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Virtue & Co

Also known as: Virtue & Co; primary name: Virtue; other name: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co; other name: H Virtue and Company, Limited; other name: J S Virtue & Co Limited; other name: J S Virtue & Co; other name: Virtue & Co Limited; other name: Virtue & Co; other name: Virtue Brothers & Company; other name: Virtue, George; other name: Virtue, James Sprent; other name: Virtue, James S
Details: individual; publisher/printer; British; Male
Life dates: 1820s-1908
Address: 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London (1829-97) 294 City Road, London (printing works (c.1848-97) 1 Amen Corner, London (1862-66) Bath Street, Bristol St Vincent Street, Liverpool
Biography: Major book and print publishing firm founded by George Virtue (1794-1868) in the 1820s; in 1848 acquired 'The Art Union' which became 'The Art Journal' (1839-1912; for a run of impressions in series order from this journal for 1844 to 1870 see 1872,1012.1792 to 2491 supplemented by 1872,1012.6068 to 6331); 1855 James Sprent Virtue (1829-1892) took over his father's business (he had been working in the New York branch since 1848) and initiated the series of prints after great 'galleries' of pictures including the Royal Collection, Vernon Collection and the Turner Collection. In 1862 another business was opened at 1 Amen Corner, under the name of Virtue Brothers & Company. In 1865, a younger brother, William Alexander Virtue, became a partner in the family's City Road and Ivy Lane businesses. The brothers were also proprietors of Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.
Bibliography: DNB Obituary of James Sprent Virtue, 'The Art Journal' (1892) Katherine Haskins, 'The art-journal and fine art publishing in Victorian England, 1850-1880', Farnham 2012

1,118 related objects

book; print; drawing

Title: Switzerland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett |
Museum number: 1958,0712.3008.1-76 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettAfter:Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

book; print

Title: Switzerland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett |
Museum number: 1958,0712.3007.1-64 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettAfter:Jean-Emmanuel Locher |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

print

Title: General Guyon |
Museum number: 1943,0410.912 |
Producer name: Print made by:George J StodartPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1880s

print; advertisement; book-illustration

Museum number: 1982,U.929 |
Producer name: BIOG51001 Print made by:Josiah Wood Whymper |
Production date: 1848-1851

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1992,0406.79 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Dalziel BrothersPublished by:Chapman & Hall

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Michael and Satan |
Museum number: 1872,1012.1963 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Callis RoffeAfter:John Flaxman |
Production date: 1849

print

Title: The Miracle of St Mark |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2490 |
Producer name: Print made by:Andrea Johann FleischmannAfter:Jacopo Tintoretto |
Production date: 1830-1878

print

Title: William, Earl of Devon. |
Museum number: 1915,1116.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph BrownAfter:Elizabeth Walker |
Production date: 1840-1850

print

Title: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Perceval, M.P. |
Museum number: 1915,1116.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:JenkinsonPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1830s

print

Title: Gipsy musicians of Spain |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2425 |
Producer name: Print made by:Friedrich KnolleAfter:John Phillip |
Production date: 1864

print; book-illustration

Title: Rigging Hulk and Frigate, Portsmouth |
Museum number: 1956,0717.10 |
Producer name: After:Edward William CookePrint made by:William Finden |
Production date: 1838

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1902,0228.22 |
Producer name: BIOG75315 Print made by:John Moyr Smith |
Production date: 1889

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1902,0228.39 |
Producer name: BIOG75315 Print made by:John Moyr Smith |
Production date: 1889

print

Title: General Sir George Brown, G.C.B. |
Museum number: 1919,0616.140 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles HollAfter:Roger Fenton |
Production date: 1835-1880

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Dante and Beatrice |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1996 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Oliver MurrayAfter:Henry Holiday |
Production date: 1884

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Ballad Singer |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2432 |
Producer name: Print made by:James StephensonAfter:Daniel Maclise |
Production date: 1865

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A mythological battle. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2146 |
Producer name: Print made by:George C FindenAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1853

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Rest |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6125 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CousenAfter:John Linnell |
Production date: 1862

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Philadelphia |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6140 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CousenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1863

print

Title: The Right Honble.. Viscount Sandon, M. P. |
Museum number: 1915,1116.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry RobinsonPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1818-1828

print

Title: The ever new horizon |
Museum number: 2011,7002.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Oliver MurrayAfter:Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
Production date: 1904

print

Title: The Reproof |
Museum number: 1923,1112.165 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph DesmannezAfter:Joseph Coomans |
Production date: 1860-1886

print

Title: St Cecilia |
Museum number: 1873,1213.515 |
Producer name: Print made by:Lumb StocksAfter:Domenichino |
Production date: 1846

print

Title: A Daughter of the East |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2465 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph DesmannezAfter:Jean François Portaels |
Production date: 1870

print

Title: Olden Hospitality |
Museum number: 1926,0331.754 |
Producer name: After:John Rogers HerbertPrint made by:Henry Chawner Shenton |
Production date: 1830-1866

print

Title: Mrs Burns and her grandchild |
Museum number: 1943,0410.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:John RogersAfter:Samuel MacKenzie |
Production date: 1835-1897

print

Title: Blaise Pascal |
Museum number: 1931,0505.55 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the elderAfter:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1800-1819

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Prawn Fishers |
Museum number: 1981,U.458 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Tibbetts WillmoreAfter:William Collins |
Production date: 1848-1863

print

Title: Bonaparte crossing the Alps |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1170 |
Producer name: After:Jacques Louis DavidPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1820-1868

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1902,0228.20 |
Producer name: BIOG75315 Print made by:John Moyr Smith |
Production date: 1889

print

Title: Vale of Glecroe |
Museum number: 1936,0425.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CousenAfter:George Bryant Campion |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mrs Siddons |
Museum number: 1931,0509.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:Malcolm OsborneAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1900-1908 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Claim for Shelter |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6312 |
Producer name: Print made by:George GreatbachAfter:Rebecca Solomon |
Production date: 1869 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Lieut. Gen. Sir Richard Englad, G.C.B. |
Museum number: 1918,0107.106 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles HollPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1878 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Susannah |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6207 |
Producer name: Print made by:Herbert BourneAfter:John Rogers Herbert |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1872,1012.2178 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Carr ArmytageAfter:William Etty |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Miss Smithson as Maria |
Museum number: 1922,0710.554 |
Producer name: BIOG61349 Published by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Earl of Auckland. |
Museum number: 1939,0303.73 |
Producer name: Print made by:George J StodartPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1855-1870 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Shakspere |
Museum number: 1900,1231.52 |
Producer name: BIOG61349 Published by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1830-1880 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Florimel and the Witch. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2106 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Austen PeriamAfter:Frederick Richard Pickersgill |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The triumph of love |
Museum number: 1872,1012.1968 |
Producer name: After:Patrick McDowellPrint made by:William Callis Roffe |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: War. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6068 |
Producer name: Print made by:Peter LightfootAfter:James Drummond |
Production date: 1854-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Dutch Boats in a Gale |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6118 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:John Carr Armytage |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1980,U.759 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CochranAfter:Henry Room |
Production date: mid 19th century |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Gold |
Museum number: 1923,1112.163 |
Producer name: Print made by:George GreatbachAfter:Alfred Holst Tourrier |
Production date: 1848-1884 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Grein, on the Danube. |
Museum number: 1936,0421.1 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettPrint made by:John Carr Armytage |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Spanish Contrabandistas. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6228 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidgwayAfter:John Phillip |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Jenner |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2355 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph BrownAfter:William Calder Marshall |
Production date: 1859 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Cottage Toilet |
Museum number: 1978,U.1710 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Carr ArmytageAfter:Sir David Wilkie |
Production date: 1830-1897 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Venice, the Grand Canal |
Museum number: 1872,1012.1981 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:Thomas Abiel Prior |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; electrotype

Title: Mercury and Argus The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1861,0518.860 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Tibbetts Willmore |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Cupid |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6233 |
Producer name: After:Sir Richard WestmacottPrint made by:J Thomson |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; electrotype

Title: A Country Blacksmith The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1861,0518.848 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerAfter:James Baker Pyne |
Production date: 1859-1860 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The sapphire |
Museum number: 1865,1014.668 |
Producer name: After:Edmund Thomas ParrisPrint made by:Henry Richard Cook |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square |
Museum number: 1864,0813.445 |
Producer name: After:George Hawkins IIPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Infant Moses. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6173 |
Producer name: Print made by:John H BakerAfter:Benjamin Edward Spence |
Production date: 1864 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Auld Farmers Address to his Mare Maggie |
Museum number: 1871,0812.2764 |
Producer name: Print made by:John RogersAfter:John Masey Wright |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1933,0708.25 |
Producer name: Print made by:Victor Gustave LhuillierAfter:James Dromgole Linton |
Production date: 1881 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Cottage Children |
Museum number: 1872,1012.1982 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Baird ShawAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Edward I. |
Museum number: 1900,1231.4 |
Producer name: After:George VertuePublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: late 19th century |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; electrotype

Title: Phryne going to the Bath as Venus The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1861,0518.847 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Countess Isabelle of Croyne |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6220 |
Producer name: Print made by:J StancliffeAfter:Alfred Elmore |
Production date: 1864 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Royal Princesses, Children of George III |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2405 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert GravesAfter:John Singleton Copley |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mrs Siddons as the tragic muse |
Museum number: 1931,0509.165 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward SmithAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Bathers |
Museum number: 1981,U.453 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles CousenAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1850-1855 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: On the Thames |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2196 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:Robert William Wallis |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Boston, and Bunker Hill (from the East) |
Museum number: 1927,0308.106 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettPrint made by:Charles Cousen |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The origin of the harp |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6127 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert GravesAfter:Daniel Maclise |
Production date: 1862 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Hannibal Crossing the Alps |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6157 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:John Cousen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Macready, as King John |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1258 |
Producer name: Print made by:R PageAfter:Thomas Charles Wageman |
Production date: 1820-1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Perdita and Florizel. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2470 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard Austin ArtlettAfter:Joseph Durham |
Production date: 1870 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Angler's Nook |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2114 |
Producer name: Print made by:James CarterAfter:Patrick Nasmyth |
Production date: 1853 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Dewerstone Rocks, Devon |
Museum number: 1946,0710.81 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DeebleAfter:H Worsley |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Innocence |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2044 |
Producer name: After:John Henry FoleyIntermediary draughtsman:Felix Robert Roffe |
Production date: 1851 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Newspaper |
Museum number: 1853,0324.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles William SharpeAfter:T S Goode |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Arch of Titus, Rome |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6087 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:Ebenezer Challis |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Council of War at Courtray |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2187 |
Producer name: Print made by:John GodfreyAfter:Louis Haghe |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Tambourine |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2075 |
Producer name: After:Penry WilliamsPrint made by:Charles Rolls |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Purity |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2367 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Callis RoffeAfter:Matthew Noble |
Production date: 1859 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Goldsmith |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2434 |
Producer name: After:John Henry FoleyPrint made by:George J Stodart |
Production date: 1848-1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: St Martin dividing his Cloak |
Museum number: 1861,1214.716 |
Producer name: After:Anthony van DyckPrint made by:William Henry Worthington |
Production date: 1834-1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: George A. Hamilton, Esq: M.P. |
Museum number: 1915,0508.144 |
Producer name: Print made by:James PosselwhiteAfter:Sir William John Newton |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Dangerous Playmate |
Museum number: 1978,U.292 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward James PortburyAfter:William Etty |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Wildkirchlein or Hermitage (Canton of Appenzel) |
Museum number: 1949,0316.24 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettPrint made by:John Cousen |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1867 |
Producer name: After:Isaac Robert CruikshankPrint made by:S Russell |
Production date: 1835-1856 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Susannah |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2018 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas William HuntAfter:Giovanni Battista Lombardi |
Production date: 1850s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Glamis Castle. |
Museum number: 1981,U.2924 |
Producer name: Print made by:William TomblesonAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Black Man's Cove, Tasmania |
Museum number: 2022,2005.1 |
Producer name: After:John Skinner ProutPrint made by:John Saddler |
Production date: c.1874? |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print

Title: Cartlane Crags Bridge, Lanarkshire |
Museum number: 1981,U.2907 |
Producer name: Print made by:E BenjaminAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Virgin enthroned |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2475 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Leonhard AppoldAfter:Lorenzo Veneziano |
Production date: 1854-1858 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1978,U.248 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alfred Theodosius HeathAfter:Sir Augustus Wall Callcott |
Production date: 1853-1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Ben Lomond from Inveruglas (Dunbartonshire) |
Museum number: 1936,0425.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CousenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1943,1113.289 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick MillerPublished by:Virtue & Co |
Production date: 1905 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Juliet and the Nurse |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2087 |
Producer name: After:Henry Perronet BriggsPrint made by:Samuel Sangster |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: London Bridge _ 1745. |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Scott |
Production date: 1853 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A Woodland View |
Museum number: 1981,U.457 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CousenAfter:Sir David Wilkie |
Production date: 1853 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Raffle for the Watch |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2093 |
Producer name: Print made by:George GreatbachAfter:Edward Bird |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Playmates |
Museum number: 1980,1011.118 |
Producer name: Print made by:Lumb StocksAfter:Alexander Hohenlohe (Horace) Burr |
Production date: 1867 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Right Hon: Sir George Cockburn, G.C.B. |
Museum number: 1915,1116.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry RobinsonAfter:John James Halls |
Production date: 1820s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Kilchurn Castle |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2316 |
Producer name: After:George Arthur FrippPrint made by:Robert William Wallis |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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