A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Right Hon.ble Edmund Burke.
Sir Joshua Reynolds R.A. pinx.t 1775. M. Benedetti sculp.t Pupil to F. Bartolozzi RA.
Pub.d by C. Dyer Compton Str.t Soho [n.d., c.1791].
Stipple. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, stains in edges at bottom
Edmund Burke (1729-97), Anglo-Irish statesman, known as the 'The British Cicero'. Originally published by Benedetti in 1791.
[Ref: 62075] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Sir Joshua Reynolds R.A. pinx.t 1775. M. Benedetti sculp.t Pupil to F. Bartolozzi RA.
Pub.d by C. Dyer Compton Str.t Soho [n.d., c.1791].
Stipple. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, stains in edges at bottom
Edmund Burke (1729-97), Anglo-Irish statesman, known as the 'The British Cicero'. Originally published by Benedetti in 1791.
[Ref: 62075] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Italian Gardener.
Mle. Benedetti Delineavit et Sculpsit.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov 25th. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate. Crease.
Michele Benedetti (b.1741) was an Italian-born engraver in stipple who spent some time in London, and who may have been a pupil of Bartolozzi, whose style his work resembles.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 7416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mle. Benedetti Delineavit et Sculpsit.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov 25th. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate. Crease.
Michele Benedetti (b.1741) was an Italian-born engraver in stipple who spent some time in London, and who may have been a pupil of Bartolozzi, whose style his work resembles.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 7416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Indian Female of the Arrowaoka Nation.
Benedetti Sculp.t.
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1792, by J. Johnson, S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Stipple. Plate: 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left edge.
A portrait of a native woman holding a parrot and a bow and arrow.
[Ref: 46057] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Benedetti Sculp.t.
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1792, by J. Johnson, S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Stipple. Plate: 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left edge.
A portrait of a native woman holding a parrot and a bow and arrow.
[Ref: 46057] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Music.
Domenichino pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Stipple; ink collector's mark on verso. Sheet size: 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A seated figure, wearing a decorative head-piece, depicted with a music book. The subject has the attributes of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of musicians and Church music, and the viola di gamba, seen in the background to the right, and sheet music are indicative of the artist portraying the subject as the saint. After the painting 'The Cumaean Sibyl' (1616-17) by Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641, known as Domenichino), now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
[Ref: 36841] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Domenichino pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Stipple; ink collector's mark on verso. Sheet size: 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A seated figure, wearing a decorative head-piece, depicted with a music book. The subject has the attributes of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of musicians and Church music, and the viola di gamba, seen in the background to the right, and sheet music are indicative of the artist portraying the subject as the saint. After the painting 'The Cumaean Sibyl' (1616-17) by Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641, known as Domenichino), now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
[Ref: 36841] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Sibilla. From a Picture in the Collection of his Imperial Majesty at Vienna.
Guido Reni pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.
Pubd. 1st. June 1796 by M. Benedetti No.8, Queen Charlotte Row New Road.
Stipple and etching. Plate 272 x 208mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Small margins.
A woman dressed in a loose gown and cloak around her right arm, her hair loose under a striped turban with a jewel at the centre of her forehead, sitting with her cheek against her right hand, the elbow resting on a cushion, reading a book propped open on her knee, with a curtain behind. The Persian Sibyl reading a book in her turban; the Sibyl was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world, but the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander of Macedon.
See Ref: 13963 for trimmed to image and title.
[Ref: 52414] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Guido Reni pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.
Pubd. 1st. June 1796 by M. Benedetti No.8, Queen Charlotte Row New Road.
Stipple and etching. Plate 272 x 208mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Small margins.
A woman dressed in a loose gown and cloak around her right arm, her hair loose under a striped turban with a jewel at the centre of her forehead, sitting with her cheek against her right hand, the elbow resting on a cushion, reading a book propped open on her knee, with a curtain behind. The Persian Sibyl reading a book in her turban; the Sibyl was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world, but the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander of Macedon.
See Ref: 13963 for trimmed to image and title.
[Ref: 52414] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)