Antique prints and engravings  - Designs, Costumes and Landscapes

Antique prints and engravings - Designs, Costumes and Landscapes

Lot 16246: WC Symons - A boarding party 1890

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Start price: £20

Estimated price: £40 - £80

Buyer's Premium:

This illustration is from the magnificent three-volume history of the British Navy entitled Her Majesty’s Navy, published in London between 1890 and 1893, at the height of Queen Victoria’s British Empire.

The book was written by Charles Rathbone Low with illustrations by W.F. Mitchell and W. Christian Symons. Symons was the artist creating the character pictures of ordinary sailors and their officers.

Size: 8.5in x 11in (22cm x 28cm)


Condition report:

Excellent but please check for the images for any age-related marks.