Newly designed Website:
Before mentioning our newly published Limited Edition Prints we should mention the launch of our newly designed website. We’ve made navigation much easier and added a lot more information on the processes used; we’ve included illustrations, too, on the hand-numbering and embossing that we use on our prints, and on the framing options now available.
New Prints:
We are very pleased to have secured the exclusive rights to print the Eric Ravilious High Street images – all 24 of them. These lithographs were initially created by Ravilious for a book on shops, and published by Country Life Books just before the war in 1938. Very few of the books were actually printed, the war intervened, and the lithographic plates were completely destroyed in the Blitz. The images themselves are exquisite. John Piper (previewing the work in ‘Signature’, 1937) wrote of them:
‘Ravilious is a particularly English artist….there is probably no-one else who could have made these records at once so faithfully and imaginatively. There is about them the suggestion that you are looking in at a series of gay, old-fashioned parties from the matter-of-fact street in the present. They are records of a passing beauty, but they are full of present-day experience. And they are faithful enough to look like tuck-shops full of sherbert, liquorice and lollipops – which, after all, is one of the chief appeals of the attractive shop’.
The High Street prints are sold with or without a frame: if you purchase without a frame, the print comes to you wrapped with an archival ph neutral mount, cost £65.00. If you purchase with a frame – either the elegant matt-black or English oak frame – the cost is £113.00. And there are no additional postal charges for either framed or unframed prints sent to you.
Eric Ravilious High Street images:
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| Knife Grinder | Public House | Naturalist |
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| Letter Makers | Undertaker | Cheesemonger |
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| Coach Builder | Baker And Confectioner | Fire Engineer |
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| Model Ships | Saddlers And Harness Makers | Submarine Engineer |
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| Fireworks | Oyster Bar | Theatrical Properties |
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| Pharmaceutical Chemist | Hams | Second Hand Furniture |
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| Restaurant And Grill Room | Amusement Arcade | Letter Maker |
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| Wedding Cakes | Family Butcher | Hardware |