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Edwin and Angelina.
Edwin and Angelina. Turn gentle Hermit of the dale_
C. Taylor excudit.
London, Publish'd Feb.y 1: 1787, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½'').
A scene showing a young woman standing pensively while leaning on a rake.
[Ref: 50303]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Jenny and Auld Robin Gray.
Jenny and Auld Robin Gray. The Summer it was smiling all nature round was gay...
Painted in Miniature by S. Shelley. Engraved by J. Ryder.
London. Published as the Act directs June 20th 1785, by S. Watts, No.50 opposite Old Round Ct. Strand.
Stipple. Plate: 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½'') very large margins. Bit dusty.
An illustration to Lady Anne Lindsay's 1772 poem 'Auld Robin Gray'.
[Ref: 48073]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Bard.
The Bard.
S. Shelley pin.t. C. Taylor sculp.y.
London, Publish'd May 1. 1788], by C. Taylor. No 10 near Castle Street, Holborn
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An oval portait of a bard holding a harp. An illustration to Thomas Gray's poem, 'The Bard. A Pindaric Ode', 1757. From the first volume of 'The Cabinet of Genius containing frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems', which contained thirty stipples by Charles Taylor after Samuel Shelley of characters from famours poems by various authors
[Ref: 54200]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Berdmore S.T.P.
Samuel Berdmore S.T.P. Scholae Carthusiae Magister, MDCCLXXXVIII.
Painted in Miniature by S. Shelley. Engraved by W. Nutter
Publish'd Oct.r 28 1788 by R. Cribb N. 288 High Holborn
Stipple with very large margins, platemark 205 x 150mm (8 x 6").
Samuel Berdmore (1739-1802), headmaster of Charterhouse School from 1769 to 1791 where he maintained the reputation and finances of the school. Bredmore was also a keen literary scholar, publishing 'Specimens of Literary Resemblance in the Works of Pope, Gray, and other Celebrated Writers' in 1801, and he was a member of the Unincreasable Club, meeting in Holborn that included the painter George Romney amongst its members.
[Ref: 35836]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.
[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Sam.l Shelley.
London, Published Septem.r 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. Engraved by Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) as the frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
[Ref: 60744]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Saml. Shelley.
London, Published Septemr. 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple printed in brown ink, title in open letters. 290 x 245mm (11½ x 9¾"). Two horizontal creases; tear into plate upper right.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. After Samuel Shelley (1756 - 1808). Frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection. Wellcome Library no. 544393i
[Ref: 18216]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Comus and Lady, Milton's Comus.
Comus and Lady, Milton's Comus.
Shelley pinx.t C. Taylor excudit. W. Nutter Sculp.t
London, Published by C. Taylor, Holborn, Oct.r 1, 1824.
Stipple. Plate 158 x 152mm. 6¼ x 6".
The point in Milton's masque 'Comus', when Comus urges the Lady to "be not coy" and drink form his magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance), but she repeatedly refuses, arguing for the virtuousness of temperance and chastity.
[Ref: 22607]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Ella.
Ella. I come, dear companion, in grief! Gay scenes and fond pleasures adieu._
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 1; 1789, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman jumping into a lake. A scene from the poem 'Colin and Lucy'.
[Ref: 50301]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Emma.
Emma. She reach'd with trembling step, Her aged Mother's door, He's gone! she cry'd;.
S. Shelley pinx.t. C. Taylor sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1;st 1788, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with very large margins.
A scene showing a young woman entering a door.
[Ref: 50299]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Flavia.
Flavia. On her rais'd arm reclined her Drooping head.
S. Shelley pinx.t. C. Taylor sculp.t.
London, Publish'd May 1;st 1787, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman by her bed at nightime.
[Ref: 50300]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Sarah Countess of Kinnoull.
Sarah Countess of Kinnoull. From a painting in miniature of the same size by Sam. Shelly_ Engraved by Caroline Watson engraver to her Majesty. [1798]
Stipple, early impression, platemark 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), very large margins.
Sarah Harley (1760-1837), daughter of Sir Thomas Harley; she married Robert Hay-Drummond, later 10th Earl of Kinnoul, in 1781.
[Ref: 42483]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Lavinia.
Lavinia. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends. Thompson.
Painted by S. Shelley. G. Zancon Sculpt.
Publ.d. Apr.l. 1788.
Stipple, rare. Plate: 110 x 150mm, (4¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate on right edge. Pin holes in bottom edge. surface dirt.
Half-length portrait of a forlorn looking woman who holds some leaves, from Thompson's poem 'Autumn'.
[Ref: 35106]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Mirth.
Mirth. She flies, her elder sifter Health to find.
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Feb:y 1;st 1789, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with very large margins.
An allegorical scene showing a young woman looking into the distance.
[Ref: 50298]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Henry and Emma.
Henry and Emma.
Design'd by S.Shelley. Engraved by C.Knight.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 18, 1785 by W.Dickinson Engraver & Printseller, No 158 Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in sanguine. Ea. 180 x 130mm. Faint damp stain on one plate.
With verse from 'Prior's Poems'.
[Ref: 5508]   £320.00   view all images for this item
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[Humphry Repton.]
[Humphry Repton.]
[S. Shelley del. W. Holl fecit.]
[London Publish'd June 4th 1802, by J. Taylor, High Holborn.]
Scarce & rare stipple, unlettered proof. 340 x 280mm (13¼ x 11"). Thread margins, laid on album sheet. Foxing.
A half-length portrait of Humphry Repton (1752-1818), the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, eventually published as the frontispiece to his 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening' (Abbey Scenery 390). A very fine impression.
[Ref: 55312]   £660.00  
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Capt. Edw.d Riou.
Capt. Edw.d Riou.
From the Miniature by Shelley. Engraved by Ja.s Heath A.R.A.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple, open letter proof. Sheet: 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6''). Trimmed. Crease in bottom left border.
A portrait of naval officer Edward Riou (1762-1801) who served as midshipman of Capt. James Cook's Third Voyage to Australia and received his command of the former frigate HMS Guardian transporting convicts to Australia. Attempting to replenish their fresh water supplies the ship Riou ordered the Guardian be sailed close to an iceberg, boats were sent out to gather the ice but when all had returned a fog descended hiding the iceberg from view. After careful sailing, using lookouts it seemed the ship had managed to avoid hitting the iceberg, however the ship was caught in a gust of wind and was driven into the wall of ice nearly sinking outright. After several attempts to stop the flooding into the damaged hull, most of the crew abandoned ship. Despite fully anticipating his death, Riou refused to leave his ship, and he and a few others were left to attempt the nearly impossible task of navigating the sinking ship several hundred leagues towards the Cape of Good Hope. After nine weeks at sea, and with continued labour and endurance, Riou successfully navigated his half-sunk ship back to port, saving the lives of those who had elected to remain with him. Riou negotiated the pardon of the few remaining convicts left on board.
[Ref: 48730]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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M.rs Sage.
M.rs Sage. [The first English Female Aerial Traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin, in Mr. Lunardi's Balloon, from St. George's Fields June 29th 1785; at 25 Minutes after one oClock, and descended a few Miles beyond Harrow in Middlesex, at three oClock, after traversing upwards of Thirty Miles on the Atmosphere.]
Tburke fecit. S. Shelley del.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet: 130 x 140mm (5 x 5½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Letitia Ann Sage (1750-1817) an actress who was the first woman to fly, riding in Vincenzo Lunardi's balloon.
See ref: 50053 for another version.
[Ref: 56977]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Lieutt. Shortland.
Lieutt. Shortland.
S. Shelley delt. W. Shirwin scult.
[J. Stockdale, 1789.]
Stipple, image 90 x 70mm. 3½ x 2¾". Trimmed and glued to scrap sheet.
John Shortland (1769 - 1810), captain in the navy. In 1795 he was selected by Hunter to be first lieutenant of the Reliance, in which he was going out to Australia as governor of New South Wales. As Hunter's duties detained him on shore, Shortland was thus in acting command of the ship, in which he made several voyages to the Cape of Good Hope, Tahiti, and New Zealand. He returned to England with Hunter in 1801, and having been promoted to be commander on 1st January 1801, was appointed transport agent for the expedition to Egypt. Illustration to 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay ... to which are added, the journals of Lieuts Shortland, Watts [and others]...'
[Ref: 11375]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Sparabella.
Sparabella. Pensive and forlorn, Lean'd on her rake.
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 1; 1789, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman standing pensively while leaning on a rake.
[Ref: 50302]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and infant Francis Spencer.]
[The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and infant Francis Spencer.]
Sam.l Shelley pinxit. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs March 28th 1783 by F. Bartolozzi.
Stipple, printed in brown. 250 x 205mm, 10 x 8½".
A portrait of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), with his wife and son Francis, later 1st Baron Churchill. After Samuel Shelley (1756-1808), a miniaturist.
De Vesme: 124: iv of v, first published state.
[Ref: 27768]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Time. 'Tis I who measure vital space _
Time. 'Tis I who measure vital space _
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Oval portrait of an old man with wings. The line of verse comes from John Gay's 'Fable XIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time'.
[Ref: 54201]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Village Vanderer.
The Village Vanderer. Health sparkles in her sprightly eye.
Painted by S. Shelley. G. Zancon Sculp.t.
Pub.d. Apr.l. 1788.
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 110 x 175mm, (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed within plate on right edge. Small pin holes in lower edge. Some surface dirt.
A half portrait of the protagonist from a poem called 'Wanderer, or the Village Maid'.
[Ref: 35105]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Viola.
Viola. [She never told her Love, / But let Concealment, like a Worm i'th'Bud / Feed on her Damask Cheek: / Shakespear's Twelfth Night.] From the Miniature in the Collection of Nathaniel Chauncy Esq.r.
Painted by S. Shelley & Engrav'd by Caroline Watson. Engraver to her Majesty.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Oct. 1 1788 by Caroline Watson Fitzroy Street.
Stipple, state before before quotation. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), with wide margins.
Viola from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', engraved and published by Caroline Watson (c.1760-1814), one of the most significant and prolific female printmakers of her day.
[Ref: 53329]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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