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
Baxter: the chromolithographic context by Michael Twyman
Baxter's Birthplace - a painting by Paul Braddon
Baxter's glaze - how it is made
Baxter Military Service! - Yes he does have a service record
'Baxter Prints’ by B H Morgan - a book that is not what it seems
Baxter's retirement auction sale 8th May 1860 - 100,000 prints an all his Plates and Plant
Hollyhocks and The Gardeners Shed reproduced as Playing Cards
‘H.R.H. Prince Albert’s Cachou Aromatise’ - By Thomas Jackson after Baxter's Print
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
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?
Brothers Water - Le Blond took the designs from J Sands and Thomas Allom
Tyrolean Waltz - an unrecorded Gold Bordered Mount
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
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