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Machine Infernale dirigee par les Anglais, Pour incendier Saint Malo. ['Details de la Machine' key lettering below image, brief history of use of incendary ships by the English below that.]
Beauble nee Gipoulou, del. Beauble fils. Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauble fils, Graveur de Geographie et d'Ecriture, Rue des Anglais, N.8. [n.d., c.1805.] Depose a la Bibliotheque.
Engraved plan in the form of a cross-section of a ship's hull, 308 x 199mm. Some creasing and soiling to margins.
A French explanation of the English innovation of cramming unmanned merchant ships with incendiaries, used to destroy harbour defences. Admiral John Benbow arrived off St. Malo, a walled port city in Brittany, in the middle of November 1693 and immediately started firing mortars over the wall in to the town and among the sheltering French ships. This continued for three days and on the fourth night he prepared to send in the first Infernal ever used by the Royal Navy. Benbow intended to manoeuvre the barque under the town's sea wall but it struck a rock and the engineers were forced to light the fuses and row for their lives. The vessel burned for some time but eventually blew up. The force of the explosion rocked the town like an earthquake. It blew the roofs off three hundred houses and broke all the glass and earthenware for miles around. The capstan, which weighed two hundred pounds, flew in to the air and, when it landed, completely levelled a house. Large parts of the sea wall collapsed. If Benbow had had a force of Marines he would undoubtedly have been able to take the town. He was given the task of repeating his success at Dunkirk but the Infernal proved less effective and the Admiralty dropped their use.
[Ref: 7707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Beauble nee Gipoulou, del. Beauble fils. Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauble fils, Graveur de Geographie et d'Ecriture, Rue des Anglais, N.8. [n.d., c.1805.] Depose a la Bibliotheque.
Engraved plan in the form of a cross-section of a ship's hull, 308 x 199mm. Some creasing and soiling to margins.
A French explanation of the English innovation of cramming unmanned merchant ships with incendiaries, used to destroy harbour defences. Admiral John Benbow arrived off St. Malo, a walled port city in Brittany, in the middle of November 1693 and immediately started firing mortars over the wall in to the town and among the sheltering French ships. This continued for three days and on the fourth night he prepared to send in the first Infernal ever used by the Royal Navy. Benbow intended to manoeuvre the barque under the town's sea wall but it struck a rock and the engineers were forced to light the fuses and row for their lives. The vessel burned for some time but eventually blew up. The force of the explosion rocked the town like an earthquake. It blew the roofs off three hundred houses and broke all the glass and earthenware for miles around. The capstan, which weighed two hundred pounds, flew in to the air and, when it landed, completely levelled a house. Large parts of the sea wall collapsed. If Benbow had had a force of Marines he would undoubtedly have been able to take the town. He was given the task of repeating his success at Dunkirk but the Infernal proved less effective and the Admiralty dropped their use.
[Ref: 7707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Roast Chestnut Seller] La Marchande de Marron.](jpegs/57533.jpg)
[The Roast Chestnut Seller] La Marchande de Marron. Ce Dessein est au Cabinet de Mr Damery Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal MIlitaire de St. Louis.
Greuze delin. Beauvarlet Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauvarlet Graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins [n.d., 1762.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 410 x 335mm (16 x 13¼"). Pin holes in margins.
A woman cooking and selling roast chestnuts in the street. Jean-Baptiste Greuze's original drawing was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1761.
[Ref: 57533] £280.00
Greuze delin. Beauvarlet Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauvarlet Graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins [n.d., 1762.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 410 x 335mm (16 x 13¼"). Pin holes in margins.
A woman cooking and selling roast chestnuts in the street. Jean-Baptiste Greuze's original drawing was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1761.
[Ref: 57533] £280.00
![[The Flemish Repast.]](jpegs/21638.jpg)
[The Flemish Repast.]
[after Carl August Krause]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Copper engraving, proof before all letters. 405 x 300mm, 16 x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
Flemish genre scene, attributed on reverse to Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet although as the print is not included in the IFF catalogue of his work this is uncertain. The same image was engraved in mezzotint by James Wilson in 1771, and on that print Carl August Krause (1724-64) was named as artist.
Not in IFF. For Wilson's mezzotint see British Museum no. 2010,7081.1063
[Ref: 21638] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[after Carl August Krause]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Copper engraving, proof before all letters. 405 x 300mm, 16 x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
Flemish genre scene, attributed on reverse to Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet although as the print is not included in the IFF catalogue of his work this is uncertain. The same image was engraved in mezzotint by James Wilson in 1771, and on that print Carl August Krause (1724-64) was named as artist.
Not in IFF. For Wilson's mezzotint see British Museum no. 2010,7081.1063
[Ref: 21638] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Loyalty guarding virtue]](jpegs/44961.jpg)
[Loyalty guarding virtue] La Vertu sous la garde de la fidelite. Dédié et Présenté a Monsieur de Damery [...]
Inventé et Dessiné par Charles Eisen. Gravé par P.A. Le Beau 1772
Avec Privilege du Roi. AParis chez Henault et Rapilly, rue St Jacques a la Croix de Lorraine/
Engraving, sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A young man's advances frustrated by a vigilant dog. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44961] £450.00
Inventé et Dessiné par Charles Eisen. Gravé par P.A. Le Beau 1772
Avec Privilege du Roi. AParis chez Henault et Rapilly, rue St Jacques a la Croix de Lorraine/
Engraving, sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A young man's advances frustrated by a vigilant dog. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44961] £450.00
![[Netherlands] Willem de V.de / Prins van Oranje enz. enz.](jpegs/31876.jpg)
[Netherlands] Willem de V.de / Prins van Oranje enz. enz.
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 375 x 240mm (14¾ x 9½"). Fine
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806) as a boy, surrounded by allegorical symbols. William was last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 31876] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 375 x 240mm (14¾ x 9½"). Fine
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806) as a boy, surrounded by allegorical symbols. William was last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 31876] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Netherlands] Willem V.de, Prins van Oranje enz. enz.](jpegs/38332.jpg)
[Netherlands] Willem V.de, Prins van Oranje enz. enz.
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy.
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾). Trimmed inside platemark
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), grandson of George II, the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 38332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy.
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾). Trimmed inside platemark
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), grandson of George II, the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 38332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[France] Madame La Marquise de Pompadour.](jpegs/14042.jpg)
[France] Madame La Marquise de Pompadour.
Queverdo del. Le Beau Sculp.
[Paris, c.1780.]
Etching, sheet 160 x 105mm. 6¼ x 4¼". Trimmed within plate.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), bust-length to front within ornamental oval frame. She was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of Louis XV from 1745 to 1750.
[Ref: 14042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Queverdo del. Le Beau Sculp.
[Paris, c.1780.]
Etching, sheet 160 x 105mm. 6¼ x 4¼". Trimmed within plate.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), bust-length to front within ornamental oval frame. She was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of Louis XV from 1745 to 1750.
[Ref: 14042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Alexandre Pope. né a Londres le 6 Juin 1688, mort le 30 may 1744.
Kneller pinxit 1722. Marillier Ornam. del.
Le Beau Graveur de Mgr le Duc de Chartres. [n.d., c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet: 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾'').
A French portrait of English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), set within an oval below which a satyr and cupid play around a plaque.
[Ref: 48657] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Kneller pinxit 1722. Marillier Ornam. del.
Le Beau Graveur de Mgr le Duc de Chartres. [n.d., c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet: 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾'').
A French portrait of English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), set within an oval below which a satyr and cupid play around a plaque.
[Ref: 48657] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Roxelane. O vous que Mars rend invincible, Voulez-vous être au rang des Dieux? Deffendez vous s'il est possible, D'être eslave de doux beaux yeux.
Dugoure inv. pinx. Le Beau sculp.
Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant Mds. d’Estampes. Rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1790.]
A very fine copper engraving. Plate 255 x 178mm. 10 x 7".
Roxelane, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Consort Hurrem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (c.1505-1558), was the legal wife of the Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. She was captured in the 1520s as a young woman by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids of the region and was taken as a slave, probably the first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, and then onto Istanbul where she was selected for Suleyman's harem.
[Ref: 16195] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Dugoure inv. pinx. Le Beau sculp.
Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant Mds. d’Estampes. Rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1790.]
A very fine copper engraving. Plate 255 x 178mm. 10 x 7".
Roxelane, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Consort Hurrem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (c.1505-1558), was the legal wife of the Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. She was captured in the 1520s as a young woman by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids of the region and was taken as a slave, probably the first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, and then onto Istanbul where she was selected for Suleyman's harem.
[Ref: 16195] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Les Couseuses.]](jpegs/40343.jpg)
[Les Couseuses.]
[After Guido Reni. Engraved by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet.]
[n.d., c.1774.]
Engraving. Proof before letters impresson. Platemark: 445 x 560mm (17½ x 22").
Seven women sitting in an interior, sewing, two other women standing on each side of the room. After Guido Reni (1575 - 1642).
Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 40343] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[After Guido Reni. Engraved by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet.]
[n.d., c.1774.]
Engraving. Proof before letters impresson. Platemark: 445 x 560mm (17½ x 22").
Seven women sitting in an interior, sewing, two other women standing on each side of the room. After Guido Reni (1575 - 1642).
Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 40343] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Erminia saving Tancred]](jpegs/35237.jpg)
[Erminia saving Tancred] Tancred Secouru par Herminie [...]
L.J. Fr. Lagren?e pinx. Beauvarlet Sculp.
A Paris chez l'Auteur rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins [c.1761]
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 340 x 435mm (13½ x 17"). Staining lower left. Creasing.
Tancred, wounded in combat, is saved by Princess Erminia. A subject from Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered', a common source of inspiration for European painters. This engraving is taken from a 1761 painting by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenée (now in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Lagrenée was Director of the St Petersburg Academy during this time.
[Ref: 35237] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
L.J. Fr. Lagren?e pinx. Beauvarlet Sculp.
A Paris chez l'Auteur rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins [c.1761]
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 340 x 435mm (13½ x 17"). Staining lower left. Creasing.
Tancred, wounded in combat, is saved by Princess Erminia. A subject from Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered', a common source of inspiration for European painters. This engraving is taken from a 1761 painting by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenée (now in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Lagrenée was Director of the St Petersburg Academy during this time.
[Ref: 35237] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)