About antique Royalty,Nobility & Celebrity Prints

I have a large selection of antique royal prints and antique celebrity prints..

and flies with swallow’s wings;
Kings it makes gods,
and meaner creatures kings.

King Richard III
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Let fame,
that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register’d
upon our brazen tombs.

Love’s labour’s lost
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Passion for fame;
a passion which is the instinct
of all great Souls.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Royalty- A person of Royal lineage. In other words Kings, Queens, Princes, Dukes, Lords and others.
The paraphernalia connected to Royalty such as Coronation Robes, Knight’s armour and Heraldry or the different Coat of Arms belonging to the nobles of the land.

Celebrities -Famous people, which includes Politicians, Painters, Musicians, Poets, Writers and Philosophers, Artists, Military and Naval Commanders.

John Tallis (1817-1876) was an English Cartography publisher. Together with Rapkin, he produced illustrated maps of the world for the 1851 Great Exhibition.In 1858 he published the Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages.Some examples are The Duke of Wellington, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mozart, Bach.
Charles Hamilton-Smith (1776-1859) was an artist, illustrator, soldier and Spy. He illustrated The Ancient Costumes of England
The illustrations etched by Atkinson, and Aquatinted by J.Hill were published by Colnaghi in 1818. There is an example of Alberic de Vere.