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[A young woman, with necklace and flower in her hair.]
[A young woman, with necklace and flower in her hair.]
Ch. Eisen del [in plate].
[French (Paris), n.d., c.1760.]
Crayon manner printed in reddish ink, laid paper, 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼".
Numbered '16' upper right. After Charles Eisen (1720 - 1778).
[Ref: 26884]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Admiration.
Admiration. [Pleasures are ever in our hands...]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Published May, 1782, by W. Palmer No. 159 Strand.
Fine stipple, open-letter proof, printed in sanguine. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
An oval portrait of a woman, hand on breast, looking upwards.
De Vesme 568, state ii of iii, before lines under title.
[Ref: 53321]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[A young girl with a dove.]
[A young girl with a dove.]
[Vieira Del.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculps.t R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.]
[London, Published 1st June 1800 by William Jeffrey & Co.]
Stipple, scarce touched proof before letters, with added watercolour either by the artist or engraver. 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼"), with wide large margins.
Portrait of a young girl with a garland in her hair, holding a dove, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after Francisco Vieira 'Portuense' (1765-1805). A later state was published as 'Affection. From an Original Drawing in the Possession of John Scott Esq.r', by Deely in 1809. Vieira came to London c.1796 and became Bartolozzi's lodger. After exhibiting at the R.A. in 1798 and 1799 he returned to Oporto, becoming court painter in Lisbon in 1802. At the same time Bartolozzi became director of the National Academy of Lisbon, living there until he died.
De Vesme 1305. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47336]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Age of Innocence.
The Age of Innocence.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reyolds Engrv'd by J Grozer.
London, Published Feb.y 10th 1788 by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Stipple with etching. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins.
A bare-footed young girl sitting under a tree, hands together on her chest, staring to the right, after a painting in the Tate since 1847 (N00307). The Tate records that ''it is very probably identifiable with a work exhibited by Reynolds at the Royal Academy in 1785, and entitled simply 'a little girl''' and that Sir Robert Edgcumbe, a Victorian descendant of Reynolds, identified her as the artist's great-niece Theophila Gwatkin (1782-1844).
Hamilton: pg. 141. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60317]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Alchymist.
The Alchymist. He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold,/ if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold.
Teniers pinx.t. W. Baillie sculp.t.
Early impression
Etching. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
An alchemist in his workshop, using bellows to make his fire burn hotter, etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 55334]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sarah Amherst and her older brother Jeffrey.]
[Sarah Amherst and her older brother Jeffrey.]
Painted at Palermo by Robert Fagan Esq.r His Majesty's Consul General for Sicily and Malta. Engraved by Rob.t Dunkarton, 452, Strand.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Scarce mezzotint with engraved border. 320 x 345mm (12½ x 13½"). Tear touching plate at top, printers crease.
Two of the children of William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, with a dog: the eldest son Jeffrey (1802-26) and Sarah Elizabeth (1801-76). Jeffrey died suddenly in Barrackpore, while his father was leading the Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6); Sarah also travelled to India with her parents, being a painter and botanical illustrator, known under her married name of Hay-Williams. This portrait was painted while Amherst was ambassador-extraordinary to the court of the Two Sicilies, 1809-11. Challoner Smith suggests this plate was never published.
CS: 3.
[Ref: 60210]   £450.00  
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The Angelic Child.
The Angelic Child. From a miniature painted by Mr. Robinson in the possesion of Mrs. Johnston, to whom this plate is dedicated by her humble ser.t, W. Palmer.
Robinson pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1st. 1790 by W. Palmer. Printseller to Her Majesty. No. 163 Strand, London.
Stipple engraving, printed in brown. 180 x 115mm. (7¼ x 4½"), with wide margins.
A child, half-length, head to right, eyes turned towards the sky; body turned to the left, hands lifted to prayer; in a vertical oval; after John Robinson (1715 - 1745). Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815).
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection; Calabi & De Vesme: 308.iii/iii
[Ref: 28396]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Angelica.
Angelica.
J. Gresse del: John Boydell exc.t 1782. Mango sculp.t.
Publish'd Oct.r 25th 1782 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple, sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate, repair to bottom left corner.
Profile portrait, probably a representation of artist Angelica Kauffman, after John Alexander Gresse (1741-1794), drawing master to the royal children in the 1780s.
[Ref: 54237]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Anges. The Angels.
Les Anges. The Angels.
CH. Philipon. Lith. de M.lle Formentin.
Chez Aubert, Galerie Vero-Dodat. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet et C.ie 14 Newmann street Oxford, St.
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Right edge stained.
The heads of three pretty young women with elaborate hair styles, each given wings.
[Ref: 56363]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Angiolina. Finden's Byron Beauties.
Angiolina. Finden's Byron Beauties. Plate 16, Doge of Venice.
Painted by F. Stone. Engraved by W. Finden.
London, Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, 1835.
Stipple. 235 x 159mm. 9¼ x 6¼".
A young maiden seen holding a lute. The text on verso refers to Angiolina as having a "calm and pure-spirited" character. From "Finden's Byron beauties; or, The principal female characters in lord Byron's poems".
[Ref: 22649]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Anxious Matron.
The Anxious Matron.
Ruben's, Pinxt.
Drawn, Printed & Published at Friedel's Litho Estabt. 252, Tottenham Court Road, & at the Polytechnic Institution, 309, Regent St. London. [n.d. c.1840.]
Very scarce and fine hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, mint colour. Image 350 x 275mm. 13¼ x 10¾". A fine impression with full, folded margins (small tears at apex of folds).
After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) by Adam Friedel, Danish-born painter and lithographic printer, publisher of a series of coloured lithographs of the Greek Revolution under the title 'Twenty-Four Portraits of the principal leaders and personages who have made themselves most conspicuous in the Greek Revolution'.
[Ref: 21588]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Artemisia of Caria.]
[Artemisia of Caria.]
Heinrich van Bles pinxt: F:Piloty delin.
[Munich: J. Stuntz, 1811-1816.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 485 x 380mm (19 x 15"), large margins.
An early lithograph, depicting Artemisia II of Caria (d.351 BC) in Renaissance dress, holding a goblet in which her husband Mausolus's ashes are mixed with drink. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in his memory. From 'Les Oeuvres lithographiques. Contenant un choix de dessins d'après les grands maîtres de toutes les écoles, tiré des Musées de sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière.'
[Ref: 60955]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Baby lying down on straw basket.]
[Baby lying down on straw basket.]
Guercino inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London, Published Jany. 1. 1798, by Darling & Thompson Gt. Newport Street, and T. Simpson, St. Paul's Church Yard.
Etching. Plate 229 x 260mm. 9 x 10¼".
A baby lying on a straw bed inside a basket, his hands clasped on his stomach.
De V: ?
[Ref: 21217]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Baccante with Young Faun.]
[Baccante with Young Faun.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by S.W.Reynolds.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Mezzotint, 350 x 255mm. Some cracking to margin, small crease top left.
A half-naked woman, believed to have been modelled by Emma Hamilton, carrying a faun. Rare.
WHITMAN: 437, State iv of v.
[Ref: 4829]   £320.00  
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A Bacchante.
A Bacchante. From an Original Picture in the Collection of Sir John Leicester Bar.t.
Greuze Pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculps.t R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.
London, Published 1st. June 1800 by William Jeffryes & C.o Ludgate Hill.
A rare stipple. Plate: 440 x 340mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A portrait of a priestess of Bacchus, shown looking over he right shoulder.
De Vesme 369 III of III. Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46717]   £330.00  
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The Favourite of Bacchus.
The Favourite of Bacchus.
London, Published by W. Humphrey.
Rare stipple, platemark 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Small dusty margins.
Young woman in classical dress adorned with grapes and carrying a goblet of wine to indicate her allegiance to Bacchus, the god of wine. Stipple, a method of producing images from thousands of small dots rather than lines, was widely used in the late 18th century to make decorative images such as this.
[Ref: 39195]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Woman holding a bird and cherries]
[Woman holding a bird and cherries] Sunt Oculi Scopuli, quos parat illa Venus
E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind.
Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") very large margins.
One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of Augsburg.
[Ref: 40173]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Walter Baker by Worlidge [ms]
Walter Baker by Worlidge [ms]
[by Thomas Worlidge, c.1755]
Etching, platemark 200 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Fine impression; slight stains.
Portrait by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with number '61' added top right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced. Dack reproduces an impression of this print with the following inscription in ms: 'This Portrait of Walter Baker (M.D. so created by himself) Painter, Designed & Etched by Thomas Worlidge Painter in the Little Piazza Covent Garden'.
State i/ii; W61; D15; O'D incorrectly identifies this as a portrait of scientist Henry Baker, F.R.S.
[Ref: 32864]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Infant Toilet.
The Infant Toilet.
F.Bartolozzi R.A. inv.t. A Cardon sculp.t
London, Publish'd by Colnaghi, Sala & Co. late Torre, 132 Pall Mall.
Stipple, printed in brown. 200 x 220mm.
[Ref: 533]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Profile of a Woman.]
[Profile of a Woman.]
F. Bartolozzi inv. et sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament de 15 june 1776.
Stipple with large margins; Rare. Plate: 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"). Some light foxing.
Profile portrait of a woman wearing a shawl.
De Vesme: 117. State II of II. For an example in sanguine see ref: 538.
[Ref: 35553]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Old man with a white beard]
[Old man with a white beard]
Etched by T. Worlidge. Pub. by R. Pollard, Spa Fields, 1790
Etching with very large margins, with Collector's mark at bottom; platemark 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5").
Posthumous impression of an etching by Thomas Worlidge. Worlidge etched his plate in the 1750s (before aquatint was used in England), but Robert Pollard republished several of Worlidge's plates in 1790 with aquatint which he presumably added to take advantage of the popularity of the medium at that time. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
For impression before aquatint see ref. 32571. Ex: Collection of the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32603]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Portrait of a bearded man; style of Rembrandt.]
[Portrait of a bearded man; style of Rembrandt.]
T. Worlidge fecit 1752 [but a later impression].
Etching with drypoint, wove paper, state with (faint) plate number. 120 x 95mm, 4¾ x 3¾".
Portrait study of an unidentified man, looking towards the viewer, bearded, in fur-trimmed jacket. Numbered '1' [or 4] upper right. Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766).
[Ref: 23493]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Beauty unmasked.
The Beauty unmasked.
[After Henry Morland.]
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer. N.o 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Glued on an album sheet.
A portrait of a young woman, holding a mask in right hand and wearing an ermine-trimmed cloak over a low-necked gown with pearl jewellery and her hair up in a plumed turban with a coil hanging over left shoulder.
[Ref: 60085]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Morning Beauty.
The Morning Beauty.
Miss A. Green Pinx.t.
London Pub;ished 7th June 1781, for J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Stipple, printed in brown, scarce. Sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½). Trimmed within plate, corners snipped. Bit dusty.
A well-dressed young woman, hands in a fur muff, with four lines of verse from Rev. Dr Lisle's 'History of Porsenna'.
[Ref: 45377]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Evening Beauty.
The Evening Beauty.
Miss A. Green Pinx.t.
London Published 7th June 1781, for J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Stipple, scarce. Sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½). Trimmed within plate, corners snipped. Bit dusty.
A well-dressed young woman, fan in hand, with four lines of verse from Rev. Dr Lisle's 'Charms of Beauty'.
[Ref: 45378]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Beggar Man]
[A Beggar Man]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1754.
Etching, platemark 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Small margins; on cream laid paper; good impression.
Study of a man on crutches by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '80' added upper right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which this print was listed as 'a beggar man').
State i/ii; W46; D17; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33036]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Beggar Man]
[A Beggar Man]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1754.
Etching, platemark 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Large margins; on cream laid paper; good impression.
Study of a man on crutches by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression after number '80' in top right removed (this was first put there when Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '80' corresponding with its number in the catalogue of his prints she produced, and in which this print was listed as 'a beggar man').
State ii/ii; W46; D17; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33037]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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While some poor creatures scarce can tell  / Where they may lay their head / I have a home, wherein to dwell,  And rest upon my bed.
While some poor creatures scarce can tell / Where they may lay their head / I have a home, wherein to dwell, And rest upon my bed.
Drawn by Bouvier. Printed by Dean & Munday.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 160 x 160mm (6¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed close to image.
A pair of elderly vagrants with a well-dressed young girl. From 'Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal', one of Dr. Isaac Watt's 'Divine Songs for Children'.
[Ref: 31284]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Belisa.  Vide, Marmontel's tale of the Scruple.
Belisa. Vide, Marmontel's tale of the Scruple.
Designed by J.R. Smith.
London Publish'd July 18 1783 by J.R. Smith No.83 Oxford Street.
Very rare stipple, roundel, printed in brown ink. Sheet 250 x 225mm. 9¾ x 9". Trimmed to plate.
A young lady with a poodle on a chaise longue, illustrating the moral tale of 'The Scruple' by Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799); with a four-line quotation below image. John Raphael Smith (1751 - 1812).
Frankau 31, ii. D'Oench 223.
[Ref: 27040]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Cupid Disarmed. [&] Cupid's Revenge.
Cupid Disarmed. [&] Cupid's Revenge.
J.H.Benwell Delin.t Engrav'd by C.Knight.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 2d; 1786, by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No. 158, Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Ea. 275 x 195mm. Mint.
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The Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie.
The Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie.
Painted by W.Peters R.A. Engrav'd by W.Dickinson
London Publish'd March 1st 1778 by W.Dickinson, No.20 Henrietta Street Covent Garden & T.Watson, No.142 New Bond Street
Very fine and rare mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Framed, total size 615 x 480mm (24¼ x 19"). Unexamined outside of frame.
Half length portrait in oval of Georgiana Charlotte Bertie (1764-1838), playing a lyre amongst the clouds. The daughter of Peregrine, 3rd Duke of Ancaster, she married George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl (from 1815 Marquess) of Cholmondeley in 1791.
CS: 8 state ii.
[Ref: 62575]   £480.00  
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Miss Bloomfield.
Miss Bloomfield.
Adam Buck del. T Cheesman Sculpsit.
London Published April 25, 1803 by William Holland. No.11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street).
Hand-coloured stipple with etching, and large margins. Plate 297 x 209mm. 11¾ x 8¼". .
Portrait of a young woman, almost full-length, three-quarters to left with head in profile, left hand to hip; wearing white, low-necked, short-sleeved dress, hair tied back in Grecian style, with long diaphanous scarf fastened to a band in her hair and trailing down on either side, which she holds up with her right hand.
[Ref: 28168]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Buds and Blossoms. Blue Bells.
Buds and Blossoms. Blue Bells.
Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway. Printed by F. Alvey Brandon's Row, Newington. [n.d. c.1840.]
Very fine hand-coloured lithograph, with added gum arabic. 350 x 246mm. 13¾ x 9¾".
Two girls in Scottish costume, seated on the grass, one holding bluebells.
[Ref: 24195]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[Untitled portrait of a young man in a broad hat.]
[Untitled portrait of a young man in a broad hat.]
Terburg [Moses ter Borch] se upsum del. A. Bartsch sc.
[Vienna, n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Moses ter Borch (1645-67) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose work mostly consists of drawings. He died during the Dutch attack on Chatham, during the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, and is buried in Harwich. This portrait was etched by Johann Adam Bartsch (von Bartsch fro 1812), a librarian and print historian. As an amateur etcher he produced a large series of facsimile prints after old master drawings, many of which were in the collection of his friend, Charles de Ligne.
[Ref: 59790]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Ritratto d'un Compagno del Padre Luigi Bourdaloue della Compagnia di Gesu dell'istesso Poussino.
Ritratto d'un Compagno del Padre Luigi Bourdaloue della Compagnia di Gesu dell'istesso Poussino. 13.
[Paolo Fidanza.]
[n.d. c.1785.]
Very fine engraving and etching with large margins. Plate 272 x 184mm. 10¾ x 7¼".
A companion of Luigi Bourdaloue, the 18th century Jesuit theologian. From "Recueil de têtes choisies de personnages illustres dans les lettres et dans les armes éxactement dessinées et gravées de la grandeur des originaux par Paul Fidanza peintre romain d'apres les peintures de Raphaël d'Urbin et autres grands maîtres existantes au Vatican et dans plusieurs galeries de Rome".
[Ref: 26602]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Boy & Dog.
Boy & Dog. In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. Size of the Picture F.1. 1.6 ½ by F.1 2.1 high.
B. Marillo Pinxit. Caroline Watson Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 1.st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"), with very good margins.
A scene showing a young boy feeding his small dog.
[Ref: 47271]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy and dog.]
[Boy and dog.] Alt: 18. Lat: 14, unc.
v. Prenner delt et Inc.
[Vienna, n.d., c.1730.]
Etching with engraved ornamental border printed from a separate plate; laid paper, with large margins. 325 x 265mm, 12¾ x 10½". Paper a little age-toned, otherwise good.
After Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588), for the 'Theatrum Artis Pictoriae' (often referred to as the 'Galerie Impériale de Vienne'), a series of plates of paintings in the Imperial collection in the Belvedere in Vienna executed by Anton Joseph Prenner (Austrian, 1683 - 1761). Published in Vienna in four parts, each of 40 plates, from 1728 to 1733.
[Ref: 26873]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy in a Cap.]
[Boy in a Cap.]
[Watteau]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, proof. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
Proof after Watteau.
[Ref: 49902]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 53324]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Slight crease vertically down by torso.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
Ex: Norman Blackburn Collection. De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 21914]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy with a cat and mouse.]
[Boy with a cat and mouse.]
[n.d. c.1690; but 1805.] [John Boydell.]
Mezzotint. Plate 134 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾").
A boy with a cat and a mouse; he sits smiling towards the viewer and holding a snarling cat in front of him, snug under his right arm, teasing it with a mouse attached to a string, held in the other hand. According to the BM; this state republished by Boydell in his 'Collection of Portratis', with a scratch through the image.
Recorded by Ganz: ii/ii.
[Ref: 31185]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Boy with a Ruff and Cap.]
[Boy with a Ruff and Cap.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare mezzotint. Plate: 90 x 140mm (3½ x 5½). Trimmed within plate, some light creasing.
A portrait of a boy facing left, dressed in Tudor costume with a collar with a ruff and a cap.
[Ref: 42054]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
Etched by T. Worlidge. Pub.d by R. Pollard Spa Fields 1790.
Etching and aquatint, sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed on platemark; white wove paper. Crease on lower left.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression after the publisher Robert Pollard added aquatint to make new impressions in 1790 from a plate by that time nearly forty years old.
State iii/iii; W87, D28.
[Ref: 32889]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge] Fecit 1752
Etching, platemark 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Very good impression; thread margins; white laid paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State i/iii; W87. D27
[Ref: 32886]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
T.W. 1751
Etching, sheet 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). Trimmed inside platemark; surface dirt; paper tone.
Study of a head, by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before number '11' added by Worlidge's widow in her posthumous sale of his prints.
State i/iv; W11; D29
[Ref: 32740]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 85 x 70mm (3¼ x 2¾"). Very large margins; uncut; cream laid paper.
Portrait study of a long-haired youth by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '100' & '5' added top right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State iii/iii; W100; D233.
[Ref: 32907]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.][No 5 top right]
[A boy's head.][No 5 top right]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 85 x 70mm (3¼ x 2¾"). Small margins; cream laid paper.
Portrait study of a long-haired youth by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '100' added top right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State ii/iii; W100; D233.
[Ref: 32906]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge] Fecit 1752
Etching, platemark 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Good impression; small margins; cream laid paper; staining.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State i/iii; W87. D27.
[Ref: 32887]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[A boy's head.]
[A boy's head.]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 85 x 70mm (3¼ x 2¾"). Good impression; small margins; cream laid paper; pencil inscription 'Worlidge___ Boy'
Portrait study of a long-haired youth by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Early impression.
State i/iii; W100; D233.
[Ref: 32905]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Children of Joseph Baggaley Bradshaw.]
[The Children of Joseph Baggaley Bradshaw.]
Jos. Wright pinxit. Val. Green fecit.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Mezzotint. Scratched proof. Plate: 375 x 475mm (14¾ x 18¾"). Slight repair in lower title on right. Trimmed to plate and laid on card.
A group portrait of three children of Joseph Baggale Bradshaw shown holding a lamb in a rural landscape. After a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).
CS: 141.
[Ref: 42502]   £650.00  
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