![Library Bookcase by Thomas Chippendale 1762: This engraving illustrates Library Bookcase and is from the third edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household fu](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745188_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
British Art
![Library Bookcase by Thomas Chippendale 1762: This engraving illustrates Library Bookcase and is from the third edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household fu](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745188_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Library Bookcase by Thomas Chippendale 1762: This engraving illustrates Library Bookcase and is from the third edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household fu](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745187_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Max Beerbohm by Sic 1897: This chromolithograph is from Vanity Fair dated 1897 drawn by Sic, Wlater Richard Sickert,.Vanity Fair was subtitled A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares and was founded by Thomas Gib](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745020_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![May - Fishing by William Nicholson 1898: This print is for the month of May showing the sport of Fishing and is from An Almanac of Twelve Sports by William Nicolson with -words by Rudyard Kipling. Published by William Heinemann, London 1898.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745112_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Chess by Joseph Strutt 1801: This beautifully hand-coloured engraved plate is from Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by Joseph Strutt. Published by T. Bensley & J. White, London 1801. In](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745102_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Henry, Prince of Wales by Houbraken 1747: This engraving of Henry, Prince of Wales and eldest son of James I is from The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain by Thomas Birch. Printed by John Knapton 1747, London. The engravings were](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745171_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Rare engraving of Geoffry Chaucer by Houbraken 1747: This engraving of Geoffry Chaucer is from The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain by Thomas Birch. Printed by John Knapton 1747, London. The engravings were by Jacobus Houbraken and George V](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745161_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Our missionary lithograph by Capt. GF Atkinson 1858: This tinted lithographic print is from Curry and Rice on Forty Plates or The Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India by Capt. GF Atkinson and published by Day & Son, London 1858 George Fran](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745150_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Our band lithograph by Capt. GF Atkinson 1858: This tinted lithographic print is from Curry and Rice on Forty Plates or The Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India by Capt. GF Atkinson and published by Day & Son, London 1858 George Fran](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745147_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![6 cock fighting engravings by N Fielding 1853: This is a complete set of aquatint engravings from Newton Fielding published in 1853 by R. Ackermann at his Sporting Gallery located at 191 Regent Street. Each one was created on woven paper. Plate 1:](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745144_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Nottinghamshire by Robert Morden 1695: Map of ?Nottinghamshire by Robert Morden. Published in Camden's Britannia by Abel Swale, Awnsham and John Churchill, London 1695. A fine copper engraved original antique county map of Nottinghamshire,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745072_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Auricula from The Compleat Florist by J Duke 1747: This copperplate engraving of Lord Willoughby?s Auricula is from The Compleat Florist?by J. Duke, published and sold by J Robinson at the Golden-Lyon, Ludgate, 1747. We are fortunate to have obtained](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744868_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Quick-Hatch or Wolverine by George Edwards 1747: This beautiful engraving is from George Edwards A History of Uncommon Birds and of Some other Rare and Undescribed Animals. London 1743-51. George Edwards (3 April 1694 ? 23 July 1773) was an English](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744766_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![The Indian Ichneumon by George Edwards 1747: This beautiful engraving is from George Edwards A History of Uncommon Birds and of Some other Rare and Undescribed Animals. London 1743-51. George Edwards (3 April 1694 ? 23 July 1773) was an English](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744761_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Red and Blue Maccaw by Edward Lear 1836: This fine original hand-coloured steel engraving of the Red and Blue Maccaw or Macrocercus Aracanga is from Parrots, Volume X of the Naturalist?s Library series, published by Chatto & Windus, London 1](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744707_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Bewick's Swan by Beverley Morris 1855: An original hand coloured woodblock engraving of the Bewick's Swan or Cygnus Bewickii from the first edition of British Game Birds and Wildfowl by Beverley Morris, published by Groombridge & Sons, Lon](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744661_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Delhi, Jaipur, Rajastan by J&C Walker 1829: Steel engraving of India IX, showing Delhi,, Jaipur, Rajastan by J&C Walker, published for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) by Baldwin & Cradock, 47, Paternoster Row, London 18](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745046_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![3 prints of birds of prey eggs by Hewitson 1856: These hand-coloured engravings of the eggs of birds of prey are from the Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds accompanied with descriptions of the Eggs and Nests by William C Hewitson,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744736_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Southern India and Ceylon by GW Bacon 1894: Lithographed map of southern India with inset maps of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras suburbs by GW Bacon, London 1894 from The World Atlas Folio. George Washington Bacon was born in USA in 1830 and after](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745059_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Afghanistan , Baluchistan etc by GW Bacon 1894: Lithographed map of Afghanistan, Baluchistan &c. by GW Bacon, London 1894 from The World Atlas Folio. George Washington Bacon was born in USA in 1830 and after moving to London, he acquired Edward Wel](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745055_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![India (Southern Part) by Joshua Archer 1840: This wood engraved map is entitled India (Southern Part). Drawn & engraved by Joshua Archer and published by the proprietor James Gilbert, 49 Paternoster Row, London. The map is from Gilbert?s Modern](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745048_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Flies - Muscae by Moses Harris 1776: This original hand-coloured copper-plate engraving of Flies - Muscae is from An Exposition of English Insects by Moses Harris. Printed for the author by Messrs Robson & Co London 1776.The prints are b](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744835_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![4 engravings of Monkeys from 1811: These copperplate engravings are from The Natural History of Quadrupeds, and Cetaceous Animals by various authors. Published by Brightly and Co, Bungay 1811.The full title of this work is: The Natural](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177744753_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
![Algernon Percy by Houbraken 1747: This engraving of Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland and Lord High Admiral is from The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain by Thomas Birch. Printed by John Knapton 1747, London. The engr](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9142/329747/177745175_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715607138)
News about British Art
![One-sheet Poster for the 1980 British Royal Premiere of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ leads our five lots to watch](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Propstore-May-30-British-Empire-Strikes-Back-poster.jpeg)
One-sheet Poster for the 1980 British Royal Premiere of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ leads our five lots to watch
One-sheet Poster for the 1980 British Royal Premiere of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ RICKMANSWORTH, UK – One of the rarest of Lucasfilm marketing one-sheets for The Empire Strikes Back will be offered at Propstore Thursday, May 30 as part of its UK-based Collectible Poster Live Auction – London sale. The complete catalog is available for […]
![Monumental sculptures by great British artists offered by Sworders May 19](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sworders-May-19-Joy.jpeg)
Monumental sculptures by great British artists offered by Sworders May 19
FARNHAM, UK – Sworders is currently offering selected contents from The Sculpture Park, the open-air display in the village of Churt, England. The auction of modern and contemporary outdoor sculpture runs online until Sunday, May 19. The catalog is now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. Run by artist, collector, and dealer Eddie Powell during the […]
![British World War II recruiting poster in Hebrew leads our five auction highlights](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ishtar-Aux-March-7-ATS-recruiting-poster-in-Hebrew.jpg)
British World War II recruiting poster in Hebrew leads our five auction highlights
World War II-era Poster, in Hebrew, Recruiting Jewish Women to Join the British Army, $7,800 TEL AVIV – Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction. Less well known, and much harder to find, are the posters that encouraged thousands of Jewish women to […]
![Hester Bateman, queen of British silversmiths](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HB-punch-bowl-Heritage-1-1.jpg)
Hester Bateman, queen of British silversmiths
NEW YORK — Collecting silver is a passion for those who seek eye-catching centerpieces fit for a palace or even just tumblers for everyday use. There are many styles as well as an infinite number of silversmiths to choose from. Women silversmiths were not uncommon in the 1700s, and one of the names that comes […]