woodcut, printed in blue. Sheet: 175 x 225mm (7 x 9''). Trimmed.
Tea Wrapper. A view of the Great Wall of China after Sands.
[Ref: 48622] £350.00
[Hunting. After Thomas Blinks.]
Thos. Blinks [Signed in pencil]. T. Blinks [within plate].
Published by The Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W.133 New Bond Street - New York 14 East 23rd Street. [n.d., c.1890.]
Photogravure printed in colour. Rare. Blind stamp in lower left corner, 'Berlin Photographic Society. 21.' Platemark: 645 x 320mm (25¼ x 12¼"). Very light foxing in margins.
A young man in hunting dress rides directly towards the viewer, with another figure following, behind to the right. Fields can be seen in the distance. After British sporting and animal painter, Thomas Blinks (1860 - 1912), who worked in Abbey Road and exhibited paintings at the RA from 1883.
See Ref: 37687
[Ref: 37688] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Library/ Study/ Office
Maps in a home office makes you seem a lot more worldly.
Europe after the Congress of Vienna. A Map of Europe with the Political Divisions after the Peace of Paris and the Congress of Vienna.
Drawn and Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas. [Edinburgh, c.1823.]
Engraved map on four sheets conjoined, fine original colour. Total 1055 x 1310mm (41½ x 51"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1823. Tears at folds.
A wall map of Europe as divided up by the Congress of Vienna, 1815, at the close of the Napoleonioc Wars. While British gains were outside Europe, the gains of Russia, Prussia and Austria were confirmed, to the detriment of Poland, Saxony, Pomerania. Also the neutrality of Switzerland was guaranteed and the slave trade condemned.
[Ref: 26797] £280.00
You may also need some interesting books to fill you bookshelves!
Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons. Vol. II Fifteenth Edition.
[by Ann and Jane Taylor et al.]
London: Printed for Darton, Harvey & Darton, No 55, Gracechurch-Street. Sold also by J. Conder, St Paul's Church Yard. 1819.
One volume only (of two). Small 8vo, original quarter morocco gilt with marbled boards; pp. viii + 128 +(8)(publisher's ads.), engraved frontis. Spine distressed, some leaves loose, old ink ownership inscription on prelim.
Collection of poems mainly written by Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and her younger sister Jane Taylor (1783-1824), author of 'The Star' (better known as 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'). The frontispiece illustrates 'The Welch Lad'. A poem for children titled 'Sluttishness' shows how much the English language has changed over the years.
[Ref: 40553] £130.00
Bedroom
The Unlucky Attempt.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No.53 Fleet Street,as the Act directs 10 June 1776.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4½). Very large margins. Paper toned.
A short master of the house stands on tip-toe to try to kiss a tall housemaid, while his furious wife entering through the door to the left, finds them.
[Ref: 38713] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
H.D. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, Restricted edition of 325 proofs, plate destroyed. 70 x 155mm (2¾ x 6"). Framed with publisher's title label on backboard. Slight discolouration at edges. Unexamined out of frame.
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 54839] £1,200.00
[Reclining woman] No 602
Joullain delin De Frenne Sculp [c.1750]
Rare crayon-manner printed in red, Collector's Mark verso; platemark 270 x 350mm (10½ x 13¾"), very large margins.
Attractive print in crayon-manner (a printmaking medium developed to reproduced the pastel drawings popular in the 18th century), probably after a drawing by François Joullain (1697-1778)
[Ref: 40358] £320.00
Garage
Typographie, Lithographie, Imagerie Haguenthal, Editeur. / à Pont-a-Moisson, Meurthe. Déposé. [n.d., c.1850]
Lithograph with hand-colouring and gum arabic, large margins, printed area 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Tears outside printed area.
Two children riding early bicycles.
[Ref: 35600] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Car race.]
And. Nevil Juill. 05 [in plate]. ESA [mongram.]
A Été Imprime par La S.te des Établissements Artistiques Minot en Aout 1905 pour L'Estampe Sportive Artistique.
Rare chromolithograph in chine collé, signed in pencil by the artist. 490 x 780mm (19¼ x 30¾") with very large margins. Backing paper is damaged. With a stain near the signature.
An automobile racing down a country road, chased by a terrier, watched by crowds lining the road.
[Ref: 51408] £520.00
