Auction 7 Antique prints with no reserve
By Britannica auctions
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We are offering a huge selection of antique prints and engravings from 16th-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, Robert Gillmor, Edward Lear, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, Prideaux J Selby, William Lewin, WT Greene, Jacques Barraband, Francois Martinet, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Rene Lesson, Edouard Travies, Charles Lemaire, Conrad Susemihl and Cornelius Nozeman.
Other notable natural history artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, William Hewitson, Frederick Nodder, Edward Donovan and HN Humphreys.
There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, Walter Fitch, Ferdinand Vietz, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Jane E Giraud, Edward Lowe, Elizabeth Yeats and P Stroobant.
There are also maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Robert Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu,
Other important artists and engravers featured are Thomas Chippendale, Christoph Glotch, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, Anton Seder, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Henri Delange, Rudolf Ackermann, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Kyd, Joseph Strutt, Charles Riviere, William Nicholson, Tom Merry, Hans Holbein, Claude Lorrain and Louis Haghe.
