Blowing Bubbles - No 74 - Le Blond & Co - George Baxter’s Patent 1850’s / 1860\'s For Sale

Outside of their cottage sits the lady of the house sewing or repairing clothes with her daughter at her side, the youngest child sits on the floor in front of her stroking the pet cat. Six boys are then playing, one, on top of a box, is blowing bubbles and others are trying to catch them
Signed at the foot “Le Blond & Co London”. The print is over mounted exposing the embossed border around the print and also the embossed title and serial No 74, bottom right. It is a ‘modern’ distressed silver frameFrame size is approx. 33 x 31 cm.George Baxter was the first person to ‘invent’ commercial colour printing as the frontispieces in Robert Mudie’s Feathered Tribes of the British Isles published in 1834. By 1835 Baxter had added an engraved steel ‘key’ plate to allow much more detail and then patented his method of printing. In 1849 Le Blond & Co was the first printers to purchase a licence from Baxter to use his process. They produced a number of colour works of art using Baxter process and by 1852 they had commenced their series of ovals prints, most if not all after Anthony John Puller. The series was completed most probably by the late 1860’s and the whole series was printed until the 1870’s when they most probably ceased. The series amounts to 32 oval prints in total and over the years have become highly collectable.

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