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HAWTHORNDEN – Scottish Landscape Vintage Illustration
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- Year of Print: 1895
- Artist: T. Nelson and Sons
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ROSLIN CASTLE – Vintage 1895 Scottish Landscape Illustration
- Resolution: 4847px x 3284px
- Year of Print: 1895
- Artist: T. Nelson and Sons
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Old Clipart Illustration of a Garden Spider – Arachnid
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- Resolution: 1302px x 1427px
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Hand Drawn Line Art PNG Illustration of a Glass Bottle / Jar No.7
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- Resolution: 447px x 1043px
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Small Hand Drawn PNG Line Art Illustration of a Tree No.2
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STUNNING Edward Lowe Botanical Print – British Grasses – 1891
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- Resolution: 6130px x 8911px
- Year of Print: 1891
- Artist: Edward Joseph Lowe
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VINTAGE Edward Lowe Print – British Grasses – Phragmites Communis
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- Resolution: 5715px x 8974px
- Year of Print: 1891
- Artist: Edward Joseph Lowe
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ANTIQUE 1865 Owen Jones Print – Moresque No 4b – Grammar of Ornament
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- Resolution: 7498px x 11702px
- Year of Print: 1865
- Artist: Owen Jones
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VINTAGE Botanical Design Print – Ranunculus Arvensis
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- Resolution: 7820px x 11974px
- Year of Print: 1874
- Artist: F. Edward Hulme
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Vintage Full Color Prehistoric Illustration of a Mastadonsaurus Dinosaur
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- Resolution: 3054px x 1463px
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Decorative Floral / Botanical Vintage Colored Illustration No.10
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- Resolution: 1146px x 1517px
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Vintage Illustration of Flower Heads No.2
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Antique Illustration of a Royal Crown No.3
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- Resolution: 590px x 340px
Botanical Line Art Illustration No.7
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Simple Line Art Illustration of an Antique Photographers Camera No.1
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Delicate Botanical Illustration of a Plant with Flower Heads and Buds
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- Resolution: 665px x 1701px
Antique Musical Instrument Line Art Illustration – Guitar
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- Resolution: 554px x 1465px
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Vintage Paper Texture – No.8
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- Resolution: 7632px x 10512px
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Antique White Paper Texture Scan with Creases, Folds and Staining
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- Resolution: 7184px x 9766px
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Vintage Dark and Grunge Paper Texture Scan with Damp Spots No.2
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- Resolution: 4527px x 6886px
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Inside Front Book Cover Scan – Tan Paper Stock Texture
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- Resolution: 3500px x 4951px
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Inside Rear Book Cover Scan – Tan Card Stock Texture
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Beautiful Vintage Decorative A4 Blank Letterhead Design
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- Resolution: 7264px x 4981px
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Bottom Left Corner Piece – Border Adorned with Exotic Plants and Palm Tree
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- Resolution: 6288px x 6167px
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Vintage Coloured Print of Various Species of Butterflies – 1896
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- Resolution: 4061px x 6257px
- Year of Print: 1896
- Artist: Edward Lloyd
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Chillingham Cattle Vintage Coloured Print – 1896
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- Resolution: 6268px x 4131px
- Year of Print: 1896
- Artist: Edward Lloyd
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VINTAGE Decorative Design Elements – Ornamental Banners For Type
The type foundry and print shop of old would create books, like the one this image was discovered within, to help customers and clients with their design choices. Naturally, these books were jam packed with useful illustrative elements that could be combined to create a final piece. Today, these books are extremely difficult to get a hold of. Especially those that were published in the late 1800s. They were not mainstream publications, they simply served as ‘catalogs’ and thus were only produced in small numbers. Fortunately, we were introduced to a collector who had precisely what we had been searching for for so long. After some costly negotiations, we’re very excited to be able to share the wonderful gems within.
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- Resolution: 8147 x 5524
- Year of Print: Late 1800s
- Artist: Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
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ANTIQUE Kono Bairei Wood Block Japanese Prints 1881 Bird on Branch
You’re looking at a beautiful piece of Japanese woodblock art from our collection of original 1881 prints by noted artist, Kono Bairei; Created for one of his best-known publications ‘one hundred birds’. Most of the bird species throughout this collection were native to Japan, with a few domesticated and some imported cage birds. Bairei was born and lived in Kyoto. He was apprenticed to the Maruyama printer Nakajima Raiso at the age of eight. He was a pupil of Shijo artist Shiokawa Bunrin and followed the Nanga school tradition. He established the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting before opening his own studio to students and retiring from teaching.
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- Resolution: 11582 x 7905
- Year of Print: 1881
- Artist: Kono Bairei
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GODS and Godesses – Antique 1851 Illustration by Johann Heck
You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!
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- Resolution: 9158 x 7284 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1851
- Artist: Johann Georg Heck
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GEOLOGY and Mineralogy – Johann Heck Antique 1851 Print
You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!
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- Resolution: 9183 x 7271 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1851
- Artist: Johann Georg Heck
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METEOROLOGY – Antique Johann Heck Iconography Encyclopaedia Print 1851
You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!
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- Resolution: 9183 x 7347 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1851
- Artist: Johann Georg Heck
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ANTHROPOLOGY – Anatomy of the Muscles – 1851 Original Antique Print
You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!
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- Resolution: 9259 x 7846 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1851
- Artist: Johann Georg Heck
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BOAZ and Ruth – Gustave DORE – Antique Biblical Illustration 1891
You’re looking at a beautifully detailed, lithograph print by Gustave Doré. A French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. This particular engraving was sourced from the 1891 ‘Bible Gallery’ book that compiled a collection of Doré’s biblical themed artwork.
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- Resolution: 7320 x 10712 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1891
- Artist: Gustave Dore
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GUSTAVE DORE – The Threshold of Purgatory – Christian Art 1891
You’re looking at a beautifully detailed, lithograph print by Gustave Doré. A French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. This particular engraving was sourced from the 1891 ‘Bible Gallery’ book that compiled a collection of Doré’s biblical themed artwork.
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- Resolution: 7718 x 10794 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1891
- Artist: Gustave Dore
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FRENCH Renaissance – Weaving, Embroidery, and Book Cover Designs 1889
Here we have a wonderful chromolithograph print from Heinrich Dolmetsch’s “Der Ornamentenschatz – Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen”. Published by Stuttgart, Hoffmann. A celebrated collection of ornamental/decorative designs and artwork inspired by various geographical regions and movements of the 16th / 17th and 18th century.
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- Resolution: 8337 x 11864 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1889
- Artist: Heinrich Dolmetsch
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ANTIQUE BOTANICAL Print – E. Lowe BRITISH BOTANY – Caladium Chantini Leaf
You’re looking at a beautifully coloured british botanical lithograph print from the ‘Beautiful Leaved Plants’ series by Edward Lowe. These antique illustrations, printed in 1868, have lasted the test of time, and the colours are stunning.
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- Resolution: 4666 x 8337 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1868
- Artist: Edward Joseph Lowe
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CANAL – Antique Engraving of ‘Der Distellochdamm’ Germany 1847
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- Resolution: 10400 x 7200 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1847
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AMPHIBIANS Frogs – Edible Frog, Tadpole, Horned, Tree. Antique 1880s Print
An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!
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- Resolution: 5500 x 8600 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1880
- Artist: William Mackenzie
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AMPHIBIANS Toads – Common, Surinam, Fire-Bellied. Antique 1880’s Artwork
An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!
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- Resolution: 5500 x 8600 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1880
- Artist: William Mackenzie
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STRUTHIONES Ostrich, American Rhea. Antique 1880 Stock Image
An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!
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- Resolution: 7594 x 10009 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1880
- Artist: William Mackenzie
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FINCH, Cassin’s. Rare Handcolored 1853 Stock Image. U.S.P.R.R Bird Survey
This 167 year old scan is from “U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys – To ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war in 1853-1856”. The artwork inside was some of the most artistic and accurate prints made of Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Fish from the American West. Many of the Lithographs were beautifully hand-colored by a group of naturalists and artists who travelled with the expedition surverying the West for the U.S. Pacific Railroad. Search our archives or click on the artist name below to view the rest of the collection!
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- Resolution: 7594 x 10009 300dpi
- Year of Print: 1853
- Artist: USPRR Surveys
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XIII CENTURY Repeated Pattern Fabric Design RACINET 13th Century Stock Image
Here we have an original vintage print from the Auguste Racinet L’ornement Polycrome (1870) series. One of the finest collections of decorative arts from the 19th century, refered to for inspiration by many modern creators. Many interesting and useful design elements are waiting to be explored in this one piece! The purpose of the fantastic reproductions in L’Ornement polychrome were to inspire an improvement of the decorative arts of its time.
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- Resolution: 13087 x 18674 300dpi
- Year of Print: Estimated 1873
- Artist: Auguste Racinet
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RENAISSANCE Illuminated Typography and Borders RACINET Plate LXIII 1874
Here we have an original vintage print from the Auguste Racinet L’ornement Polycrome (1870) series. One of the finest collections of decorative arts from the 19th century, refered to for inspiration by many modern creators. Many interesting and useful design elements are waiting to be explored in this one piece! The purpose of the fantastic reproductions in L’Ornement polychrome were to inspire an improvement of the decorative arts of its time.
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- Resolution: 13087 x 18674 300dpi
- Year of Print: Estimated 1873
- Artist: Auguste Racinet
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