Antique Framed EngravingSt. James's Street London 1750, Hand-Coloured — England, 19th Century

DETAILS:
Size: Frame 33.5 × 27 cm (13.2 × 10.6 in) · Engraving 22 × 16 cm (8.7 × 6.3 in)
Material: hand-coloured engraving on paper; gilt wood frame; green-grey fabric mount; glazed
Style/Period: English, 19th century — depicting St. James's Street, 1750
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide
Condition: good; engraving legible throughout with light age-consistent patina; frame and mount sound
Returns: accepted within 30 days

The topographical view of London as it had been a century earlier was a popular genre among the print publishers of the nineteenth century — scenes reconstructed from earlier drawings and paintings, hand-coloured, and sold to a public with a keen appetite for the city's own history. St. James's Street, at the heart of London's clubland, was a natural subject: a thoroughfare of coaches, pedestrians, and townhouses that carried the visible texture of eighteenth-century urban life, reproduced here from an original drawing in a named private collection, as the print itself records.

This engraving is English, nineteenth century, depicting St. James's Street as it appeared in 1750, hand-coloured over the printed line work. The composition runs the full depth of the street in perspective, terraced townhouses and shopfronts receding toward a distant church tower, the roadway filled with horse-drawn coaches, mounted figures, and pedestrians in period dress going about the business of the street. The colouring is applied with restraint — warm ochre and grey tones across the buildings and sky, small touches of red and blue picking out individual figures — the hand-tinting that turns a black-and-white engraving into something closer to a watercolour sketch. The engraving is set within a green-grey fabric mount and presented in a gilt wood frame, the mount's cool tone offsetting the warm sepia of the print itself.

Whoever framed and kept this print before you preserved it well — the engraving is legible throughout with the light, honest patina that age brings to paper behind glass. The frame and mount are sound. It is ready to hang in a library, a study, or an English-style interior.

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