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Happy Valentine's Day!

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  [Valentine.] [American?, n.d., c.1840.] Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"). A woman looks out of her window to see three winged hearts with men's heads bearing down on her. [Ref: 53232 ]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)   Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Grosvenor Prints! Hopefully you're as excited to see the postman as these girls in this print: The 14th February. G. B. O'Neill. [n.d, c.1872]. Etching with very large margins. Laid, on India. Plate: 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Some foxing around the edges. Scene in a country cottage in which two girls reach up to a post man, waiting to see if they have received any valentines. A young boy reaches into the postman's satchel and an older woman reads her valentine behind a door. From 'Etchings for the Art Union of London by the Etching Club...

Romantic gift guide!

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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  Prints of pairs or allegorical prints of love could work. [Pair of red Birds of Paradise.] [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) [Cupid and Psyche?] [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 vari...