Welcome to the latest GeorgeBaxter.com newsletter keeping you up to date on new research, discoveries or just (what I feel) is interesting information regarding George Baxter, Mid Victorian colour printing and all related subjects. There is too much information to view easily on a Mobile also sometimes your provider might block the links so you don't get to see the main articles. To get the best from this newsletter and all the linked articles we suggest that you click on the top of this email 'view in a browser' or click or COPY this link https://www.georgebaxter.com/newsletter to your browser and go to the latest newsletter. If you would like to ask any questions or have something you can add please email me on sales@georgebaxter.com Best regards - Mic |
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Don't forget I will be at the NEC in Birmingham from 4th - 7th April, helping out on the New Baxter Society feature exhibition stand at the Antiques for Everyone Fair (if you get there make sure you come and say hello) It has already gained some very good publicity including a four page feature in the |
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Antiques Collecting Magazine which states on the front page - Back in Fashion - The Prints of George Baxter |
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Baxter published three prints of 'Verona' - the early version in 1837 for his Cabinet of Paintings (as shown on the left) and then in 1850 he published another two versions (one signed on the boat and the other in the water), as seen on the right. The design is basically the same but in the later version Baxter has now changed the background under the bridge and inserted a Gondola, I don't think anyone has given much thought to Baxter's 'poetic licence'. |
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Last year I met up with Laura Carnelos, Collections Research Assistant at the University of Reading, Department of Typography. As soon as Laura, a native of Italy, saw this image she knew something was wrong. It turns out that although the bridge and view is definitely Verona, unknown to Baxter (and to most of us it seems) Gondolas are something very specific to Venice! |
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I have had a bit of a change around on the GeorgeBaxter.com website. I needed some space for more important things so I have done away with the 'Forum', it wasn't working like our Wordpress research site so I have replaced this with a heading 'Can you help' being subjects that we are currently still looking for answers for. Each page has a dedicated contact form so anyone with any information can contact us very easily. We will be building on this over the coming months, please keep checking to see if you can assist. |
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I have also taken off the 'Blog' - if you want to keep up to date on my odd ramblings, usually about unusual or interesting items that I have added to the collection follow me on Facebook GeorgeBaxterPrints This has given me room to add a new heading 'About the Prints' being an area where I can write about mainly new and interesting information about specific prints - we have already started with Baxter's Abolition of Slavery, a print he never published - or did he? |
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' Kronheim sheets, their use discovered We have had two similar sheets of Kronheim prints for a few years but never knew what they were used for - until now! | | |
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Baxter Prints on Postage Stamps In the last issue I asked you to 'prove me wrong' that our Victorian colour printers hadn't had any of their prints on any postage stamps apart from the ones I had come across from St Helena. It didn't take long for me to prove it to myself when I came across Baxter's Puss Napping on stamps from a 2017 issue from the Maldives - Paintings of Cats |
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Guest contributor, Geoff Snowden writes about Valentine Cards, Joseph Mansell and what started him collecting | | |
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An interesting item was recently added to the collection, an aide-memoire / needle case with Baxter Prints - The Little Gardeners (CL 358) and Lake Luggellaw (CL 323) on the covers. I had seen listings described as Baxter aide-memoires in 1920's auction catalogues but had never actually physically seen one in the 'flesh'. I wasn't expecting this to also incorporate a needle case with space for needles on both the front and back. Does anyone know who would have manufactured these? The prints would have been purchased wholesale from Baxter or from a retailer by the manufacturer of it. Would they be the same manufacturers who made needle boxes? Presumably the needle makers weren't actually the manufacturers of the actual boxes - Can anyone add anything? |
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A visit to Mansell's workshop by Charles Dickens How would you like to read a very full description of a visit in 1864 to Joseph Mansell's print and valentine card works and written by no other than Charles Dickens! | | |
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In the 1950's a number of buildings at Northampton Square were demolished to make way for the new City University. A plaque is now on the side on this building to commemorate Baxter's work. As a nice added touch the caterers at the University have named one of the cafes on the site 'Baxter's' in his honour. Their site, link below, gives a brief mention of what Baxter achieved. We have offered our services to correct the obvious inaccuracy - I think that Gutenberg might lay claim to that some 400 years earlier. | | |
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Hopefully you have enjoyed this newsletter, any feedback is greatly appreciated. Please email me at sales@georgebaxter.com with any questions, suggestions for forthcoming articles or even better, would you like to write an article for a future newsletter? |
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