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Admiral Byng.
Benoist sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 132 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4".
Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was a Royal Navy officer. At age thirteen he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and over the next thirty years he built up a reputation that enabled his promotion in 1747 to Vice-Admiral. He is best known for his loss at Minorca, whereby he was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca falling to the French in 1756. He was sentenced to death and shot by firing squad on 14 March 1757.
NMM: PAD2795.
[Ref: 24136] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Benoist sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 132 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4".
Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was a Royal Navy officer. At age thirteen he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and over the next thirty years he built up a reputation that enabled his promotion in 1747 to Vice-Admiral. He is best known for his loss at Minorca, whereby he was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca falling to the French in 1756. He was sentenced to death and shot by firing squad on 14 March 1757.
NMM: PAD2795.
[Ref: 24136] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Cronstadt.
Lith. Par Ph. Benoist.
Lith. Lemercier, Paris. [n.d., 1854.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 450 x 620mm. A few small tears.
Kronstadt, the fortress on Kotlin Island, guarding the approaches to Saint Petersburg through the Gulf of Finland. During the Crimean War the Baltic Fleet of the Allies considered it too strong to approach.
[Ref: 616] £650.00
Lith. Par Ph. Benoist.
Lith. Lemercier, Paris. [n.d., 1854.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 450 x 620mm. A few small tears.
Kronstadt, the fortress on Kotlin Island, guarding the approaches to Saint Petersburg through the Gulf of Finland. During the Crimean War the Baltic Fleet of the Allies considered it too strong to approach.
[Ref: 616] £650.00
![Pavie. Facade de la Chartreause. [/] Pavia. Facciata della Certosa.](jpegs/33323.jpg)
Pavie. Facade de la Chartreause. [/] Pavia. Facciata della Certosa.
Desineé d'ap. nat. et lith. par Ph. Benoist.
Imp Lemercier. Paris. Paris, Bulla Editeur, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A highly detailed view of the Certosa di Pavia, a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia. Certosa is the Italian name for a house of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33323] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Desineé d'ap. nat. et lith. par Ph. Benoist.
Imp Lemercier. Paris. Paris, Bulla Editeur, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A highly detailed view of the Certosa di Pavia, a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia. Certosa is the Italian name for a house of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33323] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)