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Fables Diverses dediées et présentées A Monseigneur le Duc de Berry, Par son tres humble et tres obeisant serviteur F. Silvestre.
Fables Diverses dediées et présentées A Monseigneur le Duc de Berry, Par son tres humble et tres obeisant serviteur F. Silvestre. [Frontis] Le Grue ayant tire de la gorge du Loup Un os de son long bec qui le pressoit beaucoup: Il n’a tenu qu’à moy, de vous manger, commere, Lui dit le Loup ingrate, et c’est vôtre salaire.
F. Silvestre in et ex.
A Paris chez Buldet rue de Gesvres avec privil'au Roy.
Seven copper engravings. Plate 127 x 172mm. 5 x 6¾".
A collection of seven stories depicting animals as the main characters; including lions, horses, cows, horses, a donkey and bears, amongst others.
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La colombe favorite.
La colombe favorite. The favourite dove. Das saufte taübchen.
Joseph Felon inv. et lith.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. St. Imp. F.ois Delarue.r Larrey, 8, Paris.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet: 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 12"), with large margins
A portrait of a nude woman, shown washing her feet in a pond while a dove sits on her shoulder.
[Ref: 47346]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Female nude standing in a classical garden.]
[Female nude standing in a classical garden.] 36.
J. Collet del. C. Grignon sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins.
Originally published in a set of six 'Studies of the Female Figure'.
[Ref: 51963]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Etude dessinee par Francois Boucher premier Peintre du Roi,
Etude dessinee par Francois Boucher premier Peintre du Roi,
Gravee par J. Edme Nochez, Dirigee par Fessard Graveur orde. du Cabinet du Roi, et de l'Academie Royale de Parme.
A Paris ches Fessard Bibliotheque du Roi, et rue Se. Anne Butte S. Roch. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, Framed; 260 x 320mm. 10¼ x 12½". Some foxing, one rust spot to image.
A reclining female nude in a landscape. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770).
[Ref: 12013]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Pair of studies of a nude woman.] II. [&] III.
[Pair of studies of a nude woman.] II. [&] III.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Pair of engravings. Each 300 x 185mm (12 x 7¼"). Very large margins. Inks spots on 'II'.
The front and back of a woman, nude other than a modesty cloth.
[Ref: 37720]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Fishermans Hut.
The Fishermans Hut.
Willes Johnson pinx.t Lith de E. Ardit, r. Vivienne.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 310 x 432mm. 12¼ x 17". Tear in upper left-hand side of margin.
A scene outside a fisherman's hut. A man on a donkey rides along the path to the left. Smoking his pipe, the fisherman sits with two rods.
[Ref: 18434]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Pecheurs des Monts Pyrenees.
Les Pecheurs des Monts Pyrenees. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de Jos: Vernet, Peintre du Roi.
Jos.Vernet pinx. J. Jac. Le Veau Sc.
Se vend a Paris, chez le Veau, rue S. Jacques, vis-a-vis le College du Plessis. [c. 1790.]
Copper engraving, very fine, 400 x 490mm. 15¾ x 19¼".
A fishing party on a rocky shoreline examining their catch in a basket, one man holding rod and line; a boat being dragged on to shore in an inlet behind. Also ship out to sea, a fisherman bringing in his net, and a mule train descending the cliffs in distance to left. After the famous marine artist Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789).
[Ref: 16384]   £330.00  
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qui du Texel de Londres, de Bordeaux, S'en vont chercher, par un heureux echange .De nouveaux biens nes aux sources du Gange, Idem Ibid
qui du Texel de Londres, de Bordeaux, S'en vont chercher, par un heureux echange .De nouveaux biens nes aux sources du Gange, Idem Ibid
Venet pinx. Franc:co Pedo sculp ap. Nic. Cavalli. Venetÿs.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Sheet: 325 x 410mm (12¾ x 16''), 18th century watermark. Trimmed within plate.
Fisherman bringing in their nets on the shore in the foreground, with a castle and other buildings around the lake behind. From a series by Francesco del Pedro (1749 - 1806) after Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789), the famous marine painter. Vernet studied and worked in Rome (1734-53) until recalled to Paris where he was commissioned to paint a set representing French harbours (the 'Ports de France'). Published in Venice by Nicolo Cavalli (1730 - 1822).
[Ref: 50412]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Pecheurs des Monts Pyrenees.
Les Pecheurs des Monts Pyrenees. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de Jos: Vernet, Peintre du Roi.
Jos.Vernet pinx. J. Jac. Le Veau Sc.
Se vend a Paris, chez le Veau, rue S. Jacques, vis-a-vis le College du Plessis. [c. 1790.]
Very fine copper engraving. 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"), Very large margins.
A fishing party on a rocky shoreline examining their catch in a basket, one man holding rod and line; a boat being dragged on to shore in an inlet behind. After the famous marine artist Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789).
[Ref: 38666]   £320.00  
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Les Jeunes Blanchisseuses.
Les Jeunes Blanchisseuses. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original...
Peint par J.Vernet. Grave par R. Daudet 1768.
A Paris, chez Wille, Graveur du Roi, Quay des Augustins. [c. 1790.]
Copper engraving, Dutch reissue? (Dutch inscription added upper right), sheet 360 x 460mm. 14¼ x 18¼". Trimmed to plate.
[The young washer-women] Women washing their laundry in a river to left foreground, in a dramatic rocky landscape; buildings and waterfall in distance to right, Aquaduct to left.
After the famous marine artist Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789).

[Ref: 16383]   £320.00  
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Le Pêcheur Encouragé.
Le Pêcheur Encouragé. Dédié à M. Vassal de St Hubert, Ecuyer, Conseiller du Roi, Fermier Genéra, Maitre d'Hôtel ordinaire de Monseigneur le Comte de Provence par sa très-humble et très Obeissante Servante Hill.
J.Vernet Pinx. S. Hill Sculp.
A Paris chéz l'Auteur rue de la Harpe, vis-à-vis celle des Cordeliers. a Paris chez Crepy rue S.Jacques a S.Pierre pres la rue dela parcheminerie. [n.d., c. 1790.]
Copper engraving. 420 x 505mm, 16½ x 20".
An angler fishing from rocks into the sea being encouraged by a woman.
[Ref: 16373]   £320.00  
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[Fishing a Fair Maiden.]
[Fishing a Fair Maiden.]
Jul. Hanriot inv. sc.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Etching. 298 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼".
Jules Arnand Hanriot (1853-1930) was a French artist famous for female nudes such as this. A young man fishing on the river bank, looks most surprised when his catch is a nude female "hooked" on her ample buttocks. She clings to the low tree branches as he continues to reel her in.
[Ref: 17508]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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The Flags of All Nations.
The Flags of All Nations.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 275 x 265mm (10¾ x 10½") Trimmed within printed border.
A collection of flags, with a large Royal Standard and 38 smaller flags in no seeming order, including Japan, Siam, Burmah, Sandwich Islands, Persia, China and Cochinchina.
[Ref: 41299]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Vue De Flandres.
Vue De Flandres. Grave d'après le Tableau Original de Teniers, de même grandeur Tiré du Cabinet du Chevalier de la Roque. 20,
D. Teniers pinx. Le Bas Sculp.
a Paris chez Le Bas Graveur du Roy au bas de la ruë de la Harpe vis a vis la rue Percee chez un Fayancier. 1740.
Etching. 310 x 395mm (12¼ x 15½"), with large margins. Uncut. Small wormhole on printed border at top, stitch holes in top margin.
A landscape with a Flanders village, four figures and a dog in the foreground. From the series 'Vue de Flandres' engraved by by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-83) after David Teniers the Younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 57922]   £170.00   (£204.00 incl.VAT)
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Receuil De Fleurs Chinois et autres propres a plusieurs usages,
Receuil De Fleurs Chinois et autres propres a plusieurs usages,
invente et dessine par Jean Pillement, et grave par P.C. Canot.
AParis chez le Pere et Avaulez. [n.d., c.1755.]
Attractive etched titlepage, watermarked laid paper; flowering branch with lettering to large foreground leaf. Sheet 350 x 270mm, 13¾ x 10½". Trimmed to plate
For a series of floral chinoiseries, after Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808).
[Ref: 19869]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[A flooded field.]
[A flooded field.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 205 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with very large margins.
Trees immersed in water, sheaves in a field behind.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 39823]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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''Flora''.
''Flora''.
Painted by V.W. Bromley. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.
London. Published Jan.y 1st 1877 by Thomas M.cLean, 7, Haymarket, Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877, by Mess.rs Knoedler & Co in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Mixed method engraving on chine collé. 885 x 520mm (34¾ x 20½"), with wide margins. Mint
A young woman in a loose gown fastened with a jewelled clasp, her left side bare and long hair tied back with a wreath of flowers, looking to left with arms outstretched, in a field full of flowers.
[Ref: 51401]   £450.00  
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[Frontispiece] Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze.
[Frontispiece] Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze.
Giuseppi Magni del. Jon. Gottofred Seuter Sculps. Aug. Vind.
Appresso Giuseppe Bouchard libraio Francese in Firenze 1754.
Etching with engraving. 475 x 675mm (18¾ x 26½"), large margins. Small tear at bottom taped.
The titleplate to Zocchi's 24 views of Florence, with a dedication to Empress Maria Theresa, first published 1744. The design, featuring the Olympian Gods on the left and women bringing offerings to three crowned figures on the right, is adapted from a fresco by Giovanni da San Giovanni on the outside wall of a house opposite the Porta Romana.
[Ref: 60929]   £360.00  
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[Frontispiece to Emmanuel Sweert's 'Florilegium', with portrait of Sweert verso]
[Frontispiece to Emmanuel Sweert's 'Florilegium', with portrait of Sweert verso] Florilegium Amplisimum et selectissimum, quo non tantum varia diversorum florum [...]
[1612]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 320 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Thread margins; glued into album sheet with early marginalia in Latin. Time stained.
Frontispiece to the famous 'Florilegium' (1612) by Emmanuel Sweert (1552-1612), a superb volume of engravings of flowers. The volume was essentially a sales catalogue, in which the beauty of the engravings served to promote the desirability of the plants. Verso is a portrait of Sweert published in the same volume, in which the flower in Sweert's left hand is balanced by the skull on which his right rests, as a reminder of the mixed symbolism of flowers.
For a coloured impression of the portrait of Sweert, see ref. 39203. W 2860.
[Ref: 40096]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
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[Motif Chinoiserie].
[Motif Chinoiserie].
[Jean Pillement.] E. Gautier Dagoty.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 242 x 165mm. 9½ x 6½".
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
Gordon-Smith: 191a.
[Ref: 20055]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Motif Chinoiseri]
[Motif Chinoiseri]
[J. Pillement.] E. Gautier Dagoty.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 237 x 165mm. 9¼ x 6½". Uncut, stain at far right of sheet.
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
[Ref: 20058]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Stem of idealised flowers.]
[Stem of idealised flowers.]
[Jean Pillement. E. Gautier Dagoty.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 247 x 167mm. 9¾ x 6½". Uncut.
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
[Ref: 20268]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Forest.]
[The Forest.]
Percival Gaskell.
[n.d., c.1910.]
Mezzotint, signed in pencil, printed on india. Plate: 225 x 305mm (9 x 12''), with very large margins. Uncut.
A Scottish landscape with a herd of deer near a forest.
[Ref: 47974]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Introduction ala Fortification
Introduction ala Fortification Dediée A Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne Par N. De Fer, Beaulieu, &c. Tome Premier
A Paris Chez N. de Fer
Etching, platemark 205 x 230mm (8 x 9"). Creased.
Frontispiece to the first volume of Nicolas de Fer's 'Introduction à la Fortification' (first published in 1693, but this from a later edition after the text changed), with military and naval battles above and below the text. De Fer (1646-1720) was renowned for his town plans and military maps.
[Ref: 40091]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Design for a frame.] No. 2
[Design for a frame.] No. 2
Publish'd by F: Vivares Novemr. 1757.
Engraving on laid paper. Sheet 100 x 235mm (4 x 9½").
From a set of designs by Francis Vivares (1709 - 1780), French-born engraver and publisher who came to London in 1727. He enjoyed a very high reputation in France, where he was regarded as the greatest landscape engraver, and became a key teacher of the British school of line engraving.
[Ref: 53578]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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[Design for a frame.] No. 2
[Design for a frame.] No. 2
Publish'd by F: Vivares Novemr. 1757.
Engraving in red ink on laid paper. Sheet 125 x 210mm (5 x 8¼").
From a set of designs by Francis Vivares (1709 - 1780), French-born engraver and publisher who came to London in 1727. He enjoyed a very high reputation in France, where he was regarded as the greatest landscape engraver, and became a key teacher of the British school of line engraving.
[Ref: 53579]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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République Francaise.
République Francaise.
Fragonard fils del Copia Sculps.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching with large margins. Plate 267 x 344mm. 10½ x 13½".
An allegorical representation of the triumphant French republic, published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28301]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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La Peche a la Ligne.
La Peche a la Ligne.
J. Vernet del. Deq Scul.
a Paris ches Bligny, Lancier du Roi Peintre Dorcur Md. d'Estampes, Cour du Manege au Thuilleries. [Paris, c.1770.]
Fine copper engraving. 275 x 310mm (10¾ x 12¼").
A man angling from the shore in foreground in a landscape, watched by a woman with basket; a boat, tower and bridge over the river beyond. After the famous marine artist Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789).
[Ref: 16382]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[An allegorical frontispiece.]
[An allegorical frontispiece.]
[French, n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 305 x 190mm (12 x 7½"). Small tear in top margin.
"The Arts" frontispiece to one of Cornelis de Bruijn's books.
[Ref: 44252]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Frontispiece.
The Frontispiece.
Gravelot del. - A. Walker sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Etching and engraving. 177 x 114mm (7 x 4½").
A poet standing on the left receives a lyre from Apollo and Diana; a chariot above; copy of frontispiece to Somerville's 'The Chace' (London: 1735.).
[Ref: 26524]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l’aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l’Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce
L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l’aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l’Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce Roiaume, paroit dans l’Enfoncement; et au Haut, la Renommée tient le Portrait du celebre Auteur de cette Histoire.
Inventé et dessiné par B. Picart, 1713. Gravé par vander Gouwen. [Portrait:] S Thomassin Efigiem delin.
[Histoire d'Angleterre, Rotterdam, 1713.]
Fine copper engraving and etching. Plate 368 x 228mm. 14½ x 9". Crease at left top.
On the left sit History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits are taking books away from Time who is try to devour them. On the right sits London, personified by a crowned woman leaning on a lion. In the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying an oval portrait of Issac de Larrey; in the background, London. Issac de Larrey (1638-1719) was a French historian.
Dimier: 535.
[Ref: 17544]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Proeve van Dicht=oeffening.
Proeve van Dicht=oeffening.
Fr.van Mieris inv. & delin. J. Folkema Sculp.
Te Leyden. By De Janssoons Vander Aa. [n.d. c.1731.]
Engraving. 169 x 112mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed.
Frontispiece to "Proeve van Dichtoeffening, bestaende in Herderszangen, Brieven, Klink- en Mengeldichten. Met Printverbeeldingen", a compilation of pastoral poems, letters of famous love couples, including van Snakenburg (1704-1750) the lawyer in Leiden who published poems in 'Hollandsche Spectator'; and Jacob Elias (1698-1750) who also published poems and several theatre plays, mostly comedies.
[Ref: 28623]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece.
Frontispiece.
Corbould delt. Eng.d by Collyer.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. Plate 279 x 208mm. 11 x 8¼". Creasing. Time staining and spotting around the edges.
Adam and even underneath a tree in the Garden of Paradise; animals sit and lie and rest in pairs, nature at harmony.
[Ref: 19356]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l’aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l’Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce
L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l’aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l’Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce Roiaume, paroit dans l’Enfoncement; et au Haut, la Renommée tient le Portrait du celebre Auteur de cette Histoire.
Inventé et dessiné par B. Picart, 1713. Gravé par vander Gouwen. [Portrait:] S Thomassin Efigiem delin.
[Histoire d'Angleterre, Rotterdam, 1713.]
Fine copper engraving and etching with large margins; Plate 368 x 228mm (14½ x 9").
Allegorical frontispiece. On the left sit History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits are taking books away from Time who is try to devour them. On the right sits London, personified by a crowned Queen Anne leaning on a lion. In the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying an oval portrait of Issac de Larrey; in the background, London. Issac de Larrey (1638-1719) was a French historian.
Dimier: 535.
[Ref: 32556]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Fontispiece. - [A Collection of Prints Engraved after The Most Capital Paintings in England.  Published by John Boydell. Volume the First, containing Fifty Prints with a  London. Orinted for the Editor, MDCCLXIX.]
Fontispiece. - [A Collection of Prints Engraved after The Most Capital Paintings in England. Published by John Boydell. Volume the First, containing Fifty Prints with a London. Orinted for the Editor, MDCCLXIX.]
J. Gwin Invt. Delt. Isaac Taylor Scupt.
London, Boydell Execudit. Proof impression without letterpress.
A very fine engraving. Indian proof with uncut large margins. 330 x 235mm, 13 x 9¼inches.
George the Third being crowned by Apollo while Putti show the King the engravings.
[Ref: 14584]   £320.00  
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Frontispice
Frontispice
[n.d., c.1860]
Line engraving, 180 x 165mm. 7 x 6½". Trimmed to plate.
French frontispiece with statuary and implements relating to the arts, with background scenery suggesting the river Seine and Louvre, Paris.
[Ref: 15841]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece. Vol. III.
Frontispiece. Vol. III.
Published as the Act directs by C. Stalker Aug: 1, 1790.
Engraving with large margins. Plate 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾").
Figures representing the Arts; music with a lyre, two artists with easels and brushes, a gentleman and lady read; three winged putti. Frontispiece to an unidentified publication.
[Ref: 34759]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Title - [To His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, This Collection of English engravings is with the Greatest Humility, Dedicated, by His Majesty's most Dutiful and Most obedient subject and Servant, John Boydell.]
Title - [To His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, This Collection of English engravings is with the Greatest Humility, Dedicated, by His Majesty's most Dutiful and Most obedient subject and Servant, John Boydell.]
J. Gwin Inc. Delt & Sculpsit.
J. Boydell Exeducit. Proof impression without letterpress.
A very fine engraving 330 x 235mm, 13 x 9¼inches.
The graces study a drawing fo George the Third on an easel drawn by a putta while another holds an oval portrait of the King. Used in the heading of the title page for 'The Most Capital Paintings in England'.
[Ref: 14581]   £320.00  

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Moral Virtue Delineated [Frontsipece]
Moral Virtue Delineated [Frontsipece]
[Published by J. Darby, c.1726]
Engraving with very large margins, rare, platemark 225 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Foxing upper right; crease.
In 1721 the novelist and translator Penelope Aubin (1679?-1738), who introduced the English to various French texts, edited 'Doctrine of Morality … According to the Stoick Philosophy' (1721), Thomas Mannington Gibbs's translation of the work by Marin le Roy, sieur de Gomberville. This was republished in 1726 as 'Moral Virtue Delineated', with a frontispiece by Aubin, from which this is the frontispiece.
DNB
[Ref: 33077]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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'T Boeren Leven
'T Boeren Leven Door Pieter Nolpe in 't Cooper gemaakt. t'Amsteldam by Nicolaus Visscher met Privilegio.
[c.1640]
Rare etching. 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Slight crease.
Frontispiece to a set of etchings of peasants and beggars by Dutch reproductive printmaker Pieter Nolpe (b.1613-4, d.1652-3) after Pieter Quast (b.1605-6, d.1647).
[Ref: 43352]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece to the Royal Magazine.
Frontispiece to the Royal Magazine.
O. Neal delin. I. Fougeron Sculp.
[n.d. c.1761.]
Engraving. Plate 184 x 109mm (7¼ x 4¼").
The scene is filled with symbols of the arts and sciences. Counterclockwise from the lower left, these are: barrel and bale for commerce, Euclidean figures and set-squares for geometry, Vauban-style fortress for military sciences, cherubs measuring the globe with a compass for geography, brushes and palette for the fine arts, and mask and sword for drama. Behind the historian, the study of antiquity is indicated by two men reading an inscription on a pyramid near a toppled column. This elaborate allegory illustrates the purpose of the periodical. Mercury, messenger of the gods, informs the historian about world events, here shown by the god interrupting the gentleman writing at his desk to bring to his notice the storm off the coast. The winged goddess Fame waits above, holding her herald's trumpet and scroll of great deeds, ready to spread the news which the writer will record for posterity.
[Ref: 28636]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece.
Frontispiece. Liberty presenting Britannia with Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights &c...
Dayes delin. Grainger sculp.
[London: W. & J. Stratford, c.1795.]
Engraved frontispiece to 'A New and Complete History of England, from the first settlement of Brutus ... to the year 1793, etc' by Charles Alfred Ashburton. 335 x 215mm, 13¼ x 8½". Tatty extremities; creasing.
An allegory, set into a decorative frame; with Britannia from her throne next to a recumbent lion instructing personifications of various European states in the ways of British liberty and prosperity.
British Library: 000127483.
[Ref: 14869]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Furniture for an Artist's, or Amateur's Apartment.
Furniture for an Artist's, or Amateur's Apartment. Plate 3. Vol. XIV.
No.79, of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. July 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½''), with Whatman 1814 watermark. Trimmed.
A print showing a mount rack, desk with a display stand and a chair.
[Ref: 49363]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cottage landscape]
[Cottage landscape]
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213]   £350.00  
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[Shore scene with cattle.]
[Shore scene with cattle.]
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211]   £350.00  
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Study From Nature.
Study From Nature. From an Original Drawing by Tho.s Gainsborough R.A. in the Possesstion of Mrs. Trimmer.
Drawn by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by John Bowles.
London, Published as the Act directs by J & J Boydell No.90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspear Gallery, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Platemark: 405 x 295mm (16 x 11¾"). Very large margins, very slight creasing.
A rural scene after a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), with a stream in the centre, woodland to the left, and a cottage on the right.
[Ref: 38698]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]
The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]
T. Windus F.S.A. Direxit. Dean & Co. Lith.
[London: W. Pickering for the Author, 1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Crease in top left corner.
A sketch of a sarcophagus in the Capitoline Museum, with the Portland Vase drawn to scale on either side. An illustration from 'A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the Celebrated Portland Vase, Formerly Called the Barberini, and the Sarcophagus in which it was Discovered' by Thomas Windus. If Windus's theory is to believed the vase would have been at least 150 years old at the time of Galen's death.
[Ref: 59160]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Annibal Carraccius pinx. in Ædibus farnesianis. Petrus Aquila delin et sculp.
Io. Jacobi de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cu Priv. S. Pont. [1674-1693.
Etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 560mm (14½ x 21¾") Wear to margins.
A plate from 'Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis', illustrating Annibale Carracci's mural in the Villa Farnesina. These are six contorted, muscular 'Captives', telamones inside niches from the painted ceiling of the Farnese gallery, divided by door-frames.
[Ref: 33921]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Landscape with Gamblers.]
[Landscape with Gamblers.]
[Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. Plate: 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13'') with large margins. Very slight central crease.
A landscape scene with three figures playing a game of dice in the foreground. By Italian printmaker Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680).
BM 1874,0808.682. Bartsch 38
[Ref: 51157]   £380.00  
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[Thrush, greenfinch, sparrow and finch]
[Thrush, greenfinch, sparrow and finch] La grive litorne, le verdier, le moineau-franc et le pinçon. Souvenirs du Chasseur.
Edouard Traviés [signed in plate]. Imp. Lemercier Paris.
Paris, E. Savary et C.e Place du Louvre 10. London, E. Gambart & Co. [c.1850]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, sheet 610 x 435mm (24 x 17"). Savary blindstamp bottom left.
Dead game hanging by string in tromp-l'oeil frame. One of a series of lithographs of dead quarry, 'Souvenirs du chasseur' by Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865), animal painter and illustrator. Traviès was born in Doullens in the Somme district of France in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolour (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography, as here.
For another plate from the same set see ref. 22489. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46771]   £450.00  
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