BACK
To Purchase any of the Prints below please click on -Contact us- above.
Quoting Title and Code number

ANTIQUE PRINTS
of
CHILDREN RELATED SUBJECTS

	Various Artists
click to enlarge	A NEW YEARS SONG. Drawn for the 'Boys Own Paper' by LOUIS WAIN. Date of this print January 1890. Uncoloured. Size of image 7 1/4"x 10 1/2" Size of mount 12 1/2"x 15 1/2"                                                                 Code LW 01	Price £9.95
click to enlarge	WHAT WE MAY COME TO!- A VERY LIKELY AFFAIR! Drawn for the 'Boys Own Paper' by LOUIS WAIN. Date of this print November 1892. Uncoloured. Size of image 7 1/4"x 10 1/4" Size of mount 12 1/2"x 15 1/2"                                                                 Code LW 02	£9.95
click to enlarge	THE BAND. Plate No 977 A really nice rare chromolithograph. Published by S Hildesheimer & Co Ltd. London & Manchester. Printed in Austria. Date mid to late 1800's. Condition is excellent. It has never been mounted or framed, the colours are still strong. Light speckling in upper part of image. Size 52cm x 39cm (approx 20 1/2"x 15 3/8")                                                               Code CSH 07	£125
click to enlarge	THE BAND. Plate No 978 A really nice rare chromolithograph. Published by S Hildesheimer & Co Ltd. London & Manchester. Printed in Austria. Date mid to late 1800's. Condition is excellent. It has never been mounted or framed, the colours are still strong.There is a 2cm repaired tear on the bottom. Size 52cm x 39cm (approx 20 1/2"x 15 3/8")                                                               Code CSH 09	£100
click to enlarge	Miss Jane Bowles by Joshua Reynolds. Black and white mezzotint by Samuel Cousins.(see Information on the right) London Published by P & D Colnaghi & co.13 & 14 Pall Mall East. T. Mclean. 7 Haymarket, & Grundy & Smith, Exchange Street, Manchester. 18th March 1875. Signed by Cousins in pencil under the image on the right hand side. It is on india paper and laid onto heavier background paper. There are creases and a few repaired tears in the borders, closest being 1 1/4" away from the platemark. The image is still fresh and clean. Image size 15"x 11 1/2". Platemark size 20 1/4"x 15 1/2". Paper size 24 1/4"x 20"                                                            Code CJB 013	£295
click to enlarge	The Children of Earl Gower. by G Romsey. mezzotint, engraved by J. R Smith. Group portrait, Lady Anne, holding tambourine, looking down to at her three younger sisters Georgiana Augusta, Charlotte Sophia and Susan, and her brother Granville, dancing in a ring. Originally published 20th August 1781. This is a later reprint. There is a watermark in the paper. W KING ALTON MILL. This would put the date in the late 1800's. The condition is excellent. The colours still bright and strong. Plate size approx 17 1/2"x 19". Paper size approx 19 1/2"x 24 1/2"                                                            Code CCE G11	£165
BACK	MORE SOON

Information.
Myles Birket Foster ,
February 1825 – March 1899 , was an English illustrator and watercolourist whose landscapes are typical of the Victorian age.He was perhaps the most successful British watercolorist of his generation, in a field crowded with talent. Born in North Shields, he moved to London as a child and became an apprentice wood engraver to Ebenezer Landells. However, he soon transferred his skills to landscape draughtsmanship and worked for many important periodicals, including Punch and the Illustrated London News . His illustrations appeared in many novels and poetry books of the period. Birket Foster was elected as a member of the Royal Watercolour Society
(RWS) in 1862 and went on to show around 400 of his works at the Society's exhibitions.

Samuel Cousins is one of the most important figures in the history of British engraving; his unique style and beautiful execution produced a legacy of endearing images that are still eagerly collected by print connoisseurs today. Cousins displayed his artistic talents at an early age, exhibiting at the Society of Artists by the age of ten, and apprenticing to the famous mezzotint engraver S. W. Reynolds. When steel replaced copper during the early part of the century, Cousins developed a heavy mixed-method style of engraving as a means to deepen the contrast of his plates. The use of steel plates often produced rigid and one-dimensional images, but Cousins used stipple, etching, and mezzotint to produce a luxurious effect with rich tones and tangible textures.