Help please? JC Maggs pictures.

[Avvie]

Hi, first post here!

Can anyone help please? I just picked up these beautiful London pictures which were advertised as Antique London Art.

I am not looking to sell so price does not bother me, they only cost me £12.99 for the 6. They each have a titled location on it and the artists name JC Maggs.

Is there anybody that knows anything about these? How old they are maybe? The owner of the charity shop said she had been trying to research them before selling them but without pulling them apart she couldn't find anything more.

Any help would be appreciate. Bottle of bleach is to show how big these are.

Thanks in advance.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet.

Nice indeed. I think you did pretty good on the price, but haven’t made your fortune. Surely you Googled for the name as a first step? They’re prints of works by John Charles Maggs (1819–1896) who painted coaching scenes imagined from earlier times in history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maggs

Some closer examination would be needed to be absolutely sure, but they appear to be 20th Century prints (probably no later than the 1940s) and will likely be lithographs. There’s a set of eleven currently on eBay with a “buy it now” of £235 which is probably a top-end price for these kinds of prints. Originals as oil on canvas or oil on board would of course be substantially more valuable

The London locations for yours (in the order that you posted them, top to bottom) are:

1 – The Cock and Magpie, Drury lane
2 - Wych Street, Strand
3 – The Four Swans, Ladd Lane
5 – The Old Queen’s Head, Lower Road, Islington
6 - La Belle Sauvage Inn yard, Ludgate Hill

I don’t recognise the location for the 4th one, but it appears to be of the London to Bath Royal Mail coach.