Catalogue: Natural History
The Brush-Turkey. Talegalla Lathami.
[after Joseph Wolfe.]
[n.d.1864.]
Coloured lithograph 585 x 440mm [sheet].
The Zoological Sketches were commissioned by the Zoological Society as a record of the rare species of birds and animals in the Society's Gardens.
[Ref: 6677] £280.00
[The Cut Direct.]
H.Stacy Marks. Frank Atkinson. [Pencil signatures.].
[Published by Thomas McLean, 1892.].
Mezzotint, artist's proof on india, Ltd ed of 100, signed by the artist and engraver. 360 x 435mm. Printsellers' blindstamp. Framed. Some spotting, otherwise fine.
Two penguins. Henry Stacy Marks (printmaker; painter/draughtsman 1829 - 1898), draughtsman on wood, etcher, genre painter, watercolourist, illustrator, and stained glass designer. Paris from 1851 to 1853. RA in 1878.
[Ref: 4068] £650.00
Red Game.
Painted by Elmere. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
Published Oct.r 16th, 1807 by W.D.Jones, High Street, Oxford.
Very fine mezzotint, on india. 380 x 430mm.
Painted by S.Elmer. Pair to 'Black Game'. Whitman 727, states i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 2325] £850.00
Black Game.
Painted by Elmere. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
Published Oct.r 16th, 1807 by W.D.Jones, High Street, Oxford.
Very fine mezzotint. 380 x 430mm.
Painted by S.Elmer. Pair to 'Red Game'. Whitman: 726, states i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 2324] £850.00
[Falcon and Wood Pigeon.]
S. Elmer pinx.t. R.Laurie sculp.
Publisher Feb.y. 1 1803 by B.B. Evans, Poultry London.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm. Platemark cracked.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3743] £480.00
The Affrighted Bird.
Druck u. Verlag v. Ed. Gust. May in Frankfurt a M.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 240 x 355mm. Laid on card, title excised and pasted on verso.
A caged canary under attack by a Persian cat.
[Ref: 4160] £110.00
(£129.25 incl.VAT)
Pheasants. 2nd Plate of the British Feather Game.
Beringer Pinxt. C.Turner. Sculpt. R.A.
London Published Jan. 1. 1810, at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, 357 x 440mm. Very fine.
Two pheasants in a landscape, one male and one female. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812. A wonderful impression.
After the animal painter James Barenger (1780 - 1831). He was the son of J. Barenger, a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813, and he was on his mother's side a nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1831, in which year he died. Whitman: 654, unrecorded, published lettered state. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8095] £1,200.00
Plovers. 9th Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barenger pinx.t. Turner sculp.t.
London Publish'd Sept. 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼". Some damage in title area.
James Barenger (1780 - 1831), nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death.
From a series of fourteen prints ""British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12. Whitman: 659. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8669] £320.00
Quails. 10th. Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barrenger pinxt. Turner sculpt.
London, Published Sept. 1. 1810, at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, 380 x 443mm. Some spotting to image, ink spots to image lower left.
A pair of quail in a landscape. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812.
After the animal painter James Barenger (1780 - 1831). He was the son of J. Barenger, a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813, and he was on his mother's side a nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1831, in which year he died
Collector's stamp on verso. Whitman: 660. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8096] £520.00
Snipes. 3.d Plate of the British Feather Game.
C.Turner del.t et sculp.t.
London Published March 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼".
From a series of fourteen prints "British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12. Other birds in the series were painted by James Barenger (1780 - 1831), nephew of William Woollett. Not in Whitman. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8670] £780.00