Chats on...
Our Chats on... are an ongoing series of articles about George Baxter, his licencees and other mid Victorian Hand Pressed Colour Printers.
For details about specific prints please see 'About Prints'
George Baxter
Addresses - A full list both business and personal
Agents in Germany - Joh. Heinrigs - F. C. Eisen - Theodor Oswald Weigel - Franz Thimm +
Agent in USA - David Davidson 109 Nassau Street, New York City
Apprentices - Harrison Weir, Alfred Reynolds, George Cargill Leighton etc
Advertisements - my collection of adverts placed by Baxter between 1827 - 1860
The chromolithographic context by Michael Twyman
Baxter's Birthplace - a painting by Paul Braddon
Baxter's Family Tree
Baxter's glaze - how it is made
Baxter' Military Service! - Yes he does have a service record
Baxter's retirement auction sale 8th May 1860 - 100,000 prints an all his Plates and Plant
Baxter's travelling sales 1860 -1863
Baxter's travelling sales - an important sale poster - Brompton - February 1863
Baxter's travelling sales - rare advertising posters
Baxter's Duke of Wellington (CL 225) is NOT in the book 'Memoirs of Wellington'
Baxter's Holy Family - a set of Progressive Proofs
Crystal Palace - Baxter's Gems No 1 - Exterior - was it coloured by C F Buckley? - Was Buckley's painting of The Great Exhibition actually sketched by Baxter?
Hollyhocks and The Gardeners Shed reproduced as Playing Cards
‘H.R.H. Prince Albert’s Cachou Aromatise’ - By Thomas Jackson after Baxter's Print
First ever published work - Brighton Chain Pier
First work outside of his father's publications
Frederick Mockler and his Portfolio of reprints from George Baxter steel plates
Needle box Prints - various sewing related articles
Posthumous Baxters - prints taken from plates after his death - often sold as genuine
Printed by Baxter or Le Blond? Le Blond Baxter's how can you tell the difference?
Sales receipt dated 1843 - a rare piece of ephemera
Sarreguemines China tableware - based on Baxter's designs
Sir David Scott - The Rarest of George Baxter print of them all?
Snelling Archive of letters, wills and ephemera relating to George Baxter
Wood engravings at Magpie Alley in Fleet Street London
Le Blond & Co
Printed by Baxter or Le Blond? Le Blond Baxter's how can you tell the difference?
Epps's Cocoa shop display box with printed labels by Le Blond & Co
A 'unique' circular dated 1862 - Le Blond selling ovals 'door to door'
Brothers Water - Le Blond took the designs from J Sands and Thomas Allom
Le Blond as a Publisher - Palace Quality Satin Note (Paper)
Tyrolean Waltz - an unrecorded Gold Bordered Mount
On their blue labels it states 'Printed in Oil Colors' was this for the American market?
William Dickes
Dickes Premises at 109 - 111 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London
Joseph Martin Kronheim - J M Kronheim & Co
The Christies 'New Hall Vault' sale of Kronheim prints in September 1987
Kronheim & Co - a chronology of the full company history
Kronheim Sheets - we now know which books they were used in...
Joseph Mansell
Charles Dickens' visit to Joseph Mansell premises
Joseph Mansell - His Valentines and Prints by Geoff Snowden
An unrecorded set of Joseph Mansell Reward Cards - 'Illustrated Tales for the Young’
Joseph Mansell's prints of River Teify, Lake Como, Warwick Castle and Netley Abbey from George Baxter's Printing Plates
Reference Works
My database of reference works relating to George Baxter, his Licensees and Victorian Colour Printing - WITH REVIEWS
Fakes & Forgeries
In the 1920's lots of fakes were produced - don't get caught, see our comprehensive article
Posthumous Baxters - prints taken from plates after his death - often sold as genuine