United Kingdom
Antique prints of the United Kingdom
With close to a thousand pieces, our antique prints of the United Kingdom cover England, Scotland, Wales and London in depth, from the mid-seventeenth century to the twentieth. Most are copper and steel engravings from the topographical series of the Georgian and Victorian eras, with lithographs and original watercolours alongside.
Engravers such as J. Storer, J. Greig and Edward Francis Finden recorded Dover Castle, Truro church, Newstead Abbey and countless parish churches, country houses and docks. An 1865 watercolour of Ullswater shows the Lake District as painted on the spot.
Browse by nation or city in the sub-categories. All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with technical description and measurements.
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England
Antique prints of England
More than six hundred antique prints of England make this one of the richest sections of the shop. Abbeys, cathedrals, castles and manor houses from Cornwall to Yorkshire appear in copper and steel engravings, lithographs and original watercolours dated between 1652 and 1948.
The topographical engravers J. Storer, J. Greig and Edward Francis Finden are strongly represented, together with lithographs by S. Rayner of Haddon Hall and a watercolour of Clovelly by Walter Henry Sweet. Selby Abbey, Waltham Cross and Coverham Abbey are typical subjects.
These prints suit collectors of county views, anyone furnishing with period architecture and those researching a particular parish. All are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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London
Antique prints of London
Our antique prints of London number more than 160 pieces, from the 1740s to the twentieth century. Copper engravings by Benjamin Cole, W. Watkins and J. Pass, views of the Georgian city by John Thomas Smith and Victorian steel engravings by T. H. Shepherd record the capital street by street.
Subjects include the Guildhall, Lambeth Palace, Westminster Abbey, Scotland Yard as it stood in 1776 and the remains of the Roman wall at Cripplegate and Jewry Street. Many of these buildings were later altered or demolished, which gives the prints a documentary value beyond their charm.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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Scotland
Antique prints of Scotland
This section brings together over 160 antique prints of Scotland, dated between 1772 and 1951. The core is Romantic-era steel engraving: Edinburgh's New Town and Craigmillar Castle, Melrose Abbey, Culzean Castle and the Burns country around Kirkoswald, engraved by T. Barber, W. Radclyffe, W. Richardson, Henry Adlard and Edward Francis Finden after painters such as D. O. Hill.
Original drawings appear too, among them a nineteenth-century pencil study of Dunderave Castle at Inveraray. Scottish castles, lochs and abbeys were among the most sought-after subjects of the illustrated travel books of the 1830s.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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Wales
Antique prints of Wales
Our antique prints of Wales concentrate on castles and cathedrals: Chepstow, Pencoed, Mathern Palace and the Wye valley in Monmouthshire, together with St David's and Bangor cathedrals. Most are steel engravings of the 1830s and 1840s by B. Winkles, H. W. Bond and William Woolnoth, several coloured by hand, alongside a chromolithograph by Kronheim and nineteenth-century wood engravings.
The pieces date from 1772 to 1917. Welsh ruins and river scenery were favourite subjects of the Picturesque movement, and these prints reflect that taste.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
