Scarce American War of 1812 Uniform and Bicorn Hat

American Post-War Design brass and red painted wall sculpture of various layers of free-form shapes (signed: YARMACK)

Antique print titled 'Dancing Snake and Musicians'. This print originates from an edition of 'Oriental Memoirs', a work in the form of a series of letters richly illustrated, describ...

Set of two antique prints titled 'Pavisors, a Moveable Tower - A Man at Arms in Plate Armour (..)'. The first print shows a moveable tower, the second prin...

'Llanberis Lake at the Foot of Mount Snowdon' in Wales. Watercolor on paper, signed and dated "J. Varley 1812" ll, identifying info on verso. sight size: 8 x 19 3/4 in. John Varley is known as an English landscape painter in watercolor and a close friend of William Blake. Varley represents the transition between tinted topographical drawing and the bolder, more fully developed manner of watercolor painting characteristic of the 19th century. As well as being a leading painter, he was the most popular and enthusiastic teacher of his day: his pupils included Cox, De Wint, Linnell, Mulready (his brother-in-law), and Samuel Palmer, and he published various instructional works, including one with Blake. In his early years Varley was influenced stylistically by the work of Thomas Girtin...

Antique engraving of Nagasaki procession, Japan by Langsdorff, 1812 This finely detailed engraving depicts a ceremonial procession in Nagasaki, Japan, observed during the Russian em...

Description: Antique botany print of Bulbine Cepacea, a flowering plant in the genus Bulbine endemic to South Africa, the Western Cape province. This prin...

Title: View of a Hut in New South Wales Description: Scarce c.18th First Fleet period engraving depicting Australian aborigines from the account by Governor Arthur Phillip. Artist: Robert Cleveley (1747-1809) Third brother of James Cleveley who was famous painting the death...

A scarce Burmantofts Faience Bacchanalian tile of rectangular form modelled in relief with figures gathering grapes, some at play, set within a raised stepped edge and decorated in m...

A pair of ormolu equine portraits of famous war horses ‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Marengo’, each with a beautifully detailed horse, the slightly stockier horse, with an elaborate deep saddle with a triangular cloth and padded roll, is probably Marengo while Copenhagen has a simpler harness and rangier body, on the original velvet ground and within rosewood a frame. English, circa 1860. Marengo (c. 1793–1831) was Emperor Napoleon’s grey Arab war horse named after the Battle of Marengo in Italy. Although technically a pony at 14.1 hands, he was indomitable. Wounded eight times in his career, he carried the increasingly overweight Emperor at the battles of Austerlitz...

A pair of fine engravings of two Swedish monarchs by Samuel Blessendorf for Puffendorf’s History of Sweden, in antique birch frames, 1663 and 1696. Engravings of Swedish King Karl X Gustav (b. 1622 - d. 1660) dated 1663 and his successor, King Karl XI (b. 1655 - d. 1697) from 1696 by Samuel Blessendorf, a Prussian enamel painter and engraver, born in Berlin in 1670. He designed and engraved these portraits for Puffendorf’s History of Sweden by Freiherr Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), Historiographer to King Karl X of Sweden. Freiherr Samuel von Pufendorf (b 1632 – d 1694) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. He was born Samuel Pufendorf and ennobled in 1684 when he was made a baron by Charles XI of Sweden a few months before his death at age 62. Among his achievements are his commentaries and revisions of the natural law theories of Thomas Hobbes...