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John Harrison. From an Engraving by Tassaert; published in 1768, after a Painting by King. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Stipple engraving on steel, printed on chine collé. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7"), with wide margins.
John Harrison (c.1693-1776), clockmaker celebrated for his work in marine timekeeping, shown with a chronometer on a table behind. Harrison was the maker of five innovative and ground-breaking timekeepers and perfected the chronometer, winning the prize for determining Longitude at sea in 1773. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52692] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Stipple engraving on steel, printed on chine collé. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7"), with wide margins.
John Harrison (c.1693-1776), clockmaker celebrated for his work in marine timekeeping, shown with a chronometer on a table behind. Harrison was the maker of five innovative and ground-breaking timekeepers and perfected the chronometer, winning the prize for determining Longitude at sea in 1773. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52692] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
John Keeling Esq.r. One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
T. King pinx.t J.s M.cArdell fecit.
1756.
Rare mezzotint, plate 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small margins. Laid on archival paper, some loss in margins.
Half-length portrait of John Keeling (1682-1759), Brewer of Clerkenwell and judicial officer, wearing a coat unbuttoned over a waistcoat with an embroidered trim and a short white wig and holds a tricorn under his left arm.
CS 111.
[Ref: 59538] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
T. King pinx.t J.s M.cArdell fecit.
1756.
Rare mezzotint, plate 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small margins. Laid on archival paper, some loss in margins.
Half-length portrait of John Keeling (1682-1759), Brewer of Clerkenwell and judicial officer, wearing a coat unbuttoned over a waistcoat with an embroidered trim and a short white wig and holds a tricorn under his left arm.
CS 111.
[Ref: 59538] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Anthony Maddox.] To long, unjust to our own country's cause, / On foreigners we wasted our applause, / On home-bred merit seldom known to smile, / Nor praise the product of our Native Isle. / But now each artist from abroad must yield, / And Mahomet to Maddox quits the field, / Who's form'd alike t'astonish & to please, / And adds to matchless skill a gracefull ease, / The sweetly smiling fair in crowds appear, / And love that art, they used to view with fear.
T. King Pinx.t. R. Houston Fecit.
Printed for & Sold by John Smith Map & Printseller at Hogarth's Head, in Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of the entertainer Anthony Maddox, wearing a rich suit with an emboidered waistcoat, holding a straw. Maddox was a successful slack-wire acrobat: his signature trick was standing on the wire and passing the straw from his foot to his mouth, accounting for its inclusion here. He drowned in 1758 when 'The Dublin Trader' was wrecked off the Scottish coast en route to Dublin, along with his travelling companion, actor Theophilus Cibber, and Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda..
CS 75.
[Ref: 49848] £490.00
T. King Pinx.t. R. Houston Fecit.
Printed for & Sold by John Smith Map & Printseller at Hogarth's Head, in Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of the entertainer Anthony Maddox, wearing a rich suit with an emboidered waistcoat, holding a straw. Maddox was a successful slack-wire acrobat: his signature trick was standing on the wire and passing the straw from his foot to his mouth, accounting for its inclusion here. He drowned in 1758 when 'The Dublin Trader' was wrecked off the Scottish coast en route to Dublin, along with his travelling companion, actor Theophilus Cibber, and Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda..
CS 75.
[Ref: 49848] £490.00
Skeggs, In the Character of Seignor Bumbasto.
Tho.s King pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
Sold by the proprietors M. Jackson the corner of Bride Court, in fleetstreet, & M. Skeggs at the Hoop and bunch of Grapes in St Albans Street. [London, c.1752.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins, vertical crease on left. Laid down on card.
Portrait of Matthew Skeggs (d.1773), proprietor of the Hoop and Bunch of Grapes (a public house in St Albans Street). He also performed in a burlesque called 'Mother Midnight's Oratorio' at the Haymarket, in which he 'played' a concerto on a broomstick, making the sound of the instrument with his mouth. Horace Walpole saw the 'Oratorio' in 1752, calling it the 'lowest buffoonery in the world'.
Chaloner Smith: 111, iii of iii.
[Ref: 61543] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
Tho.s King pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
Sold by the proprietors M. Jackson the corner of Bride Court, in fleetstreet, & M. Skeggs at the Hoop and bunch of Grapes in St Albans Street. [London, c.1752.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins, vertical crease on left. Laid down on card.
Portrait of Matthew Skeggs (d.1773), proprietor of the Hoop and Bunch of Grapes (a public house in St Albans Street). He also performed in a burlesque called 'Mother Midnight's Oratorio' at the Haymarket, in which he 'played' a concerto on a broomstick, making the sound of the instrument with his mouth. Horace Walpole saw the 'Oratorio' in 1752, calling it the 'lowest buffoonery in the world'.
Chaloner Smith: 111, iii of iii.
[Ref: 61543] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
A Watch-Paper for Antiquaries. This whimsical device is the representation of curious Key Stone in Chichester Cathedral...
April 24, 1809. Drawn and Engraved by King Drawing Master Chichester, of whom may be had Two Prints done by him from the historical paintings in the Cathedral.
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½").
A circular key stone with six faces, each sharing their eyes with the face to the left and right. By Thomas Aylward King (1775-1845), an artist and engraver of Chichester.
See Ref: 58677 & 58675
[Ref: 58221] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
April 24, 1809. Drawn and Engraved by King Drawing Master Chichester, of whom may be had Two Prints done by him from the historical paintings in the Cathedral.
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½").
A circular key stone with six faces, each sharing their eyes with the face to the left and right. By Thomas Aylward King (1775-1845), an artist and engraver of Chichester.
See Ref: 58677 & 58675
[Ref: 58221] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)