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.

Anon alpine landscape

An extract of our prints currently available:
Alpine view Proof before letters

Austrian Proof before lettersAnon
Austrian/German landscape
Last quarter 18th. Cent.
Sepia toned aquatint Proof before letters, original glazing, period water gilt-wood and plaster frame
25 3/8 x 19 1/2"  (56.8 x 49.5 cm.)  Frame: 29 3/4 x 24    PRICE CODE B
Ref. TL1 /ANN/a.anna >ENN        Click here for price guide

A fine sepia toned aquatint ca.1790 aquatint depicting an artist sitting sketching the scene before him:-a picturesque half timbered house is bathed in alpine sunlight within a steep sided mountain river valley, to his right villagers toil to extract a large log from a rain swollen river below a waterfall.  A fine dark proof before letters impression. Such bucolic scenes were often the subject of the pencil or brush of 18th. & 19th. century artist on the Grand Tour at the beginning of the Age of Romanticism.

Austrian andscape detail

Detail
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