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The Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella Crasi; upon the Appian Way, Two Miles from Rome. The Walls are 25 Feet thick, Sounding a Trumpet within it the Echo returns it 8 times.
Buisiri del: T. Smith pin: F. Vivares sc.
Publish'd 25 July 1746.
Fine engraving with etching. 550 x 400mm (21¾ x 15¾"). Tears in the margins. Slight staining.
A view of the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, whose father served under Julius Ceasar, built in the 1st Century BC and located on one of the southern roads into Rome. The scene shows the ruins of the rotunda and walls, several figures examine the fragments of ancient architecture which line the route.
[Ref: 40272] £330.00
Buisiri del: T. Smith pin: F. Vivares sc.
Publish'd 25 July 1746.
Fine engraving with etching. 550 x 400mm (21¾ x 15¾"). Tears in the margins. Slight staining.
A view of the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, whose father served under Julius Ceasar, built in the 1st Century BC and located on one of the southern roads into Rome. The scene shows the ruins of the rotunda and walls, several figures examine the fragments of ancient architecture which line the route.
[Ref: 40272] £330.00
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Vüe de Caserte. Prise au Couvent des Recollets en allant aux Aqueducs [...]
Peint par Philippe Hackert Premier Peintre de Paysages Marins et Chasses de S.M. le Roi de Deux Siciles. Gravé par George Hackert Premier Graveur de Paysages Marins et Chasses de S.M. le Roi de Deux Siciles.
[Published by George Hackert, c.1795]
Engraving, platemark: 430 x 575mm. (17 x 22¾"). Trimmed to plate.
The city of Caserta, in the Campania region of Italy, showing its famous palace. Begun in 1752 for Charles VII of Naples, it was only partially completed by his son, Ferdinand IV of Naples. One of the largest buildings in Europe in the 18th century, it is now a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inscribed underneath is a dedication to Ferdinand IV (1751 - 1825) with a coat of arms in the centre. Engraved by Georg Hackert (1755-1805) after a painting by his brother Philipp (1737 - 1807), during the time when they both held official positions at the Neapolitan court before fleeing the city at the time of the 1799 Revolution. During Philipp Hackert's time in Naples he became a close friend of Goethe, who edited and published the artist's memoirs after his death.
Provenance: Torridon House Lovelace/King Family
[Ref: 39576] £520.00
Peint par Philippe Hackert Premier Peintre de Paysages Marins et Chasses de S.M. le Roi de Deux Siciles. Gravé par George Hackert Premier Graveur de Paysages Marins et Chasses de S.M. le Roi de Deux Siciles.
[Published by George Hackert, c.1795]
Engraving, platemark: 430 x 575mm. (17 x 22¾"). Trimmed to plate.
The city of Caserta, in the Campania region of Italy, showing its famous palace. Begun in 1752 for Charles VII of Naples, it was only partially completed by his son, Ferdinand IV of Naples. One of the largest buildings in Europe in the 18th century, it is now a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inscribed underneath is a dedication to Ferdinand IV (1751 - 1825) with a coat of arms in the centre. Engraved by Georg Hackert (1755-1805) after a painting by his brother Philipp (1737 - 1807), during the time when they both held official positions at the Neapolitan court before fleeing the city at the time of the 1799 Revolution. During Philipp Hackert's time in Naples he became a close friend of Goethe, who edited and published the artist's memoirs after his death.
Provenance: Torridon House Lovelace/King Family
[Ref: 39576] £520.00
Germania Hic Regina suas orbi Germania gazas / Mostrat, et impertit quas Dea gignit opes [...]
Sereniss: Bavar Ducis chalcog J.S. sculp et excud Monachy
Cum privel S. Caes: Maiestat [c.1594]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8½ x 10"). Glued to backing sheet. Trimmed to image.
Germany, from a set of four allegories on European countries after Hans von Aachen. The series was dedicated to Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. This plate is shows a young woman as Ceres and young man as Bacchus, and is an allegory on craft and war. The composition includes: tools and weaponry; a copper-plate and two burin needles, and printing press; a small violin (rebec) and a flute with a flute-case at centre; armoury, a gun, a cannon and a clock in lower right corner. In the background an army marches on the right, while peasants drink at a village tavern on the left.
[Ref: 40147] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Sereniss: Bavar Ducis chalcog J.S. sculp et excud Monachy
Cum privel S. Caes: Maiestat [c.1594]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8½ x 10"). Glued to backing sheet. Trimmed to image.
Germany, from a set of four allegories on European countries after Hans von Aachen. The series was dedicated to Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. This plate is shows a young woman as Ceres and young man as Bacchus, and is an allegory on craft and war. The composition includes: tools and weaponry; a copper-plate and two burin needles, and printing press; a small violin (rebec) and a flute with a flute-case at centre; armoury, a gun, a cannon and a clock in lower right corner. In the background an army marches on the right, while peasants drink at a village tavern on the left.
[Ref: 40147] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Avanzi del Tempio di Giove Seraphide a Pozzuoli.
Ph: Hackert pinx, 1789. Vinc. Aloja sculp. Giorgio Hackert direx.
Si vende a Napoli da Giorgio Hackert Incisore di S. M. Con Privilegio.
Etching. Fine. Plate: 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Some marking in margins.
A view of the Roman macellum, or market place, of Pozzuoli. Excavations of the site we ordered in 1750 by King Charles of Naples and the site was wrongly thought to be a temple to Serapis after excavators discovered a statue of the diety at the site. The image shows the three recognisable marble columns and figures inspecting the achitectural fragments.
[Ref: 40275] £360.00
Ph: Hackert pinx, 1789. Vinc. Aloja sculp. Giorgio Hackert direx.
Si vende a Napoli da Giorgio Hackert Incisore di S. M. Con Privilegio.
Etching. Fine. Plate: 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Some marking in margins.
A view of the Roman macellum, or market place, of Pozzuoli. Excavations of the site we ordered in 1750 by King Charles of Naples and the site was wrongly thought to be a temple to Serapis after excavators discovered a statue of the diety at the site. The image shows the three recognisable marble columns and figures inspecting the achitectural fragments.
[Ref: 40275] £360.00
Jemelja or Emelka Pugatschew. A Rebel in Russia under the assumed name of Czar Peter III, in the Government of Oldenburgh [...]
Published by Alex.r Hogg [c.1793]
Engraving with 6pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"..
Portrait of Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (c.1742-75) with biographical account 'drawn from the Proceedings of the Criminal Process against him at Moscow, by the definitive Sentence of which he was condemned to be quartered alive'. Pugachev was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II (1773-4). Alexander Pushkin wrote a history of the rebellion, and fictionalised some of its events in his novella 'The Captain's Daughter'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39630] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Published by Alex.r Hogg [c.1793]
Engraving with 6pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"..
Portrait of Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (c.1742-75) with biographical account 'drawn from the Proceedings of the Criminal Process against him at Moscow, by the definitive Sentence of which he was condemned to be quartered alive'. Pugachev was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II (1773-4). Alexander Pushkin wrote a history of the rebellion, and fictionalised some of its events in his novella 'The Captain's Daughter'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39630] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Notorious Socivizca, Captain of a Band of Robbers, in Poland Wonderful Magazine
[c.1793]
Engraving with 18pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"), large margins..
Portrait of Stanislav 'Stanko' Radovic Socivica (b.1715?), 'a notorious Robber and Assassin, of the Race of the Morlachians, commonly called Montenegrins'. Born near Trebinje (then part of the Ottoman Empire), Socivica moved to Imotski in Croatia, then part of the Venetian republic, after robbing and stealing from Turks. Thereafter he served the Venetians against the Ottoman Empire. Offered with detailed account of his 'Wonderful Adventures'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39629] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1793]
Engraving with 18pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"), large margins..
Portrait of Stanislav 'Stanko' Radovic Socivica (b.1715?), 'a notorious Robber and Assassin, of the Race of the Morlachians, commonly called Montenegrins'. Born near Trebinje (then part of the Ottoman Empire), Socivica moved to Imotski in Croatia, then part of the Venetian republic, after robbing and stealing from Turks. Thereafter he served the Venetians against the Ottoman Empire. Offered with detailed account of his 'Wonderful Adventures'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39629] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Hispania Regna tot una rego, quot caetera Numina getes: / Et sum possideam plurima, plura peto [...]
R.S. sculp: et excud: Joa ab Ach figur
Monachy tu privel J. Caes: Maiestat [c.1594]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image. Bit tatty. Glued to backing sheet; tear.
Spain, from a set of four allegories on European countries after Hans von Aachen. The series was dedicated to Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. This plate is an allegory on Exploration. A woman holding an orb and sceptre is embraced by a soldier in full armour holding a flag. The composition includes: weapons and navigation instruments; a globe (showing America and the Pacific Ocean); exotic fruits; a pair of compasses; a chest filled with coins; playing-cards; a guitar; an anchor, and a snare drum and trumpet. In the background soldiers playing cards, with a bay populated with ships in the distance.
[Ref: 40149] £350.00
R.S. sculp: et excud: Joa ab Ach figur
Monachy tu privel J. Caes: Maiestat [c.1594]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image. Bit tatty. Glued to backing sheet; tear.
Spain, from a set of four allegories on European countries after Hans von Aachen. The series was dedicated to Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. This plate is an allegory on Exploration. A woman holding an orb and sceptre is embraced by a soldier in full armour holding a flag. The composition includes: weapons and navigation instruments; a globe (showing America and the Pacific Ocean); exotic fruits; a pair of compasses; a chest filled with coins; playing-cards; a guitar; an anchor, and a snare drum and trumpet. In the background soldiers playing cards, with a bay populated with ships in the distance.
[Ref: 40149] £350.00