Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

 

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Napoleon New Cent Magazine

Art Nouveau promotional magazine poster

Eugène Grasset
1845-1917

A New life of Napoleon magnificantly illustrated is now beginning in The Century Magazine Art Nouveau promotional magazine poster designed by Eugène Grasset Paris 1894, with image of Napoleon on horseback.

Offset lithograph, matted,glazed,gilt-wood frame
10 3/4 x 4 3/4" (27.3 x 12 cm.) frame 13 3/4 x 8"

Ref. TJ 5 /AN/ V.ande > DVL     PRICE CODE B

napoleon on horseback

Napoleon on Horseback.

[Napoleon on horseback] book illustration Ca 1920's based on the 1862 painting by Ernest Meissonier.
Of the numerous horses Napoleon rode (he had 150 in his stable and commissioned at least ten to be painted in portrait) he favoured white/grey stallion Arabian or Barb horses as chargers. Of them perhaps of the most famous was Marengo. His mounts were frequently featured in art works of the period.

Colour lithograph, double matted, glazed, natural-wood frame.

Approx. 9 1/4 x 5" (23.5 x 12.7) Frame 13 1/2 x 10"

Ref. TJ 6 / AN / V.ande >DNN   PRICE CODE A

Napoleon windswept

[Napoleon]

Signed Lesue in graphite below image within plate mark.
Mezzotint, double matted glazed silver gilt frame
Plate size: 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 ( 20 x 13.7 cm.) Frame: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4"

Depicted is a somewhat windblown portrait of the emperor, wearing a great coat whilst standing in front of a small camp fire. A helmet lies on the ground to his left and various military figures are glimpsed in the background.

Ref. TJ 8 / RN / V.ande >DAL   PRICE CODE A


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Napoleon retreat fro Russia

Napoleon on Campaign with his Staff returning from Soissons after the Battle of Laon, March 1814

After the 1864 painting by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
colour offset litho, double matted, glazed, gilt - wood frame
Image: approx 19 1/4 x 29 1/2" (49 x 75 cm.) Frame: 23 1/4 x 37 3/4"

         Ref. TJ 1 /DNN/ V.ande > ENN     PRICE CODE B   SOLD  Click here for price guide

The Battle of Laon (9–10 March 1814) was the victory of Blücher's Prussian army over Napoleon's French army near Laon. This setback did not by itself spell the end for Napoleon. Just a few days later the French crushed an isolated enemy corps at Rheims. Blücher's Army of Silesia remained inactive for a week after the victory. Nevertheless, the Allied stand had prevented Napoleon from driving them further north. The Allies were still in a position to advance on Paris, which they did at the end of March.  Wikipedia

The vast expanse of desolate plain and leaden sky give breadth to the scene as does the dilated perspective around the central figure of the Emperor magnified by a slightly low angle. The smallest details are minutely recorded: Napoleon's sprouting beard, the veins on the horse's legs, the snow dirtied by the marching troops... the Director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Charles Blanc, said that Meissonier "painted grandly in a small size". The artist applied the same meticulous approach, but as a historian this time, to his preparatory research: he collected abundant documentation, questioned many eyewitnesses and tried unsuccessfully to borrow the Emperor's grey coat. The episode he has chosen, although it occurred after several victories, announces forthcoming defeats. There is no action or event, just an atmosphere of loneliness and despondency. The doubts and resignation felt by the officers and the troops are palpable and are opposed to the determination that emanates from the isolated figure of Napoleon. These feelings are accentuated by the colour range: the whole scene uses brown and grey tones, subdued, deadened registers. The protagonists are not trampling virgin snow, but muddy ground.

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Bobaparte hief of army of Italy

Bonaparte, Général en Chef de l'armee d'Italie

Hand coloured etching by Bellangé after Porret ca. 1786
double matted, glazed, gilt-wood frame.
Image: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4" (15.9 x 12 cm.) Frame:14 1/4 x 11"

Ref. TJ 12 / DNN / V.ande >AAL     PRICE CODE B

Bonaparte first consul

Bonaparte Ier. Consul

after the portrait by Appiani painted following the Battle of Marengo (1800)

Hand tinted aquatint, matted, glazed, black-wood frame.

Approx. 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 " (5.9 x 11.48 cm) Frame 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 "

Ref. TJ 15 / AN / V.ande >OL   PRICE CODE A

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Napoleon ehrt das unglück verwundeter kriegsgefangenen
[Napoleon honours the misfortune of the wounded war prisoners]

J.Serz after Jean-Baptiste Debret published Kunst, Carlsruhe.
Steel engraving, matted glazed silver gilt frame
Plate size: 3 5/8 x 4 1/2 ( 9.2 x 11.4 cm.) Frame: 8 1/2 x 9"

Napoleon Pays Homage to the Courage of a Wounded Austrian Officer and the Austrian troops,that had opposed him in Italy 1806

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napleon and two mstaff depart battle

Napoleon and two of his staff departing the field of battle.

Etching. In plate (lower right) the letter 'M' also (bottom right) 7S NX
matted, glazed, Brushed bronzed metal frame.
Image: 4 1/4 x 7" (10.8 x 17.8 cm.) Frame: 7 5/8 x 10 1/2"

Perhaps loosely based on the painting Marshal Ney and Napoleon with soldiers during the Invasion of Russia by Jan Chelminski (1902)

Ref. TJ 13 / RL / V.ande >DNN   PRICE CODE A

Napoleon retur form Elbe

Retour de L'Ile D'Elbe

Outhwaite after Steuben and A. Sandoz
Steel engraving, double matted, glazed, black and gilt-wood frame.
book illustration laid within black line border
Border size: 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 (11.2 x 17.5 cm) Frame:11 x 13"

Following his escape from exile on the Island of Elba, Napoleon returned to France to begin the '100 days'. After the painting by Charles Baron von Steuben

Ref. TJ 10 / AL / V.ande >DNN

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Napoleon on the banks of the Elbe river.

Outhwaite after Karl Girardet published Richard Bently & Son Paris 1892
Steel engraving, double matted glazed, black and gilt-wood frame.
Image: 4 1/2 x 5 3/8 (11.4 x 13.7 cm.) including letters Frame: 10 3/4 x 11 5/8"

Book illustration, depicting Napoleon on his white charger, under bombardment at the commencement of his crossing of the Elbe river.

Ref. TJ 11 / AL / V.ande >DNN

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Nap after abdication

Napoleon I. Fontainebleau 31 Maerz 1814

G.L. Leybold after Paul DeLaroche
Published Selmar Hess New York,
Having signed the article of abdication a defeated Napoléon Bonaparte is seated at his desk in the Palace of Fontainebleau after the 1846 painting by Paul DeLaroche 1797 -1856

Uncoloured Steel engraving, double matted glazed silver gilt wood frame.7 x 4 1/2" (17.8 x 11.4cm.) Frame: 15 x 12 3/4

Ref. TJ 7 / RN / V.ande >DNN PRICE CODE A  SOLD 

Napoleon with snuff box

 [Three-quarter length portrait of Napoleon Buonaparte]

after Louis David.
Original hand-tinted Sepia engraving, laid to card. Natural wood frame.
9 1/2 x 7 1/4" ( 24.1 x 18.4 cm.)  Frame 14 x 11 1/2"
 Ref. RB3 (180)/EN/ r.ando> DOL
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Napoleon aged about 40. Standing (within the Tuileries Palace) facing left, head turned forward, his left hand clasps a snuff-box behind his back. A blue-green tail-uniform coat of a colonel of the guard with white facings and red cuffs and lining, gold epaulettes upon his shoulder, cross and plaque of the Legion d’honneur and the cross of the Order of the Iron Crown upon his right breast. His thinning hair and increased girth is beginning to show 'a man grown old before his time'.
  

Napoleon vernet

 [Oval half-length portrait of the Emperor Napoleon I]

After Emile-Jean –Horace Vernet
1789-1863
  Original hand-tinted oval mezzotint portrait,  within rectangular corner garlanded  boarder. glazed, period Mahogany wood frame. 8 7/8 x 7 3/8" (22.5 x 18.7 cm.)  Frame 12 1/2 x 11"
 Ref. RB4 (180)/AL/ r.ando> DVL PRICE CODE A
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1815 of Napoleon aged about 40. Facing forward, head turned to his right. Dark green uniform of a colonel of the guard and red piping, epaulettes upon his shoulder.  The cross and plaque of the Legion d’honneur and the cross of the Order of the Iron Crown upon his right breast. His thinning hair and increased girth is beginning to show 'a man grown old before his time'.  

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