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Vera Effigies Excellentissimi Principis Caroli Mag. Britan: Fran. & Hiberniae.l Haeredis.
Vera Effigies Excellentissimi Principis Caroli Mag. Britan: Fran. & Hiberniae.l Haeredis. Vivat io Vivat Princeps Carolinus, et Orbi. Impere, inumeris decorans sua secla Triumphis. Flourish braue Prince, out shine thy Glorius Name, Triumphant Laurels ever Crowne they Fame.
C:or V.Dalen Sculp.
[n.d. c.1640.]
Engraving. 178 x 121mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed. Some staining along upper edge.
King Charles II (1630-1685), reigned from 1660 to 1685.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18720]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Charles II.]
[Charles II.]
[PNason pinxit. C. V. Dalen J. Sculp:]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Sheet 330 x 275mm (13 x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
An untitled three-quarter length portrait of Charles II, baton in hand, crown and orb on table lower left, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen II after Pieter Nason. On this example artist and engraver's names in the sky top right have been removed.
O'Donoghue 25 82.
[Ref: 42962]   £360.00  
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Paoli.
Paoli.
T. Dale Sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis. 1820.
Stipple. 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), with very large margins. Small brown spot inside plate but outside image. Tear and light staining in margins.
Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807), General and Head of the short-lived Corsican Republic. He led the Corsican struggle against Genoese rule and set up the Corsican Republic. He designed and wrote the Constitution of the state. One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
[Ref: 61271]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Henricus D.G. VIII' Angliæ, Fran, et Hib, Rex...
Henricus D.G. VIII' Angliæ, Fran, et Hib, Rex...
[Arnham: Crispijn de Passe, 1620.]
Engraving 160 x 125mm (6¼ x 5"). Thread margins, laid on album paper.
Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547), three-quarter length, wearing cap, robes and a chain with George medallion. The lines of verse underneath are signed with the monogram AB (Arnold van Buchel, 1565-1641). One of 67 plates in Henry Holland's 'Heroologia Anglica', all engraved by either Willem or Magdalen de Passe, children of the publisher.
[Ref: 52564]   £145.00   (£174.00 incl.VAT)
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[Henry, Duke of Gloucester]  Cellissimus, Potentissimus Et Illustrissimus Princeps Henricus Dux Glocestriae, Comes Cantabrigiae Et Eques Nobilissimi Ordinis Gartery.
[Henry, Duke of Gloucester] Cellissimus, Potentissimus Et Illustrissimus Princeps Henricus Dux Glocestriae, Comes Cantabrigiae Et Eques Nobilissimi Ordinis Gartery.
Simon Lutticjuys pinxit. C. van Dalen junior Sculpsit.
Nicol. Visscher excudit [Dutch, n.d. c.1660].
Engraving, published state, sheet 380 x 280mm. 15 x 11". Trimmed to plate. Horizontal centre crease; upper left corner tip chipped.
Portrait of Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1640 - 1660), wearing armour and with a sash across his chest, with long wig, in a frame of laurel and with his arms in the lower margin. Henry was the Protestant brother of Charles II of England. The third son of Charles I, he visited his father the night before his execution. For the next three years he was confined by the Commonwealth regime. In 1652 Oliver Cromwell gave him permission to go abroad, and he joined his mother and brothers in Paris. His firm adherence to the Protestant religion, however, incensed his Roman Catholic mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. She turned him out after which he joined the Spaniards at Dunkirk, fighting alongside his brother the Duke of York (afterward James II) in 1658. Henry returned to England on the restoration of Charles II, but he died a few months later of smallpox. A pair to the portrait of the Duke of York (see item Ref: 3981). After Simon Luttichuys (baptised 1610 - 1661).
NPG D10635; for proof before letters see ref. 24913
[Ref: 24911]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Henry, Duke of Gloucester.]
[Henry, Duke of Gloucester.]
[S. Lutticjuys pinxit. C. van Dalen.]
[Dutch, N. Visscher, n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving, proof before all letters, sheet 380 x 285mm. 15 x 11¼". (Lettered to pedestal in pencil mss.) Trimmed to plate. One stain upper left.
Portrait of Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1640 - 1660), wearing armour and with a sash across his chest, with long wig, in a frame of laurel and with his arms in the lower margin. Henry was the Protestant brother of Charles II of England. The third son of Charles I, he visited his father the night before his execution. For the next three years he was confined by the Commonwealth regime. In 1652 Oliver Cromwell gave him permission to go abroad, and he joined his mother and brothers in Paris. His firm adherence to the Protestant religion, however, incensed his Roman Catholic mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. She turned him out after which he joined the Spaniards at Dunkirk, fighting alongside his brother the Duke of York (afterward James II) in 1658. Henry returned to England on the restoration of Charles II, but he died a few months later of smallpox. Issued as a pair to the portrait of the Duke of York (see item Ref: 3981). After Simon Luttichuys (baptised 1610 - 1661).
NPG D10635; for lettered state see ref. 24911
[Ref: 24913]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Effigies of the highe borne Prince Maurice sone of the Count Palatine of ye Rhyne
The Effigies of the highe borne Prince Maurice sone of the Count Palatine of ye Rhyne borne in Custrine in Mort: of Brandenborch.
Corn. Van Dalen sculp.
Published by W. Scott King Stt. Dec 1-1810.
Stipple and etching, sheet 255 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
A copy of a 17th century engraving. Sir Maurice of the Palatinate KG (1620 – 1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine, was the fourth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of James I, King of England and Scotland and Anne of Denmark. He accompanied his elder brother, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, to serve under their uncle Charles I in the English Civil War in 1642. He served under Rupert with the cavalry at the Battle of Powick Bridge, where he was wounded, and the Battle of Edgehill. He also fought at the decisive Battle of Naseby in 1645. Banished with Rupert in October 1646, he served with the French army in Flanders, but rejoined Rupert in 1648 as vice-admiral of his fleet. He was created a Knight of the Garter in exile in 1649. In 1652, while sailing for the West Indies, he was caught in a hurricane and went down with his flagship, HMS Defiance.
[Ref: 17161]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Olde, Old, very Olde Man or Thomas Par, the Sonne of Iohn Parr or Winngton in the Parish of Alberbury. In the County of Shropshire who was Born in 1483 in the Raigne of King Edward the 4th and is now living in The Strand, being aged 152 yeares and odd
The Olde, Old, very Olde Man or Thomas Par, the Sonne of Iohn Parr or Winngton in the Parish of Alberbury. In the County of Shropshire who was Born in 1483 in the Raigne of King Edward the 4th and is now living in The Strand, being aged 152 yeares and odd Monethes 1535.
C.v.Dalen sculp:
[n.d. c.1635.]
Engraving, rare. 160 x 102mm. 6¼ x 4". Trimmed, some damage.
Thomas Parr (1483? - 1635), centenarian; famous for his long life, reputedly dying at the age of 153, and know as 'Old Parr'. Portrait of Thomas Parr, half length, sitting in chair, bearded, wearing skull-cap; prefixed to John Taylor's 'The Olde, Old, very Olde Man' (1635).
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. Collection Th. Thane. For an interesting piece of ephemera relating to Old Parr, see ref.16716
[Ref: 25408]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Baths of Caracalla] Vue des Thermes de Caracalla à Rome.
[Baths of Caracalla] Vue des Thermes de Caracalla à Rome. tiré de la Collcetion de M.r Carl Thurneisen à Francfort. s/m.
Verschafeldt pin: à Rome. U. Magd: Prestel. sculp. No. 50.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"). Trimmed to image as normal and laid on thick paper with title underneath orginial backing paper damaged & dusty.
A view under the ruined arches of the Baths of Caracalla, after the German architect Maximilian von Verschaffelt. His original watercolour is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, identified as the Basilica of Constantine (Inventory No 2820). The plate was engraved by Ursula Magdalena Prestel (1747-94), daughter and pupil of Johann Gottlieb Prestel and Maria Katherina Prestel, who married Joh. Georg Reinheimer in 1805.
[Ref: 61265]   £420.00  
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Royal Coburg Theatre, Surrey.
Royal Coburg Theatre, Surrey. This first stone of the Royal Coburg Theatre was laid on the 14th day of September in the year 1816, by his serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg and her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, by their serene and Royal Highness's Proxy Alderman Goodbehere.
Schnebblie del. Dale sculp.
London, Published 1st Januarary 1819 by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street.
Coloured etching. 225 x 315mm (9 x 12½"). Small margins.
A plate celebrating the opening of the Coburg Theatre in London (now the Old Vic) in Waterloo Bridge Road.
[Ref: 38817]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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September.
September. Libra dies noctesq, pares suspendit in astris, / Et medio Phoebus cernitur ire gradu [...]
Joachimius Sandrart Pinxit, C.V. Dalen Sculpsit [c.1645]
Engraving, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Very rare.
Plate from a set of the Twelve Months after paintings made by Joachim von Sandrart for the Old Palace Schleissheim, Munich, 1642-3). Each plate has a person engaged in a seasonal activity and a zodiac sign somewhere in the composition (Libra scales in the upper centre here), with Latin verses by C. Barlaeus.
For a set of all twelve months see ref.42822
[Ref: 47309]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Major Gen.l Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith, Bar.t G.C.B.
Major Gen.l Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith, Bar.t G.C.B. of Aliwal on the Sutlej. Appointed K.C.B. for his services as Adjunct General at the Battle of Maharajpoor, Commanded the First Infantry Division of the Army of the Sutlej during the battles of Perozeshah, Moodkee &c. Dec.r 1845. Created Bar.t 9th Ap.l 1846.
Drawn on Stone by E. Dalton [Mrs Edwin Dalton, Magdalena Ross]. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.
London Published by J. Hogarth 5, Hay-Market.
Lithograph with facsimile signature, very scarce. Printed area 420 x 300mm (16½ x 12").
Portrait of Sir Harry Smith (1787-1860), a soldier whose career spanned: the British invasions of the Río de la Plata in 1807, including the Battle of Montevideo; the Peninsular War from 1808 until the final battle, Toulouse in 1814; the War of 1812, including the Burning of Washington in 1814; the Battle of Waterloo, 1814; the Xhosa Wars in South Africa, 1834-6; the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-6; and South Africa again, fighting the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats in 1848. During that last posting Ladysmith was named after his wife.
[Ref: 30231]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Honestissimi Poetae et Gallici du Bartae Translatoris Inclytissimi M.ri Iosuae Sylvestri Vera Effigies.
Honestissimi Poetae et Gallici du Bartae Translatoris Inclytissimi M.ri Iosuae Sylvestri Vera Effigies. Behould the Man whoe Words & Workes were One...Who liv'd beloved and a Saint Expired, John Vicars.
Corn: v: Dalen Sculp.
[n.d. c.1633.]
Rare copper engraving. Plate 242 x 158mm. 9½ x 6¼". Trimmed to the plate.
Prefix to his 1633 and 1634 editions of his translations of Saluste du Bartas, 'Divine weekes and workes'. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618) was an English Poet. In 1591 a title-page to his 'Yvry' stated that he was in the service of the Merchant Adventurer's Company. He was a land steward for a short time before in 1606, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, gave him a small pension as a part-time court poet. By 1613 he had become secretary to the Merchant Adventurers and was based in Middelburg in the Low Countries.
BM: 1890,0415.136. Hind: III.256.9.
[Ref: 16782]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Winchester. _______
Winchester. _______ "The Cloisters and Chantry".
Painted by F.P. Barraud. Etched by H. Sheppard Dale. [Etched in image:] H. Sheppard Dale. F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Dec. 2.nd 1889, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. 439 x 572mm. 17¼ x 22½". Some light overall toning.
Winchester College, Hampshire. It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, which also included Eton, Harrow and Charterhouse. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
[Ref: 22044]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Winchester. _______
[Winchester. _______ "The Cloisters and Chantry".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. H. Sheppard Dale. [Etched in image:] H. Sheppard Dale. F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Dec. 2.nd 1889, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. 439 x 572mm. 17¼ x 22½".
Winchester College, Hampshire. It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, which also included Eton, Harrow and Charterhouse. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.I. AP. 120.
[Ref: 22045]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Winchester. _______
[Winchester. _______ "The Cloisters and Chantry".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. H. Sheppard Dale. [Etched in image:] H. Sheppard Dale. F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Dec. 2.nd 1889, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Remarque in title area. 439 x 572mm. 17¼ x 22½". Some light overall toning.
Winchester College, Hampshire. It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, which also included Eton, Harrow and Charterhouse. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.I. Rem.AP. 60.
[Ref: 22046]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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