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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Coachman.
H. Alken del. G. Hunt sc.
[London, Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket, 1822.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed within plate and around title, losing publisher's address, laid on album paper.
A coachman, wearing a 'garrick' greatcoat, is offered a tray of drinks by a maidservant. Behind a groom attends to the horses and two well-wrapped passengers look down from the coach.
Hickman p259.
[Ref: 56630] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
H. Alken del. G. Hunt sc.
[London, Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket, 1822.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed within plate and around title, losing publisher's address, laid on album paper.
A coachman, wearing a 'garrick' greatcoat, is offered a tray of drinks by a maidservant. Behind a groom attends to the horses and two well-wrapped passengers look down from the coach.
Hickman p259.
[Ref: 56630] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Military Discoveries.] On recovering from a swoon, you Discover it was occasioned by your horse being shot under you, and in the fall broke your leg;](jpegs/55783.jpg)
[Military Discoveries.] On recovering from a swoon, you Discover it was occasioned by your horse being shot under you, and in the fall broke your leg; on looking round you see both friend and enemy leaving you in the lurch , that your only company are a pack of low bred things, who have actually had the honour to be killed by sword or bullet, while you have happened of nothing more than a common place accident.
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1818 watermark; 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins. Slight soiling, crack in bottom plate mark.
A cavalryman wakes to find the battle has moved on. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Sanuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55783] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1818 watermark; 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins. Slight soiling, crack in bottom plate mark.
A cavalryman wakes to find the battle has moved on. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Sanuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55783] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Military Discoveries.]](jpegs/55784.jpg)
[Military Discoveries.] Being awoke by a violent noise, and rushing from your quarters, you Discover your Colonel who commands you, immediately to resist a serious and unexpected attack made on the Camp by the Enemy, without waiting for any additonal Clothes
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint. 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins.
Men pulling on their clothes as their colonel swings his sabre, wearing only shirt, jacket and cap. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Samuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55784] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint. 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins.
Men pulling on their clothes as their colonel swings his sabre, wearing only shirt, jacket and cap. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Samuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55784] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)