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 6054:

Gould - Lemon-rumped Toucan 1833

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Auction took place on Sep 21, 2024 at Britannica auctions
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Gould - Lemon-rumped Toucan 1833
This magnificent lithographic print of the Lemon-rumped Toucan (Ramphastos Citreopygus) is from A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans by John Gould and issued between 1833-35. First edition.This plate is number 4 from this work and was drawn and lithographed by John and Elizabeth Gould.This first edition contained 33 hand coloured lithographic plates by and after Edward Lear and John and Elizabeth Gould, and heightened with gum Arabic, printed by Charles Hullmandel.The toucan family is limited to Mexico, Central and South America and some West Indian islands.Size: 21.5in x 14in (54.5cm x 35.5 cm).
Condition: The print is in excellent condition on thick, high quality paper. Please inspect the image carefully

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