Catalogue: Arts
The Finding of Moses.
Painted by Frederick Goodall, R.A. Engraved by Richard Josey.
London, April 17th, 1888. Published by Fairless & Beeforth, Doré Gallery, 35 New Bond Street W. Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888 by Frank Hunter Potter in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, USA.
Mezzotint on Indian laid paper, Open letters. 785 x 585mm to platemark. Uncut. Mint.
Engraving after the painting by Frederick Goodall (1822-1904). Goodall was taught by his artist father, Edward, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838. After painting landscapes and rural scenes early in his career, a trip to Egypt in 1858-9 led to a change in direction. Thereafter Goodall painted mainly scenes from Egyptian life with Biblical associations. Goodall was elected RA in 1864 and enjoyed great popularity during this time, but his fortunes later declined greatly and in 1902 he was declared bankrupt. Briony Llewellyn, 'Edward Goodall', in the Grove Dictionary of Art
[Ref: 14090] £450.00
Mlle. George Mlle. Bourgoin Venez Si vous l'osez, la ravir a Sa mere Iphigenie eu aulide. Acte 4eme. Dedie a Sa Majeste Alexandre 1er. Empereur et Autocrate de toutes les Russies.
dessine par J. Fred. Du Bois. grave par Fcois. Vendramini.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple with etching, sheet 410 x 320mm. 16 x 12½". Trimmed. Soiled; repaired tear to right edge.
The French actresses Marguerite Josephine Weimer Georges (1787 - 1867) and Marie Therese Etionnette Bourgoin (1781 - 1833) in character. Harvard: pg.114, 11.
[Ref: 10639] £260.00
[Adam and Eve in the garden]
John Martin [?] [in pencil in the margin.]
[n.d. c.1820.]
A very fine aquatint. Proof before letters. 273 x 228mm. 10¾ x 9".
Adam escorting Eve through the Garden of Paradise.
[Ref: 14427] £360.00
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)
De Vrede, als uit den hemel nederdalende, vertoond, by hat weder openen van den Amsteld. Schouwburg Ao.1749..In het Zinnespel Leeuwendaal herstadt door de Vrede.
[Amsterdam, c.1749.]
Engraving, image 190 x 285mm. 7½ x 11¼". Trimmed within plate; unexamined out of frame.
Interior of an Amsterdam theatre, a performance on stage.
By Simon Fokke (printmaker; Dutch; Male; 1712 - 1784), engraver and etcher working for the Amsterdam book trade; also a collector. See Ref: 13317 for other ballet at Schouwbourg Theatre.
[Ref: 13332] £160.00
(£188.00 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)
[Anno Domini.]
[Painted by Edward Long R.A, Engraved by Herbert Bourne.] Signed in pencil.
London, April 17th. 1889 Published by Fairless & Beeforth, 25 New Bond Street, W. Copyright Entered to Act of Congress in the 1889 by Frank Hunter Potter in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington U.S.A.
Mixed-method engraving. Signed artist's proof. 1110 x 622mm. 43¾ x 24½". Uncut. Mint.
Edwin Long (1829-1891) was born in Bath, had an early and precocious talent for drawing, studied at the RA Schools from 1849, and also was a student under John Phillip, who encouraged him to travel. in 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria, and this was the start of his career as an Orientalist painter. He developed a rich, exotic style, strong in detail and often on canvases of large size, allowing him to show long processions, enormous palaces or sweeps of mountains on an epic scale. His best years were in the 1870s-80s, when he was a popular, successful artist specialising in biblical stories and life in ancient Egypt. He became ARA in 1876 and RA in 1881. The painting is part of the collection in the Russell Coates Museum, Bouremouth, England.
[Ref: 14079] £280.00
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)
Dr. Arne.
Engrav'd by J. Heath, from an Original Drawing by E.F. Burney, Esqr.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving, sheet 310 x 215mm. 12¼ x 8½". Trimmed to plate and laid on to album page.
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 - 1778), composer, in a small oval on the side of a pedestal supporting an urn, from which a flaming phoenix emerges. Probably a frontispiece to one of his works.
Arne's most famous work is the patriotic song, 'Rule, Britannia!'. He is buried at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London.
The portrait after Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811?).
[Ref: 13867] £170.00
(£199.75 incl.VAT)