Vignette Collection (page 2)

Vignette showing Native Americans fishing
Title page with vignette showing Native Americans fishing with bow and arrow, nets and clubs, on the Essequibo river. Steel engraving by W.H

Whalers hunting a bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Above and below the vignette are examples of the whales diet of shellfish, plankton and shrimp

Title page to volume 1 with calligraphic title and vignette or armour and weapons. Copperplate engraving from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale

Calligraphic title page with vignette
Calligraphic title page with botanical vignette. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after Eliza Eve Gleadall from her self-published The Beauties of Flora

Title page with calligraphic title and floral vignette
Title page with calligraphic title Flowers of Shakspeare and vignette of roses, honeysuckle and thistles. Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn

Title page vignette of goddess of agriculture
Title page with vignette of Demeter goddess of agriculture with scythe amid statuary in a park. Engraving by Pillement finished by Nee after a painting by Percier

Title page with calligraphy and vignettes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815

Title page with vignette of bull, picador horses, lances, banderillas, ribbons, and flowers. Chromolithograph by E. Casanova after an illustration by Daniel Perea from Bullfight, Corrida del Toros

The abandonment of Ariadne on Naxos island by Theseus on a galley. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

Roman painting depicting two gods and a nymph
Roman painting depicting two gods with halos, a nymph in wreath, and an old man watching from the rocks. Perhaps, the Sun, the Moon, Aurora, children of the old man Hyperion

Music teacher or poet with a woman with comic mask
Scene from a play. A woman with comic mask hands a small volume to another woman in front of a seated music teacher or poet. Vignette of four Bacchic masks with closed mouths of buffoons and dancers

Naked youth sleeping in the shade of a tree. Perhaps Endymion, hunter or shepherd, as evidenced by the lance and dog. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. On his shoulders is the helmet that made him invisible, his sword Harpe and under his cloak is the severed head of Gorgon Medusa

Title page with vignette of escutcheon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten

The Rape of the Lock
Vignette from The Rape of the Lock (1). Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1896

Fawkes and his sleight-of-hand trick
Fawkes, a sleight-of-hand man, performs a trick; acrobats appear in a vignette. Date: circa 1780

Greek manuscript of a homily by Gregory of Nazianzus
A Greek manuscript of a homily by Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregory the Theologian, Gregory Nazianzen), Archbishop of Constantinople (c329-c389). Date: 1200

Vignette design, Mexican women in their underwear. Date: circa 1910s

Caroline Brunswick / Cruik
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Amelia Elizabeth Caroline Queen of George IV Half-length vignette portrait Date: 1768 - 1821

Foreword, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson
Foreword to Railway Ribaldry, with a vignette illustration by W Heath Robinson, showing a Victorian lady in a crinoline waving goodbye to a departing train. Date: 1935

Adam and Eve and Dioscorides and Andromachus
Engraved title page of Pharmacopoeia Bruxellensis (1641). Depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Dioscorides and Andromachus. There is a vignette depicting Bruxelles in a cartouch

Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier
Balloon designs by Charles and Robert (1, 5) and the Montgolfier Brothers (2, 3, 4). No. 3 ascended from Versailles. No. 4 ascended from the Chateau de la Muette. No

Printed cotton handkerchief, ?The New Broad Sword Exercise?, published by William Hanson and Sons, Manchester, inscribed at bottom left ?WH 1798?, 1798

Music cover, I ve Been Photographed Like This! Sung by Lydia Thompson as Pauline in the burlesque of the Lady of Lyons. Words by William Younge, music by Charles Dubois

Six vignettes on a Valentine card, with a tab on the left to change the pictures. In the centre are two white doves, surrounded by a pretty garland of pink and yellow flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Four oval vignettes on a Christmas card, with Cupid kneeling by a flaming altar, Venus in a shell, Cupid again with doves, and a young man planting a tree

Four oval vignettes on a birthday card
Four oval vignettes of flowers on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Music cover, Sport Galop bys Vizentini (piano), with yachting, fox hunting and cricketing scenes. circa late 19th century

Horatio Nelson Testimonial -- the building of Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square to commemorate Nelson and his achievements. circa 1840s

Music cover, Grande Valse Brillante by Burgmuller
Music cover, Grande Valse Brillante sur le Juif Errant (Wandering Jew), opera by Halevy, written for the piano by Frederic Burgmuller. circa 1850s

John Abernethy
JOHN ABERNETHY medical vignette, half-length portrait in profile, within a frame Date: 1764 - 1831

Francis Atterbury
FRANCIS ATTERBURY Bishop of Rochester, statesman, writer. (vignette portrait facing left) Date: 1662 - 1732

Augustus Keppel / Hinton
AUGUSTUS, VISCOUNT KEPPEL 1st Viscount Keppel Naval officer, with a vignette of a sea battle below Date: 1725 - 1786

Edward Gibbon / Walker
EDWARD GIBBON the English historian and MP, best known for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a vignette of Rome below Date: 1737 - 1794

Edward Gibbon / Colosseum
EDWARD GIBBON the English historian and MP, best known for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a vignette of the Colosseum in Rome below Date: 1737 - 1794

George I / Anon Eng
GEORGE I the vignette picture shows the countess of Derwentwater interceding for her husband, who doubtless got embroiled in the Jacobite Rebellion Date: 1660 - 1727

Coleridge / Hancock
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Writer Half-length vignette facing to the left Date: 1772 - 1834

Henry 12th Earl Arundel
Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of ARUNDEL statesman (vignette portrait) Date: 1511 - 1580

Penneman / Whitehall
Miss Penneman Date: -

15th Earl Derby / Vignette
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of DERBY statesman Date: 1826 - 1893

Wash Irving / Oval Eng
WASHINGTON IRVING American writer with a vignette of his home, Sunnyside, below Date: 1783 - 1859

Vignette design, Mexican couple watching a balloon. circa 1910s

Vignette design, two Mexican women chatting. Date: circa 1910s

Vignette design, fight at a Mexican food stall. Date: circa 1910s

Vignette illustrations, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- A busmans holiday and The kind-hearted engine driver. Date: 1935

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping