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[An Artillery Emplacement during the Boer War 1900.]
[An Artillery Emplacement during the Boer War 1900.]
H.C. Seppings-Wright, Pinxt. Art Repro. Co. Sculpt.
Published by Sands & Co. London.
Photogravure, india laid. Plate 497 x 641mm. 19½ x 25¼". Very rare.
Soldiers next to a battery firing. The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) involved a large number of British troops converting Boer republics into British colonies, which then formed part of the Union of South Africa. Despite a British victory, their losses were high due to both disease and long and bitter open warfare.
[Ref: 25808]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Geofy Chaucer.
Geofy Chaucer.
Geo. Naylor H C. fecit
[n.d. c.1780.]
A very fine mezzotint. Plate 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼), with small margins.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomate. He wrote many works throughout his lifetime, although he is remembered best for his unfinished narrative The Canterbury Tales.
O'D undescribed; CS: undescribed.
[Ref: 55260]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Rugby Union [Edward Temple Gordon.]
Rugby Union [Edward Temple Gordon.]
[''Stuff" monogram of H.C. Sepping in image lower left.] Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair. Jany. 2 1892.
Chromolithograph, sheet 395 x 240mm. 15½ x 9½". Tear from lower right edge.
[Ref: 9747]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Her Majesty The Queen Opening the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851.
Her Majesty The Queen Opening the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851.
Painted by H.C. Selous. Engraved by S. Belln.
London, Published May 1. 1856, by Thomas Boys, Printseller to the Royal Family, 467, Oxford Street._Paris, E. Gambart & Co. 15 Rue Charlot. New York, Williams, Stevens & Co., 353 Broadway, Deposé.
Scarce mixed method engraving. Fine impression. Sheet size: 740 x 990mm (29 x 39"). Trimmed inside plate at lower edge of sheet. Repaired tear top right.
A scene depicting the opening of the Great Exhibition, May 1st 1851. The Archbishop of Canterbury blessing the Exhibition, with commissioners, ministers and dignitaries surrounding the Royal Family. More than 25,000 people attended on the opening day. The artist included Sir Henry Cole, later the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the group on the left. Henry Courtenay Selous (1803-1890) was a London-based painter of genre, landscape, historical and literary subjects, who also worked as a panorama painter. He was the son of the painter George Selous and pupil of John Martin.
[Ref: 39252]   £520.00  
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South View of the Bridge, Henley on Thames.
South View of the Bridge, Henley on Thames. Fawley Court in the distance.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by H.C. Pidgeon. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published, by Hickman & Stapledon, Henley, 1830.
Large scarce and fine lithograph, image 275 x 435mm. 10¾ x 17¼". Some soiling and staining to surface; filled worm holes upper right, damaged.
Impressive view looking up the River Thames at Henley in south Oxfordshire, towards the five-arched Henley Bridge, built in 1786. An angler, a female companion, and dog in a punt in foreground, small sailing craft and ferry, two men on a jetty far left; a carriage crossing over the bridge. Fawley Court is a country house standing on the banks of the Thames just to the north, at Fawley. Perhaps a separately-issued print; the Henley publishers of this print also issued 'The Henley guide. With fifteen illustrations' in 1826.
Not in Abbey. See BL 010558384.
[Ref: 20588]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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