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Prints & Originals
Welcome to the online home of the Shapero Gallery. We stock a large number of antique prints, decorative prints and vintage prints across a wide range of subjects, including travel, natural history, art & architecture, transport, sports and pastimes, as well as a selection of original works on paper. Please use the image-links here for specific areas of interest, or continue below to view all of our stock.
Contact Sue Prigmore for more information about the Gallery’s stock of prints and originals.
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Single leaf, watercolour on fibrous paper, depicting a scene from the Jain vision of hell, circa 115 x 265 mm; image framed within contemporary red painted border, reverse blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive example; floated in modern card mount.
£500 -
three leaves, watercolours on fibrous paper, each depicting a scene from the Jain vision of hell, each circa 110 x 265 mm; each image framed within red painted border, lower edges lacking, reverses blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive examples; three together floated in a window mount.
£1,750 -
Single fine illuminated miniature painting, ink and watercolour opaque colours on thick buff paper, heightened in gold, loose leaf from a monumental illuminated manuscript, in Awadhi, overall size 555 x 640 mm; text in single column, devanagari script, both sides of leaf framed within intricately painted floral decorative border illuminated in gilt, in a remarkably clean and attractive state of preservation; framed and glazed.
£37,500 -
Two fine hand-coloured stipple engravings (482 x 612 mm & 479 x 612 mm) by F. Bartolozzi and Daniel Orme respectively, after Mather Brown, along with the rare key plate (383 x 538 mm), fine fresh condition. Framed and glazed, overall size: 73.4cm x 61cm x 2.5cm.
£9,500 -
Single leaf, illuminated miniature on card, ink and gouache heightened in gold, c. 270 x 195 mm (main image 225 x 150 mm); some very light surface dusting, overall exceptionally bright and attractive condition; in mid-20th-century frame, typescript label from the Victoria & Albert Museum to reverse (likely from 1960s).
£10,000 -
Single leaf, ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting seated ladies on an outdoor terrace at night time, receiving a visitor with musicians playing, seated in the moonlight, c. 280 x 220 mm; painting heightened in gold, a few very faint smudges to ink otherwise in a very clean and bright state of preservation, framed within painted red border apparently on a wider album page of speckled card; in modern frame, glazed.
£15,000 -
Two leaves, ink and gouache on paper, each with multiple scenes depicting a marriage procession and early married life, and scenes of daily life, each leaf c. 130 x 280 mm; a few small scuffs and light surface soiling, overall bright and attractive condition; mounted, framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame.
£6,000 -
16 leaves, watercolours on fibrous paper, each depicting a scene from the Jain vision of heaven or hell, each circa 115 x 265 mm; each image framed within red painted border, reverses blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive examples; paired into two groups of 8, each mounted and framed under glass.
£9,500 -
Original stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, with strong colour. Framed and glazed, overall size: 40.3cm by 55.6cm.
£1,500 -
Single leaf, ink and gouache on paper, heightened in gilt, depicting a prince entertaining a relining lady on a palace pavillion with female musicians and an attendant in waiting, huqqa pipe in the foreground, all under a starry night-time sky, ruled in gilt, c. 290 x 185 mm; a few very light smudges and some faint darkening to right-hand edge of leaf, overall bright and attractive condition; in mid-twentieth-century frame, glazed, Victoria & Albert Museum typed label taped to reverse (c. 1960s).
£7,500
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