Why do prints come up in pairs and sets?

Publishers issued them that way, and the habit shows in the titles: 169 say pair, 84 say four, 29 say six. Sets run larger still. Sets of eight and twelve recur, and one Regency lot runs to 27 hand-tinted sheets. Vanity Fair plates are sold as singles, as double-page sheets, and bound together in fours, sixes, nines, tens and twelves.

What is a Vanity Fair Spy print?

A caricature portrait printed as a chromolithograph, from stone rather than from a plate. Thirty-three titles carry the Vanity Fair name. They appear singly and in multiples, which is why the same subject can turn up on its own one week and as part of a set of ten the next.

Are Japanese woodblocks part of this category?

Yes. Forty-nine titles say Japanese and 36 say woodblock, with 22 combining the two, and most sit in the 19th-century dated band. Subjects include bijin figures, warriors, triptychs and botanicals. A triptych of the Gods of Fortune and two sets of botanical plates are among them.

How reliable are the dates given?

Take the title date over the field date. A handful of plates carry a hard printed year, 1745, 1794, 1811, 1843 among them, and those are the firmest dating in the category. Elsewhere the field holds a band rather than a year. The dated range runs 1700 to 1960, with decade buckets covering the 20th-century material, and a few field dates sit oddly against their titles.

What are reverse glass prints and crystoleums?

Both put the image on glass rather than leaving it on paper. A reverse glass print is transferred and then painted from behind; a crystoleum is mounted to glass, backed and coloured to look like a painting. Together they account for 36 titles, concentrated in the Georgian and Victorian bands, with royal portraits at the upper end.

A sporting caricaturist whose name appears in 61 titles, about four in every hundred, making him the single most repeated name in the category. The work spans a wide range. Printed Christmas and greetings cards sit at the modest end, original watercolours at the very top.

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Impressions on paper, framed or loose, made to hang on a wall: engravings, mezzotints, etchings, lithographs and woodblocks, sold singly and, very often, in pairs and sets.

Pair of Wonderful Vibrant Watercolours of Birds. C.1800

19th century

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Pair of Wonderful Vibrant Watercolours of Birds. C.1800

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Maple Framed Engraving of Cambell’s Bedford Hotel, Russell Square, London. C.1800

19th century

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Maple Framed Engraving of Cambell’s Bedford Hotel, Russell Square, London. C.1800

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Animal Portrait Oil Painting of Pekingese Dog by Florence Mabel Hollams

1900 - 1920

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Animal Portrait Oil Painting of Pekingese Dog by Florence Mabel Hollams

From Benton Fine Art

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Etching After Polidoro De Caravaggio Pub. Gio Marco Paluzzi 1600-1610

17th century

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Etching After Polidoro De Caravaggio Pub. Gio Marco Paluzzi 1600-1610

From Hand of Glory

£320

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Henry Birtles (1838-1907) Shepherd & Flock Farming Highland Landscape Painting

19th century

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Henry Birtles (1838-1907) Shepherd & Flock Farming Highland Landscape Painting

From Artsonline

£289

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1900 - 1920

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Hansel and Gretel Gothic Silhouette

From Prometheus Antiques

£110

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19th century

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Set of Four Victorian Embossed Prints

From Prometheus Antiques

£225

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19th century

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19th Century Set of 4 Engravings Botanicals with Insects and Plants by John Curtis

From Antiques Decorative (Sussex)

£250

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Very Detailed Architectural Watercolour/pen Drawing of the Famous Vleeschhal Front Te Haarlem, the Netherlands Build in 1603.

19th century

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Very Detailed Architectural Watercolour/pen Drawing of the Famous Vleeschhal Front Te Haarlem, the Netherlands Build in 1603.

From Koos Limburg Jnr. Scotland

£1,450

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19th century

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19th Century Set of 8 Engravings Botanicals with Insects and Plants by John Curtis

From Antiques Decorative (Sussex)

£450

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The most expensive antique print ever sold on Sellingantiques was a pair of Snaffles originals, 'A Point to Point.' and 'An Irish Point-to-Point.', in April 2021.

19th century

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19th C Optical Illusion Lithograph

From Colin Brand Antiques

£395

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Original Sydney Harbour Poster Design 1932 Gouache Painting

1920 - 1940

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Original Sydney Harbour Poster Design 1932 Gouache Painting

From Antiques Decorative (Sussex)

£995

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Nude, 1949, for Paul Verlaine's Erotic Poems Parallelement by Bisexual Woman Artist Mariette Lydis Original Drawing and Copper Plate

1920 - 1940

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Nude, 1949, for Paul Verlaine's Erotic Poems Parallelement by Bisexual Woman Artist Mariette Lydis Original Drawing and Copper Plate

From Skippings Fine Arts

£940

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1900 - 1920

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Snaffles 'The Sea-hawk.' Original Print

From Mark Jones Antiques

£2,200

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Snaffles 'Forrard Forrard Forrid!’ Original Printed Christmas Card

1920 - 1940

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Snaffles 'Forrard Forrard Forrid!’ Original Printed Christmas Card

From Mark Jones Antiques

£380

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19th century

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Charles Burton Barber Chromolithograph

From Sinclairs Antiques and Interiors

£150

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Antique Prints

Pair of Wonderful Vibrant Watercolours of Birds. C.1800

Maple Framed Engraving of Cambell’s Bedford Hotel, Russell Square, London. C.1800

Animal Portrait Oil Painting of Pekingese Dog by Florence Mabel Hollams

Etching After Polidoro De Caravaggio Pub. Gio Marco Paluzzi 1600-1610

Henry Birtles (1838-1907) Shepherd & Flock Farming Highland Landscape Painting

Hansel and Gretel Gothic Silhouette

Set of Four Victorian Embossed Prints

19th Century Set of 4 Engravings Botanicals with Insects and Plants by John Curtis

Very Detailed Architectural Watercolour/pen Drawing of the Famous Vleeschhal Front Te Haarlem, the Netherlands Build in 1603.

19th Century Set of 8 Engravings Botanicals with Insects and Plants by John Curtis

19th C Optical Illusion Lithograph

Original Sydney Harbour Poster Design 1932 Gouache Painting

Nude, 1949, for Paul Verlaine's Erotic Poems Parallelement by Bisexual Woman Artist Mariette Lydis Original Drawing and Copper Plate

Snaffles 'The Sea-hawk.' Original Print

Snaffles 'Forrard Forrard Forrid!’ Original Printed Christmas Card

Charles Burton Barber Chromolithograph

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