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Home decor ideas by room!

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  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. One of our happy customers recently purchased some coral prints from our uncatalogued section that now reside in theirs.   [The Water Lily] 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 pr...

Interior design ideas by house type!

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 Wondering what prints would fit in your home; find some inspiration below! Countryside cottage A still life or country view would make an excellent addition to this home: [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 ]   £1...