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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.

Armstrong Siddeley: Finest value in fine cars.

Ought we to call? Uncertainty in the Caravan park.

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.

Lipton’s Tea Merchants: Tea Gardens Ceylon.

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.

Abdulla Cigarettes: “Hooray”

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

Poster by Louis Rhead.

The penalty of success.

Norway, the Baltic and the Mediterranean.

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

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

Shell: The Spirit of 1953. The Queen God bless her

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

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

Skiing Cartoon: Winter sports in Switzerland. ‘They say it’s not really complicated’.

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

Aperitif digestif. Maison de Vent.

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

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

Armstrong Siddeley: Finest value in fine cars.

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

International Sleeping Car & European Express Train to the Rivera.

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

Rinitene Cold Therapy: Illustrated by Alessandro Berretti.

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.

Cover by Dudley Hardy for the illustrated weekly.

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

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.

Cartoon: I’m takin’ a few o’ their flight feathers out.

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.

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

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

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Winter Garden.

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

Cover by Hyland Ellis.

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

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.

Woolsey Limousine. Entourage.

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

Esse Cooker Advertisement: Celebrate the Coronation.

With James Tissot’s painting Holyday.

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

Cartoon: The physician heals himself.

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

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

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.

By the acclaimed artist Dudley Hardy.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

The Fathers’ Match abandoned or another Reputation saved

West Indies, Africa and the Mediterranean.

The Heiress Falls Overboard: After Bertram Prance.

Automobiles: Talbot All British Invincible. Advertisement with Britannia, John Bull and a British Bulldog for the Talbot motorcar stand at Olympia.

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

Fruit Jelly with serving suggestions.

Cover for the satirical German weekly by Thomas Theodore Heine.

The Caravan: “I’m beginning to wish we bought the car first”

Dressing Cases.

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

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

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

Sunbeam Talbot Ten: Britain’s most exclusive light car.

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

Playtime at Broadcasting House.

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

Les Grands Vins de Bourgogne: Deuxieme Partie (Second vintage).

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

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

The Plumber’s Paradise. After artist Henry Bateman.

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.

The Liqueur Brandy: Snifter or Fish Bowl.

Cartoon: I wish I’d the moral courage to go home

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

The Man who passed the Port the wrong way.

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

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

Lincoln Motor Company. Green Chassis.

Golf: My Lady’s Putt

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

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

Booth’s Dry Gin: ERII. May the generous hope of peace and prosperity be the dominating note of her reign.

Golf: “I believe you would have beaten me, Miss Browne, if you were not handicapped by your skirt” – “You’d give me a much better game if you left off those silly trousers”

Pressed Steel Company.

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

London Stock Exchange: Satirical map depicting the major trading sectors including Oil, Insurance, Rubber, Tea, and Railways.

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.

United Kingdom Tea Company: Henry Stanley and Emin Pasha drinking tea.

Now tell me where is your garden: After Arthur Wallis Mills.

“Could you spare a minute to help us try and get the giant marrow out of the pulpit?”

Crate label.

Town: Sunlight and Shadow.

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

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

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

Advertisement poster designed by the sequential illustrator Henri Gerbault.

Pas de gai Reveillon by Charles Lemmel.

Fruit crate label for Californian apples.

British and French soldiers toasting Christmas.

Bovril: Helps you turn the corner.

Cartoon: Sportsman to Snobson… Ever hit it?

In a Class by Themselves. With silver highlighting.

Lipton’s Tea Merchants: Tea Gardens Ceylon.

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

Christmas edition by the Art Noveau artist Eugene Grasset.

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