A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Pedestrian Hobbyhorse. Exhibiting at 40, Brewer Street, Golden Square. M.r Johnson, Patentee, 75, Long Acre.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Feb.y 1819.
Aquatint with very fine colour. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper.
A 'dandy horse', a primative bicycle on which the rider proceeded by pushing forward on the ground. Originally patented in 1818 in Germany by Baron Karl Drais, this is the ‘pedestrian curricle' of Denis Johnson (c.1760-1833), a coachbuilder of Long Acre who made at least 320 during the short craze for velocipedes in 1819. Like many crazes it was killed by a health warning. A variation of the print published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts
[Ref: 59404] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Feb.y 1819.
Aquatint with very fine colour. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper.
A 'dandy horse', a primative bicycle on which the rider proceeded by pushing forward on the ground. Originally patented in 1818 in Germany by Baron Karl Drais, this is the ‘pedestrian curricle' of Denis Johnson (c.1760-1833), a coachbuilder of Long Acre who made at least 320 during the short craze for velocipedes in 1819. Like many crazes it was killed by a health warning. A variation of the print published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts
[Ref: 59404] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St Helens & Rucorn Gap Railway, Crossing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the Foot of the Sutton Inclined Plane. Erected by Charles Vignoles, Esq.re C.E., F.R.A.S., Mice. Dedicated by Permission to Edward Greenall, Eq.re of Wilderspool, Cheshire.
S.G. Hughes, Aquat.a.
London, Published 1832, _ by R. Ackermann, No 96 Strand, and J. & J. Mawdsley, Liverpool.
Coloured aquatint with fine hand colour, J. Whatman 1831 watermark. 330 x 470mm (13 x 18½"). Centre fold, creasing.
An extremely fine & rare view of an iron bridge built by Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875) to carry the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first bridge to carry one railway over another.
[Ref: 59273] £580.00
S.G. Hughes, Aquat.a.
London, Published 1832, _ by R. Ackermann, No 96 Strand, and J. & J. Mawdsley, Liverpool.
Coloured aquatint with fine hand colour, J. Whatman 1831 watermark. 330 x 470mm (13 x 18½"). Centre fold, creasing.
An extremely fine & rare view of an iron bridge built by Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875) to carry the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first bridge to carry one railway over another.
[Ref: 59273] £580.00