The fair is described by its marketing people as “the longest-running specialist print fair in the world”. The line-up certainly impresses your correspondent because there will be more than 50 exhibitors showing work in the main galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Another event to note is an evening dedicated to the 80th birthday celebrations and accomplishments of influential printmaking artist Sir Peter Blake.

The Queen’s jubilee theme will, for example, feature the Sims Reed Gallery showing Andy Warhol’s iconic lithograph of the Queen and contemporary specialist Paul Stolper marking the event with Sir Peter Blake’s patriotic Union Jack.

“What people perhaps do not realise about The London Original Print Fair is that whatever major exhibitions are on in London at the same time, visitors can come along to see and buy works by the very same artists at the fair. This year we will have etchings by Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Picasso and a host of modern British artists as well as some German Romantic prints. We are grateful once again to Towry for their support of the 27th Print Fair,” said Helen Rosslyn, director and organiser of the fair.

It is certainly a welcome development for the folks at Towry, who will be grateful for some positive headlines and marketing after what has been a difficult recent period. (The firm lost a high-profile court case a few weeks ago to Raymond James over the defections of some of staff to the latter firm.) A touch of royal razzmatazz can’t do Towry any harm.