Auction 002 Antique prints and engravings
By Britannica auctions
Sep 21, 2024
Yore Mill, Leyburn DL8 3SR, UK

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. 

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LOT 6553:

Richard the First King of England by S. Meyrick 1842


Start price:
$ 40
Estimated price :
$75 - $150
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Auction took place on Sep 21, 2024 at Britannica auctions
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Richard the First King of England by S. Meyrick 1842
This superb hand-coloured engraving of Richard the First King of England is Plate XIII from the 1842 enlarged folio edition of A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the Reigns of King Charles II by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. This masterpiece established his reputation as the foremost expert on ancient armour and is still used as a reference to this day.The print is beautifully hand-coloured on white Whatman watermarked paper and many of these prints are lavishly illuminated in gold and silver. Each print is accompanied by a copy of the descriptive text.Size: approximately 11in x by 15in (28cm x 38cm)
Condition: Excellent condition - please review the images carefully