Wild Duck by Prideaux John Selby, Antique Hand-Colored Engraving, c. 1821-1834

This nineteenth-century engraving shows a liberty pole being raised in a town square in 1776, while a sign bearing the face of King George III is removed in the background. The rioto...

This is an 1844 engraving of President George Washington. The print was issued by G. Stuart in Albion, New York and engraved by H. S. Sadd. This standing portrait shows President George Washington in front of neoclassical columns. In his right hand, he holds a dress sword...

This 1865 engraving features the Emancipation Proclamation in elaborate calligraphic text, with five patriotic vignettes and a small portrait...

Presented is a Proclamation of Emancipation wood engraving by W. Roberts. The engraving was published in 1864, just one year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Proclamation. W. Roberts was the artist and engraver and Corydon Alexis Alvord was the printer. The engraving was published by R. A Dimmick, in New York, 1864. The text of the Proclamation is set in a variety of typefaces, which is encased in a pictorial border. The border is decorated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven other vignettes, including the horrors of slavery at left, the bombardment of Fort Sumter at bottom, and scenes from a prosperous and united nation at right. On September 22, 1862, five days after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1, 1863 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation...

This is a first edition print of Rough Shooting, signed by the artist, Douglas Adams. The print was published by Thomas McLean and depicts a highlands s...

Presented is an elaborate engraved broadside presentation of both the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamations, dated September 22, 1...

Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Likely a later restrike printing (20th c.,) hand-colored prints, embossed with plate marks, includes: "Eider Duck, M...

From Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Likely a restrike printing (20th c.,) hand-colored prints, embossed with plate marks, includes two after Pridea...

Antique hand colored duck hunt engraving featuring a man with his gun in the field. Dimensions: 19.5" x 0.75" x 16.5" / Sans Frame - 11.5" x 8" (Width x Depth x Height)

19th Century. Great Crested Grebe by Prideaux John Selby, Selby was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist. He studied at un...

Striking 19th century engraving of a toucan hand colored by artist and naturalist Jacques Barraband (1767-1809 ) first published in Paris 1801. Presented under glass in a lacquered w...

A hand colored copper engraving print of an American steamship published by President Ackermann & Co, London, 1840 in a later frame under glass.