Vintage Prints

Renkontre (The Clash) by Käth Olshausen-Schönberger, NY Public Library Picture Collection

Seasonable Refreshment, this is an image based on a proverb regarding money matters - Italy o in Italian: L'ozio e padrone dei vizi. which means Laziness is the landlord of vices, NY Public Library Picture Collection

The Tea Party, from the collection of the comical creatures from Wurtemberg - by H. Ploucquet. Engraved by G. Greatbach, from a Drawing by Mason. [n.d., c.1840s.] Steel engraving, sheet 135 x 210mm. 5¼ x 8¼". Four cats take tea around a table. NY Public Library Picture Collection

1 of 8 color illustrations by Walter Crane in The Fairy Ship, Routledge’s new sixpenny toy books, 95. [London] George Routledge and Sons, 1870, NY Public Library Picture Collection

Out for a Holiday (Albert Hall), C. 1870s, NY Public Library Picture Collection

The Pianist, from the collection of The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, NY Public Library Picture Collection

Au Soulier de Paris, drawing by J.L. Grandville, NY Public Library Picture Collection, c. 1846

Dessin de Freeman, d'apres Landseer, NY Public Library Collection, 1849

Office of the Barker and Biter (editorial room), January 1857, NY Public Library Picture Collection

Animals as humans, NY Public Library Picture Collection

Virginian Opossum, John James Audubon, 1845, Hand-Colored Lithograph, 20 1/2 x 27 inches, Gift of the 1998 Collectors Circle

Two Bank Mice, John James Audubon, 1846, Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, 12 3/4 x 18 5/8 inches, JKM Collection

Snowy Owls, John James Audubon, c. 1830, Hand-Colored Engraving, 37 1/2 x 24 3/8 inches, Gift of the 2008 Collectors Circle

Hooping Crane, John James Audubon, 1835, Hand-Colored Lithograph, 35 1/2 x 23 inches, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Smithers

Fish Hawk, or Osprey (Plate LXXXI) John James Audubon 1785 - 1851 Date 1830 Medium Hand-Colored Engraving Dimensions 20 1/2 x 27 inches

American Bison, John James Audubon, 1785 - 1851 Date 1845 - 1848 Medium Lithograph Dimensions 22 x 28 inches

Eleazar Albin, A natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing, Vol. 1-3, 1741.