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Greetings Cards
All greetings cards are supplied with recycled paper envelope, 180mm x 128mm They cost £2.00 each including VAT.
Ceramics
Collected by Frederica, from the Georgian and Victorian periods
English Georgian Cups and Saucers circa 1820
The Swansea potteries and porcelain factories were active from 1765– 1839. They produced superb translucent wares with delicate painting particularly of flowers. Only some pieces were marked.
Coalport was founded by John Rose in the early 1790s at Coalbrookdale. From 1820 the factory produced white hard felspar porcelain with wonderful decoration.
Worcester Coffee Cup & Saucer, Royal Lily Pattern circa 1775
The Worcester factory was founded in 1751. Many of the patterns were based on Chinese designs. Blue and white pieces were very popular.
British Georgian Cups 1795– 1820
A private collection of cups decorated with flowers.
Stars
These stars are made up from photographs of the designs on Georgian cups & saucers.
English Georgian Tea Bowls 1760– 1830
Originally the cups were without handles and called tea bowls. Engravings of the time show ladies and gentlemen drinking tea from tea bowls held daintily between thumb and forefinger. It is thought that often the tea was drunk from the deep saucers which accompany these early tea bowls. Tea was very expensive at this time.
British Georgian cups 1760– 1830
Decorated in the Chinese style and copied from the Chinese export china which was shipped to Britain by The East India Company. Many of the cups were painted by children and on magnification one can occasionally see tiny fingerprints within the designs.
Georgian Coffee Cups and Tea Bowls 1785– 1795
English Georgian cups and tea bowls made between 1785 – 1795. Several are showing barbeaux patterns.
Coffee Cans
Coffee was introduced into Britain in about 1637. The earliest British coffee cups are probably from the Pomona Works, Newcastle under Lyme circa 1746. The increased interest in coffee drinking inspired the British and European potters to emulate the Chinese designs. Bow, Worcester, Chelsea, Pomona , Bristol, Liverpool, Caughley, Lowestoft, Longton Hall and Derby led the way with small straight sided cups which were seldom marked with a makers name or mark.
Georgian Tea and Coffee Cans
Tea and coffee arrived in Britain in the middle of the seventeenth century. The East India Company brought delicate porcelain teapots and tea bowls from China. The growing fashion for tea drinking in mid eighteenth century inspired the British and European potters to emulate the Chinese teawares. Bow, Worcester, Chelsea, Pomona , Bristol, Liverpool, Caughley, Lowestoft, Longton Hall and Derby led the way but at the beginning the cups were without handles and called tea bowls. Blue and white wares were all the rage.
Antique Jugs
Antique Jugs 1680– 1830
A collection of jugs filled with flowers that pick up the colours of the jugs.
Georgian Coffee Cans, a Jug & a Coffee Cup 1770 - 1810
Colourful pieces which would have been highly prized at the time. The cost of a tea service in the eighteenth century was high. A Chamberlain Worcester factory book from 1794 lists a simply decorated tea service at £2 and one with more elaborate decoration would cost £8. A tea service usually included a teapot, sucrier, jug, spoon tray, slop bowl, two cake plates, twelve teacups, twelve coffee cups and twelve saucers.
Peace Cup
Coalport Coffee Cup 1814– part of a Trio
Painted with the Rose of England, the Lily of France, the Prince of Wales Feathers and a Dove of Peace.
The decoration celebrated The Peace of Paris, May 30th 1814.
Wedgwood Cups & Coffee Cans
Josiah Wedgwood (1730 -95) set up his own pottery in Burslem in 1759. From 1754 Wedgwood developed stoneware and earthenware. The most popular of which was creamware. This was a cream coloured clay body with a cream coloured glaze. The company continues today and has recently been bought by Portmerion in Wales.
Fashion from the Georgian, Regency and Early Victorian Periods
A selection of designs taken from contemporary fashion plates
Costume Anglais Le Bon Genre No 68 circa 1820
Many of the French prints from this series were pointing fun at the British.
Head Dresses
Hats and bonnets were worn out of doors and caps were worn indoors. Bonnets could be made of many different materials such as straw, beaver, velvet, silk, crepe, satin, cloth or muslin. They were often decorated with fruit, artificial flowers and ribbons. Jane Austen often mentions bonnets in her letters to her sister Cassandra and writes that she prefers flowers to fruit on her bonnets.
Her Royal Highness Caroline Princess of Wales
Princess Caroline was the wife of George IV whom she married in 1795 when she was 26 years old. This was the year in which the engraving was published. She was the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick and produced one living child Charlotte Augusta.
Group of Waltzers
This engraving was for ‘La Belle Assemblé’ No 93 and published on February 1st 1817
Winter
This lady is thought to be Mrs Pope and is by F. Wheatley and engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
Le Parapluie Officieux
Le Bon Genre No 40 circa 1820
Many of the French prints from this series were pointing fun at the British. Note the chaperone’s face appearing through the umbrella while the couple kiss.
Morning Dress
‘Invented & to be had exclusively of Mrs Bell removed to No 26 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square’
‘Engraved for No 60 New Series of La Belle Assemblé 1st May 1814
Fashion Plates published 1806– 1820
Some of these are from fashion journals of the time; ‘The Gallery of Fashion’, ‘La Belle AssemblŽe or a Lady’s Fashionable Companion’ and ‘Ackermann’s Repository of Arts’. These were the ‘Vogue’ magazines of their time. There seems to have been an outfit for every occasion from archery to promenading.
Fashion Plates Published 1806– 1820
Some of these are from fashion journals of the time; ‘The Gallery of Fashion’, ‘La Belle AssemblŽe or a Lady’s Fashionable Companion’ and ‘Ackermann’s Repository of Arts’. These were the ‘Vogue’ magazines of their time. There seems to have been an outfit for every occasion from archery to promenading. A parrot sits on one girl’s shoulder.
A Group of Well Known Dandies & Some Regency Ladies– Fashion Plates 1800 - 1825
The Dandies are a caricature from the early part of the 19th century. The ladies wear outdoor clothes but dainty shoes.
Prints from the Georgian Period circa 1790– 1820
The prints of the tree and stone base are late eighteenth century. The fashion plate is labelled ‘Moden Z. 1814 No 1’.
Garden Promenade Dress
This fashion print is entitled ‘A Garden Promenade’ and was published in 1820. The parasol would be used when walking to protect the skin from browning from the sun.
Full Dress by Madame Lanchester
Several of Jane Austen’s letters refer to gowns with trains which were popular at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This silk or muslin gown was featured in the ‘Miroir de la Mode’ in 1803.
Ball Dresses
These prints were published between 1806 and 1820 for periodicals of the day.
The Sžpreme Bon Ton, No 9 circa 1810 (from Caricatures Parisienneds)
Skating was a very popular pastime and rivers and lakes could freeze for several weeks in London and Paris.
Promenade Dresses
Two fashion plates from the Regency period showing promenading dresses. They were published between 1800 and 1825 and advertised the latest fashion in magazines of the day.
A Thaw in London
No 25 London published by Orlando Hodgson, 22 Macclesfield Street North, City Road circa 1830. Note the little dog tucked into her muff.
Eighteenth Century Characters
‘Nine Court & City Beauties’ circa 1780, ‘Bath Macaroni 1772’, 2 Gentlemen, a Lady, Mother & Child and ‘A Modern Demirep on the Lookout’ circa 1770.
Collections
Of things, of words, of fauna and flora
Georgian Gentlemen’s Buttons
Many of these were made in France. They are made from many materials such as glass, enamel, silver, steel, copper, painting on parchment, precious and semi precious stones. The ‘Habitat’ buttons contain seaweed, feathers or even a dead grasshopper shown on this paper.
Ladies did not have decorated buttons in the same way until 1840.
English Georgian and Victorian Glasses
Late Georgian and Early Victorian Glasses. An elegant Champagne flute, air twist stemmed glass, custard cup, rummer, deceptive glass, wine glass, bonnet glass, ale glass and wrythen twist glass are among those depicted on this card.
English Georgian and Victorian Glasses
Filled for fun with the nearest drink and desert, which matches that which the glasses were designed to hold in the eighteenth and nineteenth century glasses.
Items Which May Have Been Found On A Georgian Gentleman’s Desk
These items are nearly all in the collection of Number 1 Royal Crescent Museum in Bath. A pierced silver coaster circa 1767 holds an English glass decanter circa 1780. A ‘Wax Jack’ for melting sealing wax circa 1790 would have sealed the gentleman’s letters. His ‘Flint Lock Tinder Box ‘ would have created the flame to light the candles.
Collective Nouns For Animals, Birds, Fish & Insects
This design is inspired by ‘The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’ by Joseph Strutt which was first published in 1801, ‘A Crash of Rhinoceroses’ by Rex Collings and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Regency Red
Here are a pair of original tiny canvas and red leather dancing shoes, a beautiful reticule embroidered with tiny stitches, jewellery, ceramics, material, purses, a book, a letter and a pincushion embroidered on one side with the motto ‘May you never want a pin And prize those high which I put in’.
Items Which May Have Been Found on a Georgian Lady’s Dressing Table
These items are nearly all in the collection of Nº 1 Royal Crescent Museum in Bath. A fan depicting a map of Bath, a pair of rare Bilston Enamel Candlesticks c1780, silver tweezers and silver spectacles c1770 in red leather cases. A tiny glass patch dish circa 1750 would have held patches for ladies’ faces, worn to cover blemishes from small pox and skin complaints.
Collective Nouns For People
This design is inspired by ‘The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’ by Joseph Strutt which was first published in 1801 and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Items from a Traditional Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Kitchen
These items are nearly all in the collection of Number 1 Royal Crescent Museum in Bath. They were collected by Hugh Roberts and donated to the Museum. Some of the items bear a resemblance to those used in our kitchens today. However Box irons were filled with coals and must have been very heavy and cumbersome unlike our modern irons. Tin Spice Boxes usually contain six inside sections for spices and with a small nutmeg grater in the central hole.
Adam Green
Robert Adam was inspired by travels in Europe to build and decorate in the classical style. He was fond of using green in his interiors. He designed Pulteney Bridge in Bath in 1769-1774. It had and still has shops along each side of the road it carries over the River Avon. Also shown here are steel knives and forks with green dyed ivory handles circa 1780.
Georgian Brooches
From the collection of Michael Longmore Antiques, Grays Antique Centre, London.
Jewellery and ornaments were very fashionable in the Regency period. Jane and Cassandra Austen wore topaz crosses given to them by their brother Charles.
Ephemera and Antiques
Objects from my collection, supplemented with a few selections from private collectors in Bath
A Georgian English Felt Embroidery
This embroidery has a raised basket of fruit and nuts, and is embroidered in silk and wool with the original glazing and in a gilt wood frame.
English Georgian Playing Cards circa 1801
Playing card games was a popular pastime in the late eighteenth century. Favourite games were Whist, Cribbage, Piquet and Loo. There was much gambling at this time.
London Department Store 1809
Messrs Harding Howell & Co., 89 Pall mall, London Deprtment Store for No 5 Ackermann's Repository
of arts & published in March 1809
‘The second department contains articles of haberdashery of every description, silks, muslins, lace, gloves etc.’
The Natural World
Frederica is a professional photographer. These designs are based on some of her photographs of plants around her home in the South West of England together with a selection from her extensive collection of Georgian and Victorian plates.
Victorian Humming Birds
Published by Oliver Goldsmith 1854.
A. Fullerton & Co. London & Edinburgh
Old Roses Photographed in English Country Gardens
Roses were mentioned by Shakespeare. Cultivated roses were introduced into Europe from China in the eighteenth century. Here are some of the oldest ones still growing in our gardens.
Lavender Fields in Sussex
A watercolour painted by Evelyn Jane Rimington circa 1910
Evelyn Jane Rimington nee Whyley exhibited at the Fine Art Society and the Royal Academy in London. She lived in London from 1897– 1905. After she married Alexander Wallace they moved to Alton Vicarage, Alton, Hampshire.
Tulips
These tulips were photographed in the award winning Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury which are open to the public. The sixteenth century Abbey House sits next to Malmesbury Abbey. There are special displays of Tulips, Irises and Roses in its 5 acre garden. The husband and wife team who live there are famous for gardening in the nude.
Irises
These irises were photographed in the award winning Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury which are open to the public. The sixteenth century Abbey House sits next to Malmesbury Abbey. There are special displays of Tulips, Irises and Roses in its 5 acre garden. The husband and wife team who live there are famous for gardening in the nude.
Zinnias in a Staffordshire jug
A Staffordshire jug painted with quite stylised flowers resembling Zinnias.
Compound, Determinate & Simple Leaves
Compound, Determinate & Simple Leaves London published as the Act directs June 25th & 29th & July 14th & 15th 1799 by J. Wilkes’ engraved by J. Pafs
British Butterflies And Their Transformations
‘British Butterflies And Their Transformations’ by H. Humphreys, London published in 1841
Georgian and Victorian Prints
Selected by Frederica from her extensive collection of Georgian and Victorian prints. Some of these prints are available as A3 digital prints on acid free art paper.
Hierogliphick on the Kings Birth Day
‘Britons all hail! Your Monarch’s natal Day,
Check then your Phrenzy, learning to obey;
And in loud Plaudits every Briton fing,
God blefs our Army, and long live the King.’
Published 20th February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
The Royal Crescent, Bath 1829
R. Woodroffe del
On stone by W. Gauci published by C. Duffield at his Gallery of Engraving, 12 Milsom Street, Bath.
Vauxhall Gardens
Engraved by C. Mottram
Vauxhall Gardens in London was a pleasure garden and very popular through the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Entertainments included music, singing , acrobatic performances, and displays of art work. It was popular for ladies of the night too.
View of White Horse Hill in Berkshire
Engraved for ‘The Modern Universal British Traveller’ circa 1789
Chain Pier at Brighton during the Late Tempest
Drawn & Engraved by J. Bruce, Brighton November 23rd 1824’
Steine View Brighton Royal Palace
Engraved, Printed & Published by J. Bruce, Brighton circa 1824’
A Group at Bath
Copper Engraving by Cruikshank London Published by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row October 8, 1796
One Mile from Gretna Our Governor in sight– with a screw loose!
This is a detail of an engraved print circa 1830. The eloping couple are being hotly pursued to prevent their marriage at Gretna Green in Scotland.
Musical Mousers
London; Printed & Published April 1, 1828 for the Proprietor, by Engelmann, Graf, Coindel & Co. 92 Dean St. Soho’
Lithograph
Eighteenth Century Engravings of Watercraft
These prints are probably from Germany. During the latter part of the eighteenth century it was popular to buy collections of prints for use in decorative crafts such as scrapbook making and assemblages of prints for print rooms. These engravings show watercraft from around the world.
Carriage Engraving 1750– 1840
Carriage and coaching prints were very popular. The represented travel and the broadening of experience. They also brought the mail.
Drawing Room St. Jamess London
published July 1st 1809 at Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Stage Coach Travelling published March 7, 1828
Coloured aquatint engraving by R. Rosenburg after J. Pollard
Heavily laden coaches would often require the occupants to get out and walk up a steep hill.
Peace
This print is entitled ’Peace’. It was published circa 1795. Although there is no proof it is possible that this allegorical print refers to Napolean’s Brief Peace in 1795 – 1803.
The Chanters
A stipple Engraving by J. R. Smith after Rev. Matthew W. Peters, R. A. circa 1780
Thespians
This print is London published and dated February 1st 1819 for The Proprietor by J. Newman, 24 Soho Square. It is part of a private collection.
The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom
The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801 ‘Quarterly: First & Fourth, Gules, three Lions pafsant gardant in pale Or, for England: Second, Or, a Lion Rampart Gules, within a double trefsure flory counterflory of the last, for Scotland: Third, Azure, a Harp Or, stringed Argent, for Ireland. On an Escocheon of pretence. Ensigned with the Electoral Bonnet, and divided per pale & per cheveron enarched into three compartments, the Arms of HIS MAJESTYs Dominions in Germany; viz. First, Gules, two Lions pafsant gardant in pale Or, for Brunswick; Second, Or, Seme’ of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Azure, for Luneburgh; Third, Gules a Horse current Argent for Saxony: In the centre on an Inescocheon Gules, the Crown of Charlemagne proper, being the Badge of the office of Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire.’
Me & my Wife and Daughter
O TERQUE QUATERQUE BEATI’ etching by Henry Bunbury Esq. circa 1795
Travelling in France or Le depart de la Diligence.
Etching by George Cruikshank published by Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket Avenue August 1st 1835
The Harvest Home
‘The Harvest Home’ from ‘The Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife’ by Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) published by Ackermann in 1821