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Publicado el 26 marzo 2024
We have been down a vertitable rabbit hole this week—not in honour of a certain forthcoming bunny festival, but because we have entered the chaotic subterranean world of mycology
Publicado el 24 marzo 2024
For the blossoming of Spring this week, this exuberant gouache by sought-after illustrator Kay Nixon (1894–1988)
Publicado el 19 marzo 2024
Delving below the surface this week, we've had interesting conversations about when art belies biography, as was the case, by all accounts, for tenacious and eccentric Channel Islands artist Ethel Sophia Cheeswright (1874–1977)
Publicado el 17 marzo 2024
Fascinating cataloguing an intriguing group of early 19th-century views in Portugal this week, and thinking about the difficulty in verifying views in a time before photography and when the documentary evidence is scant
Publicado el 12 marzo 2024
New this week, we have a wonderful evocation of Victorian Wakefield by the celebrated watercolourist Louisa Fennell (1847–1930)
Publicado el 09 marzo 2024
From our new collection of pictures by talented late-Victorian architect Philip J
Publicado el 20 febrero 2024
Fascinating to learn about Katharine Jowett (1883–1972), one of only a few Western female artists who chose to live and work in Japan, Korea and northern China in the years between the two world wars
Publicado el 11 febrero 2024
The artists in our new Garbutt Hull collection read like a who's who of early-19th-century Hull, only these pictures are by the women behind the men who were the city's shipbuilders & brokers, timber merchants & sawmill owners, wine merchants & brewers
Publicado el 06 febrero 2024
A lovely watercolour by James Duffield Harding OWS (1798–1863) exemplifying contemporary taste for the picturesque
Publicado el 04 febrero 2024
New this week, this gorgeous set design featuring elements of decorative Art Nouveau, Art Deco and mystical Symbolism
Publicado el 23 enero 2024
We have added interesting new pictures to our 19th-century Algiers collection by English eccentric and 'wayward philosopher' George John Cayley (1826–1878)
Publicado el 22 enero 2024
Our new collection of 1830s watercolours—depicting flowers, leaves, butterflies and other insects—were exquisitely painted by Louisa Hare (1776–1853), who was married to Captain James Hare (1772–1826) of Whittern estate at Lyonshall in Herefordshire
Publicado el 16 enero 2024
This early-Victorian drawing made us look twice this week—a quirky collaged image that combines hand-coloured engravings with layered paper and original watercolour
Publicado el 14 enero 2024
Late Romantic narrative illustrative art was highly popular in the second half of the 19th century, particularly amongst women artists, but its study has been neglected
Publicado el 02 enero 2024
We love (and covet) this elegant Wimpole Street interior by Henry William Burgess
Publicado el 28 diciembre 2023
Our Picture of the Month for December is a triumph in aesthetic elegance by the distinguished ceramics designer and potter Gordon Mitchell Forsyth RI ARCA (1879–1952)
Publicado el 26 diciembre 2023
With Christmas as we know it being largely a Victorian invention, the Victorian home—and even more so, the Victorian rectory—seems uniquely suited to this time of year
Publicado el 24 diciembre 2023
Some of you may recognise the cherubic red-head in this vision of Yuletide bliss as the spirited putto from Gaston Cervelli's satirical cartoons, Fighting and Bawling Babies (swipe left!)
Publicado el 19 diciembre 2023
Championing another female, today we have this captivating large watercolour by Madeline Rachel Wells RBA (1879–1959)
Publicado el 17 diciembre 2023
We have enjoyed listing some charming pictures this week spanning four female generations of the Waller-Bridge family—of inimitable Fleabag writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge fame
Publicado el 12 diciembre 2023
We're loving our new collection of Edwardian cartoons capturing a slice of life on the North Wales coast around Anglesey, Llandudno and Rhyl in 1912–13
Publicado el 10 diciembre 2023
New this week, we have a beautiful charcoal drawing with an intriguing identity that takes us to the very heart of Napoleonic France
Publicado el 21 noviembre 2023
Our new collection of picturesque views in the Peak District and North Wales 1832
Publicado el 19 noviembre 2023
This interesting view at Etna around 1837, by landscape painter James Bridges (1799–1865), shows the crater 'La Cisternazza', which formed dramatically when the top part of Etna collapsed during the 1797 eruption
Publicado el 07 noviembre 2023
We have enjoyed this week listing a fabulously stylish collection of ex libris relating to the Vienna Secession movement, featuring designs by some of the leading graphic artists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century
Publicado el 05 noviembre 2023
Maria Hampshire Eaton (1862–1944) was a woman seemingly ahead of her time: awarded a medal by the South Kensington Schools, relocating to Canada for a period in the 1880s and by 1901 describing herself as an 'artist photographer [on her] own acc[ount]'
Publicado el 04 noviembre 2023
Newly listed, these entertaining hand-illustrated envelopes of philatelic interest
Publicado el 26 octubre 2023
S&W Picture of the Month is by one of the most significant artists to have hailed from the Channel Islands
Publicado el 24 octubre 2023
I'd love to know more about the hand behind our new collection of caricatures of the British Raj
Publicado el 22 octubre 2023
From our new collection of works, 'Souvenir of Naples', are these jewel-like renderings of the frescoes at Pompeii by a local early 19th-century artist
Publicado el 17 octubre 2023
The subject may be southern European but this small gem of a painting by Scottish artist Middleton Alexander Jameson (1851–1919) bears the influence of his time spent in the northern French artist colonies at Grez-sur-Loing and Etaples, and later St Ives in Cornwall
Publicado el 15 octubre 2023
When something tugs on the personal heart strings it's very hard not to get carried away with imagining narratives of the past
Publicado el 10 octubre 2023
A gorgeous trio of new (200-year-old) Chinese paintings on pith this week—the watercolour pooling atop the spongy tissue of the Tetrapanex papyrifera plant to assert their existence with age-defying vibrancy
Publicado el 08 octubre 2023
The Valley of the Rocks at Watcombe near Torquay—once part of the Watcombe Park estate belonging to Isambard Kingdom Brunel—in the mid-19th-century played host to two open-air music fetes, attended by thousands
Publicado el 26 septiembre 2023
New this week, a collection of large watercolours by Lt Col J.A. Armstrong
Publicado el 24 septiembre 2023
Autumn is officially here, and this week we are musing on the cyclical passing of time and the iconography of the seasons, so engrained in the British psyche, with our new collection of nature illustrations
Publicado el 19 septiembre 2023
Not so far from us today, with this Somerset subject—a poetic rendition of the quarry at Ham Hill by Victorian painter Alfred Tidey (1808–1892)
Publicado el 17 septiembre 2023
Learning about the English eccentric, 'wayward philosopher' George John Cayley (1826–1878) this week, through his vibrant snapshot sketches at Algiers, 1874–5
Publicado el 12 septiembre 2023
Newly listed, this charming and quirky watercolour, showing a charitable home 'supported by voluntary contributions', captures an essence of Victorian England
Publicado el 05 septiembre 2023
This week we have added to our superb collection of drawings by master Henry William Burgess
Publicado el 03 septiembre 2023
Encyclopaedic subjects from early 19th-century Moravian, Leopold Billek
