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This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique advertisements and cartoons. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us.

With Alexander Francois Desport’s painting Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit.

Bentley. Cork Street Advertisement.

British and French soldiers toasting Christmas.

Advertisement for the Drury Lane pantomime by Dudley Hardey, a pioneer of the ‘artistic poster’ which was seen to elevate the genre.

Christmas edition by the Art Noveau artist Eugene Grasset.

Read Compare and Judge, or the Freedom of Election Exemplified Sir Francis Burdett was returned as MP Middlesex in 1802, which was declared void in favour of George Mainwaring and then amended in 1805 by which time Burdett had decided to leave politics.

Seule Antiseptique en Vente Parout. Advertisement by the impressionist painter Leo Gausson.

Cover by the illustrator Albert Morrow.

Advertisement for an exhibition by the artists’ group Le Sillon by Fernand Toussaint.

The successful Party at Tooting, at Mayfair.

Fruit crate label for Californian apples.

Advertisement poster designed by the sequential illustrator Henri Gerbault.

The penalty of success.

West Indies, Africa and the Mediterranean.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre.Samurai and Priests.

Advertisement for popular singers by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, an artist of the Montmartre circle.

Fruit Jelly with serving suggestions.

The Illustrious Lover or the D_ of Cumberland done over. With a military reputation for courage, the Duke of Cumberland was staunchly anti-Catholic and held great influence over his brother George IV.

Suffolk rats protecting their cheese or the County Fencibles called to Arms. Fencibles were Army regiments raised during threats of invasion.

J. M. Fenders. A Bumper of Beauty at Last.

Advertisement for the hotel near the popular church of Saint-Jean du Doigt on the coast of Brittany.

Au clair de la lune, Je n’ai plus de Feu (By the light of the moon I haven’t means to light it) referencing the popular children’s song. After Rene Vincent.

International Sleeping Car & European Express Train to the Rivera.

Crate label.

With James Tissot’s painting Holyday.

Designed by Herbert McNair, Margaret and Francis MacDonald, who with Charles Rennie MacIntosh were known as ‘The Four’ of Scottish Art Nouveau.

Dressing Cases.

PAIR. Were they touching I.

Old Underoof Whiskey from Chas. Dennehy & Co. Chicago.

Woolsey Limousine. Entourage.

In 1802 Sir Francis Burdett a populist MP was returned as MP Middlesex, in 1804 declared void in favour of George Mainwaring and then amended in 1805 by which time Burdett had decided to leave politics.

De Vere Jones makes some alterations pending the tax collector’s visit. After the satirist David Wilson.

Depicting a scene from the Viktor Jose novel with the courtesan Alice Lamy, Baron de Rozenfeld and Lord Bath in the Cafe Anglais.

Cover for the Women’s edition by the American illustrator A.R. Gifford.

Advertisement for the freight company’s new London route for perishables. After Gustave Fraipont.

1895 cover by the typographer Will Bradley for the American trade journal The Inland Printer.

Cover by Hyland Ellis.

Poster by Louis Rhead.

Sans Sucre. Founded 1812.

Pressed Steel Company, Oxford: Less Weight – More Strength – with P. S. C. one-piece construction.

Playtime at Broadcasting House.

The novice who ticked off the local bridge expert.

Exposition of Henri-Gabriel Ibels, member of Les Nabis (The Prophets), an influential group of vant Garde artists.

By the Art Noveou artist and interior designer Henri Privat-Livemont.

Ford Cars. ‘Enduring Charm’ slogan and river scene.

Ought we to call? Uncertainty in the Caravan park.

Chap Book Thanksgiving Number. Cover for the short lived American Literary magazine.

Advertisement for the celebrated spa’s summer Fetes des Fleurs.

Advertisement for the Exposition of Eugene Grasset, one of the great innovators of Art Nouveau design.

In a Class by Themselves. With silver highlighting.

Cover for the satirical German weekly by Thomas Theodore Heine.

Part of the “Four Arts” experimental series by Cheret.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Winter Garden.

Austin. Burnham Saloon in front of Marble Arch.

A satire on the uncertain intentions of Paul I in relation to the Anglo-Russian Coalition against the Dutch.

Pas de gai Reveillon by Charles Lemmel.

Advertisement for the popular concert hall’s production of George Bertrand’s Animated Puppets, by Cheret.

London Midland and Scottish Railway. “The West Coast is the Best Coast, The Warmer Side of Britain”.

Cover by Dudley Hardy for the illustrated weekly.

Poster for the display ‘Behind the Scenes of the Opera’. Named for its first director Alfred Grevin, the Musée is the oldest wax museum in Europe.

By the acclaimed artist Dudley Hardy.

Marquet Ink. Advertisement designed by Eugene Grasset. Known as the Father of Art Nouveau, Grasset’s ‘Maidens’ became emblematic of the style.

PAIR: Were they touching II.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Audience with the Master.

Sherry’s Plan of Economy or the Speaker travelling in stile. The speaker in a donkey cart. Sherry refers to Richard Sheridan, famous playwright and Whig politician.

Christmas Novelties. Cases, shaving kit, poker chip stands, reference libraries, watches and clocks

The Little Green Man or The Bath Bugaboo. Henry Cope, an eccentric from Bath who always dressed in green, only ate green vegetables and even had green furniture, was known for trying to engage fashionable ladies in conversation.

Ce qu’on ne verra jamais… (What we will never see on the 1st of May, workers’ day, is a dancers’ strike). After A Vallee.

Orginally known as ‘House of Commons’, here with a Polo player leading the field.

The Bath Revolution, or the King Deposed; James Heaven, master of the Lower Rooms, attempted to depose James King as Bath’s Master of Ceremonies. Rear-Admiral Stanhope and Colonel Strode were included in the committee formed to support King.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

Norway, the Baltic and the Mediterranean.

Announcement for four varieties of Indian Tea – Zenana, Palais Indien, Maharala and Grand Mogul.

l’Opera International advertisement for the Gala of the History of Theatre 1886 by Eugene Grasset.

Christmas Novelties. Cases, brushes, jewellery, clocks and purses.

Henri-Gabriel Ibels: Poster for the artist’s expostion at la Bodiniere. Ibels was a member of Les Nabis (The Prophets), an influential group of Avant Garde artists.

Part of the ‘Four Arts’ experimental series by Jules Cheret.

Aperitif digestif. Maison de Vent.

Lincoln Motor Company. Green Chassis.

Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin. Advertisement for Victorien Sardou’s life of the Byzantine Empress Theodora played by Sarah Bernhard. Designed by Manuel Orazi and August Francois-Mariet Gorguet.

Longchamp Racecourse. Advertisement for the prestigious Prix de la Porte Maillot.

Fashionable girl watering a flower pot. Cover page after the renowned Art Deco poster artist Rene Vincent.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

Pressed Steel Company.

The Fathers’ Match abandoned or another Reputation saved

In 1802 the MP for Middlesex Sir Francis Burdett was returned, however this was overturned two years later in favour of George Mainwaring, considered a puppet of William Pitt.

Advertisement for the New York City theatre on Madison Avenue and 27th Street opened in 1890.

Humourous road map from Henley to Amersham to Wembley, and from Henley to Egham to Hyde Park. After James Fitton and H.J Hutchinson.