The Americas
Antique prints of the Americas
Our antique prints of the Americas run from 1656 to 1882 and cover the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and the Caribbean. Steel engravings by Robert Hinshelwood, Henry Adlard, Robert Sands and Samuel Valentine Hunt show the Niagara falls, the Catskills and the St Clair river with its Chippewa inhabitants, and a coloured lithograph of 1862 records an old house on William Street in New York.
Historical subjects are also present: the Declaration of Independence, Roger Williams among the Narragansett, and a seventeenth-century Dutch engraving of Piet Heyn's capture of the silver fleet.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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United States
Antique prints of the United States
Our antique prints of the United States date from 1832 to 1882. The core is the steel engraving of the Hudson River school era: Fort Putnam at West Point and the mouth of the Niagara after W. H. Bartlett, Cleveland in 1873 by Robert Hinshelwood, Niagara from Goat Island by Schroeder, and views by Henry Adlard, Robert Sands and Samuel Valentine Hunt for the illustrated American publications of the 1870s. Astoria in Oregon and Alaska extend the reach to the Pacific.
History is represented by the battle of Bunker Hill after Trumbull, engraved by Armytage.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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Canada
Antique prints of Canada
Our antique prints of Canada centre on the steel engravings after William Henry Bartlett published in the early 1840s: Saint John in New Brunswick, Brock's monument on the Niagara, and the Horseshoe Fall after Thomas Allom. Plates by R. Sands, Charles Richardson and W. Howland show the St Clair river with Chippewa canoes and Fort Erie as it stood in 1770.
The death of General Wolfe at Quebec, after Benjamin West's painting, adds one of the best-known images of the conquest of New France.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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Argentina
Antique prints of Argentina
Our antique prints of Argentina include two engravings after Gálbez of the British invasions: the reconquest of Buenos Aires by Liniers in 1806 and the convent of Santo Domingo in 1807. Tierra del Fuego is represented by an eighteenth-century plate after Cipriani engraved by Morris and by a London print of 1843 showing its inhabitants; a further engraving depicts the execution of Doughty by order of Francis Drake in Patagonia.
These are early images of the Río de la Plata and the far south, of interest to collectors of Argentine history.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
