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Cirque. 24 gravures au canif par Tilmans. Preface Par Maurice De Laborderie.
Editeur L'Imagerie Francaise Limoges 1946.
24 coloured limited-edition woodcuts, complete as index. Disbound, with titlepage and text sheets, in paper-covered card wrappers with lettered cover bearing vignette of three clown's faces. Presented in original printed card sleeve. Tear in cover paper lower left. Foxing to wrappers and title page, plates good. Outer sleeve scuffed and missing two short sides.
A collection of vibrant illustrations of circus acts, each captioned lower left and signed 'Tilmans' in pencil lower right. Stamped 'No 12', of an edition limited to 130. By Belgian artist Émile Henri Tilmans (1888 - 1960).
[Ref: 7715] £580.00 view all images for this item
Editeur L'Imagerie Francaise Limoges 1946.
24 coloured limited-edition woodcuts, complete as index. Disbound, with titlepage and text sheets, in paper-covered card wrappers with lettered cover bearing vignette of three clown's faces. Presented in original printed card sleeve. Tear in cover paper lower left. Foxing to wrappers and title page, plates good. Outer sleeve scuffed and missing two short sides.
A collection of vibrant illustrations of circus acts, each captioned lower left and signed 'Tilmans' in pencil lower right. Stamped 'No 12', of an edition limited to 130. By Belgian artist Émile Henri Tilmans (1888 - 1960).
[Ref: 7715] £580.00 view all images for this item
Blondin's Gigantic Arena. Dimensions. Length of Fence 400 English feet. Width of Fence 800 English Feet. Height of Fence 8 English Feet. Length of Tent 250 English Feet. Width of Tent 200 English Feet. Height of Tent 50 English Feet. [Accompanying Sheet]: Explanations of further measurements and details of erecting the tent.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet size: 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"). Very slight central crease.
Jean François Gravelet Blondin (1824-1897) was a French tight-rope walker and acrobat. Blondin went to the United States in 1855 to perform with the Ravel troupe in New York City. It was in 1861 that Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace. His success continued with a series of performance at the Crystal Palace in 1862, and elsewhere in England, and on the continent. His final performance was in Belfast in 1896 and a year later he passed away in Ealing aged 72.
[Ref: 40011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1860.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet size: 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"). Very slight central crease.
Jean François Gravelet Blondin (1824-1897) was a French tight-rope walker and acrobat. Blondin went to the United States in 1855 to perform with the Ravel troupe in New York City. It was in 1861 that Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace. His success continued with a series of performance at the Crystal Palace in 1862, and elsewhere in England, and on the continent. His final performance was in Belfast in 1896 and a year later he passed away in Ealing aged 72.
[Ref: 40011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Portraits of the Two Ladies form the Celestial Empire, and their Chinese Interpreter, as Exhibiting in Pall Mall. Drawn from the Life by M. Gauci.
Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
London Published by the Proprietor, Jan.y 1827.
A very fine, hand-coloured lithograph; J. Whatman 1826 watermark. Printed area: 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"), mint with very large margins. Uncut. Margins dusty.
A portrait of the Chinese Ladies who were exhibited in Pall Mall in 1827, they wore Chinese costume and were noted for having fingernails which were 2" long and for their bound feet.
[Ref: 44919] £380.00
Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
London Published by the Proprietor, Jan.y 1827.
A very fine, hand-coloured lithograph; J. Whatman 1826 watermark. Printed area: 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"), mint with very large margins. Uncut. Margins dusty.
A portrait of the Chinese Ladies who were exhibited in Pall Mall in 1827, they wore Chinese costume and were noted for having fingernails which were 2" long and for their bound feet.
[Ref: 44919] £380.00
Circus Rehearsal.
Lewis H Fairbank.
1933.
Etching with large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 197 x 252mm (7¾ x 10").
Inside a circus arena, various people sitting around and preparing for the show; monkeys dressed up in little costumes holding parasols.
[Ref: 28989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Lewis H Fairbank.
1933.
Etching with large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 197 x 252mm (7¾ x 10").
Inside a circus arena, various people sitting around and preparing for the show; monkeys dressed up in little costumes holding parasols.
[Ref: 28989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Clowns.]
Cumming. 7. [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 235 x 185mm, 9¼ x 7¼".
Beatrice Cumming (American, 1903-74).
[Ref: 11972] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
Cumming. 7. [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 235 x 185mm, 9¼ x 7¼".
Beatrice Cumming (American, 1903-74).
[Ref: 11972] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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Kings in Exile [pencil].
L.R. Brightwell. [pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching. 135 x 380mm (5¼ x 15"). Very large margins.
Three circus elephants tethered in a field. Leonard Robert Brightwell (1889-1962) a prolific illustrator and etcher, predominately using animal themes. He also had cartoons published in Punch from the age of sixteen.
[Ref: 38926] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
L.R. Brightwell. [pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching. 135 x 380mm (5¼ x 15"). Very large margins.
Three circus elephants tethered in a field. Leonard Robert Brightwell (1889-1962) a prolific illustrator and etcher, predominately using animal themes. He also had cartoons published in Punch from the age of sixteen.
[Ref: 38926] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Halfpenny-Showman.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albermarle Street, Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand-coloured etching, with letterpress sheet. Sheet: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Letterpress stapled in top right corner.
A scene showing a mother and her children looking at a peep show while the showman stands to the left. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 44605] £320.00
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albermarle Street, Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand-coloured etching, with letterpress sheet. Sheet: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Letterpress stapled in top right corner.
A scene showing a mother and her children looking at a peep show while the showman stands to the left. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 44605] £320.00