Architecture, Design & Decorative Arts

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This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique prints of Architecture and Design. 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.
The Blue Velvet Closet recently renovated and hung with paintings from George IV’s collection. At centre one of a pair of Boulle marquetry tables by Thomas Parker.
Baroque Ewer: With a putti and winged female figure handle.
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Ionic Order.
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Doric Order
Russian Imperial Collection: Boule inlay Side Chair with blue damask seat.
Design for a Chimney piece: Fishing scene on mantle. No. CLXXXIII:
Russian Imperial Collection: Painted interior capital with three details.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Elaborate fresco with columns advancing to the goddess Hera (Juno) in Olympus.
Architectural Elevation: Facade and plan. XXXV
Chelsea Arts Club Bal des Quat’z’Arts at the Royal Albert Hall. By the Australian WWI artist Fred Leist.
Composite Order: Anterior views of portico and pedestal, lateral view of a portico and detail of an impost and architrave.
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: Designed by Herbert McNair, Margaret and Francis MacDonald, who with Charles Rennie MacIntosh were known as ‘The Four’ of Scottish Art Nouveau.
Orders: Diagrams of capitals, shafts and bases of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Composite and Corinthian orders with key and ornamental details.
Russian Imperial Collection: Four coordinating painted interior patterns.
Plan and Elevation in the Corinthian Order
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of the gods Athena (Minerva), Apollo, Artemis (Diana) and Hermes (Mercury) at Olympus for a bedroom.
Communications: Conqueror of Space and Time. World’s Fair with man symbolised by a transparent head. After the industrial designer Donald Deskey.
Ormolu mounted Red Marble Mantle Clock with Bronze classical figures.
Russian Imperial Collection: Five coordinating painted interior patterns.
Fountain of Don John of Austria, Victor of the Battle of Lepanto: Garden of Aranjuez.
Chap Book Thanksgiving Number: Cover for the short lived American Literary magazine.
Whitehall Palace: Horse and Foot Guards East Facade. Destroyed in the fire of 1698 and replaced by Royal Horseguards.
The Lower Vestible. The original Henry Holland design has been recently altered, the original wall replaced with scagliola corinthian columns.
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland: Plan and elevation of one the North’s great Halls, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Russian Imperial Collection: Iron, Brass and Painted Campaign Table. Front and side perspectives.
Russian Imperial Collection: Six coordinating painted interior patterns.
Bed: Design for a State Bed: No.XLVII:
Diane D’Ephese: Statue of the goddess Diana, 1st century Roman copy of the lost Diana by Leochares.
Bronze Caryatid Ormolu and Marble Candelabra.
Red Marble and Ormolu Urn.
Elevation and plans of the ground and principal stories.
Baroque Wall Design: An antechamber to an audience room.
Architectural Elevation: Facade and plan. XXXVI.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, Prospect of the East End.