A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Vanitas allegory]](jpegs/34104.jpg)
[Vanitas allegory] Forma aetate perit; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
Joseph Christ, pinx. Aug. Vind. Joh. Elias Haid sculp. Aug. Vind.
J. Jac. Haid et filius excudit Aug. Vind. [c.1760]
Mezzotint with very large margins on 3 sides, very scarce; platemark 445 x 330mm (17½ x 13"). Trimmed to plate along lower edge.
An elegant young man, with music, fine clothes and elegant objects. An old man behind holding a book with cautionary text in latin; mountainous landscape in distance. Engraved and published by the Haid family of Augsburg, after a painting by the Augsburg painter Joseph Christ (c.1732-1788).
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34104] £450.00
Joseph Christ, pinx. Aug. Vind. Joh. Elias Haid sculp. Aug. Vind.
J. Jac. Haid et filius excudit Aug. Vind. [c.1760]
Mezzotint with very large margins on 3 sides, very scarce; platemark 445 x 330mm (17½ x 13"). Trimmed to plate along lower edge.
An elegant young man, with music, fine clothes and elegant objects. An old man behind holding a book with cautionary text in latin; mountainous landscape in distance. Engraved and published by the Haid family of Augsburg, after a painting by the Augsburg painter Joseph Christ (c.1732-1788).
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34104] £450.00
![[Violin Player.]](jpegs/30424.jpg)
[Violin Player.]
A. Brouwer pinx. N. Strixner del.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 349 x 310mm (13¾ x 12¼").
A rustic interior with a peasant seated on an upturned tub playing the violin; four others singing in front of a fire-place in right background. From "Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck".
[Ref: 30424] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
A. Brouwer pinx. N. Strixner del.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 349 x 310mm (13¾ x 12¼").
A rustic interior with a peasant seated on an upturned tub playing the violin; four others singing in front of a fire-place in right background. From "Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck".
[Ref: 30424] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Fiddle De Dee.
Drawn on Stone by W. Leonard. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published by H. Lamb, High St. Cheltenham [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 285 x 235mm. 11¼ x 9¼". Foxed.
A violinist/fiddler. The image seems to derive from an earlier print entitled 'The Wandering Musician', which in turn credits its source as a painting by 'Dietricy' (C.W.E. Dietrich).
[Ref: 10536] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on Stone by W. Leonard. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published by H. Lamb, High St. Cheltenham [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 285 x 235mm. 11¼ x 9¼". Foxed.
A violinist/fiddler. The image seems to derive from an earlier print entitled 'The Wandering Musician', which in turn credits its source as a painting by 'Dietricy' (C.W.E. Dietrich).
[Ref: 10536] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Musical Boy]](jpegs/34016.jpg)
[The Musical Boy] [Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.]
F. Hals Pinxit / James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00
F. Hals Pinxit / James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00
![[Violinist Asleep Below a Tree.]](jpegs/36596.jpg)
[Violinist Asleep Below a Tree.]
Vien fecit. Franquinet del.t.
Lith. de Chabert; r. Cassette, N.20.
Lithograph with very large margins. Plate: 335 x 495mm, (13¼ x 19½").
An old man, asleep holding a voilin in one hand and the bow in another. A skull,
[Ref: 36596] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Vien fecit. Franquinet del.t.
Lith. de Chabert; r. Cassette, N.20.
Lithograph with very large margins. Plate: 335 x 495mm, (13¼ x 19½").
An old man, asleep holding a voilin in one hand and the bow in another. A skull,
[Ref: 36596] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Il Violinista. (The Violinist.)]](jpegs/14049.jpg)
[Il Violinista. (The Violinist.)]
Raffaelle Sanzio dip. Pietro Salvatori dis e. inc.
[Italian, c.1820s.]
Engraving, proof before title, 340 x 245mm. 13½ x 9¾". A fine impression. Uncut sheet.
Portrait of the 'Violin Player' turning to look back at the viewer, wearing a fur collar, robes and a hat; in his left hand he holds a violin bow. This print reproduces a painting here attributed to Raphael (1483 - 1520), but now attributed to his contemporary Sebastiano del Piombo.
[Ref: 14049] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Raffaelle Sanzio dip. Pietro Salvatori dis e. inc.
[Italian, c.1820s.]
Engraving, proof before title, 340 x 245mm. 13½ x 9¾". A fine impression. Uncut sheet.
Portrait of the 'Violin Player' turning to look back at the viewer, wearing a fur collar, robes and a hat; in his left hand he holds a violin bow. This print reproduces a painting here attributed to Raphael (1483 - 1520), but now attributed to his contemporary Sebastiano del Piombo.
[Ref: 14049] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Vocal Music.]](jpegs/30881.jpg)
[Vocal Music.]
G. Morland Pinx.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
[Published Mar. 1 1813 by T. Palser, Surry side Westminster Bridge.]
Stipple, with large margins, proof before title and publication; scratched letters for artist and engraver. Plate 254 x 210mm (10 x 8¼").
A girl and boy singing together outside a cottage window, the boy sitting holding the score as the girl stands beside, looking at him intently.
[Ref: 30881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
G. Morland Pinx.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
[Published Mar. 1 1813 by T. Palser, Surry side Westminster Bridge.]
Stipple, with large margins, proof before title and publication; scratched letters for artist and engraver. Plate 254 x 210mm (10 x 8¼").
A girl and boy singing together outside a cottage window, the boy sitting holding the score as the girl stands beside, looking at him intently.
[Ref: 30881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Wandering Musician. No.97.
Dictricy Pinx.t H. Dawe Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 190 x 151mm (7½ x 6"). Cut inside plate.
Dutch scene: a man in the centre playing a viola with a pipe lodged in his hat; behind a tavern with two women conversing; to the right behind the man stands a small boy in the shadows.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34633] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Dictricy Pinx.t H. Dawe Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 190 x 151mm (7½ x 6"). Cut inside plate.
Dutch scene: a man in the centre playing a viola with a pipe lodged in his hat; behind a tavern with two women conversing; to the right behind the man stands a small boy in the shadows.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34633] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Woman and Daughter.]](jpegs/34639.jpg)
[Woman and Daughter.] [In pencil under image:] Never published intended as an illustration to a work by Lady Anna Ellice. With Mr. Holmes's very respectful compliments.
[After James Holmes]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and etching on chine colle rare, with very large margins, proof before letters. Plate 209 x 151mm (8¼ x 6").
A woman sat in a garden scene holding a guitar, a young girl sat to the right holding a flower; a table with a basket of flowers to right and a castle seen in the distance across a river. Attributed to Lady Hannah Ellice (1785-1832), wife of Edward Ellice, and daughter to Charles, 1st Earl of Grey.
[Ref: 34639] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[After James Holmes]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and etching on chine colle rare, with very large margins, proof before letters. Plate 209 x 151mm (8¼ x 6").
A woman sat in a garden scene holding a guitar, a young girl sat to the right holding a flower; a table with a basket of flowers to right and a castle seen in the distance across a river. Attributed to Lady Hannah Ellice (1785-1832), wife of Edward Ellice, and daughter to Charles, 1st Earl of Grey.
[Ref: 34639] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
The Young Musicians From the Original Picture of the same size, Painted by Scalcken, in the Collection of John Darker Esq.r
Scalcken Pinx.t / Joh. Godfrid Haid fecit
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1764.
Mezzotint, platemark 435 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Thread margins; false margins added; creases and tear at bottom; rubbed; 'JC Smith 824' verso.
Genre subject after Dutch artist Godfried Schalken, engraved by Johann Gottfried Haid (1714-1776), one of a German family of artists. In the early 1760s Haid worked in London for the influential publisher John Boydell, engraving pictures by artists also including Rembrandt and Reynolds. He later founded a school of mezzotint engraving in Vienna. This impression from the collection of John Chaloner Smith (1827-95), author of an authoritative four-volume catalogue of British mezzotint portraits.
Le Blanc 41; Ex: collection of John Chaloner Smith, and subsequently the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34661] £380.00
Scalcken Pinx.t / Joh. Godfrid Haid fecit
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1764.
Mezzotint, platemark 435 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Thread margins; false margins added; creases and tear at bottom; rubbed; 'JC Smith 824' verso.
Genre subject after Dutch artist Godfried Schalken, engraved by Johann Gottfried Haid (1714-1776), one of a German family of artists. In the early 1760s Haid worked in London for the influential publisher John Boydell, engraving pictures by artists also including Rembrandt and Reynolds. He later founded a school of mezzotint engraving in Vienna. This impression from the collection of John Chaloner Smith (1827-95), author of an authoritative four-volume catalogue of British mezzotint portraits.
Le Blanc 41; Ex: collection of John Chaloner Smith, and subsequently the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34661] £380.00