To His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex, K.G. & T.G.C.H. &c. &c. &c. &c. This Portrait of the late William Hyde Wollaston, M.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. &c. is with H.R.H.'s most gracious permission most respectfully inscribed By His Royal Highness's most dutiful & obedient Servant Will.m Skelton.
Painted by John Jackson, R.A. Engraved by Will.m Skelton.
Published Nov.r 18.th 1830 by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico.
Engraving, rare, on chine collé. Plate: 355 x 275mm (14 x 11''), with very large margins. Foxing on margins.
A seated portrait of English chemist and physicist William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) who discovered palladium and rhodium.
[Ref: 48255] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Sr Benjamin Wrench Kt. M.D. Aged 82 Ao 1747, Having practisd Physick in the City of Norwich Sixty Years.
[Anon., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 250 x 180mm. 9¾ x 7". Horizontal creasing. Lower left margin corner missing.
Sir Benjamin Wrench (1665/66 - 1747), physician in Norwich; his daughter married Harbord Harbord, MP for Norfolk. A very scarce portrait.
[Ref: 12443] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Le Docteur Young.
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculpt.
Ex Bibliotca. Regia. [French, c.1790.]
Etching and aquatint, sheet 250 x 175mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed to plate.
The sitter in this rather sinister image is unidentified; perhaps he is a grave robber, or body snatcher, inspecting the skull from a skeleton he has just dug up from a graveyard. There appears to be the sculpted masonry of a tomb behind him, and the impression is of a moonlit night; in oval frame. Not in Wellcome; for another print in the same series, see ref. 27263
[Ref: 15297] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)