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Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75.
Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75. A Noted Breaker of Pointers, has attended New Market meetings these 30 Years past is Qualified to Hawk, Hunt &c. by the Hon.ble Cha.s Bertley.
F. Sartotius pinx.t. Rob.t Laurie fecit.
Published by Rob.t Sayer & Co. Fleet Street London. [n.d., c.1772]
Mezzotint. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"), with very large margins.
Mezzotint by Robert Laurie (c.1755-1836) after Francis Sartorius (1734-1804). First published by Robert Sayer alone in 1772, this is a later state, with the printing plate trimmed by c.20mm at top.
Siltzer 242.
[Ref: 54674]   £320.00  
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Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75.
Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75. A Noted Breaker of Pointers, has attended New Market meetings these 30 Years past is Qualified to Hawk, Hunt &c. by the Hon.ble Cha.s Bertley.
F. Sartotius pinx.t. Rob.t Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map and Printseller, N.o 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2, March, 1772.
Coloured mezzotint. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Small margins chipped.
Mezzotint by Robert Laurie (c.1755-1836) after Francis Sartorius (1734-1804). According to Siltzer this is a companion to a print after Nathan Drake. An early example, before the printing plate was trimmed by c.20mm at top.
Siltzer 242. CS II of II. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 60130]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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The Wreck of the Lady Burges East India Ship
The Wreck of the Lady Burges East India Ship Cap.tn Richard Swinton, Amongst the Cape de Verd Islands April 21. 1806. This View is taken at day break previous to the ship going to pieces. _ and represents the point of time when the Ladies were saved with the Singular effect of the Sea foaming up against the consealed Rocks. _ 30 lives were lost out of 180.
F. Sartorius Pinx.t. Edw.d Orme Excud.t. H. Merke Aquaforte.
Published Nov.r 1 1806, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King Engraver & Publisher, 59 Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London. Where Merchants & Captains of Ships are supplied with British Engravings & Works of the fine Arts for Exportation on the most liberal Terms.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Framed, visible area 505 x 660mm (20 x 26"). Some surface wear, spot in sky. Unexamined out of frame.
A shipwreck, with women being lowered into longboats, a wall of spray filling the left side of the image. Lady Burges (Burgess) was an East Indiaman, launched 1799. She had completed only three voyages for the East India Company before she sailed from Portsmouth on 30th March 1806, bound for Madras. On April 20th she hit Leyton's Rock, south-west of Boa Vista, and fired guns to alert the rest of the convoy, which sent boats and rescued all but 34 of the crew and passengers. The ship broke up three hours after this scene.
[Ref: 51701]   £900.00  
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