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Aenkomst van syne Kon: Maj: van Groot Brittannien, op Dieren. Adventus Magni Guilielmi III Britann: Regis in Dieram.
Pet: Schenk exc: Amstelod: cum Privil: ord: Holland: et West-Frisiæ
Fine engraving. 500 x 600mm. Slight foxing.
Coat of arms for the House of Orange-Nassau with the text 'hicleo nassavius pacis protector et æqui'.
[Ref: 5428] £750.00
Pet: Schenk exc: Amstelod: cum Privil: ord: Holland: et West-Frisiæ
Fine engraving. 500 x 600mm. Slight foxing.
Coat of arms for the House of Orange-Nassau with the text 'hicleo nassavius pacis protector et æqui'.
[Ref: 5428] £750.00
The American Heroine. A Novel by mis Burny.
Le Grand Sculp.
London. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple engraving, 10¼ x 7½". Trimmed to plate.
A bare-breasted squaw, looking very European.
[Ref: 3785] £140.00 (£164.50 incl.VAT)
Le Grand Sculp.
London. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple engraving, 10¼ x 7½". Trimmed to plate.
A bare-breasted squaw, looking very European.
[Ref: 3785] £140.00 (£164.50 incl.VAT)
Brasen-Nose College, Part of the Schools etc. taken from the top of Radcliffe Library.
F.Mackenzie delt. J.Hill aquat.
London Pubd. Augt. 11 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. Image 290 x 205mm.
[Ref: 10] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
F.Mackenzie delt. J.Hill aquat.
London Pubd. Augt. 11 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. Image 290 x 205mm.
[Ref: 10] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
By the Honorable William Bishop Esquire President of His Majesty's Council and Commander in Cheif of this Island Chancellor Ordinary and Vice Admiral of the same. To all to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting.... Given at Pilgrim this Twenty eighth day of January One thousand Seven hundred and Ninety four and in the thirty fourth year of His majesty's Reign.
Mss. commission, lacking seal, dated 1794, on fine Whatman paper.
A commission in Barbados for Matthew Coulthurst "to be His Majesty's Advocate for his Vice Admiralty Court of this Island".
[Ref: 508] £490.00
Mss. commission, lacking seal, dated 1794, on fine Whatman paper.
A commission in Barbados for Matthew Coulthurst "to be His Majesty's Advocate for his Vice Admiralty Court of this Island".
[Ref: 508] £490.00
Celari vult sua furta Venus. Tibull. 1 lib 2 eleg.
P.Schenk fec: et exc: Amstelod: C.P.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm.
[Ref: 5421] £260.00
P.Schenk fec: et exc: Amstelod: C.P.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm.
[Ref: 5421] £260.00
Charter of Liberties. Cardinal Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, producing to the Barons and the rest of the Assembly at S.t Edmund's Bury, the Charter granted by Henry the 1st, in which that Monarch pledged himself to abolish the arbitrary Laws of the Normans then in force...
Engraved from the Original Picture in the Gallery of the University of Oxford.
Painted by W.Martin. Engraved by W.Ward.
London. Pub.d Dec.r 16, 1795 by W.Martin, Hamilton Street, Piccadilly.
Mezzotint. 580 x 650mm. Repaired tears, crack in platemark at bottom.
The Charter of Liberties, was issued by Henry I upon his ascension to the throne in 1100. It is considered a landmark document in English history and a forerunner of Magna Carta, addressing abuses of royal power, such as over-taxation of the barons, the abuse of vacant sees, and the practices of simony and pluralism. However it was generally ignored by monarchs until in 1213 Archbishop Langton reminded the nobles that their liberties had been guaranteed a century before. The Magna Carta was signed two years later.
Frankau 55, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4110] £980.00
Painted by W.Martin. Engraved by W.Ward.
London. Pub.d Dec.r 16, 1795 by W.Martin, Hamilton Street, Piccadilly.
Mezzotint. 580 x 650mm. Repaired tears, crack in platemark at bottom.
The Charter of Liberties, was issued by Henry I upon his ascension to the throne in 1100. It is considered a landmark document in English history and a forerunner of Magna Carta, addressing abuses of royal power, such as over-taxation of the barons, the abuse of vacant sees, and the practices of simony and pluralism. However it was generally ignored by monarchs until in 1213 Archbishop Langton reminded the nobles that their liberties had been guaranteed a century before. The Magna Carta was signed two years later.
Frankau 55, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4110] £980.00
Commemoration Of The Victory Of June 1st. MDCCXCIV
R.Smirke, R.A.Delt. - The Figures Engraved by F.Bartolozzi, R.A. Landscape & Water Engd.by Landseer. Portraits of the Admls.Engd.by Ryder. - Portraits of the Capt.Engd.by Stow.
Pub, by R.Bowyer,1802. Historic Gallery, Pall Mall.
Line engraving. Plate 800 x 424mm. Proof, Large Sheet, minor stains and foxing to be expected.
Britania overlooks the battle from a headland where an oak carries the portraits of Howe, Bridport, Paisley, Bowyer, Gardner, Caldwell, Graves - underneath are the portraits of Montague, Pigott, Mackenzie, Pringle, Curtis, H. Harvey, Parker, J. Harvey, Molloy, Bazeley, Gambier, H. Seymour, Cotton, Pakenham, Collingwood, Douglass, Duckworth, Payne, Berkeley, Bertie, Domett, Hutt, Nicols, Westcott, Schomberg, Elphinstone, Hope.
The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and in French as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2) was a naval battle fought in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 1794 between the Royal Navy and the navy of Revolutionary France. It was the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars. On the 1st of June and at about a quarter past eight Howe bore down on the French, throwing his whole line on them at once from end to end, with orders to pass through from windward to leeward, and so to place the British ships on the French ships' line of retreat. It was a bold departure from the then established methods of fighting, and most honourable in a man of sixty-eight, who had been trained in the old school. Its essential merit was that it produced a close mêlée, in which the better average gunnery and seamanship of the British fleet would tell. Lord Howe's orders were not fully obeyed by all his captains, but a signal victory was won. The battle rapidly turned into a general mêlée which lasted all day. The French ships Sans-Pareil, Juste, America, Impétueux, Northumberland, and Achille were taken, and the Vengeur du Peuple sank after a four-hour duel with HMS Brunswick. When the French withdrew, many of the British ships were in no condition to pursue: Defence and Marlborough were completely dismasted and had to be towed back to port.
Parker:102
[Ref: 5572] £490.00
R.Smirke, R.A.Delt. - The Figures Engraved by F.Bartolozzi, R.A. Landscape & Water Engd.by Landseer. Portraits of the Admls.Engd.by Ryder. - Portraits of the Capt.Engd.by Stow.
Pub, by R.Bowyer,1802. Historic Gallery, Pall Mall.
Line engraving. Plate 800 x 424mm. Proof, Large Sheet, minor stains and foxing to be expected.
Britania overlooks the battle from a headland where an oak carries the portraits of Howe, Bridport, Paisley, Bowyer, Gardner, Caldwell, Graves - underneath are the portraits of Montague, Pigott, Mackenzie, Pringle, Curtis, H. Harvey, Parker, J. Harvey, Molloy, Bazeley, Gambier, H. Seymour, Cotton, Pakenham, Collingwood, Douglass, Duckworth, Payne, Berkeley, Bertie, Domett, Hutt, Nicols, Westcott, Schomberg, Elphinstone, Hope.
The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and in French as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2) was a naval battle fought in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 1794 between the Royal Navy and the navy of Revolutionary France. It was the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars. On the 1st of June and at about a quarter past eight Howe bore down on the French, throwing his whole line on them at once from end to end, with orders to pass through from windward to leeward, and so to place the British ships on the French ships' line of retreat. It was a bold departure from the then established methods of fighting, and most honourable in a man of sixty-eight, who had been trained in the old school. Its essential merit was that it produced a close mêlée, in which the better average gunnery and seamanship of the British fleet would tell. Lord Howe's orders were not fully obeyed by all his captains, but a signal victory was won. The battle rapidly turned into a general mêlée which lasted all day. The French ships Sans-Pareil, Juste, America, Impétueux, Northumberland, and Achille were taken, and the Vengeur du Peuple sank after a four-hour duel with HMS Brunswick. When the French withdrew, many of the British ships were in no condition to pursue: Defence and Marlborough were completely dismasted and had to be towed back to port.
Parker:102
[Ref: 5572] £490.00
Commemoration Of The XIVth. February MDCCXCVII.
R. Smirke R.A. delt. Portraits Eng'd, by Worthington. Engraved by I.Parker. Proof
Pubd. by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery. Pall Mall.Iune 1.1803.
Line engraving. Plate 674 x 482mm. Proof, Large Sheet, minor stains and foxing to be expected.
The naval Battle of Cape St Vincent took place on 14 February 1797, near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, between a British fleet and a Spanish fleet and was an important battle during the Wars of the French Revolution. As dawn broke on the 14th, Jervis's ships were in position to engage the Spanish, and vice versa. It was at this point that Jervis discovered that he was outnumbered nearly two-to-one. It would have been difficult to disengage, however, and Jervis also decided that the situation would only get worse were the Spanish fleet to join up with the French, so he decided to continue.
To the British advantage the Spanish fleet was formed into two groups and unprepared for battle, while the British were already in line. Jervis ordered the British fleet to pass between the two groups, minimizing the fire they could put into him, while letting him fire in both directions simultaneously. Passing through the Spanish, the larger group managed to sail away in almost the opposite direction of the British line, and the smaller group was also in position to do so. Jervis ordered the line to swing around and go after the larger group before it could get away to Cádiz.
Nelson had returned to his own ship Captain, and was now towards the rear of the British line, much closer to the fleeing larger group. He came to the conclusion that the manoeuvre could not be completed so as to allow the British to catch them. Disregarding orders that the British line was to turn while engaging the smaller group, he broke formation before reaching that point, which let him turn and catch the larger Spanish group more quickly. This placed him across the front of the Spanish. Jervis, seeing what had happened with Captain then ordered the last ship in his line, Excellent, to perform essentially the same manoeuvre. In the meantime, the front of the British line had completed its manoeuvre, and were approaching a long cannon shot from the rear of the Spanish. The Captain was now under fire from as many as six Spanish ships, of which three were 112-gun three deckers and a fourth Cordóba’s 130-gun flagship Santísima Trinidad. The Captain soon lost so much of her rigging that she was no longer manouverable. As a result, Nelson moved close enough to the Spanish 80-gun San Nicolás to send out boarders instead. Meanwhile, Captain Collingwood in the Excellent had engaged the 112-gun San José (usually, but wrongly, called San Josef in British accounts), which became so tightly entangled with San Nicolás that Nelson was able to order his boarders to cross the first Spanish ship onto the second. Both were successfully captured. This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as "Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels."
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley, painted 1798, shows the end of the battle with the captured Spanish ship Salvador del Mundo in the right foreground
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The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley, painted 1798, shows the end of the battle with the captured Spanish ship Salvador del Mundo in the right foreground
The Spanish finally managed to disengage after which the battle was over. Jervis crossed over to the Irresistible - to which Nelson had gone, Captain no longer being suitable - and made a show of approving Nelson's disobedience of orders. Had the Spanish fleet been as well manned and trained as the British, Nelson’s action would have been suicidal. As it was, his prompt use of the initiative was a nicely judged stroke.
"Britania Triumphant with arms outstretched and holding laurels, Earl St. Vincent, Sir C. Thompson Bt., Ld. Radstock, Sir W. Parker Bt., are seenon the pedestal. Centre top of the lower grouping is Ld. Nelson, Frederick, Knowles, Collingwood, Whitshed, Calder, Dacres, Saumarez, Murray, Sutton, Troubridge, Martain, Foley, Grey, Towby, Miller, Irwen.
Parker:122
[Ref: 5571] £450.00
R. Smirke R.A. delt. Portraits Eng'd, by Worthington. Engraved by I.Parker. Proof
Pubd. by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery. Pall Mall.Iune 1.1803.
Line engraving. Plate 674 x 482mm. Proof, Large Sheet, minor stains and foxing to be expected.
The naval Battle of Cape St Vincent took place on 14 February 1797, near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, between a British fleet and a Spanish fleet and was an important battle during the Wars of the French Revolution. As dawn broke on the 14th, Jervis's ships were in position to engage the Spanish, and vice versa. It was at this point that Jervis discovered that he was outnumbered nearly two-to-one. It would have been difficult to disengage, however, and Jervis also decided that the situation would only get worse were the Spanish fleet to join up with the French, so he decided to continue.
To the British advantage the Spanish fleet was formed into two groups and unprepared for battle, while the British were already in line. Jervis ordered the British fleet to pass between the two groups, minimizing the fire they could put into him, while letting him fire in both directions simultaneously. Passing through the Spanish, the larger group managed to sail away in almost the opposite direction of the British line, and the smaller group was also in position to do so. Jervis ordered the line to swing around and go after the larger group before it could get away to Cádiz.
Nelson had returned to his own ship Captain, and was now towards the rear of the British line, much closer to the fleeing larger group. He came to the conclusion that the manoeuvre could not be completed so as to allow the British to catch them. Disregarding orders that the British line was to turn while engaging the smaller group, he broke formation before reaching that point, which let him turn and catch the larger Spanish group more quickly. This placed him across the front of the Spanish. Jervis, seeing what had happened with Captain then ordered the last ship in his line, Excellent, to perform essentially the same manoeuvre. In the meantime, the front of the British line had completed its manoeuvre, and were approaching a long cannon shot from the rear of the Spanish. The Captain was now under fire from as many as six Spanish ships, of which three were 112-gun three deckers and a fourth Cordóba’s 130-gun flagship Santísima Trinidad. The Captain soon lost so much of her rigging that she was no longer manouverable. As a result, Nelson moved close enough to the Spanish 80-gun San Nicolás to send out boarders instead. Meanwhile, Captain Collingwood in the Excellent had engaged the 112-gun San José (usually, but wrongly, called San Josef in British accounts), which became so tightly entangled with San Nicolás that Nelson was able to order his boarders to cross the first Spanish ship onto the second. Both were successfully captured. This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as "Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels."
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley, painted 1798, shows the end of the battle with the captured Spanish ship Salvador del Mundo in the right foreground
Enlarge
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley, painted 1798, shows the end of the battle with the captured Spanish ship Salvador del Mundo in the right foreground
The Spanish finally managed to disengage after which the battle was over. Jervis crossed over to the Irresistible - to which Nelson had gone, Captain no longer being suitable - and made a show of approving Nelson's disobedience of orders. Had the Spanish fleet been as well manned and trained as the British, Nelson’s action would have been suicidal. As it was, his prompt use of the initiative was a nicely judged stroke.
"Britania Triumphant with arms outstretched and holding laurels, Earl St. Vincent, Sir C. Thompson Bt., Ld. Radstock, Sir W. Parker Bt., are seenon the pedestal. Centre top of the lower grouping is Ld. Nelson, Frederick, Knowles, Collingwood, Whitshed, Calder, Dacres, Saumarez, Murray, Sutton, Troubridge, Martain, Foley, Grey, Towby, Miller, Irwen.
Parker:122
[Ref: 5571] £450.00
The Death of Prince Leopold of Brunswick. which happened on the 27th of April 1785. when being Witness to the Devastation occassioned by the Overflowing of the River Oder, unmoved by the Intreaties of those who endeavoured to dissuade him from so hazardous an Enteprize, he embarked in a small boat with three Watermen to relieve the Inhabitants of a Village suttounded by the Waters: but before he reached them, the Beat was driven with Violence against a Tree, and overset; the three Boat-men were saved. This amiable Prince alone, being carried down by the Impetuosity of the Current, perished in the Sight of those he attempted to preserve, displaying in his Death, an heroic instance of that Benevolence which ha appeared conspicuous through the shole of his Life. Vide Moore's View of Society & Manners, *&c. VI Edition. ~ Portraits of the Officers and Men who were preserv'd from the Wreck of the Centaure. Viz. Captain J.N. inglefield, Mr. Thos. Rainy Master, Mr. Robt. Bayles Midshipman, (a Young gentlemlan 15 years of age who leap'd from the Ship atle the Boat had put off and was taken in) Timothy Sulivan Captain's Cockswain, John Gregory Quarter Master, Theodore Hutchings, Charles Mac Carty, T C. SeameTwelve in all, who were miraculously saved in the Pinnace, when the Centaure Ship of War of 74 Guns, with the rest of the Crew, was left in a vilent Storm on her passage from Jamaica in Sptr. 1782: after which these 12 made a traverse of near 300 Leagues on the great Western Ocean, wihtout Compass or Quadrant and with only a Blanket for a Sail, under which they scudded before the Wind. They were all very thinly clothed, having neighter great Coat or Cloak, and were reduced to the small allowance of one Biscuit in the morning, and one at noon devided into twelve morsels, and a Glass of Water to each, which they caught by spreading a pair of Sheets when it rain'd (which had by accident been thrown in to the Boat) and wringin them. In this miserable condition they all (except Thos. Mathews who died the day before) arrived at Fayall at midnight, so reduced as to be unable to walk, having been more than Sixteen days in the Boat. The Size of the Picutre is 12 Feet by 8 feet 5 inches.
James Northcote Pinxt. T. Gaugain Fecit.
Published Octr. 1796 by T. Philipe, Pall Mall Court, London.
Pair of coloured stipple engravings, each 640 x 515mm. Minor repairs outside plate mark lower right corner.
These prints are after paintings by James Northcote (1746-1831), an English painter and writer. He was largely self-taught before his arrival in London in 1771, when he entered the Royal Academy Schools and joined Joshua Reynolds as a pupil and assistant, remaining with Reynolds until 1776. From 1773 to 1776 he exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy. For much of Northcote's career his paintings depended heavily on Reynolds' style. He considered himself something of an authority on Reynolds and published his valuable Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1813, the year of the Reynolds exhibition at the British Institution.
French engraver and print-publisher, Thomas Gaugain (1756-1812) was active mostly in England. He entered the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1771, with the aim of becoming a painter; he exhibited in 1778-81 at the Royal Academy. In 1780 he began to engrave, initially engraving and publishing his own prints. Some color prints that he published were among the few English ones printed from several plates, rather than à la poupée. Eventually, Gaugain built up a successful business, but the decline in the export trade probably affected Gaugain more than most print-publishers, as in 1793 his stock of plates were auctioned off. He continued to engrave, exhibiting this pair in 1796.
[Ref: 4447] £950.00
James Northcote Pinxt. T. Gaugain Fecit.
Published Octr. 1796 by T. Philipe, Pall Mall Court, London.
Pair of coloured stipple engravings, each 640 x 515mm. Minor repairs outside plate mark lower right corner.
These prints are after paintings by James Northcote (1746-1831), an English painter and writer. He was largely self-taught before his arrival in London in 1771, when he entered the Royal Academy Schools and joined Joshua Reynolds as a pupil and assistant, remaining with Reynolds until 1776. From 1773 to 1776 he exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy. For much of Northcote's career his paintings depended heavily on Reynolds' style. He considered himself something of an authority on Reynolds and published his valuable Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1813, the year of the Reynolds exhibition at the British Institution.
French engraver and print-publisher, Thomas Gaugain (1756-1812) was active mostly in England. He entered the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1771, with the aim of becoming a painter; he exhibited in 1778-81 at the Royal Academy. In 1780 he began to engrave, initially engraving and publishing his own prints. Some color prints that he published were among the few English ones printed from several plates, rather than à la poupée. Eventually, Gaugain built up a successful business, but the decline in the export trade probably affected Gaugain more than most print-publishers, as in 1793 his stock of plates were auctioned off. He continued to engrave, exhibiting this pair in 1796.
[Ref: 4447] £950.00
East View of Harrow School. Dedicated by Permission to the Governors of that Institution; West View of Harrow School. Dedicated to the Students and to the Noblemen and Gentlemen sho have been Educated in that Seminary. by their humble Servant. Wm. Nicholl.
Drawn by T. Rickards. Engraved by W. Nicholls.
London Published June 20th 1808 by Wm Nicholls. No. 24 Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square.
Pair of coloured aquatints. 400 x 320mm. Trimmed to plate, discolouration from old mount.
[Ref: 4895] £480.00
Drawn by T. Rickards. Engraved by W. Nicholls.
London Published June 20th 1808 by Wm Nicholls. No. 24 Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square.
Pair of coloured aquatints. 400 x 320mm. Trimmed to plate, discolouration from old mount.
[Ref: 4895] £480.00