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Night & a Ship on Fire. Nuit & Vaisseau en feu.
Monamy Pinx.t. Swaine Delin.t. Parr Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter=Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"), vry large margins.
A ship in the harbour aflame, with onlookers from every angle, and a small boat trying to salvage what they can and escape the flames, after Peter Monamy (1681-1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 45286] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Monamy Pinx.t. Swaine Delin.t. Parr Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter=Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"), vry large margins.
A ship in the harbour aflame, with onlookers from every angle, and a small boat trying to salvage what they can and escape the flames, after Peter Monamy (1681-1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 45286] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Night & a Ship on Fire. Nuit & Vaisseau en feu.
Monamy Pinxt. Swaine Delint. Parr Sculp.
Published 12th.May 1794. by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured copper engraving. Plate 290 x 381mm. 11½ x 15". Trimmed close to the platemark. Some damage on left.
A ship in the harbour aflame, with onlookers from every angle, and a small boat trying to salvage what they can and escape the flames, after Peter Monamy (1681-1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 15929] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Monamy Pinxt. Swaine Delint. Parr Sculp.
Published 12th.May 1794. by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured copper engraving. Plate 290 x 381mm. 11½ x 15". Trimmed close to the platemark. Some damage on left.
A ship in the harbour aflame, with onlookers from every angle, and a small boat trying to salvage what they can and escape the flames, after Peter Monamy (1681-1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 15929] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
A View of Quebec from the Bason. Painted from the Drawing of Hen.y Smith Esq. by Francis Swain.
London Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, F. Bakewell & H. Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhil, Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street [approx. 1770].
Engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 270 x 455mm (10½ x 18"). Trimmed to image and pasted on card with thick black border around edges and text cut out and pasted verso (standard 18th century presentation); damaged.
Large view of Quebec, Canada, with thirty-point key. This print was the basis of several smaller and later views of the city.
For other views of Quebec derived from this see refs. 10976, 25851, etc.
[Ref: 41714] £320.00
London Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, F. Bakewell & H. Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhil, Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street [approx. 1770].
Engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 270 x 455mm (10½ x 18"). Trimmed to image and pasted on card with thick black border around edges and text cut out and pasted verso (standard 18th century presentation); damaged.
Large view of Quebec, Canada, with thirty-point key. This print was the basis of several smaller and later views of the city.
For other views of Quebec derived from this see refs. 10976, 25851, etc.
[Ref: 41714] £320.00