Engraving. Image size 8.5 x 7 inches. Sheet size 9.25 x 8 inches. In very good condition. Slight tear at right margin, some staining. An illustration of Numbers 13:23-27. The figures of an Angel engaging in combat and of Moses with followers can be found in the background. Title in English, subtitle in French and German. Text in English and French on verso. More
Original poster. Color lithograph. 25 x 18.5 inches. This WWI poster is textual and features navy blue lettering over a tan background. Text only, and with a decorative initial 'T'. Manuscript addition 'Lewis 699 - 699' to bottom right corner. Mounted on linen and in excellent condition. More
London: Dore Gallery, 1875. Print. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 24" x 32.25". This stunning scene is based on the celebrated painting by the famous French artist Paul Gustave Dore. This engraving, titled "Christian Martyrs, Reign of Diocletian Rome AD 303", depicts a gruesome scene in an amphitheater in Rome. Lions feast and prowl over the corpses of the martyrs, some still clutching crosses in their hands. The seats of the amphitheater are empty and in shadow. Above the martyrs, angels..... More
Buffalo, Cleveland, and NY: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1918. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. Measures 41 3/4" x 27 1/2" The poster was released by Third Liberty Loan, which was the largest fund-raising effort in American history to that date. More
New York: Harper's Weekly, 1870. Woodcut. Page measures 16" x 11 1/4". Image measures 11 1/2" x 9 1/2". A front page political cartoon depicts Pope Pius IX and other clergy standing on the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, looking at the United States in the distance. Front page of the October 1, 1870 edition of Harper's Magazine, Volume XIV - No. 718. Some chips to lower right margin, does not affect image. Thomas Nast was a political..... More
Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, 1850. Engraving, with some stipple. Image measures 7.75 x 5.75". Sheet measures 14.75 x 10.5". This print which, originally published in 1736, illustrates Hogarth's ability to find humor even in the most sacred and solemn of places. Here, the parishoners of an Anglican church are so bored by the service that most have drifted off to sleep. Even the minister is barely awake enough to read the lines of Scripture which appropriately read, "Come unto me all..... More
Boston: Pendleton's Lithography. Lithograph. Image measures 20 1/2 x 29 1/2". This rare, separate-issue print depicts the late John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, presiding over his preachers in the City Road Chapel, otherwise known at Wesley Chapel. Wesley commissioned the chapel to be built in 1776 as his base in London. In this large and extremely detailed image, each of the 446 preachers is rendered individually--some stare out from the page, while others appear to be watching Wesley..... More
London: 1829. Etching with hand coloring. Measures 14 5/8" x 10 5/8". This vibrant caricature alludes to the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, or Catholic Empancipation. The Duke of Wellington is depicted as a wizard, standing in a circle with King George IV, John Singleton Copley, and Robert Peel. The illustration features cabalistic imagery, as well as papal regalia, representing the anti-Catholicism prevalent in England at the time. A quote in the upper margin reads "yea a stick of ash..... More
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