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Thomas Walker.
Romney Pinx.t. W.Sharp Sculp.
London published Nov.r 5th 1794, by Will.m Sharp, No. 8 Charles Street near Middlesex Hospital, London.
Engraving. Platemark: 310 x 230mm. (12¼ x 9"). Iron spot to right margin.
Portrait of Thomas Walker (1749 - 1817), cotton merchant, political reformer, and abolitionist. He was also a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society founded in 1781 to promote improvements in local health and sanitary issues. Walker helped found the Manchester Constitutional Society which advocated parliamentary reform and equality for dissenters. This was not seen favourably by the supporters of 'church and king' and he was accused of conspiring to overthrow the king, constitution and government. A trial was held at the Lancaster Assizes in June 1794 but Walker was acquitted because the key witness, Thomas Dunn, was shown to have lied under oath. After George Romney (Male; 1734 - 1802).
[Ref: 28489] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Romney Pinx.t. W.Sharp Sculp.
London published Nov.r 5th 1794, by Will.m Sharp, No. 8 Charles Street near Middlesex Hospital, London.
Engraving. Platemark: 310 x 230mm. (12¼ x 9"). Iron spot to right margin.
Portrait of Thomas Walker (1749 - 1817), cotton merchant, political reformer, and abolitionist. He was also a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society founded in 1781 to promote improvements in local health and sanitary issues. Walker helped found the Manchester Constitutional Society which advocated parliamentary reform and equality for dissenters. This was not seen favourably by the supporters of 'church and king' and he was accused of conspiring to overthrow the king, constitution and government. A trial was held at the Lancaster Assizes in June 1794 but Walker was acquitted because the key witness, Thomas Dunn, was shown to have lied under oath. After George Romney (Male; 1734 - 1802).
[Ref: 28489] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Brook Watson.]](jpegs/21359.jpg)
[Brook Watson.]
JS[ayers] f.
Pubd by Jas Bretherton, 31st. March 1788 [but a later impression?].
Soft-ground etching on wove paper, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼".
Caricature of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Bt (1735 - 1807), standing in profile to the right, bending forward, his wooden leg concealed behind a bench (left). He holds out a document with a pendent seal inscribed 'Pension for Services'. From the bench, on which is his hat, hangs an inscribed paper. Orphaned as a child in 1741, Watson initially went to sea but lost his leg to a shark in Havana. He then served in the army as a commissary and was a member of the original committee of Lloyds in 1772, later serving for ten years as its chairman. He was also MP for the City of London from 1784 to 1793 and became Lord Mayor of London in 1796. The pension was £500 a year, granted to his wife. By James Sayers (1748 - 1823). Sayers's caricatures were so powerful and direct in their purpose that Fox is said to have declared that they did him more harm than all the attacks made on him in parliament or the press. Sayers's hostility to Alderman Brook was perhaps evoked by his opposition to the Shop Tax, 13 March 1788. The publisher Charles Bretherton (c.1760 fl - 1783) was the younger brother of James Bretherton.
BM Satires 7290. NPG D8787.
[Ref: 21359] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
JS[ayers] f.
Pubd by Jas Bretherton, 31st. March 1788 [but a later impression?].
Soft-ground etching on wove paper, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼".
Caricature of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Bt (1735 - 1807), standing in profile to the right, bending forward, his wooden leg concealed behind a bench (left). He holds out a document with a pendent seal inscribed 'Pension for Services'. From the bench, on which is his hat, hangs an inscribed paper. Orphaned as a child in 1741, Watson initially went to sea but lost his leg to a shark in Havana. He then served in the army as a commissary and was a member of the original committee of Lloyds in 1772, later serving for ten years as its chairman. He was also MP for the City of London from 1784 to 1793 and became Lord Mayor of London in 1796. The pension was £500 a year, granted to his wife. By James Sayers (1748 - 1823). Sayers's caricatures were so powerful and direct in their purpose that Fox is said to have declared that they did him more harm than all the attacks made on him in parliament or the press. Sayers's hostility to Alderman Brook was perhaps evoked by his opposition to the Shop Tax, 13 March 1788. The publisher Charles Bretherton (c.1760 fl - 1783) was the younger brother of James Bretherton.
BM Satires 7290. NPG D8787.
[Ref: 21359] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Josiah Wedgwood Esq.r. Done from an original Picture Painted in Enamel as large as Life.
George stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
[n.d., c.1795].
Stipple. Sheet: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired vertical crease through print on right side.
A half portrait in roundel of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) after George Stubbs' miniature portrait. Wedgwood was a highly successful potter who is often credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of ceramics. Possibly from the enamel in the Wedgwood Museum.
CLB: 97 I of II.
[Ref: 35353] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
George stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
[n.d., c.1795].
Stipple. Sheet: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired vertical crease through print on right side.
A half portrait in roundel of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) after George Stubbs' miniature portrait. Wedgwood was a highly successful potter who is often credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of ceramics. Possibly from the enamel in the Wedgwood Museum.
CLB: 97 I of II.
[Ref: 35353] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Josiah Wedgwood, Esq.re F.R.S & S.A.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds 15 Holland St, Kensington.
Published May 1st. 1841 by R. Sheppard, Repository of Arts, Newcastle Under Lyme.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 47748] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds 15 Holland St, Kensington.
Published May 1st. 1841 by R. Sheppard, Repository of Arts, Newcastle Under Lyme.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 47748] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[James Wheble.]](jpegs/47257.jpg)
[James Wheble.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 390 x 240mm (15½ x 9½"). Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of tallow chandler and soap maker James Wheble (1729-1801).
[Ref: 47257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 390 x 240mm (15½ x 9½"). Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of tallow chandler and soap maker James Wheble (1729-1801).
[Ref: 47257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P.
Painted by J. Opie, R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London, 1804. Second Fifty.
Mezzotint. 660 x 460mm, 26 x 18". Paper crack entering plate on right.
Portrait of Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), politician and brewer, seated at a table with inkstand and papers, a landscape through a window at left.
See Whitman: 297, this early state not mentioned; NPG D37563.
[Ref: 22910] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Opie, R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London, 1804. Second Fifty.
Mezzotint. 660 x 460mm, 26 x 18". Paper crack entering plate on right.
Portrait of Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), politician and brewer, seated at a table with inkstand and papers, a landscape through a window at left.
See Whitman: 297, this early state not mentioned; NPG D37563.
[Ref: 22910] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Francis White.]](jpegs/13130.jpg)
[Francis White.]
Ge. Mountin schul, Lo.
[Frankfurt, c.1630.]
Scarce. Engraving, sheet 185 x 115mm. 7¼ x 4½". Trimmed to plate and hinged to album page.
Francis White (1564 - 1638), Dean of Carlisle and Bishop of Ely. Latin inscription to oval frame, six lines of verse in Latin below. Engraved by Gérard Muntinck (Mountain) (fl.1626 - 1660), after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson or Coxon, the frontispiece to White's 'Replie to Jesuit Fischer's Answere to King James' 1624.
NPG: D35512.
[Ref: 13130] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Ge. Mountin schul, Lo.
[Frankfurt, c.1630.]
Scarce. Engraving, sheet 185 x 115mm. 7¼ x 4½". Trimmed to plate and hinged to album page.
Francis White (1564 - 1638), Dean of Carlisle and Bishop of Ely. Latin inscription to oval frame, six lines of verse in Latin below. Engraved by Gérard Muntinck (Mountain) (fl.1626 - 1660), after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson or Coxon, the frontispiece to White's 'Replie to Jesuit Fischer's Answere to King James' 1624.
NPG: D35512.
[Ref: 13130] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Eleazer Wigan Writing Mr. At the Hand and Pen on Great Tower Hill / London MDCLXXXXV
[John Sturt after John Closterman]
Rare engraving, on verso in ink 7:6; sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed
Eleazer Wigan, writing master. Frontispiece to his 'Practical Arithmetick: An introduction to ye whole art wherein the most necessary rules are fairly describ'd in the usuall hands adorn'd with great variety of flourishes perform'd by command of hand design'd to be interleav'd for ye more speedy fitting of youth for merchandize or trade' (1695).
O'D 1 (only likeness). Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38869] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[John Sturt after John Closterman]
Rare engraving, on verso in ink 7:6; sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed
Eleazer Wigan, writing master. Frontispiece to his 'Practical Arithmetick: An introduction to ye whole art wherein the most necessary rules are fairly describ'd in the usuall hands adorn'd with great variety of flourishes perform'd by command of hand design'd to be interleav'd for ye more speedy fitting of youth for merchandize or trade' (1695).
O'D 1 (only likeness). Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38869] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
!['For my own part I cannot content myself within the narrow limits of a single reef' J. Williams [facsimile manuscript]. See page 189.](jpegs/558.jpg)
'For my own part I cannot content myself within the narrow limits of a single reef' J. Williams [facsimile manuscript]. See page 189.
Drawn & Engraved By G. Baxter, 3, Charter House Square.
London, John Snow, Paternoster Row [n.d. c.
Steel engraving. Sheet 219 x 130mm (8¾ x 5"). Foxing and age toning.
John Williams [1796 – 1839], missionary active in the South Pacific.
[Ref: 558] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved By G. Baxter, 3, Charter House Square.
London, John Snow, Paternoster Row [n.d. c.
Steel engraving. Sheet 219 x 130mm (8¾ x 5"). Foxing and age toning.
John Williams [1796 – 1839], missionary active in the South Pacific.
[Ref: 558] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![yours aff.y J Williams [facsimile.]](jpegs/28619.jpg)
yours aff.y J Williams [facsimile.]
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and engraving. 160 x 107mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
John Williams (1796-1839), the English missionary who was active in the South Pacific. In November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
NPG: D8603. See Ref: 559 & 15648 for coloured Baxter images.
[Ref: 28619] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and engraving. 160 x 107mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
John Williams (1796-1839), the English missionary who was active in the South Pacific. In November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
NPG: D8603. See Ref: 559 & 15648 for coloured Baxter images.
[Ref: 28619] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Williamson?]](jpegs/60394.jpg)
[William Williamson?]
Rob.t Grave Sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, stained by blue mss.
Pencil mss. suggests this is bookseller William Williamson, 1796.
[Ref: 60394] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Rob.t Grave Sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, stained by blue mss.
Pencil mss. suggests this is bookseller William Williamson, 1796.
[Ref: 60394] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Willis.
[After Lawrence.]
[n.d., c.1789.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. In pencil under image "J Nixon/Bartolozzi"; Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''). Trimmed to plate on left and right.
A portrait of physician 1718-1807 and rector of St John's Wapping. He served as doctor to George III during his periods of madness.
W. 3194
[Ref: 49190] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[After Lawrence.]
[n.d., c.1789.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. In pencil under image "J Nixon/Bartolozzi"; Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''). Trimmed to plate on left and right.
A portrait of physician 1718-1807 and rector of St John's Wapping. He served as doctor to George III during his periods of madness.
W. 3194
[Ref: 49190] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The R.t Hon.ble James Wilson.
Painted by Sir J.W. Gordon R.A. Engraved by F.Stacpoole.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Sept.r 24th 1860; Printsellers to the Queen 6 Pall Mall: & Le Page & Co., Calcutta.
Mezzotint, with facsimile signature. Printed area 400 x 280mm. Stained.
James Wilson (1805-1860), political economist and politician. In 1843 he established The Economist as a newspaper to campaign for free trade, and acted as Chief editor and sole proprietor for sixteen years. In 1853 he founded 'The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China', which later merged with the Standard Bank of British South Africa to form Standard Chartered Bank in 1969.
[Ref: 2782] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir J.W. Gordon R.A. Engraved by F.Stacpoole.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Sept.r 24th 1860; Printsellers to the Queen 6 Pall Mall: & Le Page & Co., Calcutta.
Mezzotint, with facsimile signature. Printed area 400 x 280mm. Stained.
James Wilson (1805-1860), political economist and politician. In 1843 he established The Economist as a newspaper to campaign for free trade, and acted as Chief editor and sole proprietor for sixteen years. In 1853 he founded 'The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China', which later merged with the Standard Bank of British South Africa to form Standard Chartered Bank in 1969.
[Ref: 2782] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Johan Witt]](jpegs/33964.jpg)
[Johan Witt] Johannes Witt Mercat Francof. Natus Hamburgi Anno MDCXLIII [...]
Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.
Mezzotint, scarce; platemark 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Rubbed. Slightly broken platemark on left.
Portrait of Frankfurt merchant Johan Witt (1643-1703) with verses in German below, engraved by the celebrated mezzotinter John Smith after a portrait by the little-known Werner Hassel (1674-1710, fl.) who worked in London but probably came from Germany, where he also worked. Vertue recorded that the British artist George Lambert 'learnt of...Hassel', but whether he was Hassells' pupil is not proven.
CS 279 ii/ii; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33964] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.
Mezzotint, scarce; platemark 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Rubbed. Slightly broken platemark on left.
Portrait of Frankfurt merchant Johan Witt (1643-1703) with verses in German below, engraved by the celebrated mezzotinter John Smith after a portrait by the little-known Werner Hassel (1674-1710, fl.) who worked in London but probably came from Germany, where he also worked. Vertue recorded that the British artist George Lambert 'learnt of...Hassel', but whether he was Hassells' pupil is not proven.
CS 279 ii/ii; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33964] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Vera Effigies Reverendi Viri Thomae Wood, L.L.D.ris. Ecclesia Parochialis de Hardwick in Comit: Bucks Rectoris nec non Ejusdem Archidiaconatus Commissarii et Officialis; olim Hospitu Grayensis apud Londinenses Barristeru.
M. V.dr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate 279 x 165mm. 11 x 6½". Slight crease across middle, large margins.
Thomas Wood (1661-1722) was an Oxford Doctor of Civil Law [DCL] and briefly assessor of the vice-chancellor’s court there. He was also called to the bar at Gray’s Inn. He wrote that ‘the most ancient of [common law] writers, would look very naked, if every Roman Lawyer should pluck away his Feathers'.
NPG: D27476.
[Ref: 22822] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
M. V.dr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate 279 x 165mm. 11 x 6½". Slight crease across middle, large margins.
Thomas Wood (1661-1722) was an Oxford Doctor of Civil Law [DCL] and briefly assessor of the vice-chancellor’s court there. He was also called to the bar at Gray’s Inn. He wrote that ‘the most ancient of [common law] writers, would look very naked, if every Roman Lawyer should pluck away his Feathers'.
NPG: D27476.
[Ref: 22822] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Honble Dudley Woodbridg Esq: Director Genll of ye Royal Assiento Company of England in Barbados]](jpegs/40239.jpg)
[The Honble Dudley Woodbridg Esq: Director Genll of ye Royal Assiento Company of England in Barbados]
[G. Kneller Baronets pinx. 1718. J. Smith fec. et ex. 1718]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins; fine proof before letters; some marking in centre. Collector's stamp of the Royal Library, Windsor lower right.
Dudley Woodbridge (d.1721), director general of the South Sea Company (referred to on the lettered state of this print as the Royal Assiento Company), judge-advocate, and member of the 'Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts'. Woodbridge sat for Godfrey Kneller in London, holding his South Sea Company commission in his hand, testifying to the importance he attached to the post and Britain's grand vision of the riches that Spanish American trade would bring. At this time Barbados rather than Jamaica was the primary hub of the South Sea Company. Imagined view of ships on the Atlantic through window.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 280 (proof state not listed); L.2535. See Gregory E. O'Malley, 'Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807', p.231.
[Ref: 40239] £420.00
[G. Kneller Baronets pinx. 1718. J. Smith fec. et ex. 1718]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins; fine proof before letters; some marking in centre. Collector's stamp of the Royal Library, Windsor lower right.
Dudley Woodbridge (d.1721), director general of the South Sea Company (referred to on the lettered state of this print as the Royal Assiento Company), judge-advocate, and member of the 'Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts'. Woodbridge sat for Godfrey Kneller in London, holding his South Sea Company commission in his hand, testifying to the importance he attached to the post and Britain's grand vision of the riches that Spanish American trade would bring. At this time Barbados rather than Jamaica was the primary hub of the South Sea Company. Imagined view of ships on the Atlantic through window.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 280 (proof state not listed); L.2535. See Gregory E. O'Malley, 'Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807', p.231.
[Ref: 40239] £420.00
Thomas Jonathan Wooler.
From a Drawing by Cha.s Landseer.
Published 24th Nov.r 1817 by W. Hone, Old Bailey, and Sold by E. Wilson, Royal Exchange, amd all the Print dealers in the United Kingdom.
Etching. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement. He is best known for his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf', published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 43398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
From a Drawing by Cha.s Landseer.
Published 24th Nov.r 1817 by W. Hone, Old Bailey, and Sold by E. Wilson, Royal Exchange, amd all the Print dealers in the United Kingdom.
Etching. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement. He is best known for his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf', published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 43398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Rev.d Mr. Hugh Worthington.
Wm. Read Pinx.t Harding Sculp.t
Publish'd as ye Act Directs, For W. Read, 157, Fleet Street & R. Eynon, Back of ye Royal Exchange. [n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. 254 x 215mm. 10 x 8½". Trimmed.
Portrait of Hugh Worthington (1752-1813), Arian divine. He was a pastor at Salter's Hall, London, from 1782. In 1785 he wasmad a trustee of Dr. Williams's Foundations, the library of Dr. Daniel Williams. He was a lecturer on classics and logic from 1786 to 1789.
O'D: 1 (only engraved portrait listed for sitter).
[Ref: 27180] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Wm. Read Pinx.t Harding Sculp.t
Publish'd as ye Act Directs, For W. Read, 157, Fleet Street & R. Eynon, Back of ye Royal Exchange. [n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. 254 x 215mm. 10 x 8½". Trimmed.
Portrait of Hugh Worthington (1752-1813), Arian divine. He was a pastor at Salter's Hall, London, from 1782. In 1785 he wasmad a trustee of Dr. Williams's Foundations, the library of Dr. Daniel Williams. He was a lecturer on classics and logic from 1786 to 1789.
O'D: 1 (only engraved portrait listed for sitter).
[Ref: 27180] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)