William dickes lithographs

Bought these little lithographs yesterday believing them to be watercolours.(I've lost all my loupes)

They seem to be by

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickes

Can't find any examples online like mine, would have thought there would be alot floating round and repros

Hand coloured or chromolithograph ?

Modern re frames, water damage on one

Any thoughts appreciated

 

Did you see this engraving? Signed "Dickes del!"

Debora

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I've just found this one that looks pretty close, gonna have to open them up to be sure, same size though

https://newbaxtersociety.org/featureprints/2016may.aspx

 

William Dickes 1815-92 (ed.ac.uk)

 

Interestingly I've also got January's print of the month !, answering an old question I posted ages ago

https://newbaxtersociety.org/featureprints/2016jan.aspx

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/original-painting-or-print-or-both.20859/

I think I threw it out

 

That does look pretty close.

Debora

 

19th Century Prints and Multiples - 24 For Sale at 1stDibs

 

https://www.richardmole.co.uk/product/winter-after-we-jones/

 

A short article on George Baxter and his printing process (names William Dickes as a licensee):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baxter_(printer)

a couple of quotes:

"both Kronheim and Dickes were lithographic printers as well as wood engravers, and most likely mixed all of their printing methods together"

"it is often impossible to say exactly how a given colour print of this era has been produced"

A monochrome print, intaglio or relief, color applied with hand-inked wood blocks

 

Thanks mos, very interesting, sounds like an art form in its own right, compared to modern print processes

Managed to find the Baxter print I had before, it does look to be quite interesting in terms of how it was made

 

Musta thought too good to throw out, same size as linked one as well

 

The process produces color quite well, doesn't it? Captures subtleties but lots of depth.

Debora

 

Perhaps armed with a loupe I wouldn't have bought them, but as its transpired I've learnt a great deal by getting these, especially about early printing processes and names within the industry

So cool