Gesso Prints

With precious Murano glass felci. 13-Light bulbs E 14. Measures: height cm 130, plus chain and canopy. diameter cm 90.  

[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair twelve chromolithographs, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Eight are by Spy, two are by Ape, one by "T" and one by Lib. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Titles comprise: "Accrington", June 11, 1892, "Newcastle Upon Tyne" July 18, 1893, "A New Peer", October 5, 1878, "South Bucks", June 4, 1896, "South Kensington", September 2, 1897, "Lord Salisbury's Manners", July 13, 1893, "The Blister", August 4, 1888, "A Postmaster General", April 30, 1892, "Sir James Miller", September 6, 1890, "Sol", October 28, 1897, "A Young Man" September 11, 1875, and "A Naturalist", September 9, 1882. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...

Large Murano glass chandelier with four rows off clear and orange glass leaves. The body is composed of 40 leaf-form glass suspended from a chrome frame.

Old print of Persian decorative art. This print originates from 'L'Ornement polychrome'. A beautiful work containing about 2000 patterns of all the styles of Art old and Asian, middl...

Period French Art Deco pedestal display stand of square tapered form on pyramidal molded base rising to a geometric open half-pipe void...

19th century engraving, under glass, representing an elegant front and back Measures: W 31cm, D 21cm, H 5cm.

Antique print titled 'Soldiers Gambling'. Original antique print on chine collé made after a painting by J.L.E. Meissonier. This print originates from volume 3 of the series 'The Wal...

19th century engraving, under glass, depicting "The Family Museum". Measures: H 21cm, L 14cm, P 1cm

Antique print titled 'The Crucifixion'. Original antique print on chine collé, made after the painting by Perugino. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1890.

Elegant hand-colored print representing a golden shell. The handcrafted frame is in gilded wood with mirror inserts. This print is made with a special technique called giclée. The gi...

Elegant hand-colored print representing two golden shells. The handcrafted frame is in gilded wood with mirror inserts. This print is made with a special technique called giclée. The...

Organic sculpture pair of modern crystal clear Murano glass wall lights in the Art Deco style of Barovier Toso, entirely handcrafted in Italy, with double cone shape shades providing...