Catalogue: Natural History
Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. The Ass.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal.
A central illustration of an ass is surrounded by eight vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the animal, in life and death (each captioned).
Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
Numbered 'Pl. 6' upper right.
[Ref: 10526] £130.00
(£152.75 incl.VAT)
[Wild-Bull.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Woodcut. Printed area 160 x 260mm, 6¼ x 10¼". Some damp staining.
A similar representation to Thomas Bewick's Wild Bull. Standing looking to right with rough ground underfoot. Not in Boalch.
[Ref: 15911] £450.00
Burchell's Zebra, Africa. [in pencil on verso.]
J.C.C. [in pencil on verso.]
[n.d. c.1820.]
Watercolour. 72 x 106mm. 2¾ x 4¼".
[Ref: 13046] £120.00
(£141.00 incl.VAT)
Butor Boeuf de 3 ans 8 mois qui a obtenu le prix principal (Coupe d'une valeur de 2000.F) Au Concours De Poissy De 1849. Presente au Concours par M. de Corcy, Proprietaire Agriculteur a Ducer. 61 Boeufs concouraient pour ce prix.
Dessine d'apres nature. Lithographie de l'Imprimerie nationale.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph heightened with white, sheet 430 x 570mm. 17 x 22½".
A prize French bull 'Butor' (meaning lout, boor).
With measurements and a brief description of the animal's history to left and right of title.
[Ref: 9450] £95.00
(£111.63 incl.VAT)
Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 8. The Camel.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Some soiling.
A central illustration of a dromedary and a Bactrian camels, surrounded by eight vignette scenes of of their uses and products, including transport, portage and clothing.
Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13284] £160.00
(£188.00 incl.VAT)
[Study: Cautious Mare and Foal.]
Agasse pinxt. N. Sc. Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching. 255 x 175mm. Trimmed to plate,
A fine etching by Nicolas Schencker, [1760-1848] after the best known of the Swiss animal artists, Jacques-Laurent Agasse. Schen(c)ker, worked for Bartolozzi in England and France and held the position of Director of the 'Ecole de gravure de Genève' (1817-1822).
[Ref: 6916] £220.00
Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 19. The Cochineal and Lac Insects.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint
A central illustration of the insects, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of their uses and products, including travelling and ivory.
Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13281] £220.00
Infant's School Pictures No. II.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by James Nisbet, 24, Berners Street, and Edmund Fry, 73, Houndsditch. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm. Holes to margin where pinned. Small tear from lower edge. Some soiling.
Desert animals captioned mainly of camels.
From a set of educational lithographs for schools.
[Ref: 10913] £130.00
(£152.75 incl.VAT)
A Devonshire Bull in the possession of Chas,, Thoss, Hudson Esqre, Wanlip, Leicestershire.
Annabella Norford Delint. 1800. Geoa,, J Henderson Sculpt.
[John Nichols?, c.1800.]
Stipple and soft ground etching, very scarce, 350 x 455mm. 13¾ x 18".
A bull, in profile to right; a man standing to left, looking towards the viewer, hat in hand, right hand on his stick, foliage in the foreground to right.
This plate was published in Nichols' 'History of Leicestershire' (1795-1812), with volume and pagination details in the right margin, this may be an earlier state without this information.
Nothing is known of the artist, the print made by Georgiana Keate (1770 - 1850), daughter of landscape painter George Keate (1727 - 1797) who married John Henderson (1764 - 1843), the patron of Girtin and Turner.
[Ref: 16035] £280.00
A Native Dog.
V. Woodthorpe sc.
Published Nov.6.1802, by M. Jones Paternoster Row.
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate 115 x 192mm. 4½ x 7½".
A dingo; a resident wild dog of Australia.
From "The History of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its dependancies, from the Original Discovery of the Island with the Customs and Manners of the Natives; and an Account of the English Colony, -from its- Foundation, to the Present Times. by George Barrington; superintendent of the Convicts. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints."
[Ref: 15710] £70.00
(£82.25 incl.VAT)