Wondering if anyone here can identify these prints?

by PartyJacket

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Found these in my grandfather's attic. Does anyone know where they're from? He doesn't know where he got them, but thinks they might be worth something.

Thanks all!

caffarelli

1-3 are certainly prints removed from books from the margins, this is a common practice by print collectors and dealers. Sometimes they are stolen from libraries (people come into the libraries and just cut out the prints and leave), and they are almost always impossible to match back up with the book.

4-5 look like nice lithograph prints, can't read the titles, try googling them.

6 might be a fashion plate from a women's magazine, from the paper quality and subject.

7-8 look like hand-tinted prints of photographs glued into a book, which is a technique I more usually see on postcards, but also for prints. They look like they're in nice condition though, not faded!

9 is a newspaper clipping.

They're all just "decorative value" (which is the polite way of saying not really worth anything) except for 4-5, which might be more valuable, no idea. Frame 'em if you like 'em. :)

chocolatepot

4 says "In her habit and hat, with her glad golden hair" - a google search shows this to be an illustration of Owen Meredith's book-poem, Lucile. 5 seems to be another illustration from the same poem. It was published in 1860, but these may be from a later edition - try searching for the name of the illustrator, whose signature I can't make out here.

6 is a fashion plate - IMO, it's a later reprint, because a plate from 1836 would tend to give the month. But you could probably get $10-20 for it on eBay.