From Verve Vol. IX No. 35/36 published by Tériade under the title 'The Last Works of Henri Matisse'

From Verve Vol. IX No. 35/36 published by Tériade under the title 'The Last Works of Henri Matisse'

From Verve Vol. IX No. 35/36 published by Tériade under the title 'The Last Works of Henri Matisse'

William Hogarth produced these prints to boost public morale when an invasion from France seemed probable.

Hogarth depicts the weak and emaciated army ready to invade England. The alehouse sign reading 'Meagre Soup at the Royal Comb' points this up. There is also an officer roasting four frogs on his sword. A further soldier carries a banner which reads 'Vengeance with the good beer and good beef of England'. There is also a portly monk (obviously the church folk won't be hungry), and he carries plans for a monastery to be built at Blackfriars.

In contrast he believed the English to be always well fed and always merry, despite the evidence of widespread poverty. Here a recruitment officer is shown measuring up a volunteer. The man has to stand on tiptoe to reach the required height. A round of beef and some porter is on the table in front of some revellers, one of whom is drawing a pastiche of the French King, who is uttering the words "You take my fine ships you bede pirate you bede Teef me send my grand armies and hang you all Morbleu."

Published to illustrate Seba's 'cabinet of curiosities' Framed

Published to illustrate Seba's 'cabinet of curiosities' Framed

Published to illustrate Seba's 'cabinet of curiosities' Framed

Published to illustrate Seba's 'cabinet of curiosities' Framed

From a set of framed original woodblock prints, c1898. With original mounted poem relating to the image on reverse. "When William Nicholson designed his stylish 'London Types' in 1898 - that together with his 'Almanac of Twelve Sports' and 'An Illustrated Alphabet' were to make his reputation as a printmaker - his son Ben, who was to eclipse him entirely in the history of British Art through his Modernist works, was only five years old. While working within the culture of the British popular print, William Nickerson deliberately chose to use the coarse-grained side of the wood block in his wood cuts, in a style that owed more to Toulouse Lautrec and Japanese precedents than to native visual traditions - which give these prints an innovative quality, even as they might seem to be celebrating unchanging roles in British society. Although not strictly 'Cries of London,' some of these characters are familiar from earlier series of prints stretching back over the previous centrury and, recognising this, Nicholson portrays them as quaint curiosities from another age. In each case, the ironic doggerel by W.E. Henley that accompanied them poked fun at the anachronistic nature of these social stereotypes, through outlining the ambivalent existence of the individual subjects - whether the street hawker displaced in Kensington far from his East End home, or the aristocratic lady at Rotten Row challenged by her suburban counterparts, or the drunken Sandwich-man displaying moral texts, or the fifteenth generation Bluecoat boy at Charterhouse School in Smithfield now moved out to Horsham." - The Gentle Author.

Picasso's series "Mes dessins d'Antibes" is a fantastic study of Homeric, mythological Antibes (Greek Antypolis). He stayed barely three months in the southern Provencal port yet his output was prodigious. In what has been called Picasso's 'Age Of Renewal' he produced 23 paintings and 44 drawings. In these lithographs, first published in Paris in 1958, Picasso committed to print the austere and mysterious forms of the Centaur, the Nymph and the Faun that had so renewed his art in the Antibes.

reproduction based on the 1765 work by the Rev. Middleton. In black frame. 'Facing Muscle Plate LX'.

published by Odhams Press. Framed.

19th century engravings based on the drawings of famed naturalist; Captain Thomas Brown. Framed in natural ash. 'Bos, Bulls'

Published in Paris circa 1782.

Published in Paris circa 1782.

Published c1907, showing an old fashioned table setting. Framed

Animal prints, based on he work of Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, who attempted to systematically present all existing knowledge in the fields of natural history, geology, and anthropology in a single publication. Framed in dark wood.

Animal prints, based on he work of Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, who attempted to systematically present all existing knowledge in the fields of natural history, geology, and anthropology in a single publication. Framed in dark wood. 'Phalangista pygmaea Geoffr'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'A. - Euonymus Japonica Aurea Variegata, B. - Maranta Micans'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Yucca Filamentosa Variegata'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Graptophyllum Pictum'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Anoectochilus Xanthophyllus'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Anoectochilus Striatus'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Anoectochilus lowii'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Variegated Ivies'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Croton Variegatum Angustipolium'.

chromolithographs published by Edward Lowe 1867. 'Ananassa Sativa Variegata'.