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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Artemise aprez avoir épuisé la Nature et lassé les Arts, pour eterniser son deuil et la memoire de mausolea, aval eses cendres et luy fait un second Monument de son corps. Strabo lib. 14.
Vignon inuent.
Mariette excud. cum priuil. Regis. [n.d. c.1647.]
Etching and engraving, plate 340 x 220mm (13½ x 9¾"). Some nicks and tears on left margin slightly going into plate.
Full-length portrait of Artemisia, wearing mourning clothes and drinking Mausolus’ ashes from a cup. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus she built for her late brother and husband is visible in the background. The illustration was included in ‘La Gallerie des femmes fortes’ by Le Moyne.
Meyer: 340. Blum: 1500. Duplessis: 1494. Lothe: 1444.
[Ref: 58973] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Vignon inuent.
Mariette excud. cum priuil. Regis. [n.d. c.1647.]
Etching and engraving, plate 340 x 220mm (13½ x 9¾"). Some nicks and tears on left margin slightly going into plate.
Full-length portrait of Artemisia, wearing mourning clothes and drinking Mausolus’ ashes from a cup. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus she built for her late brother and husband is visible in the background. The illustration was included in ‘La Gallerie des femmes fortes’ by Le Moyne.
Meyer: 340. Blum: 1500. Duplessis: 1494. Lothe: 1444.
[Ref: 58973] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Geoffroi II de Lusignan.]](jpegs/43706.jpg)
[Geoffroi II de Lusignan.] Insignis fama et felicibus armis. Virg. Aen. l.7.
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½" very large margins. Three holes lower left.
Geoffroi II de Lusignan (c.1186-1246), Seigneur of Vouvant and Mairevant. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43706] £460.00
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½" very large margins. Three holes lower left.
Geoffroi II de Lusignan (c.1186-1246), Seigneur of Vouvant and Mairevant. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43706] £460.00
Marie Stuart Reye d'Ecosse Souffre de martye pour la Foy; et par la constance de sa mort, renouuelle en ces derniers temps, les exemples de l'ancienne Egliose. Augustus Thuanus lib. 86.
Vignon invent.
Mariette excud. cum Privil. Regis. [Paris, n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Framed over image, visible area 340 x 210mm (13½ x 8¼"). Repaired holes in sky.
A French portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), depicting her as a martyr to her catholicism. As she had been Queen consort of Francis II of France, the French preferred to portray her as a victim of religious intolerance than a traitor to Elizabeth I. The quote is from the 'Historia sui temporis' by Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).
NPG: D13129.
[Ref: 57236] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Vignon invent.
Mariette excud. cum Privil. Regis. [Paris, n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Framed over image, visible area 340 x 210mm (13½ x 8¼"). Repaired holes in sky.
A French portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), depicting her as a martyr to her catholicism. As she had been Queen consort of Francis II of France, the French preferred to portray her as a victim of religious intolerance than a traitor to Elizabeth I. The quote is from the 'Historia sui temporis' by Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).
NPG: D13129.
[Ref: 57236] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland.
R. Gaywood fecit 1655.
Very rare etching. 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Damaged.
Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), three-quarter length standing, wearing crown, headdress, and collar, and holding a crucifix. The print is probably the frontispiece to William Sanderson, 'A compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scots, and of her son and successor James the Sixth', Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins and George Sawbridge, 1656.
[Ref: 52531] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
R. Gaywood fecit 1655.
Very rare etching. 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Damaged.
Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), three-quarter length standing, wearing crown, headdress, and collar, and holding a crucifix. The print is probably the frontispiece to William Sanderson, 'A compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scots, and of her son and successor James the Sixth', Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins and George Sawbridge, 1656.
[Ref: 52531] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Paracoussi Rex Plattae. Hic tamen sceptro populos regebat / Quos videt condens radios subundas [...]
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Paracoussi, the sixteenth century Patagonian king. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43704] £360.00
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Paracoussi, the sixteenth century Patagonian king. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43704] £360.00
![[Suleyman I]](jpegs/43705.jpg)
[Suleyman I] Solimannus Turcarum Imperator. Parat ultima terra triumphos / Tigris et Euphrates Sub tua jura fluunt, Prop. l.3.
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Suleyman I ('the Magnificent'), Ottoman Sultan. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43705] £460.00
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Suleyman I ('the Magnificent'), Ottoman Sultan. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43705] £460.00