Browsing Tag 19th century

Upcoming Highlights: Master Drawings—At Auction November 3, 2021

Featuring a private collection of Italian old master drawings, as well as English, French, German, Dutch and Norther…

Books & Manuscripts

George & Robert Cruikshank, Early Caricaturists

Brothers George and Isaac (who often went by his middle name of Robert) Cruikshank were famed early nineteenth-centu…

The Cherokee Messenger

The complete set of The Cherokee Messenger, Oklahoma’s earliest periodical, will be coming to auction in our P…

Maps & Atlases

Notes from the Catalogue: John Randel’s Map of New York

Among the highlights of Swann’s June 6 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints,…