Henry Bradbury Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Henry Bradbury Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 08, 2024
Henry Bradbury (1829-1860) English, Archival Pr
Est: $100 - $200
Henry Bradbury (1829-1860) English, Archival Print. "Sphaerococcus coronopifolius" The gametangial phase grows from a discoid holdfast to form an erect, compressed and much branched thallus to a length of 15 cms. Branching more or less distichous, with small final branchlets in opposite series. The tetrasporic phase is crustose and was previously referred to as Haematocelis fissurata P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan. Size: 19 x 13 in. Henry Riley Bradbury was an English writer on printing. #1888 Location Box 10
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jun. 08, 2024
Henry Bradbury (1829-1860) English, Archival Pr
Est: $100 - $200
Henry Bradbury (1829-1860) English, Archival Print. "Peacock Tail Algae". Padina pavonica, commonly known as the peacock's tail, is a small brown alga found in the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It inhabits pools in the littoral zone typically with clayey, silty or sandy sediments. Size: 19 x 13 in. Henry Riley Bradbury was an English writer on printing. #1887 Location Box 10
Sarasota Estate Auction
Oct. 27, 2023
Henry Bradbury Fern "Nature Printing" (4)
Est: $300 - $500
Set of 4 "Museum Quality" framed "Nature-Printed" ferns by Henry Bradbury (1831-1860) OD approx 17.25" x 24.25" / ID 14.5" x 21.5". Framed in 1993. They include a letter on the back with letterhead "The Philadelphia Print Shop Ltd" explaining Bradbury's Nature Printed Ferns process and reads in part "Thomas Moore's Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. London: T. Moore, 1855. Folio. Nature printed intaglio prints. Printed in colors. Full margins. Very good condition.". The 4 plates are: Plate XXXIV (The Lady Fern), Plate XXVII (The Hay-Scented Fern), Plate XXVII (The Mountain Buckler Fern), Plate XLIV (The Common Brakes, or Bracken).
Keystone Auctions LLC
Oct. 27, 2023
Henry Bradbury 19th C Ferns "Nature Printing" (2)
Est: $100 - $300
Set of four framed "nature printing" ferns by Henry Bradbury (1831-1860) measuring approx 24.25" x 17.25". The 2 largest include a letter on the back with letterhead "The Philadelphia Print Shop Ltd" explaining Bradbury's Nature Printed Ferns process and reads in part "Thomas Moore's Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. London: T. Moore, 1855. Folio. Nature printed intaglio prints. Printed in colors. Full margins. Very good condition.". This lot has Plate XXIV Lastrea dilitata Chanteriae and Plate XIX Lastrea cristate.
Keystone Auctions LLC
Apr. 15, 2023
Print, Henry Bradbury
Est: $50 - $100
Henry Bradbury (British, 1831-1860), "Cystopteris Montana," color lithograph, signed in plate lower left, overall (with frame): 16.25"h x 13.25"w
Clars Auctions
Jan. 14, 2023
SET OF NINE FRAMED BOTANICAL PRINTS
Est: $150 - $300
Style of Henry Bradbury (English 1829-1860), set of nine colored botanical colored engravings, apparently unsigned and undated, all framed alike. Provenance: From the Estate of C.T. and William Biggers, Atlanta, Georgia. Approx. sight h. 12", w. 10"; overall h. 19.75", w. 16.75", d. 1".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Jan. 14, 2023
TEN HENRY BRADBURY FERN BOTANICAL PRINTS
Est: $400 - $600
Henry Bradbury (English 18291860), set of ten fern botanical illustration prints, prior book pages from "The Octavo Nature-Printed British Ferns" by Thomas Moore, framed. Approx. page h. 9.375", w. 6". Frame h. 17.75", w. 14", d. 0.75".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Dec. 03, 2020
Henry Riley Bradbury (1829–1860)
Est: £80 - £100
Henry Riley Bradbury (1829–1860) NATURE PRINTING, Asplenium Adiantum - nigrum acutum (fern), c.1855. Nature print, sheet size, 555 x 370mm, typescript title and copyright, lower margin, plate number, upper margin recto.
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Male Crested Wood Fern; Lastrea Filix-mas. 16
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Holly Fern; Polystichum Lonchitis. 9
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Buck Fern; Lastrea rigida. 18
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Hay-scented, or Concave Prickly-toothed Buckler Fern; Lastrea foenisecii. 27
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Buckthorn Brake; Osmunda regalis. 50
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jun. 08, 2019
Bradbury & Moore - Marsh Fern; Lastrea Thelypteris. 29
Est: $150 - $300
This folio, nature printed color plate is from Henry Bradbury & Thomas Moore's work entitled The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The work was edited by John Lindley. It was published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1855. Henry Bradbury perfected nature printing in the 1850s, in which an impression of the actual plant is created, leaving a lifelike representation with visible fibers and veins. Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced "... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft lead from which an electrotype could be made" (Blunt). As a result, they recorded the smallest details of flowers and the finest venations of leaves. Bradbury, whose father was of the publishing house Bradbury & Evans, studied at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. His interest in printing extended to "... the production of bank notes and the security of paper money, on which he discoursed at the Royal Institute" (DNB) and to the history of printing. He had many ideas for lavish and extensive works, including nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a work on the graphic arts of the nineteenth century, but none of these were ever realised. He died in 1860 at the age of twenty-nine.
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Apr. 24, 2019
Henry Bradbury. Ferns. 1855.
Est: $10 - $10,000
Plate xxxv: A. Asplenium fontanum. B. Asplenium lanceolatum. Bradbury, Henry. British (18291860). From Thomas Moores "Ferns of Great Britain & Ireland," Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London: 1855. Intaglio print. Printed in colors. Folio; sheet size 21.5" x 14". Condition: From the collection of Jim Willis.
Quinn's Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2019
Henry Bradbury. Seaweed. 4 Plates. 1859.
Est: $120 - $220
[Botany] Bradbury, Henry (British, 1829-1860). Group of four plates of seaweed. From "The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds." London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1859. These prints were created using the nature-printed process developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly lifelike and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of each seaweed without the interpretation of an engraver or artist. Framed, each: 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" Condition Under glass, not examined out of frame.
Quinn's Auction Galleries
Sep. 12, 2015
Botanical print collection, by Bradbury (4pcs)
Est: $200 - $300
Botanical print collection, by Bradbury Henry Bradbury (1831–1860) three leaves (from The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland) framed size H11 3/4" W8 3/4" Bradbury & Evans (1855-57) nature-printed ferns, framed size H26" W 19 1/4" (4pcs) Provenance: South Carolina private collection
Charlton Hall