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![[Mrs Abington.]](jpegs/7834.jpg)
[Mrs Abington.]
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching, sheet 182 x 135mm. Trimmed inside plate.
A rare and charming portrait of Frances Abington (1737 - 1815), famous comic actress. Etched by James Bretherton (1750 - 1799; fl.), dealer and publisher in London. Brother of Charles Bretherton, he is particularly associated with Henry William Bunbury, many of whose works he engraved and published. His stock of plates was auctioned in 1799.
From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7834] £220.00
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching, sheet 182 x 135mm. Trimmed inside plate.
A rare and charming portrait of Frances Abington (1737 - 1815), famous comic actress. Etched by James Bretherton (1750 - 1799; fl.), dealer and publisher in London. Brother of Charles Bretherton, he is particularly associated with Henry William Bunbury, many of whose works he engraved and published. His stock of plates was auctioned in 1799.
From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7834] £220.00
Roxalana. Mrs. Abbington in that Character, in the Sultan. [Quotation from the play below.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Faint spotting.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character, appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand.
After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, III.
[Ref: 10597] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Faint spotting.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character, appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand.
After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, III.
[Ref: 10597] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Roxalana. Mrs. Abbington in that Character, in the Sultan.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours. 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Some mount burn. Unexamined out of frame.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'.
Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute.
After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, iii of iii. See 10597 & 10601.
[Ref: 13807] £260.00
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours. 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Some mount burn. Unexamined out of frame.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'.
Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute.
After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, iii of iii. See 10597 & 10601.
[Ref: 13807] £260.00
![Achilles's Life Painted by Sr. Peter Paul Rubens and Engrav'd by B. Baron - London. 1724. [inside image on plinth.]](jpegs/14411.jpg)
Achilles's Life Painted by Sr. Peter Paul Rubens and Engrav'd by B. Baron - London. 1724. [inside image on plinth.] Vivo celeberrimo Richardo Mead; Medicina Doctori; meritissimo Societatis Regiae Collegug Londinensium medicorum Socio; in sua Arte maximum inter primarios nomen adepto, reliquarum omnium diligentissimo cultore fartorig munificentissimo; has octo Tabulas Achillis vitam exhibentes, ad ipsa Petri Pauli Rubens exemplaria, quae cum multis alus raris cimelus sibi magnis sumptibus, nec minore judicio ac delectu, Vir ille Antiquuatis eruditae studiossissimus conquisivit, incosas; eo quo par est, officio humillime. D.D.D. Bernardus Baron.
[n.d. c. 1780.] Sold by Tho. Bowles Printseller, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Engraving. Plate 448 x 336mm. 17¾ x 13¼". Creases into the image. Small tears.
During his stay in London from 1712-1729, Bernard Baron etched The Life of Achilles. Baron may have used preparatory paintings executed by his collaborator Du Bosc as models for this suite of etchings, rather than the original oil sketches by Rubens.
[Ref: 14411] £130.00 (£152.75 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c. 1780.] Sold by Tho. Bowles Printseller, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Engraving. Plate 448 x 336mm. 17¾ x 13¼". Creases into the image. Small tears.
During his stay in London from 1712-1729, Bernard Baron etched The Life of Achilles. Baron may have used preparatory paintings executed by his collaborator Du Bosc as models for this suite of etchings, rather than the original oil sketches by Rubens.
[Ref: 14411] £130.00 (£152.75 incl.VAT)
Il'Penseroso. L'Allegro. Hence, vain deluding Joys. Hence, loathed Melancholy.
G. Romney R.A. Pinxt. G. Keating Sculpt.
London Published 4th. January 1799, by G. Keating No. 18 Warwick Street, Golden Square.
Stipple, 460 x 545mm. 18 x 21½". Very fine impression. Some light staining.
Two young women in a landscape, said to be the actresses Mary Ann Yates (1728 - 1787) and Dorothy Jordan (1761 - 1816), standing next to a table on which stand a book and hour-glass.
Illustrates the twin pastoral poems 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' by John Milton, published in 1645.
After George Romney (1734 - 1802).
[Ref: 11778] £360.00
G. Romney R.A. Pinxt. G. Keating Sculpt.
London Published 4th. January 1799, by G. Keating No. 18 Warwick Street, Golden Square.
Stipple, 460 x 545mm. 18 x 21½". Very fine impression. Some light staining.
Two young women in a landscape, said to be the actresses Mary Ann Yates (1728 - 1787) and Dorothy Jordan (1761 - 1816), standing next to a table on which stand a book and hour-glass.
Illustrates the twin pastoral poems 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' by John Milton, published in 1645.
After George Romney (1734 - 1802).
[Ref: 11778] £360.00
J. Addison. Professor of Music.
Engraved by R. Cooper, from a Drawing by J. Slater.
Jany. 12 1819. Published for the Proprietor by Colnaghi & Co. No. 23 Cockspur Street.
Stipple engraving. 180 x 250mm. Marked 'Proof' lower left. Light foxing in image, heavier in margins.
John Addison [1766 - 1844], musician.
[Ref: 5555] £45.00 (£52.88 incl.VAT)
Engraved by R. Cooper, from a Drawing by J. Slater.
Jany. 12 1819. Published for the Proprietor by Colnaghi & Co. No. 23 Cockspur Street.
Stipple engraving. 180 x 250mm. Marked 'Proof' lower left. Light foxing in image, heavier in margins.
John Addison [1766 - 1844], musician.
[Ref: 5555] £45.00 (£52.88 incl.VAT)
![W. Harrison Ainsworth [facsimile signature.]](jpegs/12768.jpg)
W. Harrison Ainsworth [facsimile signature.]
A d'Orsay fecit 21. Novr. 1844 [facsimile.] C. Graf, Lith to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Image 200 x 153mm. 7¾ x 6". Sheet 373 x 259mm. 14¾ x 10¼".
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), Novelist. Ainsworth was an author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burgular, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840),Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).
[Ref: 12768] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
A d'Orsay fecit 21. Novr. 1844 [facsimile.] C. Graf, Lith to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Image 200 x 153mm. 7¾ x 6". Sheet 373 x 259mm. 14¾ x 10¼".
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), Novelist. Ainsworth was an author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burgular, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840),Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).
[Ref: 12768] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
Madame Caradori Allan.
Published by Mr. Ainsworth, 27, Old Bond St. London. June, 1828. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
Lithograph. 215 x 127mm. 8½ x 5".
Madame Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan (1800-1865) was a distinguished Italian soprano gracing the American stages. Plate to Eber's Seven Years of the Kings Theatre.
Harvard: 204-2
[Ref: 15077] £65.00 (£76.38 incl.VAT)
Published by Mr. Ainsworth, 27, Old Bond St. London. June, 1828. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
Lithograph. 215 x 127mm. 8½ x 5".
Madame Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan (1800-1865) was a distinguished Italian soprano gracing the American stages. Plate to Eber's Seven Years of the Kings Theatre.
Harvard: 204-2
[Ref: 15077] £65.00 (£76.38 incl.VAT)
![Alma Tadema in is studio [written on verso in pencil.]](jpegs/15536.jpg)
Alma Tadema in is studio [written on verso in pencil.]
L. Alma Tadema [pencil signature to bottom left title-area.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Photogravure. Plate 197 x 166mm. 7¾ x 6½". Large margins.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was a British painted of the late nineteenth-century.
[Ref: 15536] £65.00 (£76.38 incl.VAT)
L. Alma Tadema [pencil signature to bottom left title-area.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Photogravure. Plate 197 x 166mm. 7¾ x 6½". Large margins.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was a British painted of the late nineteenth-century.
[Ref: 15536] £65.00 (£76.38 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Astley.
Ipsa pinxt. Js. McArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 330 x 225mm. Uncut.
Self- portrait of Rhoda Astley (née Delaval) (1731 - 1757), pastellist, first wife of Edward Astley. Seated at a table, she rests her arms on top of large sheets of blank paper, looking towards the viewer. She wears a low gown with a fichu and large frills at the elbow.
Chaloner Smith: 7 (only recorded state). Goodwin: 153. NPG: D562.
[Ref: 14703] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Ipsa pinxt. Js. McArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 330 x 225mm. Uncut.
Self- portrait of Rhoda Astley (née Delaval) (1731 - 1757), pastellist, first wife of Edward Astley. Seated at a table, she rests her arms on top of large sheets of blank paper, looking towards the viewer. She wears a low gown with a fichu and large frills at the elbow.
Chaloner Smith: 7 (only recorded state). Goodwin: 153. NPG: D562.
[Ref: 14703] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)