Francis Bedford Day & Son London - Early Limoges Enamel Art Treasures of the United Kingdom

Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century (Art Treasures of the United Kingdom)

Francis Bedford's original color lithograph depicts an early sixteenth century limoges enamel plaque that was exhibited at the Manchester Exhibition of 1858. This lithograph was printed and published by Day & Son in that same year as part of a series entitled, "Art Treasures of the United Kingdom". The series concentrated upon examples of Medieval and Renaissance enamels, ceramics, porcelains and stoneware in British collections. The text printed in the left upper margin of this original lithograph reads; “Vitreous Art”, & to the right “Plate 7”. The artist’s name “F. Bedford, del. et Lith.”, the name “J. B. Waring. Dirext.”, and the printer’s details, “Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen” are all printed in the lower margin along with a description for fine enamels, it reads "Early Limoges Enamel. 12th or 13th Century. (1.- An Offering Plate, & 2.- End of a Chase) From the collection of Lord Hastings". "This is a fine, original example of early English color printing and the art created by the 19th century British artist, Francis Bedford.

Early Limoges Enamel Original lithograph by the British artist Francis Bedford published by Day & Son for Art Treasures of the United Kingdom

Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century (Art Treasures of the United Kingdom)

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Francis Bedford (London, 1816 - 1894)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Source	-
01.-		A Limoges Enamel Plaque, Early Sixteenth Century by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1858	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom
02.-		Altar and Reredos Designed By The Late A. W. Pugin, Carved In Stone By Myers Of London, And Fitted-Up By Hardman Of Birmingham lithography by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1853	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
03.-		Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1858	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom
04.-		Faenza Ware Plate by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1858	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom
05.-		Flemish Ewer, Jug and Stoneware, 16th Century by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1858	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom	Sold
06.-		Fountain in Iron, Andre of Paris by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1852	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
07.-		Portrait of Princess Elizabeth, in Enamel by Limousin by Francis Bedford	Original Lithograph	1858	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom	Sold

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Day & Son 'Royal Lithographers to Queen Victoria'
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	Source	-
Ackermann, London
01.-		Moon Rise in The Valley of Cairn Gorm by Michel Bouquet	Michel Bouquet (Lorient, 1807 - Paris, 1890)	Original Lithograph	1849	Ackermann, London	Sold
Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
01.-		Altar and Reredos Designed By The Late A. W. Pugin, Carved In Stone By Myers Of London, And Fitted-Up By Hardman Of Birmingham lithography by Francis Bedford	Francis Bedford (London, 1816 - 1894)	Original Lithograph	1853	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition	Sold
02.-		Fountain in Iron, Andre of Paris by Francis Bedford	Francis Bedford (London, 1816 - 1894)	Original Lithograph	1852	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
03.-		Ornamental Cover of a Colour Box designed by Sliegh for Ackermann & Company	J. Sliegh, (British, active, 19th century)	Original Lithograph	1852	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
04.-		Portion of a Shield in Silver by Vechte, for Hunt and Roskell of London by John Alfred Vinter	Vinter, John Alfred (London, 1828 - 1905)	Original Lithograph	1852	Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition
Passages from Modern English Poets
01.-		Sea Beach - Norfolk Fisherman on the Look Out (The Fisherman) by Frederick Bacon Barwell	Frederick Bacon Barwell (London, c. 1831 - 1922)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
02.-		Hagar and Ishmael by Joseph Clark	Joseph Clark (Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1834 - Ramsgate, 1926)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
03.-		The May Wreath by William Gale	William Gale (London, 1823 - 1909)	Original Etching	1861	Passages from Modern English Poets
04.-		Scene of the Plague in London, 1665 by Charles Samuel Keene	Charles Samuel Keene (Hornsea, 1823 - London, 1891	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
05.-		Sisters of Mercy by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching	1859	Passages from Modern English Poets
06.-		The Little Shipwrights by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching	1859-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
07.-		The Cornfield by Arthur James Lewis	Arthur James Lewis 'Arthur Lewis' (London, 1824 - 1901)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
08.-		Summer Indolence by John Everett Millais	John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
09.-		Moonlight by Henry Moore	Henry Moore (York, 1831 - Margate, 1895)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
10.-		The Last Gleam of Day by John Wright Oakes	John Wright Oakes (Middlewich (Cheshire), 1820 - London, 1887)	Original Drypoint & Etching	1859-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
11.-		The Rainbow by Sir Francis Powell	Sir Francis Powell (Pendleton, 1833 - Dunoon, Scotland, 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
12.-		St. Valentine's Day by Charles Rossiter	Charles Rossiter (London, 1827 - 1897)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
13.-		Nearing Home by Walter Severn	Walter Severn (Frascati (near Rome), 1830 - London, 1904)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
14.-		Supping on Horrors by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
15.-		The Shoe-Black by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
16.-		Winter Revels by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
17.-		War and Glory by Sir John Tenniel	Sir John Tenniel (London, 1820 - 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
18.-		Study of a Head by Henry Clarence Whaite	Henry Clarence Whaite (Manchester, 1828 - Conwy Valley, Wales, 1912)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
19.-		Sketching by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
20.-		The Punt by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Passages from Modern English Poets
Vanity Fair
01.-		Vice - Admiral Caillard by Jean Baptiste Guth	Jean Baptiste Guth (Bayonne, London, died, 1921)	Original Lithograph	1905	Vanity Fair
02.-		Various Vanity Fair Prints (Collection of 40 Original Lithographs)	Miscellaneous Vanity Fair Portraits (Collection of Forty)	Original Lithographs	1875 to 1903	Vanity Fair
03.-		Madam Sarah Bernhardt by a Vanity Fair artist, Monogramme: 'K'	Monogramme: 'K'	Original Lithograph	1912	Vanity Fair	Sold
04.-		The Lord Chief Justice of England (Lord Alverstone) by a Vanity Fair artist, Monogramme: 'W. H.'	Monogramme: 'W. H.'	Original Lithograph	1913	Vanity Fair
05.-		Albert Seymour by Carlo Pellegrini Known as 'Ape'	Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' (Capua, Italy, 1839 - London, 1889)	Original Lithograph	1877	Vanity Fair
06.-		The Lord Chief Baron (The Right Honourable Sir Fitz Roy Edward Kelly) by a Vanity Fair artist	Vanity Fair artist	Original Lithograph	1871	Vanity Fair
07.-		A Professor (Mr. James Edwin Thorold Rogers) by Sir Leslie Ward 'Spy'	Sir Leslie Ward, 'Spy' (London, 1851 - 1922)	Original Lithograph	1884	Vanity Fair	Sold
08.-		H. A. C. (The Earl of Denbigh) by Sir Leslie Ward 'Spy'	Sir Leslie Ward, 'Spy' (London, 1851 - 1922)	Original Lithograph	1894	Vanity Fair
09.-		The Admiral (Sir James Dairymple Horn Elphinstone, M. P.) by Sir Leslie Ward 'Spy'	Sir Leslie Ward, 'Spy' (London, 1851 - 1922)	Original Lithograph	1878	Vanity Fair
10.-		Turf Devotee - The Right Honourable Lord Hothfield by Sir Leslie Ward 'Spy'	Sir Leslie Ward, 'Spy' (London, 1851 - 1922)	Original Lithograph	1889	Vanity Fair

Title:	Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century
Artist:	Bedford, Francis (London, 1816 - 1894)
Date:	1858
Medium:	Original Lithograph Printed in Colour
Publisher:	Day & Son, London
Source:	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom
Note:	Francis Bedford: Born in London in 1816, Francis Bedford was undoubtedly an exceptional artist in lithography and early photography. Francis Bedford is important on two artistic levels; firstly, as an early, accomplished color lithographer and, secondly, as a pioneer of landscape and architectural photography. He was also an architect and thus many of his plates in both media deal with this subject. Francis Bedford's first published lithograph dates from 1840 and his first photograph from 1855. Francis Bedford was a founding member of the Photographic Society (1853) and was elected Vice-president of the London Photographic Society (1861).
	Francis Bedford's finest lithographs will be found in such publications as "Art Treasures of the United Kingdom" (1858), "The Churches of York" (1843), "Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition" (1853), "The Grammar of Ornament" (1856), and "The Treasury of Ornamental Art" (1858). His original photographs are included in such works as "The Sunbeam" (1856), "The Photographic Art Annual" (1859), "Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain" (1864), and "Photographic Pictures made by Mr. Francis Bedford during the Tour in the East, in which he Accompanied The Prince of Wales". The Francis Bedford Topographical Photographs Collection is today housed in the Birmingham Central Library. "Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century" hails from the (1858) "Art Treasures of the United Kingdom".
	Day & Son, London: Some of the most ambitious and accomplished printmaking projects of the Victorian era were launched by the lithographic publishers, Day & Son. The firm began in the mid 1820's under the title of 'Day & Hague' and assumed its more familiar name in 1845. Throughout their early years they printed and published lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as, hunting scenes, genre depictions and topographical views. In the late 1840's, however, Day & Son came to the forefront as a pioneer of the recently discovered medium of the color lithograph; that is, printing lithographs in color by utilizing a series of meticulously registered tint and color stones. Each color and hue required an individual printing. A complex color lithograph, like "Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century", was created by using at least twelve separate printings. Thus, apart from the obvious beauty of the original work of art, it represents an important example of one of the most demanding of art techniques. Day & Son was so accomplished in this field that the firm was appointed, 'Royal Lithographers to Queen Victoria'.
	This original lithograph entitled, "Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century" was printed and published in 1858 as part of a series entitled, "Art Treasures of the United Kingdom". The series concentrated upon the finest examples of Medieval and Renaissance enamels, ceramics, porcelains and stoneware in British collections, such this early 13th century Limoges enamel plaque. All these pieces were exhibited at the Manchester Exhibition of 1858. Day &. Son was already well established as the leading colour printmaker for the depiction of objects d'art, as five years earlier they had been entrusted with the colour lithographs of the art at the great Crystal Palace Exhibition. The brilliant lithographer for this original work of art was Francis Bedford.
	Both artistically and historically, the lithographic art of Day & son is of great importance. It's amazing to consider that a colour lithograph of such perfect clarity, detail and complex range of colouration was created at such an early date.
	The text printed in the left upper margin of this original lithograph reads; “Vitreous Art”, & to the right “Plate 7”. The artist’s name “F. Bedford, del. et Lith.”, the name “J. B. Waring. Dirext.”, and the printer’s details, “Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen” are all printed in the lower margin. There is also a description for fine objects illustrated in this original lithograph, it reads; "Early Limoges Enamel. 12th or 13th Century. (1.- An Offering Plate, & 2.- End of a Chase) From the collection of Lord Hastings"
Size:	8 3/4 X 10 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $235.00 US
Condition:	Printed on mid nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published in London by Day & Son in 1858. This original lithograph entitled "Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century" is a fine with striking, unfaded colours and in excellent condition throughout. It represents an early and important example of colour printing techniques, the early English color lithographs by Day & Son and the art of Francis Bedford.
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Early Limoges Enamel, 12th or 13th Century (Art Treasures of the United Kingdom)