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[London : 1855]. An entertaining antique print - a group of cockneys - dressed for the cold, smoking a pipe, shining a torch, holding a candle - having fun on skates in the frozen canal tunnel. A notice (on which the engraver has included his name) cautions against bathing and washing in the canal. Engraved by Henry Leighton (fl.1851-1872) and originally produced for the "Illustrated London News" of 3rd March 1855.
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 124 x 158mm (approx. 4-7/8" x 6-1/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A highly attractive antique print of the early industrial landscape - locks, bridge, tunnel, smoking chimneys and in the foreground two handsome Pickford's barges. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original pencil and water-colour drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of ninteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's part-work series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 148mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/024.

£40

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. An elegant antique print of the church, built by Charles Barry in 1827-1828. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 103 x 149mm (approx. 4" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/142.

£25

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