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Thomas Daniell Calcutta plates in five-figure demand

16 September 2024

Five plates from the series Views of Calcutta underlined the demand for work by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) when they hammered at £24,000 in Edinburgh on September 4-5.

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Colour plate books: Around the world with Norman Bobins

13 May 2024

ATG takes a whistlestop tour of the globe via the greatest recent collection of colour plate travel and costume books

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Victoria and Albert royal wedding procession depicted on a 19ft folding strip

15 May 2023

Shown here are pages from an extremely long, hand-coloured aquatint record on one continuous folding strip just a little over 4in tall, but a work that would extend to around 19ft (5.8m) if fully opened.

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A landmark of Canadiana rediscovered in an attic

06 June 2022

Recently found in a Norfolk attic, a full set of Canadian scenes by the military artist and topographical draughtsman Major General James Pattison Cockburn (1779-1847) sold for £130,000 at Forum Auctions (plus 25% buyer’s premium).

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Victorian printmakers Charles and George Hunt celebrated with the launch of first full-length book on the artists

31 March 2017

A new book on two prolific Victorian printmakers launched last night.

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Hodges’ War and Peace prints found after appeal

13 October 2004

THE National Maritime Museum has purchased two prints from a London dealer following its appeal in the Antiques Trade Gazette for information about two missing William Hodges paintings.

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Olio Rigmaroll’s Airy Nothings…

22 September 2004

RIGHT: one of 23 coloured aquatints by George Hunt after M.E[gerton] that make up Airy Nothings; Or, Scraps and Naughts, and Odd-cum-Shorts; in a Circumbendipus Hop, Step and Jump, by Olio Rigmaroll, a slim quarto volume of 1825, this one shows ‘Quadrille Dancing at Mr Owen’s Institution, near Lanark’ – the model community established by social and education reformer Robert Owen at the New Lanark cotton mills.