top of page
Chats on...

Baxter's Advertisements - my collection of adverts placed by Baxter between 1827 - 1860

Baxter's Birthplace - a painting by Paul Braddon

Baxter's Crystal Palace - coloured by C F Buckley? - Buckley's painting of The Great Exhibition sketched by Baxter?

Baxter's Crystal Palace and a detailed review of George Baxter's at early days of the Crystal Palace

Baxter's Duke of Wellington (CL 225) is NOT in the book 'Memoirs of Wellington'

Baxter's Abbreviated Family Tree

Baxter's First ever published work - Brighton Chain Pier

Baxter's First work outside of his father's publications

Baxter's Glaze - how it is made

Baxter's Hollyhocks and The Gardeners Shed reproduced as Playing Cards

Baxter's Holy Family - a set of Progressive Proofs

Baxter's letter to Revd Jabez Bunting - Wesleyan Missionary Society

Baxter' Military Service! - Yes he does have a service record

Baxter Sales receipt dated 1843 - a rare piece of ephemera

Baxter and the chromolithographic context by Michael Twyman

Baxter at The Great Industrial Exhibition Dublin - 1853

Baxter's wood engravings at Magpie Alley in Fleet Street London

David Davidson of New York, Baxter US agent now printing his own 'Baxter Prints'

Frederick Mockler and his Portfolio of reprints from George Baxter's steel plates - 1894

The Great Exhibition 1851 and International Expositions & their Diplomas by Curtis Radford

H.R.H. Prince Albert’s Cachou Aromatise - By Thomas Jackson after Baxters Print

Lewes Baxter collection seen on ITV in 'Grace'

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?

Sarreguemines China tableware - based on Baxter's designs

Sir David Scott - The Rarest of George Baxter print of them all?

Will Roberts Welsh 20th Century Expressionist painter & Baxter’s Birthplace in Lewes

George Baxter his life from 1860

Baxter's Retirement Auction Sale 8th May 1860 - 100,000 prints and 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 - a rare advertising posters

Baxter - where was he in 1862 - At International Exhibition? at 12 Northampton Sq?  at The Retreat in Sydenham?

Baxter - 1863 - 1864

George Baxter letters to his family, wills and ephemera - Full details explaining what The Snelling Archive is  - and some interesting items are also shown below

Letter dated 23rd July 1853 from GB to his Brother in Law, Francis Snelling, regarding Robert Harrild's death

​Letter dated 28th July 1853 from GB to his father John Baxter concerning the death of Robert Harrild

​Letter dated 26th December 1853 from GB to Francis Snelling regarding the death of his Mother in Law Elizabeth Harrild

​Letter dated 12th November 1853 from GB to his father John Baxter giving details about his daughter Elizabeth's wedding to William Oliver - shows great animosity towards his brother William Edwin Baxter but gives no reason why his father didn't attend the wedding.

​​Letter dated 6th April 1855 from GB to his father, John Baxter re a visit cancelled by his father at the instigation of his brother William on Jubilee Day and complained of the attitude of Robert Harrild (Jnr) to his own father at the time of his death.

The Will of John Baxter, George Baxter's father who died in 1858

​The Mortgage of George Baxter's inheritance from his father's Will to Edward Selle, Grocer of Middlesex dated 10th December 1863

Baxter - Sewing and Needle box items

Needle box Prints and various sewing and needle work related articles

Needle boxes - Alfred Ernest Owen collection Baxter's needle boxes of R Turner & Sons

Rare sheet of Forty Five needle box prints by J M Kronheim

Bradshaw & Blacklock

Winn's George Hotel Coney Street, York - until recently, an unrecorded print

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

Dyas & Harman of Cork - 1856 Almanac printed by Le Blond & Co

Epps's Cocoa shop display box with printed labels by Le Blond & Co

Le Blond as a Publisher - Palace Quality Satin Note Paper

On their blue labels it states 'Printed in Oil Colors' was this for the American market?

Printed by Baxter or Le Blond? Le Blond Baxter's how can you tell the difference?

Tyrolean Waltz - an unrecorded Gold Bordered Mount

William Dickes

Dickes Premises at 109 - 111 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London

William Dickes original Sketchbooks

Joseph Martin Kronheim - J M Kronheim & Co

Kronheim & Co - a chronology of the full company history

Kronheim Sheets for William Nicholson & Son - we now know which books these were used in...

Rare sheet of Forty Five needle box prints by J M Kronheim

The Christies 'New Hall Vault' sale of Kronheim prints in September 1987

Joseph Mansell

An unrecorded set of Joseph Mansell Reward Cards - 'Illustrated Tales for the Young’

Charles Dickens' visit to Joseph Mansell premises

Joseph Mansell - His Valentines and Prints by Geoff Snowden

Joseph Mansell's prints of River Teify, Lake Como, Warwick Castle and Netley Abbey from George Baxter's own Printing Plates

Joseph Mansell's Steel engraved printing plate for a set of needle box prints

Reference Books

List of reference books etc covering Baxter, his Licensees and Victorian Colour Printing

Baxter Prints  by  BH Morgan - beware it is not the book on Baxter you might think it is

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

© 2017 www.GeorgeBaxter.com - All images and text on this website are the property of www.GeorgeBaxter.com and should not be used without written consent. This will be freely given to people who have the decency to ask and give good reason
  • Facebook Social Icon
bottom of page