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Botanicals
Our Botanicals range in price from $20.00 up to $5,000.00. The artists featured in this collection are Emma Homan Thayer, John Parkinson, Groom Bridge and Sons, Charles Morren, P.J. Redoute, Pancrase Bessa, Charlotte Mary White, Basilius Besler, Dr. Thornton, Johann Volkamer and Johann Theodor Debry. Printing processes employed by these artists include original watercolor, hand-colored wood blocks, chromolithographs, offset lithography, hand-colored lithographs and hand-colored copperplate engravings. Published dates run from 1650 through 1920.
Decorative Arts & Antique Posters
The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and often categorized in opposition to the "fine arts". Some distinguish between decorative and fine art based on functionality, intended purpose, importance, status as a unique creation, or single-artist production.
Native American Life & Western Americana
Our collection of Western and Native American Art features artists such as Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, Edward Curtis, Thomas Moran, Jo Mora, D.F. Barry, Seth Eastman, Edward Sheriff Curtis, and McKenney and Hall. Works include views of National Parks, historical documentation of Native Americans, mapping of the United States, government surveys, and depictions of everyday life in the American West. Here you will find paintings, photographs, aquatint engravings and hand-colored lithographs. The majority of this collection was published in the 19th Century.
Natural History
The field of Natural History consists of material focusing on all living creatures. Our inventory includes representation by such artists as: John James Audubon, John Gould, Oliver Goldsmith, S.F. Denton, Daniel Giraud Elliot and Sir William Jardiner. The printing processes represented within this body of work would include hand-colored lithography, black and white engravings, chromolithography and hand-painted engravings.
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