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London : J. Booth, 1814. A handsome antique print - the much maligned "Queen Anne's foot-stool" - the exterior of St. John, Smith Square - now a concert hall. Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1781?-1850) from an original drawing (now in Westminster Public Library) by John Coney. Originally produced for the part-work series "Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini; being a Series of Views" (London : 1810-1823) - "the first artistically competent and exhaustive illustration of the golden age of London church building" (Adams). Below the image are two lines of explanatory text.
Copper etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 205 x 234mm (approx. 8" x 9-1/4"). A couple of tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/056.

£75

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[London? : ca.1760]. An uncommon eighteenth-century view of Smith Square and the baroque church of St. John the Evangelist, built between 1713 and 1728 with its distinctive towers and cupolas.
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 106 x 173mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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[?London : ca.1825]. An attractive and uncommon antique print - a lithographic vignette view of Vauxhall Bridge, apparently from the north-west - some kind of boat-house in the foreground. Neither artist nor series have proved capable of identification.
Lithograph on paper. Printed surface 95 x 133mm (approx. 3-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Cropped close to image; a few very faint marks, but a very good copy. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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London : Vernor & Hood; J. Storer & J. Greig, 1805. A charming antique print - a vignette view - a distant prospect of London from a vantage point on the river at Millbank, the city huddled beneath St. Paul's Cathedral. Engraved by John Greig (fl.1800-1843) from his own original design. Originally produced for the part-work "Select Views of London and its Environs: containing a Collection of Highly Finished Engravings" (London : 1804-1805).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 82 x 145mm (approx. 3-1/4" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 90/041.

£40

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[London : E. T. Brain & Co., 1847]. A small antique print - the forbidding prison completed in 1821. The Tate Gallery and the Royal Army Medical College now occupy the site. Originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 70 x 86mm (approx. 2-3/4" x 3-3/8"). A couple of tiny specks to blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/034A.

£20

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. An attractive small antique print - the baroque eighteenth-century church of St. John, Smith Square - now a concert hall. Originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 66 x 86mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/088A.

£20

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A pleasant antique print - the still rural Millbank of about 200 years ago. Engraved by Richard Samuel Marriott (fl.1863-1875) from a study (based on an earlier source) by William Henry Prior. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 105 x 142mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A handsome antique print - a view of Millbank and the old Horse Ferry before the building of Lambeth Bridge - Lambeth Palace in the distance. Horseferry Road commemorates the site. Engraved by John Arthur Quartley (1818?-1895) from a study (based on an earlier view) by William Henry Prior. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Engraved surface 144 x 208mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1829. An interesting antique print - the forbidding prison completed to the designs of Robert Smirke in 1821 - the Gloucester and Cirencester pack-wagon passes by - men lever at slabs of stone in the foreground. The Tate Gallery and the Royal Army Medical College now occupy the site. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original pencil sketch (now in Westminster Public Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd's part-work series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 104 x 155mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/151.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. A handsome antique print - the "petrified monster" of the church of St. John, Smith Square - now a concert hall. Engraved by William Watkins (fl.1828-1881) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 100 x 147mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/112.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1829. A most attractive antique print - Vauxhall Bridge from the east, men at work in a boatyard in the foreground, two men and a dog fishing from the bank, etc. Engraved by James Baylis Allen (1803-1876) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's partwork series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 99 x 150mm (approx. 3-7/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/149.

£40

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