Catalogue: Art
The American Serenaders. Cora. Jumba. Woskl. Miami. Yarico. Womba. Rosa.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 75 x 115mm. 3 x 4½". Cut.
A group of seven Ethiopian serenaders, who travelled Victorian England and were very popular during the nineteenth century-blackface minstrelsy.
[Ref: 15551] £75.00
(£88.13 incl.VAT)
The Listening Genii.
A: Van Assen del et sculpt.
Published, Septr. 15, 1791, by I. Read, Coventry Court, Coventry Strt.
Stipple with etching, sheet 155 x 115mm. 6 x 4½". Trimmed to plate. Soiled.
An angelic harpist in the clouds with two winged putti.
After Benedictus Antonio van Assen (c.1767 - c.1817).
[Ref: 12968] £130.00
(£152.75 incl.VAT)
April Fools. Country Musicians Celebrating a Reginal Coronation. Dedicated to all Lovers of Social and Domestic Harmony.
Drawn and Engraved by I. Sawthem.
Published for the Author by W. F. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn. Performed in Anticipation at C____ April 1, 1821
Mezzotint 115 x 270mm, 4½ x 10½". Tear in maring repaired. Library ink stamps & mss on verso.
The group sing from a sheet titled 'On Sunday April 1821 to be sung by a select Band had down from London a Fine Coronation Anthem improved from Handel by J. Crammer.'
Handel composed 4 anthems for the coronation of George II and Zadok the Priest has been used at all coronations since. John Crammer arranged the works of composers like Handel for small choirs.
[Ref: 13118] £190.00
(£223.25 incl.VAT)
A Moorish Girl.
Designed and Sketched on Stone by Richd. J. Lane, A.R.A.
[London: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, & Co., c.1828.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 190 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½". Paper trimmed, glued to scrap sheet.
A lady in Arab dress on a couch in a landscape with a lute.
[Ref: 10545] £60.00
(£70.50 incl.VAT)
Bal du May donne a Versailles pendant le Carnaval de L'annee 1763 sous les Ordres de M. le Duc de Duras Premier Gentil-homme de la chambre du Roi, et ordonnee par M DeLaferte.
Delin. M.A. Slodtz. Sculp. F.N. Martinet.
[n.d., c.1765.]
Etching, image 240 x 390mm. 9½ x 15¼". Some spotting; unexamined out of frame.
Dancing around a poll in the illuminated ball room at Versailles, at a ball held in 1763. After René Michel Slodtz (1705 - 1764).
[Ref: 13305] £320.00
[Ballerina. Madame Le Cery]
[n.d., c.1870.]
Photograph, 170 x 105mm. 6¾ x 4¼", signed by sitter.
A ballerina dancing.
[Ref: 8898] £180.00
(£211.50 incl.VAT)
[Avant la Danse]
[Auguste Louis] L. Brouet signed in Pencil.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, remarqued proof, [three positions] 25/100 limited. 278 x 245mm. Six small worm holes in the margins.
Auguste Louis Brouet, French, [[1872 - 1941.] Atmospheric etching of dancers preparing to perform.
[Ref: 983] £250.00
Chapelle role de Venture dans Jean Jacques Rousseau dans son Hermitage. Quand on sait chanter et boire...[etc.]
A Paris, chez Martinet, Libraire rue du Coq No.13 et 15. [n.d., c.1815.]
Hand coloured etching, 200 x 115mm. 8 x 4½". Slight foxing in margins.
A French actor, Chapelle, singing a drinking song from comic opera ' Jean Jacques Rousseau dans son Hermitage'.
From a series of theatrical portraits 'Theatre du Vaudeville' published in Paris by Aaron Martinet (1762 - 1841).
[Ref: 15544] £120.00
(£141.00 incl.VAT)
Musicien ambulant.
Reynier del. Imp. Litho. de Melle. Formentin.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 245 x 340mm. 9½ x 13¼".
A Chinese wondering musician strumming a guitar whilst simultaneously playing cymbals and a drum with his feet.
A book illustration.
[Ref: 10542] £70.00
(£82.25 incl.VAT)
Huó Nv ou Musicienne Chinoise. Tire du Cabinet du Roy.
A. Watteau pinxit. Jeaurat Sculp.
Avec Privilege. [1731.]
Etching, 240 x 170mm. 9½ x 6¾".
A young woman, facing front, sitting in a garden, and playing a guitar.
After Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721). Plate 259 from 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau', part of a set of 30 plates of Chinese costume, 'Figures Chinoises'. Numbered '10' lower right, from 'Diverses Figures Chinoises', a subset within 'Figures Chinoises', formed by the twelve plates etched by Edmé Jeaurat (1688 - 1738); this subset was also published as a set on its own.
[Ref: 13589] £140.00
(£164.50 incl.VAT)