Auction 002 Antique prints and engravings
By Britannica auctions
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We are offering a huge selection of antique prints and engravings from 17th-20th centuries.
Subjects included are natural history, architecture & designs, caricatures & humour, classical (including Egyptology), religious & historical, famous buildings and views, maps, sporting events, royal and historical portraits.
We particularly feature ornithological prints by John Gould, Jacques Barraband, Conrad Susemihl, Beverly Morris, FN Martinet, Cornelius Nozeman, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, Prideaux J Selby, William Lewin, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Robert Gillmor and Edward Lear.
Other notable artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, Edward Donovan and HN Humphreys.
There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, Walter Fitch, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Jane E Giraud, Elizabeth Yeats and FP Nodder.
There are also maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu,
Other important artists and engravers featured are Thomas Chippendale, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Carracci, Samuel Meyrick, Gustav Dore, Duperrey, Delange, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Kyd, Baron Vivant Denon, Charles Motte, Capt. FL Norden, Joseph Strutt, William Nicholson, Charles Riviere, Tom Merry and Louis Haghe.
