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Apotheosis of Hercules.
Apotheosis of Hercules.
G.B. Cipriani. Fran.s Legat Sculpsit.
Pubish'd Jan.y 1.st 1789 by John & Joshiah Boydell No.9 Cheapside London.
Engraving. Plate: 405 x 245mm (16 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A statue of Hercules in a niche; below is a bas relief showing Hercules being presented to Hera and Jupiter by Mercury and Minerva.
[Ref: 47566]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Hercules and Omphale.]
[Hercules and Omphale.]
G.B. Cipriani Delin.t. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London, Publish'd Nov:r 1st 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver No: 158 Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, state before title. 215 x 255mm (8½ x 10"). Crease through lower left corner.
Hercules seated to left, holding a spindle; on the right, Omphale, half-naked, wearing his lion's skin over her head, seated with legs crossed, her right hand resting on a club held by a putto. On her left, Cupid, holding a bow, two putti holding wreaths; in a horizontal oval. In classical mythology Omphale was queen of Lydia; Herakles/Hercules was her slave for three years, as punishment for murdering his friend Iphitus. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
De Vesme 425, iv of v.
[Ref: 21256]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Hercules and Omphale.]
[Hercules and Omphale.]
G.B. Cipriani Delin.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st; 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver No.158 Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, very decorative, fine impression. Plate 216 x 241mm. 8½ x 9½". Trimmed to the plate along left edge.
Hercules seated holding a spindle with Omphale opposite, half naked, wearing his lion's skin; her right hand on a club held by a putto. Cupid holding a bow to the right and two putti holding wreaths.
De Vesme: 425; iv/v. See 21176 for later state.
[Ref: 20445]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Hercules and Omphale.]
[Hercules and Omphale.]
G.B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st; 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver No.158 Bond Street.
A fine stipple and etching, very decorative. Plate 216 x 241mm. 8½ x 9½". Slight crease, large margins.
Hercules seated holding a spindle with Omphale opposite, half naked, wearing a lion's skin; her right hand on a club held by a putto. Cupid holding a bow to the right and two putti holding wreaths.
De Vesme: 425; v/v. See 20445 for earlier state.
[Ref: 21176]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Hercules and Omphale.]
[Hercules and Omphale.]
G.B. Cipriani Delin.t. Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
[London, Publish'd Nov:r 1st 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver No: 158 Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching, state before title, printed in sepia. Sheet 225 x 365mm (9 x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Hercules seated to left, holding a spindle; on the right, Omphale, half-naked, wearing his lion's skin over her head, seated with legs crossed, her right hand resting on a club held by a putto. On her left, Cupid, holding a bow, two putti holding wreaths; in a horizontal oval. In classical mythology Omphale was queen of Lydia; Herakles/Hercules was her slave for three years, as punishment for murdering his friend Iphitus. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85).
De Vesme 425.
[Ref: 53316]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Victory of History over Time.]
[The Victory of History over Time.]
J.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish;d Jan.y 1st 1780, as the Act Directs.
Etching. 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
A female figure of History holds back Time (or Chronos) with his scythe. Behind are the arms of the Duke of Marlborough and an allegorical figure of the Thames. The frontispiece to the second volume of 'Marlborough gems' by Dr William Cole (1753-1806)
[Ref: 42029]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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History.
History.
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
Stipple engraving. 205 x 290mm (8 x 11½"). Glued to backing sheet. Top right corner detached.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Clio with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation,Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
[Ref: 14684]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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To Thomas Brand Hollis Esq.r These Memoirs of his Friend Thomas Hollis Esq.r are Inscribed by the Compilers. MDCCLXXX.
To Thomas Brand Hollis Esq.r These Memoirs of his Friend Thomas Hollis Esq.r are Inscribed by the Compilers. MDCCLXXX.
J.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
Publish'd March 20th 1780.
Stipple and etching. 310 x 235mm (12¼ x 9¼"), with margins.
The dedication to the 'Memoirs of Thomas Hollis' by Francis Blackburne, featuring an female allegorical figure of Fame, with trumpet, shield and owl.
De Vesme 1736.
[Ref: 53330]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomae Hollis Angli R. Et Ant. SS. Lond. Sodalis  MDCCLXVII
Thomae Hollis Angli R. Et Ant. SS. Lond. Sodalis MDCCLXVII
[c.1767.]
Etching, frontispiece?, 280 x 210mm. 11 x 8¼".
Thomas Hollis (1720 - 1774), libertarian, writer, bibliophile and patron of the arts, his medallion bust on an inscribed obelisk. Hollis was trained in public service and spent the years 1740 to 1748 practicing law. Hollis toured Europe twice, in 1748-9 and again from 1750 to 1753 mixing with French philosophers and Italian painters such as Canaletto and Piranesi. Hollis's main contribution to public service was to protect and advance English liberty by circulating books on government. From 1754 he reprinted and distributed literature from the seventeenth century, including works such as Toland's Life of Milton, tracts by Marchmont Nedham, Henry Neville, and Philip Sidney, and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. By Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
[Ref: 13392]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomas Hyde
Thomas Hyde [arabic inscription on tablet]
Cipriani delin / F. Perry sculp.
[1767]
Line engraving, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed close.
Sculpted bust of Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), oriental scholar and sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library. Frontispiece to his 'Syntagma' (G. Sharpe, ed., 1767) and the only engraved likeness of him.
[Ref: 31100]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Innocence taught by Love & Friendship.
Innocence taught by Love & Friendship.
I.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
[Pub.d Jan.y I.st 1784 by W. Palmer.]
Stipple and etching. 146 x 188mm. 5¾ x 7½". Trimmed.
A small girl seated to the right with her hand on the head of a sleeping sheep; she listens to the lessons given by a young girl, friendship, and a cupid, love.
De Vesme: 637; iii/iv.
[Ref: 20574]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Jealousy of Lord Darnley, Husband of Mary Queen of Scots.]
[The Jealousy of Lord Darnley, Husband of Mary Queen of Scots.]
[G.B. Cipriani R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.]
[Published according to Act of Parliament, 19 April 1787, by Anne Bryer, N.o 5. Poland Street, Soho.]
Stipple and etching very large margins, printed in brown; except publication line; proof before all letters. Plate 326 x 389mm (12¾ x 15¼").
A musical image showing inside of room, Mary, Queen of Scots playing a harpsichord; a young boy holding up a sheet of music; on the right, David Rizzio, playing a mandolin; on the left, Lord Darnley, his right fist clinched in anger; in the background on the right, two ladies, one holding a book.
De Vesme: 533: iv/vi. Tuer: 1232. Collection: Northwick.
[Ref: 31208]   £360.00  
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[Julius Caesar making an offering to the gods]
[Julius Caesar making an offering to the gods] [Vide Plin. Hist. Nat. LXXXVII C.II]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. London 1780
Etching and engraving, rare; platemark 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Good impression; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Proof impression of the frontispiece to the first volume of 'Geminarum antiquarum delectus...', a publication detailing highlights from the collection of gems assembled by the fourth Duke of Marlborough, George Spencer (1739-1817) at Blenheim Palace. The book, in two volumes, was initially printed in an edition of one hundred copies for private distribution before being republished in 1845. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 1740 ii/iv; for the frontispiece to the second volume of the 'Geminarum antiquarum delectus...' see ref. 42029.
[Ref: 43148]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.
Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 1st. 1784 by A. Torre No. 44 Market Lane.
Very fine stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 225 x 175mm (9 x 7"), with large margins.
Jupiter seated on a cloud, embracing his wife Juno, watched by two putti and an eagle.
De Vesme 429, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 19687]   £320.00  
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Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.
Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 1.st 1784 by A. Torre N.o 44 Market Lane.
Very fine stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 225 x 175mm (9 x 7"), with large margins. Mint.
Jupiter seated on a cloud, embracing his wife Juno, watched by two putti and an eagle.
De Vesme 429, state iv of iv. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60293]   £350.00  
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[Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.]
[Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida.]
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 1st. 1784 by A. Torre No. 44 Market Lane.
Very fine stipple and etching, proof before title, printed in sanguine, pt 18th century watermark. 225 x 175mm (9 x 7").
Jupiter seated on a cloud, embracing his wife Juno, watched by two putti and an eagle.
De Vesme 429, state iii of iv.
[Ref: 53323]   £320.00   (£384.00 incl.VAT)
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Lais
Lais Beauty like ice our footing does betray / Who can tread sure on the smooth slippry way [...]
Drawn by J.G. Cipriani R.A. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to His Majesty.
London Published Decem.r 12.th 1786 by E.M. Diemar.
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"); very large margins.
Lais, a famous courtesan of ancient Greece. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (whose name is incorrectly given here as 'J.G. Cipriani').
De Vesme 434 iv/iv
[Ref: 40658]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Lamia.
Lamia. Beauty and grace with sudden charms can bind / The wandring sense, and calm the troubled mind [...]
Drawn by J.G. Cipriani R.A. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to His Majesty.
[London Published Decem.r 12.th 1786 by E.M. Diemar]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 320 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line; slight foxing.
Lamia, in ancient Greek mythology a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating demon. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (whose name is incorrectly given here as 'J.G. Cipriani').
De Vesme 435 v/v
[Ref: 40657]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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John Locke
John Locke
I.B. Cipriani
[n.d. c.1765]
Engraving, plate 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"), with large margins. Some light foxing.
Frontispiece to 'Letters Concerning Toleration' by John Locke (1632 – 1704).
[Ref: 58637]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Cares'd.
Love Cares'd. Come to my arms, thou best, & dearest Boy The God of Love, triumphant, is my joy. The Original in the Possession of George Stainforth Esq.r Jun.r
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act directs, March 5.th 1783 by M.mo Bori No.207 Piccadilly.
Stipple. Collector's stamp M Bovi on verso and another. Plate 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Slight creasing through title area and upper right.
Venus, bare-breasted, looks longingly into the eyes of winged cupid; a the plains and mountain behind.
From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27513]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The Madonna.
The Madonna.
G. B. Cipriana. Inv.t.
London: Printed in Colours & Published by A. Friedel, 15, Southampton St. Strand. [n.d., c.1830.]
Very fine colour printed lithograph. Sheet size: 495 x 345mm (19½ x 13½"). Uncut with very large margins.
The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, his arms stretched out to front, looking up to the sky. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
[Ref: 38076]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Mother & Child.
Mother & Child. From the Original of the same Size...In the Collection of Clotworthy Upton Esqr...[to whom the plate is dedicated by the publisher.]
G.B. Cipriani Invt. J. Boydell excudit. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
Published May 2d. 1768.
Engraving, 230 x 165mm. 9 x 6½".
The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, His arms stretched out to front, looking up to the sky. Crest flanked by angels below image. Numbered 'No.44.' lower left. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
[Ref: 11757]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Madonna and Child.]
[Madonna and Child.]
[G.B. Cipriani. F. Bartolozzi.]
[London: J. Boydell, c.1768.]
Etching, proof before letters on india paper, 230 x 165mm. 9 x 6½". Some foxing; slight creasing to india paper.
The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus; his arms stretched out to front, looking up to the sky. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
De Vesme 123, I.
[Ref: 21185]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mother & Child]
[Mother & Child] Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi
Cipriani inv: P. de Colle sculp. ap Cavalli Venes.
[c.1775]
Engraving, platemark 235 x 170mm (9 x 6½") very large margins.
The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, His arms stretched out to front, looking up to the sky. Crest flanked by angels below image. Italian engraving after a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785), Italian-born artist working in London. Probably copied from an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, published in London by John Boydell in 1768.
For Bartolozzi's engraving of the same image see ref. 11757.
[Ref: 43117]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Ball At The Mansion House. April  XVII. MDCCLXXV  The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.]
[The Ball At The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.]
[G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1775.]
Engraving in red/brown ink. Plate 240 x 215mm. 9½ x 8½". Fine proof impression before all letters, with good margins all around.
Elaborate ticket for an April 17th 1775 ball at The Mansion House in the City of London. Three putti dance with a classical female figure, while two more fly overhead bringing vines, all in a frame of palm and oak leaves.
De Vesme: 1963; i/iv. See Ref: 14666 for later state in red/brown ink, and 20524 & 21223 for later states in black ink.
[Ref: 14667]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece to Jonas Hanway, 'Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society']
Frontispiece to Jonas Hanway, 'Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society'] J.B. Cipriani delineavit piaeque institutioni dicavit.
[1758]
Engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Scene demonstrating how the Marine Society recruited boys for sea service by providing them with clothing kits. Frontispiece to Jonas Hanway, 'Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society' (1758). Hanway (bap.1712- d.1786) was a philanthropist and governor of the Foundling Hospital who founded the Marine Society in 1756 following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, both saving the boys from poverty and solving the difficulties of recruitment at a time when the British navy was crucial to national trade and power. The 'Three Letters' was one of many pamphlet Hanway authored seeking support for his various causes. The Marine Society, now based in Lambeth, is still active in training for careers at sea.
See O'Connell, 'London 1753', Cat. 3.26; for uncoloured impression see ref.16252; for a portrait of Hanway see ref.23172; for a superb later print in aid of the Marine Society see ref.8851.
[Ref: 37643]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Marine Society.]
[Marine Society.]
J.B. Cipriani delineavit piaeque institutione dicavit.
[London, Jonas Hanway, 1758.]
A rare copper engraving. 216 x 159mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Trimmed.
Room with the board of the Marine Society turning beggars into apprentice seaman. This is the frontispiece of Jonas Hanway's "Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society".
BM: 1876,0708.2521.
[Ref: 16252]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pubd. as the Act dizects 14 th December 1783. by G. Graglia London.
Etching with engraving. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Small margins.
A satyr seated playing Pan's flute before a bust of Martial (poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, c.40-c.104AD). The engraved title of 'Tutti gli Epigrammi di M. Val Marziale, fedelmente trasportati in italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Torinese'.
De Vesme: 1744; ii/iii.
[Ref: 62162]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pubd. as the Act dizects 14 th December 1783. by G. Graglia London.
Etching with engraving. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼").
A satyr seated playing Pan's flute before a bust of Martial (poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, c.40-c.104AD). The engraved title of 'Tutti gli Epigrammi di M. Val Marziale, fedelmente trasportati in italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Torinese'.
De Vesme: 1744; iii/iv.
[Ref: 20484]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Portrait of Vincenzo Martinelli with cornucopia below]
[Portrait of Vincenzo Martinelli with cornucopia below]
G.B. Cipriani Fiorentino disegno / F. Bartolozzi scalpi [1766]
Engraving with very large margins, fine, platemark 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½").
Portrait of the Italian author Vincenzo Martinelli, from his edition of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' published in London in 1766. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This was the medium employed for many of his prints although this print uses the more established technique of etching.
De Vesme 872 (only state).
[Ref: 36621]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Jewel worn by the P,M. of the Lodge of Symbolic Mason's.
The Jewel worn by the P,M. of the Lodge of Symbolic Mason's.
aft Cipriani Leney fc.
London, Printed for G. Cawthorn, British Library, Strand, Sept.r 1 1796.
Stipple and etching, platemark 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") very large margins.
The P.M. jewel of the Lodge of Symbolic Masons, precisely similar to the jewels of the Lodge of the Nine Muses. Published in volume seven of the 'Freemasons' Magazine'
[Ref: 41709]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Ticket] Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV [lettered on tablet in image.]
[Ticket] Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV [lettered on tablet in image.]
I.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[British, 1775.]
Etched ball invitation, printed in brown ink. In ink verso 42. State before plate reworked and Bartolozzi's name erased. Image 265 x 185mm. 10½ x 7¼". Lacking lower margin. Fold creases as to put in a pocket.
A bacchanal women holding up a tragic mask with a her left hand and lifting her veil with her right. A putto seated to the right holds up the inscribed plaque, seated next to a bunch of grapes; two dramatic masks on the ground in left foreground. This plate has been altered; the putto originally held aloft a basket of fruit and flowers.
See item Ref: 20425 for an early issue of the plate. De Vesme 1959, I of II.
[Ref: 27691]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV.
[Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV.
I.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
Stipple, very fine image. Plate 321 x 233mm. 12¾ x 9¼". Trimmed to the plate, slight foxing.
A ticket; a bacchanal women holding up a mask with a her left hand a cloth in her right. A putto seated to the right holding up a basket of flowers, a bunch of grapes next to him; two masks on the ground in left foreground.
De Vesme: 1959; I of II.
[Ref: 20425]   £360.00  
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[Maternal Happiness.]
[Maternal Happiness.]
G.B. Cipriani R.A. invt. F. Bartolozzi RA, sculpt.
London, Published Janry. 12. 1795, by C. Guisan No. 74, Wells Street Oxford Street, & Sold by A Molteno Printseller, No.76 St. James's Strt.
Stipple and etching, state before title. 275 x 225mm, 10¾ x 9". Horizontal crease just above image.
A woman, her head covered, embracing her child, whose arms stretch out towards her. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
De Vesme 623, ii of iii.
[Ref: 21302]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Meekness.
Meekness.
G.B. Cipriani del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Published according to Act, Nov.r 6th 1783, by the Proprietor, No 5, Poland Street, Soho
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Thread margins. Fine impression.
Woman sat on clouds with dove and sheep. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 658 ii/ii
[Ref: 43143]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Melpomene]
[Melpomene]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 255 x 230mm (10 x 9"), with very large margins.
Melpomene, the Tragic Muse, watching on as a boy weeps over a dead friend. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 442.ii
[Ref: 43426]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Minerva and Mercury with a young man]
[Minerva and Mercury with a young man]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 260 x 270mm (10¼ x 10½") very large margins.
Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 406.ii
[Ref: 43428]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Genius of Modesty preventing Love unveiling Beauty.
The Genius of Modesty preventing Love unveiling Beauty. From the Original Picture painted by J.B. Cipriani R.A. in the Collection of R.P. Jones Esq.r
Painted by G.B Cipriani Engraved by T. Ryder & J.L. Cossé.
Published as the Act directs Feb. 20th 1791, by S. Watts, No. 9, Kennington Cross, Lambeth. & to be had of T. Ruder, No. 43 Titchfield Street.
Stipple, 360 x 400mm. Laid on board; four vertical creases.
The reclining Venus gazes into a mirror held by a child, while cupid hovering above attempts to remove the swathe of fabric across her body, prevented from doing so by a cherub representing modesty who pulls it from him.
[Ref: 8410]   £360.00  
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A Muse.
A Muse. The original in the Collection of Charles Boddam Esq.r.
G.B. Cipriani del. Fra.s Bartolozzi sculp.
London Publish'd March 18th. 1783, by E.M. Diemar No. 377 Strand.
Stipple. Plate: 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Small margins
An allegorical scene with a muse playing a triangle.
[Ref: 45412]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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A Muse.
A Muse. The Original in the Collection of Charles Boddam Esq.r.
G.B. Cipriani inv. Fra.s Bartolozzi Sculp.
London, Publish'd March 18th 1783 by E.M. Diemar No 377 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 230 x 150mm. Narrow margins.
Playing a triangle.
[Ref: 7609]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Music.
Music.
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
A very fine stipple engraving. Plate 203 x 286mm. 8 x 11¼". Glued to backing sheet. Corners damaged.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation,Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; v/vi. See Ref: 21212 for first state, proof before all letters.
[Ref: 14685]   £320.00  
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[Music.]
[Music.]
[G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.]
A very scarce and very fine stipple engraving, printed in red/brown ink. Proof before all letters, with small margins. Plate 198 x 286mm. 7¾ x 11¼". Some foxing.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation, Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; i/vi. See Ref: 14685 for later state.
[Ref: 21212]   £480.00  
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Music.
Music.
G.B.Cipriani invt. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
London Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 15th 1783 by A.Torre, No. 44 Mark Lane.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Slight surface abrasion near title. Light foxing.
The allegorical figure of Music, in Grecian dress, plays a harp and looks to the heavans.
[Ref: 1289]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Six solos for a Violin & Bass
[Six solos for a Violin & Bass Humbly Dedicated to Crisp. Molineux Esq.r Composed by By Lewis Borghi.]
Pub.d Janry 20th 1783 by M.r Borghi No 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare etching, scratched letter proof before title. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9") Small margins.
The title page for a book of music by Luigi Borghi (c.1745-c.1806), an Italian violinist and composer who lived in London from the 1770s. He played in the orchestra of the King's Theatre from 1783 to 1785, and was leader of the second violins in the Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1784.
De Vesme: 1868; ii/iv.
[Ref: 51271]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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A Naiad.
A Naiad. Ye green haired Nymphs...
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1779.
Published according to Act of Parliament Oct 4. 1779 by F. Bartolozzi N.1 Bentinck St. Bewick St. Soho.
Stipple. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''), with wide margins.
A naiad sits on the wall of a pool, one foot on an upturned urn, out of which water flows.
De Vesme 451.
[Ref: 48314]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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A Naiad.
A Naiad. Ye green haired Nymphs...
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1779.
Published according to Act of Parliament Oct 4. 1779 by F. Bartolozzi N.1 Bentinck St. Bewick St. Soho.
Stipple, printed in colours, faint 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''), with large margins. Some creasing.
A naiad sits on the wall of a pool, one foot on an upturned urn, out of which water flows.
De Vesme 451.
[Ref: 62362]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nessus abducting Deianeira.]
[Nessus abducting Deianeira.]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Etching with aquatint tones, printed in brown. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Some surface dirt.
Nessus the centaur abducting Deianeira, the wife of Hercules. In the background is Hercules about to sheet Nessus with an arrow dipped in the Hydra. In turn Nessus's poisoned blood leads to the death of Hercules.
Calabi & De Vesme 455.iii.
[Ref: 44335]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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This Plate is dedicated to William Lock, Esq. by his most Obliged and Devoted Servant F. Bartolozzi.
This Plate is dedicated to William Lock, Esq. by his most Obliged and Devoted Servant F. Bartolozzi.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish'd pursuant to an Act of Parliament Jan.y ye 28.th 1772.
Stipple printed in red. Sheet: 260 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Trimmed.
Niobe, head turned to left, eyes turned upwards, touching her uncovered right breast with her left hand; below, a shield held by an angel, seated on a cloud.
De Vesme: 456.ii.
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Nymphs after Bathing.
Nymphs after Bathing.
G.B Cipriani Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Jan.y 15.th 1783 by A. Torre N.o 44 Market Lane. A Paris chez L. Torre Porte St Antoine A.P.D.R.
Fine stipple printed in sanguine, plate 260 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins. Some very light foxing. Mint.
In a landscape, two beautiful nymphs arrange their hair after bathing in a stream.
De Vesme 467. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60288]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nymphs Bathing]
[Nymphs Bathing]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pubd. as the Act directs March. 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
Very decorative nude image. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 436.iii
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