Botanicals
Our large selection of floral and botanical prints shows the importance of botanical illustration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It was important as well for scientific purposes, illustrating the work of botanists and scholars. England, France, Holland, Austria, and Germany produced the finest flower paintings. By 1840, this great period of botanical illustration waned, with only Walter Fitch comparing to his predecessors, such as Ehret, Thornton, Besler, Redoute and others.

	ANEMONES Anemones by J. C. Weinmann from "Phytanthoza Iconographis", published in Regensburg, C. 1737-45. This was a huge work in 8 folio volumes including more than 1,000 handcolored engravings. Weinmann was the director of the longest established pharmacy in Regensburg. The image size is 9 3/8" x 14 1/2".
	LILIUM From handcolored engravings by Pancrace Bessa, published in Paris circa 1836. The image size is 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Bessa was a contemporary of Redoute and worked under Redoute for some time.
	GARDENS From handcolored engravings by Crispin de Passe circa 1614, published in Utrecht. De Passe was born in Cologne to a celebrated family of Dutch engravers.

Natural History
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CHAFFINCH  By W. Dexter, published in 1852 in London. Image size is 14 1/2 " by 10". From a set of four images, including Nightingales and Redbreasts. These very poular images depict the birds in their habitat with eggs in nests.

Railway Engines
Two steam locomotive engines are available in both black and white and hand colored in very vivid blue, red, and green. (see here for a comparison). Each print is approximately 7 1/2" by 11"
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	PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE  By the Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from steel engraved plates dated 1864. Published in Glasgow.
	TANK GOODS ENGINE By Messrs. Manning, Wardle & Co., Engineers, Leeds.

Antique Musical Instruments
Our musical instruments illustrate several rare and beautiful historical pieces, showing the grace and external charm of the harps, violas, violins and guitars. These instruments were pleasing to the eye as well as the ear. Shown here are reproductions of William Gibbs chromolithographs, published in Edinburg, 1890. These images are 8" by 12".
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VIOLA D'AMORE The Viola d'Amore is called the "Love Viol" because of the soft and tender quality of the tone it produced. This piece is a beautifully carved and inlaid instrument, surmounted by a lovely head with bandaged eyes. The Viola da Gamba and Viola d'Amore shown here are representative of a set of six images in this series, including a mother-of-pearl inlaid guitar, a gilt and green pedal harp, the Alard Stradivarius violin and the Heller Stradivarius violin.

VIOLA DAGAMBA The Viola da Gamba, the "Leg Viol", was made by Joachim Tielke in Hamburg in 1701. It has a beautifully carved ivory peg-box surmounted by a woman's head with an incised finger-board beneath. The back is rosewood alternated with ivory and the ivory tailpiece forms a caduceus.

Victorian Couples
"The Wedding" and "The Engagement" represent two of a series of four images, also including "Motherhood" and "In the Garden" by C. Schweninger, published in 1893 in Germany. These images are 12" x 15"
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	THE ENGAGEMENT The second of the series, depicting the development of a couple's relationship. The couple is in the drawing room of an elegant Victorian mansion.
	THE WEDDING Third in the series, followed by Motherhood. The radiance of the bride and the beautiful dress of the members of the wedding party is further accented by the rose petals strewn in the path.

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