Artist

Jefferys & Co

Jefferys & Co is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

You know those old engravings of street scenes and fancy ball gowns that still show up in thrift-store frames? That’s Jefferys & Co, one of those 19th-century print shops churning out illustrated gossip for the middle class. Their real trick was turning news into pictures: coronations, crimes, and fancy hats all got the same crisp line-work.

Hunt down their “H Beard collection” and you’ll find a time capsule of waistcoats and lamp-posts that feels closer than any photograph.

Works by Jefferys & Co

Collections represented

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