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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.

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

Room over there for one sir: After Harold Hailstone.

Poster by Louis Rhead.

Lipton’s Tea Merchants: Tea Gardens Ceylon.

Pas de gai Reveillon by Charles Lemmel.

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

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

Lipton’s Tea Merchants: Tea Gardens Ceylon.

Abdulla Cigarettes: “Hooray”

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

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

International Sleeping Car & European Express Train to the Rivera.

Advertisement poster designed by the sequential illustrator Henri Gerbault.

Fruit crate label for Californian apples.

Aperitif digestif. Maison de Vent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The penalty of success.

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

Cover by Hyland Ellis.

Cartoon: The physician heals himself.

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

Bovril: Helps you turn the corner.

Fruit Jelly with serving suggestions.

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

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.

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.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

Cartoon: Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court 5. The Rake’s Divorce.

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

Ought we to call? Uncertainty in the Caravan park.

West Indies, Africa and the Mediterranean.

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

Rowing: The Cox Who Failed to Notice the Bump. By Henry Bateman.

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

The Plumber’s Paradise. After artist Henry Bateman.

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

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

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

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

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

Rinitene Cold Therapy: Illustrated by Alessandro Berretti.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

Lincoln Motor Company. Green Chassis.

By the acclaimed artist Dudley Hardy.

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

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

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

Pressed Steel Company.

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

Cartoon: The Summer Change.

Norway, the Baltic and the Mediterranean.

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

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

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Winter Garden.

With James Tissot’s painting Holyday.

Dopff Vineyard: Vins d’Alsace partout dans le monde.

Christmas edition by the Art Noveau artist Eugene Grasset.

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

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

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

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

British and French soldiers toasting Christmas.

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.

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

Dressing Cases.

Cartoon: The Spoil Sport or the Culprit who admitted everything. After 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.

In a Class by Themselves. With silver highlighting.

Esse Cooker Advertisement: Celebrate the Coronation.

Cover for the satirical German weekly by Thomas Theodore Heine.

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.

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”

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

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.

The Smiths and the Jones are not on speaking terms.

Woolsey Limousine. Entourage.

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.

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

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

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

Cartoon: Sportsman to Snobson… Ever hit it?

Armstrong Siddeley: Finest value in fine cars.

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

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

Crate label.

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

Cartoon: The Drive. After Henry Bateman.

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

Armstrong Siddeley: Finest value in fine cars.

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

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

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.

Cover by Dudley Hardy for the illustrated weekly.

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.