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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Thomas Bewick. Engraver on Wood.
Ja.s Ramsay Pinx.t Henry Hoppner Meyer, Sculp.t
Edwin Pearson Excudit. [n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple. 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½".
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood-engraver. At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a bruin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the Huntsman and the Old Hound. Bewick's most important works are illustrations for books such as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (1797 and 1804).
[Ref: 18949] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Ja.s Ramsay Pinx.t Henry Hoppner Meyer, Sculp.t
Edwin Pearson Excudit. [n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple. 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½".
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood-engraver. At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a bruin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the Huntsman and the Old Hound. Bewick's most important works are illustrations for books such as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (1797 and 1804).
[Ref: 18949] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Tam O' Shanter.
Painted by Abraham Cooper. Engraved by Henry Meyer.
[London: S. Knight, 1814.]
A rare mezzotint. Sheet 515 x 585mm (20½ x 23"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, into title at bottom, losing publication line and half of crest.
Illustration to the narrative poem 'Tam O' Shanter' written by Robert Burns in 1790, which describes a disturbing vision experienced by Tam on his way home from an inn: riding his horse Meg, he stumbles across some witches and demons in Alloway Kirk (seen burning in the background), who give chase. He escapes across a bridge over the River Doon (witches will not cross running water) but not before one catches Meg's tail and pulls it off.
Ex: the Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 47702] £360.00
Painted by Abraham Cooper. Engraved by Henry Meyer.
[London: S. Knight, 1814.]
A rare mezzotint. Sheet 515 x 585mm (20½ x 23"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, into title at bottom, losing publication line and half of crest.
Illustration to the narrative poem 'Tam O' Shanter' written by Robert Burns in 1790, which describes a disturbing vision experienced by Tam on his way home from an inn: riding his horse Meg, he stumbles across some witches and demons in Alloway Kirk (seen burning in the background), who give chase. He escapes across a bridge over the River Doon (witches will not cross running water) but not before one catches Meg's tail and pulls it off.
Ex: the Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 47702] £360.00