Rare etching by the founder of the Derrydale Press. Read More about Etching, "Down to the Sound"

Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Read More about Hand-colored print of Corallium rubrum from Herbarium Blackwellianum. Plate 341a

[Paris; Liege: Panckoucke; Plomteux, 1785]. The complete set of these beautiful plates relating to Court Tennis (“le Jeu des Paumes”) from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the creation of implements and play of tennis and billiards..... Read More about “Paulmerie” [Extracted from: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts...

[San Francisco: n.d., early 1970s]. No. 67 of 75, numbered and signed by the artist (“R. Crumb”) in pencil beneath the image. Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75. Striking and characteristic R. Crumb image, the great American underground cartoonist’s hommage to Fuseli’s celebrated painting of the same title, rendered in a...... Read More about The Nightmare [Original signed print

New York: Published by Farrell & Co. 37 Spring St. NY, 1867. Peters, America on Stone "...is one of the crudest lithographs. I almost considered putting it as an example of the type to be avoided..." The Curragh Racecourse in Kildare is the head quarters of horse racing in Ireland..... Read More about The Curragh Race Course, County Kildare, Ireland, showing 8 horses reaching the finish line with...

New York: Currier and Ives, 1861. Read More about Print: 'summer Fruits" INCLUDING Cherries, Pears, Strawberries, Blueberries, Grapes, etc

Early 19th Century. Between 1740 and 1781 the earlier West Wycombe House was transformed by the second Sir Francis Dashwood. Although he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Postmaster General from 1766 to 1781 and a founder member of the Dilettante Society Sir Francis is still best recalled as..... Read More about Pair of hand-colored engravings of the exterior of : "Lord Dashwood's West Wycombe House,...

Charg. Cross, [London]: Published by Dighton, Nov., 1801. Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “A Gloomy Day. taken on the Steyne at Brighton;” depicting...

Charg. Cross, [London]: Published by Dighton, May, 1808. John Eveleigh (1748-1814) was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “A View from Oriel College, Oxford.;” depicting a robed...

Charg. Cross, [London]: “Published by Dighton”, Feb., 1802. In 1766, Richard Tattersall (1724-1795), who had been stud groom to the second duke of Kingston, founded the world’s first bloodstock auction house. Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “A View near Hyde Park Corner.” Depicting the famous...

[London]: “Pub. by Dighton”, Nov., 1801. The second Earl of Sefton, who was known as Lord Dashalong because of his fondness for driving a carriage and four, was a keen sportsman and gambler. Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “Lord Dashalong Bent on Driving”

[London]: “Drawn, Etched & Pub. by Dighton”, April, 1810. Sir David Dundas (1735-1820) was considered a military genius, and served as Commander in Chief of the British Forces from 1809-1811. He was the author of “Rules and Regulations for His Majesty’s Forces and Rules and Regulations for the Cavalry”, which..... Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “Sr. David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief.”

[London]: “Drawn from life and Pubd. by Dighton”, Jan., 1808. John Moore (1730-1805), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1783-1805. Robert Dighton was the founder of the Dighton family, which was at the forefront of English caricature for a hundred years. An accomplished portrait painter and etcher, Dighton exhibited at the Free..... Read More about Hand-colored engraved caricature: “The Principal Arch of Lambeth Palace”